Monstropolis is a large company town where monsters of all sizes and shapes reside.
It’s where James P. Sullivan (known as “Sulley”) and his friend, Mike Wazowski, work at Monsters, Inc – the largest scream-processing factory in the monster world. The screams are harvested and used to power Monstropolis, and Monsters Inc is a kind of scream-powered Con Edison.
Sulley (voiced by John Goodman) is an 8-foot-tall, bear-like creature with blue-green hair, purple spots, and horns. Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) is a giant green eye with jagged teeth and skinny arms and legs.
They’re graded by their boss on the loudness of screams they elicit from kids. Sulley is the company’s top kid-scarer. Mike is his enthusiastic scare assistant.
The factory has a vast selection of ‘closet doors’ – portals to the human world, which the monsters enter nightly to scare children and collect their screams.
Sulley’s biggest competitor is the creepy Randall Boggs (voiced by Steve Buscemi), an eight-legged, purple chameleon-like creature. There’s also a pompous, hard-driving CEO, the crab-like, eight-eyed Henry J. Watemoose (James Coburn).
While Monsters, Inc. is best described as a “buddy” movie, a couple of females are also central to the story.
There’s one-eyed, snake-haired Celia (Jennifer Tilley), the girl of Mike’s screams and the receptionist at MI, and the biggest scene-stealer of all: a young human girl named Boo.
One night, Sulley discovers that a closet door has not been returned to the “door vault.” Opening the door to investigate, he unwittingly brings the little girl into his world.
Since humans are supposed to be toxic, Sulley and Mike have to figure out how to disguise the girl – they name her Boo – so the other monsters won’t be alarmed.
They also have to work out how to get Boo back into her closet.
Boo (voiced by Mary Gibbs, the three-year-old daughter of Pixar story artist Rob Gibbs) is a real heart-tugger, but she places Sulley’s and Mike’s careers in deep jeopardy and throws their lives into utter chaos.
Monsters, Inc took over $525 million at the box office.
James P. Sullivan (“Sulley”)
John Goodman Mike Wazowski
Billy Crystal Boo
Mary Gibbs Randall
Steve Buscemi Waternoose
James Coburn Celia
Jennifer Tilly Roz
Bob Peterson Yeti
John Ratzenberger Fungus
Frank Oz Needleman/Smitty
Daniel Gerson Floor Manager
Steve Susskind Flint
Bonnie Hunt Bile
Jeff Pidgeon George
Sam Black Schmidt
Bob Bergen
Director
Pete Docter
David Silverman
Lee Unkrich
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Sulley (voiced by John Goodman) is an 8-foot-tall, bear-like creature with blue-green hair, purple spots, and horns. Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) is a giant green eye with jagged teeth and skinny arms and legs.
One night, Sulley discovers that a closet door has not been returned to the “door vault.” Opening the door to investigate, he unwittingly brings the little girl into his world.
