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Monsters, Inc. is an animated feature produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theatres by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 2, 2001, and in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2002. It stars the voices of John Goodman (James P. "Sully" Sullivan), Billy Crystal (Michael "Mike" Wazowski), Mary Gibbs (Boo), Steve Buscemi (Randall Boggs), James Coburn (Henry Waternoose III), Jennifer Tilly (Celia Mae, Mike's Gilrfriend), Bob Peterson (Roz, the secretary), John Ratzenberger (Yeti), Frank Oz (Fungus, Randall's Accomplice), Dan Gerson (Needleman and Smitty, the teenage monsters), Steve Susskind and Bonnie Hunt.

The original story was written by Robert L. Baird, Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Dan Gerson, Jeff Pidgeon, Rhett Reese, Jonathan Roberts and Andrew Stanton. It was directed by Peter Docter, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich.

premiered in the United States on October 28, 2001, and went into general release on November 2, 2001 with the best opening ticket sales ever for an animated film and the sixth best of all time.

Disney has shown interest in doing a sequel to is another world where monsters live. The primary set is the workplace of the centralized monster power company, Monsters Inc. Inside the elaborate facility are stored the doors to the closets of children in our world. Each monster incursion in to our world is through one of these doors. Each incursion is made by a technician in the monster world, on the scare-floor, takes care of the portal (door) and scream-collector mechanisms. The collected screams are used to generate energy for the monster world.

The monsters believe that children are toxic and the very touch of a child is poisonous. There are many safety precautions to prevent such contamination. A governmental organization, the Child Detection Agency (CDA), is very aggressive in taking care of child contamination when it occurs. There is even a special code, "23-19" ("twenty-three nineteen"), to alert everyone in the area of such contamination (however, this may simply be the code for touching a child's sock).

The top at Monsters, Inc. is James P. Sullivan, or "Sully" (John Goodman), a blue-furred bear-like giant who is partnered with the green, one-eyed Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal); Sully's main rival is the chameleon-like Randall Boggs. When taking care of paperwork, Sulley discovers a door that has been left on the scare-floor after shift, contrary to strict company policy. When Sully investigates the door, a small human girl enters the monster world; not only that but he Mike also learn that the girl is actually a victim of an evil plot to solve the city's power problems, in a bad way, involving Randall. It's up to Sully and Mike to get her back home before the authorities find out and before the company gets turned upside down. Along the way, they discover that children are not dangerous and that scaring is no longer rewarding. They also solve their world's energy crisis when they find out that a child's laughter has ten times the power of a scream; thus, all the monsters have a new mission: to sneak into children's rooms at night and make them laugh.

). It was nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing and Best Music, Original Score.The scene where Sully fears Boo has been thrown in a garbage compressor is inspired by the 1952 Chuck Jones cartoon All of the digital displays in Monstropolis (Sulley's clock radio, scare station consoles, "Days Without An Accident" sign) are nixie tubes, a neon digital display technology from the 1960s. The five- and six-digit numbers displayed with nixie tubes near the doors are all birthdays of Pixar employees andNear the end of the film, Boo excitedly shows Sully her toys in her room. One of the toys she hands him is a clownfish, a hint to the then-upcoming Pixar movie The names on the scream-totals board (with the exceptions of Sulley and Randall) are all the names of Pixar employees.A series of mini-computer video games, and a multiplatform video game were created, based on the movie.