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Monsters, Inc. is a computer-animated comedy film written by Jack W. Bunting, Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Dan Gerson, Jeff Pidgeon, Rhett Reese, Jonathan Roberts, and Andrew Stanton. It's said that the original idea for the screenplay was based on the childhood experiences of one of the Pixar crew, who had a bunch of toy monster figurines as a child. The original screenplay was about a man who is an advertising designer and leads a very boring life. He is afraid to take risks and feels that his career is at a dead end. When his mother cleans out the attic and sends him his box of toy monsters, who were also his childhood Imaginary friends, the monsters—Mike, Sulley and Randall—once again become his imaginary friends and inspire him to regain the creativity and sense of adventure he had as a boy. Obviously, the original idea went through a lot of revisions before it became the movie on the screen.

To collect their screams, which are needed by Monsters, Inc., the utility company that provides energy to Monstropolis City. It's becoming more and more difficult nowadays to enter children's bedrooms through their closets, scare them while they sleep, and collect their screams, what with all the movies, television programs, and videogames that depict large amounts of violence, desensitizing the children (as is discussed in a Monsters Incorporated commercial in the movie).

They've been told by Mr Waternoose that children are poisonous. Just touching one can be lethal to a monster. To even return with so much as a child's sock hanging from their fur results in elaborate decontamination by the CDA (Child Detection Agency).

Sulley and Randall are the two scariest monsters at Monsters, Inc., and each night they bring back the most canisters filled with screams. They both want to retain their positions as Number One on the Scare Total list.

Boo's real name is Mary, as shown briefly on one of the crayon drawings she shows to Sulley in the scene where Boo is going to sleep on Sulley's bed.

Harryhausen's was a tribute to Ray Harryhausen, considered one of the greatest special-effects artists known to the movie world, particularly for his stop-motion photography. Harryhausen has provided the special effects for films from almost every major film studio, including Paramount, Warner Brothers, Columbia, and Hammer Films.

As the final credits roll, they show "outtakes" that are like movie bloopers, only they feature the monsters. One outtake that is especially catching is the company play that Mike told everyone he and Sulley were rehearsing.

If you like Pixar's animation in Monsters, you'll certainly want to see some of the other Pixar productions, including Toy Story (1995) (1995) and its sequels—Toy Story 2 (1999) (1999) and Toy Story 3 (2010) (2010)—and perhaps A Bug's Life (1998) (1998), Finding Nemo (2003) (2003), The Incredibles (2004) (2004), Cars (2006) (2006) and Cars 2 (2011) (2011), Ratatouille (2007) (2007), WALL·E (2008) (2008), Up (2009) (2009), Brave (2012) (2012), Monsters University (2013) (2013), and Finding Dory (2016).