Monsters Inc
Out of all the animated films Pixar has ever made, Monsters Inc will always be 2nd best to me, right after Toy Story. It’s just so witty, yet so cute. Depending on when you read this (before or after Toy Story) this is basically my continuation of everything I said in the Toy Story post, about Pixar vs Disney / DreamWorks. In making Toy Story, they (Disney / DreamWorks) said originally Woody’s attitude would’ve scared kids, so Pixar went back and toned him down for the movie. Obviously the fear of scaring kids wasn’t the case, as that movie turned out to be a huge success, so they responded by making a movie entirely about scaring kids:
1a 1b. Kid thinks the monster is trying to scare him, but he messes it up and falls over. This is basically Pixar poking fun at Disney, letting them know it’s not really their intention.
2. Mike is preparing Sully to scare the kids, but in a humorous way…
3. Mike tries to sit in Sully’s chair, but Sully moves him to his chair. This is Pixar going “you can help me but you’re still not the boss”
4. Same as #3 “you can help me, but this isn’t about you…”
5. Mike doesn’t realize he’s not as recognized as he’d like to be. Same as #3 and #4 Disney doesn’t realise their services weren’t really needed.
6. This is similar to the joke in Toy Story 2 where Al complains about going to work when he’s really only a block away.
7. Again #3 & #5
8a 8b. Randall tries to scare Mike and Sully, and Mike goes “One of these days I’m gonna let you teach that guy a lesson” even though you get the feeling he wants to do it himself. That happens alot in the workplace, having to hold stuff inside when a guy (Disney) tries to act like their smarter than you with their ideas.
9. I guess the metaphor here is Toy Story opened alotta doors for other animated movies which up until 1995 were all hand-drawn. Toys opened the door for Monsters to walk though, as weird as that sounds.
10. Their job is to scare children from all around the world even though people from all around the world are the ones that bought their movie.
11. Right now Mike is Disney, Sully is Pixar. You can hype me up, but you don’t have to do anything, just sit back and let us do the work.
12a 12b. Sully vs Randall = Disney vs Pixar. Who can entertain the most kids…
13a 13b. Troops are called all over a harmless sock. Disney making a big deal over 1 small little idea.
14. Working on these movies so long, one barely has time to spend with their significant other…
15. Winnie Cooper… I mean Boo!
16. It’s pretty obvious kids are afraid of these kinda monsters, take that Disney!
17. Kid wants to play with Sully, but all that joy needs to be hidden by Disney, who think their too scary.
18. Sully tells Mike Randall is cheating. Disney knows they can’t please the kids truthfully, so they cheat.
19. Now the kids are the one doing the scaring...
20. Disney making a big deal over a kid.