# Monsters, Inc. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 2, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202 "2001-11-02T21:28:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/41 "2001-11-15T14:34:04Z")
Pixar missed a great opportunity. They should have licensed one of the anxiety closet monsters from Berke Breathed for at least one scene. Would have made the movie perfect. ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/42 "2001-11-15T15:07:23Z")
I lost it with the Armour Hot Dog joke the Snowman uses. Seen it twice already, and the second time, we had a lot of kids in the theatre. First time was a late showing, so no kids. This one 5 year old boy totally lost it when Sully has to leave Boo back in her room, and she hugs him. I felt so bad for him, wanted to go tell him that it had a happy ending. He was louder cry than everyone else had been laughing. He seemed ok after the movie though. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/43 "2001-11-15T22:26:02Z")
Liked it, but I’m not really sure I like having celebrities do the voices. I find it distracting because I either recognize the voice right away (e.g. John Goodman) and the character loses the chance to have a unique identity…OR I spend half the film trying to figure out whose voice it is that I recognize as being famous but just can’t place (e.g. Neve Campbell in Lion King 2 or Kevin Bacon in Balto). ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/44 "2001-11-15T22:40:24Z")
What occurs to me, thinking about the structure of the movie, is that it’s a reversal on the old **Black Beauty** / **E.T.** formula. You know, kid finds [creature], kid befriends [creature], kid has to let [creature] go, kid learns something from the whole experience. This was the same formula, but told from the [creature]'s perspective. Brilliant reworking of an old formula. I spent way too much time in film classes. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/45 "2001-11-16T15:24:27Z")
Not enough, apparently. Did you totally miss how Sully got Boo to go to bed? (I almost said ‘got Boo into bed’, but that’s highly inappropriate for a Disney film. Not to mention _way_ beyond vaguely creepy.) ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/46 "2001-11-16T15:27:15Z")
Well, how? i didn’t catch every nuance in the film, which is why we’re going to see it again. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/47 "2001-11-17T02:44:29Z")
Line of, um, Froot Loops (?), an homage to the Reese’s Pieces trail on E. T. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/48 "2001-11-23T08:53:55Z")
Just a small bump for all the **Monsters Inc.** fans out there to check out the new “Charades” trailer for the movie. it ties in _rather heavily_ with a now-popular boy-wizard movie also playing in the theaters… 😉 Go to [http://www.monstersinc.com/](http://www.monstersinc.com/) and click on the “See new trailer” link. **Definitely** worth the download time! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/49 "2001-11-23T14:30:32Z")
Thanks for the link, **rjung**. I was hoping that trailer would be available online. ---
**Author:** ![RichLather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@RichLather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RichLather)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/50 "2001-11-23T21:28:57Z")
I thought my wife was going to die laughing when the Abominable Snowman made his apeparance. He looks _almost exactly_ like the Bumble from Rudolph. Except he’s wooly instead of fuzzy. Yep, I caught the Armour hot dogs ref, and we both nodded approvingly at the Ray Harryhausen tribute. Another nice detail: for a couple of scenes after he sprays himself in the face with disinfectant, Mike’s eye is quite bloodshot. ---
**Author:** ![RichLather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@RichLather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RichLather)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/51 "2001-11-23T21:30:26Z")
The CDA folks sounded an awful lot like Stormtroopers–especially when one let loose with a perfect “Halt!” ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/52 "2001-12-03T06:25:18Z")
Just saw this (finally), and must comment on what seems to me to be a pretty clear Chuck Jones _homage_, to his masterpiece “Feed the Kitty” (in which bulldog Marc Antony adopts a kitten, whom he tries to hide from his mistress). The whole sequence of Boo falling into the trash is a retelling of the kitten’s trip into the mixer. And Boo’s name for Sully is “Kitty!” ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/53 "2001-12-05T03:41:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > > > \*\*Or in 4 weeks they’ll try to sell more tickets by advertising the outtakes. I remember **A Bug’s Life** did this. Except the advertised NEW out-takes. \*\* > > > > No fair! > > > > At least this is a movie I wouldn’t mind seeing again. \*\* > > [DAD] > Life’s not fair > [/DAD] > 😉 Aloha \*\* What a prediction!! Outtakes will be added on Friday. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/54 "2001-12-05T12:47:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > Outtakes will be added on Friday. Cool. When I saw you’d replied to this thread, I knew you were going to post something to that effect. 🙂 The movie will be just as fun the third time around, right? ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/55 "2001-12-05T16:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*Kitty!!! \*\* Mowsky Kowsky! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202.md?page=2)