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.
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.
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).
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.
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.)
Well, how?
i didn’t catch every nuance in the film, which is why we’re going to see it again.
Line of, um, Froot Loops (?), an homage to the Reese’s Pieces trail on E. T.
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/ and click on the “See new trailer” link.
Definitely worth the download time! 
Thanks for the link, rjung. I was hoping that trailer would be available online.
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.
The CDA folks sounded an awful lot like Stormtroopers–especially when one let loose with a perfect “Halt!”
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!”
What a prediction!!
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?
Mowsky Kowsky!