Well this is still a genuinely cute movie.
Monsters Inc.
Where the children are scarier than the monsters could ever be.
And man does that premise work really well.
The Pixar's animation is still a bit iffy on human characters. So the people still come off looking a little uncanny.
So you can use it to the best of your advantage by making people the weirdo creeps.
And best of all you only have to animate two of them in this movie.
You've got that weird animatronic kid used for testing who can purposely look weird and unrealistic because he's a little robot.
And then there's Boo who if you really squint at, does look a bit odd. But they drew her in such a cute little way and had her running around in costumes half the time. You could never really notice.
And it's just a great way to make this movie work.
The actual story is typical Pixar formula.
Happy-go-lucky protagonist character doing fairly well at whatever it is they're supposed to do, until some weird wrench gets in the mechanics and completely screws up their life for a small time before rectifying everything at the end and possibly growing as a character. Learning to either value the thing that was screwing up their life or just being a better person.
Yada yada yada we've seen it a hundred times.
The environment is pretty great. It's a New York setting only with silly monster creatures that really don't pay as much of the story as you think they would.
All the characters being monsters is more aesthetic than anything.
You could make them all people and little to nothing would change. Only your villain would have to be cunning or carry a weapon to put up a fight against the protagonist who's just a big brute of a dude.
Really the only character whose monster qualities come through with their personality would be in Mike's love interests Celia. Whose hair is literal snakes that have a personality all their own.
Also that's the best secondary story in the entire movie. The romance between Celia and Mike Wazowski which honestly, I'd like to see that it's just a separate film.
Like a little romantic comedy.
Overall it's still a really good kids movie.
Ridiculously good pacing, fun environment, good colours, solid story, heart touching little moments and adequate music.
Honestly I don't remember anything about the music but it works all the same.
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