{"id":13404,"date":"2018-12-07T22:19:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T03:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13404"},"modified":"2018-12-07T22:19:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T03:19:28","slug":"monsters-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/monsters-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Your stunned silence is very reassuring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsters, Inc.<\/strong>, released in 2001<\/p>\n<p>In the monster world, monsters scare kids in order to captures their screams &#8212; the screams are what they use for power. But it&#8217;s dangerous work because kids are toxic to monsters. When Sully accidentally brings a kid back to the monster world, he must get help from his friend Mike &#8212; to get the kid back to her own world, and her own room.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of Pixar&#8217;s masterpieces. The premise is brilliant, and it&#8217;s executed with great imagination and comedy.<\/p>\n<p>The world they created is extremely clever.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Crystal&#8217;s Mike Wazowski and John Ratzenberger&#8217;s Abominable Snowman are particularly funny.<\/p>\n<p>Stars the voices of John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, and James Coburn. Directed by Pete Docter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/inside-out\/\"><strong>Inside Out<\/strong><\/a>), David Silverman (<strong>The Simpsons Movie<\/strong>), and Lee Unkrich (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/coco\/\"><strong>Coco<\/strong><\/a>). The music by Randy Newman is joyous.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably the 3rd time I&#8217;ve seen it. I previously reviewed the prequel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/monsters-university\/\"><strong>Monsters University<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Your stunned silence is very reassuring.&#8221; Monsters, Inc., released in 2001 In the monster world, monsters scare kids in order to captures their screams &#8212; the screams are what they use for power. But it&#8217;s dangerous work because kids are toxic to monsters. When Sully accidentally brings a kid back to the monster world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,9,6,5],"class_list":["post-13404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13404"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13410,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404\/revisions\/13410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}