Monsters, Inc. is another in a long line of Pixar films that show how an animated motion picture can be great entertainment, but also so much more.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 2, 2022

Unflappably great; a clinic in world-building, character development, voice acting and voice casting, storytelling and balancing animation for kids and adults; an emotional, unforgettable roller coaster...

| Jul 6, 2022

A fun, fast-paced story with plenty of wit and brightly colored eye-candy.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 15, 2022

Pixar continues to set the standards for which all other animation projects attempt to reach.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 7, 2020

[G]ood writing, great gags, superior animation, perfect casting, over the top energy and cuteness, and above-all - characters guaranteed to make Disney's coffers go "ch-ching" with holiday toy buying!

| Nov 13, 2019

A timeless toon tale.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 20, 2019

It's a delight.

| Original Score: A | Apr 26, 2019

The uses of enchantment haven't changed; kids still need, maybe more than ever, the special comfort of fabulous threats they can control.

| Apr 4, 2018

It's a terrific piece of work: smart, inventive and executed with state-of-the-art finesse.

| Mar 7, 2018

It's funny, the characters are endearing, the monster world is cleverly developed, and the Pixar gang really has fun with this one.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 29, 2016

Remains as wonderful and remarkably charming as it was when it was first released.

| Original Score: 5.0/5 | Jun 30, 2013

[A] fixedly sweet bedtime story and exercise in imaginative possibility.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 24, 2013

...the movie becomes a giddy, kiddie inversion of time and space.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 20, 2013

[I] really don't see the point of paying extra for children under eight. Their eyes are still developing, their noses are still small for slippery glasses, and... isn't a trip to the pictures enough for them in any case?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2013

If anything, it improves with age.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2013

Monsters displays wonderful imagination which makes it worth reliving in an extra dimension - particularly the energetic chase scene along a conveyor belt of doors.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2013

Pixar's soaringly lovely fourth feature ...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 17, 2013

[An] exciting, imaginative and very likable adventure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2013

Despite its eternal message about physical differences and the importance of love over fear of the unknown, Monsters, Inc primarily remains an ambitious concept film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2013

It's in the visuals that 'Monsters Inc' comes to life, from the jazzy, Norman McLaren influenced opening to the hilarious, shakycam amateur-dramatic recap over the closing credits.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 15, 2013