Monsters, Inc. (2001) is an animated/adventure /comedy movie directed and written by Pete Docter and produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Andrew Stanton wrote the screenplay. The characters of movie Monsters Inc (2001) are voiced by many actors such as John Goodman (Sulley), Billy Crystal (Mike), Mary Gibbs (Boo), Steve Buscemi (Randall) etc.
Monsters, Inc (2001) is the story of two monsters (Mike and Sulley) working at Monsters, Inc. The employees generate their city’s power by targeting and scaring human children, but they are themselves afraid that the children may contaminate them. When one child enters Monstropolis, Mike and Sulley must return her unharmed.
Monsters, Inc (2001) was released on 2nd November, 2001 in USA. The movie won 1 Academy Award in Best Music, Original Song category although it lost to Shrek (2001) in Best Animated Picture category. The movie earned $525 million dollars worldwide.
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16. Actress Mary Gibbs (Boo) was so young that it proved difficult to get her to stand in the recording studio and act her lines. Instead, they simply followed her around with a microphone and cut Boo’s lines together from the things she said while she played.
15. It normally took 11 to 12 hours to render a single frame of monster Sulley because of his 2.3 million individually animated hair strands (Total number of hairs: 2,320,413).
14. Actor John Goodman (Sulley) pushed for actor Steve Buscemi to voice the villain monster Randall in Monsters, Inc. (2001).
13. Actor John Goodman (Sulley) and Billy Crystal (monster Mike) sometimes recorded their lines in the same room together. It is an unusual move for animated films, where actors more often work alone. Steve Buscemi and Frank Oz (Randall and his assistant Fungus) also recorded their lines together for the bathroom scene.
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11. The ingredient list on the cereal that monster Sulley feeds Boo is as follows: Tentacles (includes suckers), sugar pods, gelatin, artificial flavor, artificial color (Yellow 53 & 54, Red 400, Blue 21, Plaid 16, Puce 30), salt, seawater, naturally occurring mercury, barium, sulfuric acid, lead, bile, blood, sweat, tears, zinc oxide, vitamins D & F, anemone, brine shrimp, coral, plankton, deadly pufferfish, depleted uranium (to preserve freshness).
10. Monsters, Inc. (2001) is the fourth movie to feature both actors John Goodman and Steve Buscemi together. All previous 3 movies they acted were directed and produced by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
9. The animators considered giving monster Sulley tentacles instead of legs at one point, and glasses at another. However, they decided to use legs because they believed the audience would concentrate more on the tentacles than Sulley’s face. They also considered making Mike armless with only legs.
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