Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Academy Awards, USA 2002

Winner Oscar	Best Music, Original Song Randy Newman For the song "If I Didn't Have You".
Nominee Oscar	Best Music, Original Score Randy Newman
	Best Sound Editing Gary Rydstrom Michael Silvers
	Best Animated Feature Pete Docter John Lasseter

Buena Vista Pictures
Directed by Pete Docter
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Walt Disney)

Pals Sully and Mike are monsters working in a power factory. In their world, power is derived from the screams of children which the monsters collect while entering their bedrooms through doors which act as portals to the human world. It is believed that the human children are toxic to the touch of monsters and great care is used to avoid them. However, when a little girl make her way through the door she turns out to be non-toxic and is befriended by Sully. He acts has her protector in the monster world and they are relentlessly pursued. It all turns out to be a scheme to make more power and money, but it is inadvertently revealed that children's laughter contains more power than their screams. Intricately plotted story succumbs to its own internal logic, becoming almost mechanical, and by the end resembles more of a video game than a movie, with doors becoming portals which can zap characters around wherever they need to be.