Monsters Inc. [DVD] [2002]

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footfalls, and other sound effects that rely on the bottom end are left a little shortchanged, but not so flat as to destroy the experience. Dialogue is clear current leader is a monster named Sulley (voiced by John Goodman), but hot on his trail is Randall Boggs (voiced by Steve Buscemi) and several

monster's world, Sulley and his best friend Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) learn the truth about humans and fight to protect the little girl at all costs. The obligatory virtual game is "Peek-A-Boo: Boo's Door Game", an extremely easy but somewhat time-consuming activity. It involves searching various rooms for pieces of Boo's broken door, of which there are six in total. While simple, it is impressively rendered and in keeping with the content and spirit of the film, and therefore better than some others in its ilk. Next up, rounding up the kid-targeted, game-like features, is "Storytime." It tells the Monsters, Inc. story inside a highly interactive storybook, which can be explored manually or read aloud by a narrator.Finally, there's something called "Production Demo" (1:52). This presents a scene from the movie in four different stages: Storyreel, Layout, Animation, and Final Color. Each stage can be watched in its entirety or even better, in rotation during one viewing thanks to the remote control's angle button. The transitions are seamless and the fluidity from one stage to the next is fascinating. Of course, the bulk of the bonus features are reserved for the second platter. Navigating through the labyrinth of Disc 2 menus is not an easy task (more on this later), but once achieved, there's a lot to discover. The main menu screen presents two doors, one marked "Humans Only" (material for the film enthusiast) and the other labeled "Monsters Only" (material for younger viewers). Entering either provides access to an abundance of bonus material but before doing so, there are three features accessible directly from the main menu. WALL•E (3-Disc Special Edition) • Up (Blu-ray & Deluxe DVD Combo) • Toy Story & Toy Story 2: The Ultimate Toy Box city. But there's a shortage of screams. Children have grown desensitized to scares and become less and less likely to be terrified by a monster. The The next section, Behind the Screams, begins by offering the outtakes reel that was already available on Disc 2's main menu.

they are accompanied by very informative commentary by Thomas Porter, Steve May, and Michael Fong. "Opening Title Animation" (2:06) discusses the idea for and creation of the film's very jazzy opening credits sequence. "Hard Parts" explains the methods used to achieve the most difficult (and most impressive) animated portions of the movie, like the door station and Sulley's hair. "Shots Department" (2:12) similarly delves into the creation of some of the more difficult shots and character movements.solidified low end depth and beefier detail but offering good essential clarity and naturally immersive spacing to what's there. Monster growls, giant compared to the Blu-ray, which offers the same materials looking flat and smooth by comparison. Sulley's fur enjoys sharper strands, and the barrage

When you thought that a monster was behind your closet door waiting for the opportune moment to scare you, did you ever think about them? Monsters, Inc. takes us into their reality and explains that scaring us is nothing personal. It's just their job. Forget batteries or solar energy -- scares produce screams, and screams are used as energy to run the monster world. The problem is that there's a shortage of screams in Monstropolis because kids just don't scare like they used to. Even so, only the bravest monsters will do anything about it, because they're just as scared of us as we are of them! Children are toxic, and one touch could be life-threatening. So naturally, widespread panic ensues when a child finds her way through the other side of her door and right into the monster world. dramatically robust, the film certainly stands as one of the studio's best. Disney's UHD release delivers a quality 2160p/HDR video presentation and an Everything is improved across the board. While not a transformative experience, the textural solidification and color improvements make this UHD well After I've gone to bed at night, there's a brief period of time between being fully awake and completely losing myself to sleep. It's been this way as long as I can remember, and I think about lots of things as I try to make myself rest.Monsters, Inc. might not be the first choice when debating Pixar's best film, but it's up there. Colorful, charming, and visually and Finally, there's a music video (1:13) for the Goodman/Crystal-sung "If I Didn't Have You," a pleasant number that captures the protagonists' friendship. The video doesn't necessarily enhance the Oscar-winning tune, as it's just film clips with audio excerpts that occasionally override the music, but the song itself earns approval.

Music and Sound includes three featurettes. "Monster Song" (3:15) is a behind-the-scenes look at the Goodman-Crystal duet of Randy Newman's "If I Didn't Have You" with interviews from all three parties. "Sound Design" (4:13) is a conventional but adequate look at the sound effects and scoring devised for Monsters, Inc., covering both the technical and the creative. The last and most unusual is "Binaural Recording". It begins with an introduction that explains the meaning of binaural audio and its use in the movie. Viewers are then urged to view the rest of the material in this section with headphones plugged in, where John Goodman and Billy Crystal first have fun with left-ear/right-ear audio gags in an in-studio video. After that, one can compare three different mixes of a piece of film score: the final stereo mix, the binaural live stage recording of the orchestra at work, and the 5.1 "Special Surround Mix". The latter would be better with headphones off, but the others offer some neat exploration of cinematic sound production. scare there's a sophisticated network powering an entire monster realm. Screams are captured and transformed into energy to power the monsters' The 16x9 animated main menu for Disc 1 emulates the film's opening titles sequence and presents the standard options behind an opened door. Doors provide the theme for all the menus on both discs, in fact, sometimes sparking creativity and sometimes creating too much of a maze. The sub-menus on the first disc are stagnant but accompanied by score. Title #15, Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 .

no shortage of spectacular colors to enjoy for the duration, each of them beefed up with more vitality, clarity, and accuracy compared to the Blu-ray.