Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 computer-animated film and the fourth feature-length film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David Silverman, and was written by Jack W. Bunting, Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Dan Gerson, Jeff Pidgeon, Rhett Reese, Jonathan Roberts, and Andrew Stanton.
The story takes place in Monstropolis, a city populated entirely by monsters. Monstropolis is not part of the human world, but it can be connected to children’s bedrooms through their closet doors. When a door is properly activated, it becomes a portal between the monster world and the human world. The city’s power supply is provided by Monsters, Inc., a utility company that employs monsters to scare children and extract energy from their screams. The company has a huge warehouse full of doors, work areas called “scare floors” where the doors are activated, and a special training room in which employees practice their scare skills. The company’s best scarer is James “Sulley” Sullivan , whose assistant is his best friend, Michael “Mike” Wazowski . Sulley’s main rival is Randall Boggs , and the company’s CEO is Henry J. Waternoose III. Monstropolis is in the middle of an energy crisis because children are harder to scare than they used to be.
One day Sulley sees an activated door on his scare floor after the workday has ended. He finds no one in the room behind the door, but a little 3-year-old girl follows him back into the monster world. Far from being scared, she calls him “Kitty” and delights in playing with him. Since monsters believe human beings are dangerously toxic, Sulley repeatedly returns the girl to her room, but she keeps following him back, and Randall eventually deactivates the door. Her presence becomes public knowledge when Sulley sneaks her into a restaurant, so Sulley and Mike hide her in Sulley’s home while the Child Detection Agency (CDA) searches for her. Sulley names the girl “Boo”. He discovers that her laughter produces even more energy than her screams, and he slowly bonds with her after realizing that she is not poisonous.
