Monsters, Inc. Gift Pack

Starring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman Director: David Silverman, Lee Unkrich, Peter Docter Original UK Premiere: 2001 Dvd Release: 7th September, 2002 Number Of Discs: 2 Format: Animated, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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The monsters in Monsters, Inc. are just so incredibly cute, & they know it. Whereas Woody, Buzz & pals in the Toy Story saga were filled with self-doubt about just how much the children in their lives would continue to love them, here our heroic monsters & their impossibly lovable human ward Boo have no such worries, at least when it comes to the cinema audience. And thats why Monsters, Inc., for all its wondrous computer-animated artistry, its smart humour & its family-friendly appeal, doesnt quite capture the naïve charm of its predecessors.

Nevertheless, John Goodman & Billy Crystal, as scare-champions Sulley & Mike, are a great double-act whose comedy never goes over kids heads but still reaches up to make their parents laugh. The films central conceit, that monsters in the bedroom closet are just doing a nights work in order to generate power from screams for the city of Monstropolis, is funny & cleverly worked out; & kids will of course love the fact that the monsters are mortally afraid of the very children they are trying to frighten.

The animation is extraordinarily detailed & the set-piece action sequences top anything that has gone before for sheer audaciousness. But overall Pixar play things very safe, from the hissable villain to the end credit outtakes. A bolder film might have taken inspiration from The Nightmare Before Christmas; instead, a little of that Disney disease of knowing cuteness seems to have crept into the formula.

Billy Crystal is an American actor, writer, producer & film director. He was born in Long Beach, New York to Jewish parents. Crystals earliest prominent role was as Jodie Dallas on Soap, one of the first gay characters portrayed on American television. He was scheduled to appear on the first episode of Saturday Night Live, but his sketch was cut. After hosting a show years later, in 1984, he joined the cast. His most famous recurring sketch was his parody of Fernando Lamas, a smarmy talkshow host whose catch phrase, You look mahvelous! became a media sensation, He appeared briefly in Rob Reiner s 1984 rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. In 1986, Crystal started hosting Comic Relief on HBO with Robin Williams & Whoopi Goldberg. Comic Relief, which was founded in 1986 by Andy Kaufman sidekick, Bob Zmuda, raises money for homeless men, women & children in the United States. Crystal hosted the Academy Awards broadcast in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000 & 2004. Throw Momma from the Train - as Larry Donner. Posters Of Billy Crystal

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John Goodman is an American actor, best known for his many comic roles, including Fred Flintstone in the movie The Flintstones, Roseanne Barr s husband in the TV sitcom Roseanne, the voice of Sully in Monsters, Inc. & many roles in movies of The Coen Brothers. He had his own sitcom called Normal, Ohio in which he played an anti-typical gay man who returns to his small hometown to start a life. The show was panned & although it projected a positive message for homosexuals gay fans did not respond well. Goodman has also been a popular guest host a number of times on NBC TVs Saturday Night Live. Cliffords Really Big Movie as George Wolfsbottom. Father of the Pride TV Series as Larry the Lion. Monsters, Inc. as James P Sulley Sullivan. One Night at McCools as Detective Dehling. Saturday Night Live. Best of the Clinton Scandal as Linda Tripp. Normal, Ohio TV Series as William Butch Gamble/Rex Gamble. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle as Oklahoma Cop. O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Big Dan Teague. What Planet Are You From? as Roland Jones. Now & Again TV Series as Michael Wiseman. Posters Of The Big Lebowski

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