Monsters, Inc.

They also solve their world's energy crisis when they find out that a child's laughter has ten times the power of a scream; thus, all the monsters have a new mission: to sneak into children's rooms at night and make them laugh. Nitro may refer to:. Along the way, they discover that children are not dangerous and that scaring is no longer rewarding. Nitro Snowboards, snowboard manufacturer. It's up to Sully and Mike to get her back home before the authorities find out and before the company gets turned upside down. Project Nitro, a codename for the Nintendo DS. When Sully investigates the door, a small human girl enters the monster world; not only that but he & Mike also learn that the girl is actually a victim of an evil plot to solve the city's power problems, in a bad way, involving Randall. Nitro (computer game), a 1990 computer game.

When taking care of paperwork, Sulley discovers a door that has been left on the scare-floor after shift, contrary to strict company policy. Nitro, West Virginia, a city in West Virginia. Sullivan, or "Sully" (John Goodman), a blue-furred bear-like giant who is partnered with the green, one-eyed Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal); Sully's main rival is the chameleon-like Randall Boggs. Nitro (band), an 80s rock band. is James P. WCW Nitro, an event in professional wrestling. The top scarer at Monsters, Inc. Nitro (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure.

There is even a special code, "23-19" ("twenty-three nineteen"), to alert everyone in the area of such contamination in the event of a monster touching a child's article of clothing. Nitro Records, an independent record label. A governmental organization, the Child Detection Agency (CDA), is very aggressive in taking care of child contamination when it occurs. Nitromagnesium, a fertilizer. There are many safety precautions to prevent such contamination. Nitromethane, or a fuel additive used especially in model cars. The monsters believe that children are toxic and the very touch of a child is poisonous. Nitrous, a type of fuel additives for race cars.

The collected screams are used to generate energy for the monster world. Nitroglycerin, an extremely explosive chemical compound. The monster's partner/technician in the monster world, on the scare-floor, takes care of the portal (door) and scream-collector mechanisms. Nitro functional group, a functional group with chemical formula NO₂. Each incursion is made by a scarer who must scare the child. Each monster incursion in to our world is through one of these doors.

Inside the elaborate facility are stored the doors to the closets of children in our world. The primary set is the workplace of the centralized monster power company, Monsters Inc. The primary setting of Monsters, Inc. is another world where monsters live. .

Monsters, Inc. premiered in the United States on October 28, 2001, and went into general release on November 2, 2001 with the best opening ticket sales ever for an animated film and the sixth best of all time. It was directed by Peter Docter, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich. Baird, Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Dan Gerson, Jeff Pidgeon, Rhett Reese, Jonathan Roberts and Andrew Stanton. The original story was written by Robert L.

"Sulley" Sullivan), Billy Crystal (Michael "Mike" Wazowski), Mary Gibbs (Boo), Steve Buscemi (Randall Boggs), James Coburn (Henry Waternoose III), Jennifer Tilly (Celia Mae, Mike's girlfriend), Bob Peterson (Roz, the secretary), John Ratzenberger (Yeti), Frank Oz (Fungus, Randall's Accomplice), Dan Gerson (Needleman and Smitty, the teenage monsters), Steve Susskind and Bonnie Hunt. It stars the voices of John Goodman (James P. Monsters, Inc. is an animated feature produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theatres by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 2, 2001, and in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2002.
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Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!, opened at Disney's California Adventure park in January 2006. A theme park ride, Monsters, Inc. A series of mini-computer video games, and a multiplatform video game were created, based on the movie. Feld Entertainment currently tours a Monsters Inc. edition of their Disney on Ice skating tour.

A manga version of Monsters, Inc. was made by Hiromi Yamafuji and distributed in Kodansha's Comic Bon Bon magazine in Japan; the manga is published in English by TOKYOPOP. The resturant Mike visits is named after a famous monster maker and special effects master Ray "Harryhausen". When Boo sits in the cubicle in the men's room, she sings a couple of verses to the theme song to Beauty and the Beast. When Mike enters the room of a child near the end of the movie you can see early posters of Disneyland attractions and lands.

Pink was played by Steve Buscemi, who also supplied Randall's voice. Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs refuses to do. When Mike does his comic turn near the end of the film, he signs off with "Tip your waitresses!", something Mr.

They were unable to get her to sit still in the recording studio, so instead the followed her around with a boommike, and cut things she said while playing into the movie. Mary Gibbs, the director's three year old daughter, provided Boo's voice. The name Randall Boggs is a possible reference to Stephen King's uber-villain Randall Flagg. The names on the scream-totals board (with the exceptions of Sulley and Randall) are all the names of Pixar employees.

The Abominable Snowman is based on the character "The Bumble" from the stop-motion Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Christmas Special. One of the toys she hands him is a clownfish, a hint to the 2003 hit Pixar movie Finding Nemo, a ball which was in Luxo Jr, and another is Jessie from Toy Story 2. Near the end of the film, Boo excitedly shows Sully her toys in her room. The five- and six-digit numbers displayed with nixie tubes near the doors are all birthdays of Pixar employees and/or relatives.

All of the digital displays in Monstropolis (Sulley's clock radio, scare station consoles, "Days Without An Accident" sign) are nixie tubes, a neon digital display technology from the 1960s. Some of the "sets" in this film were used in the animated feature Toy Story. Boo herself refers to Sully as "Kitty" for no otherwise apparent reason, perhaps because Sully looks like a cat to her. The scene where Sully fears Boo has been thrown in a garbage compressor is inspired by the 1952 Chuck Jones cartoon Feed the Kitty.

It was nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing and Best Music, Original Score. Monsters, Inc. won the Academy Award for Best Song (Randy Newman for If I Didn't Have You).