Every Pixar Movie Ranked Worst To Best

12. Monsters Inc

Monsters Inc Boo
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Looking back on the marketing of Monsters Inc, it was clear that the studio was delighted with their advances that had made animating every individual strand of hair on Sulley possible. It's almost charming how little that sort of technique means now.

Monsters Inc is not just a vehicle for digital fur though: it's a charming, heart-warming portrait of parenting with an odd couple dynamic and the right balance between threat and humour. Remember, the stakes of this film very much come at the potential cost of Boo's life.

Thanks to brilliant casting, the characters are incredibly successful, the humour works beautifully (thanks in no small part to Billy Crystal's delivery) and you really root for the monsters. Which is a sentence in itself that shows the absolute genius of Pixar's transformative look at the "reality" of the monster universe.

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