Monsters, Inc. (franchise)
Disney and Pixar media franchise
Monsters, Inc. (also known as Monsters, Incorporated and simply Monsters) is an American media franchise of Pixar. The franchise began with the 2001 film Monsters, Inc.,It takes place in a world parallel to the Earth where monsters are the citizens of society and harness the energy of human children to power their cities. The company known as Monsters, Inc. accomplishes this with portal doors which lead to their bedrooms.
Feature films
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Monsters, Inc. introduces the monster world, where Monstropolis is powered by the screams of human children as monsters enter the human world at night and scare children through their bedroom closets. One evening when a little girl called "Boo" accidentally enters the monster world, friends James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski must find a way to hide her from the authorities and return her to her world and, in the process, they learn that not everything they have been led to believe about humans is true.
The film was released on November 2, 2001, in the United States, surpassing Toy Story 2 (1999) and peaked as the second highest-grossing animated film of all time, behind Disney Animation's The Lion King (1994) at the time.
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