I loved Monsters Inc… and the short alone was worth the price of the movie ticket. But the real question (and I’m sorry, Jason… but I don’t patronize McDonalds, otherwise I’d be happy to help), is how does it stack-up against Toy Story? Toy Story had a lot more character development (spread over more characters… so it kinda evens out)… but otherwise I think that Monsters Inc is better.

I have Randall. Creepy little character… I would have liked it better if we had gotten one of the “good” guys. But Randall’s cool in that all his arms move independently. Pretty cool for a free toy! His teeth and eyes glow in the dark too.

I, too, think that little animation-short in the beginning was the best part of the movie. Although the movie was very cool! :-)

The disney store has some cool stuff too, like the Sulley doll.

Well, we just got *another* Randall… It’s all yours if you want it. (One of him is enough, thank you very much!) email me and let me know. (if you have a double of a “good guy” character, we could swap… if not, no big deal - you can still have this one) :)

i so loved it, too! as for vis1on’s comments, i think the character development might have been stronger in ‘toy story’ but the rendering and animation was far more superior in this one :)

I saw a brief clip on the programmer’s who made Sulley’s fur. As a coder I was amazed at the elegance of the texture-mapping algorithim to acomplish such amazing visual subtleties as fur flapping in the wind, snow accumulation on moving fur, fur bouncing up and subsequently falling down in reaction to impact etc. Haven’t seen the movie but am looking forward to it, if for nothing else, to be blown away by the technology used to generate the images.

Jennifer: I’ve got an extra Celia Mae with your name on it if we can work a trade!

Matt: I agree totally, the fur was AMAZING. During the whole Nepal scene, I was just awestruck.