Review: "Monsters Inc." is similar to Nick toon as monster workers and ends well

"Monsters Inc." G
Prior to 2001, a Nickelodeon cartoon named Ahh Real Monsters featured a band of misfit monsters living in the real world, including floating eyeballs, creaky frog things, snakes, chameleons and annoying snake things. The cartoon was bizarre. It seemed like then Pixar lifted the idea for their version, Monster's Inc., a digital animated version set in a monster's factory, where Mike and Sully are workers who keep the doors closed while the screams of humans are used for power. It is a different concept, but goofy monsters with weird coloring is very similar. The Nick toon went away. The Monster's Inc. became a franchise. The original Monster Inc. premise is that a little girl greeps into the monster world and is not scared of Mike and Sully, changing that world forever. But that frog lady was right out of the other show. Deny it all you will. And the eyeball. The show was cute. The movie was cute.
Review by Adam Browne