Monsters, Inc. corrections

Monsters, Inc. (2001) - 35 corrections

starring Billy Crystal, Bob Peterson, Frank Oz, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly, John Ratzenberger, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi

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The scare total display board on the scarefloor wall shows the scarers with their photo and last name. There is one mistake. Randall's last name is Boggs but the display board says Randall. [Some people (or monsters, in this case) do prefer to be called by the surname (like Sulley) and others by their first name (like Randall).]

All the toilets in the Monsters Inc. men's room are in the size and shape familiar to us as being for human use. Yet only three or four of the monsters are close enough to humanoid form that would make the toilets accessible for sitting. [Possibly there are other men's rooms of different sizes to fit different monsters. After all we only see one restroom in the whole movie and of course there are others.]

When Sully and Waternoose are talking, Waternoose pours himself a cup of coffee. Just after Waternoose takes a sip, Sully demonstrates his scaring ability on him and he drops his cup. The sound we hear is of an empty cup hitting the floor, but didn't Waternoose just fill it with coffee? There should have been a splash type noise to indicate the coffee has spilt on the floor. [Look more carefully at the "coffee" - it isn't liquid, but thick, heavy sludge. Thus, if a cup of that stuff was dropped on the floor, we wouldn't hear any splashing.]

Why does Mike need to put in a contact lens after going to work? Surely if his eyesight is bad, then he would have needed to put one on before leaving the house. After all, he wanted to drive to work, supposedly with bad eyesight. [He could just need a corrective lens for reading, which he has to do for work.] Corrected by wolfchild

On the scare floor at the beginning of the movie, there is a monster who starts wailing about a kid almost touching him. The door shredder is then called because they have a "dead door" when it goes through the shredder two sets of handles come out. Doors only have one handle on each side, so only one set of handles should have come out. [This is wrong. The doors that are used to open a pathway to the kids' world have handles on both sides. This can be pretty easily seen in the scene where Sully, Mike, and Randall are all riding the doors along the tracks in the storage area - several doors are seen from both sides, with handles on both sides.]

If Boo was the first child to enter the monster world, then how does the CDA know their detecting machines works? [The monsters regularly go into children's bedrooms, and could safely test their devices while the kids are asleep. It's not as if they've never seen a child before: they rely on them for power after all.] Corrected by Jez

When Randal is talking to Mike about making sure Boo goes back in her door at the lunch break look at which of Mike's hand is the hour hand. When Randal says "When the hour hand goes down..." he uses the wrong hand. [Randall does this on purpose- to hurt Mike and he actually says "When the big hand"]

When Boo is first discovered by Mike & Sully, they refer to Boo as 'it' and 'the child'. During the bathroom scene when Sully tells Mike that he named the child Boo, his exact words are "That's what I named her". There is no explanation why he switched the pronoun from 'it' to 'her'. For the rest of the movie, they do refer to Boo as 'her'. [This isn't a mistake, it's a choice made by the filmmakers. It's intended to show that Sully no longer sees Boo as an "it", but as a living being that might not be so dangerous after all.]

Why does Boo have a mobile? She sleeps on a bed and mobiles are for small babies in cribs. [Boo actually owns a couple mobiles. (One with fishes and another with the solar system.) Mobiles are not just for babies with cribs. You can get all kinds of mobiles.] Corrected by Nala

When Sully and Mike leave the company bathroom, they are walking down the hall and you can see that both of Mike's legs are wet. As they keep walking down the hall, they dry far too quickly. [Why do they? As far as you know, mike's skin can be like a lizard's or a snake's, therefore, the water slides off quite fast.]

When Sully rescues Boo from the Scream Extractor, he picks up her door card key from the floor with his left hand and is carrying Boo in his right. But when Randall attacks him, you don't see the card fly out of his hand. In fact, you don't see it anywhere. How does he happen to have it later on the scare floor? [If you look closely, you can see that Boo is carrying it all the way to the Scare Floor].

In the first shot of all the monsters entering the scare-floor, there is a broad-chested purple monster without eyes. In his next two shots he has three eyes. Then in the following shot his eyes are gone again until his assistant gives him a whole bunch. [When all the monsters enter the scare floor, there are actually two very similar looking broad chested purple monsters; one on the right and one in the back, left, who is more difficult to see. He is the one with the 3 eyes.]

Just after James tells Mike nothing matters, it cuts to a scene with Mike holding the ball from a snow cone and he has only two toes on his left foot. It then goes to James again and when it goes back to Mike he has three toes again. [If you look very closely you can see the hump of the third toe.]

When Sully and Mike are going to work the first time, they are carrying lunch boxes. When they leave at the end of the day they aren't carrying them anymore. [Mike is going to dinner with Celia, and probably does not want to carry his lunchbox to dinner, and Sully gets mixed up in the whole situation with Boo, and has no time to think about his lunchbox.]

When Sully gets expelled from monstropolis, he wastes no time in locating a child's room so that he can return. None of the other banished monsters thought of this? And what about the monster that was busy scaring the occupant of that room? Why didn't he stop Sully or at least raise an alarm? [There is no point for the other banished monsters to return as Sully did, as they would only be hunted fugitives and banished/punished again. Other monsters may have snuck back in, but they would not be around in plain sight.]