After watching MI again the
other day, I realised how many things in the film I had actually overlooked previously, and how much certain
parts bothered me. I guess this post doesn’t have a particular point, and is about MI generally, but I sort of
felt as though I had to make these points, and that the best place to do so was Pixar Planet. 
But, you must
understand, these points (although they are not all focused on Randall) are from the viewpoints of a Randall fan,
and I’m very happy to hear what you guys all think about what I’m saying here. As has been discussed in other
threads, we all have our own individual fandoms within Pixar, and as I’m very happy to listen to other people’s
opinions and everything, I hope you’ll be happy to listen to mine.
So, since this isn’t actually
about anything in particular, I might as well do this chronologically to include some kind of order and
organisation in my ramblings. 
1. In the first scene, when Waternoose
comes along to talk to the training scarers, he has a canister of screams and decides to use up half of it trying
to demonstrate something that the trainees, no matter how bad at scaring, would know- that inside a scream
canister are the screams. Why would he do such a thing, when there was an ‘energy crises’ happening, and when
every little bit of scream was very valuable and not to be wasted?
2. In Mike
and Sulley’s apartment, they watch an advert for MI. Why would there be an advert for a company like MI, an
energy supplier? Its customers don’t seem to have any choice in which energy supplier they use- it seems as
though MI is the only one- so what would be the point of a seemingly very expensive advert like this
one?
3. When Mike and Sulley are walking to work, we see an array of other
different types of monsters. The first thing I noticed about this scene is that whoever Mike and Sulley talk to
on their way to work, and whoever they pass by, something bad happens to them! There’s the skipping kids, the
guy who falls down the drain, and the other Mon who sneezes and burns up his newspaper. They all suffered
misfortunes as soon as Mike and Sulley came along!
Secondly, this scene also seems to prove how
inadequate the Monster World is (or at least, how inadequate Monstropolis is) at catering for all the different
types of monsters, despite hinting that everyone is relatively comfortable. The problems that occurred could
easily have been solved- making newspapers out of a heatproof material, for example- but it seems that
Monstropolis has adapted best to a certain kind of ‘average Joe’ type monster, without considering others’
needs.
4. We all know what Mike is like with his paperwork. But surely such a
lack of discipline would result in some sort of punishment? All Roz ever does is carry out empty threats, and
with the company in such dire straits, wouldn’t it make sense to ensure that all the paperwork was in order,
especially with the CDA popping round so often? Mike, and therefore Mike and Sulley, seem to get away with a
lot.
5. In the locker room scene, when Randall appears and Mike jumps away,
scared, Mike says that he has ‘allergies’. So what exactly is he implying? He says this after Randall taunts
him, so it seems as though he is using his ‘allergies’ as the reason why he jumped away from Randall. Is he
basically trying to say he’s allergic to Randall?
6. When one of the Scarers
runs out of the room, afraid because the child nearly touched him, we see just beforehand that the scream
canister begins to fill up, but is then emptied. This would imply that the child screamed and then sort
of…sucked it back in!
7. Isn’t it such a coincidence that the
second Waternoose comes on the floor, Sulley gets to scare in a slumber
party?
8. When Waternoose is congratulating Sulley, and Sulley says, 'I
learnt from the best’, and they both sort of point at each other in a very strange and suspicious manner…Well,
it does seem a bit as though they know something nobody else does, in their mannerisms.
9. Ever notice that when the CDA are about, even in the first instance when
George gets his first 23-19, Randall isn’t there, even though he must be somewhere on the scarefloor since we
see him scaring just a few moments earlier? He’s the only scarer that seems to miraculously disappear. Surely
this in itself would make the CDA suspicious if they do a sort of role
call?
10. Sulley talks to Waternoose as Waternoose has a drink. Sulley
mentions something called ‘the ole’ Waternoose jump ‘n growl’. Waternoose can’t jump with his crab legs.
11. When Sullery goes back to the scarefloor to sort out Mike’s
paperwork, he enters Boo’s room, puts her back in bed and runs back out of her room. If he were a proper scarer,
especially since it is implied that Sulley has worked at MI for a fair while, and apparently deserves his Top
Scarer crown, he would’ve been able to run out of Boo’s room quickly and efficiently. We all know that instead,
he gets ridiculously tangled up and drags half of Boo’s room out with him! This once again implies that Sulley
had a ‘helping hand’, so to speak, to be able to gain his Top Scarer title, even if he doesn’t know it
himself, since most experienced scarers would be able to, by instinct, run out of a child’s room with no
trouble.
12. Sulley is touched by Boo many times in the following scene in
the locker room, and several times, he is aware. Yet when she touches him later on in the film, in his and
Mike’s apartment, the he panics, causing Boo to cry and worsening the situation. Just a bit of a rolls eyes
moment there, since it should be very obvious by that time that Boo is not deadly, considering the amount of
previous contact she had had with Sulley.
13. Celia mentions cutting her hair
in Harryhausen’s. I wonder what that would actually involve- would she have to chop off the snake’s heads, or
something? That’d be a sight!
14. When Harryhausen’s is blown up,
Celia is taken away by the CDA. Instead of going back to grab Celia and get her away from the situation, or at
least staying with her to comfort her on her birthday, Mike runs away. Fast. With his best friend in tow- it sort
of implies that he and Sulley are just that bit closer. I could definitely see this becoming an issue in a
sequel- who comes first, Celia or Sulley? Wouldn’t it have made sense for Sulley to go back to their apartment
with Boo, whilst Mike helps Celia?
15. It’s strange how Mike has all of the
expensive stuff, both in their apartment and generally (the CDs, a car that Sulley can’t even get in) whilst
Sulley is pretty limited in that aspect.
16. Boo is a pretty tough girl it
seems, more so than most. She may just be finding this whole thing a new and exciting experience, but from my own
experience, most little kids of her age, after a few hours without their parents, begin to pine for them. Boo is
happy to sleep in a strange bed, eating strange food, and never one says the words, ‘dada’ or ‘mama’. Either
she’s very brave, a little strange, or doesn’t have a great home life.
17.
When Mike is trying to find Boo after having had a little chat, so to speak, with Randall, at one point he asks
George and his scare assistant if they have seen him. Mike is obviously in a panicked state, yet George and his
assistant, when Mike has gone, have a good chuckle at him and that he is in ‘big trouble’. They also refer to
Mike by his surname, whilst everyone else refers to Sulley by his nickname. It seems that Mike, despite original
appearences, is not as popular as Sulley is.
18. When the SE comes down in
front of Mike, Randall grins, but this grin is abruptly wiped away the second he turns around and isn’t facing
Mike. Randall’s hiding his true feelings, perhaps?
19. The efficiency of the
SE is a little questionable. Of course, the SE extracts screams which is used as their power source. But, by the
looks of the plug that Randall had to connect, as well as the numerous wires everywhere, it looks as though it
takes a lot of energy to run the SE in the first place. It seems as though going through doors would actually be
more efficient and less expensive in the long run!
20. I am sure this
question has been asked before, but how exactly did Mike get back to the Monster World after being banished to
the Himalayas with Sulley?
21. When Boo is about to have her screams
extracted out of her, she calls out ‘Kitty!’. At this point, she doesn’t know Sulley is there, so she’s just
crying out for help. Once again, most children’s instinct would be to call out for their parents, but despite
having spent a relatively short amount of time in the Monster World, she is relying on Sulley more than on her
own relatives.
22. Isn’t it strange that when they’re running through all
of those doors in the door vault, not one of them contained a child at some point? It may not have been night
time for any of them, but children do into their bedrooms at any time of the day, so really they should’ve
expected to bump into a human at some point.
Yeah, that’s about it I think. I know I’ve blabbered
about some pretty pointless…points here, but it was just on my mind and I thought it might make an interesting
discussion (or, rather, discussions!)
I see that as more of a joke in a joke. As
everybody is seen
.