United Nations peacekeeping - Wikipedia United Nations peacekeeping Jump to : navigation , search United Nation Peacekeeping UNPK logo Founded 1948 Website United Nations Peacekeeping Leadership Under - Secretary - General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean - Pierre Lacroix Manpower Active personnel 90,905 uniformed , 111,512 total Expenditures Budget $7.9 billion Related articles History United Nations peacekeeping missions United Nations System Principal Organs United Nations Secretariat United Nations Security Council United Nations General Assembly International Court of Justice United Nations Economic and Social Council United Nations Trusteeship Council Peacekeeping by the United Nations is a role held by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations as `` a unique and dynamic instrument developed by the organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict to create the conditions for lasting peace . '' It is distinguished from peacebuilding , peacemaking , and peace enforcement although the United Nations does acknowledge that all activities are `` mutually reinforcing '' and that overlap between them is frequent in practice . Peacekeepers monitor and observe peace processes in post-conflict areas and assist ex-combatants in implementing the peace agreements they may have signed . Such assistance comes in many forms , including confidence - building measures , power - sharing arrangements , electoral support , strengthening the rule of law , and economic and social development . Accordingly , UN peacekeepers ( often referred to as Blue Berets or Blue Helmets because of their light blue berets or helmets ) can include soldiers , police officers , and civilian personnel . The United Nations Charter gives the United Nations Security Council the power and responsibility to take collective action to maintain international peace and security . For this reason , the international community usually looks to the Security Council to authorize peacekeeping operations through Chapter VII authorizations . Most of these operations are established and implemented by the United Nations itself , with troops serving under UN operational control . In these cases , peacekeepers remain members of their respective armed forces , and do not constitute an independent `` UN army , '' as the UN does not have such a force . In cases where direct UN involvement is not considered appropriate or feasible , the Council authorizes regional organizations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , the Economic Community of West African States , or coalitions of willing countries to undertake peacekeeping or peace - enforcement tasks . Mr. Jean - Pierre Lacroix is the Head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations . He took over from the former Under - Secretary - General Mr. Hérve Ladsous on 1 April 2017 . DPKO 's highest level doctrine document , entitled `` United Nations Peacekeeping Operations : Principles and Guidelines '' was issued in 2008 . Contents ( hide ) 1 Process and structure 2 Formation 2.1 Financing 2.2 Structure 3 History 3.1 Cold War peacekeeping 3.2 Since 1991 4 Participation 5 Results 6 Crimes by peacekeepers 6.1 Peacekeeping , human trafficking , and forced prostitution 6.2 Human rights violations in United Nations missions 7 Proposed reform 7.1 Brahimi analysis 7.2 Rapid reaction force 7.3 Restructuring of the UN secretariat 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading Process and structure ( edit ) In 2007 , a peacekeeper volunteer was required to be over the age of 25 with no maximum age limit . Peacekeeping forces are contributed by member states on a voluntary basis . As of 31 December 2013 , the total size of the peacekeeping force is 98,200 police , troops , and military experts . European nations contribute nearly 6,000 units to this total . Pakistan , India , and Bangladesh are among the largest individual contributors with around 8,000 units each . African nations contributed nearly half the total , almost 44,000 units . Every peacekeeping mission is authorized by the Security Council . Formation ( edit ) Guard of Honor during UN Medal Awarding Parade at Bunia , Orientale . Republique democratique du Congo by Bangladesh UN Peacekeeping Force A multinational UN battalion at the 2008 Bastille Day military parade Once a peace treaty has been negotiated , the parties involved might ask the United Nations for a peacekeeping force to oversee various elements of the agreed upon plan . This is often done because a group controlled by the United Nations is less likely to follow the interests of any one party , since it itself is controlled by many groups , namely the 15 - member Security Council and the intentionally diverse United Nations Secretariat . If the Security Council approves the creation of a mission , then the Department of Peacekeeping Operations begins planning for the necessary elements . At this point , the senior leadership team is selected . The department will then seek contributions from member nations . Since the UN has no standing force or supplies , it must form ad hoc coalitions for every task undertaken . Doing so results in both the possibility of failure to form a suitable force , and a general slowdown in procurement once the operation is in the field . Romeo Dallaire , force commander in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide there , described the problems this poses by comparison to more traditional military deployments : He told me the UN was a `` pull '' system , not a `` push '' system like I had been used to with NATO , because the UN had absolutely no pool of resources to draw on . You had to make a request for everything you needed , and then you had to wait while that request was analyzed ... For instance , soldiers everywhere have to eat and drink . In a push system , food and water for the number of soldiers deployed is automatically supplied . In a pull system , you have to ask for those rations , and no common sense seems to ever apply . -- ( Shake Hands With the Devil , Dallaire , pp. 99 -- 100 ) While the peacekeeping force is being assembled , a variety of diplomatic activities are being undertaken by UN staff . The exact size and strength of the force must be agreed to by the government of the nation whose territory the conflict is on . The Rules of Engagement must be developed and approved by both the parties involved and the Security Council . These give the specific mandate and scope of the mission ( e.g. when may the peacekeepers , if armed , use force , and where may they go within the host nation ) . Often , it will be mandated that peacekeepers have host government minders with them whenever they leave their base . This complexity has caused problems in the field . When all agreements are in place , the required personnel are assembled , and final approval has been given by the Security Council , the peacekeepers are deployed to the region in question . Financing ( edit ) Australian peacekeepers in East Timor The financial resources of UN Peacekeeping operations are the collective responsibility of UN Member States . Decisions about the establishment , maintenance or expansion of peacekeeping operations are taken by the Security Council . According to UN Charter every Member State is legally obligated to pay their respective share for peacekeeping . Peacekeeping expenses are divided by the General Assembly based upon a formula established by Member States which takes into account the relative economic wealth of Member States among other things . In 2017 , the UN agreed to reduce the peacekeeping budget by $600 million after the US initially proposed a larger cut of approximately $900 million . Year Funding sources by country / source Description Total 2015 - 2016 $8.3 bn 2016 - 2017 US 28.57 % China 10.29 % Japan 9.68 % Germany 6.39 % France 6.31 % United Kingdom 5.80 % Russian Federation 4.01 % Italy 3.75 % Canada 2.92 % Spain 2.44 % Less than 0.5 % of world military expenditures ( estimated at $1,747 billion in 2013 ) . The resources financed 14 of the 16 United Nations peacekeeping missions with the two remaining ones getting financed through the UN regular budget . Many countries have also voluntarily made additional resources available to support UN Peacekeeping efforts such as by transportation , supplies , personnel and financial contributions beyond their assessed share of peacekeeping costs . $7.87 bn 2017 - 2018 While many have praised the Ivory Coast UN peacekeeping mission 's stabilizing effects on the country , the mission was ended on 30 June 2017 . $7.3 bn Structure ( edit ) A United Nations peacekeeping mission has three power centers . The first is the Special Representative of the Secretary - General , the official leader of the mission . This person is responsible for all political and diplomatic activity , overseeing relations with both the parties to the peace treaty and the UN member - states in general . They are often a senior member of the Secretariat . The second is the Force Commander , who is responsible for the military forces deployed . They are a senior officer of their nation 's armed services , and are often from the nation committing the highest number of troops to the project . Finally , the Chief Administrative Officer oversees supplies and logistics , and coordinates the procurement of any supplies needed . History ( edit ) Main article : History of United Nations peacekeeping Cold War peacekeeping ( edit ) Peacekeepers ' Panhard armoured car in the Musée des Blindés , Saumur , France . These vehicles have served with the UN since the inception of UNFICYP . A Pakistani UNOSOM armed convoy making the rounds in Mogadishu . United Nations peacekeeping was initially developed during the Cold War as a means of resolving conflicts between states by deploying unarmed or lightly armed military personnel from a number of countries , under UN command , to areas where warring parties were in need of a neutral party to observe the peace process . Peacekeepers could be called in when the major international powers ( the five permanent members of the Security Council ) tasked the UN with bringing closure to conflicts threatening regional stability and international peace and security . These included a number of so - called `` proxy wars '' waged by client states of the superpowers . As of February 2009 , there have been 63 UN peacekeeping operations since 1948 , with sixteen operations ongoing . Suggestions for new missions arise every year . The first peacekeeping mission was launched in 1948 . This mission , the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization ( UNTSO ) , was sent to the newly created State of Israel , where a conflict between the Israelis and the Arab states over the creation of Israel had just reached a ceasefire . The UNTSO remains in operation to this day , although the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict has certainly not abated . Almost a year later , the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan ( UNMOGIP ) was authorized to monitor relations between the two nations , which were split off from each other following the United Kingdom 's decolonization of the Indian subcontinent . As the Korean War ended with the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953 , UN forces remained along the south side of demilitarized zone until 1967 , when American and South Korean forces took over . Returning its attention to the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors , the United Nations responded to Suez Crisis of 1956 , a war between the alliance of the United Kingdom , France , and Israel , and Egypt , which was supported by other Arab nations . When a ceasefire was declared in 1957 , Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs ( and future Prime Minister ) Lester Bowles Pearson suggested that the United Nations station a peacekeeping force in the Suez in order to ensure that the ceasefire was honored by both sides . Pearson had initially suggested that the force consist of mainly Canadian soldiers , but the Egyptians were suspicious of having a Commonwealth nation defend them against the United Kingdom and her allies . In the end , a wide variety of national forces were drawn upon to ensure national diversity . Pearson would win the Nobel Peace Prize for this work , and he is today considered a father of modern peacekeeping . In 1988 , the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations peacekeeping forces . The press release stated that the forces `` represent the manifest will of the community of nations '' and have `` made a decisive contribution '' to the resolution of conflict around the world . Since 1991 ( edit ) Norwegian Peacekeeper during the Siege of Sarajevo , 1992 - 1993 . Indian soldiers patrol under UN mission in Congo , Africa Indian Army doctors attend to a child in Congo The end of the Cold War precipitated a dramatic shift in UN and multilateral peacekeeping . In a new spirit of cooperation , the Security Council established larger and more complex UN peacekeeping missions , often to help implement comprehensive peace agreements between belligerents in intra-State conflicts and civil wars . Furthermore , peacekeeping came to involve more and more non-military elements that ensured the proper functioning of civic functions , such as elections . The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations was created in 1992 to support this increased demand for such missions . By and large , the new operations were successful . In El Salvador and Mozambique , for example , peacekeeping provided ways to achieve self - sustaining peace . Some efforts failed , perhaps as the result of an overly optimistic assessment of what UN peacekeeping could accomplish . While complex missions in Cambodia and Mozambique were ongoing , the Security Council dispatched peacekeepers to conflict zones like Somalia , where neither ceasefires nor the consent of all the parties in conflict had been secured . These operations did not have the manpower , nor were they supported by the required political will , to implement their mandates . The failures -- most notably the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica and Bosnia and Herzegovina -- led to a period of retrenchment and self - examination in UN peacekeeping . That period led , in part , to the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission , which works to implement stable peace through some of the same civic functions that peacekeepers also work on , such as elections . The Commission currently works with six countries , all in Africa . Participation ( edit ) Alpine Helicopters contract Bell 212 on UN peacekeeping duty in Guatemala , 1998 . San Martin Camp in Cyprus . The Argentine contingent includes troops from other Latin American countries . Indian Army T - 72 tanks with UN markings as part of Operation CONTINUE HOPE . The UN Charter stipulates that to assist in maintaining peace and security around the world , all member states of the UN should make available to the Security Council necessary armed forces and facilities . Since 1948 , close to 130 nations have contributed military and civilian police personnel to peace operations . While detailed records of all personnel who have served in peacekeeping missions since 1948 are not available , it is estimated that up to one million soldiers , police officers and civilians have served under the UN flag in the last 56 years . As of June 2013 , 114 countries were contributing a total 91,216 military observers , police , and troops to United Nations Peacekeeping Operations . As of 29 February 2016 , 124 countries were contributing a total of 105,314 personnel in Peacekeeping Operations , with Ethiopia leading the tally ( 8,324 ) , followed by India ( 7,695 ) and Bangladesh ( 7,525 ) . In June 2013 . Pakistan contributed the highest number overall with 8,186 personnel , followed by India ( 7,878 ) , Bangladesh ( 7,799 ) , Ethiopia ( 6,502 ) , Rwanda ( 4,686 ) , Nigeria ( 4,684 ) , Nepal ( 4,495 ) , Jordan ( 3,374 ) , Ghana ( 2,859 ) , and Egypt ( 2,750 ) . As of 28 February 2015 , 120 countries were contributing a total of 104,928 personnel in Peacekeeping Operations , with Bangladesh leading the tally ( 9446 ) . As of March 2008 , in addition to military and police personnel , 5,187 international civilian personnel , 2,031 UN Volunteers and 12,036 local civilian personnel worked in UN peacekeeping missions . A peacekeeping soldier of Poland in Syria Through April 2008 , 2,468 people from over 100 countries have been killed while serving on peacekeeping missions . Many of those came from India ( 127 ) , Canada ( 114 ) and Ghana ( 113 ) . Thirty percent of the fatalities in the first 55 years of UN peacekeeping occurred in the years 1993 - 1995 . About 4.5 % of the troops and civilian police deployed in UN peacekeeping missions come from the European Union and less than one percent from the United States ( USA ) . The rate of reimbursement by the UN for troop - contributing countries per peacekeeper per month include : $1,028 for pay and allowances ; $303 supplementary pay for specialists ; $68 for personal clothing , gear and equipment ; and $5 for personal weaponry . Results ( edit ) According to scholar Page Fortna , there is strong evidence that the presence of peacekeepers significantly reduces the risk of renewed warfare ; more peacekeeping troops leads to fewer battlefield deaths ; and more peacekeeping troops leads to fewer civilian deaths . There is also evidence that the promise to deploy peacekeepers can help an international organizations bring combatants to the negotiation table and increase the likelihood that they will agree to a cease - fire . However , there have been several reports during UN peacekeeping missions of human rights abuse by UN soldiers , notably in Central African Republic in 2015 . Cost of these missions is also significant , with UNMISS in South Sudan costing $1 billion per year for 12,500 UN soldiers unable to prevent the country 's movement towards civil war . Often missions require approval from local governments before deploying troops which can also limit effectiveness of UN missions . Nicholas Sambanis asserts that the presence of a UN peacekeeping mission is correlated with a positive effect on the achievement of peace , especially in the short - term . However , he notes that this effect is lessened over time . Thus , the longer that peacekeepers remain in a country , the greater the likelihood that peace will maintain . Acknowledging the success that UN peacekeeping operations have achieved in increasing political participation , Sambanis claims that a greater focus on economic development would further increase the efficacy of peacekeeping efforts . Another study suggests that doubling the peacekeeping operation budget stronger peacekeeping operation mandates and a doubling of the PKO budget would reduce armed conflicts by up to two thirds relative to a scenario without PKOs . Crimes by peacekeepers ( edit ) Peacekeeping , human trafficking , and forced prostitution ( edit ) Further information : Peacekeeping § Peacekeeping , human trafficking , and forced prostitution Reporters witnessed a rapid increase in prostitution in Cambodia and Mozambique after UN peacekeeping forces moved in . In the 1996 UN study `` The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children '' , former first lady of Mozambique Graça Machel documented : `` In 6 out of 12 country studies on sexual exploitation of children in situations of armed conflict prepared for the present report , the arrival of peacekeeping troops has been associated with a rapid rise in child prostitution . '' Gita Sahgal spoke out in 2004 with regard to the fact that prostitution and sex abuse crops up wherever humanitarian intervention efforts are set up . She observed : `` The issue with the UN is that peacekeeping operations unfortunately seem to be doing the same thing that other militaries do . Even the guardians have to be guarded . '' Human rights violations in United Nations missions ( edit ) Brazilian Army participating in a UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti . The following table chart illustrates confirmed accounts of crimes and human rights violations committed by United Nations soldiers , peacekeepers , and employees . A comparison of incidents involving United Nations peacekeepers , troops , and employees . Conflict United Nations Mission Sexual abuse Murder Extortion / Theft Second Congo War United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo 150 44 Somali Civil War United Nations Operation in Somalia II 5 24 5 Sierra Leone Civil War United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone 50 7 15 Eritrean - Ethiopian War United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea 70 15 0 Burundi Civil War United Nations Operation in Burundi 80 5 0 Rwanda Civil War United Nations Observer Mission Uganda - Rwanda 65 15 0 Second Liberian Civil War United Nations Mission in Liberia 30 Second Sudanese Civil War United Nations Mission in Sudan 400 5 0 Côte d'Ivoire Civil War United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire 500 0 2004 Haitian coup d'état United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti 110 57 0 Kosovo War United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo 800 70 100 Israeli -- Lebanese conflict United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon 0 6 0 Proposed reform ( edit ) Brahimi analysis ( edit ) In response to criticism , particularly of the cases of sexual abuse by peacekeepers , the UN has taken steps toward reforming its operations . The Brahimi Report was the first of many steps to recap former peacekeeping missions , isolate flaws , and take steps to patch these mistakes to ensure the efficiency of future peacekeeping missions . The UN has vowed to continue to put these practices into effect when performing peacekeeping operations in the future . The technocratic aspects of the reform process have been continued and revitalised by the DPKO in its `` Peace Operations 2010 '' reform agenda . This included an increase in personnel , the harmonization of the conditions of service of field and headquarters staff , the development of guidelines and standard operating procedures , and improving the partnership arrangement between the Department of Peacekeeping Operations ( DPKO ) and the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) , African Union and European Union . 2008 capstone doctrine entitled `` United Nations Peacekeeping Operations : Principles and Guidelines '' incorporates and builds on the Brahimi analysis . Rapid reaction force ( edit ) One suggestion to account for delays such as the one in Rwanda , is a rapid reaction force : a standing group , administered by the UN and deployed by the Security Council , that receives its troops and support from current Security Council members and is ready for quick deployment in the event of future genocides . Restructuring of the UN Secretariat ( edit ) The UN peacekeeping capacity was enhanced in 2007 by augmenting the DPKO with the new Department of Field Support ( DFS ) . Whereas the new entity serves as a key enabler by co-ordinating the administration and logistics in UN peacekeeping operations , DPKO concentrates on policy planning and providing strategic directions . See also ( edit ) United Nations portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to United Nations peacekeeping missions . 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Monsters , Inc. . - Wikipedia Monsters , Inc. . Jump to : navigation , search For the equipment manufacturer company `` Monster Inc . '' , see Monster Cable . For the franchise , see Monsters , Inc. ( franchise ) . For the 2001 video game , see Monsters , Inc. ( video game ) . Monsters , Inc . Theatrical release poster Directed by Pete Docter Produced by Darla K. Anderson Screenplay by Andrew Stanton Dan Gerson Story by Pete Docter Jill Culton Jeff Pidgeon Ralph Eggleston Starring John Goodman Billy Crystal Steve Buscemi James Coburn Jennifer Tilly Music by Randy Newman Edited by Robert Grahamjones Jim Stewart Production company Walt Disney Pictures Pixar Animation Studios Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Release date October 28 , 2001 ( 2001 - 10 - 28 ) ( El Capitan Theatre ) November 2 , 2001 ( 2001 - 11 - 02 ) ( United States ) Running time 92 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $115 million Box office $577.4 million Monsters , Inc. is a 2001 American computer - animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures . Featuring the voices of John Goodman , Billy Crystal , Steve Buscemi , James Coburn , and Jennifer Tilly , the film was directed by Pete Docter in his directorial debut , and executive produced by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton . The film centers on two monsters employed at the titular energy - producing factory Monsters , Inc. -- top scarer James P. `` Sulley '' Sullivan and his one - eyed partner and best friend Mike Wazowski . In the film , employees at Monsters , Inc. generate their city 's power by scaring children , but they themselves are afraid that the children are toxic to them , and when one child enters the factory , Sulley and Mike must return her home before it is too late . Docter began developing the film in 1996 , and wrote the story with Jill Culton , Jeff Pidgeon , and Ralph Eggleston . Fellow Pixar director Andrew Stanton wrote the screenplay with screenwriter Daniel Gerson . The characters went through many incarnations over the film 's five - year production process . The technical team and animators found new ways to render fur and cloth realistically for the film . Randy Newman , who composed the music for Pixar 's three prior films , returned to compose its fourth . Monsters , Inc. was praised by critics and proved to be a major box office success from its release on November 2 , 2001 , generating over $577 million worldwide . Monsters , Inc. saw a 3D re-release in theaters on December 19 , 2012 . Twelve years later , a prequel , Monsters University , directed by Dan Scanlon , was released on June 21 , 2013 . Contents ( hide ) 1 Plot 2 Voice cast 3 Production 3.1 Development 3.2 Writing 3.3 Casting 3.4 Animation 4 Release 4.1 Home media 5 Reception 5.1 Box office 5.2 Critical reception 5.3 Accolades 6 Music 6.1 Track listing 6.2 Chart positions 7 Lawsuits 8 Prequel 9 Other media 10 See also 11 References 12 Bibliography 13 External links Plot ( edit ) The city of Monstropolis in the monster world is powered by energy from the screams of human children . At the Monsters , Inc. factory , skilled monsters employed as `` scarers '' venture into the human world to scare children and harvest their screams , through doors that activate portals to the children 's bedroom closets . It is considered dangerous work , as human children are believed to be `` toxic '' . Energy production is falling because children are becoming less easily scared , and company chairman , Henry J. Waternoose , is determined to find a solution . James P. `` Sulley '' Sullivan is the organization 's top scarer , but his chief rival Randall Boggs is close behind . One day , Sulley discovers that Randall has left a door activated on the scare floor and a small girl has entered the factory . After several failed attempts to put her back , Sulley conceals her and takes her out of the factory . He interrupts his best friend Mike Wazowski 's date with his girlfriend , Celia , at a sushi restaurant , and chaos erupts when the child is discovered . Sulley and Mike manage to escape with the child before the Child Detection Agency ( CDA ) quarantines the restaurant . They soon discover that she is not really toxic after all ; Sulley grows attached to her and calls her `` Boo , '' while Mike is just anxious to be rid of her . When they smuggle her back into the factory disguised as a baby monster in an attempt to send her home , Randall discovers her and tries to kidnap her , but he mistakenly kidnaps Mike instead . He straps Mike to a large machine called `` The Scream Extractor , '' which he intends to use to revolutionize the scaring industry and solve the monster world 's energy problems by forcefully extracting screams from kidnapped human children . Before Randall can use the machine on Mike , Sulley intervenes and reports Randall to Waternoose . Waternoose , secretly in league with Randall , instead exiles Mike and Sulley to the Himalayas . The two are taken in by a Yeti , who tells them about a nearby village which Sulley realizes he can use to return to the factory . Sulley prepares to leave , but Mike refuses to go with him . Meanwhile , Randall is preparing to use the Scream Extractor on Boo , but Sulley arrives and saves her . Randall and Sulley fight , and after Mike returns and the two reconcile , they overpower Randall , take Boo , and flee . Randall pursues them to the door vault , and a wild chase ensues among the millions of doors as they move in and out of the storage vault on rails to the factory floor . Boo 's laughter causes all the doors to activate , allowing the monsters to pass in and out of the human world . Randall attempts to kill Sulley , but Boo overcomes her fear and attacks him . Sulley and Mike trap Randall in the human world , where two residents at a trailer park mistake him for an alligator and beat him with a shovel . Sulley and Mike then trick Waternoose into revealing his plot with Randall , while Mike secretly records the entire conversation for the CDA to view . The CDA arrests Waternoose and it is revealed that Roz the monster in charge of paperwork is CDA # 1 to which she orders Sulley and Mike to return Boo home and has her door shredded to prevent any more contact with her . With the factory temporarily shut down , Sulley is named the new CEO of Monsters , Inc . Under his leadership , the energy crisis is solved by harvesting children 's laughter instead of screams , as laughter has been found to be much more potent . Mike takes Sulley aside , revealing he has rebuilt Boo 's door and only needs one final piece , which Sulley took as a memento . Sulley enters and joyfully reunites with Boo . Voice cast ( edit ) Main article : List of Monsters , Inc. characters John Goodman as James P. `` Sulley '' Sullivan , a large , furry blue monster with horns and purple spots . Even though Sulley excels at scaring children , he is a gentle giant by nature . At the film 's beginning , Sulley has been the `` Best Scarer '' at Monsters , Inc. for several months running . Billy Crystal as Michael `` Mike '' Wazowski , a short , round green monster with a single big eyeball and skinny limbs . Mike is Sulley 's station runner and coach on the scare floor , and the two are close friends and roommates . Mike is charming and generally the more organized of the two , but is prone to neurotics and his ego sometimes leads him astray . He is dating Celia Mae , who calls him `` Googly - Bear '' . Mary Gibbs as Mary `` Boo '' , a three - year - old human girl who is unafraid of any monster except Randall , the scarer assigned to her door . She believes Sulley is a large cat and refers to him as `` Kitty '' . The book based on the film gives Boo 's `` real '' name as Mary Gibbs , the name of her voice actress . In the film , one of Boo 's drawings is covered with the name `` Mary '' . Steve Buscemi as Randall Boggs , a purple eight - legged lizard monster with a chameleon - like ability to change skin color and blend in completely with his surroundings . He is a snide and preening character who makes himself a rival to Sulley and Mike in scream collection . James Coburn as Henry J. Waternoose III , an arthropodic monster with a crab - like lower body . Waternoose is the CEO of Monsters , Inc. , a job passed down through his family for three generations . He acts as a mentor to Sulley , holding great faith in him as a scarer . Jennifer Tilly as Celia Mae , a gorgon - like monster with one eye and tentacle - like legs . Celia is the receptionist for Monsters , Inc. and Mike 's girlfriend . Bob Peterson as Roz , a slug - like monster with a raspy voice reminiscent of Selma Diamond 's who administrates for Scarefloor F where Sulley , Mike , and Randall work . At the end of the movie , it is revealed that Roz is `` agent number 1 '' of the CDA , and has worked undercover at Monsters , Inc. for two and a half years . John Ratzenberger as Yeti aka . The Abominable Snowman , a furry white monster who was banished to the Himalayas . He was inspired by the Abominable Snowman from the 1964 Rankin / Bass animated special Rudolph the Red - Nosed Reindeer . Frank Oz as Jeff Fungus , Randall 's red - skinned , three - eyed assistant . He is generally incompetent and is often bullied by Randall . Dan Gerson as Smitty and Needleman , two goofy adolescent monsters with cracking voices who work as janitors and operate the Door Shredder when required . The pair of them idolize Sulley and are generally seen as a nuisance by Mike . Steve Susskind as Jerry Slugworth , a red seven - fingered monster who manages Scare Floor F and is a good friend of Waternoose . Bonnie Hunt as Ms. Flint , a female monster who trains new monsters to scare children . Jeff Pidgeon as Thaddeus `` Phlegm '' Bile , a trainee scarer for Monsters , Inc . Samuel Lord Black as George Sanderson , a chubby , oranged - furred monster with a sole horn on top of his head . A running gag throughout the film involves George repeatedly making contact with human artifacts ( such as socks and the like which cling to his fur via static ) , prompting his scare coach to trigger `` 23 -- 19 '' incidents with the CDA resulting in him mobbed , shaved bald , and sterilized . He is good friends with Pete `` Claws '' Ward . Phil Proctor as Charlie , George 's assistant with sea - green skin and tendrils for limbs . He is friends with George , Mike , and Sulley but is quick to call the CDA on his scarer at the drop of a hat . Joe Ranft as Pete `` Claws '' Ward , a blue monster with razor - sharp claws and horrifying breath . He is very good friends with George Sanderson . Production ( edit ) Development ( edit ) When production began in earnest on Monsters , Inc. in 2000 , Pixar relocated to a larger building in Emeryville , California . The idea for Monsters , Inc. was conceived in a lunch in 1994 attended by John Lasseter , Pete Docter , Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft during the production of Toy Story . One of the ideas that came out of the brainstorming session was a film about monsters . `` When we were making Toy Story '' , Docter said , `` everybody came up to me and said ' Hey , I totally believed that my toys came to life when I left the room . ' So when Disney asked us to do some more films , I wanted to tap into a childlike notion that was similar to that . I knew monsters were coming out of my closet when I was a kid . So I said , ' Hey , let 's do a film about monsters . ' '' Docter began work on the film that would become Monsters , Inc. in 1996 while others focused on A Bug 's Life ( 1998 ) and Toy Story 2 ( 1999 ) . Its code name was Hidden City , named for Docter 's favorite restaurant in Point Richmond . By early - February 1997 , Docter had drafted a treatment together with Harley Jessup , Jill Culton , and Jeff Pidgeon that bore some resemblance to the final film . Docter pitched the story to Disney with some initial artwork on February 4 that year . He and his story team left with some suggestions in hand and returned to pitch a refined version of the story on May 30 . At this pitch meeting , longtime Disney animator Joe Grant -- whose work stretched back to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) -- suggested the title Monsters , Inc. , a play on the title of a gangster film Murder , Inc. , which stuck . The film marks the first Pixar feature to not be directed by Lasseter instead being helmed by Docter , as well as Lee Unkrich and David Silverman who served as co-directors . Writing ( edit ) The story line took on many forms during production . His original idea featured a 30 - year - old man dealing with monsters that he drew in a book as a child coming back to bother him as an adult . Each monster represented a fear he had , and conquering those fears caused the monsters eventually to disappear . After Docter scrapped the initial concept of a 30 - year - old terrified of monsters , he decided on a buddy story between a monster and a child titled simply Monsters , in which the monster character of Sulley ( known at this stage as Johnson ) was an up - and - comer at his workplace , where the company 's purpose was to scare children . Sulley 's eventual sidekick , Mike Wazowski , had not yet been added . Between 1996 and 2000 , the lead monster and child went through radical changes as the story evolved . As the story continued to develop , the child varied in age and gender . Ultimately , the story team decided that a girl would be the best counterpart for a furry , 8 - foot - tall ( 96 in ) co-star . After a girl was settled upon , the character continued to undergo changes , at one point being from Ireland and at another time being an African - American character . Originally the character of the little girl , known as Mary , became a fearless seven - year - old who has been toughened by years of teasing and pranks from four older brothers . In stark contrast , Johnson is nervous about the possibility of losing his job after the boss at Monsters , Inc. announces a downsizing is on the way . He feels envious because another scarer , Ned ( who later became Randall ) , is the company 's top performer . Through various drafts , Johnson 's occupation went back - and - forth from being a scarer and from working in another area of the company such as a janitor or a refinery worker , until his final incarnation as the best scarer at Monsters , Inc . Throughout development Pixar worried that having a main character whose main goal was to scare children would alienate audiences and make them not empathize with him . Docter would later describe that the team `` bent over backwards trying to create a story that still had monsters '' while still solving the problem , A key moment came when the team decided `` Okay , he 's the BEST scarer there . He 's the star quarterback '' with Docter noting that before that moment `` design after design , we really did n't know what he was about . '' Disney noted to Pixar early on that they did not want the character to `` look like a guy in a suit . '' To this end Johnson was originally planned to have tentacles for feet ; however , this caused many problems in early animation tests . The idea was later largely rejected , as it was thought that audiences would be distracted by the tentacles . Mary 's age also differed from draft to draft until the writers settled on the age of 3 . `` We found that the younger she was , the more dependent she was on Sulley '' , Docter said . Eventually Johnson was renamed Sullivan . The name was suggested by an animator who had attended Texas A&M University , inspired by one of Texas A&M 's historic icons , Lawrence Sullivan Ross , nicknamed `` Sulley '' by students . Sullivan was also planned to wear glasses throughout the film . However , the creators found it a dangerous idea because the eyes were a perfectly readable and clear way of expressing a character 's personality ; thus , the idea was rejected . The idea of a monster buddy for the lead monster emerged at an April 6 , 1998 `` story summit '' in Burbank with employees from Disney and Pixar . A term coined by Lasseter , a `` story summit '' was a crash exercise that would yield a finished story in only two days . Such a character , the group agreed , would give the lead monster someone to talk to about his predicament . Development artist Ricky Nierva drew a concept sketch of a rounded , one - eyed monster as a concept for the character , and everyone was generally receptive to it . Docter named the character Mike for the father of his friend Frank Oz , a director and Muppet performer . Jeff Pidgeon and Jason Katz story - boarded a test in which Mike helps Sulley choose a tie for work , and Mike Wazowski soon became a vital character in the film . Originally , Mike had no arms and had to use his legs as appendages ; however , due to some technical difficulties , arms were soon added to him . Screenwriter Dan Gerson joined Pixar in 1999 and worked on the film with the filmmakers on a daily basis for almost two years . He considered it his first experience in writing a feature film . He explained , `` I would sit with Pete ( Docter ) and David Silverman and we would talk about a scene and they would tell me what they were looking for . I would make some suggestions and then go off and write the sequence . We 'd get together again and review it and then hand it off to a story artist . Here 's where the collaborative process really kicked in . The board artist was not beholden to my work and could take liberties here and there . Sometimes , I would suggest an idea about making the joke work better visually . Once the scene moved on to animation , the animators would plus the material even further . '' Casting ( edit ) Bill Murray was considered for the voice role of James P. `` Sulley '' Sullivan . He screen tested for the role and was interested , but when Pete Docter was unable to make contact with him , he took it as a `` no '' . The voice role of Sulley went to John Goodman , the longtime co-star of the comedy series Roseanne and a regular in the films of the Coen brothers . Goodman interpreted the character to himself as the monster equivalent of a National Football League player . `` He 's like a seasoned lineman in the tenth year of his career , '' he said at the time . `` He is totally dedicated and a total pro . '' Billy Crystal , having regretted turning down the part of Buzz Lightyear years prior , accepted that of Mike Wazowski , Sulley 's one - eyed best friend and scare assistant . The casting of Steve Buscemi as Randall , Sulley 's rival , saw a reunion between himself and John Goodman ; they had previously worked together on The Big Lebowski and Barton Fink . Animation ( edit ) The `` door vault '' scene is one of the film 's most elaborate sets . In November 2000 , early in the production of Monsters , Inc. , Pixar packed up and moved for the second time since its Lucasfilm years . The company 's approximately 500 employees had become spread among three buildings , separated by a busy highway . The company moved from Point Richmond to a much bigger campus in Emeryville , co-designed by Lasseter and Steve Jobs . In production , Monsters Inc. differed from earlier Pixar features , as every main character in this movie had its own lead animator -- John Kahrs on Sulley , Andrew Gordon on Mike , and Dave DeVan on Boo . Kahrs found that the `` bearlike quality '' of Goodman 's voice provided an exceptionally good fit with the character . He faced a difficult challenge , however , in dealing with Sulley 's sheer mass ; traditionally , animators conveyed a figure 's heaviness by giving it a slower , more belabored movement , but Kahrs was concerned that such an approach to a central character would give the film a `` sluggish '' feel . Like Goodman , Kahrs came to think of Sulley as a football player , one whose athleticism enabled him to move quickly in spite of his size . To help the animators with Sulley and other large monsters , Pixar arranged for Rodger Kram , a University of California , Berkeley expert on the locomotion of heavy mammals , to lecture on the subject . Adding to Sulley 's lifelike appearance was an intense effort by the technical team to refine the rendering of fur . Other production houses had tackled realistic fur , most notably Rhythm & Hues in its 1993 polar bear commercials for Coca - Cola and in its talking animals ' faces in the 1995 film Babe . This film , however , required fur on a far larger scale . From the standpoint of Pixar 's engineers , the quest for fur posed several significant challenges ; one was to figure out how to animate a large numbers of hairs -- 2,320,413 of them on Sulley -- in a reasonably efficient way , and another was to make sure that the hairs would cast shadows on other ones . Without self - shadowing , either fur or hair takes on an unrealistic flat - colored look ( e.g. , in Toy Story , the hair on Andy 's toddler sister , as seen in that movie 's opening sequence , is hair without self - shadowing ) . The first fur test allowed Sulley to run an obstacle course . Results were not satisfactory , as such objects would catch and stretch out the fur due to the extreme amount of motion . Another similar test was also unsuccessful , because , this time , the fur would go through the objects . Pixar then set up a Simulation department and created a new fur simulation program called Fizt ( short for `` physics tool '' ) . After a shot with Sulley in it had been animated , this department took the data for that shot and added Sulley 's fur . Fizt allowed the fur to react in a more natural way . Every time when Sulley would have to move , his fur would ( automatically ) react to his movements , thus taking the effects of wind and gravity into account as well . The Fizt program also controlled the movement of Boo 's clothes , which provided another `` breakthrough '' . The deceptively simple - sounding task of animating cloth was also a challenge to animate thanks to those hundreds of creases and wrinkles that automatically occurred in the clothing when the wearer moved . Also , this meant they would have to solve the complex problem of how to keep cloth untangled -- in other words , to keep it from passing through itself when parts of it intersect . Fizt applied the same system to Boo 's clothes as to Sulley 's fur . First of all , Boo would be animated shirtless ; the Simulation department then used Fizt to apply the shirt over Boo 's body , and every time she would move , her clothes also would react to her movements in a more natural manner . To solve the problem of cloth - to - cloth collisions , Michael Kass , Pixar 's senior scientist , was joined on Monsters , Inc. by David Baraff and Andrew Witkin and developed an algorithm they called `` global intersection analysis '' to handle the problem . The complexity of the shots in the film , including elaborate sets such as the door vault , required more computing power to render than any of Pixar 's earlier efforts combined . The render farm in place for Monsters , Inc. was made up of 3500 Sun Microsystems processors , compared with 1400 for Toy Story 2 and only 200 for Toy Story . Release ( edit ) The film premiered on October 28 , 2001 , at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood , California . It was theatrically released on November 2 , 2001 in the United States , in Australia on December 26 , 2001 , and in the United Kingdom on February 8 , 2002 . The theatrical release was accompanied with the Pixar short animated film For the Birds . As with A Bug 's Life and Toy Story 2 , a montage of `` outtakes '' and a performance of a play based on a line from the film were made and included in the end credits of the film starting on December 7 , 2001 . After the success of the 3D re-release of The Lion King , Disney and Pixar re-released Monsters , Inc. in 3D on December 19 , 2012 . Home Media ( edit ) Monsters , Inc. was released on VHS and DVD on September 17 , 2002 . It was then released on Blu - ray on November 10 , 2009 , and on Blu - ray 3D on February 19 , 2013 . Reception ( edit ) Box Office ( edit ) Monsters , Inc. ranked number 1 at the box office on its opening weekend , grossing $62,577,067 in North America alone . The film had a small drop - off of 27.2 % over its second weekend , earning another $45,551,028 . In its third weekend , the film experienced a larger decline of 50.1 % , placing itself in the second position just after Harry Potter and the Philosopher 's Stone . In its fourth weekend , however , there was an increase of 5.9 % , making $24,055,001 that weekend for a combined total of over $525 million . As of May 2013 , it is the eighth - biggest fourth weekend ever for a film . The film made $289,916,256 in North America , and $287,509,478 in other territories , for a worldwide total of $577,425,734 . The film is Pixar 's ninth highest - grossing film worldwide and sixth in North America . For a time , the film surpassed Toy Story 2 as the second highest - grossing animated film of all time , only behind 1994 's The Lion King . In the U.K. , Ireland , and Malta , it earned £ 37,264,502 ( $53,335,579 ) in total , marking the sixth highest - grossing animated film of all time in the country and the thirty - second highest - grossing film of all time . In Japan , although earning $4,471,902 during its opening and ranking second behind The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring for the weekend , it moved to first place on subsequent weekends due to exceptionally small decreases or even increases and dominated for six weeks at the box office . It finally reached $74,437,612 , standing as 2001 's third highest - grossing film and the third largest U.S. animated feature of all time in the country behind Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo . Critical reception ( edit ) Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 96 % based on 192 reviews , with an average score of 8 / 10 . The critical consensus was , `` Clever , funny , and delightful to look at , Monsters , Inc. delivers another resounding example of how Pixar elevated the bar for modern all - ages animation . '' Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics , calculated a score of 78 based on 34 reviews , indicating `` generally favorable reviews . '' Charles Taylor from Salon.com stated , `` ( i ) t 's agreeable and often funny , and adults who take their kids to see it might be surprised to find themselves having a pretty good time . '' Elvis Mitchell from The New York Times gave it a positive review , praising the film 's use of `` creative energy '' , saying `` There has n't been a film in years to use creative energy as efficiently as Monsters , Inc . '' Although Mike Clark from USA Today thought the comedy was sometimes `` more frenetic than inspired and viewer emotions are rarely touched to any notable degree , '' he also viewed the film as `` visually inventive as its Pixar predecessors . '' ReelViews film critic James Berardinelli gave the film 3 ⁄ stars out of 4 and wrote that the film was `` one of those rare family films that parents can enjoy ( rather than endure ) along with their kids . '' Roger Ebert from the Chicago Sun - Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars , calling it `` cheerful , high - energy fun , and like the other Pixar movies , has a running supply of gags and references aimed at grownups . '' Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly gave the film a `` B '' grade and praised the film 's animation , stating `` Everything from Pixar Animation Studios -- the snazzy , cutting - edge computer animation outfit -- looks really , really terrific and unspools with a liberated , heppest - moms - and - dads - on - the - block iconoclasm . '' Accolades ( edit ) See also : Table of Pixar awards and nominations for Monsters , Inc . Monsters , Inc. won the Academy Award for Best Original Song ( Randy Newman , after fifteen previous nominations , for `` If I Did n't Have You '' ) . It was one of the first animated films to be nominated for Best Animated Feature ( lost to Shrek ) . It was also nominated for Best Original Score ( lost to The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring ) and Best Sound Editing ( lost to Pearl Harbor ) . At the Kid 's Choice Awards in 2002 , it was nominated for `` Favorite Voice in an Animated Movie '' for Billy Crystal ( who lost to Eddie Murphy in Shrek ) . Music ( edit ) Monsters , Inc . Soundtrack album by Randy Newman Released October 23 , 2001 Recorded 2000 -- 2001 Genre Score Length 1 : 00 : 30 Label Walt Disney Randy Newman chronology Meet the Parents ( 2000 ) Meet the Parents 2000 Monsters , Inc . ( 2001 ) Seabiscuit ( 2003 ) Seabiscuit 2003 Pixar soundtrack chronology Toy Story 2 ( 1999 ) Toy Story 2 1999 Monsters , Inc . ( 2001 ) Monsters , Inc. 2001 Finding Nemo ( 2003 ) Finding Nemo 2003 Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic Empire Filmtracks.com Movie Wave Soundtrack.net Monsters Inc. was Randy Newman 's fourth feature film collaboration with Pixar . The end credits song `` If I Did n't Have You '' was sung by John Goodman and Billy Crystal . The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media . The score lost both these awards to The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring , but after sixteen nominations , the song `` If I Did n't Have You '' finally won Newman his first Academy Award for Best Original Song . It also won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media . Track listing ( edit ) All tracks written by Randy Newman . No . Title Length 1 . `` If I Did n't Have You '' ( performed by Billy Crystal and John Goodman ) 3 : 41 2 . `` Monsters , Inc . '' 2 : 09 3 . `` School '' 1 : 38 4 . `` Walk to Work '' 3 : 29 5 . `` Sulley and Mike '' 1 : 57 6 . `` Randall Appears '' 0 : 49 7 . `` Enter the Heroes '' 1 : 03 8 . `` The Scare Floor '' 2 : 41 9 . `` Oh , Celia ! '' 1 : 09 10 . `` Boo 's Adventures in Monstropolis '' 6 : 23 11 . `` Boo 's Tired '' 1 : 03 12 . `` Putting Boo Back '' 2 : 22 13 . `` Boo Escapes '' 0 : 52 14 . `` Celia 's Mad '' 1 : 41 15 . `` Boo Is a Cube '' 2 : 19 16 . `` Mike 's in Trouble '' 2 : 19 17 . `` The Scream Extractor '' 2 : 12 18 . `` Sulley Scares Boo '' 1 : 10 19 . `` Exile '' 2 : 17 20 . `` Randall 's Attack '' 2 : 22 21 . `` The Ride of the Doors '' 5 : 08 22 . `` Waternoose is Waiting '' 3 : 14 23 . `` Boo 's Going Home '' 3 : 34 24 . `` Kitty '' 1 : 20 25 . `` If I Did n't Have You '' ( performed by Newman ) 3 : 38 Total length : 1 : 00 : 30 Chart positions ( edit ) Chart ( 2001 ) Peak position US Top Soundtracks ( Billboard ) 25 Lawsuits ( edit ) A drawing of a character for Stanley Mouse 's `` Excuse My Dust '' , a film that he had tried to sell to Hollywood in 1998 Shortly before the film 's release , Pixar was sued by children 's songwriter Lori Madrid of Wyoming , stating that the company had stolen her ideas from her 1997 poem `` There 's a Boy in My Closet . '' Madrid mailed her poem to six publishers in October 1999 , notably Chronicle Books , before turning it into a local stage musical in August 2001 . After seeing the trailer for Monsters , Inc. , Madrid concluded that Chronicle Books had passed her work to Pixar and that the film was based on her work . In October 2001 , she filed the suit against Chronicle Books , Pixar , and Disney in a federal court in Cheyenne , Wyoming . Her lawyer asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction , that would forbid Pixar and Disney from releasing the film while the suit was pending . In a hearing on November 1 , 2001 -- the day before the film 's scheduled release on 5,800 screens in 3,200 theaters across the country -- the judge refused to issue the injunction . On June 26 , 2002 , he ruled that the film had nothing in common with the poem . In November 2002 , Stanley Mouse filed a lawsuit , in which he alleged that the characters of Mike and Sulley were based on drawings of Excuse My Dust , a film that he had tried to sell to Hollywood in 1998 . The lawsuit also stated that a story artist from Pixar visited Mouse in 2000 , and discussed Mouse 's work with him . A Disney spokeswoman responded , by saying that the characters in Monsters , Inc. were `` developed independently by the Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures creative teams , and do not infringe on anyone 's copyrights '' . The case was ultimately settled under undisclosed terms . Prequel ( edit ) Main article : Monsters University A prequel , titled Monsters University , was released on June 21 , 2013 . John Goodman , Billy Crystal , and Steve Buscemi reprised their roles of Sulley , Mike , and Randall , while Dan Scanlon directed the film . The prequel 's plot focuses on Sulley and Mike 's studies at Monsters University , where they start off as rivals but soon become best friends . Other Media ( edit ) An animated short , Mike 's New Car , was made by Pixar in 2002 in which the two main characters have assorted misadventures with a car Mike has just bought . This film was not screened in theaters , but is included with all home video releases of Monsters , Inc. , and on Pixar 's Dedicated Shorts DVD . In August 2002 , a manga version of Monsters , Inc. was made by Hiromi Yamafuji and distributed in Kodansha 's Comic Bon Bon magazine in Japan ; the manga was published in English by Tokyopop until it went out of print . A series of video games , including a multi-platform video game were created based on the film . The video games included Monsters , Inc. , Monsters , Inc . Scream Team and Monsters , Inc . Scream Arena . A game titled Monsters , Inc . Run was released on the App Store for iPhone , iPod Touch , and iPad on December 13 , 2012 . Feld Entertainment toured a Monsters , Inc. edition of their Walt Disney 's World on Ice skating tour from 2003 to 2007 . Monsters , Inc. has inspired three attractions at Disney theme parks around the world . In 2006 Monsters , Inc . Mike & Sulley to the Rescue ! opened at Disneyland Resort 's Disney California Adventure in Anaheim , California . In 2007 , Monsters , Inc . Laugh Floor opened at Walt Disney World Resort 's Magic Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista , Florida , replacing The Timekeeper . The show is improvisational in nature , and features the opportunity for Guests to interact with the monster comedians and submit jokes of their own via text message . In 2009 Monsters , Inc . Ride & Go Seek opened at Tokyo Disney Resort 's Tokyo Disneyland in Chiba , Japan . In 2009 , Boom ! Studios produced a Monsters Inc. comic book mini-series that ran for four issues . The storyline takes place after the movie and focuses on Sulley and Mike 's daily struggles to operate Monsters Inc. on its new laughter - focused company policy . At the same time , their work is impeded by the revenge schemes of Randall and Waternoose , as well as a human child ( indirectly revealed to be Sid Phillips from the Toy Story franchise ) who has hijacked the company 's closet door technology to commit a string of toy thefts throughout the human world . See also ( edit ) Film in the United States portal Animation portal Disney portal Cartoon portal 2000s portal List of animated feature films List of computer - animated films References ( edit ) ^ Jump up to : `` Detail view of Movies Page '' . afi.com . ^ Jump up to : `` Monsters , Inc. ( 2001 ) -- Box Office Mojo '' . Jump up ^ Corliss , Richard ( June 13 , 2013 ) . `` Pixar 's Monsters University : When Hairy Met Scary '' . Time . Archived from the original on March 17 , 2015 . Retrieved September 27 , 2015 . 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