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While Superintendent Francisco A. Medeiros is still reviewing bids from contractors to do the bulk of the clean-up, he has hired Able Restoration Inc. to clean student rooms and some of the kitchen area...
...excellent movies about fantastical little worlds that exist just below the surface of our reality will be playing simultaneously in theaters this weekend. Monsters, Inc. the new movie by the Pixar computer animation studio, is about a colony of monsters who teleport themselves into children’s closets and use their screams for energy—a sort of primal, New Economy Where the Wild Things Are. And of course, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which opens Friday, is about an 11-year-old who discovers his magical heritage and ships off to a school...
Monsters, Inc. derives its clever narrative engine not just from the exploration of the monsters’ magical world, but from its clash with another world: A little girl whom the filmmakers’ wittily name “Boo” stumbles into Monsters, Inc. Magical mayhem ensues...
Isn’t it the unlikely clashes of these worlds that makes life so interesting? It may be too ambitious to ask Harvard students to branch out socially and to create the kind of porous magical world that the Yard and Monsters, Inc. present. This is not the kind of risky, working-without-a-net that they’re fond of (how many times have you recognized but not said “hi” to a sectionmate...
Shrek, this film's prime competition for the first Animated Feature Oscar, is a synoptic parody of fairy tales. In Monsters, Inc. the gags aren't as spot-on but the technique is miles ahead. The vision is grander and warmer--as sweet as a child's growing love for a big ugly furry bear--right up to the marvelously satisfying final shot. In this film the real monsters are bad manners (represented by Steve Buscemi's nasty chameleon) and corporate myopia (James Coburn's pompous crab). The good guys are those who realize that laughter is stronger than fear...