Monsters, Inc. is a movie about a monster world that is fueled by fear—literally. The company motto is "We scare because we care." Each day, Mike, Sully, and the other monsters line up on the shop floor as a machine carries dozens of closet doors to individual scaring stations. A scream collection canister rests beside each closet door, which is a portal to the room of a small child. If the monster does his job correctly, he will elicit a scream from the child that will be sucked into the scream canister and, voila, is converted to power.

Mike and Sully are the number-one scare team. Sully, an easygoing, large, blue, fluffy creature, is the primary scarer. Mike, his assistant, is an impatient green Cyclops, 90 percent eyeball and 10 percent arms and legs.

By the end of the movie, the scream-collection business is not going well and the company is scheduled to shut down. Mike and Sully lament the closing of the company as they depart Monsters, Inc. for what appears to be the last time. Mike responds, "Yeah, but we had a lot of laughs."

We see an idea crossing Sully's face. "Laughs," he says thoughtfully.

In the next scene, the closet door of a child's room opens and an ominous shadow falls across the frightened child and his bed. The light comes and we see Mike, who pulls out a stool and begins a comedy routine. "Hey, it's great to be in your room! You're in kindergarten, right? Hey, I loved kindergarten. Best three years of my life!" The jokes are so bad that Mike has to resort to lowbrow burping humor, but the results are magnificent. The child begins to laugh hysterically, and on the other side of the closet door, a canister fills up with laugh power.

Where do you get your power?

Elapsed time: Measured from the Pixar logo, this scene begins at 1:20:38 and ends at 1:22:35.

Content: Monsters, Inc. is rated G.