Monsters, Inc.
“It's nothing personal. It's just their job.”
Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
How Monsters, Inc. compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Monsters, Inc., not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 2
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 64%
- Share of the series audience
Monsters, Inc. (2001) is the highest-rated of the 2 rated films in the Monsters, Inc. series, at 7.9/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.5/10.
It is the film that started the series, 12 years before the most recent entry, Monsters University (2013).
Its 20,217 TMDB ratings are 64% of the 31,745 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Monsters, Inc., comparing all 2 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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