Movie Review: Monsters, Inc. And Monstrapolis

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Movie Review: Monsters, Inc. It was so fun getting to re-watch one of my favorite movies of all times, while looking deeper into the plot to find ethically wrong issues. I never really noticed these issues before and it honestly left me feeling completely different about the movie once I was done. Monsters, Inc. is the biggest “scare factory” in the city Monstrapolis. At this factory, they generate power for the city through the scares of children. The biggest and scariest monsters in town go literally door-to-door to generate screams and cries from little kids. These screams are then converted into energy for everyone to use. The main monsters in this movie are Mike, a little green monster, who is a scare assistant to Sully, a giant terrifying

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