The Film: Monsters, Inc (2001)

The Moment: Among the many things Pixar gets right is the fact that the studio’s writers and animators know how to introduce you to a world, cramming a boatload of explanatory information into a simple montage.

The sweeping look into the scream-gathering universe of Monsters, Inc is just breathtaking – even down to the obligatory Right Stuff slow-mo shot.

In Their Own Words: Says Pete Docter, “Monstropolis was a challenge. We like to bring on children’s book illustrators and artists and designers from the outside and then they visualise what the settings and characters might look like.

“The city was so open-ended at first because it could be anything - buildings made of jelly or they live in caves or… It was almost too open-ended.

“John Lasseter came on and said, ‘What if it was our world, only monsters lived here? We’d have to make the floors stronger. The doors would have to be wider and probably with multiple doorknobs so that short monsters can get in as well as tall monsters.’”