Monsters Inc. and The Ice Storm are both fine movies, albeit in different ways. Pixar has taken the art of computer-generated animation to amazing levels...the fur on Sulley is amazing; it doesn't suffer at all from the dampening problems (i.e. the hair doesn't know when to stop moving) I've seen in other hair animation. Most of the time, I thought the movie was live action. As much as I enjoyed the movie, the short Pixar ran in front of the movie (called For the Birds) was even better.