Monsters, Inc. (2001)

92 min · Animation · Rated G (USA)

ScoutScore

MILD

Worth a quick check before you press play.

Monsters, Inc. scores 29 on the ScoutScore, which is Mild. Worth a quick check before you press play. FilmScout maps 13 flagged scenes and 2 worth muting.

A ScoutScore is a living number. We re-check movies against the source and raise or lower it when we find something the first pass missed, so a score you see today can differ from one you saw last month.

What FilmScout flagged

Heads up	11
Mute	2

Content map

How this movie's flagged content divides up. These are shares of what was flagged here, not a level: a movie with very little flagged content can still be 80% one kind.

Mostly scary and dark.

Scary and dark	54%
Violence and action	24%
Language and substances	0%
Mature themes	22%
All flagged content	100%

Direction is the kind of content. Reach is the ScoutScore, which is how much there is: green at the centre, yellow, orange, then red at the edge.

Scenes FilmScout flagged

HEADS UP Training simulation: monster scares child
HEADS UP Waternoose warns: children are deadly
HEADS UP 2319 contamination alert and decontamination chaos
HEADS UP Boo enters the monster world
HEADS UP Boo causes chaos at the sushi restaurant
HEADS UP Randall threatens to kill the person responsible
Mute Scream extractor used on Mike
HEADS UP Sulley's roar terrifies Boo
Mute Waternoose betrays Sulley and banishes them
HEADS UP Sulley rescues Boo from the scream extractor

Where each one lands in the runtime, and alerts that arrive before it does, are in the app.

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Age ratings by country

AU	G
CA	G
GB	U
US	G

Talk about it after

“Sulley realizes he has been scaring children his whole career, but after meeting Boo he sees things from her side. What is something you have learned looks very different when you think about how another person feels about it?”

Common questions

Is Monsters, Inc. okay for kids?

Monsters, Inc. scores 29 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, which places it in the Mild tier. Worth a quick check before you press play. FilmScout has mapped 13 flagged scenes in it, covering dark imagery, action, theme. The right answer depends on your child, which is why FilmScout shows you the scenes instead of giving a verdict.

What is the ScoutScore for Monsters, Inc.?

29, which is the Mild tier. The ScoutScore is driven by the intensity of a movie's heaviest moments rather than how many it has.

What is Monsters, Inc. rated?

Monsters, Inc. is rated G in the United States. Ratings differ by country: AU G, CA G, GB U, US G. A letter rating stamps a whole movie at once, so FilmScout scores it scene by scene instead.

See every scene in the FilmScout app.
Each flagged moment with its place in the runtime, plus live alerts that follow along while you watch.