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It’s cute. But “Monsters at Work” might need a little more retooling on the scripts. They’re a laugh-a-10 minutes.
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With their 25-minute running time, the “Monsters at Work” episodes can feel a little rushed and busy for adult attention spans, as if they’re in a hurry to squeeze as much mayhem and hilarity into each chapter as possible. But the show doesn’t stoop to cynicism, and the action, even when it’s slathered on thick, has the wit and bounce of silent comedy for tots.
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“Monsters at Work” has moments—usually thanks to great actors truly elevating mediocre material with their voice work—but kids will want to be going to back to the original films before ever watching these again.
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It looks pretty good - the furry monsters are well-rendered - and it’s warm-hearted (one of the characters is voiced by a twinkly Henry Winkler). But it is lacklustre. Bafflingly, it’s a workplace comedy. Note to Disney: children don’t go to work. They don’t care about office politics, or know what a facilities team is, and they’re not going to relate to lines such as “the metrics of your performance will be monitored by our humour gauge”.
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It needs another pass through the laugh factory. A thorough sanding down and a tightening of the plot screws by Mift and a few more squirts of lubricant from old hands such as Goodman and Crystal – whose scenes merely remind us of past glories – could create a vehicle truly fit for comic purpose. Monsters: get to work.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 8
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Mixed: 2 out of 8
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Negative: 3 out of 8
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Mar 23, 2022
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Jan 14, 2022bad
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