- For other uses, see Monster (disambiguation)
- "Your real problem's the Monster. The Monster's the eye in the sky. He sees everything: Classrooms, hallways, even the playground."
- —Chatter Telephone, telling Woody about the Monster
The Monster is a Musical Jolly Chimp monster toy who is a character in Toy Story 3. He started off as a minor antagonist, but in the end was reformed.
Toy Story 3
- "You can unlock doors, sneak past guards, climb the wall, but if you don't take out that monster, you ain't going nowhere. You want to get out of here, get rid of that monster!"
- —Chatter Telephone's warning to Woody
The Monster being held by Bonnie.
The Monster is a cymbal-banging monster toy at Sunnyside Daycare. He doesn't speak, but he does make screeching monster noises. The Monkey has two cymbals he can bang together.
The Monster is first seen being played with by Bonnie Anderson when the much older Ms. Davis goes to Sunnyside to donate the toys and meets Bonnie's mother, and Bonnie is extremely shy to talk to Andy's mom.
During the times when Lotso was in power at Sunnyside, the Monster worked under Lotso as a nighttime guard monitoring all the security cameras in his office. Every time a toy attempted to escape, the Monkey pushed a button that turned on the P.A. and screeched loudly into it while banging his cymbals together repeatedly, alerting Lotso and his other nighttime guard toys to capture that toy.
When Woody returns to Sunnyside to rescue his imprisoned friends, the Chatter Telephone tells information about the Monster to Woody, and says that he'll have to get rid of the Monster if he wants to escape.
That night, the Monkey is busy focusing his eyes on one camera where Ken, Big Baby, and the reset Buzz have cornered Mr. Potato Head (who escaped from his cell and left a real potato in it) that he doesn't notice Slinky coming out of his cell in the Caterpillar Room through another camera. Woody and Slinky quietly go through the vent into the Monster's office. With Slinky grabbing hold of Woody and swinging him, Woody tries to put a plastic black bag over the Monster's face, but the Monster has already noticed them, and he quickly turns around and screeches at Woody, making him and Slinky fall on the Monster due to getting startled. The Monster and Woody both get up, and the Monster turns and hisses at the surprised Woody and scampers off to alert Lotso. However, before he can reach the door, Woody trips him over with his string. This then leads to a brief fight, in which the Monster overpowers Woody by repeatedly banging his cymbals on Woody's face. Woody tells Slinky to grab a nearby scotch tape, and the Monster screeches in horror when he turns to see Slinky charging toward him. Woody and Slinky then tie him up with the tape (like a mummy) and lock him in a filing cabinet.
Lotso's later knowledge of Woody and his friends' escape in the first place is not revealed, but it is likely that the Monster has managed to free himself and alert Lotso, leading to Lotso beating up the Chatter Telephone for information on Woody's whereabouts.
During the film credits, the Monkey is seen in his office again after Sunnyside is revolutionized into a cool and groovy toy paradise by Barbie and Ken, Sunnyside's new leaders. Seeing a disco taking place at the Butterfly Room through one of the security cameras, the Monster, also enjoying the disco, puts on his star-shaped sunglasses and starts playing his clash cymbals gently, indicating that he has reformed as well.
Trivia
- It's very likely that director Lee Unkrich put a monster in the movie because of his love for monsters.[2]
- He makes sounds very similar to the Barrel of Monsters.
- He looks like the experimental monster from the 1988 American horror film Monkey Shines.
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References
- ↑ "Cine-Explore" (supplementary material on Blu-Ray disc release of Toy Story 3). 2010. Blu-Ray disc. Walt Disney Home Entertainment, 2010.
- ↑ John Lasseter Q&A: "Do You Like Monsters?"