The uses of enchantment haven't changed; kids still need, maybe more than ever, the special comfort of fabulous threats they can control.

It's a terrific piece of work: smart, inventive and executed with state-of-the-art finesse.

If anything, it improves with age.

Monsters, Inc. is another in a long line of Pixar films that show how an animated motion picture can be great entertainment, but also so much more.