Mike's New Car

Mike's New Car
Poster for Mike's New Car
Directed by	Pete Docter Roger L. Gould
Produced by	John Lasseter Gale Gortney
Written by	Original Story: Pete Docter Story: Jeff Pidgeon Roger Gould Rob Gibbs
Starring	Billy Crystal John Goodman
Music by	Randy Newman
Editing by	Robert Grahamjones
Studio	Pixar Animation Studios
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	September 17, 2002 (with Monsters, Inc. DVD)
Running time	4 minutes
Language	English, German, Polish

Mike's New Car is a 2002 Pixar animated short, starring the two main characters from Monsters, Inc., Mike and Sulley. Directed by Pete Docter and Roger Gould, it is the first Pixar short to utilize dialogue and the first to take characters and situations from a previously established work.

It received an Academy Award nomination (Best Animated Short Film in 2002) and was included in the 2002 DVD release of Monsters Inc. The DVD release features commentary by "Docter and Gould", which turn out to be the directors' young children.

Synopsis

Mike is obsessed with his new six-wheel drive car, and insists on showing it off to his pal Sulley. Unfortunately for Mike, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Sulley plays with the ultra-adjustable seats until an annoyed Mike asks him to stop. Mike starts the engine and the seatbelt reminder tone sounds. He finds his seatbelt stuck and accidentally locks himself out of the car while trying to unstick it. Sulley, trying to be helpful but confused by the massive amount of buttons on the dashboard, pops the hood open. When he closes it, he ends up trapping Mike in the engine compartment. Mike manages to escape, re-enters the car, and is exasperated by the continuous seatbelt reminder tone. Sulley reaches for another button on the dash, as when Mike managed to put his seat-belt on, he turned the windshield wipers on by accident. Mike shouts, "Don't touch anything!" and pushes a button that launches the entire car into chaotic malfunction such as conga music playing loudly. Mike finally ends the chaos by pulling the key out of the ignition, and Sulley adds insult to injury when, in an attempt to realign the rearview mirror, he breaks it off. Mike gets angry, orders Sulley out of the car, and speeds away, wrecking the car completely. Sulley mutters, "Huh, that's weird, the airbag didn't go off." Right on cue, the airbag inflates, and its force sends Mike flying back up the street. Sulley catches Mike, who mourns for his old car before agreeing to walk to work while the credits roll.

Voice cast

• Billy Crystal as Michael "Mike" Wazowski
• John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan

External links

• Information at Pixar's site
• Building Mike's New Car Co-director/creative director of shorts department Roger Gould and story artists Rob Gibbs and Jeff Pidgeon discuss how they followed up the CGI adventures of Mike and Sulley by Building Mike's New Car.
• Mike's New Car at the Internet Movie Database
• Mike's New Car at the Big Cartoon DataBase

Preceded by For the Birds

Pixar Animation Studios short films 2002

Succeeded by Boundin'