6) Sully Says Goodbye
Pixar have a knack for getting us to care about creatures and inanimate objects that we normally wouldn’t. Take Monsters Inc, for example, which makes us love hideous monsters who break into children’s bedrooms at night and terrify them. No easy task, when you think about it.
By the end of the film you’ve fallen for Sully and Mike, so the moment their adopted human child Boo has to be returned to her world is actually very moving. Thanks to John Goodman’s great performance as Sully and the moving script, the relationship has a lot of weight and it really feels like a parent being torn from their child.
The belated prequel, Monsters University, was surprisingly fun, but the lack of a real tear-jerking moment like this one meant it didn’t reach the heights of the first movie.