Pixar's short animations tend to be either original meaningful films or continuations of existing intellectual property. A slight diversion from 'Monster's Inc', Mike's New Car is simply our favourite one-eyed fledgling purchasing a new car and figuring out how to utilise the vehicle, with "great" assistance from Sully. We've all done it. Bought a new car, sat in it thinking "damn, look at all these buttons". Yeah, multiply that by 72 and that's how many gadgets this car has. It's always humorous to see these two characters interact with each other, and the way they approach the foreign contraption that is a six-wheeled car. As always, their natural chemistry and juxtaposing personalities make for a few smiles. It is however absent of chuckles, and that's due to how placid the visual comedy is. Having adapted to the feature film, we now know what these characters are like around each other and how they react to certain situations. Mike easily becoming frustrated whilst Sully becomes clueless. It's nothing outrageous, and the overacting will appeal to younger audiences as Mike flails around like a pinball, however it is entertaining nonetheless. Crystal voices Mike to perfection whilst Goodman unfortunately does not have too much to say. His dialogue consists of murmurs and sounds of pondering, highlighting Sully's perplexed bewilderment. Its brisk, light and a very easy three minute short. It won't make a loud roar within Pixar's filmography, but will satisfy fans and younger audiences.

Mike and Sully are one of my favourites characters from the Pixar universe. They're so wavering. And it's funny to watch them. In this case, they're entertaining us with Mike's new car and it's absolutely hilarious. I would love to see a movie staring only these characters.

This is a quick comment about new cars and all the buttons on them. The "message" being sometimes it was a lot better with a basic simple machines of the past."Mike" (Billy Crystal) has a new car he wants to show off to "Sully" so he invites him to take a ride. They never get to the ride because "Sully" (John Goodman) either hits a wrong button or does something to stall things, driving Mike nuts. Poor Mike takes a beating. The cartoon also is a comment on the sometimes-annoying noise the car will make if your seat belts aren't secured.This animated short came with The "Monsters, Inc." DVD and is a fun four minutes. Mike and Sully, of course, were the stars of the feature film.P.S. The car is very cool.

This is a wonderful little bonus to Monsters, Inc. included by Pixar on VHS and DVD release. This is almost as funny as For The Birds and as rich in detail. While I like cel animation slightly more than CGI (odd, because I have zero artistic ability and can't draw a straight line even with a ruler), Pixar's work enthralls me. Pixar succeeds because they understand that a story is necessary, or even the greatest animation (or whatever) crashes in a heap at the foot of the stairs and can't get back up. This point appears to elude entirely too many people of late, including the folks at Disney (Pixar, it should be noted, is not part of Disney, but is a separate company that has a distribution deal with The Mouse.) and it's not that hard to make sure you have a story first, though all too often it must seem that way in the film industry. I hope Pixar continues to do shorts, whether for R & D purposes or just because they want to do them, as they do a great job. Well worth watching. Recommended.