colour in animation

I want to discuss colour in animation in this blog especially animation for children. This is a picture of sully and mike from monsters inc. In the picture you see the two monsters smiling and by the looks of it having a good time. When i hear the word monster i generally think of something evil and something that kids especially would be scared of, but this film mocks this in a childish way and i think the colour best depicts how it removes the word monster from been scary and makes it kind of fun. The colours used are bright and theres a lot of different colours used, young people espeically love it when there is a lot of different colours been used. If this film was meant to scare children i feel the colour used would be darker although when you see the 'evil' character in the film his colours are a lot darker and scarier compared to the likes of mike and sully