Inside Out Review
Eleven year old Riley (voiced by Kaitlyn Dias) has a wonderful life; she has a best friend, is a part of the local hockey team, and a mom and dad that love her very much. But everything changes when her dad announces that he is moving them from Minnesota all the way to San Francisco. Riley's emotions do not know how to take this news and now they are on red alert. There is Anger (voiced by Lewis Black), Disgust (voiced by Mindy Kaling), Fear (voiced by Bill Hader), Sadness (voiced by Phyllis Smith), and Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler) who is trying to make the most of the bad situation. Though that is getting harder and harder to do as the moving truck gets lost, dad is stressed about work, and San Francisco puts broccoli on pizza. Then during the first day of school emotion headquarters begins to shut down when Joy, Sadness, and Riley's core memories (memories that give you personality) get sucked out of headquarters and land smack in the maze of long term memory. Things go from bad to worse when the other emotions take over and cause havoc with Riley, including giving her the idea to run away back to Minnesota. Now Joy and Sadness must try and find a way back to headquarters in time to stop Riley. But in order to do that Joy must learn to work with Sadness, an emotion that she thinks is useless, in order to change Riley from the inside out.
This movie was beautiful, and quite possibly one of my favorite modern Pixar films. I liked it so much that I may have gone to see it twice, which is the first time I have done that for any movie. The animation was out of this world gorgeous; the animation team worked extremely hard at creating fuzz on blankets, beard stubble, hair texture, glitter on the emotions, and so much more. The plot was really good and it even had me in tears at one point (twice, since I saw it twice). There was also some amazing character development with Joy who went from controlling to working with the other emotions. However, the other characters were a little shoved aside from the development. My favorite part was probably when the mind workers kept sending up the triple dent gum song and making everyone mad. I also really loved all of the credit scenes where they showed everyone else's emotions and what they were doing (the cat's was the best). I recommend this movie to everyone (the first time I went was with my family, the second with Jared), though it might be a little confusing and boring for young children who might not understand all of the nuances of the plot.
This movie was beautiful, and quite possibly one of my favorite modern Pixar films. I liked it so much that I may have gone to see it twice, which is the first time I have done that for any movie. The animation was out of this world gorgeous; the animation team worked extremely hard at creating fuzz on blankets, beard stubble, hair texture, glitter on the emotions, and so much more. The plot was really good and it even had me in tears at one point (twice, since I saw it twice). There was also some amazing character development with Joy who went from controlling to working with the other emotions. However, the other characters were a little shoved aside from the development. My favorite part was probably when the mind workers kept sending up the triple dent gum song and making everyone mad. I also really loved all of the credit scenes where they showed everyone else's emotions and what they were doing (the cat's was the best). I recommend this movie to everyone (the first time I went was with my family, the second with Jared), though it might be a little confusing and boring for young children who might not understand all of the nuances of the plot.
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