A/N: I know, I know. This is my procrastination and my obscene love for the Dragon age video game series fault.
Inside Out is a movie about the mind of eleven-year old Riley Anderson specifically her emotions. Joy (Amy Pohler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling.) They're job is basically making Riley function as a human being and making her life the best it can be. One day after moving to San Franciso ,Sadness and Joy accidently get lost in Riley's mind with her core memories leaving only Fear, Anger, and Disgust to make Riley work so without Joy and her core memories Riley can't be happy. So Joy and Sadness must get back to HQ (where the emotions work) before Riley's life is ruined.
I really loved this movie, and I am happy to say that if this movie is any indication Pixar is back on track.
This is one of Pixar's best movies if one of it's darkest at the same time. It's basically about emotional development and growing up mentally and that you need negative emotions as much as you need happy ones. Joy is the leader of HQ and her primary goal is to make sure Riley is happy even in negative situations and often pushes Sadness into a corner so she is barely able to do her job but this ends up backfiring as without Joy Riley, whose only ever been happy, can't cope with the troubles she faces at school, in her clubs, her friends and her family. Most of which to some would be considered minor problems unlike say someone dying but the fact Riley can't cope with seemingly more minor problems in comparison to other people's problems makes what Joy's ideal more flawed. Now that doesn't mean they ever portray Joy as a villain (there's no villain really) but they do portray her as flawed as any human being.
I've been sad before and I know from experience that sadness helps people understand and heal from whatever is causing their sadness. The writers and directors help emphasize this with a scene where one of the characters gets sad and when Joy tries to cheer them up using "joy" it doesn't work but when sadness comes and talks to the character they feel better. Also with one of the end scenes where sadness is the only one who can make Riley feel any emotions. Both scenes are really powerful and pointed. The last one in particular is really deep and actually had me crying. This is one of the most smartly written movies Pixar has ever written.
So great message aside the film has amazing voice acting from the cast. First off Kaitlyn Dias as Riley and Diane Lane and Kyle MacLahin as Riley's parents did a good job whenever they had speaking parts and conveyed a lot of emotions through their voices especially near the end and they were all relatable. The emotions however are the stars of this film. Bill Hader as Fear and Mindy Kailing as Disgust did a good job but out of the five they did get the least to do although whenever they were on I did smile. Amy Pohler as Joy and Phyllis Smith as Sadness were both inspired characters and had inspired performances by both actresses and I really liked the bond Joy and Sadness shared throughout the movie despite the fact they were polar opposites. Yet my favorite out of the bunch was Lewis Black as Anger who every time he talked was hilarious and he stole the entire show for me with just how angry and insane he was.
Speaking of hilarious this is also a really funny movie in terms of jokes and gags none of which are stupid all of them are intelligent especially during a dinner table scene between Riley and her parents and we get to look inside in Mr. and Mrs. Anderson's heads that was just hilarious. Having the emotions react to different situations Riley is in is always funny as well. The world and animation is amazing and is probably one of the most creative and stunning worlds I've seen in a long time.
Of course their are flaws is that it's pace is really weird as at points it's really slow and yet in certain aspects it goes a bit faster than I would like and I wished it was slightly longer to give a bigger impact. Also I wished they had shown more of the importance of anger, disgust, and fear but it's really close to being perfect like UP, Toy Story 2 and 3 and Ratatouille.
I give this film a 9.5/10~ Smart writing , an important and new message, funny and great performances.
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