I went and saw Inside Out on Wednsday and let me tell ya, Pixar has gotten back into the swing of things. This is their best film since Toy Story. Lets get down to the gist of it.
Story: The story involves these 5 little anthropamorphic emotions helping this human girl through the moments, encounters, and struggles of life when she and her family move out of Minnesota (WOOT!) into San Fransisco to start a new life. While this is happening, Joy and Sadness get caught in an accident that shoots them out of their Emotion Office (or whatever they call it XD) and they must work together to get back to Riley's command center to help her while the other emotions try to fill in but cause trouble for Riley. Now I will say, this movie has a really good set up, plot, and characters to go along with its story, the one thing I can't get behind is the fact that this is not the most original idea ever. Most people might consider comparing this to Osmosis Jones from Warner Brothers, though that movie focused more on being inside the human body of things liek the stomach, digestives and that sort of thing. This film focuses on feelings and memories and does a much better job at it.
Charatcers: This film has quite the colorful characters to them. Joy (Amy Poehler) is the one who helps keep Riley Happy and is responcible for most of her "Core" Memories, Sadness (Phyllis Smith) is the one who gives Riley sadness and is kind of treated as the odd one out at first, but things turn around for her and Joy when the embark on their adventure of self descovery (and saving Riler of course) Anger (Lewis Black) is the hothead emotion who wants things fair for Riley and doesn't approve of things going his way. Disgust (Mindy Kaling) is the one who, to quote Joy, keeps Riley from being poisoned physically, and socialy. Fear (Bill Hader, Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) is the one who helps Riley feel safe and out of harms way. Now what I think works with these characters is not only do they stick with being the emotion they are, but they are able to have other emotions in them as well so that they don't feel one demensional and that would have made this film a little unbarable, but they found a way to make it work without being to steriotypical.
Animation: As much as it's been tiring seeing one computer animated film, its always good to go into a Pixar film. God this film is not only colorful and beautiful, but it also has some really clever designs for things like the memory rigs and things. This film is imaginative and it shines very well in its art direction. The art has a nice squash and stretch quality to it like a Tex Avery or Chuch Jones cartoon. and you got the human characters which look great and not too exagerated.
Music: Once again Michael Giacchino (Up, Jurassic World) brings his brilliance to the screen with his music. You have your energetic moments in the movie and the very sweet soft moments of a contemporary piano concerto that just help bring the mood all together and make this a rather (Pun intended) emotional performance.
In a nutshell, I give this movie a 9.5 out of 10. Pixar has finally returned to us and will for sure be staying in the homes of families for more years to come. this is a must see movie, go and see it.
