Inside Out Movie Review

Title: Inside Out

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Release Date: Theaters early 2015, DVD November 3rd, 2015

Genre: Children, Fiction, Humorous, Family

Plot: Have you ever wondered what it's like inside other people's heads and what emotions would look like if they were people like us? Well, Pixar's newest movie explores those concepts in a fun colorful humorous way. Ever since she was born, eleven year old Riley has had two dominant emotions; Joy and Sadness. Of course, Anger, Disgust and Fear came along eventually but the two primaries are Joy and Sadness. Joy, with her blue hair and twirling yellow dress, just wants to keep Riley happy and does everything she can to keep the other emotions under control. She puts Fear in charge of making lists of possible disasters, Disgust in charge of fashion, and Anger is talked out of blowing his top and using that one curse word he knows. Poor Sadness doesn't really have a use, so she's stuffed into a corner and given manuals to read. And Joy "drives," creating an abundance of happy memories for Riley to recall later on.

All is going great till Riley and her parents move from Minnesota to San Francisco. That's when everything changes. Separated from her friends, unable to play hockey for the time being and thrust into a new school with a new house to adjust to, Riley has her hands full. And her emotions are running amuck. Disgust, Fear and Anger are unexpectedly left in charge when Sadness touches the sore memories and threatens to turn them blue, causing Joy to overreact and both of them with the main memories are sucked into Long Term Memory. Away from the keyboard of Riley's brain, Joy and Sadness begin a long journey through her colorful mind to get back to headquarters and put everything to rights. But will they be in time to save the day before Riley makes a terrible decision?

Likes/Dislikes: This movie is unique and very colorful. With each emotion their own set color, it's easy to figure out their personality and watch how they work together to grow and shape Riley's day. While I thought Disgust was an odd character for an eleven year old to have {it seems more fitting for a teenager}, I enjoyed all the others and the added balance Disgust provided. Anger was hilarious and quite possibly my favorite, while I felt bad for Sadness and Joy is well, Joy. My daughter's name is Joy so we get a kick out of watching this movie with her. I thought it was weird that in the Riley's mom's head, all the emotions are mature women who look like her and in the dad's head all the emotions are mature men who look like him, but in Riley's head, there's a blend of male and female emotions who don't really look like her. Just kinda odd to me. I loved seeing the parents, school friends, dog's and cat's emotions are the end. That was great. This is definitely a fun clean family movie.

Rating: G- 10 and up mainly for storyline. Recommended for all ages.

Date Review Written: November 9th, 2015.