Movie Review: Inside Out (2015) - Holy shit another early release man I'm getting lucky with these.

Okay so I know I said I was going to do Terminator today and inside tomorrow, but something came up tomorrow afternoon and so I had to see Inside Out tonight. Now it was basically a choice between a movie I had already seen and thoroughly enjoyed or take a risk on something new and my god am I glad that I took that risk.

Plot Summary - Inside the mind of ten year old Riley Anderson (Kaitlyn Dias) live the embodiment of her emotions, Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), and Disgust (Mindy Kaling). All seems well in Riley’s life with Joy usually manning the controls until Riley and her family move to San Francisco. During a particularly sad day for Riley, Joy and Sadness are both accidentally removed from her mind and thrust into the memory banks of Riley’s mind and have to make their way back.

Pros - Every single thing about this film is amazing. First off the way they explain how everything works inside of Riley’s mind not only stays consistent and logical within it’s own mythos, but it also manages to fit into how the memories and emotions of any human works in a way that kids can understand and adults can actually find interesting as well. The voice casting is solid, there’s not a single weird voice or any noticeable mistakes. You honestly get just so drawn into the characters and what you’re going through you just match the voices with those characters. Hell I didn’t even realize Mindy Kaling was Disgust until I looked it up. The animation is fantastic, the jokes work overall (even making the two noticeable adult jokes work in a way where kids can interpret it as something child friendly) and it even manages to do the one thing most kids films are afraid to do anymore: MAKE PEOPLE FEEL SAD! Seriously though, every kids films these days has those moments where you almost feel sad like when they think someone has died, but every single time now there’s always a “oh something sad has happened oh wait nope never mind everything is actually fine yay!” moment. I could and want to go further than this but then I’d have to go into spoiler territory.

Cons - Someone somewhere is gonna go on about “oh the human emotional spectrum is much more complicated than just five emotions” but I’d be the first to tell that guy to lighten the fuck up.

Final Score - 10/10

I’m going to acknowledge a slight bias here as someone who did have to move cross country when I was a child, but honestly even if that’s never happened to you it’s still a very relatable movie for anyone who’s had days just like that. Seriously go watch this movie.

So, one of the theatres here is getting a movie I’ve been dying to see for a while, I just don’t know when I’m seeing it yet.

Until then, I’ll see you folks at the movies.