Gorgeous, emotional, intelligent and funny.

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2016)

Up there with the very best of Pixar, this clever family film is entertaining and affecting for everyone from young kiddies to grandparents. Centred on an 11-year-old girl's internal struggle between joy and sadness, with a bit of anger, fear and disgust thrown in for good measure, this gorgeously animated effort is sweet, smart and often hilarious. Anyone who manages not to be swept up in the bundle of melancholic sweetness of Sadness has a heart of stone. It took Pixar years to fully realise their physical interpretation of a human's inner workings, and the enormous amount of time, effort and thought they dedicated to it was worth every second.