Hilarious, inventive, and imaginative

Rating: 7/10 (25 July 2015)

With all the classics that Pixar has produced, it's created a standard for itself that seems to rise with almost every film it creates. Before watching Inside Out, I was thinking that perhaps Pixar would have difficulty truly meeting that standard. Fortunately, I was wrong.
After watching the trailer, I honestly wasn't too excited about seeing Inside Out. I thought the concept of the five miniature characters controlling the mind of the human was interesting, but it didn't strike me as particularly creative or clever. But the movie ingeniously expands on this idea and offers the audience a truly imaginative vision of how so many other aspects of the human mind work. Along with this vision came brilliant, unimaginable images of inside the human mind that were perfectly illustrated by Pixar's superior animation.
Regarding the humor, I think this movie is one of Pixar's funniest movies. I have never truly laughed when watching other Pixar films like I did while watching Inside Out. The movie offered a great variety of humor, providing plenty of physical comedy, occasional visual comedy, and a lot of clever jokes from the dialogue.
I'd say the only minor flaw of this movie would be its characters. Evidently, the main characters are the ones that are inside Riley's (the human's) mind, trying to control her. While they are interestingly portrayed, they're all one dimensional characters (since they control a specific emotion for Riley). With this in mind, they are not truly compelling characters that force the viewer to truly care for them. In addition, since much of the plot focuses on what is occurring inside Riley's mind, it's hard for the viewer to develop a connection with Riley, too.
To sum it up, I'll say that Inside Out, while it is a great movie, isn't Pixar's best, but that's not really saying much. It was fun to watch, extremely clever, and a bit moving at times. Definitely worth watching.