Pixar's and Disney's very best

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2019)

Now this is a Pixar movie! Very different from Pixar's other movies, but an excellent, excellent movie that goes beyond Pixar's usual standard. This film has won quite a few awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature - for a very good reason.
In this movie, instead of having humans as the main characters, the creators of Inside Out made the emotions the main characters. Almost all of the movie takes place inside the main human character's - a girl called Riley - head, with her emotions as characters.
Meet the emotions: Joy - a bubbly, talkative girl and a control freak. She's kinda' likeable, but is my least favourite character. She is in control of the Console, where they get Riley feeling. She tries to keep Sadness away from the console as she doesn't understand Sadness, nor sees the use of her. But she is quite okay with the other emotions - Disgust, Fear, and Anger - being at the console.
Fear - well, the name speaks for itself, doesn't it? Fear is a very nervous guy. A complete scaredy-cat. He is actually quite funny sometimes. He keeps Riley safe and cautious.
Anger - as Joy put it, this dude "cares very deeply about things being fair." Prone to 'blowing his top' (almost literally), he is so hilarious and does care and has a lot of soul. He is my personal favourite of the emotions.
Sadness - she is, well, very sad. Joy tries to keep her away from the console as she doesn't understand what she does and believes that Riley should be happy, not sad. Sadness, the rejected one out of the emotions, reads a lot of the Mind Manuals (that tells them how things work in Riley's mind and such). She is full of knowledge of Riley's mind, and actually quite a nice and likeable character.
Disgust - She basically keeps Riley from being poisoned. She controls the disgust aspect of Riley. Again, another likeable and hilarious character and probably the most sensible character - one who deals in realism. Sometimes.
Riley and her parents move to Minnesota. Things come to a head with Joy and Sadness when Sadness starts to touch Riley's memories, causing them to change to sad. On Riley's first day of school after they move, Sadness gets to the Console, causing the memory of that time - which was a very important memory, called a Core Memory - to be sad, and it's the very first one to be sad. Joy panics, and tries to get rid of that Core Memory, and ends up being sucked out of HeadQuarters with Sadness and all the other Core Memories. Now they have to try and get back to HQ as without the Core Memories, Riley starts to lose her personality and slips into depression.
The other emotions try to pretend to be Joy, but that fails miserably. As the other emotions try to navigate Riley through each day as they await Joy's and Sadness' return, Riley becomes distant and aloof, moody and ends up becoming apathetic. Joy learns some very important lessons, the main one being finally understanding Sadness' purpose. Can they make it back to HQ in time to restore Riley?
For a children's movie, this deals with very serious issues. It is very well-thought out and really gets you thinking. I could really relate to Riley. I consider it to be flawless. Absolutely perfect! A great script, great plot, awesome voices, and the issues dealt with are done in such a way that it is still entertaining for children. It is one of my favourite children movies and is an awesome animated movie. The climax is fantastic - it has a very emotional and desperate feel to it. Then again, the whole movie is one big emotional roller-coaster. The cast did a stellar job bringing the characters to life. The music score went very well with the movie.
A fantastic, and I mean utterly fantastic piece. If you haven't watched it, I would strongly urge you to watch it.