Likes and dislikes of Inside Out

Rating: 9/10 (9 October 2015)

Riley is an eleven year old girl that is learning how to deal with her emotions. In inside out these emotions are actually characters that live inside Riley. They work every day at headquarters. Joy, Anger, Sadness, disgust, and fear. In the beginning of the movie the emotions seem to have very good control and work seems easy. When Riley has to move however, these emotions take on a big challenge. Many other emotions besides joy get a bigger workload. This is Riley trying to deal with her new environment. Joy is our protagonist in the movie. The conflict she reaches is getting lost in different departments of Riley. She views sadness as bad memories and therefore does not want sadness to influence Riley's memories. By the time Joy and Sadness make it back to headquarters Riley has figured something out. She had realized that sadness is a necessity in Riley's life. She also realized that joy is usually short to follow right after. This movie was a great depiction of what goes on in an eleven year old girl's brain. Riley can relate too many of the children that watched the movie. It really showed Riley's stage of depression quite well. I think the directors did a great job over all with this movie. This is the first Disney movie that focuses closely on our cognitive behavior. The directors did a good job personifying emotions everyone can relate too. Like most Disney movies they made you feel emotions. I think they purposefully made you feel the emotions that you were watching. This movie was suitable for children or adults to watch. It was intelligent enough to keep adults entertained. As for the kids it was just as cute, funny, and imaginative as all the other Pixar movies. The picture and scenes were absolutely beautiful as well. Colors definitely popped and seemed to change with Riley's mood. The thing that I did not like about this movie is how the emotions were thought to have control over Riley. When Riley went into depression it was because of accidents that happened in headquarters. Depression is natural and happens to many people. Emotions do not have control over that. I think it is more Riley's environment that has an effect on her emotions and it did not seem to show that. I think the movie would be much better if her environment had affected her emotions more and the emotions understood what was happening. Overall I would give this movie a four out of five stars. Inside out was able to keep me entertained throughout the whole movie. It had an ingenious plot and creative characters. If you have not seen this movie yet I definitely recommend watching it. Inside out is the perfect movie for family and friends and it is a movie any person on Earth can relate to. Seems to be that the Disney Pixar combination is working out quite well. If they keep producing movies of this caliber they will continue to be prosperous.