Inside Out

Meet the little voices inside your head
Meet the little voices inside your head
INSIDE OUT (PG)
D: Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen
Disney/Pixar (Jonas Rivera)
US 2015
94 mins

Animated

W: Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley
Mus: Michael Giacchino

voices of: Amy Poehler (Joy), Phyllis Smith (Sadness), Bill Hader (Fear), Lewis Black (Anger), Mindy Kaling (Disgust), Richard Kind (Bing Bong), Kaitlyn Dias (Riley Andersen)

What's going on inside Riley's head?
Riley's emotions, personified as Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, control Riley's actions, and with Joy ruling the roost, it's all happy-go-lucky for the young girl. That is until her parents uproot from their hometown of Minnesota to a new house in San Francisco. The move doesn't go as planned, and with the stress of a new city, new school and losing her old friends things go haywire inside Riley's mind, especially when Joy and Sadness get lost in the memory banks where Riley's personality is crumbling away.
The Pixar animators do a very good job of visualising a story which pretty much all takes place within a little girl's head, but it presents a good moral that we should never let our actions be decided by anger.
Once again, Disney and Pixar collaborate to bring a film which is just as likely to be enjoyed by adults as it is by youngsters, though the technicalities of the plot may go right over the heads of young children.
8/10

Inside Out
Inside Out
Make room for new emotions
Make room for new emotions

INSIDE OUT 2 (PG)

D: Kelsey Mann

Disney / Pixar (Mark Nielsen)

US 🇺🇸 2024

96 mins


Animated


W: Meg LeFauvre & Dave Holstein [based on characters created by Meg LeFauvre, Pete Docter & Josh Cooley

Mus: Andrea Datzman


voices of: Amy Poehler (Joy), Maya Hawke (Anxiety), Kensington Tallman (Riley Andersen), Liza Lapira (Disgust), Tony Hale (Fear), Lewis Black (Anger), Phyllis Smith (Sadness), Ayo Edebiri (Envy), Adele Exarchopolous (Ennui)


A sequel to the 2015 film that comes very close to being every bit as good as its predecessor.  The first Inside Out film is an animated adventure that deserved all the high praise it received, especially over its intelligent, thought-provoking screenplay and the world that it created within the mind of a small child, Riley Andersen.

In this follow up, Riley is now in her teenage years and a host of new emotions have crashed the party, led by Anxiety, who takes over Riley’s headspace and bottles up the emotions from the original movie (Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear & Disgust), banishing them to the back of Riley’s mind.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Riley is heading to high school where she hopes to impress on the hockey team and make the cut, hence the new emotions in overdrive during her adolescent years.

Once again, it’s a novel and unique way of representing emotions within this animated film, and whilst the intelligence of just falls short of the original film, the film as a whole is just as entertaining and interesting, whizzing by so quick over its 96 minute runtime that the closing moments may not have enough resolution to satisfy all the audience, even if it does leave the door wide open for a third film.

The voice cast and characters are all great, even if the Anxiety character is a complete bitch, which is suitably part of the joke.

7/10


Inside Out 2
Inside Out 2