Much of the humor is absurdly clever – they are based on the real ideas of how our mind works, which simultaneously makes you bowl over with laughter and go, “Aha!” Two of the best examples of this is explanations for what abstract thought is and why songs get stuck in your head. It is the sophisticated humor, aimed squarely at adults, though, that sets this film above most other “all-ages” films. Children will laugh hysterically at the gags. The film’s emotional story is well-balanced by a large number of gags related to the mind, memory, thoughts, dreams, etc. Inside Out is, hands down, one of Pixar’s funniest films. That has never been more true than with Inside Out, which, after Toy Story and Finding Nemo, features the best voice work in a Pixar film. Pixar has never indulged in stunt casting, preferring to match the roles to those actors it believes will capture the essence of its characters.
Kind’s character, particularly, does not get much screen time, but you will be thinking of him long after the credits roll (oh, those credits – we’ll get to that below). Actually, all the voice work in the film is superb, from the five comedians cast to play Riley’s emotions, to the cameos by Pixar stalwarts like John Ratzenberger.īesides Poehler’s Joy, there is Sadness, played by Phyllis Smith, and a character voiced by Richard Kind that has largely been left out of the film’s marketing campaign, who provide masterful vocal work. Playing a character who is essentially always happy could have made Joy over-the-top in the annoying department, but Poehler is an incredible talent. Joy is the lead emotion, with great voice work from Amy Poehler. Docter and his team spoke to various scientists, psychologists, and experts, and ultimately settled on the five emotions you see in the film. Many studies have been done on emotions and what they are exactly, especially given the differences present in various cultures. The genius with which the mind world was created is perhaps the best realization of how our minds work, instantly making Inside Out the film people (children and adults) will turn to when trying to understand, to borrow from the film’s marketing, ” the little voices” inside our heads.
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Sure, concepts like long term memory and train of thought are utilized, but there were infinite possibilities for how to illustrate them and make them accessible for an all-ages audience. Although the artists at Pixar obviously had inspiration for how to make the outside world look, with San Francisco lying just a few miles from the studio’s campus in Emeryville, the mind world was an invention. The reason for that is the distinct difference in visual style between the real world and the world inside Riley’s mind. While Riley encounters challenges in her day-to-day life, we see the role her emotions play on the inside, and it all works wonderfully. The parallel storytelling established early on is an inspired choice. Understandably, the move sends her mind into chaos mode. The main part of the story kicks off with Riley and her family moving from a Midwestern town to the big city of San Francisco. The emotions include Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), Fear (Bill Hader), and Anger (Lewis Black).
The film begins with an introduction to the emotions that live in 11-year-old Riley’s mind, told alongside some pivotal moments from her infancy. The film’s running time is clocked at just over 90 minutes, but you would never know it, as the story ends with you begging for more time in the creative world created by the filmmaking team, long before it overstays its welcome. The plot and script are the closest thing to the perfection that is the original Toy Story, as the pace of the film moves beautifully. Although director Pete Docter and co-director Ronnie del Carmen acknowledged there were stumbles along the way, you would never know it from the final product. Inside Out spent over five years in development, more than the average Pixar film takes to make the jump to the big screen. Read my spoiler-free review after the break!
Even though both Brave and Monsters University were quality films, this year’s spectacular Inside Out will be the film that reminds viewers that Pixar has no equal in the film business. In recent years, the universal praise that the studio usually garnered has wavered, with Toy Story 3 (2010) being Pixar’s last mega-success. In just under 30 years of existence, Pixar has amassed an incredible amount of goodwill from audiences around the world, giving the studio more respect than any other film studio in Hollywood.
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