Rent Inside Out (2015)

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1h 31min
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Synopsis:
Do you ever look at someone and wonder what's going on inside their head? Disney-Pixar's 'Inside Out' takes an imaginative journey into the mind to find the answer. Based in Headquarters, the control centre of 11-year-old Riley's mind, five emotions are hard at work, led by lighthearted optimist Joy. She strives to make sure Riley stays happy as she operates alongside fellow emotions Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness.
Directors:
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Producers:
Jonas Rivera
Voiced By:
Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Paula Poundstone, Bobby Moynihan, Paula Pell, Dave Goelz, Frank Oz, Josh Cooley, Flea, John Ratzenberger, Carlos Alazraqui, Peter Sagal, Rashida Jones
Writers:
Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen, Meg Lefauve, Josh Cooley, Michael Arndt, Simon Rich, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler
Studio:
Walt Disney
Genres:
Anime & Animation, Children & Family
Collections:
2016, A Brief History of Disney Heroines, Children & Family, CinemaParadiso.co.uk Through Time, Films & TV by topic, Films to Watch if You Like Toy Story, The Best Animated Films, A Brief History of Film..., Top Films
Awards:

2016 BAFTA Best Animated Film

2016 Oscar Best Animated Film

BBFC:
Release Date:
23/11/2015
Run Time:
91 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing, Italian
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • All-New Short: Riley's First Date?
  • Lava
  • Riley's First Date?
  • Audio Commentary with Director Pete Docter, Co-Director Ronnie Del Carmen and Producer Jonas Rivera
BBFC:
Release Date:
23/11/2015
Run Time:
95 minutes
Languages:
Dutch Dolby Digital 5.1, English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Flemish Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, Italian DTS 5.1
Subtitles:
Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, French, Italian
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
(0) All
Bonus:
  • All-New Short: Riley's First Date?
  • Lava
  • Riley's First Date?
  • Audio Commentary with Director Pete Docter, Co-Director Ronnie Del Carmen and Producer Jonas Rivera
  • Paths to Pixar: The Women of Inside Out
  • Mixed Emotions
BBFC:
Release Date:
23/11/2015
Run Time:
95 minutes
Languages:
Dutch Dolby Digital 5.1, English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Flemish Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, Italian DTS 5.1
Subtitles:
Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, French, Italian
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
(0) All
Bonus:
  • Lava
BBFC:
Release Date:
Unknown
Run Time:
94 minutes
Languages:
Canadian French Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Atmos, English Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Subtitles:
Canadian French, English Hard of Hearing, Latin American Spanish
DVD Regions:
Region 0 (All)
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
(0) All

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Reviews (8) of Inside Out

Overly-sentimental but enjoyable Pixar animation - Inside Out review by PV

Spoiler Alert
19/12/2015

The first thing to say about this film is that it is NOT - repeat NOT - an original idea (as some critics think). If you read the Beano from the 1970s you'll see a cartoon strip in there called the Numbskulls about little men in a boy's head controlling and managing his actions and emotions.

What this movie does is update that old idea in the context of very American psychobabble therapy culture, where children are worshipped and overprotected, and where group-hug-itis is seen as the cure for everything. Emotions and feelings are now seen as the pinnacle of human existence, rather than achievements or 'doing'. I find that irritating (and also think such over-protection damages and infantilises children and causes depression when kids grow up).

Anyhoo...this movie is clearly a collaboration - and nothing wrong with that. Pixar is famous to believing just coming up with ideas and getting them out there is important. They then get developed over years by many excellent writers. I works. Early scripts are often horrifically bad but they're honed into shape by hundreds.

This film's premise is clearly very imaginative - and the characterisation is classy. Some laugh out lines too (esp from Sadness). Also funny when we see inside the heads of other people (and even a dog and a cat over the ending credits so make sure you watch them).

Some fun stuff here about memory and how it works too. And I liked the acceptance (unusual in a touchy-feely American film) that actually bad things are part of life and thus necessary, as are all emotions.

One of the best Disney/Pixar efforts of recent years, despite the overbearing therapy-culture feelings-worship. I preferred this to 'Up' and 'Wall-E' many other Pixar films.

It'd be interested to see the film remade with a boy main character actually - as it does get a bit girly at times here, though not oppressively so.

But then The Numbskulls was always one of my favourite Beano cartoons too!

3 out of 3 members found this review helpful.

Interesting idea but eventually boring - Inside Out review by ll

Spoiler Alert
24/03/2016

Would have been better at half the running time. The storyline is OK and amusing at times but there is far too much repetition

of scenes.

1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

Disappointing - Inside Out review by MD

Spoiler Alert
10/04/2016

4 of the 5 reviewers here to date were not overly impressed with this much-praised movie, and I tend to agree with them. It may not be an original idea (see Numbskulls), but it was certainly a clever concept that offered lots of opportunity for Pixar to work their usual magic, except this time they didn't. It was way too adult for kids, and way too childish for adults; there were some great moments and one or two really fun scenes, but there were also long stretches of fairly bland, almost tedious, material which has NEVER been the case in previous offerings from this studio. The tone was awfully downbeat for much of the movie, and I got fed up with Sadness being such a drag. And, yes, the concluding 20 minutes was all too pat and contrived. I am pleased to see Disney allowed something like this to be made, but I just don't think it had that X factor that made all the others such a delight. Watch the outtakes, etc, with the credits, and see if you don't think they are better than the feature movie!

1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

Critic review

Inside Out review by Mark McPherson - Cinema Paradiso

The creative team at Pixar have been playing with our emotions for years the way they have crafted deeply emotional and human stories, which is saying a lot for animated features about toys, monsters, superheroes and robots. Now they’ve personified those emotions within the head of 11-year-old Riley quickly approaching the age of 12. Venturing into the mind of a girl growing up presents a realm of psychological possibilities and Pixar thankfully explores every nook and cranny. They hit upon many unique and touching aspects of one’s thought process and conflicting emotions that one might wonder if this subject matter is perhaps too deep for kids. But kids really deserve more credit than that as they’re clearly more complex as the film reveals. Everyone can relate to how terrible it is to move across the country.

Inside Riley’s head exists a massive database of various mental elements from memories to dreams to beacons of her core personality. At the helm in a control center are her five key emotions controlling her actions with strategic turns at the wheel (or in this case a big button). Joy (Amy Poehler) is a Tinkerbell-esque pixie who plays a heavy role in Riley’s developing life, preserving her cherished memories. Fear (Bill Hader) is the neurotic and safety-obsessed entity that tries to steer Riley away from danger. Disgust (Mindy Kaling) does her best to trigger Riley’s gag reflex for broccoli with Anger (Lewis Black) at the ready for tantrum mode when dad won’t allow dessert if she doesn’t eat her dinner. Joy practically runs the ship while Sadness (Phyllis Smith) is kicked to the corner given how every memory she touches turns to a tearful one.

And everyone needs to be on point for Riley’s big change of moving from Minnesota to California, a massive shifting of worlds given how her favorite memories involve playing hockey on the lake. But when Joy and Sadness are launched out of master control when something goes awry, they’ll need to find their way back through Riley’s mind and restore her core memories before the child ventures down a dark path. With Fear, Disgust and Anger freaking out at the controls, the film could proceed down a goofy route with Riley going out of character. But this is no Osmosis Jones or Innerspace. It’s a very relatable tale of a little girl homesick for the home and life she’s about to leave behind. Without Joy or Sadness to comfort her in the transition, Riley begins to lose all feeling as she becomes emotionally frustrated and contemplates running away back to Minnesota.

While Riley battles school and parents, Joy and Sadness have to venture through Riley’s mental landscape to restore order. On their travels, they stop by the various areas that comprise Riley’s psyche, creatively imagined as only Pixar can craft. Her dreams are located in a movie studio lot where various actors assemble to stage her dreams as movie productions. Her abstract thoughts are represented by a chamber that morphs and mutates any three dimensional characters into 2D illustrations and simple shapes. Every place and character the two emotions journey through is loaded with smart and playfully creative details based on human psychology. The only element that feels a little too simple is Riley’s train of thought which is literally a train.

Thankfully, there are hardly any puns for all these CGI-rendered playgrounds and entities of the brain. There’s no time for such lame jokes when there is so much at stake. In every passing hour without Riley’s core memories and all emotions presents, the islands of her personality begin to crumble. It’s a story that harkens back to Pixar’s method of storytelling for Toy Story, taking such a relatable aspect of childhood and blowing it up not just for humor, but for all the humanity it can exploit. If Riley’s tough decision of wanting to run away from home isn’t enough to jerk some tears, Joy’s discovery of letting Sadness enhance the precious moments of childhood will suck the water out of your sockets like a vacuum.

The inspiration from reality is what makes this Pixar film head over heels their best work of the decade. Director Pete Docter based the scenario off of both his own childhood experience of moving to Denmark as a kid and the changes he noticed in his pre-teen daughter growing up. The result - after much research and story development - is a film that appeals to kids and adults on every level. It touches on all the emotions it aims to personify with charming delivery and clever depictions. Sadness ends up being a key component, as with Docter’s previous Pixar film Up, but Inside Out celebrates such a feeling by letting its audience know that it’s okay to feel sad when going through a tough time. Never before have I seen an animated film of such intelligence that challenges its viewers with a very engaging trip through the mind, yet still manages to be a charming picture for audiences of all ages. This is an entirely new level of animation storytelling that only Pixar could conceive so well.

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