Inside Out Movie Review

I´ve known about this movie for a long time... and I don´t mean since the trailers started to come out, I mean since the first leaks happened, an old friend of mine showed to us all in class the leaks of the character´s design rendered in 3D... the article already talked about the characters being emotions and stuff and it did looked quite interesting at the time making me believe that Pixar was actually trying something new and interesting.

Yep... this one

But the more the trailers and commercials were released the more I saw the problems with the movie, to be fair the commercials didn´t spoil the entire story for me but it did gave me an impression of what kind of story it was... but even then I was still being very open minded and interested in checking out the movie.

I can´t call the movie "original" unlike some other reviewers have because, in all honesty, this isn´t the first time a story about some people inside this character has been done and is nothing really new... in fact the concept of Inside Out is pretty much like that of Osmosis Jones except by the fact that is all about "emotions" instead of sickness and it never leaves the brain; don´t get me wrong however, this aren´t problems I have with the movie because has a creator myself I know how hard it can be to be original when you are telling a story, and a story about characters inside this character is fairly unconventional in general... besides this may be the first time people experience this kind of story.

But what about the movie itself? Well... is average... I know the argument to this is gonna be "Oh you are over thinking it! IS A KIDS FILM!!" Indeed you are right, it is just a kids film... HOWEVER I have to say this isn´t a point you can use when you compare this to other kids films out there that do a much better job at creating character and making conflicts. The story fallows the emotions of Riley, an 11 year old girl who moved to San Francisco with her family because of her dad´s job... of course she is feeling weird because she is having a hard time adapting to her new house, environment, etc... part of the focus of the story is her emotions, Joy is like the main character and she is just trying to keep Riley happy and optimistic until in the first day at school Sadness manages to create a "core-memory" by making her cry in the middle of the class (really? crying in your first day at school?) Joy says "nope" because she doesn't like sadness and tries to stop the memory only to have shit hit the fan and leaving anger, disgust and fear in the "command center".

A´right I am not gonna go into detail has to how the universe works in the brains of Inside Out, but lets just say that it´s really... meh... like not that interesting to watch, this islands that pop up in the head are uninteresting, like is just full of stereotypes that like makes up the personality of Riley... whatever, I really though this could have been done in a different way, can´t think of any right now but I am sure there is plenty of people out there who has better ideas for this out there... I can honestly say however that I thought it was kinda cool having the emotions work out how to make Riley safe.

I don´t wanna go much deep into the story for spoiler´s sake but let´s just say that I feel like the

movie would have worked much better if more time would have been given to Riley, her family and her "fish out of water" story instead of trademark Pixar story structure of: 2 characters that don´t like each other very much are separated from their group and must find their way back... (ok not every Pixar story has this structure, but many do) I would have appreciated more if the characters of anger, disgust and fear weren't so generic too because I can get that they are emotions and being very singly is kinda what they have to do but there is little character arc to witness if there is no character to work with!

The story of Riley herself is not new either, but I find her story more fascinating than... well what I said before. I am gonna stop here because I hate to bring up spoilers in this movie considering is still relatively new at the point of this post; should you watch it? well yeah I guess so... I know I´ve been kinda negative towards Inside Out but I acknowledge there is good things in this movie and yes it is indeed a kids film, witch is why I can´t get angry at the movie for being kinda fun.

So check it out and see it for yourself!