Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley's guiding emotions— Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness—live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life and tries to keep things positive, but the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
The challenge here involves maintaining a believable humanity while also making an entertaining case that humanity is impossible without the proper emotional configuration. And in meeting that challenge, the movie keeps surprising and delighting you.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
19 Jun 2015
fresh:
Welcome back, Pixar. You were sorely missed.
– Christopher Orr,
The Atlantic,
20 Jun 2015
fresh:
On the scale of inventiveness, "Inside Out" will be hard to top this year. As so often with Pixar, you feel that you are visiting a laboratory crossed with a rainbow.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Jun 2015
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This is a movie that dares to explore existential crises, in the middle of the summer, in an animated movie that's aimed at the whole family
– Christy Lemire,
ChristyLemire.com,
24 Jun 2015
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Inside Out [is] a bold, gorgeous, sweet, funny, sometimes heartbreakingly sad, candy-colored adventure that deserves an Academy Award nomination for best picture.