INSIDE OUT (2015)
This movie is about an 11 year old girl whose parents have
moved from Minnesota to San Francisco. This is the dumbest move ever (because
that’s where the 49ERS are). Anyway we
get to know her emotions animated style. Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler) is the
dominant emotion most likely because damn…this girl plays freakin hockey and
who the heck isn’t happy that plays hockey? Eventually sadness (voiced by
Phyllis Smith) comes in and basically everything is messed up from that point
on. Oddly her most likeable emotion I felt in this movie was disgust (voiced by
Mindy Kaling) and to be honest the rest were just forgettable for me. Oh, back
to the plot. It turns out sadness is messing up some of the core memories and
now parts of Riley’s (voiced by Kaitlyn Dias who is very talented but so far
has been in almost nothing) life are starting to fall apart. Strong points –
the way this movie draws out the emotional landscape while simple and mostly
incorrect, is completely fascinating and well done. This movie reminds me a lot
of the imagination we saw behind the scenes in MONSTERS INC. Riley is for the
most part likable, as are her animated emotions joy and disgust (even sadness
at one point). This is also a movie after my own heart because “hockey”. There
are not enough movies that involve hockey in some way. What the heck. They also
cast Diane Lane as one of the voices. You always always cast Diane Lane (she’s
Judge Hershey so you have to).
Where this movie just kind of misses the mark for me is
because of its best moments. While we do get some tear jerking here, the film
overall feels very much like we are watching a box blowing down a street. We
are kind of curious what will happen but basically see cars coming and the
predictability is almost mind-numbing for this type of film. The strongest
parts of this movie are when the other characters emotions interact and react
to Riley’s emotions. Sadly we only get a few minutes of this awesomeness and
most of that is crammed into the closing credits (yeah what the crap). Instead
we are subjected to the worst freakin imaginary friend ever and honestly this
made want to run home to my tv set and on demand Barney episodes. On top of all
this, the funniest parts of the movie are largely shown in the previews. Past
that this is an attempt to be UP which I didn’t really love either. This movie
isn’t bad, it just disappoints on a catastrophic level by showing us how great
it could have been (by adding more interaction with other people) within its
run time.
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