Inside Out Proves that Pixar is Back...If It Ever Really Left
I'm going to go ahead and say it. All of this "Pixar's really lost it recently" talk that's been passed about the internet never really sat right with me. Cars 2? Easily the worst movie Pixar has ever made. But is it really worthy of a 39% on Rotten Tomatoes? No. (And most of the negative reviews do have some nice things to say about it.) Some are down on Brave saying it failed to live up to Pixar standards, but that movie coming out of any other studio would be hailed as one of their crowning achievements.
The point is even those who want to say that Pixar is no longer the creative juggernaut they once were, has nothing to say in the face of Inside Out. Inside Out is everything and more that you could wish for when going to see a Pixar movie. The art style, the humor, the characters, the emotion, it's all there in spades and near every note of the movie is perfect.
So the basic story of Inside Out is the five emotions that live inside the head of an eleven year old girl. They are Joy, the main character, followed by Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear. When things start to change as Riley (the eleven year old) grows up and the emotions are faced with new circumstances that they've never dealt with before. This results in Joy and Sadness getting thrown from the command center and having to make their way through the mind in order to get back.
Pixar has in the past created wonderful beautiful worlds that are a marvel to behold. Finding Nemo gives you a chance to look into the ocean and the wonderful, strange world that exists down there. A Bug's Life does the same thing but on a microscopic level. Here, Pixar literally gets the entirety of imagination to play with. We get to explore how so many different aspects of the mind work through the movie. Dreams are written, directed, and filmed in a dream movie studio. Blue collar workers have to decide what memories get forgotten forever if they're not accessed frequently enough. We get to see what happens to imaginary friends when the children outgrow them.
What Inside Out does best is the way that it balances the real world with the more animated world inside Riley's head. If Anger is at the control panel, there may be flames shooting out of his head, but Riley doesn't have a comical outburst. She, instead will have a tone of voice, maybe a flash of anger in the eyes, but her anger reaction will stay well within the ream of realistic.
It is well worth your time to check out this movie. Inside Out proves that Pixar truly has a great team working for them creatively, and the continue to work to never settle for "good enough."
The point is even those who want to say that Pixar is no longer the creative juggernaut they once were, has nothing to say in the face of Inside Out. Inside Out is everything and more that you could wish for when going to see a Pixar movie. The art style, the humor, the characters, the emotion, it's all there in spades and near every note of the movie is perfect.
So the basic story of Inside Out is the five emotions that live inside the head of an eleven year old girl. They are Joy, the main character, followed by Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear. When things start to change as Riley (the eleven year old) grows up and the emotions are faced with new circumstances that they've never dealt with before. This results in Joy and Sadness getting thrown from the command center and having to make their way through the mind in order to get back.
Pixar has in the past created wonderful beautiful worlds that are a marvel to behold. Finding Nemo gives you a chance to look into the ocean and the wonderful, strange world that exists down there. A Bug's Life does the same thing but on a microscopic level. Here, Pixar literally gets the entirety of imagination to play with. We get to explore how so many different aspects of the mind work through the movie. Dreams are written, directed, and filmed in a dream movie studio. Blue collar workers have to decide what memories get forgotten forever if they're not accessed frequently enough. We get to see what happens to imaginary friends when the children outgrow them.
What Inside Out does best is the way that it balances the real world with the more animated world inside Riley's head. If Anger is at the control panel, there may be flames shooting out of his head, but Riley doesn't have a comical outburst. She, instead will have a tone of voice, maybe a flash of anger in the eyes, but her anger reaction will stay well within the ream of realistic.
It is well worth your time to check out this movie. Inside Out proves that Pixar truly has a great team working for them creatively, and the continue to work to never settle for "good enough."
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