2015 · animation · family · comedy
Inside Out
Directed by Pete Docter1h 35m2015
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.
Our read: Inside Out (2015) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive animation · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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How Inside Out feels to watch.
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“You want a warm clever animated story about feelings, growing up, and moving on.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if exploring sadness and loss through cartoon emotions feels heavy.
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