Movie #1030 "Inside Out" was just okay to me. I know I am going to be in a minority here, and I'm sure many of you will enjoy this film , so you can disregard this critique, but I can't help what I felt throughout --- I thought it was simple and fluff, like Saturday cartoons, which I never liked when I was young. So that would be okay if it was written FOR little kids, but I felt it was written for adults--- there were retro references they would have to have explained --- in fact, if I had a child watching this, I wouldn't know how to explain half of it....I wouldn't want to because the film itself doesn't explain the deeper concepts --- it just slides right by and shoves another train wreck or destruction of another island --- i.e. it puts some action in to distract the watcher. I remember halfway through turning to Dave and saying, "Now that's the first deeper thought that has been voiced here." I know that the whole idea is that it is a child's mind, so that there are just basic parts of her brain like joy, and sadness shown, and the obvious theme is that we have to have all the emotions to become a whole person. But if that's it, I'd rather watch something else. There are some funny moments, but I never got a good sense of where they were and where she had to go and WHY things were actually happening........so to me, this was just a romp through a big amusement park (maybe a future one? is that what is on their minds?), and it wasn't my cup of tea.
Inside Out2015PG I give it 3 out of 5 stars
When her family relocates across the country, tween Riley Anderson struggles with the stress of her new situation and her animated emotions get carried away -- quite literally -- on a fantastic journey through her mind.
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