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Let genderfluid people accept their own headcanons. There's no harm in doing so.

But I do agree that it is interesting that of all the emotion cores that we see in the movie, Riley is the only one to have male and female-esq emotions. The fact that the movie basically stops with her still being eleven allows for her identified gender to still be open to possibility.

went and saw it this morning with mum. only us and an elderly couple in attendance, but not surprising as its a school day and our town is also recovering from a severe flood, so seeing the latest animation offering isnt exactly top of the list of many parents right now. will be different in a couple of weeks when the school holidays start. im glad it opened early for a change. nice to see a kids film without the distraction of the core audience being noisy.

once again, pixars animation blew me away. the little sparkles in the emotions' hair and eyebrows, the track for the memory spheres, the train of thought. the depth of the film was incredible, and what a nice change to have no villians. at the end, the older lady in front was crying, mum said she had a tear and i admit i had to fight not to join them.

the snippets in the credits were a relief from the finish of the film.

Starting this weekend, members of the AMC Stubs program will get a mystery Inside Out pin when seeing Inside Out at an AMC Theater and I read that one in fifty will get a Bing Bong Pin

Saw it tonight. Wasn't blown away by it. I found Joy to be slightly annoying and I don't understand the allure of Bing Bong. I didn't have an imaginary friend as a child though so I didn't really relate. I found the animation gorgeous as usual and I absolutely adored the visual interpretations of the brain functions. I did find the actual story to be a bit too slow paced and slightly bloated. I think cutting about 10 minutes from the film would have made it drag less. I give it a 7.5/10.

I did find it odd that Riley has emotions that are both genders. I think it is more to do with her tomboy personality than anything. The goth girl and the clown both had male and female emotions as well. I'm sure there are reasons, but frankly I couldn't care less.

I saw it again! I'm close to declaring Inside Out my new top favorite Pixar movie (replacing Wall-E).

I also took a look at the Art of book. Turns out they decided to go almost completely for the pictures this time. Would've been nice if we got regular production info like in the usual Pixar books.

Finally saw it on cheap Tuesday at my theatre.

Wow. I've never had the feeling of connecting so deeply to a film before. You see, when I was 11, I went through an identity crisis. My (redheaded, might I add) best friend was moving away, and my other good friend started to hang out with other people. As an 11 year old, I let Anger and Fear take over. I had no clue how to properly handle my emotions, since I never felt so lonely. My parents never seemed to understand, and I pushed away potential new friends out of fear of commitment. I spent most of my 6th grade miserable and lonely until I finally realized that I was trying too hard to hide my Sadness. I cried and let out my emotions to my parents until I felt better, and finally I crawled out of my shell and started socializing again.

Also, coincidentally, hockey was the sport that I turned to for Joy.

Basically: I cried a lot in the theatre, even at happy moments. Low blow, Pixar.

Anyways, aside from Riley hitting too close to home, the movie was sublime. I have no clue if I would have been as emotionally invested in it if I hadn't seen so much of myself in Riley (although I'm assuming that's the point), but the humor was great and Sadness was on point. It probably beats Ratatouille for my top Pixar film. Also, the CGI was some of the most gorgeous and creative I've seen, not just from Pixar, but from any studio.

Plus, out of curiousity, I poked my head inside the Ted 2 showing. About half of the packed audience was prepubecent. Yet, my showing of Inside Out had a 100% adult audience with a nearly full theatre.

Saw it again, and it only reaffirmed my glowing opinion of it.

Tangled wrote:
Plus, out of curiousity, I poked my head inside the Ted 2 showing. About half of the packed audience was prepubecent. Yet, my showing of Inside Out had a 100% adult audience with a nearly full theatre.

It's sad that kids would rather see a foul-mouthed teddy bear than a great family movie.

kenai3000 wrote:

Tangled wrote:
Plus, out of curiousity, I poked my head inside the Ted 2 showing. About half of the packed audience was prepubecent. Yet, my showing of Inside Out had a 100% adult audience with a nearly full theatre.

It's sad that kids would rather see a foul-mouthed teddy bear than a great family movie.

Having worked in a movie theatre, some people will bring their kids to adult movies anyway if they THINK that it's for kids. And unless the movie is NC-17, there's no effective way to reinforce the MPAA ratings.
In this instance, many believed that simply because the movie was about a teddy bear....

Semaj wrote:
Having worked in a movie theatre, some people will bring their kids to adult movies anyway if they THINK that it's for kids. And unless the movie is NC-17, there's no effective way to reinforce the MPAA ratings.
In this instance, many believed that simply because the movie was about a teddy bear....

Well, I'm pretty sure that the kids in my theatre just saw it because Ted is popular and "cool" for a middle school audience, since although the humor is risque, it's also pretty juvenile and simple. Besides, r-rated films in general, no matter what the quality, tend to be like forbidden fruit to children. The man who was checking our tickets commented that he already caught a couple of preteens who purchased tickets for Inside Out sneaking into the Ted 2 theatre. I'm pretty sure that those kids (and their parents) know what Ted is about. The trailers and posters for it don't conceal its rating at all.

Anyways, I was moreso pointing out how film ratings have little to do with a film's actual maturity. Ted 2, "the dirty adult film", is appealing to children. Meanwhile, Inside Out "the animated kids' film", is appealing to adults.

Tangled wrote:

Semaj wrote:
Having worked in a movie theatre, some people will bring their kids to adult movies anyway if they THINK that it's for kids. And unless the movie is NC-17, there's no effective way to reinforce the MPAA ratings.
In this instance, many believed that simply because the movie was about a teddy bear....

Well, I'm pretty sure that the kids in my theatre just saw it because Ted is popular and "cool" for a middle school audience, since although the humor is risque, it's also pretty juvenile and simple. Besides, r-rated films in general, no matter what the quality, tend to be like forbidden fruit to children. The man who was checking our tickets commented that he already caught a couple of preteens who purchased tickets for Inside Out sneaking into the Ted 2 theatre. I'm pretty sure that those kids (and their parents) know what Ted is about. The trailers and posters for it don't conceal its rating at all.

Anyways, I was moreso pointing out how film ratings have little to do with a film's actual maturity. Ted 2, "the dirty adult film", is appealing to children. Meanwhile, Inside Out "the animated kids' film", is appealing to adults.

Yeah, I notice this too because it seems to me that over the years that so called kids' shows and films are becoming more mature while some so called adult films are just becoming so immature. The kids like the immature adult films because its mindless entertainment that caters to the lowest common denominator while adults love well thought out kid's movies because they often are the most creative types of movies and sometimes delve into deep topics that all demographics can comprehend.

I saw this today and it was absolutely masterful!

Damn, Inside Out is really getting trolled at the box office.

Those stupid Minions are set to shut out the movies this weekend.

I finally saw the movie today and I must say that I all in all liked it. Personally, I've thought Pixar makes great films every third year ("Finding Nemo" in 2003, "Cars" 2006, "Up" 2009 and "Brave" 2012). And while "Inside Out" may not be my favorite Pixar film, it certainly felt classically Pixar in tone. As you know, I've been a "Cars 2" defender, so I never thought of it as a downfall. And while I've labeled "Brave" as great, I still had the same problems with it as others did (weak writing and clichèd plot). I haven't seen "Monsters University" yet, so I shan't bring that into the occasion. But I'll give my thoughts of what I liked and disliked about the film.

- I liked the overall premise of the film. Very interesting and typical Pixar. Though I still wish it could've gone further and explaining the importance of each emotion. Who wonders how the story would've been if the story team fulfilled the depression idea.

- I liked the introduction of the emotions. It was cleverly done.

- I liked the main cue of the score. It was quite cute.

- I liked Fear. He was the most appealing character, both design and personality-wise. Anger was also okay.

- I liked that Joy was given a subtle arc of her own and understanding the necessarity of Sadness. Some people has drawn comparisons to Anna and Elsa's dynamics. But at least they've gave Joy more depth than the one-dimensionalities of Anna and Elsa. And to be honest, I feared the film weren't going to evolve Joy and Sadness.

- The film was certainly quite emotional. I teared up in several parts.

- I liked the depiction of Riley's dreams. It was hilarious and quite cleverly done.

- I liiked the ending comments of puberty! Those were hilarious (oh my, I wish them the best on their journey through Riley's puberty! They just can't imagine what it's going to be for them!)

What I didn't like;

- I thought parts of the film were too juevenile and especially the characters they met along the journey, as BigBong. It felt awkward and extranous. Even Disney aren't that juvenile!

- I thought Sadness should've been developed more. Joy was given an arc, but why not Sadness? While Joy realizing the importance of Sadness, why not having a similar arc for Sadness?

- I thought Riley should've been a more expanded and characterized more. While she's wasn't the main protagonist, she was representative for all the events. I thought of her as quite bland, actually.

- I thought Riley's tantrums were quite tame. But why compensate by make her do the opposite and actually escape back to Minnesota?

What I thought could've been improved;

I would've liked a more obvious conflict between Joy and Sadness. While there were tension between them, they never enhanced it besides Joy leaving Sadness behind. It should've been enhanced more.

I thought the film had a quick and dull wrap-up. It should've been expanded more.

Overall, I felt the film lacked a certain spark which identifies the best Pixar work. But I'm not a so-called Pixar-fanboy, so I really can't qualify myself to knowlegde what makes Pixar great. But I have my certain preferences with Pixar which other people don't have. Overall, a good movie, though I'm not going to claim it as a comeback for Pixar, though several people certainly have done. But it was a well-written and executed film.

Bing Bong juvenile? He was from Riley's earlier memories, of course was juvenile, that was the point. Its why he faded away.

Kyle wrote:Bing Bong juvenile? He was from Riley's earlier memories, of course was juvenile, that was the point. Its why he faded away.

Fair enough, but I though of him as too juvenile and awkward. He wasn't particularly endearing.

As of this weekend, Inside Out hit the $300 million domestic mark!

I was gonna wait to watch this one at home but my sis took her daughter last weekend and asked if I wanted to come along. I dont usually have a chance to watch animated films with other people so I went.

I was pleasantly surprised. Very cute film, very inventive. BingBongwas the saddest part for me. Also I really liked some of those environments and backgrounds. I noticed some 2d influence in some of these, where they looked more flat and painted (kind of like a few of the Tangled backgrounds.) I loved the whole abstract thought room concept.

BTW the message of this film seemed to be, its ok to feel sadness b/c we need it to appreciate the joy in our lives. I loved that message. I really wish more Hollywood animation studios who make children's films would take a cue from this film and realize that not every movie has to be one giant happy joke-a-thon. Its okay for there to be genuine moments of sadness or despair, the kids aren't going to get gloomy or bored and want to leave the theater. It would make their films stronger, more memorable and less disposable.

Semaj wrote:

kenai3000 wrote: It's sad that kids would rather see a foul-mouthed teddy bear than a great family movie.

Having worked in a movie theatre, some people will bring their kids to adult movies anyway if they THINK that it's for kids. And unless the movie is NC-17, there's no effective way to reinforce the MPAA ratings.
In this instance, many believed that simply because the movie was about a teddy bear....

Even though said bear is very popular?

I saw this last night, and I really don't know what I think of it.....

It feels like it isn't the usual Pixar family movie - kind of dark and bleak for most of it. I enjoyed it, but didn't quite get who the target audience was. Certainly nothing like the trailers at all.

Saw it in a packed cinema - absolutely no one laughed throughout, child or adult. Some giggles came from the credits and that's it.

So really am not sure. Will have to see it again on DVD I think to make a final opinion.