According to the film, as soon as we are born we are ingrained with a host of characters in our brain that embody the emotions Joy, Fear, Sadness, Disgust, and Anger. We learn in the film that everyone possesses these characters in slight variations in his or her mind, including animals. They are at constant battle with one another over what kind of memories are created and how the outside world is processed internally.
With Riley, the central female character of "Inside Out", Joy is in control throughout the majority of her first eleven years on earth. It is only when she and her family must move from Minnesota to San Francisco that things start to go awry and the other emotions start to play a more prominent role. Suddenly Riley finds herself in strange, unwelcoming territory: she leaves behind her beloved home, friends and hockey team.
This film does a beautiful job of portraying in a concrete, imaginative way, the workings of one's brain in how it stores memories, creates new ones, and recalls them. The film paints a portrait of a huge computer system with a control panel that each emotion can control, sometimes cooperatively, sometimes in disagreement and tension. Balls of memory are constantly rolling, each coloured with the hue of its respective emotion and each being sent to its destination in the vast psyche of its host human being.
Aside from the concepts of psychology, memory and emotion, the plot in this film is fairly conventional and certainly panders to the short attention span of the average young viewer. But it is in the aforementioned concepts that the true joy and originality of "Inside Out" is found and where the adult viewer will get the most satisfaction.
This is another original film from Pixar and will thrill audiences of all ages.
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