Inside Out Review

Inside Out

Release Date: 9th June 2015 - Australia
(Sydney Film Festival)

Production Companies 

Walt Disney Pictures

Pixar Animation Studios 

Distribution 

Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures Australia 

Genre: Animation/Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 102 minutes


Budget: $175,000,000

Box Office Gross: $858,071,174 
(Worldwide - figure subject to change)

Plot Summary 

Growing up can be a 

bumpy road, and it's no 

exception for Riley, who is 

uprooted from her Midwest 

life when her father starts 

a new job in San Francisco. 

Like all of us, Riley is guided 

by her emotions – Joy, Fear, 

Anger, Disgust and 
Sadness. The emotions live 
in Headquarters, the control 
center inside Riley’s mind, 
where they help advise her 
through everyday life. As 
Riley and her emotions
struggle to adjust to a new
life in San Francisco,
turmoil ensues in
Headquarters. Although

Joy, Riley's main and most

important emotion, tries
to keep things positive, 
the emotions conflict on 
how best to navigate a new 
city, house and school. 
(Source - Metro Cinemas)

Voice Cast

Amy Poehler - Joy
Phyllis Smith - Sadness

Bill Hader - Fear
Lewis Black - Anger
Mindy Kailing - Disgust
Richard Kind - Bing Bong
Kaitlyn Dyas - Riley
Diane Lane - Riley's Mom
Kyle MacLachlan - Riley's Dad
Paula Poundstone - Forgetter Paul
Bobby Moynihan - Forgetter Bobby
Josh Cooley - Jangles
Dave Goelz - Subconscious Guard Frank (Cameo)
Frank Oz - Subconscious Guard Dave (Cameo)
Flea - Mind Worker Cop Jake (Cameo)
John Ratzenberger - Fritz (Cameo)
Rashida Jones - Cool Girl's Emotions
Peter Sagal - Clown's Joy
Paula Pell - Dream Director/Various

Crew

Original Story/Screenplay/
Director - Pete Docter
Original Story/Co-Director - Ronnie Del Carmen
Additional Story Material - Michael Arndt and
Simon Rich
Screenplay - Meg LeFauve and
Josh Cooley
Additional Dialogue - Amy Poehler
and Bill Hader

Associate Producer - Mark Nielsen
Executive Producers - Andrew Stanton
and John Lasseter
Producer - Jonas Rivera
Production Designer - Ralph Eggleston

Character Art Director - Albert Lozano
Character Designer - Deanna Marsigilese
Story Supervisor - Josh Cooley
Character/Sets Supervisor - Robert Moyer
Character Supervisor - Sajan Skaria 

Directing Animator - Jaime Landes Roe
Supervising Animators - Shawn Krause
and Victor Navone
Director of Photography: Camera - Patrick Lin
Director of Photography: Lighting - Kim White
Stereoscopic Supervisor - Bob Whitehill
Film Editor - Kevin Nolting
Sound Designer/Effects Recording/Supervising 

Sound Editor (Uncredited) - Ren Klyce
Music - Michael Giacchino

Review

In a defiance of Pixar revisiting its glory days of churning out one of the latest animations of 2015, I guess that I'm fortunate enough that I experienced 'INSIDE OUT' as a newfound piece of storytelling that takes you to a strange journey of what's inside the human subconsciousness. This takes me back in my childhood memory to a earlier feature I've seen of 'Osmosis Jones' except it has a different plot-line and similar set-up with Bill Murray in only the live action scenes. Thankfully, the creative team of Pixar has made a better version in 'INSIDE OUT' with the strong story and themes commonly used many times in the company's previous modern classics. This film sees Pixar return to the critical appraisal after taking a few small downturns like 'Cars 2'. I was impressed at its digital animation that creates the movie's generous look and it even becomes bizarre at one time where the three characters wind up in a room where they keep changing into three forms of dimensional art. 

The movie delves into the unique cleverness and colourfulness with its subject matter with poignancy served as the main core for the emotions of the film. The voice acting is exceptional with Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader and Richard Kind are definitely giving credit to their characters. The score by Michael Giacchino is so perfect to hear in its vibrancy and it resonates well in the movie at the best since 'The Incredibles' and better than 'Jurassic World'.

'INSIDE OUT' is as close to getting what's best in animated movies. It looks and sounds amazing in an interesting scope and has a plot that relates young and mature adults at the same time.

Star rating: (9/10) Excellent Movie

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