Jose Miguel B. Fernandez                                                                              Film Critique                     

10-D

Inside Out

            To start my review, I will first give a short summary of Inside Out. The main character in this movie is Riley; at the start of the movie, we see how she got her emotions/feelings (joy was gotten from birth, sadness followed soon after, disgust when she was forced to eat broccoli, anger when she retaliated against her dad for forcing her to eat broccoli and fear when she nearly tripped over a lamp wire). To continue, she lives in Minnesota but then due to her father’s work, her family is forced to move to San Francisco. Riley doesn’t take this lightly as there are many setbacks to being in SF (for example: being away from friends, new school, moving truck not arriving, not having her hockey team, etc). The movie then focuses on Riley’s emotions as sadness and joy are accidentally taken away from the main control room ( spoilers ahead). When joy and sadness are roaming Riley’s long-term memory, the remaining emotions (anger, fear, disgust) are then forced to take control of Riley, disabling her to feel joy and sadness. After a few days, anger gives Riley the idea to run away by stealing her mom’s credit card and using it at a bus station; luckily, joy and sadness return and get Riley to go back to her parents. She then joins her university hockey team and the movie ends.

            To start the actual review, I would say the movie was pretty good. The animation was well done; the story is clichéd but that’s acceptable because it’s a kid’s movie. The humor was fairly good too but what I really noticed that for a movie made for 5-12-ish children, the theme of running away and depression wasn’t really appropriate. Nonetheless, it’s a good movie. 7/10