Inside Out (June 19th, 2015)
The next movie from Pixar centres on a young girl named Riley, who is forced to move from her home in the Midwest and live in San Francisco for her father’s job. We meet Riley’s emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – who are characters in themselves, guiding Riley from their Headquarters in her mind. When Sadness and Joy get lost, Anger, Fear and Disgust are left at the controls, and cause chaos and mayhem while Sadness and Joy try to find their way back to HQ.
For a Pixar movie, the plot of Inside Out is fairly high concept. Telling a story about the emotional life of a young character by turning emotions into characters themselves is bold, original and challenging to say the least – all of which makes this a very exciting prospect to look forward to. In addition to the obvious advantages of effective comedy and world-class animation, its appeal lies in the fact that it addresses the idea of emotional intelligence – something that is of the greatest importance to growing children, and yet is still rarely discussed openly.
Directed by Pete Docter (Up, Monster’s Inc) and Ronaldo Del Carmen (Freakazoid!), Inside Out boasts a script written by Docter, Meg LeFauvre (now writing Captain Marvel) and Josh Cooley (co-director on Toy Story 4). It stars the voice talents of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan and John Ratzenberger.