Inside Out
Posted: 2015-06-29 10:36am
What a beautifully abstract and artistic movie. The best i've seen from Pixar since Up. I was worried the decline had finally begun after Monster's University and Cars 2 had been such sore disappointments. Not after this movie though, no way. Again it took Pixar's wild card Pete Doctor to whip up something really clever and unexpected.
What really gets me is how the movie is so complex in its plot structure, i'm sure it must have been a very hard movie to write. Like several whole rewrites hard. It would have been very easy to do things wrong, like portray Joy as a two dimensional simpleton, Riley as an unrelatable angsty child, and Bing Bong as Jar Jar Binks. Instead they honed what could've been a huge mess into a massively impressive display of art and creativity. A movie that incorporates elements of sci fi and fantasy yet fits in neither. Their were many, many moments in the movie where I was utterly moved in ways I hadn't been in years between both the visuals and narrative. This was a very smart movie, i'm perhaps worried that it may even have been above some of the youngest members of the audience.
Who else has seen it and what did you think? I don't universally love every one of Pixar's movies but they consistently kick one out every few years or so that is just amazing. This was one of them.
What really gets me is how the movie is so complex in its plot structure, i'm sure it must have been a very hard movie to write. Like several whole rewrites hard. It would have been very easy to do things wrong, like portray Joy as a two dimensional simpleton, Riley as an unrelatable angsty child, and Bing Bong as Jar Jar Binks. Instead they honed what could've been a huge mess into a massively impressive display of art and creativity. A movie that incorporates elements of sci fi and fantasy yet fits in neither. Their were many, many moments in the movie where I was utterly moved in ways I hadn't been in years between both the visuals and narrative. This was a very smart movie, i'm perhaps worried that it may even have been above some of the youngest members of the audience.
Who else has seen it and what did you think? I don't universally love every one of Pixar's movies but they consistently kick one out every few years or so that is just amazing. This was one of them.