With its jokes about abstract thought, this Pixar/Disney journey inside an 11-year-old’s mind is as funny as it is inventive
The precursor to the movie Inside Out, as any 1980s reader of the Beano will know, was a comic strip called the Numskulls, in which a group of tiny operatives ran around inside a boy’s brain, pulling the levers that governed his five senses, with hilarious results. In the Pixar/Disney version, the jokes are more sophisticated and the brain workers hung up on more existential concerns, but the idea is roughly the same: a portrait of the inside of 11-year-old Riley’s mind, where central command is run by five warring emotions – Amy Poehler as Joy, Lewis Black as Anger, Mindy Kaling as Disgust, Bill Hader as Fear and Phyllis Smith as Sadness.
Sadness is fat, with large glasses and an unfortunate rollneck sweater, and every memory she touches turns blue and is ruined. That’s how Joy sees it, and the film revolves around her pneumatic efforts to eclipse Sadness and the other negative characters from Riley’s emotional range.
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