| Inside Out | |
|---|---|
 "Meet the little voices inside your head." | |
| Directed By | Pete Docter |
| Screenplay By | Meg LeFauve, Pete Docter, Josh Cooley |
| Cast | Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias |
| Produced By | Jonas Rivera |
| Film Editing By | Kevin Nolting |
| Music By | Michael Giacchino |
| Studio | Pixar Animation Studios |
| Distributed By | Walt Disney Pictures (United States), Columbia Pictures (Philippines) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Release Date | June 19, 2015 |
| Runtime | 102 Minutes |
| Rating | PG |
Overview[]
Plot[]
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a baby girl named Riley Andersen is bornand, in her mind, emotions are born at different points in her life.
Five living emotions are created: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. Joy was created first, and controls a console which consists of only one button, at the beginning. 33 seconds later, Sadness is born and presses the button, making Riley cry. Joy is not happy that Riley is crying and pushes Sadness aside, pushing the button to make Riley happy again. This was the first of many moments where Joy wouldn't let Sadness control Riley.
Each emotion has a defined purpose in Riley's life: Joy attempts to keep her happy, Anger keeps her life fair, Disgust keeps her from being poisoned both physically and socially and Fear keeps her safe. Sadness, however, doesn't think she has a purpose in Riley's mind, or that of the other emotions, and is ignored as a result.
Oblivious to Sadness' crisis, the other emotions focus on organizing Riley's memories, which are housed in luminous spheres known as Memory Orbs. The most relevant memories, known as core memories, power up five "islands" in Riley's mind, each reflecting a different aspect of her personality: Family Island, Friendship Island, Goofball Island, Hockey Island, and Honesty Island.
When Riley turns eleven, her family relocates to San Francisco after her father gets a new job. However, Riley thinks the new house is horrible. The nearest pizza place only offers broccoli pizza, and the moving van won't arrive for weeks. The emotions try everything in their power to make the moving process a pleasant experience. They eventually turn on Sadness when she changes a happy memory orb into a sad one by touching it which causes a core memory to fall out. Aware that memories cannot be changed back once turned sad, Joy decides to keep Sadness occupied by having her read a stack of mind manuals the entire day.
On Riley's first day of school, Joy orders Sadness to not touch anything and let the other emotions do their job. But Sadness touches a memory that makes Riley cry in front of her new class which creates a new core memory. Joy desperately tries to dispose of the new core memory by using a vacuum tube that leads to the mind world, but a struggle with Sadness leads to the core memories being knocked out from the container. Before Joy can put them back, she and Sadness are carried off with the core memories, leaving Disgust, Fear and Anger to deal with Riley.
Joy and Sadness landed into a labyrinth-like place called Long Term Memory, where Riley's past memories are restored. Joy believes that they can fix this because all that she and Sadness has to do is get the core memories back in Headquarters and Riley will be back to normal. But Sadness said that without Joy inside the HQ, Riley can't be happy. Determined, Joy said the quick way back is to Goofball Island if they can walk down the pipe. Sadness warned her that it leads to the Memory Dump, a seemingly, never ending pit of darkness beneath headquarters where faded memories go to be erased from existence for good.
Meanwhile, in Riley's mind, Anger, Disgust and Fear are doing their best to guide Riley through her new surroundings. Disgust and Fear tried to guide Riley during dinner with her parents but when Anger controlled her, Riley was send to her room as punishment and Goofball island fell apart. Later, Anger accidentally instigates a confrontation with Riley's friend Meg when video chatting her, which causes the island which controls this part of her personality, Friendship Island to collapse into the Abyss, and even tried to play hockey when Fear tried to use a memory. The emotions realize that tampering with Riley's personality will cause it to further be erased, with potentially disastrous results.
Meanwhile, Joy and Sadness first witness Goofball island falling apart. Trying to stay positive, Joy suggest they should get to Friendship Island only for it to crumble apart, too. As soon as they were about to give up, they are soon assisted by Riley's childhood imaginary friend Bing Bong, a scrappily-dressed pink cotton candy-elephant-cat-dolphin creature. Bing Bong was hoping to reconnect with Riley via a Memory of his song-powered wagon "rocket." Although initially, Bing Bong is happy and cheerful, the pair discover that he is secretly miserable, having been out of a job since Riley was four, he desperately wants to feel loved again, reasoning that, if he has no purpose, he will cease to exist. Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong hatch a plan to ride the Train of Thought back to Headquarters, and begin their trek through various parts of Riley's mind in order to reach the loading dock (areas such as Imagination Land, Dream Productions, and so on). Suddenly, when Joy saw Hockey Island crumbling apart, she told Bing Bong that they have to hurry. Then Bing Bong witness his rocket being dumped over the memory dump and became devastated. Although Joy attempts to keep this revelation positive, Sadness comforts a crying Bing Bong (which leaves Joy more confused than ever as to how being sad could help Bing Bong).
Meanwhile, with Disgust, Anger and Fear in control, Riley's life begins to crumble. She alienates her former friends from Minnesota, fails to connect with her parents, and struggles in the new school. As Joy and company close in on their destination, Anger, Disgust and Fear finally reason that, if Riley was only happy in Minnesota, there is no choice but to tell her to return there, and prepare to run away from her own family.
At night, Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong finally reach the loading dock, although it is now so late that the Train of Thought will not arrive until morning. Heading to Dream Productions, Joy gets an idea to wake Riley up with happiness but Sadness thinks it would never work since she said that they can scare her awake with a nightmare. After finding a dog costume and giving the core memories to Bing Bong, she and Sadness entered the production, as Joy pretends to be a dog. Sadness tried to warn her that it wasn’t not working until things went chaotic. Bing Bong also appeared and started dancing, only for him to fall and get arrested by the guards.
Joy and Sadness began to follow and saw that Bing Bong is being taken to the Subconscious, where they keep Riley’s biggest fears. They managed to find Bing Bong who is held captive by a monstrous clown named Jangles. They free him but Joy remembers that they still need to wake Riley up, so they use Jangles to scare Riley awake while Fear is on dream duty. The plan had worked and they headed to the Train of Thought to get back to HQ.
In HQ, a tired Disgust and Anger asked Fear what was going on as Fear trembled about the shock. Anger told him that it was all a dream and mad that they never had a good night's sleep so they decided to get into action. Using the idea bulb, the emotions decided to take the bus and instructed Riley to steal from her mother's bag and pack it to run away to Minnesota.
On the train, Joy said that Sadness’ plan really did work and Big Bong sees a memory. Joy recalled that it was the memory of the twisty tree when Riley won. Sadness likes that too and she recalled that the Prairie Dogs had lost the big playoff because Riley missed the winning shot. Joy seemed confused even more but she assures her that they will keep working on it. Suddenly, Joy looked and saw Honesty Island crumbling apart and damaging the rails of Train of Thought. The other mind workers managed to rescue Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong as the train fell into the memory dump. Joy is completely devastated that they lost another island and wonder what was happening. One of the mind workers reminded her that Riley is running away, much to her shock. Sadness told her that if they hurry to headquarters, they can still stop Riley. Since the last island, Family Island is about to break apart, Joy finds a way back to Headquarters through a broken recall tube, but after Sadness almost turns the core memories sad, Joy decides to leave her behind because if she gets in, the memories will turn blue. She starts up the tube, but as Riley starts to leave the house, Family Island begins to crumble, destroying the tube and causing Joy to fall into the Memory dump. Bing Bong tries to get her, but the ground he was standing on falls, while Sadness barely escapes the same fate as she watched her friends disappear.
It seems that all hope was lost, as in moments Joy and Bing Bong would be forgotten and cease to exist. Joy, in despair, notices something interesting about the twisty tree memory that Sadness inadvertently caused, realizing that when Riley was sorrowful, it signals to others that she needs help. Joy realizes that Sadness's main role in Riley's personality is to tell others when she needs help, and by preventing Riley from feeling sad, she was also preventing her from feeling true happiness. Hope comes when Bing Bong notices his rocket, and they decide to use it to return to the top, but are dismayed when it falls short every time they tried to sing louder. Bing Bong, in a moment of self realization, starts the rocket one last time, then jumps off as it begins to fly. Joy looks back, realizing Bing Bong's act of selflessness, and Bing Bong thanks Joy for letting him be important one last time as he vanishes, forgotten.
Joy sorrowfully watches Bing Bong fade away and promises that she will try to fulfill his last wish. Joy grabs the bag full of Riley's core memories and attempts to reconcile with Sadness, but discovers that Sadness has run away from her, hopped onto a cloud, and flew away, believing that she only makes everything worse and that Riley is better off without her.
Meanwhile. Anger, Disgust and Fear continue to guide Riley to the bus station, but when they realized that Family Island is crumbling and the console turning black, the emotions realized that Riley can't run away and tried to pull the idea out but it was stuck tight. They tried to control Riley but she was unresponsive and falls into a deep, heartless depression. Finally, Fear told Disgust and Anger that they can't make Riley feel anything, making them realize what they have done.
Meanwhile, using various tools from Imagination Land, Joy uses the trampoline on Family Island, grabbing Sadness and sending the two flying towards HQ. However, a thick window separates them from each other, and Anger desperately tries to break it using a chair. When this fails, Disgust has an idea and starts insulting his intelligence, Anger is furious at her insults and his head goes up in a huge flame. Disgust uses him as a blowtorch to allow Joy and Sadness to return.
Although the other emotions beg her to stop Riley from running away and fix the relationship between her and her parents, Joy turns control over to Sadness, which surprises the others, because they need her to help Riley. Sadness decides to pull the idea bulb out of Riley's mind. This makes Riley, under the command of all her main emotions again, give up on running away, and she decides to return home, to her worried parents. Joy gives Sadness the happy memories and they turned into sad ones. Sadness takes control of the panel and Riley finally reveals her true feelings to her parents as she begins to cry, telling her parents that she hates San Francisco, misses the good old days in Minnesota, and that she was pretending to be happy and was afraid of making them mad because she has always been their "happy girl". Riley's parents admit they feel the same way, creating a new core memory - only this one is a mixture of yellow and blue; both Joy and Sadness. It creates a new Family Island that is visibly more complete, and allows for the various aspects of her personality to return in full.
Several months later, now 12 years old, Riley has recovered. She now has new Personality Islands, all created by mixed core memories (Anger notes that he likes how Friendship Island has expanded with a new "friendly-argument-section", suggesting that that Island is powered by a Joy/Anger core memory). Meanwhile, Sadness is finally treated as an equal among the other four emotions, and Joy solemnly remembers Bing Bong's sacrifice as things begin to return to normal and Riley, now twelve years old, adapts to life in a new city. Finally the five emotions now have a larger, more complete console wherein they can act at the same time and help Riley better. Disgust also notes a large red button labelled "Puberty" and questions what it does, Joy dismisses it as "not important".
Even though the emotions still love Riley, she had been going around a lot of changes lately and nothing could ever happen and what will possibly come for Riley's own emotion in the coming years.
Cast[]
- Amy Poehler as Joy
- Phyllis Smith as Sadness
- Richard Kind as Bing Bong
- Bill Hader as Fear
- Lewis Black as Anger
- Mindy Kaling as Disgust
- Kaitlyn Dias as Riley Anderson
- Diane Lane as Riley's Mom
- Kyle MacLachlan as Riley's Dad
- Paula Poundstone as Forgetter Paula
- Bobby Moynihan as Forgetter Bobby
- Dave Goelz as Subconscious Guard Frank
- Frank Oz as Subconscious Guard Dave
- Josh Cooley as Jangles
- Flea as Mind Worker Cop Jake
- John Ratzenberger as Fritz
- Pete Docter as Father's Anger
- Carlos Alazraqui as Father's Fear / Brazilian Helicopter Pilot
- Paula Pell as Dream Director / Mother's Anger / Additional Voices
- Laraine Newman as Mother's Fear
- Rashida Jones as Cool Girl's Emotions