I always say this, but it takes a lot for me to get into the new animated films that come out. Either they have a weak ass story or are just not made for me. This movie may not be made for my old ass but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have heard about this for a long time but never sat down and watched it until this past weekend with L. There were some scenes that made me laugh hard as hell.
This is about this girl named Riley. She is 11 and not plucky at all! That is a great thing. There are five main emotions that control Riley. Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger. They delegate which one of them is in control during her day. Every memory gets turned into these glowing balls Really important ones are called core memories and these are not to be messed with (looking at you, Sadness). Joy is pretty much the self appointed leader and tries to make sure that Riley experiences nothing but Joy.
Riley and her parents move from Minnesota to San Francisco into a house that is the opposite of the one she grew up in. This place blows. The food. Dead rat in the house. Furniture late. Joy tries to make sure she is going to have a good day at the first day of school and keeping Sadness away from the controls. Sadness accidentally makes one of Riley's old memories sad. They actually change color when one of the other emotions touches them. During the first day of school Riley is asked to introduce herself to the class and Sadness ends up making a core memory sad and she starts crying in front of the class. Joy tries to get rid of the memory and ends up sucked into a tube along with Sadness.
Now Fear, Anger, and Disgust are in charge of Riley's emotions which makes her cold, lose interest in hockey, and mean towards her parents. We also get to see her parents emotions which are funny. Meanwhile Joy and Sadness are wandering around with Sadness just touching all the good memories and making them blue and depressing. Riley has these islands of memories/personality traits. They start crumbling in the absence of Joy and Sadness. They bump into Riley's old imaginary friend Bing Bong. They attempt to ride on the Train Of Thought to get back to headquarters and run into security, some folks that trash old memories that are no longer used, and ones that randomly put thoughts into your head like an old gum commercial jingle. This had me cracking up!
The emotions left in charge decide that Riley needs to run away from home and go back to Minnesota to make good memories again. Joy and Sadness eventually make it back and the control room is fading away to darkness. Sadness turns a happy memory sad but it turns out that this was needed for Riley and her parents to understand one another better. The emotions now have a bigger control center and make it so that the different feelings can exist at the same time. It doesn't have to be one or the other at once. This was a very good movie and didn't dumb itself down for kids or adults. If I had a heathen hell spawn I would show them this movie.
Kaitlyn Dias as Riley
Amy Poehler as Joy
Phyllis Smith as Sadness
Bill Hader as Fear
Lewis Black as Anger
Mindy Kaling as Disgust
Richard Kind as Bing Bong
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