Inside Out
One of the best movies of 2014 was ‘The Lego Movie’ – a part
of it's brilliance was that it contained all of the key ingredients in the
recipe for a great animated film. It had heart, humour, brilliant animation and most
of all creativity. As a medium, animation allows filmmakers to show more creativity
than any other genre, due to its limitless nature. As a result, some of the
greatest films of all time have been animated, with this film especially being
an almost perfect example of what animation studios such as Pixar can do with a
great idea.
Inside Out has all of the aspects listed above in spades,
making it not only the best animated film of the year, but possibly the best
film of the year overall. Admittedly, the concept of being able to see inside
someone’s head and see their emotions has been done several times before, but
here it is shown in such a new and creative way that it feels almost completely
original. They use that one concept to great effect, but then they keep on developing
so many different aspects of their interpretation of the human mind that there is
something new to surprise you in practically every scene.
The film is also very clever and witty in its humour, with
several funny moments in spite of the film’s deep emotional core. It goes
without saying that a movie about exploring deep and complex
emotions will have several tear-jerking (TV Tropes’ wording, not mine) moments,
but the happy and sad moments are so perfectly balanced that it is never
depressing. This also ties in nicely with the film’s moral, which is an important
message for people to learn and accept: that sadness is just as important as happiness
and that bottling up or trying to block certain emotions will only lead to you
becoming increasingly unhappy in the long run. It would have been so easy to
make Sadness the villain, but instead they avoid this and show that it is
important to have a balance of emotions, which is a far more healthy
perspective.
Inside Out is also essentially about growing up and moving
on and the way that it shows that it is ok to move on and replace old aspects
of your personality with new ones is also a refreshing and much needed for many
of the film’s young viewers.
Overall, Inside Out is a wonderfully creative and clever film that is up there with Pixar’s greatest classics.
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