A Film to Make you Cry

Since my last review turned into a major cock-up with regards to research and stuff, I've decided to investigate Inside Out properly. So here goes nothing: Inside Out is a DreamWorks film about a group of emotions living inside...

But for reals, Inside Out is Pixar's latest offering, about five emotions living inside the head of a young girl and controlling her thoughts. It's a slightly surreal, interesting take on the "little people inside your head" visualisation of the brain and thought processes which is surprisingly affecting and personal, in a bizarre cold-reading kinda way.
So, brief synopsis: Riley is a young girl who is uprooted from her childhood home in the country and moves with her family to San Francisco. But this isn't the cool, friendly Big Hero 6 San Fransokyo-type San Fran; no, she ends up in a narrow, ugly city house and a series of problems leaves the family without their belongings.
Inside her head, however, things are a little more under control: the emotions of anger, fear, disgust and sadness are corralled and organised by Joy, put to work making sure Riley can cope with these problems. Only something's up with Sadness, and when she upsets Joy's perfect work system it goes from bad to worse; the two find themselves in Riley's brain, away from the emotional centre as Anger, Fear and Disgust work frantically to try and keep Riley happy without her Joy.
In terms of story it's pretty novel and very interesting. Many of the plot points are predictable and I feel like they had to shoehorn some things in to keep up the pace. It doesn't exactly gel well as a movie, it's a bit contrived at times. That being said, it's a very touching film and the characters are imaginative and amusing. Although the main focus of the story is on Joy and Sadness, the other emotions are just as well-rounded, for the most part; Anger feels a little one-dimensional, but he's really only a bit part and little more than a plot device.
I'm gonna keep this brief, because it's been FOREVER since I actually saw this, and I needed to wait until I had something other than Taiwanese internet to write this because otherwise it'd keep spell-checking my perfect English into a horrible, randomly-capitalised mess (Google: improve your spell-checker/translator!). But for all its whimsy and imagination (and there's a lot of it) it's a very sad movie, and the core of the story is a tragedy which is over-arching and general but which still feels very personal. Being a movie about emotions, there are a lot of scenes which are saturated with single emotion, it's a cathartic film. And despite the cutesy-poo nature of it all, it aims to tug at your heartstrings (Bing Bong! You will not be forgotten! :( ).
So, a very quick summary of Inside Out: It's visually very beautiful and there are moments where you're chuckling, but for the most part it's a movie about loss and sadness, and that should be remembered. A masterpiece of emotion, if somewhat disjointed, but the characters are fun and rounded and the interactions between Joy and Sadness in particular feel very human.

Adieu!