“What if [X] had emotions?” It’s a template Pixar used to massive success with “Toy Story” and has returned to time and time again ever since.
It was probably inevitable then that the studio would make a film with the premise, “What if emotions had emotions?” The result was 2015’s “Inside Out,” and you know what? It’s pretty damn great, too.Pixar’s animated hit examines the inner workings of the mind of Riley, an 11-year-old hockey-loving girl whose world is completely upended after her family moves across the U.S.
from Minnesota to San Francisco.
However, we as viewers get to experience this not just through Riley’s eyes but through those of the personified emotions guiding her brain.
For a film with such a heady setup, “Inside Out” is as crowd-pleasing as they come, combining rib-cracking laughs and tear-jerking drama with dazzlingly colorful visuals of Riley’s inner landscape (like personality traits…
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