‘Inside Out’ Review: In Pixar’s Latest, Emotions Run the Show

With heroes Joy (Amy Poehler) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith), this beautiful, moving animated epic will make you feel lots of feelings

“Inside Out” is all about feelings, both on the screen and in the audience. Director Pete Docter is, let’s not forget, the man responsible for the opening montage in “Up,” so if you think you’re getting out dry-eyed from a movie where one of the main characters is literally Sadness, you’re made of sterner stuff than I. (I’m still finding stray bits of the handkerchief I destroyed while watching “Toy Story 3.”)

The kind of movie that may forever change the way children — and even adults — discuss their feelings, “Inside Out” is an epic set inside a little girl’s mind, where her emotions have been kicked into high gear after her family uproots from Minnesota and relocates to San Francisco.

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