Inside Out (2015)

What earned the score

• Toddler Nudity Used as Comedy

  Riley, shown as a toddler, escapes the bathtub and exposes her bare backside to her father, then runs from the camera, hops into an armchair, and slaps her bottom while laughing. The scene turns infant nudity into a comic gag.

• Female Protector Wields Male Anger

  A female emotion uses the male-coded Anger as a blowtorch to free two female characters from a ledge, placing a woman in the protector role.

Details

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.

Starring

Amy PoehlerPhyllis SmithRichard KindBill HaderLewis Black

Director

Pete Docter

Writer

Meg LeFauveJosh CooleyPete DocterJames S. BakerMatt JonesJ. Garett SheldrewRonnie del Carmen

Genre

AnimationFamilyAdventureDramaComedy

Release Date

Jun 17, 2015

Parents Guide

• Sex None

  At one point baby Riley's naked butt is seen.

  The parents briefly kiss.

• Violence None

  Anger ends up punching and choking Fear.

  Anger ends up shoving Fear & Disgust (twice).

  In the dream-making studio in Riley's mind, a dog's body is ripped off in a half, the upper half of it tries to chase it's tail

  Anger stretched Fear's nose, but it's played for laughs.

  Joy and sadness fight over a core memory ball.

  Fear tries to plug in hockey-related memories where the core memories go, and when he tries to hold them in the holder spits them out, pinning Fear to a window. Two memories hit him in the eyes.

  Fear is often on the receiving end of cartoon violence, often from Anger.

• Profanity None

  Anger talks about wanting to say a certain curse word, but we never actually hear him say it.

  Anger finds a 'curse word library' on the control panel and is about to press the buttons. While Anger doesn't say anything, a bleep is ultimately heard, but quickly revealed to be Fear accidentally pressing a button to trigger it.

• Drugs None
• Frightening Scenes Mild

  A zombified rat is in Riley's dream.

  Bing Bong sacrifices himself so Joy can escape a ditch, then spends his last moments telling Joy to take Riley to the moon for him before fading away. This scene is quite sad and powerful. (10/10)

  Anger's head sometimes shoots up fire.

  The islands of personality crumble as the core memories are removed.

  The entire film is about homesickness and losing happiness, which can be intense and emotional for some. Some scenes even include Riley crying.

  Near the beginning of the film when Joy and Sadness get sucked out of Headquarters, they are shown flying through a pipe towards Long-Term Memory. There are large flashes of light that almost fill the screen for about 5-10 seconds, which may affect eplieptic viewers.

  Riley has a tantrum and argues with her parents at the dinner table. Can be awkward for some viewers.

  Every time Riley loses a core emotion, the islands dedicated to the emotions get destroyed. One of the destruction scenes includes a train crash. Very frightening and tear inducing for young children. (8/10)

  The second half of movie is very sad, the main characters cries and a beloved character dies.

  Several very emotionally intense scenes and mild jeopardy (e.g. Risk of harm to main characters depicted and young child shown making a dangerous choice which puts her in danger) - music, sound and editing emphasise these risks even of child is too young to understand it in full.

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