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Amy Poehler | ... |
Joy
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Phyllis Smith | ... |
Sadness
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Richard Kind | ... |
Bing Bong
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Bill Hader | ... |
Fear
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Lewis Black | ... |
Anger
(voice)
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Mindy Kaling | ... |
Disgust
(voice)
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Kaitlyn Dias | ... |
Riley
(voice)
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Diane Lane | ... |
Mom
(voice)
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Kyle MacLachlan | ... |
Dad
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Paula Poundstone | ... |
Forgetter Paula
(voice)
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Bobby Moynihan | ... |
Forgetter Bobby
(voice)
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Paula Pell | ... |
Dream Director /
Mom's Anger /
Additional Voices
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Dave Goelz | ... |
Subconscious Guard Frank
(voice)
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Frank Oz | ... |
Subconscious Guard Dave
(voice)
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Josh Cooley | ... |
Jangles
(voice)
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Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school. Written by Pixar
Flaws notwithstanding, Inside Out is a capitalist's perverse dream come true -- however his dream manifests outside of his subconscious is commendable within itself. It's a highly-anticipated film put out by the biggest animation studio in the world, packed with enough goofy jokes to satisfy children and enough reliably maudlin manipulation in the form of homogenized adolescence to please adults. The concept explodes with novelty and the animation is brilliant. And best of all, its main characters all come in fuzzy, furry, huggable forms that will no doubt sell mountains upon mountains of stuffed animals and other such material detritus until the faces of Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear are plastered by fingerpaint-stained hands onto the pages of the haplessly constructed book of icons and dank memes ("o sh_t waddup").
Inside Out is blatantly artificial. The film is mired in concept and marketability, sacrificing a solid narrative - which Pixar usually promises - as a result.