It rarely happens, but at the last Cannes festival, critics were very enthusiastic about an animated film. Well, it's more than just an animated film, because the maker is Pete Doctor who made with Toy Story and Up undoubtedly the best Pixar-films. In his latest film Doctor took a very big risk. Pixar films are designed for young and old, but no one is surprised that the producers are mainly targeting at the heart of toddlers. Doctor dared to make a film about the human brain, and particularly the emotions that control it. It may seem as an impossible concept for an animated film, especially if you want to please the kids, but Doctor is a master of his craft.
We descend into the head of the young girl Riley who has to move from Minnesota to Los Angeles. This means that her father makes promotion at work, but Riley herself has lost all her friends, and especially her beloved ice hockey club. The girl is going through a deep crisis and inside her head all the emotions (happiness, fear, anger, disgust and sadness) start to work. Just like in the real head, but because not every child is familiar with the theories of Freud and Jung, Doctor conjured these emotions to colorful, fun characters that are even cuddly. It is certainly not an obvious thing, but Inside Out works from the first to the last minute. Of course this is a Disney production, and it is predictable that luck will win (imagine if the creators let the child end up in an asylum), but that does not mean Inside Out is not a masterpiece.