INSIDE OUT is an EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER! (Movie Commentary)

Inside Out movie commentary
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Doing this Movie commentary for Inside Out was a real treat. It's fun and intelligent with a great cast including Amy Poehler as Joy. As a movie that we've both seen, it was to take a look back and provide our commentary for this unique and nuanced take on the inner workings of the mind by Pixar Studios.
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[@themoviebudz1988]

Maria and I are home in Sydney now so one more video to edit from Poland and then it's back to the couch! - Sam Link to the Friendspire app! link.friendspire.com/TheMovieBudz Live channel: kzbin.info/door/lLU6EveVOrcfRJKvbINJ9Q Instagrams: @stefanwolf_tmb @samlanemusic Discord server: discord.gg/GgWp3JzVFV

[@winniebare5126]

Thank God, I’m glad that you guys are safe and I hope Maria’s family is doing alright as well 🙏🏼

[@toxicginger9936]

SO Glad you are both home and safe! 💛

[@chickflikguru]

Awesome news xx

[@tiffanykim2773]

Glad you're both ok

[@kittiesice]

There is a short that was released after the movie called "Riley's first date". Please react to it if you haven't seen it, I promise it's just as funny as those credit bonus scenes. lol

[@judebautista5925]

It hits me hard when they show that the mom is run by Sadness and the dad is run by Anger, yet it’s still a happy family. This shows how multi faceted emotions are. Sadness doesn’t always mean upset, it also means compassion, empathy and understanding. Anger isn’t always rage, it can be passion, confidence and determination. Fear can be cautious or strategic and Disgust can also be pride, standards and morals. You don’t need to be happy all the time in order to be whole. Your emotions don’t define you, it’s your perspective that defines your emotions.

[@littlesparrow303]

Ahh I never thought of it like that

[@diamondcentury21]

Best comment ever

[@nobody_nowhere_3338]

I loved your comment. Omg. I needed to read this. 👌🏽

[@ttamale1521]

Great comment

[@tiffanykim2773]

It all comes down to how you use those emotions and where you direct them. Anger can definitely be used for good things.

[@aubryellaotero1064]

The point where Sadness says “dad doesn’t love us anymore, I should drive right?” And instead Joy pushes her away and takes over is an important example of toxic positivity in this movie. The reason sadness keeps “acting out” is because Joy keeps pushing her away and not letting her take over when she’s supposed to. The same happens when the mom comes up and has her talk with Riley at night. Without realizing it her mom puts an enormous amount of pressure on her daughter to be happy all the time which just isn’t healthy or natural.

[@besupaaa]

I think joy's compulsory optimism was her idea of protecting Riley. Of course you want to protect the ones you love from "bad things", but allowing yourself to feel sadness is important. Even Joy gets sad during the movie.

[@19Rena96]

She's the unofficial mascot of the ✨positive vibes only✨ movement

[@KyleEvra]

Or. It could be Riley trying soo hard to stay "Happy" bottling up her inner "Sadness" for her parents.

[@besupaaa]

@@KyleEvra yeah. They always repeat that she's their happy girl. Maybe she felt guilty or scared about feeling sad.

[@videohistory722]

This movie is INCREDIBLE with color theory. Riley: striped shirt as they're moving with all colors on them to show theyre in harmony, or so it seems. yellow jacket on the first day of school because she's still young enough to be excited. Striped shirt sans blue and yellow at the dinner table because all of her emotions are fighting for control with joy and sadness gone. Black jacket because she's emotionally shutting down. Emotions: joy has blue hair, backing up the theory joy and sadness go hand in hand. Disgust has a purple ascot, suggesting disgust is mainly motivated by what scares us. Anger is wearing a red tie showing how when were angry, we can't see, hear, or feel anything else. Think, "seeing red". And finally Sadness is wearing a white turtleneck as a combination of all the emotions, like how all light is combined to make white light.

[@Jemini4228]

I'd never noticed that about Riley's clothes. Awesome spot!

[@CloudyRythm]

Damn That's a very fantastic info about the video 👏

[@Toonwalla2010]

another good colour tidbit is that on the emotions console, the slot where they put the lightbulbs for ideas is coloured blue and purple, which could be a hint that only Sadness and Fear can make someone back out of a bright idea

[@ghosty8193]

all I can think of is the tumblr colour theory post

[@mischr13]

Respectfully....I need to talk about this. Every. Single. Time. someone talks about Inside Out we have to see this comment. ALL movies use color to communicate, it's filmmaking 101. I'm sure some thought went into the colors but not as much as people seem to want to think. A lot of colors are just complementary and tertiary colors and that's why they were chosen. Then people ignore when colors don't go along with what they want the theme to be. Why is Joy's dress green? Do you think happiness is full of disgust? Ofc not. Disgust is the opposite of attraction, so it can't really mix like sadness and joy. truth is, green is a secondary color of yellow, yellow and blue are complementary. So those colors look great together. simple as that. It'd be really boring if every character only had one color. Fear is wearing white...so is fear a mixture of all emotions? Fear is probably our most basic emotion, it's a physiological response, so I don't think so. Bing Bong is pink, so is he mostly anger with a bit of white (every other emotion)? That'd be really weird if the joy of an imaginary friends were cuz kids were balls of rage, eh? The part about anger having a tie doesn't even make sense. He's wearing a tie cuz they're trying to do a whole "work place" theme and he's a male character. Both him and Fear have ties on. Ties don't make you unable to see, hear, or feel? The funny thing is the movie is more charitable to the emotion of anger cuz they say "He cares about things being fair." which is valid and necessary. Anger doesn't make you blind and unable to hear or feel. Anger is VITAL if you care about things like justice. Then Sadness is wearing a turtle neck cuz she looks like the voice actress' character from the office, going along with the whole "work place" theme. (which has it's own myriad of problems but that's a discussion for another day lol) The other persons comment about how the lightbulbs are only blue or purple is flat out not true. You can see other colors of lightbulbs.. The lightbulb they pick isn't even blue, so I'm not sure why it's relevant. By that logic why was Sadness needed to back out the idea? Fear could've done it too, right? In this case the lightbulbs are just in shadow so they have mostly cool tones, it's not like they were trying to say something about how only fear or sadness can back out of ideas. Obviously I like this movie a lot otherwise I wouldn't have noticed all the flaws with your points. Sorry you had to be the one to deal with me finally getting fed up but I am SO tired of seeing this same comment on every video about this movie. I feel like there was some post about this movie and everyone was like "whoa that's deep" but didn't think about it for two seconds longer than that. 😮‍💨😭

[@arlettegarcia7352]

I like how everyone says they didn't have an imaginary friend, but if you think about it. You probably did...and you just don't remember them. They were all forgotten...like Bing bong 😢

[@tiffanykim2773]

Probably same for having a lucky blanket or toy or something

[@IceQueen975]

Unless you're a writer. Then they *never die*

[@suvijii841]

Exactly. Also people get upset when Bing Bong dies - but that is how it HAS to be. He is an imaginary friend. They disappear and fade away. This was the saddest part for me: we forget so much of our childhood.

[@Author.Noelle.Alexandria]

When I was a kid, I was upset over not having an invisible friend. I definitely didn't have one, though tried to imagine one. Yes, my life was very sad.

[@BazookaGamingGirl]

I know my brother and I had a lot of imaginary friends, though I can’t remember who they were, what they looked like, or anything about them.

[@m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

Apparently there are some kids' novelizations from the point of view of the different emotions, and Sadness explains a bit about why she was there so quickly when Riley was born. I'm paraphrasing, but she said something like "Look, I could tell that the world was big and loud and kinda cold - and who was gonna know to get Riley a blanket if I didn't teach her how to cry??" I definitely have had to remind myself of that sometimes with our kid, she just turned one.

[@quirkypurple3]

yep. kids have a harder time recognizing what they’re feeling, especially a baby who absolutely can’t, so crying is a way to release. it gives you some good chemicals to help you regulate and get back to a baseline. also reminds me of the purpose of pain in general. its lack of comfort is there so we know when to do basic things, like eat and go to the bathroom.

[@jimerodriguez8332]

I mean how else is a baby suppose to let us know that they need something if they do not cry.

[@jacobskinner3522]

One of the nuances I love here is that Anger is primarily triggered by injustices and inconsistencies, rather than being toxic or irrational. Lewis Black was perfect casting.

[@trinaq]

I adore this movie, it never fails to make me sob. The absolute klincher is "Take her to the moon for me, okay?" 🌚😭💔

[@themoviebudz1988]

Definitely a sad moment ❤️ - Sam

[@alanwire494]

I cry every time i watch that scene

[@deathwitheponine]

Yes ugh 😭

[@rebecky5ever]

There was an ever sadder version of that scene. They had to cut it but basically in the scene you can hear Bing Bong cry as he disappears

[@honestival]

@@rebecky5ever really?? I'm gonna cry again

[@TriceeXO]

When I first saw Bing Bong, I was convinced I wouldn’t like the character but then that “take her to the moon for me” scene happened and I swear I was bawling.

[@themoviebudz1988]

Yeah, they did a great job leading up to that 😊 - Sam

[@-chenlanying5818]

@@themoviebudz1988 40:26 what's the joke ?

[@elisabethn2893]

@@-chenlanying5818 The fact that they drive past a bunch of Deja Vus between every single thing they pass, when deja vu is the feeling of having experienced something before.

[@CreatEr1n]

They did a phenomenal job casting the emotions' voice actors. They embody them so well.

[@knowledge-girl]

There's a semi-sequel to "Inside Out" called "Riley's First Date." It's just a short and it takes place almost immediately after the movie.

[@BlackParadeMarcher1]

As someone from SF, here's the definition: "The bridge is called the Golden Gate Bridge because it crosses the Golden Gate Strait, the area of water between the San Francisco peninsula and the Marin County peninsula." The area that leads into the Bay Area

[@TiredHumanBeing]

Ooh fun I'll add that to my "fun fact" place of my brain. (My comment may come off as demeaning but I actually really do enjoy learning random facts, so thanks for adding to them 😊)

[@kayanester2771]

I actually came to the comments hoping someone had answered that!

[@caramel_rxse3951]

One reason why I love this movie is that it shows that toxic positivity is bad. You NEED to feel sadness and anger in your life whether it's small or big. It's ok and important to cry and yell and feel other emotions besides joy.

[@SevenEllen]

The part where Riley's train of thought derails and you guys joke she can't think is actually closer to fact than we realise: When we react emotionally, our cerebral cortex can't function to make us produce critical thinking, allowing us to think clearly. This is probably why we say things like "I wasn't thinking" when we do stupid things, which we always do when we're really angry/scared. When we're angry we lash out, and when we're terrified, we panic and think the worst or burst into tears and feel like the world's ending.

[@Orion_TheyThem]

51:54 did y'all miss the scene where they did in fact get a call from her teacher? Lol For me, this movie also really highlighted Toxic Positivity really well. And how the more you ignore the "bad" emotions and feelings, the more it wears on you and can lead to depression. Especially in kids. As someone who moved a lot as a kid (I lived in 6 different states as a kid) I DEEPLY empathized with Riley in this. There were lots of times I stifled my anger and sadness for the sake of my family and was ignored when I brought it up anyways. And I suffered a lot of depression. This movie will forever be one of my favourite Pixar films.

[@audreyw9784]

Pretty sure they meant call the parents /before/ it's dark out. And from that clip it seemed like the parents had to be the ones to call the teacher, but I could be wrong on that

[@moonlitskylight5740]

Not all schools notice or give your parents notice if you're not there. Whether it's not policy or they forget, or they think it's an excused absence.

[@thesilversage1]

Love the cinema therapy ep about this very thing.

[@Terriblegam2r]

I have suffered and dealt with Depression for most of my life as well (as well as with suicidal thoughts and self harm). Depression gets misinterpreted as feeling “sad” when that’s not the case - It’s not feeling anything at all. It’s having no energy, and particular no willpower, to do any of the things you love to do. True Depression can literally make you want to stay in bed all day rather than doing any of the hobbies you loved to do, because that’s where it’s the “safest” and the closest thing you can do to escaping reality when you’re in a very dark head space. I think this film depicted Depression at the end of the film perfectly.

[@kiml.1565]

Yes, definitely -- at the end of the movie, when she can't feel anything, when she's numb to all the things that used to make her feel good or excited, when she just slumps against the window and IS EMPTY, that's such picture perfect depression. Sadness brought her out of depression -- she got the energy and was able to vent her unhappy feelings, and talking about it helped her loved ones understand, and receiving comfort from them helped her get to a better place emotionally. From the inside of that depression, it feels like too much effort to talk about it, it feels pointless, it won't help, other people couldn't understand, etc... Which is why long-term major depressive disorder is so insidious, and why therapy is an important method of treatment. If you don't talk about your problems, you're always dealing with them on your own. The movie beautifully captures this idea: what sadness does is it brings your troubles to the surface, which is the only way that people can understand you and help you.

[@changingmind3248]

Well, yes and no... I grew up with depression, too, but during puberty it was hell because I didn't just feel numb, but actually hopeless, frustrated, angry, disgusted, scared, confused and in so much emotional pain that it was a big improvement to finally be "just" empty and cold inside with the help of a higher dose of meds. Depression comes in different forms and can change even for one person over the course of their life.

[@Terriblegam2r]

@@changingmind3248 you said so yourself - you were feeling all those emotions because of /puberty/. That’s what going through puberty is all about, for every child starting to grow into an adolescent (even for the people without Depression).

[@ss.surprise]

There are different types of Depression. You seem to experience melancholic where yes, it does tend to result in feeling nothing and very little mood reactivity. But for a lot of people it IS sadness being an overwhelming amount of what they feel every day. In atypical depression (very common despite the name), you can feel joy, anger, disgust etc. but usually sadness and darker feelings and thoughts are overwhelming most of the time. Someone with atypical depression may seem fine around friends and even feel good around them. But then they leave and the darker thoughts and feelings flood back in the second they are alone. Most people attribute depression as being latter and melancholic depression does need acknowledged more, but that doesn't mean it is the true form of depression. Depression can take away your feelings completely but it can also be so cruel as to only leave you enough to cry every day and question what is wrong with you and why you can't just stay happy.

[@BrcRosa]

​@@ss.surprise Depression comes in many different forms and different intensities. Everyone's brain sees and interprets things in different ways. There are some commonalities of course. This movie does an amazing job at all the things.

[@itsjustmaddisen]

My mum actually uses this movie for her special Ed classes. She uses this for her students that are on the spectrum to help them understand different emotions and be able to isolate certain ones they’re feeling.

[@isisbeatriz9110]

As a psychology major I absolutely love this movie! they get so many things right, and yes, the characters have been really helpful for therapists to explain emotions to kids

[@crownmagus8291]

The interesting thing about the parent’s compared to Riley is her mom and dads work together and and are less all over the place while Riley’s are just a mess to show the the complexities of a growing child’s emotions compared to an adult who has a little more control.

[@blessingdale2569]

“Take her to the moon for me, okay?” Honestly gets me bawling every time. Having to adult is so exhausting and time consuming, I feel like it is so hard to find time for yourself to just let go and have fun. So having Bing Bong disappear just makes me think about how my minds been drained of its ability to be creative, imaginative etc. y’know, that little bit of childlike innocence and wilderness is just gone. I want to get my Bing Bong back.

[@kristiyamachika1336]

As someone who's been in therapy for depression for quite a while now, it's actually astonishing how much of my internal monologue and immediate reactions to things are similar to Sadness. Maybe that's why I found Joy so annoying when I first watched this movie hahaha

[@ot7biasedmashups]

Same! This movie has me bawling every single time. I had an awful childhood and because of depression I „grew up“ way too fast. Everyone told me how they liked me being mature for my age while in the end… my goofball island was destroyed and no emotions could use the control panel. I also like the portrayal of nostalgia and how as you get older, your memories get more complex instead of just one emotion connected to them.

[@TheQuashingoftheTub]

This. I related to Sadness, and Joy acted and felt extremely controlling to an almost uncomfortable degree. She wasn't annoying to me, but almost scary. She unfortunately reminds me of a lot of people in my life. The kind of parent that wants to affect every aspect of your life without bothering to interpret how you feel or... _why_ you feel.

[@spell3670]

Same, sadness had a lot of the same mindset I have and Joy was painful to me at first. But seeing the character development it actually helped me sort through some of my own emotions in the aspect of sadness plays a lot bigger part in my life but that doesn't mean there isn't a time for joy. While depression can be very difficult, and the pressure of growing up and being mature is there, joy still allows a level of return to those childhood like feelings that give us the motivation and drive to be inspired, to create, to enjoy life. Idk tbh, but this movie taught me more about the way my mind works than I care to admit, it being a "kids movie" and all. But digging into it's writing and the way everything was designed gives a whole new meaning to the movie.

[@aliyahpulido953]

23:54 I didn't notice, but Bing Bong was covering his eyes to hide from Joy because toddlers and small children who haven't developed object permanence yet, think that if you can't see something, it doesn't exist. They also think that if they can't see something, others can't either. Lastly, they also believe that if they can't see you, you also cannot see them.

[@IsThisThePrizeIveWaitedFor]

The implication with bing bong is that even if you had an imaginary friend, you would have forgotten about him/her. So for both of them to say they didn’t have an imaginary friend…

[@SeebsL]

Came to comments to see this stated!

[@Terriblegam2r]

Notice how Joy has the same colored hair (and eyes) to Sadness. They could have made Joy’s hair be blonde (like how they created the hair of the other emotions to match their bodies), but they chose blue - almost like Joy and Sadness need each other and are bound together (like yin and yang). I don’t know if this was the intention on the writers’ part, but if it was then nice symbolism there. I also love that whenever Fear tries to stop Anger from taking over control of the panel, Anger always overpowers Fear, like how it is irl. I love this movie so much ❤️ ETA: it seems like Stef brought up the hair color thing (and the possible symbolism of that) at the end of the reaction, so that’s cool lol This is why I love your guys reactions: You pay close attention to details (and hidden implications of how scenes can be presented) while watching films and it makes your videos so much more intriguing to watch :)

[@cmg9904]

Joy needs sadness but sadness doesn’t need joy, that’s why sadness doesn’t have yellow hair and why joy has blue hair.

[@Terriblegam2r]

@@cmg9904 yeah I agree with what Stef said at the end of the video. It’s less yin and yang and more proving that in order to feel and appreciate joy, you need to experience sadness first. If this was the story’s intention than that’s brilliant.

[@tracey5324]

I believe the animators were worried making her too yellow would look too much like tinkerbell - so they added the blue hair to break up the look

[@sketchyskies8531]

Something I just realized was that when Anger smashed Fear onto the console, it turned purple for a brief second before Anger took control. I could be looking too much into it, but maybe Riley felt a bit of fear from screwing up in front of the kids, but then she ultimately settled on anger to cover up the fear.

[@sj4iy]

This hit me really hard as a parent. You want your children to be happy, and you don't know what to do when they aren't. You miss the days when they are little because everything is bubbly and joyful, but you also cherish being able to talk to them on your level as they grow up.

[@videohistory722]

21:57 I recently realized in this moment that they're not just getting rid of stuff she doesn't need. They're getting rid of stuff that was associated with the island that was just destroyed. And for the record, if at any point you've ever said, "I'm not a kid anymore.", that's how you know YOUR goofball island has been destroyed.

[@tiffanykim2773]

Well fuck that hit hard

[@sathyanarayanay.h.9630]

Oh fuck 😔

[@pundertalefan4391]

Ouch.

[@bicj1179]

Interestingly, the dream where Riley's teeth fall out is based on a very common dream theme, in which teeth falling out is alleged to indicate self doubt, frustration or fear

[@kiml.1565]

One of the many great things about this movie is the idea of the console. When Riley is a baby, the console is barely big enough for one of them to stand there, and definitely only one of them can control her, but there isn't a lot to do to "control" her other than touch the console and make her feel something; as a baby, everything she feels is at 100% and very straightforward. She's happy or she's upset. When Riley is a toddler, the console is upgraded and gets bigger, but it's still only wide enough for a few emotions to stand there and the controls aren't all that complicated; she has a rich inner life but she's still a child and she's still limited in her scope. As she becomes a teenager, there's another new console, which has lots of complicated functions because she is getting intellectually and emotionally more complex. And this is when we start getting "mixed" emotions, because she's capable of complicated feelings and nuanced understandings of the world. Thanks for the reaction! You guys have had some amazing insight in the movies I've seen you react to, so I'm really excited to see more.

[@TiredHumanBeing]

For me, my fear of clowns originated from the 2016 clown incidents, being in middle school hearing about people dressing as clowns and scaring people, and sometimes it also got physical and how there was supposedly a clown sighting near where I lived at time wasn't fun, also I am NOT a psychologist but as someone with a casual interest I believe the bad things in your subconscious is worked out when you sleep AND dream help deal with those things so you don't act on them in real life, I could be remembering it incorrectly, but that's the best my memory can do for me today.

[@leoniekoning1005]

"Take her to the moon for me" I like to imagine Joy will actually guide Riley to become an astronaut and actually take her to the moon for Bingbong. ❤ I really just love this movie so so much! They found such great ways to actually show certain aspect of several serious mental issues in a kids movie. It makes it easy to get whilst not going in too deep for the children in the audience. I love it!

[@corneliahanimann2173]

There is some lovely nuance to the mom throwing away the memory of the latino helicopter guy, and her fear impulse immediately picking that one up again "just in case".

[@thesinisterfairy]

when you said joy can’t exist with some sadness but sadness can exist without joy it got me thinking, joy has all the colors on her (not sure about purple) but I feel like it’s the same for all the others, I feel like joy has to be able to feel those other emotions to exist (I’m not sure if this made sense typed out but it did in my head😭)

[@nehankhan1584]

Joy really didn’t understand the need for sadness is perfectly healthy. If you continue to be happy all the time without feeling anything else, it’ll switch to toxic positivity . Which could lead to numbness and Riley not being able to understand emotions at all. Riley had to feel sad because she had to uproot her entire life. So all her memories turned into nostalgia.. sadness + Joy. This movie did an amazing job in describing how emotions work ❤️ Thus why sadness was compelled to touch the core memories.

[@zoc.6922]

I think that's also why Sadness started acting out by touching memories. She felt "suppressed" by Joy like Riley was.

[@suctioncatfish5506]

The scene where she comes back home and says that she feels like they need her to be happy always gets to me... My dad died the day after my 10th birthday and everyone kept telling me I was "so strong" and "you're handling it so well" when really I think I felt like I had to be that way so that my mom wouldn't have to deal with my sorrow along with her own... Also within a year she was remarried and we moved to a tiny island (population 406, school had 28 pupils, 4 teachers, one of them being my mom) and I remember not wanting to even bring the subject of my dad up, especially in front of her new husband, because they didn't make it clear that I was allowed... 17 years later I still feel uncomfortable when people call me strong... I've watched this movie multiple times, and watched so many reactions and I still cry every time I watch that scene... Your reactions were great and I loved what you had to say about it... We need to normalise showing sadness, and not propagate toxic positivity.. Especially for children!

[@D44RK_Iced_Yogs]

I see what you did there… emotional title used with a move about emotions? I respect it. Can’t wait to see your reaction to this! Also the tiny bits of editing lately really adds to the commentary.

[@themoviebudz1988]

Thanks, we thought it might be a bit on the nose 😂 We appreciate that! Having another editor on the team has freed us up to come up with more ideas (a large portion of them are Stef’s ideas 😁 ) - Sam

[@D44RK_Iced_Yogs]

@@themoviebudz1988 that’s the greatest! Glad to see you two become more interactive with movies, those kind of jokes are always some of the funniest when you notice and it’s not that noticeable! Makes every commentary rewatch-able so I can’t wait to come back to these titles! Glad to see both of you doing great work! See you in the next upload and have a wonderful time til then! Both of you stay safe out there!

[@jennapeaches4339]

When I first watched Inside Out the full emotional impact this movie can have on people actually didn’t hit me until we walked out of the cinema and I had a discussion about it with my friends. A friend of mine was suddenly really quiet when we discussed it and needed a little time to himself because he was so deeply touched and affected by the depiction of mental health problems, especially by the core islands breaking away one after the other. It’s not my all time favorite Pixar movie but it is definitely a really important one.

[@jj.loveli]

I related to this movie on another level. Depression at a young age (I was 12 - and Stef, I also make depression jokes a lot). I saw this with my mates in cinema, and we all cried when Bing Bong sacrificed himself. Also I’m beyond terrified of clowns since I was 6.

[@unclewiley1986]

The imaginary boyfriend living in Canada is a reference to the joke that if an American kid is making up a SO they live in Canada.

[@cupofcait]

I watched this for the second time when I had my first depressive episode and Jesus it did the trick. Depression isn't great but the toxic positivity that Joy radiates is NOT helpful in rightfully sad situations. Love this movie Edit: I think joy and sadness got sucked up in the tube because they had the core memories with them

[@mindurslide]

you know i realsed that joy unlike every other emotion, has blue hair while every other emotion has the same coloured hair. it might be hidden meaning for how even joy will come with sadness

[@videohistory722]

26:48 Neat little thing you can pick up on from listening with headphones here: as they walk through the hall of abstract thought, the sound changes as their appearances do.

[@bulletsandbracelets4140]

I never noticed that but wow, def weird they'd let her walk in a new city by herself, especially the first day! (I've been walking to school by myself since second grade, but it was in a real small town and school was 2 blocks away XD) This is by far my favorite pixar movie. It's such a neat way of depicting healthy emotional balance and embracing even the ones we see as "negative". The scene where she breaks down in front of her parents is the first time a Pixar movie ever got me. Sometimes it's hard to remember how things were at that age... but I remember how upset I was hearing my best friend (who had moved to our town from another) talk about her old friends and how insecure that made me feel. So many good small moments you don't catch the first time around.

[@libbyfaye581]

I really appreciate the warning before showing Pennywise as someone who has a big fear of clowns😂

[@marahbaker8615]

Bing Bong saying "Take her to the moon for me" wrecks me every time, especially bc not long before this movie came out my nephew lost his grandpa from his dad's side and it was my nephew's first experience with death. Bing Bongs death really hit the poor kid bc it made him fully realize the fact that his grandpa was gone. Poor kid learned a hard lesson early in life

[@lilywhetsell8106]

I remember when I 1st saw this movie I was 11 or 12 and very depressed. I really liked it when I 1st saw it, and basically spent the whole movie trying SO HARD not to cry (because my mom was next to me haha and i didn't want her to see). I think it explains it pretty well. I mean obviously, you can always come up with plot holes or "what if" scenarios when you really try to think about it, but being about the same age as Riley back then, I really connected with it. I think it was especially because I always got the whole "you're 11/12/13 etc... you can't be depressed! you don't even know what being tired is!"(🙄), so it was pretty validating for me in that aspect. I remember when I was 11 or 12 and being shocked when I heard adults say that because I and most of my friends at the time were struggling pretty hard with it. I also just thought when u were an adult, it suddenly got better. now it sounds dumb but I think it came from the "when I move out/ am on my own it'll go away" idea which isn't how it works entirely. I also think that the message abt sadness is really important. when ur depressed, someone telling you how important sadness is or that you should embrace it can be annoying since you just want to get out of that state. it is a necessary thing to learn to balance tho. toxic positivity can be an issue too and I'm glad they touched on that with the mom telling Riley to keep smiling and be their "happy girl" for their sake, despite her real feelings. the bing bong scene isn't even what made me sad. for me, the really sad lines were when they say "we can't make Riley feel anything" and when she walks through the door and her parents hug her at the end. THAT scene DESTROYED me. sorry for the lowkey trauma dump but this movie has a special place in my heart and I think it's a good tool for kids to work through complicated feelings like depression or learn that sadness is an important emotion sometimes and that it's okay to not always be happy.

[@jessipeculiar]

I remember watching this and wondering how someone with Dementia's control center would look like . This is such a good movie showing that you sometimes just need to not be okay and learn how to deaL with what you feel.

[@starheartskull15]

I’ve never seen this movie before but oh my god I’m sitting here as a grown 25 year old woman almost sobbing cuz as silly and imaginary as it seems this is actually such a good representation of emotions and especially depression.

[@extrapotato]

I didnt understand why I broke down the first time watching bigbong sacrifice himself till watching it a second time and realizing I interpreted him as childhood innocence and that riley didn't even know or feel when she lost him.

[@over_joyed]

I would 100% watch a sequel where it focuses on someone in their teens

[@oncerand_directioner]

Me too! Although I fear a sequel about Riley as a teen or any other kid as a teen would most likely recieve unnecessary ridiculous backlash like Turning Red did just for (gasp!) accurately portraying how teenagers are and I just don't want to have to sit through that again

[@Angie-uq5wp]

When it comes to the absent calls thing… the sad thing is I’ve heard a few missing children cases in the US where the school never called the parents to tell them their kid wasn’t at school

[@kiml.1565]

I imagine Riley is probably in exactly the right circumstance to fall between the cracks, too -- she's new, so the teachers and staff aren't used to having her there and might not have missed her, or might be more inclined to figure that her parents kept her home from school because of something relating to their recent move.

[@PhyrricSpirit]

What I love about this movie is it teaches so many important things about emotions. From a child watching it, to an adult, I fully believe everyone can learn something from this movie.

[@dedesaud]

Core memories = super important times in your life. My core memories: bunch of random situations that I only remember a small part of it

[@lucia5556]

Same

[@toxicginger9936]

SAME

[@strelitziamystery21]

My favourite part of this movie is Fear being a movie critic!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’m waiting for the next movie that I will write an essay on but all I can say is that I love you both to bits. It’s ‘Poila Boishakh’ (Bengali New Year) tomorrow so sending even more love and warm hugs to you two ♥️

[@themoviebudz1988]

Thanks so much Pokhraj! - Sam

[@majarolstad4804]

I watched this movie in the cinema with my therapist. I cried, but I actually felt better. And I could actually understand my feelings more. I learned that it's okay to cry and be sad. And that it's also okay to be sad and happy at the same time. Emotions are difficult to understand.

[@MellSayzHi]

I got the notif late and basically bodied people to make sure my phone was charged. I'll say I always thought Bing Bong was gonna be one of those 'ho ho he's actually a villain, surprise' characters but when I realized he was just a genuinely good character who wants Riley to be happy I just broke down in tears. Take her to the moon indeed

[@MellSayzHi]

Also the soundtrack is one of my favorites and I would fall asleep with the main piano theme

[@Niallish1]

That 'dead-mouse' edit earned a chuckle and a like, not gunna lie, that was pretty good xD

[@themoviebudz1988]

I'm quite proud of that one, not gonna lie 😆 - Stef

[@insertname193]

It’s named the Golden Gate Bridge because it crosses a strait called the Golden Gate. That strait is what connects the SF Bay and Pacific Ocean.

[@macdancer37]

Another fun fact is that the color of the bridge is called “international orange” and was picked as it’s one of the easiest colors to see through the San Francisco fog, which has been fondly named Karl and has its own Instagram and Twitter.

[@saxmason]

I'm from the future here. Pixar just announced that they are indeed making an Inside Out 2.

[@tiffanykim2773]

So when I'm numb does that mean my emotions are fighting over the control panel? 😂

[@MarceloRBottaro]

Great reaction! This is still one of my favorite Pixar movies along with turning red, incredibles, soul and monsters Inc

[@themoviebudz1988]

Thank you so much! Some great choices there 👌 - Sam

[@LuminousArc92]

I maintain that I would want to see the scene when Riley is missing and returns and tells her parents what she's feeling but from the parents emotions point of view. The panic that Riley is missing, the emotions pulling up those memories of Minnesota, maybe a new island forming or their family island evolving without having to fall first

[@angelinacamacho8575]

Fun fact: The bridge is called the Golden Gate Bridge because it crosses the Golden Gate Strait, the area of water between the San Francisco peninsula and the Marin County peninsula.

[@danaportnoy9153]

55:16 I love how every guy I’ve ever seen watch this movie unanimously agrees this scene is just objective truth 😂😂😂

[@alvaropca]

It's called the Golden Gate Bridge because California used to be the place where people went to look for gold during what's known as "the gold rush" in the US. So that's why it's called the Gold Gate Bridge, it was the entrance to where you could find gold.

[@LexMeRep]

It happened twice with me and I don't remember what my dreams were anymore but I did wake up in the middle of the night just bursting out laughing, like I really woke up to hearing myself actually laugh. It was so weird I just laughed on myself an extra minute and went back to sleep.

[@rer2840]

This is one of my favorite Pixar movies

[@xDarkTrinityx]

I appreciate this movie more than when I first watched it (though I knew it was clever then as well), but just all the little things they put into it are so well done. And I looooove that they showed perspectives of so many people, especially the cat, GOLD xD Also I'm born and raised Minnesotan so I can appreciate Riley's perspective of moving to a cramped city. The woods and lakes are why I love it here.

[@ms_scribbles]

It's called the Golden Gate Bridge because the San Francisco Bay used to be where a lot of ships full of people looking to get rich in the Gold Rush of 1848 would dock. The Bay was nicknamed the Golden Gate. The bridge was named after that.

[@videohistory722]

54:11 the bridge is named after the strait it crosses over, the Golden Gate Strait.

[@thequirkdealer7353]

I like to think Riley became an astronaut when she got older, because Joy promised to bring her to the moon

[@dntcallmejessie]

I would love to see you budz do a first time reaction! Either way, this is a great video!

[@themoviebudz1988]

We do them sometimes, depending on what choices are available. But we’ll probably be doing more stuff at least one of us has seen in the future 😊 - Sam

[@AutisticCami]

okay but broccoli pizza is delicious, especially with mozzarella and garlic! Also, this movie is absolutely amazing! I was just a bit older than Riley when it came out, so it was extremely relatable, and I still love it so much!

[@nashwaf9]

i was crying so hard when bing bong disappeared and then you had to make that blue balls joke 😭

[@Hailey_Paige_1937]

"Inside Out" is truly one of my favorite movies. I'm definitely not a kid anymore, but I still relate a lot to Riley, even as an adult. I've moved a lot in my life, and I have Autism, PTSD, ADHD, and severe Anxiety/Depression. I have a lot of repressed trauma/memories/emotions that I don't know how to navigate and regulate (which therapy is helping me with). But watching "Inside Out" every now and then forces me to remember that Sadness is essential. I repress emotions big-time; even Joy can be pushed away somehow, leaving no one truly "in charge" of the controls, if you will. Or EVERYONE tries to take over at once. OOOORRRRR -- sometimes I feel an emotion so INTENSELY that it just... Completely consumes me; it seems to erase all rational thought, and then I'll crash and burn and go numb after an intense emotional dump -- whether that be Sadness, Joy, Anger, what have you. So, I very frequently have a hard time regulating and identifying my emotions in general. In therapy, I'll often refer to "Inside Out" and address one of the "core" emotions in order to get to a potentially deeper issue. For example: "I feel Anger because I think I'm jealous of so-and-so because I'm insecure about (blank), and that could explain why I'm having really bad Imposter's Syndrome today." I have a really hard time allowing my emotions to have "equal" control, or just allowing myself to feel a certain one at all sometimes -- like Joy. I'm AFRAID to allow myself to feel Joy (Can we say "SELF SABOTAGE," anybody?!). My psyche is all out of sorts, but I at least understand that and am willing to work on/take steps to heal/allow myself to feel what I need to. And I cannot thank Pixar enough for that. "Inside Out" truly helps me to walk through my own head.

[@starsilluminateourgalaxy]

This tangent might not make sense but I’d like to share my perspective. Riley has spent her entire eleven years of life in Minnesota, so of course she’s upset to be in a new, busy, city setting. She IS sad, but she knows her parents are stressed so she’s doing her best to smile and make things easier for them. The comment made by her mom at 12:05 most added fuel to that fire. Even so, sadness is still clawing its way to the surface, shown through Sadness’s sudden urges to make past memories blue. Since Riley is pushing Sadness down and forcing herself to be happy, Joy is disregarding negative (NATURAL) emotions and not bothering to see things from the perspective of her coworker. Additionally; I enjoy watching people react to this and seeing it slowly dawn on them that Sadness wasn’t trying to mess things up, she was instinctively doing her job.

[@Imbatmn57]

I love how when joy keeps trying to make sadness happy because it shows that even happy memories can be a little sad.

[@katherineashby1381]

Fun fact! When this movie came out I was visiting family in South Korea and I saw it with a couple of my cousins. I didn't know this until I watched it again in the U.S., but when shown in Korea Pixar changed the vegetable that Riley hates. In Korea, kids actually like broccoli, but HATE bell peppers. So when baby Riley refuses to eat her vegetables, she refuses to eat bell peppers. When Riley and her mom get pizza, there are bell peppers on the pizza. I think I read somewhere that this wasn't unique to Korea and Pixar actually did that for most other countries since kids' hatred for broccoli is not universal. Also, as an adult who moved 7+ times as a kid, I felt like this movie really encapsulated the emotional turmoil you feel and the struggles you have as a kid to effectively process those emotions. As the eldest sibling of 5 kids, I felt that it was my responsibility to act happy and excited about each move, but it was so draining and I wasn't giving myself time to process my sadness or fear. It turned into exhaustion which led to numbness and I had a really hard time feeling happy or sad. Like Riley, talking to my parents made things a lot easier, as they were compassionate and helped me talk through what I was feeling. There were some other neurological issues that started expressing themselves as I went through puberty, but that's a whole different story. Anyway, thanks for the commentary! I really enjoyed listening to it while doing work around the house!

[@nobody_nowhere_3338]

Love love love seeing inside everyone else’s head during the credits 😂 & I also loved Mindy and her voice over 🥰

[@plantceline]

Btw! Schools do call or email parents when the kids aren't in school in America. If the parents don't already arrange a scheduled leave, then it's marked as an unexcused absence. I was sick and didn't go to school and they emailed both my parents and I. For my cousin, since he is in middle school, they called and left a voicemail. Most kids hack the system and all provide their emails or phone numbers for their absences, though.

[@aliasbilge9513]

Great video guys, really i was looking for it without even knowing so thank you!

[@stella9868]

depression is so complicated and trying to explain it to someone who never had it is hard but i do like how this movie showed stages and how its not just a on and off its more like the weather sometimes a light rain with the sun shinning in the back round and other times its hailing with chunks the size of rocks and so dark you cant remember what the sun ever looked like

[@anafj]

I imagine how they'd represent other mental illnesses like bipolar disorder,borderline,agoraphobia,stuff like that

[@jesslynch94]

LMAOOOOOO “family trauma island” got me

[@ma-ri-ko]

i live in california and i did start going to school by myself when i was about 8. my mom had three jobs and my dad actually lived in a nearby city during the week to be close to a job even though my parents were still married. i didn't have to move a lot during my school years, but i had friends whose parents would walk with them on the school route a couple of times before they were actually supposed to go. i also traveled by myself in the california bay area as a preteen. i would take the greyhound bus or the train with no supervision. no one really questions it. side note: the greyhound buslines go all over the US and they have a policy of free tickets home for runaways. just in case that information is ever useful to someone. also, "you wouldn't know them, my boy/girlfriend lives in canada" is the trope where an inexperienced person makes up a fictional partner with a built-in excuse not to appear in person for anything. fits the fantasy boyfriend very well.

[@kindle9920]

Re the Golden Gate Bridge--it crosses an area of water called the Golden Gate Strait, for which the bridge is also named.

[@mallorylommel7514]

Everyone I talk to about this movie says they relate to sadness the most, I relate to anger the most but I was thinking as I was watching today this video and I think fear is controlling things up there for sure these days haha hope everyone is having a great day or night or whatever it is wherever you are friends! 😊 love sent from Missouri USA

[@whyareyousubscribedlmao52]

Reason why the Golden Gate Bridge is red “The Golden Gate Bridge's signature color was not intended to be permanent. The steel that arrived in San Francisco to build the Golden Gate Bridge was coated in a burnt red and orange shade of primer to protect it from corrosive elements”

[@d.eliiii]

My dude Sam really said follow the blue balls 😂😂😂😂

[@toxicginger9936]

Yes! I know what I'll have playing while I work this morning! OMG I can't believe I never caught the 'no bears in San Francisco' joke before. 😂😂🤣

[@marisolpulido2248]

AHHHH IVE BEEN WAITING!! i’m a more recent sub but i’ve watched binged so many of y’all’s commentaries and i adore you guys!! i get so excited for every upload! 🤍

[@the_nikster1]

I actually woke myself up laughing once because my dream was absolutely hilarious haha another amazing reaction, as always guys. thanks! ❤️

[@Evieteresa]

A couple more thoughts while watching this: 31:55 Are you sure you didn't? Maybe you did and it fell in your Memory Dump never to be remembered again. 34:51 Happens to me all the time on holidays, especially Christmas. I'm so excited I keep waking back up waiting to celebrate the day sooner.

[@tiffanyrivas5233]

The editing is absolutely amazing! Not the Deadmau5 🤣🤣

[@KariannaSheffrey]

The ball sack joke had me rolling 🤣 god bless y’all

[@nobody_nowhere_3338]

I loved hearing you guys go through this movie. I love this movie. I get in my feels every single time.

[@lightningterry]

I know it’s late but the Golden Gate Bridge gets its name from the strait or body of water it crosses called the Golden Gate strait. Which was famous for being the entry point to the United States and where most immigrants entering from the west coast had to pass through to become citizens, hence the “golden gate” term

[@specialagentweener1073]

19:48 hahaha the oh shits from both of you. Hahahahahaha