Pixar puts the spotlight on the squabbling, anthropomorphized emotions inside an eleven-year-old girl’s head in Inside Out, with Amy Poehler voicing Joy, the positive force who has a challenge in reining in the Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), and Disgust (Mindy Kaling) of Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), a girl whose family moves to San Francisco, leaving her feeling alone without her friends back in Minnesota. The lightning-paced obnoxiousness of the action should please children, but the briefly glimpsed dream image of a bisected dog may be disturbing to younger viewers, while the death of Riley’s imaginary friend Bing Bong (Richard Kind) is likely to leave them feeling bummed.
Three-and-a-half out of five stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that Inside Out is:
4. Pro-family, perpetuating heteronormative tyranny.
3. Green. Riley’s eco-conscious mother is eager to recycle.
2. Pro-miscegenation. Riley’s mother, briefly irritated with her husband, muses, “For this, we gave up that Brazilian helicopter pilot?”
1. Homophobic tinfoil! “Congratulations, San Francisco! You’ve ruined pizza!” scolds Riley’s Anger in a moment only likely to fuel the heterofascist hate of the #Pizzagate conspiracy theory nerds by connecting homosexuality with pedophilia. “What kind of a pizza place only serves one kind of pizza?” Riley’s mother asks. “Must be a San Francisco thing,” she stereotypes.
Ugh! An updated, animated version of “Herman’s Head”.
They’re just pushing that :head-mates” bullshit trying to create an entire generation of schizos.
Those kosher assholes!
Also, the idea that people have feminine and masculine components to their personality fuels the gender-confusion campaign. Maybe we just need to let those women in our heads have the reins for a while and we’d stop being bigoted parasite-and-pedophile-hating internet Nazis.
Why not. The estrogen in our bottled water is already making us into soft bitches.