Inside

Out
Movie
Review

A. Characters
Anderson Family
1. Riley Andersen
Riley is one of the main protagonists of Inside Out and the only child of
Mr. and Mrs. Andersen. She is a cheerful child who loves playing hockey.
Growing up shes portrayed as an adorable, upbeat child with a goofy side. She is
also a daddys girl based on their family scenes, tells that she is closer to her
father. She hates broccoli ever since Disgust came to her mind when she is still a
toddler.
When Anderson family needs to move in the San Francisco she
experiences various changes in her life. Due to stress of moving and the absence
of Joy, sadness and her core memories. She became emotionless to the point that
she doesnt think her family and friends feelings.
2. Rileys Father
Hes name is Bill Andersen. He took a job in San Francisco and caused the
family to move. He has the same emotions as his daughter, but they all appear to
be male and have his mustache. Hes head emotion is Anger. He loves his wife
and his daughter, but doesnt always understand them well
3. Rileys Mother
Riley's mother has brown hair, brown eyes, red and black glasses. She is
Jill Andersen. She has the same emotions as her daughter, but they are all female
and all wear her glasses and have her hair style. Her main emotion seems to
be Sadness.

Rileys Mind
1. Joy
She is the main emotion out of the five that live inside the mind of Riley,
the others are Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. She appears to be happy all the
time and full of energy.
Joy's goal has always been to make sure Riley stays happy. She is
lighthearted, optimistic and determined to find the fun in every situation. Joy sees
challenges in Riley's life as opportunities, and the less happy moments as hiccups
on the way back to something great. As long as Riley is happy, so is Joy.

To keep Riley happy at all times, she became a control freak she places
herself in charge of the console at all times. She is determined to keep riley happy
but as the story go on Joy learns that endless happiness isn't always the solution.
2. Sadness
Sadness is Riley's longest living emotion other than. She has blue eyes, blue
hair, blue body and big glasses. The big glasses emphasize her as a bookworm. She
likes reading the countless manuals on the shelf that contain all the information about
how to do their jobs and how the mind works, something the other emotions are
implied to find rather boring. Sadness is able to navigate her and Joy through LongTerm Memory just from reading the manuals alone.
She appears to be depressive most of the time. The film tells that none of the
other Emotions really understand what Sadness' role is. Sadness would love to be
more optimistic and helpful in keeping Riley happy, but she finds it so hard to be
positive. Example, when Joy brings up several examples of happy memories, Sadness
can without fail provide a negative counterpart. Sometimes, she thinks that the best
thing to do is just lie on the floor and have a good cry.
3. Anger
Anger has a red eyes and red body. He's usually bald but if he gets really mad,
fire comes out of his head, giving the impression of hair. He feels very passionately
about making sure things are fair for Riley. He has a fiery spirit and tends to explode
(literally) when things don't go as planned. He is quick to overreact and has little
patience for life's imperfections.
4. Disgust
Disgust main color is green. She wears dark green leggings under her dress
and wears a letter D on her belt. She is highly opinionated, extremely honest and
prevents Riley from getting poisoned both physically and socially. She keeps a
careful eye on the people, places and things that Riley comes into contact with
whether that's broccoli or last year's fashion trend. Disgust always has the best of
intentions and refuses to lower her standards. She's also usually in charge of helping
Riley decide what to wear because of her impeccable taste.
5. Fear
Fear's main job is to protect Riley and keep her safe. He's afraid of everything,
panics easily, and tries to run away when things get really bad. Yet he gets along with
the other emotions. He is constantly on the lookout for potential disasters, and spends
time evaluating the possible dangers, pitfalls and risk involved in Riley's everyday

activities. There are very few activities and events that Fear does not find to be
dangerous and possibly fatal.
6. Bing Bong
Bing Bong is Riley's old imaginary friend. Hes big, friendly and fun
loving. He is part cat, elephant, dolphin, and sugary pink cotton candy with a
nougat center, Bing Bong isn't the brightest, but full of cheer. He wears a hobo
outfit, reflecting the fact Riley no longer plays with him.
7. The forgetters
They are Paula and Bobby. A pair of jellybean-like people whose job it is
to clear out and dump old memories that Riley no longer needs. Joy and Sadness
meet them in the long-term memory storage corridors.
8. Jangles the Clown
One of Riley's worst fears, a clown that was hired for a cousin's birthday
party. He's enormous, crazy, very loud, and carries a giant wooden mallet. He
sleeps in the Subconscious, the locked area that contains all the things Riley is
afraid of. He has a phrase "WHO'S THE BIRTHDAY GIRL?!?"
9. Fritz
He is a greenish-blue Mind Worker with a mustache and no hair who
installs an upgraded console in Headquarters when Riley turns twelve.

Other Characters

1. Mr. Andersens Emotions

A set of five emotions like Riley but they have all mustache that reside in
Mr. Andersen's mind. Their Headquarters is designed after a man cave. They're
led by Anger.
2. Mrs. Andersens Emotions
A set of five emotions like Riley but they all have eyeglasses that reside in
Mrs. Andersen's mind. Their Headquarters is designed after female oriented talk
shows. They're led by Sadness.
3. Meg

Riley's best friend from Minnesota. She is hyperactive, cheerful, weird,

geeky, and friendly. She has Slender, fair skin, curly red hair, yellow headband,
blue-gray eyes, and were green framed glasses Even after Riley moves to San
Francisco, they continue to chat via the Internet until Riley cuts her off during the
course of the movie.

B. Synopsis
A girl named Riley Andersen is born in Minnesota. In her mind Joy, Sadness, Fear,
Disgust and Anger, is created and each one is introduced in specific order. The emotions are
charged with reacting to Riley's actions and forming her memories, which are housed in spheres
that produce a certain color depending on the emotion of the memory. The most important
memories, which are known as "Core Memories," power five "Islands of Personality": Family
Island, Friendship Island, Hockey Island, Honesty Island and Goofball Island.
Each emotion also has a defined purpose in Riley's life: Joy makes sure she is happy, Fear
keeps her safe, Anger keeps her life fair and Disgust prevents her from being poisoned, both
physically and socially. Sadness, however, doesn't believe she has a purpose in her mind, and
also as other emotions.
When Rileys father gets a new job her family moves in to San Francisco. Joy tries to
make a pleasant experience to Riley and the other emotions, but several events leading up to the
move make the other emotions think twice. And Sadness messes things up, when she turns a
happy memory into a sad one by touching it Aware that memories can't be changed back once
turned sad, Joy keeps Sadness occupied by having her memorize a stack of "mind manuals" all
through the day and into the night.
On Riley's first day at her new school, Joy attempts to keep Sadness from touching
anything by having her stand completely still inside a circle of chalk. But Sadness ventures
outside the circle and creates a new core memory after making Riley cry in front of her new
classmates. Joy attempts to dispose of the new memory, but her struggle with Sadness leads to all
the core memories being knocked out from their container. Before Joy can put them back, she,
Sadness, and the core memories are sent up into the far reaches of Riley's mind.
As Joy and Sadness make their way through "Long Term Memory," they run into Riley's
former imaginary friend Bing Bong. Bing Bong discovers that his song-powered imaginary
wagon has been dumped into "the Memory Dump," he breaks down in tears of candy and is
comforted by Sadness. Meanwhile, back at Headquarters, Anger, Disgust, and Fear attempt to
take charge in the Joy's absence. But they are unable to make Riley joyful, and instead instigate a
confrontation with Riley's parents, and cause all island to fall into the Memory Dump.
Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong hatch a plan to ride the "Train of Thought" back to
Headquarters. They were not aware that Riley alienates both her parents and her former best
friend, struggles in her new surroundings and quits hockey after failing to do well in the first
tryout. Anger reasons that the only way to restore Riley's personality and keep the remaining
islands from falling into the Memory Dump is to persuade her to run away to Minnesota.
Later that night, while Riley is sleeping, Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong arrive at the
loading dock for the Train of Thought, only to realize the train does not run if Rileys asleep. To

make Riley awake by infiltrating a monstrous birthday clown, who scares Riley and wakes her
up. As three board the Train of Thought and make their way towards Headquarters, Anger enacts
his plan of running away. Riley is led to steal her mother's credit card, which causes Honesty
Island to crumble, destroying the Train of Thought in the process. Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong
take refuge on Family Island only for the island to begin to fall in pieces when Riley boards a
waiting bus to Minnesota. Then, after a failed attempt to hitch a ride to Headquarters through an
exposed memory recall tube, Joy and Bing Bong fall into the dump, leaving Sadness on her own.
Joy, in the situation of giving up, bursts into tears and shifts through Riley's memories,
locating a sad one in which Riley missed a shot in a hockey game and cost her team the win.
Realizing that Sadness was the one who caused both her teammates and her parents to console
her, changing the memory into a happy one, Joy helps Bing Bong find his rocket wagon and
attempts to jumpstart it only to realize it falls short of reaching the cliff every time. Bing Bong,
in a moment of self-realization, starts the rocket again and jumps off before it flies away. As Joy
looks over her shoulder after barely making it to the cliff, Bing Bong thanks her for letting him
be important one last time and fades away.
Joy emerges from the dump and finds Sadness. Using a huge pile of imaginary
boyfriends from Imagination Land, Joy launches herself towards Sadness with a large trampoline
and grabs her before flying towards Headquarters, where Anger and Disgust work together to get
them inside. Everyone then looks to Joy to save the situation, but she steps back and lets Sadness
take control. Riley, now in control of her emotions, gets off the bus and returns home to her
parents, where she breaks down in tears after admitting she misses her old life. As her parents
comfort her, Joy and Sadness create a new core memory together, which glows both blue and
yellow, beginning the restoration of Riley's personality.
C. Movie tap
1. Emotions
The Films tells that emotion is created at a different moment, usually early in
someone's life. They seem to appear from nowhere. Each person has a central Emotion
that acts as the leader of the group. The central Emotion is usually the one who controls
most of the person's actions. In Riley Andersen's mind, Joy is in charge, while her
father's mind is controlled by Anger, and her mother's mind is run by Sadness.
The Emotions has same appearance of the person they reside in. For example, Mr.
Andersen's Emotions all have a mustache and wear a suit like he does, and Mrs.
Andersen's Emotions all have brown hair in a ponytail and wear red-framed glasses.
Riley is the only character to have Emotions that do not resemble her. This may have
been done to have her emotions stand out from the rest that are seen in the film.

The look of each emotion is also based on other things. Joy is based on a star and
a burst of energy, Anger is based on a firebrick, Disgust is based on broccoli, Fear based
on a raw nerve and Sadness a teardrop.
2. Train of Thoughts
The Train of Thought is a train inside Riley's mind in Inside Out. It goes all
around Riley's mind in a more or less unpredictable way and delivers supplies like
daydreams, facts and opinions, as well as memories. It is one of the only ways to get
toHeadquarters. The train only runs during day, however, as its conductor is on break
when Riley sleeps.
3. Core memory
The core memories are vitally important objects in Inside Out. These is a special
kind of memory orbs contain a very special memory and it creates an island that serves as
the basis of that persons personality and interest. In short, they have a much greater
importance than usual memories and represent key moments that defined Riley's current
personality. Core memories appear brighter than any other memory and power each
Island of Personality. They are stored in the center of the Headquarters. The core
memories can be any from any emotion, but Riley's first five are yellow in color, meaning
that Joy is helped create these special memories.
When Joy and Sadness get vacuumed out of Headquarters, the core memories were with
them. Without the presence of the core memories, the islands that build up Riley's
personality began to shut down and eventually break down and fall into the Memory
Dump.
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