We know, for instance, that Amy Poehler voices Joy, with Bill Hader as Fear and Lewis Black as Anger. In the world of Inside Out, human thought processes manifest via the anthropomorphisation of our individual emotions. With the release of the first full-length trailer for the film, which hit the web this week, we get to see if the hype might be justified. Once known somewhat nebulously as “Untitled Pixar Movie That Lets You See Inside the Human Brain”, Docter’s film has been the movie that kept fans of the studio believing through half-baked sequels such as Cars 2 and Monsters University over the past few years. Now comes the first Pixar movie in more than a year, Inside Out, and this one really is taking the whole conceptual complexity thing to a whole new level. “Old man goes on an adventure in a flying house” doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of Pete Docter’s heartfelt hymn to geriatric resistance against the dying of the light, while “Robot goes to space and accidentally saves mankind” hardly does Andrew Stanton’s understated sci-fi masterpiece justice. But try explaining the essential premise of 2006’s Up or 2008’s Wall-E to the uninitiated in just a few words.
The synopsis for Toy Story, which transformed the animation zeitgeist in 1995, can be summed up as “anthropomorphic toys have an adventure”, while 2003’s Finding Nemo can be pithily rendered as “talking fish searches the oceans for his missing son”. Whether you suspect the golden age of Pixar has passed, or remain convinced the Disney-owned production company is still light years ahead of the competition, it’s hard to dispute that the studio has delivered ever more conceptually sophisticated material over its two-decade run.
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