INSIDE OUT

Have you noticed that the best, and certainly the most intelligent, children's films of recent years have been cartoons? Alright, animated films; cartoons, I've been told, are so yesteryear! The "Toy Story" trilogy were not just great adventure movies that adults as well as children could enjoy but profound meditations on what makes us tick. What grown-up can watch any of those films without welling up? "Inside Out"
, then, would appear to be the next logical step because this is a movie about nothing else but our emotions; joy, anger, sadness, fear and disgust and how all the things going on in our head, (or, in this case, in the head of an 11 year old girl whose family up sticks and move from the Midwest to San Francisco), can affect our core being. This is a movie that is as profound as anything by Resnais or Bergman but a lot more fun, designed for adults and children alike. It looks great and sounds even better thanks to the best original screenplay of the year. Here is an animated film that is guaranteed to win this year's Oscar for Animated Feature and, if there is any justice, should also end up among the Best Picture nominees as well.