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I've got to say, not looking forward to this movie. The trailer starts out with a played out, awkward, and completely dysfunctional family interaction. The dad is stereotypical; only thinking about sports, not emotionally available, completely oblivious to anything going on with his family. The mom is extremely condescending, constantly complaining about "trading down" for the husband over some other (more attractive) man, and puts all the blame on the father for the interaction, even when she had every ability to intervene between the father and the daughter...and this is supposed to be a comedy, for kids. I'm not exactly thrilled to see these (bad) stereotypes made into little jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.

 

Interesting to see that the characters inside the girl's head are the same as those from both of her parents.

 

I don't know, maybe there will be some deeper message in this movie, but if so, the trailer is not showing its best side, I think.

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All 3 have the same exact type of thoughts/emotions but a different one is in charge in each character. Regardless, it's the red thought in all 3 that creates the conflict. The thoughts in the mother and father all have a general look to them but the daughter's are a mishmash of the two. I'm actually looking forward to seeing it, I'm very curious where they'll go with the concept.

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It was a superbly pleasurable movie to watch! 

I highly recommend it to everyone here. I have rewrote this post about 5 times because I really can't put it into words. I am thinking that I will have to type out an outline for a podcast in order to express how important it is that this movie exists. The question, to me, isn't whether or not what the movie is high quality. To me, the question is about whether or not people will walk away from the theater and truly understand the meaning of everything they've just watched.

I definitely recommend everyone else here to see it as it would be great to talk with others about it and what you think was spot on or off. A movie that is about emotions, memories, and families that actually tries to examine human emotions and memories in a fun internal way is worth a watch. Even if you think its way off, it would be beneficial to talk about why it was off as a community.

That is my two cents, I think I will try to write an outline now, if I can stay up.  

 

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I watched this movie yesterday and it was pretty good. It's not a spoiler to mention that the girl's emotional crisis comes from a significant cross-country move with the usual stressors of middle-school age transition. It had a lot of great moments, but I am still wondering if it's a "watch again" kind of movie like The Incredibles was for me. I liked the metaphors for emotions and personality, but some of the other mental elements felt "tacked on".

 

I definitely recommend seeing it. 

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I enjoyed it, but of course, the scenes cut too quickly from one emotional scene to the next and weren't too deep. I loved the visual metaphors for the islands breaking down. But not to spoil it, I'll say go see it, worth  the money for the level of animation and the great plot. Interestingly reminds me of inception in parts =D

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I actually started sobbing near the end. It was cool to see how they showed how memories are stored, integrated and tossed out along with other things. Some parts I would obviously disagree with (Like the stereotypical argument between the family) but other then that I enjoyed it :)

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I agree with Zaccheus about the stereotypical family  argument, which was the main reason why I was initially turned off by it when I saw this scene in the trailer. But honestly, there was nothing else like that scene in that movie, which makes me wonder whether they just created it for use in the trailer. The only complaints (which even then aren't really complaints) are that they could have spent more time on certain things, but there wasn't really much in it that I wish they took out. I definitely cried a few times.

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I've seen this movie.  This particular scene is after a LOT of changes.  I won't spoil but this movie is worth a watch, in  my humble opinion.  I watched it with my kids and it opened up a great opportunity for discussing emotions and actions on those emotions and overall attitude.  Don't judge the movie by that 2min snippet, especially this particular scene.

 

There is MUCH more to it.  It is a VERY ...how to say.....serious movie done in a playful way. But it's not bubble gum and unicorns which...  I sort of found it refreshing for Disney to create such a movie that isn't about princesses and lollipops and fairy tales.  This was VERY practical and relevent to actual human experiences.  I cried in this movie.  It stirred up a lot of my family history and emotional bonding I lacked with my parents.  And I have a more 'serious' sense of humor so if you are expecting slap stick humor, don't get your hopes up but there were a few clever puns and snickers and giggles...which again, I think it's ok too.  It helps children become exposed to more 'intelligent' and less obvious humor rather than constant toilet humor.


Regarding the stereotypical argument, I didn't read too much into it.  I mean we are still in this mentality in our society so I felt it represented the current reality and how we get there with these emotional 'wars' we have with ourselves and it can all be healed when we have more self knowledge and honesty with ourselves.  I think using some stereotypes is effective (so long as it's not overplayed) to show where we are and to get the view to 'relate' if they have similar experiences and then show them what 'can be'.  If that make sense.  

 

Keep in mind I saw this movie in Hebrew which I am not incredibly fluent in, but good enough and I still got a lot of the messages.  I am interested in seeing how it is in English!  OH!  And the title translated in Hebrew is "All in the Head"   ...which I find more accurate than 'Upside Down'.  Just wanted to share that if anyone has thoughts on how titles/dialogue in English/American films differ drastically than the same films overseas.  

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Dang you shirgall, you beat me to posting the HT of it :)

 

That's me, I am Mr. Swiftly-Posted Trivia. :)

Finding Nemo was a pretty traumatic movie. I had a 6 year old stepson when it came out, and couldn't believe the opening sequence. He wanted to leave. I can't remember whether we ended up staying or not. But yeah, rough movie. Inside Out handles heavy subjects much more constructively, in my opinion.

 

The opening sequence of Finding Nemo was the excuse I had to "pre-screen" the movie with the gal who was to become my wife (she had two children in the target demographic).

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I'm unsure of how the family reconciled in the end?

 

The mother was manipulative and the daughter was copying that behavior until she grew through/out of it. The father was the stereotypical emotionally disconnected buffoon.

 

The parents project their struggles (fighting, inability to communicate) onto their daughter or are simply oblivious as to her feelings. The father parents from authority which becomes a joke at one point in the movie. And in the end, they just hug it out and all is good because... they all miss their old place? And yay hockey?

 

There were lots of fun parts to this movie and I kept wanting to like it, but I found it unpleasant to watch at the same time for the above reasons.

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