Skipping through the next 11 years, the inside of Rileys head becomes a fairground of imagination, a repository of memories and a fully furnished flight-deck for her five guiding emotions to bicker over the controls. Trying anyway, Inside Out begins with nothing less than the birth of human consciousness introducing us to Riley and her newborn emotion, Joy, in their first formative moments. Already responsible for replacing Bambis dead mum as the new go-to test for cold-heartedness, Docters own opening montage of Up is an impossible act to follow. Leading the discs deep-reaching commentary (and making a few live phone calls to various members of the cast and crew as he goes), the director tells us the idea took shape when he heard his own bubbly 11-year-old labelled a quiet kid by her teachers. and Up, Docter arguably has the best track-record at Pixar. Visually astounding, hilariously written and perfectly pitched to every seat in the house, its Charlie And The Chocolate Factory meets Charlie Kaufman high-concepts from a childs-eye view emotional gut-punches wrapped in candyfloss a sensory theme park. But thats not to say Inside Out doesnt work as a family film.
With no rollercoaster set-pieces, no cute sidekicks and no major characters who arent all versions of the same person, its not much more kiddie-friendly on screen.
Essentially the story of an 11-year-old having her first mental breakdown, Pixars approach to metaphysics is absurdly grown-up on paper. But before Pixar starts opening up its old worlds, director Pete Docter narrows down a new one to craft the studios smallest, subtlest, most mature film to date. With an impossible string of hits spanning 20 years, its recent run saw the studios crown start to slip loosened even more by an upcoming slate stuffed with sequels. So perhaps watching Inside Out, Finding Nemo, and more of Pixar's best movies online will become a reality soon, but until it is, here are eight other great, feminist kids' movies just like Inside Out streaming on Netflix now: 1.Who better than Pixar to tell us whats going on inside our own heads? The company has been doing it, on and off, since 1995 making us fall in love with pull-string cowboys, pine for lost clownfish and bawl our eyes out at cranky old men in flying houses. Hopefully, that'll change soon, as Netflix and Walt Disney Studios inked a deal last year to bring more of the animation studio's films - including its Pixar releases - to streaming starting in 2015. And that's if it ever comes while Disney titles like Mulan and Pocahantas are currently available to stream, no Pixar movies are. Netflix typically waits at least a year after a movie comes out on DVD before it starts streaming, which means that Inside Out will probably come to Netflix around. Inside Out will likely still be in theaters for several more weeks, considering how well it's doing at the box office, and after that, it'll probably still be another month or two until its DVD release. Sadly, I'm probably going to have to keep waiting. Seriously, when will Inside Out be on Netflix? I know the film just got released a few weeks ago, but already, I'm dying to see it again.
One thing the movie hasn't done, though? Come to streaming. Not only did Inside Out break box office records upon its debut, but it also and took over the Internet, spurred talk of a sequel, and introduced something known as "Bing Bong-caused heartbreak" into the lives of millions of people. It's only been a little over a month since Inside Out came to theaters, but so much has happened in that time that the movie's release feels like forever ago.