Tonight’s Movie: Inside Out

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Today’s Movie: Inside Out

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Review: Inside Out

Why do we think what we think and feel what we feel?  What determines who we are and how we respond to life’s circumstances?  How can the same memory be joyous sometimes and sad at others?  Where do ideas come from?  What happens to the things we’ve forgotten?  Why does the jingle from that chewing gum commercial always get stuck in your head?  Why are dreams so weird?  Just what, exactly, is going on in people’s heads?  These are some of the many questions Pixar’s latest film, Inside Out, sets out to explore.  The result is one of the most charming, heartfelt, and poignant films the studio has ever created, as well as one of the most creative movies of all time.  It will not only make you laugh and cry, but then it’ll make you stop and consider why you just laughed and cried.

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DO NOT GO SEE BORAT

Do not go see Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Glorious Benefit of Kazakhstan. It is the worst thing I have ever seen. I refuse to call it a movie or to give it a grade. It is worse than Napoleon Dynamite (though, since I actually consider that one to be a movie, it is still the worst movie I’ve ever seen, Borat doesn’t have the right to be called a movie). It is revolting, disgusting, offensive, boring and not funny. If it were not against my principles to walk out of a theater I would have walked out halfway through, if not earlier. Do not go see this thing.