Inside Out (2015)

INSIDE OUT  (2015)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen
One of the cleverest animated movies ever, about an 11-year-old girl named Riley, whose emotions go all out of whack when her family relocates from Minnesota to San Francisco. It's not just the move that's got Riley down. It's that she's not a little girl anymore. She's not a teenager yet, either, but she's changing in ways that are tough to process, and it's up to the key components in her psyche - Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger - to improvise a way out of the resulting chaos. You'd never think something like this could be externalized at all, let alone done in a way that's both accessible and entertaining to viewers of all ages. Leave it to Pixar, I guess. And if there's a sequel, like what happens in the control room when Riley's 13, yikes, that could be really interesting.