Alsl unrelated criticism but i dislike how it primarily focused on Joy and Sadness while Anger, Fear, and Disgust were sorta pushed to the side.
Not push to the side at all, they are the whole reason that we have a climax where Riley attempts to run away, with the bad idea and all.
Also, you can't take the five of them as separate entity. They are all Riley, a part of her, they are all what SHE feels, they are the reflection of HER feelings, not the other way around. The focus of this particular story was that Riley had to accept Sadness as an important emotion and learn that Joy alone couldn't bring true happiness in life. The action of her getting grumpy and disinterested, stealing and running away are all because she felt anger, fear and disgust, but no joy or was closed to sadness. So those emotions were pretty important to the story.
The thing is, with that concept, you must choose carefully what will be the main focus of what's happening outside the head of a person and understand what emotions will come into play. This is very very tricky, and they execute it flawlessly in "Inside Out", but it takes skills and deep understanding of people to match the emotion and the life situation properly pretty much in real time, and it will make a very different kind of story to focus on anger, disgust or fear.
Try imagining every feeling as Riley and how it reflects on her turmoil, and it should make much more sense at a second viewing. If you see Riley as this big robot controlled by little people, it's obvious it's less enjoyable and makes less sense.
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