For once Pixarās short movie was better than the featureĀ length movie (SPOILERS I think?)
I know many didnāt likeĀ āLavaā, the short movie which can be seen in beginning of Inside Out, but honestly...I found it bit disturbing how much more clever it was compared to Inside Out. At least in visual sense.
Yes, I wasnāt big fan of Inside Out since the main character is an asshole. Not an asshole like in Blades of Glory, or asshole in Wet Hot American Summer or asshole in Arrested Development. No, those characters, which Poehler had played know they are assholes, but here..it was vile, man, vile! It just didnāt deliver enough good pay off for being such an awful per- emotion to another. I guess you have to look the movie from other lenses than overly optimistic ones.
(Althou I have to admit, it was clever to see how Rileyās dad and mom had different emotions more charge.There it fell flat because I would have rather seen Rileyās momās or dadās emotions dealing with stuff. But nope, HAPPY, EVERYONE WANTS TO BE HAPPY. Well, I donāt so...hard to relate. It would be interesting to see how Finnish audience reacts to this movie, because, yeah, itās so overboard with the happiness aspect for my taste.)
But the worst was the visual design. Iām usually overly excited, when watching Pixarās movies for sheer cleverness of environment and character design. Lava movie, where there was two fucking volcanoes doing NOTHING but standing, yet they managed to portrait everything essential between their relationship. WITHOUT FUCKING MOVING ONE BIT.Ā
But with Inside Out...what the fuck is this shit? Yay, you can do realistic fuzzy as well as blobsie texture now, but what happened to the actual character design? You know, making the characters look wildly different from each others rather than just with the new color? Considering that movies best character design was Bing Bong and that just a fucking mess says a lot about the visual inspiration of the movie.Ā
Also the environmental design was bit disappointing; you could have had far more personal, far more intimate world to be excited and grateful that some people did it. Yet, it falls flat on sterile, obvious, dull solutions. I rather would liked to see Pixarās interpretations of San Francisco than RileyāsĀ headlife. And again, way too much concentration on how cool texture staff they have. Yay, but this is a freaking movie, not a tech demo.
Again, itās not bad, but it doesnāt really offer anything new or exciting. Better than Minions, but only because there was the short movie.
