And then there’s Abstract Thought, where Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong, Riley’s almost-forgotten imaginary friend from earlier in her childhood, get deconstructed and turned into Picasso paintings.

Among “Inside Out’s” most impressive set pieces on Joy and Sadness’s journey through the mazelike expanse of Riley’s mind are a visit to abstract thought (in which they go from three to ...

The Inside Out series focuses on the emotional life of Riley, who we first meet as a happy hockey-loving child. In childhood, Riley's emotional life is dominated by Joy .

Then, she turned 11. Suddenly moody and withdrawn, Docter said it made him wonder what was going on in her head. In "Inside Out," amid the confusion of adolescence and the stress of the move, Joy ...

Inside Out, Pixar’s newest ... A space for abstract thought takes full advantage of the animated form, ... Inside Out is not just Riley’s, or Joy’s, or Sadness’ movie.

Inside Out is, at its heart, a film about learning to accept the role of sadness into your life as you get older. When we meet Riley, it's Poehler's Joy who is "driving" the character's life ...

His latest is Inside Out, opening later this week. It’s a wild premise, even by animated movie standards: the film takes place almost entirely inside an 11-year-old girl’s mind, as her five ...

In “Inside Out,” Pixar had to create a place where no one had ever been before: the mind of an 11-year-old girl. That meant researching how a real brain actually works.