One of the basic rules of cinema in the 21st century is that if you are an adult going to watch a cartoon, make sure you go to watch a Pixar cartoon. (And stay for the after credits scenes!).
Once again Pixar deliver.
The premise is simple enough, anthropomorphise the basic emotions in a pre-teen head, subject them to a traumatic event in their live and off we go.
There are some segues that could have been kept for sequels or left out entirely, the abstract thought section being the obvious one. There are also some ideas that are thrown away and could have gone much bigger. When they spill the boxes of facts and opinions and then just throw them back in together with the line "these are so hard to tell apart" that line shouldn't have just been thrown away.
As always with Pixar, they will poke around in your emotions, and they have no qualms about digging around in emotionally deep areas and even killing off well-developed characters to advance the plot.
They also have no fear of putting in risqué jokes at levels they can be sure that children and many adults won't understand. The joke about all the 'bears' wandering around San Francisco is so subtle that I had to explain afterwards why I nearly wet myself when no-one else in the cinema was laughing.
Well worth a trip to see this one.
Overall 8 out of 10.
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