Unpopular Opinions: Why I HATE Inside Out!

I give my reasons for hating what most consider an instant classic.

[genesisp]

I totally agree. When I first saw this movie I hated it and never expected everyone to love it. To me it was a total failure. This is. literally the only video I have found that does not praise the movie.

[nooruldhar]

You can't even get mad at righley since she is not even a character when you consider the fact she is being controlled by 5 flat characters, so she is basically a robot.

And another thing, you know the part when joy meets some workers and they put a gum memories at headquarters, why didn't they just put the core memories in there

[edwardolkowski]

I have always felt this film was overrated. A great Pixar film connects equally to kids and adults and I felt this tried too hard to connect with grown ups only. Never felt the need to watch this a second time.

[isaywhateveriwantandyougot]

Joy is probably Pixar's worst character.

[ingoisliterallyme]

I've found my people! I have found other people who hate Inside Out! *cries tears of joy*

[christianhubblebub]

Haha i tought i was the only one that hated inside out

[txshiroo._]

STRAIGHT UP FACT I remember getting attacked by toxic inside out fans just because I didn’t like goofball island (it creeped me out for some reason). I was like 7 when I wrote that opinion and I didn’t know how to respond back maturely back then. Now I literally hate the movie because of that experience.

[paintlightshine]

I thought Riley had literally the dullest reason to move away. I moved many times I had to move away from friends I got bullied badly I lived in an environment where I felt it was dangerous at times sometimes I even felt like I felt useless, wether it meant helping someone emotionally or helping myself through something I cannot deal with on my own. And I've had situations where I felt like maybe running away and exiting out of my families and friends lives would be the solution to mine and THEIR problems.

And yet the only reason why Riley decides to run away is cause she's homesick? I get that it definitely can be something that people draw out to do themselves without needing all these dramatic experiences, but it just doesn't seem like the greatest reason to push a character struggling to find happiness over the edge. And do not tell me that Riley's happiness were her friends because it's not, the ones that staid by Riley's side when she was angry sad happy disgusted or any other emotion of the sort....were her parents!!!

If Pixar made a scene in which the parents fought over a dumb discussion I would've related so much more with Riley in that instance, and I'm pretty sure so would the rest of the other kids in the entire world dealing with their parents constantly fighting. I felt very little emotion when watching the film but the most I felt his spot on was the fear of Riley's memories and even JOY herself to be executed that scene very I wished that Joy would've probably said something about how much she desperately just wanted to keep Riley happy.

The subject of a child's happiness.

[EmperrHrde]

"Let's get into the two biggest problems. The first being the emotional manipulation of the audience. ...Pixar is really good about earning its emotional responses, but after Up, most of the emotional scenes have to be ridiculously over the top, and unnecessarily harsh to make sure the audience cries."

FUCKING THIS

[jackstuhley]

Inside Out would have worked much better as a short film.

[rebornjm]

The reason Riley is bland is because she’s missing two of her emotions with three emotions that don’t express much personality anger is pointless without sadness and fear is also pointless without other emotions. Without the emotions that are important to her she can’t form the right emotions at the right time. Also I suggest looking at this movie like joy being the villain because she is.

[TheMan-vtgd]

To think people say Inside Out is better then the first Toy Story

[brandonbreyer]

Finally! Somebody points out the old Pixar road trip cliche!

[avivastudios]

I agree that this film is overrated but I'd like to add one little point. The message of this movie is not "just cry and someone will come and fix your sadness." NO. The message of the movie is, "It's okay to be sad."

It may not have shown this in the perfect way but it did what it needed to do. You remember the scene where Riley returns home and she talks to her parents. In that scene they comfort her by saying, "You know what Riley, we're kind of sad too and THAT'S OKAY."

They didn't fix her problem. They just said it's okay for her to feel that way. I don't think this movie does a bad representation f depression cause I'm not even sure if that's what it was trying to do. I mean I listened the commentary for the film and all I remember them saying is their message. That it's okay to be sad. Riley doesn't get her problems solved by crying to her parents. She feels better because they told her something important. That she isn't alone. And that's one of the best things you can tell someone.

Sometimes you just need somebody to say. "I feel you."

[cosmic]

Am I the only one that didn’t cry at bing bong’s death.

[thafilmguy]

While I definitely don't hate this movie, I definitely don't like it either. You raised a lot of good points. I guess some would say that Bing Bong represents Riley's childhood and when he sacrifices himself, it means that Riley has let go of her childhood and is learning to grow up. But I would argue that the thing a character is MEANT to represent is not THE character. How he acts to show what he represents is the character. And like you said, he doesn't do much but lead them down a bunch of pointless obstacles. I always love hearing different opinions than the popular crowd. Tell me, what do you think of the Lego movie?

[thMaiden]

I hate to bring this up after a year of posting but I just noticed something:

The mother's emotions are all 'female' and share the trait of wearing glasses and ponytailed hair. The father's emotions are all 'male' and share ties and mustaches. But in Riley's mind we have 3 'female' emotions (Sadness, Joy, Disgust) and 2 'male' emotions (Anger and Fear) and NONE of these characters share a trait with each other or Riley like her parents emotions do. What is going on here?? Is it because she's not matured enough that they've solidified into a similar form? Is it weird oversight by the Pixar team of their own universe or an attempt to force them to stand out more???

[debrabarber]

I thought it oversimplified human psychology to the point where it was kind of insulting. And yeah, she moved. That's her major problem. That's it. It also feels like the protagonist is acting about 8 years younger than her age. And I don't think it's implied that she's got a learning disability. That actually might have given her some depth and give a real challenge for her to overcome.

[etankengine]

2:30 while I can see what you mean but I would be a little bit sad if my best friend just made a new best friend only after 2 days of moving sure she could have handled it better but you do stupid things when your upset and i’m sure she did apologise for it

[lindsay]

the first time i watched this movie i hated it bc joy (who i think of as basically the main character) was just so unlikeable and not a good role model. my friends, however, loved it and couldn't understand why i didnt like it