Inside Out – 5

To its credit, I was able to sit through the whole movie (having nowhere else to go), and it was clearly much better than all the animated trailers that preceded it (and I count Pan in that category). It was clever in concept – that is, positing five emotions as drivers of how we feel at any time, although I have no idea how the writers decided that Joy is primus inter pares. Still, the “chase” scene near the end was as ridiculous as the chase scene in every action movie. I also have no idea who the intended audience is for movies like this, but it didn’t quicken my desire to be a grandparent.