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Inside Out: An Entertaining Look at Emotions

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Our family loves good movies and Disney is a source that we typically enjoy.  Our budget doesn’t allow for going to the movie theater often, so we will purchase movies we anticipate loving when they hit stores.  Inside Out is one of those movies which I knew we had to add to our collection. So, we braved the slippery roads here in southcentral Alaska to visit our local Walmart and pick up a copy when it hit shelves this past Tuesday.

We found plenty of options for Inside Out in this display near the checkout lanes at Walmart

With all boys in the house, I wasn’t 100% certain how they’d respond to this film.  After all, our culture tends to teach boys to bottle up their feelings and just deal with it. However, I found through past experience you can bring attention to subjects like this through humor.  Inside Out has plenty of humor in it, too.  It was truly a great pick for a family movie night complete with popcorn for snacking.

Inside Out plus Popcorn and Musical Bing Bong had our family ready for a fun movie night

For those unfamiliar with the movie, the premise is that inside each of us is a control room where our different main emotions (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger)  influence us as well as collect our memories as they happen.  Some are designated core memories and both create and sustain different islands of our personality.  The others are sent to long term storage on a regular basis.  And, some of those memories will eventually be removed from long term storage and sent to a wasteland where they die so that new memories can take their place.

Riley is an 11 year old girl who is the main focus of the movie.  You see from her birth how the emotions appeared and gradually learned as she grew to help guide her.  Life looks wonderful and most of it has been happy thanks to to over zealous efforts of Joy to minimize the influence of the other emotions. But, a move from her beloved Minnesota home to San Francisco throws everyone in turmoil.  What ensues is a lot of chaos and a bit of growing on the part of Riley and her emotions.

Moving a long distance is definitely a life changing event which creates a fair amount of stress.  Our family is quite familiar with it having moved homes 3 times in 3 years, including our LONG distance move from Maryland to Alaska back in January of 2010.

 Moving-Across-the-Country-is-Stressful-and-Sometimes-Kids-struggle-to-express-their-feelings

Every one was affected from my husband and I to the four boys, even the youngest who was only 2 months at the time.  I think our youngest is the one who would easily let lose with his emotions and sometimes just collapse for a break.

Different Emotions Can Appear During Stressful Times like a Move

Making it into an adventure and keeping a strong ‘core’ of family is what helped us survive the transition.  I really wish we’d had something like Inside Out to watch with the older boys to help start more discussions about their emotions and how to manage them.  Change is difficult on everyone, but especially a child who struggles with knowing what is okay to express for fear they might upset a family member.

Inside Out Tomy Toy products featuring different main characters from the film can help you take the idea of emotions and how to express them from the movie and into family life. Kids do learn through play and these items are meant to help with that.

We found Musical Bing Bong inn the Toy Department of our Local Walmart

The particular one we picked up at our local Walmart was for the more supporting character of Bing Bong, Riley’s imaginary friend from her preschool years.  Pressing his bow tie starts him singing the Bing Bong song, a sort of theme song that he would sing with Riley during their play sessions and it powered their ‘rocket’ to take them new places. His arms, trunk and head are moveable which means kids can integrate Musical Bing Bong into imaginative play.

Having watched Inside Out now, I think my boys would have loved to pick up Anger from the Tomy Toy product line.  Several times during the movie when Riley’s Anger took control and spewed fire from his head, the boys would comment on which brother they thought was JUST like that.

My 6 year old is now in love with Inside Out especially if he can munch on popcorn at the same time

Regardless of what toys we have in the house, I am quite thankful to have the movie available to provide that entertaining look at emotions. As my husband has been traveling for work and my second born is away at a month long intensive culinary arts program, I know that we’ll be hopping on board this humor filled ride again soon. 

With the holiday season quickly approaching, I suspect we could use a reminder about being in touch with our feelings and not trying to always ‘hide’ them from family members who might provide just what we need to better manage them. After all, feelings are neither right nor wrong, but it is how we act that places them into those categories.  

Be sure to pick up your copy of Inside Out at Walmart! I’d love to hear what you and your family thought about it.

Consider Inside Out for Your Next Family Movie Night and Enjoy a Fun way to Get in Touch with Your Emotions #InsideOutEmotions AD

17 Comments

  1. We watched this when we were traveling in the plane. It was so entertaining and of course my son loves it so much that we had to get the DVD when we came back. It’s a great replacement for the Frozen movie that he had been watching non-stop!! Very entertaining and great way to look at emotions

  2. I just saw “Inside Out” and I was disappointed. I thought the concept was great but they didn’t quite pull off the execution. I just wanted to slap Sadness! She was SO annoying. I did like Bing Bong and his rocket! kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.

  3. My family and I absolutely love the movie. My daughter doesn’t handle change well at all, so much so that she’s MUCH better during the week than she is during the weekends. The first month of summer vacation is usually AWFUL for her, and when we moved to Florida a year and a half ago, she had a melt down pretty consistently for about a year. No joke, she kind of just got over it. I love this movie for trying to help them cope with those feelings and emotions happening inside. #client

  4. I think this movie is a good one for the kids to learn from and find out how these characters deal with their emotions. It can be very stressful to move to a new town and school. I know that it was hard on us when we moved. This is such a classic and fun movie to watch over and over.

  5. I love Inside Out. My husband and I actually watched it just yesterday morning before he went to work. I think he related to Riley as she was little and growing up. Our daughter is 19 and his “little girl”. He has had such a tough time with her away again for her 2nd year of college.so I think he related remembering when she was growing up. I would recommend this movie to anyone and I love Sadness lol.

  6. I have to watch this movie, my oldest saw it in theaters I do believe and now wants us to watch it here in our home on Family Friday Night; hoping I can get it!

  7. Emotions can be a tricky thing, especially for kids who are still learning to cope with all of their various feelings. My kids saw Inside Out in theaters and loved it, so I look forward to watching it with them soon.

  8. We just watched InsideOut last week AND moved about a month ago… such a perfect movie for us and the whole family! I love the setting and the lessons to be learned. Such a great family flick!

  9. This is one of all my time favorite movies already! Great story, relateable to all, and has opened up tons of convo between me and my kids!

  10. My kids absolutely loved Inside Out. It was super cute was the vote from the adults too! My daughter actually just asked to watch it again. I love that it helps teach the kids to recognized the feelings and emotions they feel and give them a name too.

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