The latest Disney/Pixar film, Inside Out, has reportedly just become the biggest original Pixar film in the UK. (And Ireland. Mustn’t forget Ireland.) It would also be the highest-selling original animation if it wasn’t for the behemoth that is Frozen.
Now, we love Inside Out here at Funny Women – for many reasons. The central character, Joy, is voiced by Amy Poehler. Amy’s arguably one of our favourite funny ladies, as you can tell from our review of her book, Yes Please.
Disgust has the recognisable voice of Mindy Kaling. Her confident views on women in comedy get regular coverage by us lot, we just love her so much.
The voice of Fear is Bill Hader, someone we saw a lot of in Amy Schumer’s recent film Trainwreck. Incidentally, you can read our review of Trainwreck by Suzy Bennett right here on our website. We also did an interview with Vanessa Bayer, who plays Amy Schumer’s best mate.
In ten weeks, Inside Out took £38 million in ticket sales. Globally, box offices took £738 million in the first week alone. We dread to think how much popcorn those moviegoers got through.
Inside Out also holds the new 2015 record for spending the most days as the number one movie at cinemas. It stayed there for 28 days – four whole weeks! – easily beating the 21-day stint achieved by Avengers: Age of Ultron.
What we enjoyed about the movie, if you can forgive how obvious this is, was how much it makes you think. The film is set almost entirely inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl, and the jokes naturally make fun of our neuroses, fears, imaginations and inner thoughts.
Every Disney/Pixar movie has some level of grown-up humour, which makes us feel less bad about going to the cinema alone to see them. Some of the more mentally taxing gags definitely go over the heads of kids, rather than through them.
But, just as with our comedy show reviews and sneak peeks, to get the full story you will have to see it for yourself.
