It's not just that joy can't exist without sadness. It's also that sadness is important in and of itself. It allows us to process grief and trauma. It allows us to signal to others that we need help. And it allows us to feel other people's pain and offer to help them. Sadness more than almost any emotion is so critical to forming human bonds. You can bond with a lot of people over joyous moments. But when people come together to comfort each other in times of mourning, that's when the most meaningful connections are made.
@@Christopher_TGamazing and true. Its weird when some people get mad at us for showing emotions cause they see it as needy or extra but that's how people really build bonds
I have no idea how Pixar can do this to me with nearly every movie, like i can usually power through most of the others but Bing Bong and the pit of despair never fails to make me feel.
I saw this in theaters and sat next to this big hulking guy and his daughter. He was an absolute wreck during the Bing Bong scene and his daughter kept trying to comfort him. Such an emotional movie.
@@tysonterry1000 no i meant like you know how if you keep your anger pent up inside it builds up and up until it can’t be contained. That’s what i meant by being stronger
@@alceusrydan6237 well yes that from of anger would probably be a different emotio stuff like anxiety embarrassment envy and ennui are different from things like excitement and boredom
As a therapist, one of my favorite things about this movie is that it gives children the language to explain to adults what they're experiencing. As adults watching this film, we can obviously understand the extra layers to it; we can understand that these 'characters' don't actually exist and don't actually make choices - they are personifications of what Riley is experiencing. Joy isn't actually pushing sadness into a circle, Riley is, by trying to lock down on that emotion and feel happy instead. Sadness isn't making the decision to touch the memories - Riley is feeling sadness when she thinks about them, and they begin to bleed into sadness until she locks down and thinks 'I need to be happy' instead. But for kids, this is a way to personify their thoughts and feelings, in a technique that we often actually use in children's therapy. Being able to tell your parents that 'anger is controlling headquarters right now' or 'that memory is blue' is a way for children to communicate their experience and translate it into something they can understand. Even if kids watching this movie don't get the deeper meaning that adults do, finding a way to speak about and understand their mental experience is incredibly powerful. Thank you for the honest and beautiful reaction
this, I thought I was the only one. my friends gets so angry with the 'characters' but they didn't realize that there is no 'characters' it's just Riley.
More & more of my friends have been getting into what I've heard called "parts work", with naming inner facets of the self. It's so fantastic how normalized this type of discourse has become, & this movie DEFINITELY helped spur that on. I think conversations come up at least a few times a week in my friend group about what we're doing with our mental health &/or general psych concepts &/or getting or seeing therapists, & we're pretty much all in our 30s, so it's even cooler seeing people younger than us getting a head start with exposure to these concepts, not to mention seeing our peers who have kids teach these tools to them early. We live in such a fantastic time for improvement in our individual & collective behavioral health. Yeah there's a lot to stress about in the world, but it's underrated how insanely fast so many foundational things are getting wildly better.
I saw one parent mention in a comment somewhere that she suffers from depression, and the "console turning gray" scene really helped her child understand why. Now if she's having a bad mental health day, her kid will ask if her console is gray and will actually understand what it means when she says yes. Depression is a tough concept to explain to adults, let alone children, but Inside Out depicted it incredibly well in a way that's easy for kids to understand.
What a beautiful insight. I had watched this film for the first time a couple weeks ago and being 21 makes it easy to understand the deeper meaning and understand certain metaphors. Like when you said Riley was trying to push Sadness into a circle, it resonated with me bc that’s something that I’ve done a few times. There are days when I try to distract myself with something happy to not feel the pain of something going on in my life and days when Sadness is at the helm and I just wanna let it do its thing
When I was in college, we had a movie night in the common room and this was the movie that was shown. I still remember that night because we had a group of probably about 50 or 60 people ranging from artistic to athletic to Scientific to just there for the party, you name it, and we still all reacted exactly the same way to all the scenes in the movie. It was the first film I've ever seen like that. It's just so relatable. Everybody screamed with laughter when they saw the dad was daydreaming about sports, and in that whole scene in general you could almost barely hear the conversation because everyone was laughing so hard. When Bing Bong died the whole room went deadly quiet, I saw one person hold up heart hands and another 6 ft 5 250 lb football linebacker get up and have to leave the room and take a moment. The movie is just that good, it gets across its story more clearly and more consistently than most movies I know.
I remember seeing a protest sign ( BLM march ) and he was a huge guy with a sign saying " We ❤ u Bing Bong " in the mist of all the craziness around it made me smile. So cute.
I thought, "Oh, cool, I'll enjoy watching Greg react to this." But I totally forgot that this movie will make me cry too. So there goes Bing Bong, and I'm sitting here bawling right along with Greg. 🤣😭🤣 Also 🚨 GIRL 🚨 GIRL 🚨 GIRL 🚨 lol
Bing Bong being forgotten is one of the sadder moments in a Disney movie. It isn't just him going away, it is a combination of a loss of innocence, and how your mind protects itself. In this case, her imaginary friend realizing that him staying around was, literally, holding Riley back so he sacrificed himself to save her.
Joy is a case of Toxic positivity. Overcompensating to maintain Riley’s constant happy personality despite sadness leaking trough the cracks. Until she sees the value of sadness and how as you stated, “you can’t understand joy without sadness” it’s an incredible personification of emotions and finding the value in sadness and grief and how it can enrich the human experience despite its unpleasant association.
If you watch Encanto, this is also personified in the aunt who cannot let emotion get the best of her and everyone telling her to smile to avoid bad weather.
Well when you think about it, it's really Riley that's perpetuating a cycle of toxic positivity. She thinks that she has to be happy all of the time, and does her best to push away the sadness in her life, most likely because she doesn't like how it feels.
What I really love about this is it gives both kids and adults a language to talk about feelings in a way we never had before. Imagine sitting down with your kid and talking with them about what their emotions are up to, what they think their islands of personality are, what are their most important memories, etc. If they go through something difficult they can say how they think that affects their memory formation and what their emotion team could do about it. It gives them a completely new way to describe why they feel like they do and to work through it.
Finally! A reaction to this movie I can relate to. I’ve seen so many reactors getting legit upset at Sadness for “messing everything up” and in the first 10 minutes you realized how important Sadness is and how MESSED UP some of the crap Joy was doing. ❤
yes i agree with everything u said but luckily those people probaly took a lesson from this movie which is the purpose. that sadness is important too and alright to feel
This film does an AMAZING JOB portraying emotions. It has no reason to be this good. As a 41 year old man who has struggled with depression and at times it feels as though my joy has been lost, I fully understand how happy memories can be turned into sad ones, and the struggle you can have trying to hold to them, rather than let them change. This film makes me cry every time.
I saw this in theaters once, and had a total breakdown during the credits. After buying the blu-ray when it first came out, I just can't bring myself to watch it again because it was so emotionally devastating.
Don’t believe I’ve seen Greg cry like this before. Out of the many reactions I’ve seen from you guys, to which you cried, it was never like this one. And I think this one had much more of a personal connection to you Greg, as it did on all of us. Thankyou for watching this finally! 😂
I was the same age as the main character when I, too, had to move away and leave all my friends behind, and I'm telling you this movie BROKE me. We took our kids to see it when they were 8 and 5, and my wife and I were bawling the whole way to our car afterward and the kids couldn't understand why. 30 years later after everything that happened to me and I'm still not over it. Thank you for always being a great mental health advocate, Greg. 🙏🙏
I was in 4th grade when our family had a change of station. I was devastated but did not have the tools to recognize or articulate anything I was feeling. Just like Riley: sad, angry, bitter, felt very lost and scared...I can say that now. At the time, I just withdrew, my grades fell apart, wouldn't talk to anyone. The only answers the counselor could get out of me was literally, "I don't know" or "I don't care." That is how I felt. I didn't know and I didn't care. I finally got better after the school year ended, I got through summer, and got to start with all of the other "new" kids for 5th grade. Dad made arrangements to make sure a change of station was never in the middle of the school year again. I must have been REALLY bad off. It was only--like you--years later that I was able to figure out what was wrong and work through it better. I think a lot of the problem was my teacher and parents expecting/demanding me to just "get over it and enjoy" the new house, school, and base. That was the popular thinking of the time (nearly 40 years ago). A different counselor finally recommended the teacher try to encourage my train of thought in the mandatory journals the class had to do. Instead of being told, "Get over it", she started to empathize with what I wrote about my previous home. That helped me a lot before summer rolled around. I finally began to get some of those feelings out. We sometimes do so much damage in expecting people to suppress things without processing them.
I think anyone with high emotional intelligence already should understand that sadness is not just bad, nor is it the opposite of joy. The movie just demonstrates that truth in a fantastic way.
@@user-hp5hk6jy3n Sure. But if you have high emotional intelligence you probably could predict the movie’s overarching plot without too much difficulty. Since Joy was doing all the wrong things to start off.
@@Jabberwocky415 You would be surprised, i've watched probably every reaction to this movie out there and most of them don't understand the message of the movie until the very end and end up mad at sadness the whole movie.
this is my favourite pixar movie, it's so clever how it portrays our emotions but to a level that children can understand, I use this film in my nursery setting to help explain emotions, the scene at the end where she opens up to her parents and the bing bong scene always makes me tear up :(
You are one of the VERY few reactors that didn't start off hating sadness and how she was out of control. I don't know you at all, first time on your channel and all, but I'm very proud of how open your mind was. Well done! You give me hope compassion and empathy isn't fully dead. ❤
I saw this movie in theaters with my family and one of my cousins was visiting us in Minnesota after recently moving to Indiana and being the same age as Riley at the time, she broke down more than any of us and was quite literally sobbing heavily throughout most of the movie. She, to this day, mentions how she's never seen a movie perfectly describe what she was going through and how being the oldest girl she felt like she couldn't just break down and be sad about the move until she saw this movie.
I moved from Indiana to Ohio in 1977 at age 11. It was a terribly difficult move for me at an awkward age.When I saw Inside Out in the theater with my 11 yr old daughter I ugly, audibly cried through most of the movie! age. I was relieved when the house lights came on and saw all the other adults wiping their eyes and blowing their noses!
@@alexamaree13 Eso no es posible por que la depresion se define como "ausencia de emociones" es decir no sientes nada, un ejemplo de episodio de depresion se ve representada brevemente en la pelicula cuando la consola de Ryle se pone color gris y enojo comenta "Ryle ya no puede sentir nada"
Pixar actually consulted 2 of psychology's leading experts on emotion who taught them that emotions drive rational thinking rather than disrupt it. Emotion is not a weakness. There are even lesson plans developed by educators to be used in classrooms for different ages. And The Center for Teaching Quality urges all educators to see it.
this was a pleasant surprise! that Bing Bong moment always gets me because to me, it signifies the need to say goodbye to childhood and having to grow up. super sad but necessary for us to go on. Sadness is my favorite character but all the characters were amazing imo. they picked the best voice actors, for sure! ❤
Bing Bong had me tearing up the first time I watched it. The second time, I took my mum to the cinema to show her this amazing film and I knew it was coming but that time it affected me worse and I was full on bawling. As a 23 year old guy surrounded by kids and their parents. I went to Toys R Us and bought a Bing Bong action figure that I still have on my shelf just so he won't ever be forgotten.
You put your finger on the message of the movie much more earlier than most people I’ve seen. The idea that sadness is necessary and beneficial, that positivity at all cost can be harmful, that it’s important to feel all your emotions, etc Loved your reaction
“ *Riley* just needs a moment to be vulnerable” *becomes vulnerable whilst reacting* This is why your channel will blossom from here on out, u opened up for us as your viewers with a movie that made us also cry
It’s honestly the casting that makes this movie AMAZING! I only hear Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope and her infinite optimism with Joy and feel Lewis Black’s aneurysms with Anger 😂❤
Greg: "I have a feeling this movie is going to break me" Yes, yes it will. This movie is truly phenomenal. One of my favourite messages in any kids movie too. It's okay to be sad sometimes.
I moved around a LOT as a kid (no, not a military brat) for my dad's job so i absolutely relate to Riley. I had quite a few moments like she did standing up in front of the class crying because i introduced myself and teachers probed and brought up once happy memories that were now sad. That's what that was showing. How happy memories can turn quite sad when you realize you'll never be in that place and time again. And i also ran away from home at 16 because my parents were abusive and neglected me a lot. I'm no contact now so I'm in a better place, but it really sucked that i had to constantly watch what emotions i showed around them. I also love how it showed that parents calling kids "their insert-whatever-here kid" is incredibly toxic. That puts a lot of pressure on a kid. Calling Riley their happy girl made Joy think she HAD to keep Riley happy. It's why I don't agree with people who paint joy as a villain. If anything she's an anti-hero or antagonist. She doesn't do anything to intentionally be evil......she just refuses to accept any other way. But calling your kid gifted, happy, etc over and over can really affect kids negatively. And lastly, i also love how it shows that kids who lash out or have "attitude" usually have a deeper reason for it. And it's not just because they want to have attitude but usually they feel like they can't be or don't want to be honest about their feelings. All in all definitely one of my favourite Pixar movies. And it's a pretty accurate portrayal of depression. No sadness, no happiness..... just apathy and a lot of disgust and anger.
This movie introduced me to the idea of toxic positivity and helped me distinguish sadness (healthy) from depression (unhealthy). Also, told my therapist about this movie and now she uses it for her autistic child clients to help them express their emotions 😊
I saw this movie in the theater and you could hear adults literally sobbing at Bing Bong and when Riley comes home. Not crying. Sobbing. This movie helped as a teacher of preschoolers to let them explain their emotions a little better by showing which character they felt like most and then talking about it. I love Pixar movies! The metaphors are..so well done.
I always thought the emotions (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger) were like a family themselves. They can’t live with each other, yet they can’t live without each other either.
My whole family went to see this together right after my grandpa's funeral. Needless to say, I'm an absolute wreck every time I watch it. It's a wonderful film ❤️❤️
As a child I really believed I was born depressed. I did experience what Riley did but it added to why I was already depressed. As an adult this movie was frustrating and healing. The moment Riley explained how she felt and the breath of relief she let out made me completely breakdown. I LOVE this movie
Such a simple concept but they somehow makes it perfect and personal for a lot of people. And successfully gave us the feels. Inside Out is one of the most amazing movie that comes out in the last 20 years
this movie had me sobbing when i first watched. it really hits you in the feels… where joy is riley’s primary emotion, I think sadness is definitely mine 😅 i need to go rewatch this movie now
I'm so happy you didn't demonize Sadness or Joy from the start. You knew why Joy was pushing Sadness away, but you also knew why Sadness was effecting the memories.
The fact that you shared your own story with dealing with depressive and manic thoughts ...was powerful. Be in the moment good or bad. But don't relish/ get stuck in either for too long, keep moving forward.....Always!
This movie is brilliant and could therapeutically help kids understand their own emotions. Back in 2015, my Dad wanted to go to the theater and gave two options: Inside Out & Jurassic World, and I foolishly chose JW. I got a DVD copy of Inside Out later and within the first two minutes I realized this this was probably my favorite Pixar movie. It struck a chord with me in a way that no other Pixar film had. I personally related to Riley a lot, and I was blown away by how emotionally nuanced, uniquely mature, and healthy the message of this movie is, all while still being really fun and entertaining. The metaphorical representation of Riley mentally growing up and realizing that sadness is A HEALTHY, NECESSARY emotion is not a lesson I’ve ever seen another kids movie teach.
When I saw this in theaters I broke bc I knew what it felt like to be completely numb just like Riley was, and finally able to talk to someone without judgement, my family was the type to be to hold feelings and not talk about them but thank goodness for my husband who was able to open me up and really help me heal. This was a masterpiece of a movie and I use it to help my kids talk about their feelings and that it’s okay to be sad, mad, scared etc.
so glad you reacted to this. man, you got the whole sadness thing right away. i love this movie and how it illustrates different emotions. the scene at the dinner table was a good example of how someone sometimes seem like they go from zero to 60 with their emotions. just the way it broke emotions down, touched on core memories--just a lot of their decisions were so beautifully executed. and the bing bong scene always gets me. 🥲
Greg is the one person I’ve seen in the movie reaction/pundit space that wears his heart on his sleeve when watching films. I’m the exact same way and I don’t care. Also watching Greg cry when Bing Bong fades, had ME crying 😭
This movie is beautiful. I cry every time. “Take her to the moon for me, okay?” Then seeing little Riley playing with imaginary Bing Bong does me in. This is a deep little movie that teaches kids that every emotion you feel is ok, that it’s normal to feel what you feel and I think that’s pretty damn wonderful.
Pixar announced that they’re mating an Inside Out 2 with Amy Pohler and presumably the rest of the cast returning, but I love the first movie SO MUCH that I’m kinda worried about what the second one will be
If they go the same route as Toy Story 3, they could have Riley age up the same way Andy did so that those who were Riley's age when the original came out are the same age as grown Riley, dealing with emotions of being a young adult. Could hit the same sweet spot for them that Toy Story 3 did for me.
I'm worried because I'm wondering if they are going to address why Riley had both male and female emotions when everyone else only had one or the other. The way they are forcing certain subjects, im just worried that they are going to focus the movie around the wrong thing rather than a real story and life lesson like this one.
@@foxie5502 I feel the same way but hopefully it’s Pixar we’re talking about, they’ll try to deliver the message other than agendas like Disney is doing currently.
One of the things I love is that when you look at the minds of others, Joy isn't necessarily the lead emotion. Sadness is the lead for Mom. Anger is the lead for Dad. Yet the emotions work together so well that they aren't overwhelming each other. Riley's joy wants to lead by overpowering instead of lead by being a unified team. She had to learn the hard way that it's better to experience all the emotions.
I own this movie and can’t believe I hadn’t cried while watching it. But, these reactions always get me in the feels department. And after years of finally getting the opportunity to enjoy the content you guys make, getting a ❤ comment means the world to me. Thank you for the years of content and for many more years of content to come, Greg.
I loved this movie, but I think your reaction was the first time I realized the genius of Bing Bong sacrificing himself. It's not just letting go that moved me, it's that genius you mentioned of letting your imagination propel your reality! When you said that, i had to rewind
I can’t say enough about how brilliant this movie is. Pixar was able to take very complex topics and themes and deliver it in a way that is digestible for anyone of any age to understand. The way the movie portrays the inside of the mind is incredibly clever and creative. Amazing voice over work and animation really makes the characters pop on screen. One of pixar’s absolute best and an easy 10/10 for me.
This movie makes me cry more than any other pixar movie. Modern culture puts so much emphasis on being happy, doing what makes you happy, avoiding the things that make you sad, etc. The unfortunate truth is that everyone has sadness in their lives, you can not live in this world without experiencing sadness. If you try to just ignore it you will only end up hurting yourself. The things that have hurt us in life usually are the things that we learn the most from, they form and shape us even more than the joyful things. If you embrace that sadness as a part of your life, but not its definitive characteristic, that acceptance will make you such a better and stronger person. Dealing with difficulty and sadness is an incredibly important skill to have.
As you get older, your emotions become more complex. More than likely, Sadness being in charge of Mom's Headquarters means that Mom is a highly empathic person, and Anger being in charge of Dad's Headquarters would suggest that Dad is driven by passion and ambition. If there's anything this movie demonstrates, it's that seemingly negative emotions can still have a very positive effect if you understand them properly.
The Bing Bong Scene always gets me, man! I would always cry no matter how many times I watch this movie cause I am aware I have an imaginary friend when I was a kid but I can't remember what it looks like anymore. I can't remember anything (as part of growing up). It hurts to see Bing Bong being forgotten. 😢😭
I’m the same, I try not to re watch the movie too much because it’ll just be a snot fest lol But just watched it with my little brother and yeah still a snot fest but he was there to comfort me
This whole movie was so well thought out. The symbolism is spot on. I love the evolution of the control panel. It got progressively more complex, as she got older. Until the end, only one emotion could use it at once, symbolizing how we, at that age, aren't really capable of complex emotions. Everything is very cut and dry. But in her teens, now she can have more subtle emotions, like the core memory that was a combination of joy and sadness, or bittersweet.
Thank you so much for this reaction and above all, your thoughts at the end about it. I really felt understood as a person that had to go through a lot of grief myself during my childhood and afterwards also having lost my parents in a bad way. Acceptance is still the hardest part for me and it just feels good to be reminded that it‘s ok to still feel sad and angry, lonely and abandoned, after all this time. Thank you, really!
I like how this movie expresses Sadness as a weakness, something you shouldn't show other people and always keep a smile on your face. However, the more the sadness is supressed, everything breaks down, it weighs down on everything else and the only way to overcome it is to release the emotion, express it, acknowledge it. And that not only helps you but everyone around you, emotions are an incredible and dangerous concept, but we need them to survive.
Greg, I loved so much watching this with you. This movie hits me hard every time I watch, and hearing you discuss it and talk about your understanding of these topics was so wonderful. Thank you for taking us with you on your reaction. You’re so insightful and that is why I keep coming back. Thank you for sharing, this was excellent.
I was 14 when this xame out and it was fantastic. The new family memory is amazing. When things are at their worst, when i have nothing and nobody...my family will be there for me. That message is just amazing.
Great reaction! I like how you immediately knew the upside of sadness, as our value system is based on establishing two extremes, comparing them and creating a spectrum between them. How strong your happy feelings can be will depend on your strongest sad feeling. Also, yes, when you try to force yourself to feel happy all the time and never give any other emotions a turn, it will end up feeling like a numb and empty kind of happy.
Greg - "Damn, how psychologically deep is this going to get?" .. Oh Greg You are not prepared 😳 If it's any consolation I was well into my 30's when I first saw this and I was shaking crying at the end... Yeah the shoulders goin' up and down stuff. 🥺😩😭
I love the way that Greg has never tried to hide his feelings when he watches a movie. I love your reactions and I will till my last living breath continue watching you guys. You guys give me hope and teach me valuable lessons everyday. Thank you Greg Alba ❤
I don’t remember watching this the first time, but rewatching it with you was a therapeutic experience. I didn’t realise how much I needed to cry until you commented on how much we need moments of vulnerability.
I havent cried once while watching the movie, but I do tear up seeing others getting really emotional watching it. Pixar outdid itself with this movie, making lots and lots of people understand and cry. I loved your reaction so very much!
The ONLY reason I didn't cry at my first watch was...I was with my roommates, I put a TON of effort into NOT crying in front of them (SO much effort, it was PAINFUL lol). The fact that tears were so hard to suppress surprised me since I virtually don't cry to anything. So after the movie, it REALLY felt like I needed a tear-shedding outlet (I wonder why... *sarcasm*). So, I tried re-watching it by myself, but NOTHING happened. I'd discovered I apparently can't cry to a RE-watch of ANYthing. So I started seeking out movies NEW to me that were known as tearjerkers and eventually found some (including ONE eventually - Nimona - to which I cried an incredible 15 times, if you count re-watches, reactions and reading / writing comments!). But that was the ONLY one so far that was a "repeater tearjerker" for me. BUT THEN... after countless re-watches of "Inside Out" (I really like it, even if it does not make me cry)... I'm watching THIS reaction and that last scene of Riley crying for some reason NOW "got me". Emotions are definitely strange!
Always appreciate your openness to experience these movies with the public. Sometimes watching them myself i wonder if I'm just unusual when emotionally affected by "kids movies" but we are all still kids inside at some level. We have to be adults professionally for the most part and the fun happens when we can "be kids again". The Reel Rejects have always been on the top echelon of my subscriptions. I hope to join your Patreon soon as well! Thanks again for this review and thanks for making me feel like a part of "Reject Nation"!
Not me crying over Inside Out with Greg after 7 years. I bawled the first time I was watching, I was graduating that year, missing my dad so much it hurt... A lot was changing 💔 In a way it helped me understand my emotions better. It will always be one of my favourites. T'was pleasure crying with you Greg 😁😂
One of my favorite Pixar movies and such an emotional story. So beautifully told. And loved your reaction, Greg. As always. You are as emotional watching these movies as me. :)
This movie really hits home bc I experienced it firsthand when I was probably the same age. Not the moving part, but the running away. It was the only out I saw when something had to give. The thing is, I thought about it enough to consider almost everything I’d be losing and… still chose to? I’d grieved for everything long before I stepped out the door. Parents, friends, life, extended family, home, trips, all of it. Except for one thing. I had that moment, where the sadness hit and made me stop in my tracks, because I had a brother who was maybe a year old at the time. And all of a sudden I realized that if I left, I wouldn’t be there to watch him grow up. I felt the need to protect him from ending up where I did. So I turned around. I didn’t get the happy family moment. Just a smug sort of “see, I knew you would chicken out” - barely that, even- my dad knew I was running away and didn’t do anything. My mom looked for me, though. 6-7 ish years later, we actually have a really great relationship and I’m lucky to have her. Also another little brother (almost 5 years old!) who I’m very close with and is almost definitely autistic, just like me, and who won’t have to go through what I did because he has someone who understands his needs. If that’s all I accomplish in life it’ll be enough. :]
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There is a Batman movie called dead end it's like 8 minutes long you're like it
Have you seen the French movie 'Intouchables'? I feel like you'd enjoy it a lot!
You should watch up
Coco, you need to see coco. Please
Have you watched Moana yet?
The thing I love about this movie is that Joy, as likable as she is, is both the protagonist AND the villain
Eh, I wouldn’t say villain, more of just an antagonist.
She’s kinda like woody!
@@JuQui228 Makes for the best characters tbh
Joy's positivity had become toxic, and it took an event this major to knock her off that obviously ill-fated track.
@@embelished_meister500 An antagonist is someone who opposes the protagonist regardless of morals. So, I think villain fits more.
“Take her to the moon” DESTROYS ME EVERY TIME
Every damn time. It's like the last 15 minutes of Encanto where you start tearing up and you end up weeping.
every time! 😭
Ah, all the time. It reminds me of when Miguel sings Remember Me to Coco at the end of the film.
yes yes yes @@zlyntudteam2394 @jadeknowsbest1674 @thesweet1982.. I cry on all three
Yep, i was already crying but when he says it i just sobbed
“Joy can’t exist without sadness.” Dude sums up the whole movie with one sentence….5 minutes into the movie no less. lol great reaction.
It's not just that joy can't exist without sadness. It's also that sadness is important in and of itself. It allows us to process grief and trauma. It allows us to signal to others that we need help. And it allows us to feel other people's pain and offer to help them. Sadness more than almost any emotion is so critical to forming human bonds. You can bond with a lot of people over joyous moments. But when people come together to comfort each other in times of mourning, that's when the most meaningful connections are made.
That's literally greg's specialty lol he always sums it up 5 minutes into it
sadness cant exist without joy
@@Christopher_TGamazing and true. Its weird when some people get mad at us for showing emotions cause they see it as needy or extra but that's how people really build bonds
@@sunnyomori8635 totally emotions are like water, it flows.
The Bing Bong scene gets me everytime man.
Take her to the moon for me. Ok?
I have no idea how Pixar can do this to me with nearly every movie, like i can usually power through most of the others but Bing Bong and the pit of despair never fails to make me feel.
I cried
Basically the entire movie gets me
That, and when Riley comes home after running away always breaks me 😭
I saw this in theaters and sat next to this big hulking guy and his daughter. He was an absolute wreck during the Bing Bong scene and his daughter kept trying to comfort him. Such an emotional movie.
Cus men are forced to hide their emotions. And hiding it only makes it stronger, so it’s understandable
Beautiful 💙💙💙
@@alceusrydan6237i think you mean not hiding it only makes you stronger
@@tysonterry1000 no i meant like you know how if you keep your anger pent up inside it builds up and up until it can’t be contained. That’s what i meant by being stronger
@@alceusrydan6237 well yes that from of anger would probably be a different emotio stuff like anxiety embarrassment envy and ennui are different from things like excitement and boredom
As a therapist, one of my favorite things about this movie is that it gives children the language to explain to adults what they're experiencing.
As adults watching this film, we can obviously understand the extra layers to it; we can understand that these 'characters' don't actually exist and don't actually make choices - they are personifications of what Riley is experiencing. Joy isn't actually pushing sadness into a circle, Riley is, by trying to lock down on that emotion and feel happy instead. Sadness isn't making the decision to touch the memories - Riley is feeling sadness when she thinks about them, and they begin to bleed into sadness until she locks down and thinks 'I need to be happy' instead.
But for kids, this is a way to personify their thoughts and feelings, in a technique that we often actually use in children's therapy. Being able to tell your parents that 'anger is controlling headquarters right now' or 'that memory is blue' is a way for children to communicate their experience and translate it into something they can understand. Even if kids watching this movie don't get the deeper meaning that adults do, finding a way to speak about and understand their mental experience is incredibly powerful.
Thank you for the honest and beautiful reaction
Really appreciate your insight!
this, I thought I was the only one. my friends gets so angry with the 'characters' but they didn't realize that there is no 'characters' it's just Riley.
More & more of my friends have been getting into what I've heard called "parts work", with naming inner facets of the self. It's so fantastic how normalized this type of discourse has become, & this movie DEFINITELY helped spur that on. I think conversations come up at least a few times a week in my friend group about what we're doing with our mental health &/or general psych concepts &/or getting or seeing therapists, & we're pretty much all in our 30s, so it's even cooler seeing people younger than us getting a head start with exposure to these concepts, not to mention seeing our peers who have kids teach these tools to them early. We live in such a fantastic time for improvement in our individual & collective behavioral health. Yeah there's a lot to stress about in the world, but it's underrated how insanely fast so many foundational things are getting wildly better.
I saw one parent mention in a comment somewhere that she suffers from depression, and the "console turning gray" scene really helped her child understand why. Now if she's having a bad mental health day, her kid will ask if her console is gray and will actually understand what it means when she says yes. Depression is a tough concept to explain to adults, let alone children, but Inside Out depicted it incredibly well in a way that's easy for kids to understand.
What a beautiful insight. I had watched this film for the first time a couple weeks ago and being 21 makes it easy to understand the deeper meaning and understand certain metaphors. Like when you said Riley was trying to push Sadness into a circle, it resonated with me bc that’s something that I’ve done a few times. There are days when I try to distract myself with something happy to not feel the pain of something going on in my life and days when Sadness is at the helm and I just wanna let it do its thing
Greg is so damn empathetic. When he said that Riley just needs a moment to be vulnerable, to let it out and just be sad, just cemented that fact.
When I was in college, we had a movie night in the common room and this was the movie that was shown. I still remember that night because we had a group of probably about 50 or 60 people ranging from artistic to athletic to Scientific to just there for the party, you name it, and we still all reacted exactly the same way to all the scenes in the movie. It was the first film I've ever seen like that. It's just so relatable. Everybody screamed with laughter when they saw the dad was daydreaming about sports, and in that whole scene in general you could almost barely hear the conversation because everyone was laughing so hard. When Bing Bong died the whole room went deadly quiet, I saw one person hold up heart hands and another 6 ft 5 250 lb football linebacker get up and have to leave the room and take a moment. The movie is just that good, it gets across its story more clearly and more consistently than most movies I know.
i love this so much
Core memory. 😏
I remember seeing a protest sign ( BLM march ) and he was a huge guy with a sign saying " We ❤ u Bing Bong " in the mist of all the craziness around it made me smile. So cute.
That sounds like so much fun. Makes me wish living on campus in college was more common where I live
Oh my god, as a Pixar fan this is like one of Pixar's finest work.
Tbh this and Zootopia for me are the two Disney films that I enjoy but don't see the masterpiece that mostly everyone else see
@@btafbm i agree about zootopia. but inside out is definitely among my all time favourite animated movies. i always get teary eyed watching this
far from it but okay overall
There’s people in 2022 that haven’t seen this??
Back when they didn't try to shove lgbtq bullshit down our throat
"This movie is gonna break me isn't it? "
*Everyone screaming through the tears* YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!
The fact that disgust, fear and anger are left behind....those are how Riley was REALLY feeling about this whole thing
I thought, "Oh, cool, I'll enjoy watching Greg react to this." But I totally forgot that this movie will make me cry too. So there goes Bing Bong, and I'm sitting here bawling right along with Greg. 🤣😭🤣
Also 🚨 GIRL 🚨 GIRL 🚨 GIRL 🚨 lol
Bing Bong being forgotten is one of the sadder moments in a Disney movie. It isn't just him going away, it is a combination of a loss of innocence, and how your mind protects itself. In this case, her imaginary friend realizing that him staying around was, literally, holding Riley back so he sacrificed himself to save her.
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@@AndrewCheshire Adorable & articulate comment. Nobody could have put it better
the teen boy's reaction to seeing a girl is just an average redditor's reaction to seeing a woman.
Joy is a case of Toxic positivity. Overcompensating to maintain Riley’s constant happy personality despite sadness leaking trough the cracks. Until she sees the value of sadness and how as you stated, “you can’t understand joy without sadness” it’s an incredible personification of emotions and finding the value in sadness and grief and how it can enrich the human experience despite its unpleasant association.
If you watch Encanto, this is also personified in the aunt who cannot let emotion get the best of her and everyone telling her to smile to avoid bad weather.
Well when you think about it, it's really Riley that's perpetuating a cycle of toxic positivity. She thinks that she has to be happy all of the time, and does her best to push away the sadness in her life, most likely because she doesn't like how it feels.
What I really love about this is it gives both kids and adults a language to talk about feelings in a way we never had before. Imagine sitting down with your kid and talking with them about what their emotions are up to, what they think their islands of personality are, what are their most important memories, etc. If they go through something difficult they can say how they think that affects their memory formation and what their emotion team could do about it. It gives them a completely new way to describe why they feel like they do and to work through it.
Friends who are parents and teachers have told me it was immediately helpful with kids.
never thought about this, great point
Finally! A reaction to this movie I can relate to. I’ve seen so many reactors getting legit upset at Sadness for “messing everything up” and in the first 10 minutes you realized how important Sadness is and how MESSED UP some of the crap Joy was doing. ❤
Cinema Therapy is another channel that does a really good reaction/discussion to this movie, if you're interested in more.
yes i agree with everything u said but luckily those people probaly took a lesson from this movie which is the purpose. that sadness is important too and alright to feel
That shuddering breath at 28:24 gets me every freaking time. Never fails to make me cry
I love it when Reactors cry. It is just so awesome and authentic 🖤
Loooo
@@ReelRejects Sending hugs from South Africa 🇿🇦😉
Honestly I agree it feels terrible saying like I like to see someone cry but it just makes the reaction feel more real
@@UsagiMay Usually when they start tearing up, that's when I start tearing up 😉
@@luciwolffrsa same :,)
Fun fact: As Richard Kind was voicing his last line for Bing Bong, he was crying.
“Take her to the moon for me. Ok?”
This film does an AMAZING JOB portraying emotions. It has no reason to be this good. As a 41 year old man who has struggled with depression and at times it feels as though my joy has been lost, I fully understand how happy memories can be turned into sad ones, and the struggle you can have trying to hold to them, rather than let them change. This film makes me cry every time.
I saw this in theaters once, and had a total breakdown during the credits. After buying the blu-ray when it first came out, I just can't bring myself to watch it again because it was so emotionally devastating.
Don’t believe I’ve seen Greg cry like this before. Out of the many reactions I’ve seen from you guys, to which you cried, it was never like this one. And I think this one had much more of a personal connection to you Greg, as it did on all of us. Thankyou for watching this finally! 😂
I think haha the one that actually really messed me up the most was Everything Everywhere All At Once
I was the same age as the main character when I, too, had to move away and leave all my friends behind, and I'm telling you this movie BROKE me. We took our kids to see it when they were 8 and 5, and my wife and I were bawling the whole way to our car afterward and the kids couldn't understand why. 30 years later after everything that happened to me and I'm still not over it. Thank you for always being a great mental health advocate, Greg. 🙏🙏
I was in 4th grade when our family had a change of station. I was devastated but did not have the tools to recognize or articulate anything I was feeling. Just like Riley: sad, angry, bitter, felt very lost and scared...I can say that now. At the time, I just withdrew, my grades fell apart, wouldn't talk to anyone. The only answers the counselor could get out of me was literally, "I don't know" or "I don't care." That is how I felt. I didn't know and I didn't care.
I finally got better after the school year ended, I got through summer, and got to start with all of the other "new" kids for 5th grade. Dad made arrangements to make sure a change of station was never in the middle of the school year again. I must have been REALLY bad off.
It was only--like you--years later that I was able to figure out what was wrong and work through it better. I think a lot of the problem was my teacher and parents expecting/demanding me to just "get over it and enjoy" the new house, school, and base. That was the popular thinking of the time (nearly 40 years ago).
A different counselor finally recommended the teacher try to encourage my train of thought in the mandatory journals the class had to do. Instead of being told, "Get over it", she started to empathize with what I wrote about my previous home. That helped me a lot before summer rolled around. I finally began to get some of those feelings out. We sometimes do so much damage in expecting people to suppress things without processing them.
Greg really figuring out the whole meaning of the movie already at 3:16
Also, the voice actors for joy and sadness are perfect
I think anyone with high emotional intelligence already should understand that sadness is not just bad, nor is it the opposite of joy. The movie just demonstrates that truth in a fantastic way.
@@Jabberwocky415 yes, but I wasn't talking about anyone with high emotional intelligence. I was talking about the movie's plot :D
@@user-hp5hk6jy3n Sure. But if you have high emotional intelligence you probably could predict the movie’s overarching plot without too much difficulty. Since Joy was doing all the wrong things to start off.
I read a book years ago that truly showed me the way to truly understand any emotion is to experience the opposite
@@Jabberwocky415 You would be surprised, i've watched probably every reaction to this movie out there and most of them don't understand the message of the movie until the very end and end up mad at sadness the whole movie.
this is my favourite pixar movie, it's so clever how it portrays our emotions but to a level that children can understand, I use this film in my nursery setting to help explain emotions, the scene at the end where she opens up to her parents and the bing bong scene always makes me tear up :(
Wow you clearly must be 10 years old. Because this doesn’t even compare to the old Pixar movies.
@@jacksoneubanks546 wow you clearly must be 50 years old. Why won't you be gone already?
@@jacksoneubanks546 Bore off you old fart
@@jacksoneubanks546 "Old man yells at clouds"
@@jacksoneubanks546 and you must be 80
You are one of the VERY few reactors that didn't start off hating sadness and how she was out of control. I don't know you at all, first time on your channel and all, but I'm very proud of how open your mind was. Well done! You give me hope compassion and empathy isn't fully dead. ❤
I saw this movie in theaters with my family and one of my cousins was visiting us in Minnesota after recently moving to Indiana and being the same age as Riley at the time, she broke down more than any of us and was quite literally sobbing heavily throughout most of the movie. She, to this day, mentions how she's never seen a movie perfectly describe what she was going through and how being the oldest girl she felt like she couldn't just break down and be sad about the move until she saw this movie.
I moved from Indiana to Ohio in 1977 at age 11. It was a terribly difficult move for me at an awkward age.When I saw Inside Out in the theater with my 11 yr old daughter I ugly, audibly cried through most of the movie! age. I was relieved when the house lights came on and saw all the other adults wiping their eyes and blowing their noses!
I loved how the mom’s emotions were led by Sadness and the dad’s is led by Anger.
Just like my parents
There is a theory that sadness matured into empathy and anger into dominance and righteousness. That is why they are the leaders.
@@kaspiansea3997 Dang
I took it as the mom having depression
@@alexamaree13 Eso no es posible por que la depresion se define como "ausencia de emociones" es decir no sientes nada, un ejemplo de episodio de depresion se ve representada brevemente en la pelicula cuando la consola de Ryle se pone color gris y enojo comenta "Ryle ya no puede sentir nada"
Pixar actually consulted 2 of psychology's leading experts on emotion who taught them that emotions drive rational thinking rather than disrupt it. Emotion is not a weakness.
There are even lesson plans developed by educators to be used in classrooms for different ages. And The Center for Teaching Quality urges all educators to see it.
this was a pleasant surprise! that Bing Bong moment always gets me because to me, it signifies the need to say goodbye to childhood and having to grow up. super sad but necessary for us to go on. Sadness is my favorite character but all the characters were amazing imo. they picked the best voice actors, for sure! ❤
Bing Bong had me tearing up the first time I watched it. The second time, I took my mum to the cinema to show her this amazing film and I knew it was coming but that time it affected me worse and I was full on bawling. As a 23 year old guy surrounded by kids and their parents. I went to Toys R Us and bought a Bing Bong action figure that I still have on my shelf just so he won't ever be forgotten.
Dude i'm 29 this month, have seen reactions to this movie like 15 times and the Bing Bong scene never fails to get me.
You put your finger on the message of the movie much more earlier than most people I’ve seen. The idea that sadness is necessary and beneficial, that positivity at all cost can be harmful, that it’s important to feel all your emotions, etc
Loved your reaction
“ *Riley* just needs a moment to be vulnerable”
*becomes vulnerable whilst reacting*
This is why your channel will blossom from here on out, u opened up for us as your viewers with a movie that made us also cry
It’s honestly the casting that makes this movie AMAZING! I only hear Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope and her infinite optimism with Joy and feel Lewis Black’s aneurysms with Anger 😂❤
And friggin Richard Kind as Bing Bong. Just wonderful voice acting in this.
Greg: "I have a feeling this movie is going to break me"
Yes, yes it will. This movie is truly phenomenal. One of my favourite messages in any kids movie too. It's okay to be sad sometimes.
I moved around a LOT as a kid (no, not a military brat) for my dad's job so i absolutely relate to Riley. I had quite a few moments like she did standing up in front of the class crying because i introduced myself and teachers probed and brought up once happy memories that were now sad. That's what that was showing. How happy memories can turn quite sad when you realize you'll never be in that place and time again. And i also ran away from home at 16 because my parents were abusive and neglected me a lot. I'm no contact now so I'm in a better place, but it really sucked that i had to constantly watch what emotions i showed around them.
I also love how it showed that parents calling kids "their insert-whatever-here kid" is incredibly toxic. That puts a lot of pressure on a kid. Calling Riley their happy girl made Joy think she HAD to keep Riley happy. It's why I don't agree with people who paint joy as a villain. If anything she's an anti-hero or antagonist. She doesn't do anything to intentionally be evil......she just refuses to accept any other way. But calling your kid gifted, happy, etc over and over can really affect kids negatively.
And lastly, i also love how it shows that kids who lash out or have "attitude" usually have a deeper reason for it. And it's not just because they want to have attitude but usually they feel like they can't be or don't want to be honest about their feelings. All in all definitely one of my favourite Pixar movies. And it's a pretty accurate portrayal of depression. No sadness, no happiness..... just apathy and a lot of disgust and anger.
This movie introduced me to the idea of toxic positivity and helped me distinguish sadness (healthy) from depression (unhealthy).
Also, told my therapist about this movie and now she uses it for her autistic child clients to help them express their emotions 😊
you're not alone Greg. This part made me dad-cry as well. i wanna hug you just seeing you cry like this
I saw this movie in the theater and you could hear adults literally sobbing at Bing Bong and when Riley comes home. Not crying. Sobbing. This movie helped as a teacher of preschoolers to let them explain their emotions a little better by showing which character they felt like most and then talking about it. I love Pixar movies! The metaphors are..so well done.
I always thought the emotions (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger) were like a family themselves. They can’t live with each other, yet they can’t live without each other either.
I'm guessing Disgust is the middle child since you forgot about her?
Oooof you’re right!! Ironically they’re all my fave
i cry a lot every time during this movie but Greg’s crying amplified my crying by so much lol
Same!
I was almost sobbing with him lol
@@wjquick32 I was definitely sobbing with him!
Absolutely, what a cathartic experience for sure
One of my favorite little details in this movie was how Anger’s newspaper had a headline that pertained to the immediate situation.
My whole family went to see this together right after my grandpa's funeral. Needless to say, I'm an absolute wreck every time I watch it. It's a wonderful film ❤️❤️
As a child I really believed I was born depressed. I did experience what Riley did but it added to why I was already depressed. As an adult this movie was frustrating and healing. The moment Riley explained how she felt and the breath of relief she let out made me completely breakdown. I LOVE this movie
Such a simple concept but they somehow makes it perfect and personal for a lot of people. And successfully gave us the feels. Inside Out is one of the most amazing movie that comes out in the last 20 years
“Take her to the moon for me, ok?”
Gets me every god damn time.
That line breaks so many people.... For me it never fails to bring a tear
this movie had me sobbing when i first watched. it really hits you in the feels… where joy is riley’s primary emotion, I think sadness is definitely mine 😅 i need to go rewatch this movie now
i cant explain what i feel about Greg, truly an incredible human, i hope someone gave him a big hug after this one
I'm so happy you didn't demonize Sadness or Joy from the start. You knew why Joy was pushing Sadness away, but you also knew why Sadness was effecting the memories.
I never thought I'd cry so hard over someone named Bing Bong.
this movie literally inspired me to study and want to work in mental health!! it’s incredible, so happy you connected with it as well
The fact that you shared your own story with dealing with depressive and manic thoughts ...was powerful. Be in the moment good or bad. But don't relish/ get stuck in either for too long, keep moving forward.....Always!
This movie is brilliant and could therapeutically help kids understand their own emotions. Back in 2015, my Dad wanted to go to the theater and gave two options: Inside Out & Jurassic World, and I foolishly chose JW. I got a DVD copy of Inside Out later and within the first two minutes I realized this this was probably my favorite Pixar movie. It struck a chord with me in a way that no other Pixar film had. I personally related to Riley a lot, and I was blown away by how emotionally nuanced, uniquely mature, and healthy the message of this movie is, all while still being really fun and entertaining. The metaphorical representation of Riley mentally growing up and realizing that sadness is A HEALTHY, NECESSARY emotion is not a lesson I’ve ever seen another kids movie teach.
When I saw this in theaters I broke bc I knew what it felt like to be completely numb just like Riley was, and finally able to talk to someone without judgement, my family was the type to be to hold feelings and not talk about them but thank goodness for my husband who was able to open me up and really help me heal. This was a masterpiece of a movie and I use it to help my kids talk about their feelings and that it’s okay to be sad, mad, scared etc.
I have never NOT cried watching this movie. Never. It's a masterpiece, man.
so glad you reacted to this. man, you got the whole sadness thing right away. i love this movie and how it illustrates different emotions. the scene at the dinner table was a good example of how someone sometimes seem like they go from zero to 60 with their emotions. just the way it broke emotions down, touched on core memories--just a lot of their decisions were so beautifully executed. and the bing bong scene always gets me. 🥲
Greg is the one person I’ve seen in the movie reaction/pundit space that wears his heart on his sleeve when watching films. I’m the exact same way and I don’t care. Also watching Greg cry when Bing Bong fades, had ME crying 😭
This movie is beautiful. I cry every time. “Take her to the moon for me, okay?” Then seeing little Riley playing with imaginary Bing Bong does me in.
This is a deep little movie that teaches kids that every emotion you feel is ok, that it’s normal to feel what you feel and I think that’s pretty damn wonderful.
Pixar announced that they’re mating an Inside Out 2 with Amy Pohler and presumably the rest of the cast returning, but I love the first movie SO MUCH that I’m kinda worried about what the second one will be
If they go the same route as Toy Story 3, they could have Riley age up the same way Andy did so that those who were Riley's age when the original came out are the same age as grown Riley, dealing with emotions of being a young adult. Could hit the same sweet spot for them that Toy Story 3 did for me.
I'm worried because I'm wondering if they are going to address why Riley had both male and female emotions when everyone else only had one or the other. The way they are forcing certain subjects, im just worried that they are going to focus the movie around the wrong thing rather than a real story and life lesson like this one.
@@foxie5502 I feel the same way but hopefully it’s Pixar we’re talking about, they’ll try to deliver the message other than agendas like Disney is doing currently.
This is DISNEY Pixar. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Puberty
Me: I'm not gonna cry at the bing bong scene again.
*cries*
Always makes me bawl
Still a classic and one of Pixar’s best and one of the best films of 2015.
One of the things I love is that when you look at the minds of others, Joy isn't necessarily the lead emotion. Sadness is the lead for Mom. Anger is the lead for Dad. Yet the emotions work together so well that they aren't overwhelming each other. Riley's joy wants to lead by overpowering instead of lead by being a unified team. She had to learn the hard way that it's better to experience all the emotions.
I love this movie. Really shows why we need all our emotions to be healthy, even the ones we see as bad.
I own this movie and can’t believe I hadn’t cried while watching it. But, these reactions always get me in the feels department. And after years of finally getting the opportunity to enjoy the content you guys make, getting a ❤ comment means the world to me. Thank you for the years of content and for many more years of content to come, Greg.
Hits hard definitely. I don't think I would have appreciated this enough if I would have seen this as a kid, it's a very mature story
I loved this movie, but I think your reaction was the first time I realized the genius of Bing Bong sacrificing himself. It's not just letting go that moved me, it's that genius you mentioned of letting your imagination propel your reality! When you said that, i had to rewind
I can’t say enough about how brilliant this movie is. Pixar was able to take very complex topics and themes and deliver it in a way that is digestible for anyone of any age to understand. The way the movie portrays the inside of the mind is incredibly clever and creative. Amazing voice over work and animation really makes the characters pop on screen. One of pixar’s absolute best and an easy 10/10 for me.
Judging from the thumbnail, I can tell I'm in for a lighthearted fun time lol
8:10 I’ve always thought that keeping sadness contained by a little white circle was an allusion to antidepressants
This movie makes me cry more than any other pixar movie. Modern culture puts so much emphasis on being happy, doing what makes you happy, avoiding the things that make you sad, etc. The unfortunate truth is that everyone has sadness in their lives, you can not live in this world without experiencing sadness. If you try to just ignore it you will only end up hurting yourself. The things that have hurt us in life usually are the things that we learn the most from, they form and shape us even more than the joyful things. If you embrace that sadness as a part of your life, but not its definitive characteristic, that acceptance will make you such a better and stronger person. Dealing with difficulty and sadness is an incredibly important skill to have.
The fact that the mom is being run by sadness and the dad is run by anger is so sad but very relatable to a lot of couples.
As you get older, your emotions become more complex. More than likely, Sadness being in charge of Mom's Headquarters means that Mom is a highly empathic person, and Anger being in charge of Dad's Headquarters would suggest that Dad is driven by passion and ambition. If there's anything this movie demonstrates, it's that seemingly negative emotions can still have a very positive effect if you understand them properly.
Wow, YOU made me cry. Thanks for being vulnerable with us and not hiding your emotions. 🥰
Bing Bong TAKE HER TO THE MOON FOR ME That Line 😭😭😭🥺 loved this movie so much Top of my list For sure
The Bing Bong Scene always gets me, man! I would always cry no matter how many times I watch this movie cause I am aware I have an imaginary friend when I was a kid but I can't remember what it looks like anymore. I can't remember anything (as part of growing up). It hurts to see Bing Bong being forgotten. 😢😭
I’m the same, I try not to re watch the movie too much because it’ll just be a snot fest lol
But just watched it with my little brother and yeah still a snot fest but he was there to comfort me
This whole movie was so well thought out. The symbolism is spot on. I love the evolution of the control panel. It got progressively more complex, as she got older. Until the end, only one emotion could use it at once, symbolizing how we, at that age, aren't really capable of complex emotions. Everything is very cut and dry. But in her teens, now she can have more subtle emotions, like the core memory that was a combination of joy and sadness, or bittersweet.
YES! This is my favorite Pixar movie. It’s so damn good
Thank you so much for this reaction and above all, your thoughts at the end about it. I really felt understood as a person that had to go through a lot of grief myself during my childhood and afterwards also having lost my parents in a bad way. Acceptance is still the hardest part for me and it just feels good to be reminded that it‘s ok to still feel sad and angry, lonely and abandoned, after all this time. Thank you, really!
I like how this movie expresses Sadness as a weakness, something you shouldn't show other people and always keep a smile on your face. However, the more the sadness is supressed, everything breaks down, it weighs down on everything else and the only way to overcome it is to release the emotion, express it, acknowledge it. And that not only helps you but everyone around you, emotions are an incredible and dangerous concept, but we need them to survive.
Greg, I loved so much watching this with you. This movie hits me hard every time I watch, and hearing you discuss it and talk about your understanding of these topics was so wonderful. Thank you for taking us with you on your reaction. You’re so insightful and that is why I keep coming back. Thank you for sharing, this was excellent.
I was 14 when this xame out and it was fantastic. The new family memory is amazing.
When things are at their worst, when i have nothing and nobody...my family will be there for me. That message is just amazing.
“Take her to the moon for me” hits home every time 🥹
Great reaction! I like how you immediately knew the upside of sadness, as our value system is based on establishing two extremes, comparing them and creating a spectrum between them.
How strong your happy feelings can be will depend on your strongest sad feeling.
Also, yes, when you try to force yourself to feel happy all the time and never give any other emotions a turn, it will end up feeling like a numb and empty kind of happy.
Greg crying shows how much of a good human being he is. A man’s man.
Just wanted to confess that I've come back to rewatch this reaction more than once because it's so comforting having a good cry with you, Greg. ❤😂
This movie came out at the right time. I had just moved away from my home and I was lost and it really helped this movie is an amazing one
Greg - "Damn, how psychologically deep is this going to get?" .. Oh Greg You are not prepared 😳 If it's any consolation I was well into my 30's when I first saw this and I was shaking crying at the end... Yeah the shoulders goin' up and down stuff. 🥺😩😭
It’s bonkers to me that just watching people react to this movie makes me emotional. Beautiful film ❤
3:34 REAAAAAL deep
Also like how every call Joy the antagonist, but sadness caused some mayhem😂😂😂😂😂
They’re both responsible lol
This movie is my number 1 Pixar film. For many many years Monsters Inc was sitting there but the ending hit me like yep this is my favorite now.
I love the way that Greg has never tried to hide his feelings when he watches a movie. I love your reactions and I will till my last living breath continue watching you guys. You guys give me hope and teach me valuable lessons everyday. Thank you Greg Alba ❤
Genuinely one of my favourite Pixar films. "I miss Minnesota, I miss home" breaks me every time.
I don’t remember watching this the first time, but rewatching it with you was a therapeutic experience. I didn’t realise how much I needed to cry until you commented on how much we need moments of vulnerability.
I havent cried once while watching the movie, but I do tear up seeing others getting really emotional watching it. Pixar outdid itself with this movie, making lots and lots of people understand and cry.
I loved your reaction so very much!
The ONLY reason I didn't cry at my first watch was...I was with my roommates, I put a TON of effort into NOT crying in front of them (SO much effort, it was PAINFUL lol). The fact that tears were so hard to suppress surprised me since I virtually don't cry to anything. So after the movie, it REALLY felt like I needed a tear-shedding outlet (I wonder why... *sarcasm*). So, I tried re-watching it by myself, but NOTHING happened. I'd discovered I apparently can't cry to a RE-watch of ANYthing. So I started seeking out movies NEW to me that were known as tearjerkers and eventually found some (including ONE eventually - Nimona - to which I cried an incredible 15 times, if you count re-watches, reactions and reading / writing comments!). But that was the ONLY one so far that was a "repeater tearjerker" for me.
BUT THEN... after countless re-watches of "Inside Out" (I really like it, even if it does not make me cry)... I'm watching THIS reaction and that last scene of Riley crying for some reason NOW "got me". Emotions are definitely strange!
@@sathvamp1 I LOVE NIMONA
That Bing Bong moment gets me every time 🥺
Always appreciate your openness to experience these movies with the public. Sometimes watching them myself i wonder if I'm just unusual when emotionally affected by "kids movies" but we are all still kids inside at some level. We have to be adults professionally for the most part and the fun happens when we can "be kids again".
The Reel Rejects have always been on the top echelon of my subscriptions. I hope to join your Patreon soon as well! Thanks again for this review and thanks for making me feel like a part of "Reject Nation"!
This is one of my favorite movies. You watched this just in time because they are coming out with a part 2 to this.
There’s a reason this is one of my favorite animated movies of all time. It’s just done so fantastically well.
Not me crying over Inside Out with Greg after 7 years.
I bawled the first time I was watching, I was graduating that year, missing my dad so much it hurt... A lot was changing 💔
In a way it helped me understand my emotions better.
It will always be one of my favourites.
T'was pleasure crying with you Greg 😁😂
One of my favorite Pixar movies and such an emotional story. So beautifully told. And loved your reaction, Greg. As always. You are as emotional watching these movies as me. :)
This movie really hits home bc I experienced it firsthand when I was probably the same age. Not the moving part, but the running away. It was the only out I saw when something had to give.
The thing is, I thought about it enough to consider almost everything I’d be losing and… still chose to? I’d grieved for everything long before I stepped out the door. Parents, friends, life, extended family, home, trips, all of it. Except for one thing.
I had that moment, where the sadness hit and made me stop in my tracks, because I had a brother who was maybe a year old at the time. And all of a sudden I realized that if I left, I wouldn’t be there to watch him grow up. I felt the need to protect him from ending up where I did. So I turned around.
I didn’t get the happy family moment. Just a smug sort of “see, I knew you would chicken out” - barely that, even- my dad knew I was running away and didn’t do anything. My mom looked for me, though. 6-7 ish years later, we actually have a really great relationship and I’m lucky to have her. Also another little brother (almost 5 years old!) who I’m very close with and is almost definitely autistic, just like me, and who won’t have to go through what I did because he has someone who understands his needs. If that’s all I accomplish in life it’ll be enough. :]