"Inside Out" might be the prefect movie for kids and parents.  It's animated and keeps the kids engaged, and parents can sit back and ponder things like emotion and regret and sadness, and what makes the brain tick.  I loved it!  Well, except for one thing it did to my kids that may have damaged them forever.

The emotions that we all feel are made into cute little characters in this movie, and the main ones are Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger.  Joy has blue hair and looks the most like a human, Anger is red, Sadness is all blue, Disgust is green, and Fear is purple.

My three girls each chose their favorite character in the movie, which meant that they were choosing a favorite emotion, and that's intriguing to a mom.  Finley is 7 and she liked Anger the best, although it was a close call with Disgust not far behind.  Kallan is 5, and her favorite was Fear.  Three-year old Piper's favorite was Sadness.

Seriously?  Somebody in this house is going to love Joy, dang it!  Can't anyone pick Joy?! Come on!  Haha!  I liked Joy the most.  Or at least I felt like I should.

We can't have Joy alone in life, as the movie suggests.  Joy and Sadness go together sometimes, and that's okay.  All of the emotions work together to create and remember life experiences.

For the first time in 11 movies, a Pixar film didn't debut at Number 1.  Apparently they shouldn't have released it so close to "Jurassic World," because it kept "Inside Out" from reaching #1 even though it hauled in $91 million.  Between those two movies, the theaters were packed this weekend.

Something tells me "Inside Out" will keep building in the coming weeks, kinda like "Frozen" did.  So there's plenty of time for the kids to get on board with Joy.

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