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Before the main feature, a Pixar short called Lava plays. How do they do it? Taking a premise that on paper sounds ridiculous and turn it into something that can make a grown man weep. This features a lonely volcano who watches on as everything around him travels in pairs, leaving him alone to sing that one day, the sky up above will send him someone to lava. Millennia pass and it looks all set to be a tragic ending as the volcano’s tears fill the sea and bury him underneath, someone pass the tissues! This isn’t even the main feature!

Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is a typical girl teetering on the cusp of adolescence. Her family decides to up sticks from Minnesota and move to San Francisco, meaning Riley must leave her friends, hockey team and memories behind. It’s a tough time, made even tougher when two of her dominate emotions, Joy (Amy Poehler) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) get lost in long term memory, leaving Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling) in charge of Riley.

For Inside Out may be about these core emotions, but really it’s about individuality and personality, helping us determine the person who we’re likely to be. At it’s heart, Inside Out is much like any other Pixar movie, featuring