Perhaps I am but even as metaphor I find the conceptual problems to much to stomach. In either case it does not work as an explanation you either get an infinite regressions (it's emotions in heads all the down!) or there is no explanation for the emotion-people emotions beyond brute fact but in that case why no simply say humans feel as brute fact? The last point might seem like I am taking the film too literally. Either Joy herself has five emotions in *her* head to control *her* emotions or the emotion-people feel emotions as brute fact. However, this utterly undermines the explanation of where emotions come from that is the basis of the film. This is because drama requires characters to change through time-this is why I think the concept is better suited to a short. The film cheats on the last point and allows the emotion-people to have emotions besides the one they are. This brings me to the third conceptual problem. Joy is Joyful and she should be unable to feel anything else at all. Second, the emotion-people should not be able to feel emotions besides they one they are. People might differ on this and find say Sadness too morose. Joy-being the main character-suffers the most from this.

This ends up causing two problems: the characters can be annoying because conceptually they are stuck in a single mode. (The film's conception of how emotions work is *really* hard to work out the details.) Second, Joy and the other emotion-people are basically stuck in whatever emotion they are or cause. She feels *nothing* only her emotion-people do. (This is true for all human 'characters' and their dominate emotions.) This means that the story of Riley adjusting to moving to San Francisco rings entirely hollow because Riley is a mere automaton. First Riley is not a real character in the film because Riley is not the seat of consciousness-Joy is. I believe the following three conceptual problems are what do the film in. Lewis Black as Anger is some of the best casting of all time. The film flashes brilliance repeatedly by using this concept logically. The emotion-people are driving around us people-people is a funny, striking concept. But the concept is just not suited to a longer narrative film-especially one that is intended to be a bittersweet comedy. This film is very frustrating because it is so close to being a wonderful experience that ranks among the very best Pixar. Reviewed by CubsandCulture 5 / 10 Doctor's only real misfire.

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