Pixar Films Remind Us That We Might Not Be Perfect

By Published on July 3, 2015

Among the many extraordinary things about Pixar’s brilliant “Inside Out,” now in theaters, is a quiet but important climactic moment: one that highlights what makes Pixar movies special, from “Toy Story” to “Monsters University.”

Without spoiling any particulars, the young heroine, Riley, who has made some gravely misguided choices and has started down a foolhardy path, comes to regret her choices and does an about-face.

In the context of modern Hollywood animated family films, the moral clarity and redemptive arc of this sequence are almost without parallel — with the notable exception of all the other Pixar films in which flawed protagonists make bad decisions and wind up on the wrong path, obliging them to face up to their mistakes and make amends to set things right.

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