A year without a Pixar movie feels like a year, if not wasted, then certainly one that's been shooting jealous glances at the years either side of it. Happily, our Pixarless state is coming to a close as Inside Out, the studio's next release, limbers up for its big-screen bow in 2015. The animation has had a teaser trailer but now it's time for the full monty. Put your feet up, hit play and bathe in the pretty.
Pixar mainstay Pete Docter, the man behind Up, has conjured up another unique idea for his latest: a kind of emotional **Innerspace **in which five key human emotions are embodied by five different characters. Joy (Amy Poehler), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Bill Hader) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) are the emotions that define 11 year-old Riley's experiences as she tries to adjust to her family's move from the Midwest to San Francisco.
Given the high-concept conceit, the trailer sensibly avoids darting around the story in favour of playing out a sequence in full to help us wrap our minds around it. While it would probably be inappropriate to namecheck Woody Allen's *Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (*But Were Afraid To Ask) **at this point, Docter's film does mine similarly rich comic terrain in having the brain running haywire like an asylum overrun by its lunatics. You'll have to fight the urge to put your foot down because Inside Out won't be in our cinemas until July 24.