A/N: I was originally going to make a review of "Inside Out," but then an idea struck me as I sat down to watch it (for the second time!): since reviews are basically just the author's thoughts and feelings (wink-wink) on a movie/book/whatever, why not write a review from the point of view of my emotions?

At first I was going to tell it like a short one-shot fanfic that was more of an overall summary, but then I guess my emotions got excited and planted an idea in my head, because the next thing I knew, I thought, 'Hey! Why not just make it a multi-chaptered story? I could have my emotions react to the film, one chapter per scene, and that way I could share my thoughts and make a nice little fanfic!'

So, here you go! I hope you enjoy it, but - more importantly - I hope you are honest with any review you might leave; I've got thick skin and no opinion of my own writing, so it's all good. Naturally, of course, this review/fanfic will contain spoilers. You've been warned.

With that out of the way, let's take a look at this experiment in film reviews, starting with the film-in-question's trailer...

Browsing through Facebook one boring October day, a twenty-something film geek noticed an attention-grabbing video pop up in his news feed. Disney had submitted a trailer to a new movie, Inside Out. 'Oh,' he thought to himself, 'This must be the one from the list on Wikipedia.' As he clicked to play the video, his mind briefly recalled seeing the synopsis of the film months ago: it's a story about characters inside some kid's head. Interesting, but then again, Disney and Pixar were known for these types of films; "X is actually alive and has a job in our world, so Y is the story of what X does when Z goes wrong."

Repetitive? Perhaps a little, he'd admit. However, imaginative? Well, the trailer would tell that much at least. As he sat back and watched the trailer, he saw wave after wave of nostalgia-filled clips from childhood. Ah, the memories...

Joy, barely keeping his glasses in place, was practically flying up at the screen as the memories came flooding in from the banks far below. Disgust, who was living up to his name, was holding Joy in the chair with one arm and keeping the 'Time' lever turned all the way to the slowest setting; they'd need it for this flood of memories if the mind workers were to get all those orbs up in time. The other Emotions, working hard at their own stations, simply had no time to help their leader reign in his overly enthusiastic third-in-command. "Ooh! And there's Monster's Inc! Remember Monster's Inc? Oh my gosh, we used to love that one!" Joy was saying.

"Yes," Disgust replied between gritted teeth, holding back barely-restrained sarcasm, "The memory is up right now, Joy, so please get back to your seat and calm-"

The recall tube sent up a new memory, though, and Joy was taken away with it before Disgust could finish. "And now look! Finding Nemo!" the luminescent, yellow fuzzball was now twitching and wiggling in childish Joy... as if he'd been doing anything else since the trailer started. "Oh, I remember the first time we saw it!"

"Yeah..." Sadness commented, unaware that Ben Stein - or Eeyore, take your pick - would approve of his deep drone of a voice, "and it makes me feel old... because it was so long ago..."

Suddenly, a girly yelp came from fear as she belted down a full gulp of coffee. Hissing in pain, but still needing to express herself, she slightly (ever so slightly) nudged a 'Widened Eyes' button. "Whoa, hey, you're right. That's bad! That's- that's just scary to think about! Please, take that memory down, now!"

No sooner said than done, and - incidentally - a new memory shot up as the trailer played on in slow-motion, again giving the mind workers enough time to meet HQ's demands.

"Hey, it's Up! Ooh! I remember Up! I remember it!" Joy shouted before tripping and falling back down to the floor, nearly taking Disgust with him.

"Oh, yeah, I remember it!" Anger spoke up as she turned the 'Jaw Tighten' knob. The Memory of Up came and pulsed back and forth between golden, green, and red, "I remember that corporate sellout squishing a much better movie at the Oscars! The Secret of Kells should've won best animated picture that year! I'll never forgive the Academy! Never!"

"Amen!" Disgust declared and then threw Anger a high-five. Suddenly, Joy poked his head up, his happy mood unphased by the resentment even he (deep down) felt at what all five feelings agreed was a snub.

"Oh, the Secret of Kells!" he declared, "Dude, I remember that one! Oh my gosh! That was great! Oh my gosh!"

As soon as Up was there, however, it was gone, followed by...

"Hey, look! It's... Wall-E."

An awkward silence descended on the group. Fear coughed. Sadness sipped his coffee.

Somewhere in the background, the sound of Memory Tubes whirring could faintly be heard.

"Yeah, that one was, like, okay, I guess..." Disgust scoffed, "but not really all that great. Actually, I hated it. So, yeah."

"Uhuh."

"Yep."

"Mmhmm."

"Yeah."

A few more seconds of apathetic staring at the screen passed soon enough, however, giving way to more and more memories. Each emotion offered their comments on the films prominently displayed. Only Anger, who wasn't actually that angry, slowly started noticing something. 'Hey...' she thought to herself, 'Those feelings written on the screen... they...'

Her jaw dropped open. The others were too busy cheering up Sadness (who was still bawling over a brief flashback to Toy Story 3) to notice what Anger saw on the screen; she saw... well, he wasn't sure. Mentally, Anger shut completely down in awe at what the trailer showed him. All he could think, over and over, was, 'How did Disney know?'

Seconds later, everyone else spat out their coffee at once and stared at the screen in dead silence.

"Oh..." was all Sadness could say.

"Whoa..." Joy exclaimed, his smile leaving for the first time since the trailer started.

"H-How... How did-" Fear stammered.

"Ugh! I am not that poorly-dressed!" Disgust spouted off. Then his brain registered what it was he was seeing, and he became just as flabbergasted as the others.

There they were, up on the screen: Joy (only not the real Joy), twirling up into the air. Sadness (or, rather, someone else's version of Sadness), looking quite depressed, Anger (who almost looked the same) hardly flinching, Disgust flicking her (not his, her) hair, and Fear (whom the real Fear thought looked kinda creepy) panicking over the height he was thrown. Then, on screen, it all became clear - or perhaps more confusing - as the camera zoomed in to this little girl's head, where these foreigners seemed to live. Inside there, this strange, feminine version of Joy pulled all the others (even an indignant Anger) together for a big group hug.

Still unable to process it, the real emotions all blankly stared at the screen.

Then the little girl's Sadness walked on screen. As if her very presence killed the music, it went silent. She reached up and almost waved, but simply gave up on it. Then, as downtrodden as she entered, she walked back out.

Joy (the real Joy) burst into hysterical laughing. "Oh my gosh! It's just like you! Oh- oh that's great! Guys! Guys? Guys. Did you see that please tell me you saw that! This is so exciting! They're making a movie... about us! About emotions! Dudes, that's awesome! That's... We've gotta see this when it comes out!"

He was standing up on top of the console, hands up in the air, as if he'd just finished giving a motivational speech.

Everyone else all silently nodded in agreement, as Disgust (too overwhelmed to even scold Joy for stepping on everything) whipped out a post-it paper and made a small Mental Note:

"To: Self.
Watch 'Inside-Out.'"

Nearly taking it off and pinning it to the console, he hesitated, bit his lip, and then quickly added to the end of it:

"Also, why did they have to make Disgust a girl? Phht. At least I have a good sense in clothing style."