Hi, this is Dana Stephen, Slate's movie critic, here with a Slate spoiler special podcast on Inside Out, the new Pixar film directed by Pete Doctor and starring Amy Poehler and many others.

And joining me from Slate's DC studio is Dan Koyce, a senior editor at Slate.

Hello, Dan. How are you?

Good. Thanks for having me. I'm very happy to have you. You have been keen to spoil this movie with me for months, since months before it came out.

You've claimed this spoiler.

You've clung to it.

And in fact, you love this movie so much that you are also going to write on it.

So I'm very, very anxious to talk to you about it.

Yeah, yeah.

This was a movie I had my eye on for a long time.

I'm a huge Pixar fan. I have daughters. So the idea of Pixar doing a movie that

is just about an ordinary girl was very appealing. And then it also turned out that I totally loved it.

So I was extra excited to talk to you about it. Yeah, I'm really glad that we're doing it. So let's

see. Where should we start? So I guess we usually start off with a reaction, and we both loved it. My love is already all over my review,

but I'm still, I'm really, even though we agree on it, I think this is not going to be a boring spoiler special because there's a lot to spoil and a lot of twists in this movie. And the review

really has to tiptoe delicately around lots of things and describe them vaguely. And now we get to

describe them specifically and dive in. Yeah. So, yeah. So the story of Inside Out is the story of Riley, who is an 11-year-old girl,

who at the beginning of the movie, we meet the emotions that live inside her head, the five

emotions, joy, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. And the one that sort of seems to rule the show is Joy, who's voiced by Amy Poehler.

Because Riley is a happy kid with a million happy experiences on a day-to-day level.

Joy seems to be the one who drives her action most often.

And they're portrayed inside this sort of beautifully designed control room inside Riley's brain,

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