AVClub: There’s a novelty inherent in seeing a Hollywood movie depict its characters’ chosen professions as unglamorously as Deepwater Horizon does when it shows the day-to-day operations of a drilling rig. These are some of the best parts of Peter Berg’s workmanlike disaster movie: riggers checking in at a heliport before being flown out for their 21-day shifts; a sore, tired-looking guy in safety-orange coveralls cracking a dumb joke; middle-aged men who pronounce “cement” as “see-ment” talking construction timetables; a visiting executive being asked to remove his magenta tie because of industry superstition. But in all other respects, this dramatization of the real-life 2010 blowout and fire that killed 11 people is a poor man’s Towering Inferno, despite the hefty $156 million budget.
Possession films are a dime a dozen with tons of motion pictures about people spewing pea soup when those pesky demons occupy and live rent free in their bodies.
Inside Out 2 has got to be the animation movie of the year for me so far. It had everything I wanted from the original and so much more I never could have anticipated. From the very first opening scene with that nostalgic, wholesome piano keys of the theme sound from the first movie, it was like my soul was transported back into the feelings the first movie brought about while bringing me wholly into the world of the sequel.
This horror movie-inspired virtual pinball table is a bloody good time (sorry).
