Inside Out

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🎙️ EPISODE 306: 02.06.2021 This will be either the dumbest or smartest thing I put on this website. I honestly don't think it could possibly fall anywhere in between. Thesis: Inside Out (dir. Pete Docter, b. 1968) ripped off The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D (dir. Robert Rodriguez, b. 1968). Rodriguez is 3½ months older than Docter and his film came out almost ten years to the day earlier, and–coincidentally–one day before Rodriguez's 47th birthday. I am, by all accounts, at least the fourth person to discover this conspiracy, in the wake of, you guessed it, Docter's fourth Pixar film being released (Soul, 2020).

Marco Marabello, The Daily Free Press, 9 April 2018:

I found that it anticipates in some manner Disney’s “Inside Out.” The journey of Max, Sharkboy and Lavagirl across Drool, Max’s imaginary planet, through the “train of thoughts” and the “stream of consciousness” resembles in many ways the journey through Riley’s brain in Inside Out.

Nathanael Smith, Vodzilla, the UK's first Video On-Demand Magazine, 31 January 2016:

The land of milk and cookies is not too dissimilar from Sugar Rush, the game in Wreck-It Ralph; more obvious, however, is the parallels with Pixar’s Inside Out. The critically lauded animation has the same tendency towards categorising sections of the brain as Rodriguez’ film does his abstract concepts. So in Sharkboy there is a Dream Graveyard, the Stream of Consciousness and even, yes, a Train of Thought. Such is the similarity of these moments that it actually made us like Pixar’s film a little less, as if we discovered that Margaret Atwood plagiarised from an Innocent Smoothies carton.

Anonymous and Anonymous, Tumblr, Date Unknown:

Anonymous asked, inside out ripped off sharkboy and lava girl tbh!! the physical manifestation of an exploration of a kids dreams/memories, the coming of age story, problems with parents, even the literal "train of thought." give robert rodriguez reparations!! and give credit where credit is due to the true cinematic marvel of sharkboy and lavagirl. Anonymous replies, you’re trying to get me to joke with you and i appreciate that but i was 15 in 2005 and as such i have never seen sharkboy and lava girl.

This rare "joint-review" features on both movie pages. Each film gets the adult-approved KMK score of 9; they are equally good in every, way, shape and form.

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