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questions that really showed me that he understood the meaning behind it - he was asking me about what to do when it's hard to be happy, and we talked about how it's okay to be sad, and that he can always tell us how he is feeling.
Even if he didn't get all of that, Pixar did a great job of having this film be multi-layered - if younger kids don't get the real life implications of the emotions not working properly they take it at face value as they follow Joy trying to make it back to headquarters. There were kids of all kinds of ages at our showing and they were all in.
The one scene that would be a bit tough for younger kids was Bing Bong's sacrifice. That ish was tough on ME.