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Posted: 2015-09-24T20:40:53Z | Updated: 2015-09-24T20:40:53Z Hilarious Video Exposes How Pixar Makes You Cry In All Its Movies | HuffPost

Hilarious Video Exposes How Pixar Makes You Cry In All Its Movies

A look inside the animation studio's nefarious "SadLab."

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when you go to see a Pixar movie -- well, except maybe one of those "Cars" ones -- you are going to cry at some point, if not through three-quarters of the movie. It's almost like Pixar has sadness and pathos down to a science. 

But wait: maybe they do. That's the suggestion of this hilarious video from the team at Above Average , which gives a peek into Pixar's "SadLab" -- a full-fledged scientific lab that the Disney-owned animation studio runs to come up with new ways to make audiences cry.

OK, OK, it's not real. But it does contain a kernel of insight. Because Pixar actually does have some ironclad rules for emotionally affecting storytelling . It's not quite a lab, but it sure does work. Case in point: Pixar's most recent movie, the tearjerking "Inside Out," has now hauled in $750 million at the box office  worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing movie released in 2015.

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