Inside Out 2 Is an American computer-animated film and the sequel to Inside Out. It's produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios, It's Pixar's 28th animated feature film and was theatrically released in theaters on June 14, 2024.[1]
Plot[]
Two years after her move to San Francisco, Riley has turned 13 and is about to enter high school. Her personified emotions—Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust—have since created a new section of Riley's mind called "Sense of Self", which houses memories and feelings that make up Riley's core personality. Joy, intending to fill the Sense of Self with only positive memories, has also invented a mechanism that launches any negative memories to the back of Riley’s mind. Riley and her best friends Bree and Grace are invited to a weekend hockey camp where Riley hopes to qualify for her school’s team, the Firehawks. On the night before the camp, a "Puberty Alarm" sounds off and a group of mind workers barge into headquarters to upgrade the emotion console.
The emotions discover that Riley wildly overreacts to any inputs they make to the console. Four new emotions also arrive at Headquarters and introduce themselves: Envy, Embarrassment, Ennui, and Anxiety. Though initially friendly, the new and old emotions clash over their approaches; in particular, Joy thinks Riley should focus on having fun at the camp, while Anxiety wants her to win a spot on the team and make new friends, especially since Riley has learned that Bree and Grace will be going to a different high school.
While being led by Joy, Riley inadvertently causes all of the camp-goers to be collectively punished by the camp’s strict director, Coach Roberts. Feeling that Riley needs to change her personality to fit in with the older players, Anxiety dumps the Sense of Self into the back of Riley's mind and has the old emotions captured and thrown into a memory vault. She and the other new emotions then use negative memories to create a new, corrupted Sense of Self and encourage Riley to make friends with popular hockey player Val, which strains her friendship with Bree and Grace. The old emotions escape the vault and split up; Sadness uses a recall tube to return to Headquarters while the others go to the back of Riley’s mind to retrieve her old Sense of Self.
Sadness makes it back but is unable to prevent Riley from sneaking into Coach Roberts' office to read her notebook. Discovering from it that Coach doesn't consider Riley ready to become a Firehawk, Anxiety determines to take further control over her. The old emotions make it to the back of Riley's mind and get her Sense of Self from the top of a mountain of bad memories that were deposited there by Joy's mechanism. With no other way to get back to Headquarters in time, the emotions cause an avalanche of bad memories, which they ride back to Headquarters; however, the memories spill into Riley’s Sense of Self, corrupting it further. Anxiety is shocked to discover that, despite her intentions, her cultivation of the new Sense of Self has made it evolve into one of self-doubt, leading to her frantically controlling Riley during a crucial hockey game. This results in her hogging the puck, missing most of her shots, and accidentally hurting Grace, getting her sent to the penalty box. Horrified by this outcome, a frenzied Anxiety swarms the control console in a blinding whirlwind, causing an overwhelmed Riley to suffer a panic attack.
The old emotions finally return to Headquarters, and Joy convinces Anxiety that she doesn't need to make Riley change herself to have a better future. Anxiety relents and the original Sense of Self is reinstalled, but Riley's attack persists. After the repentant Anxiety reiterates that she can't determine who Riley is, Joy realizes that the same, likewise, applies to her. She removes the first Sense of Self again, allowing for a new, complex, and varying Sense to form from all of Riley’s positive and negative memories. Together, the emotions embrace this third Sense and stabilize it, finally allowing Riley to calm down and reconcile with Bree and Grace. Now in full control of her emotions for the first time, Riley actively calls for Joy to take command and finishes the game smiling.
Sometime later, Riley attends high school and becomes friends with Val and the other Firehawks, while staying true to herself and maintaining her friendship with Bree and Grace. At lunch, she and the team wait around her phone for Coach to post the list of new Firehawks recruits. Now living in peace, the first and second generations of emotions work together to protect Riley's forever-changing Sense of Self. Riley checks her phone to see if her name is on the list and looks at herself in the mirror with a proud smile.
Cast[]
- Amy Poehler as Joy
- Phyllis Smith as Sadness
- Tony Hale as Fear
- Liza Lapira as Disgust
- Lewis Black as Anger
- Maya Hawke as Anxiety
- Ayo Edebiri as Envy
- Adèle Exarchopoulos as Ennui
- Paul Walter Hauser as Embarrasement
- Kensington Tallman as Riley Andersen
June Squibb, John Ratzenberger, Ron Funches, Sarayu Blue, James Austin Johnson, Paula Pell, Kendall Coyne Schofield, Yong Yea, and Kirk Thatcher have been cast in an undisclosed roles.
Trivia[]
- Inside Out is the sixth Pixar film to become a franchise, after Toy Story, Cars, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles.
- It is also the first Pixar film aired in the 2010s to become a franchise, since the precedents are from the 1990s (Toy Story) or 2000s (Cars, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles).
- This is the first Pixar sequel since Toy Story 4. After Toy Story 4 was released in 2019, Pixar decided to take a break from sequels to make more original films.
- This is the first Pixar sequel to be produced in 1.85:1 since Toy Story 3 and Finding Dory.
- This is the fifth Pixar sequel to have a different director from the previous films in the franchise, after Toy Story 3, Monsters University, Cars 3, and Toy Story 4.
- This is also the second Pixar film to be based on the works by Pete Docter since Monsters University.
- Actress Mindy Kaling will not return to voice Disgust in this movie sequel.[2]
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