Inside Out 2...? 

Someone pointed out that in the first movie sadness says "Riley needs you" to joy, but in the second one she says "Riley wants you", which symbolises, that the older we get, the more we control our emotion instead of them controlling us. I loved that. And god it made me cry so much when Riley chose to be happy.

I think the point of basically nothing happening this whole movie is to show that when you’re a teen quite literally nothing could happen and you still feel like dying which is pretty accurate

tbh the fact that the whole movie is centered around anxiety and leads up to the panic attack makes so much sense to me. like the way anxiety arrived suddenly and completely took over and changed riley's belief system felt so true to what anxiety does to a person, and honestly i think that the realistic portrayal of a panic attack was so incredibly impactful. i have never seen a panic attack portrayed that accurately, and having that is huge for both mental health awareness and empathy, especially being that this is a kids movie. and at the end, anxiety was still important, but i really liked that she was using coping mechanisms to take it down to a sort of healthy level of anxiety instead of a destructive one. like yes, there was less external stress in this one, but the representation of anxiety was so meaningful. i can't remember ever feeling so seen because of a movie, even though i'm an adult and not really the target audience. i think this movie did exactly what it set out to do, and i think it was executed perfectly.

I remember in the movie there's one line that joy says which goes along the lines of "I guess you experience less joy when you're older". That hit hard tbh. 😭

Anxiety turning Riley's Imagination Land into an animation sweatshop where joy isn't allowed is such a corporate clapback that I'm glad Disney didn't catch and remove.

My favorite joke in this movie was when they introduced Ennui. All the adults in the audience laughed, because, teenagers, am I right, and all the kids laughed when Joy said she'd just call him "Weewee." I think it's a good movie for different age groups.

I saw a comment that basically said "I want an inside out sequel every decade until riley’s an old lady" and I would agree with that.

I actually liked how the second movie didn't try to do something *BIG* as a story, but a very relatable simple experience almost ALL of us experienced.

But Alex, her friends moving to a different school IS a big deal! The movie went out of its way to point out how much larger friendship island is compared to, say, family island. To a teenager, their friends are their whole worlds. Lots of friendships at that age drift apart once they each go to different schools since they'd have formed different cliques and adapted different personalities by then. The only time these kids ever get to even hang out is at school. Not to mention, even the littlest problems can highly affect a teenager who's going through emotional and mental changes. I actually think this movie is better than the first one, since Riley undergoes something a lot more relatable.

If Turning Red was a metaphor for going through puberty physically, Inside Out 2 is a metaphor for going through puberty mentally.

16:40 i disagree cause anxiety is portrayed as being right and good for riley until it starts to get too much. like anxiety caused riley to train harder and try and make friends w the older girls and everything. the movie definitely portrayed anxiety as being good in small portions but self destructive when going overboard

No NO! Anxiety is not the villain, just an anti-hero.. She cares about Riley too, but her methods can be dangerous sometimes, at the end when Joy stopped Anxiety, she said "I was just protecting her', it shows anxiety just wanted to help Riley with her goals and future and is also important for her! all emotions are, just in right time, right portions, too much of anything is bad.

The new emotions do have positive sides: -Anxiety gets Riley to practice hockey more and she gets results -Embarrassment gets Riley to learn from her mistakes -Envy gets Riley to look for new things she wants for herself -Ennui gets Riley to protect herself from socially awkward moments

I think the whole reason the story was a lot smaller this time around was to show how during these times the smallest things can seem like the biggest obstacles. like, cleaning your room is equated to climbing mount Everest.

wait wait wait. you're telling me the problems of a teenage girl are actual way smaller than they actually are? but seriously the whole point of the movie is to show the struggles of entering the teen years. puberty. new emotions. and teaching you that the bad parts are just as important to establishing who you are as the good are. as for Anxiety. the last scene is showing them managing Anxiety when it starts to go into mania. i loved the movie because it's exactly the kind of movie i wish i'd had all those centuries ago when i was a little baybeh,

The fact that this movie feels 2012 and 2024 at the same time

sometimes it’s hard for me to believe alex is an adult

I feel like Alex doesn’t fully understand teenagers / teenage girls in this review. The whole point of the movie here is that for Riley going to a new school without her best friends IS as monumental as moving to a new place when she was younger. The movie foreshadows this by showing how family island has gotten smaller and friend island much bigger. So the movie making the stakes smaller is only in your eyes. For Riley, this was huge.

The most shocking thing about this movie is it’s absolute level of quality

i feel like Alex should be an emotion in these movies called “self-hatred” 🤣

honestly as a middle schooler right now, I completely disagree, when I watched this movie, I almost cried because, THIS was the things I felt, I am feeling, it really hit me hard, even though I don't have anxiety, my best friend also switched schools, I experienced what Rielly is experiencing, and I loved the movie, to me it was a dive into my own mind, just bittersweet.

Inside out 2 is one the most solid sequels I’ve seen in a while

I interpreted the first movie’s lesson is that you’re allowed to feel every emotion and that they’re all important and the second one is that all of your memories and experiences make up who you are, you can’t just pick and choose the ones you want

This movie is not allowed to be this relatable omg

17:08 did you miss the part where they confirm that anxiety did a good job reminding Riley to study for a Spanish test???

I honestly liked this movie just as much, if not more than the first one. I’ve had issues with high achieving anxiety my entire life and I don’t think I’ve ever seen something that was this relatable to that experience. I know the creators were focusing on more of the 13 year old girl experience of puberty, so maybe it’s less relatable to some guys but everything felt very accurate to me lol. Example: the friends immediately forgiving her for being a jerk because she’s having an emotionally hard time - that is 100% exactly how things tend to go with close female friends at that age. And finding out your best friends were going to a different school at 13 years old? Yeah that would absolutely be extremely hard. Changing your hair? Yes it was a bit of a cheeky joke that the hair dye was the “big idea” but it’s still a massive thing at that age. Most girls did some sort of emotionally charged self-hair style at around that age (terrible bangs, box dye, etc).

im convinced that instead of having several emotions in my head there's just about ten anxieties controlling my every move

The climax scene where Riley is having a full blown panic attack and Joy is trying to reason with Anxiety is probably the best scene I've ever seen in a Pixar movie.

I'm way happier this film stuck to something so real and "small" than if they'd gone too large, like Riley moving city again, or losing a loved one. When you're that age, going to a different school as your best friends *IS* the end of the world.

Alex would make a great emotion in inside out

I got a bit of a different message from the end. It wasn't about ignoring anxiety so much as about learning to manage and control it so that it doesn't control you.

Personally one of the best moments for me is the aftermath of the climax where Joy gets those magic bubbles and Sadness says "Hey Joy, Riley wants you." I think that's something that is criminally underrated because it's easy to say "I want to be happy" because really, who doesn't. But after everything that goes on, the idea of wanting to be happy, wanting joy in your life is something that you also have to give yourself.

I actually really enjoy this take on envy - jealous, sure, but also constantly admiring and relating to others. It feels like reinforcement of the first movie’s lesson that all emotions have the POTENTIAL to be useful. But…yeah, she’s childish.

15:46 i mean, her friends didn't just immediately forgive her, she did apologize and took accountability.

I think the reason why the stakes aren’t as high in this film is because this film deals with anxiety. It shows that while anxiety isn’t the end of THE world, it feels like the end of YOUR world.

I thought they did a good enough job showing the positive side of Anxiety in the end, where she's helping Riley keep track of future events and maintaining a healthy level of stress for things like homework and studying. And that scene at the very end where Anxiety is a literal tornado all over the control room but is simultaneously frozen in place was just too real. That's the visual incarnation of exactly how I've felt before.

I liked the part where they added the gum song that got stuck in her head in the last movie

I think what you wanted this movie to be is more of a 18-20 life experience. When you're 13 you're still not really reflecting on your childhood ending you're just looking ahead and wanting to be an adult and cool and all that stuff. That's why I feel like this movie explains that part of your childhood great. Because you're losing your friends, your growing up but you're too busy trying to fit in and carve your personality to find out.

I feel like Alex is making this sequel sound way worse than it actually is. Yes the stakes aren't as as high as the first film, but I think that was done on purpose to show that anxiety can sometimes make our small issues feel much bigger than they really are.

I’m actually surprised Envy didn’t turn out to be the villain. Because it’s always Envy.

I don't know about anxiety never being been seen as right anymore at the end. Near the end of the movie, when joy calmed down anxiety, anxiety helped in reminding the upcoming tasks that has to be done (like that exam or test or whatever) it showed how anxiety (when controlled) can be great for encouraging motivation for doing things before they happen like upcoming deadlines or events. As Joy said "Now, what do you think we can change still" or somewhere along those lines. It shows how a flaw in anxiety is worrying about something that you can't exactly do anything about anymore and that anxiety has to just relax when those things happen.

When Riley met Val, it made me cringe so hard, because its pretty much how I behaved around my first crush. That memory was supposed to stay at the back of my mind, but this movie brought it back to the front 😂

The movie is not about accepting having different emotions tho It's about accepting different and sometimes contradictory beliefs of yourself So it's not about how you're feeling but how you are viewing yourself, with recognizing your qualities and your faults, to hold yourself accountable but also being proud of yourself And I think a lot of people are struggling with this, honestly

I'd argue anxiety is actually being portrayed as an emotion that needs to be taken care of and managed rather than being villainized. You can see this with Joy helping manage Anxiety both by stopping her (?) from continuing the panic attack and helping her in the chair afterwards.

I wish he'd included joys line about maybe that's what happens when you get older, you feel less joy. Cuz that scene hit too realistic in the theater

10:25 This proves thats we’ve missed the point of the movie. In the first one, it’s about how Riley is combating moving to a new city, making new friends, navigating a new life. Aka being conscious, actually realizing things around you. That’s why joy was trying to make things better for her by finding happiness when things are hard. Something a lot of people struggle with. In the second one, it’s about changes in yourself, anxiety is the “villain” because it’s only focusing on bad things. Anxiety isn’t 100% bad for you but it does have upsides, I mean Riley killed it at that hockey match. But it also caused a panic attack. That’s why joy was trying to focus on positives to combat the anxiety. This movies are about growing up and the struggles along with it. To be honest, I quite enjoyed this movies. I’m about the same age as Riley in this movies and they kind of speak to me in a way.

15:45 its mot because she has a panic attack that they forgive her, they always cared. This is just showing that they never held this against her.

8:24 i actually think mayas voice fitted anxiety perfectly to a tea. normally i agree that actors and voice actors shouldn’t always be in the same category, however i think this is a valid exception. anxiety’s voice isn’t supposed to be scared or shaky like fear, it’s supposed to be more convincing as anxiety convinces you about unreal things in your actual life.

When you are a teenager and you start puberty, every small thing feels like a huge emotion. I feel like this movie was very accurate of how puberty is. It didnt have to be a dramatic move to a new city to be serious. The hormones or new emotions just heighten everything normal. Thats3 the thing I loved about anxiety and this movie

10:36 I couldn't stop laughing at him.....especially when the camera panned out and he was talking to the wall 😂😂😂😂

Inside out 2 is a fantastic sequel and one of my favorite movies I have seen this year.

I mean, movies’ plots don’t HAVE to be extremely over the top and super crazy. What matters is how the plot is executed, which inside out 2 did extremely well, and so did inside out!

6:11 while I agree that it seems like a huge difference, I still think it fits. For a 13yo finding out that your two best friends change schools IS basically the entire uprooting of her life, because that’s what matters to a teenager. 🤷‍♀️

*Fun fact about this movie:* Every six months or so the creators had a board meeting with 6 Highschool girls to judge if this was an accurate portrayal of being a freshly baked teen. The creators said that this was on of the most terrifying experiences ever. 1. That’s hilarious and 2. I love the dedication to actually go out and ask teenagers

When Riley put the red water flavoring packet I was like “good one Riley great way to get ants😒😒😒”

I sobbed like I baby when I first watched this movie. As a 13 yr old, its probably just the fact I understood Riley’s feelings and related to them ALOT. The scene where Joy hugs the little ‘personality thing’ hit hard.

This guy forgets Riley is a teenager. Everything is a big deal to her, because she’s a teenager. This movie is just as deep as the first one. The other emotions play a much bigger role than you think. Anxiety isn’t a villain, she’s an antagonist. She is not intentionally doing evil things like a villain does. The idea wasn’t to dye her hair but to practice excessively. Joy isn’t going to be a mature emotion after just one incident, just like how Riley isn’t going to be mature either. Anxiety isn’t being ignored and all the emotions play a role. You very clearly didn’t pay attention to the movie.

18:24 I love this lesson. I made a friend in kindergarten and I saw her again in high school. She was a completely different person. She went from being sweet and kind to a short tempered smoker who did care about life. I told her our friendship isn't the same. It's not that I didn't want to be friends with her is that I don't want to be friends with somebody who thought it was okay to hurt others. We're still associates but were not besties anymore. Life messes people up.

Anxiety was treated perfectly in this movie. Not a bad guy but someone who’s useful in certain situations but should just be treated with a cup of tea and a chair and kept under control

I like how inside out 2 is in a way resurrecting Pixar after it’s many losing streaks

This movie was better than the first one and I'll fight you 🥊 One thing I'll agree with though, the ending scene in IO1 when Riley cries and hugs her parents is my favourite scene EVER.

You also have to keep in mind, controlling Riley is Joy's job (as is the other emotions). Majorly in the first movie, her control was so out there to keep Riley positive 24/7, that she was repressing the other emotions from doing their job, especially Sadness. By the end, she learned to appreciate the value of Sadness as a core emotion, and she HAS carried over what she learned into the sequel by letting Sadness control when she absolutely has to. When Anxiety comes along, Joy did not have to deal with her being around for so long and pushing her buttons, so new emotions seems like a new ordeal for Joy and the others. So it's in this sequel that Joy finally learns to push back her controlling nature even further and appreciate the fact that, like Anxiety, she needed to "let her go" and that the emotions "don't get to choose who Riley is."

inside out 3:Heroin addiction

"Fraggles" ... that's it! It was driving me nuts what anxiety looked like ... lololol

16:46 Hard disagree here. She helped Riley to talk to Val when everyone was in deck and did a good job, reminds her of worries and stuff she has to remember (like the spanish test) and if kept in check (which joy does in the end) she CAN be useful

Really liked this movie for a variety of reasons which have already been said above, but one small detail I really liked was the different animation styles in the secret vault with the cartoon and video game characters. Super fun scene and had some great comedic moments too.

This is my opinion, I think not every film needs high steaks, yea running away is riskier than dying your hair, but its more relatable because she's doing it to fit in and be liked by her peers. Riley is at her age where she prioritize friendships and connections more, even lying about her likes, practicing early, even changing her self to fit in with them. Even if the movie doesn't have high risk, but because of its relatable themes it became a huge hit

16:59 gonna have to disagree with you there. In the earlier scenes we saw positive sides of anxiety and show how her controlling Riley helped her apologize to Val because she was being more honest and genuine. The movie at the end even shows how planning for the future isn’t always a bad thing and shows that anxiety can worry about things you CAN control. Joy literally shows how she can work with anxiety at the end. I think you missed that part of the movie

So I went to see this movie by myself, and I wasn’t particularly sad about it, but while I was standing in line, I got to talking with these two girls who were probably just out of high school about how much we liked the first one but I wasn’t gonna subject my boyfriend to Disney no matter how willing he was. I got in the theater and sat down and about it five minutes later the two girls from the line found and sat next to me and offered me some popcorn. It was the sweetest thing. And the scene came on where Riley helped the girl with the coins, and they just started crying not even two minutes into the film 😂❤ it made it so much more memorable.

7:00 THATS ENVY?! THEY LOOK LIKE AQUAMARINE LMAO. Also cutest character.

I really disagree with saying maya hawke wasn't the right person for the job. I think she portrays the character so well

6:24 Oh you dont understand how upset I was when me and my best friend could no longer simply sit together.

this movie hit home bc i started freshman and tried out for softball and had a similar experience. but freshman year has been lit so far and all my new friends are there for me.

7:59 My guy, that is how Pixar started. We got so many well known names for the first Toy Story like Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Annie Pots, and more.

The great thing about this movie was its handling off Panic attack. Suffering with the same issue, I wont say it got my predicament down to the T, but it wasnt far off either. Just a different perspective. Especially the part where Anxiety is too Anxious to let go, despite knowing whats better.

As someone with an anxiety disorder, i found this sequel to be fantastic and deeply relatable. How anxiety tries to control and gameplan for every single little future scenario that it completely consumes Rileys life was very accurate. The panic attack was very faithful and a great representation of what it feels like on the inside - a desperate collapse of reality around you where you don't know how to calm down. The scene in the imagination room with anxiety/Joy was a great way to illustrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a real life therapy technique. It's brilliant how excellently everything was portrayed. Hands down my favorite pixar movie to date.

Can't wait for Inside Out 3, where Riley has to traverse the difficult world of the job market and finding an affordable place to live, and buy... GROCCERIES?!

I do agree with your opinion on celebrity voice actors segment, Voice actors and actors are great, but shouldn't always be in the same category for certain things.

8:28 I'm so glad you addressed this. Voice acting is NOT the same as regular acting. This is a prime example and another I use is the live action lion king. Beyonce was not a good choice

16:45 I don’t remember all of the scenes but there was multiple times when anxiety was proven right but like with the other emotions, there’s a time, place, and level of control. After everyone lost their phones and had to run drills, Anxiety had Riley apologize to Val and it broke the tension between her and the team. Anxiety woke up Riley early for practice and honed some of her skills and impressed Val in the process. Riley may have been hogging the puck because of anxiety but she still made several shots at the tryout game which probably helped get her on the team. At the end, anxiety’s shenanigans forced all of the emotions to let go so Riley’s sense of self can be whole

loved this movie.i thought maya hawk did an awesome job as anxiety. she brought a tone that made anxiety a tragic character, her raspy voice really made her feel like she was worried all the time and was slowly spiraling out of control. also a huge part of the movie is joy and her crew of suppressed emotions riding a wave of suppressed memories back to rileys control center which is such a genius way to portray a panic attack. and the ending of joy keeping anxiety under control is also so genius. anxiety will never go away the only way to deal with it is controlling it with other emotions

Honestly the lesson I got from it was learning how to control your emotions and not let them control you. The most powerful scene imo was Joy and the other emotions recouping and Riley internally called out for joy, instead of joy just taking over the panel. Showcasing how despite our emotions being overwhelming that we still have find that joy within us when we need too

Alex really had the audacity to say inside out 2 is eh when it's the best thing we've gotten from Pixar since Luca

Dude im pretty sure that the moral of this movie is to be yourself? Not have panic attacks. 17:15

To touch on some points in the video. Even though the stakes in this movie aren’t as high as the first movie, it shows how puberty can sometimes blow a small change out of proportion. I mean if we’re comparing it to the first Inside out, Riley being alone in high school puts her back in the same place as when she first moved to San Francisco. Being alone in a bigger “playground” (high school) with no friends it would make anyone a little anxious. Unless you’re an extrovert which Riley doesn’t seem to be. I don’t think Pixar was trying to using Maya Hawke as a marketing strategy. As you said the movie would’ve been popular regardless of who they chose to play anxiety. Also I don’t think using a popular celebrity as a va is out of commission or odd. Some of our favorite animated movies have stacked celeb casts. Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, The LEGO movie, Robots, Happy Feet. After Riley has her panic attack, I don’t think Bree and Grace knew she had one so I don’t think that’s why they forgave her. I mean Riley admitted she was a crap friend for the past couple days and said she’d understand if they didn’t want to be her friend but I think they just forgave because they knew it wasn’t in her character to behaving that way in the first place. I don’t think Joy realized all the emotions are important but that Riley’s belief system can be more complex than her just being a good person which yes is a call back to the first movie for her realizing that all emotions (Sadness mostly) are needed and Riley should feel them but as we’ve learned that Riley can be hard on herself, Joy’s way of trying to help her was by pushing them to the back of her mind so they wouldn’t weigh her down. We’re seeing that her emotions are learning along with her. Lastly, I don’t think Joy pushed Anxiety to the side, she got her a chair to help her calm down and relax and Anxiety showed that she can be useful by reminding them that Riley had a Spanish test to study for. But that’s just a theory a Film Theory 😏❤

Even though I find the first one better this film felt so relatable to me. When I came out of the cinema I saw a lot of younger kids who I knew didn’t really get it, but this felt kind of special to me

I actually really liked this movie. I thought anxiety was a good character with some good character development

5:38 bro wtf is this..he wants a good time 😏

The way he drew joy had me blink twice

For a sequel this movie was honestly a solid 8/10

Every movie is basically about Riley almost going insane lol. 😂

0:33 That’s so awesome, switching plotlines is a literal character selection screen 😂

I love your video's but for this one I have to disagree with a few opinions. 3:59 Joy didn't forget the lesson she learned in the first movie. For example, when Riley learns that her friends are going to a different high school, and Sadness wants to cry, but Disgust says they can't cry in front of their friends, Joy help make it balanced by telling Sadness to wait until they're out of the car and alone. She also says to Sadness that they needed that cry, because she learned that it's healthy to have other emotions, like Sadness. And when all the new emotions come in, Joy does her best to try and adjust, because she acknowledges that Riley needs them too. 16:45 Anxiety is NOT only portrayed as a bad thing. For example, after Riley unintentionally gets everyone's phones taken away, and extra laps, it's anxiety that steps in to smooth things over with Val, by expressing her remorse. Anxiety is helping in the social situations. The problem emerged when she went overboard, and tried to control things that she couldn't control. By the end of the movie, the other emotions help remind her that she can't control everything, and ask her about the things in the future that they can control, like the upcoming spanish test they should study for. 18:12 The movie isn't about how getting older = anxiety, but rather about how getting older often brings new feelings and hormones that are unavoidable, and why that's still important. Being a teen means an influx of hormones, which is shown well in 4:43 when the emotions press the console and it feels like it was extra sensitive. Just a brief touch of anger made Riley explode. Teenagers are known for being moody and dramatic because of these crazy hormones that they're learning to adjust to. While I also felt that it was unrealistic to show Riley learning all this over the course of three days, when in reality it can take years before we learn how to accept things we can't control, or learn that we can't bottle up our emotions, I get why the movie chose to do it over a weekend camp. It was a simple way to show a bunch of aspects of growing up and accepting things, to show to all the actual 13 year olds watching that it's normal to feel that way, and give an example of what to do, to hopefully teach them sooner instead of letting them learn on their own over the course of years. Also, I'm a firm believer that these new movies still have a spark, just not to us, because we're grown up now and our tastes have changed. I liked the recent movies, like Turning Red, Encanto, Luca, and even Lightyear. I liked their messages, their music and their animation. I also thought that Maya Hawke sounded fine personally. Not amazing or anything, but she felt natural to me.

00:13 You’ve done Kelsey or however it’s spelled very dirty!

Anxiety actually was helping her to be successful in the beginning, but without her being in check, and just being left to run amuck on her own, it was destructive. I thought this movie was genius! I loved it! And I'm a teacher, and I'm going to teach you to my students!

18:50 You just spoiled the plot of Inside Out 3 :D

18:22 There was Nostalgia, but she was barely in the movie.

The belief system being made up of random memories rather than core ones annoyed me so much. The ending of "we don't get to determine who Riley is" seems unavoidable when the emotions just choose the belief memories themselves. I just didn't think this one was thought out as well. Also, the revisionism of fear annoyed me too. In the first movie he absolutely was anticipating social issues.

4:39 man this part hit hard, I remember from 14 to like right before I turned 16 I was the most angry mf ever, engaging in conversation with me was like a gamble. You were either going to end up having a laugh or end up getting your entire bloodline insulted bc you dared to say a word to me. I remember one time my mom got pissy and started yelling at me because I did something slightly under her standards, I don’t even remember what it was but I just started going OFF on my poor mother. I don’t even know what I said bc teenage hormones completely took over but my mom tells me that the only reason I didn’t get my ass beat into 4078 was because she understood what it was like to be a teenager. So glad I have control over my own anger now…

I watched the film in Hindi language and I was content with the dubbing. Voice actors and the popular actor who dubbed for Riley did a convincing job.