Inside Out 2 REVIEW 

Anxiety and Envy do NOT come together and create Ambition. What I mean is that the actions they make Riley take come across as Ambition.

It’s a good sign when Grace looks excited in a thumbnail instead of looking like she’s given up on humanity.

As with her first Inside Out review, Grace is really telling us more about herself than the film - the philosophies she agrees with and doesn't, the emotions she relates to versus the ones she's not interested in.

I’m 21, but I cannot tell you enough how happy I get when I imagine little colorful beings running my head. It’s just so fun to think about

As someone who grew up in an environment where I had to be "Happy" "Joyful" and "Quiet" for 98% of my childhood, it was great learning the message that it's okay not to be okay.

I don’t think you know what Anxiety really is, the darkest moments in my life are because of “her” seeing the movie, literally I see how it feels when you let your anxiety control you and how you learn to control those attacks because you need all your strengths to get out of there.

I'll be honest grace. I think u are looking wayyy too deep into this..and they didn't demonize anxiety..but anxiety that's not kept in control can lead into problems

having seen the movie, i have genuinely no idea what grace is talking about in regards to her behaviour and almost getting people killed and all that shit

The primary and complex emotions are taken from psychological theory - specifically Robert Plutchik. Were the primary emotions were joy, trust, excitement, anger, sadness, surprise, disgust and fear. They could combine to create more complex secondary emotions. Joy and trust combines to make love. Anger and sadness makes envy. Fear and disgust makes shame.

I grew up in an enviroment where I had no one to talk to, I had to figure out my emotions (and emotions of others, even towards me) all by myself, and let me tell you Grace, love comes later, much later, self love and love for others in theses cases. Maybe that's Riley.

Grace, I hope this movie helped you realize that ignoring your emotions isn’t healthy. Even if you don’t like to talk about them, it’s important to acknowledge them.

I think the idea is that in real life, anxiety serves a function. It gives us adrenaline, makes us super alert and stronger in brief spurts. The problem is that it has to go away for us to rest and relax. If anxiety takes over, it weakens us because we cant stay in that state.

Life is hard. Not everyone has a good support system. I feel as it’s not always sunshine and rainbows. Some people who might come off as negative might be perceived as negative when they might just being honest

As a doctor in clinical psychology, it is a poor approach to divide emotions into negative and positive. All emotions are important and serve a function. By classifying some emotions as negative is reductive and make people believe that they shouldn't be experiencing them. Resilience and coping are very important skills for all people to learn.

Isn’t the ‘stopping to smell the roses’ and ‘competitive sports’ the same as Lightning McQueen’s arc in Cars haha

I kind of think that "Anxiety" here is to a large extent actually "Excitement". Which is why Grace likes her. We can't really re-write the whole premise of the franchise, but this makes the point that a lot of these emotions are multi-faceted, and some of those are good or bad in different measures.

This looks to be a much needed win for Pixar

The movies are saying that you need other emotions besides joy not that you should never have joy that’s why she’s is still there but it’s okay to feel sad and angry. It’s something I heard when I was mourning my grandfather I don’t understand why Grace has a problem with it

I fully believe Grace was never a teenager 😂 I’m very open person and when I’m straggling I reach out for help when I needed, but when I was a teen I was closed in and never spoke about my feelings, which majority of teenagers do! But hey, what do I know

Haven't watched the film but anxiety and envy leading to ambition makes sense. Envy being curious/jealous of others when paired with anxiety brings action towards ambition

Potential spoiler: I do feel anxiety lost control, but it shows how we as people can’t be ruled by anxiety.

The emotions are just emotions they are not negative just because they aren’t joy that was the entire point of sadness in the first movie (the seemingly most negative of the bunch) being an essential emotion for Riley’s happiness making her a “positive” emotion regardless of the negative connotation

"These movies want you to know it's okay to feel bad, rather than trying to make you feel good." That's awesome analysis. Though, I don't know that it holds for ALL Pixar movies or all moments in Pixar movies. I think that might be somewhat of the root of why some of us don't alway like Pixar movies as much as the masses.

I never read the first film as saying any emotion was good or bad, rather it criticised that exact interpretation. Sadness is important and not a bad emotion but Joy was just overrunning the place, and trying ot stop Riley form feeling anything but Joy. Particular in America where whole 'pursuit of happiness' is sometimes take to extremes, it was and is an important lesson to realise you cant just be happy, you need to be sad as well, and in fact being sad makes you appreciate being happy a lot more.

I can see Disney making an inside out ride in Epcot

That's the point of Anxiety, it FEELS bad but its purpose is to keep you safe and it's best to make friends with Anxiety and from calm your Anxiety by letting it know that you are not in danger when it thinks you are.

Ok but can we talk about how good graces hair and outfit looks today?!?? AMAZING!

I dunno, I gotta disagree about the film is saying about anxiety. The character and the emotion. Speaking as a person who has dealt with a thick layer of anxiety on just about every desirable interaction I have, what I got from the film is feelings of anxiety may lead you to making poor choices in order to please people or even to please yourself. Anxiety is basically a kind of hyperfocused worry. While it can help you have some foresight into your behavior, sometimes it leads to constantly trying to modify your actions and snuff out any possibility of ending up with an undesirable outcome. This film does a fantastic job of showing this because as Riley starts experiencing higher social stakes, she begin to doubt herself. Being just happy or just fearful just doesn't cut it anymore. She is clearly a very confident and successful young woman until she finds herself feeling like she doesn't measure up to a new, more mature friend group. Anxiety takes it upon herself to take over as leader, which, with help from some of the other emotions, begins to have success. But the problem with anxiety is it slowly begins to erode your sense of self worth, especially you can't confirm whether it's working. If you ask a reasonable person if they're willing to do ANYTHING to have that thing/person/feeling, they would likely say no but unfortunately, not everyone is like that. She abandons her true friends, she lies about what she loves to look cool all because her anxiety is whipping her up into a frenzy. I don't wanna spoil anything but the last bit that happens with Anxiety, when I saw that I said, that is EXACTLY how anxiety feels. You become obsessed with getting everything perfect and even when you perform well, you start feeling as if you NEED that thing to feel good about yourself, rather than being internally validated. And honestly, everyone feels it from time to time but not everyone knows what it's like to be in full on panic mode. It literally takes over your mind and executive function. And in the end, the best thing you can do is learn how to accept that you can't control everything no matter how badly you may want to. I also felt the movie is trying to say that we are all a bit messy, especially when we are young and unequipped for a situation and sometimes, we can be selfish, mean spirited, short tempered or insensitive and we can still be a good person. Every part of us makes us who we are, warts and all. For me, I think the people showed the enigma of emotions impeccably. The creative team did their homework on this one. Big thumbs up for me.

I waited for this movie for more than 3 years. Now it's time to hear Grace's opinion about it.

Love you for shouting out Ron Funches because I love him in both Harley Quinn and Loot as well

In order to become ambitious you need to overcome anxiety, frustration and hardship and use motivation coming from sources like envy and jealousy to reach next milestones. So I'm okay with that. It's not always inspiration that brings the best out of others. Chip on your shoulders for most of us. Ask Jordan

Riley does one bad thing in the movie and no one ever finds out, why would she get sent to a therapist 😭

Which one is more emotional?

“Brings a jolt of energy to Ripley’s mind” 😳👽

I can't wait for Inside Out 3 where Riley has a bi-polar boyfriend and they both have emotions on screen and.... oops script leak. Quick delete this comment before someone takes my ideas.

I would love to see Jiminy Cricket hop through in a cameo as her conscience!

Hopeful this sequel is good. Pixar sequels have been mostly miss for a while now. The first inside out was one of my faves

I feel like one of the things these movies do best is portray that "lead emotions" tend to be unreliable narrators to our own sense of self. Grace recognizes that Anxiety is running the console and that in her story, pairing envy with anxiety have been very helpful to form the ambitious person she's become. However, just like Riley lead emotion Joy (with co-leader sadness) has formed her view of the other emotions as potentially harmful and not as good...I think Anxiety and co-leader envy have colored how Grace sees her other emotions operating...🤷

I can see how Envy leads to Ambition. Like, if you are envious of that shiny new BMW (to a not unreasonable degree), it might inspire you to work hard so that you can afford to buy one for yourself. Or you could just sit around, being bitterly envious.

Ah yes, Ripley's mind. Great to see the inner workings of the herione of Alien's mind 😂😂

I actually remember us having a chat about the first Inside Out film over Skype all the way back in 2015, and neither of us particularly liked the first film haha! Clicked on this video SO fast when I saw it haha, just had to know your thoughts on the second one! I was super lucky and got to see the first 35 minutes of it last week at a special screening in London with Pete Docter, Amy Poehler and director Kelsey Mann, and agree that I was a lot more engaged than the first time around! Looking forward to seeing the rest this weekend! Thanks for all your amazing work Grace 💙

I mean they all cared about Riley and where trying to help her in different way but anxiety was shown in a good and bad light, ofc it’s ok to work hard but not to over do it, but working hard can be good shown in the ending`

I would love to see the emotions “power up” too stronger emotions like sadness goes out of control and transforms into depression or anger into fury joy into euphoria disgust as idk hatred fear into phobia

I think the message was that anxiety can good emotion (like sadness) but it needs to be controlled and CANNOT lead your life for long time

How come the new emotions were not present in the first film? Adults can suffer anxiety and embarrassment.

I understand the conclusion of the film as anxiety realising that when took over Riley’s mind, it was too much - the intent of protecting her in the interest of self preservation was what drove anxiety, and we see her be used in a much more constructive way at the end after we see the effects of when anxiety takes hold in an extreme way .. perhaps in inside out 3, they could introduce those emotions you mentioned; ambition, love etc, which are much more prominent once you’re through with being completely in your head as a teenager. Hope you’re well grace ! Great review x

Hehehehehe!! Oh Grace, you’re fantastic. Of course Anxiety is your favorite character! I think they’re all meant to be good, just need balance. I just saw the flick last night (Thailand) and loved it.

I was so happy to see most of the theathers around me packed for this movie. Almost didnt get to watch it! Loved it! It was so much fun watching a movie with a crowd, who was happy to be there. Had been missing that.

Looking very summery in that top. Looking good. Haven't watched these movies, is their a fear emotion?

Hi Grace, love your channel. Greetings from Mexico City. I get what you're saying about anxiety. But as a 32 years old asperger person with OCD and anxiety issues, I loved how they portrayed her and gave the solution too. Anxiety is necessary in a person's life. It is there to keep us safe from danger and keep us alert in order to preserve our life. But when it becomes the leading emotion with ultimate power; using your imagination to interpretate reality and other people, and even affecting and distorting your personality and who you thought you have always been; anxiety sucks. She thinks she is protecting and helping you and you are convinced about that also. Therefore, you take her advice in the decisions you make. I relate so much with Riley because I'm a person that doesn't talk or demonstrates the emotions and problems that I'm experiencing. In other words, the first thing I do is to try to solve everything all by myself instead of asking for help. WRONG! Currently I have learned. But in my teenage years that's exactly what I did and my family and friends never knew what I was going through because I was extremely good at acting and masking all that I was feeling. I agree with you that Riley had to have orientation or help from a profesional. But because apparently that mental chaos lasted just 3 days and with this episode in her life she learns (or her emotions learn) that emotions does not define you and also to let them happen whitout trying to control them (or keeping them suppressed); I think Pixar did a great job simplifying and exposing the real solution when anxiety takes control over you convinced that she is helping you.

Cause she's a teenager she doesn't have all the other emotions but for the ones you mentioned love is a form of joy everything you mentioned is a form of those emotion for example sassy is a form of sarcasm some emotions are kinda the same thing

Hey grace, loved the video and i was wondering if you were gonna do a character ranking in your spoiler review?

I’m working right now but I’m saving your review to watch during my break. I love your reviews.

I think it displayed a 12-14 year old's mind pretty accurately. Those other emotions that you mention have not appeared explicilty yet because Riley is not there in her life. This was about the first months of puberty that are emotionally overwhelming. Now, I do think they missed an opportunity by not showing these other emotions in the parents. I think that would have been brilliant, but maybe too complicated for a family film.

saw it yesterday. kids were laughing and adults were crying lol.

Joy = hope. Reason why she’s always trying to find an answer. We are maturing with all of these characters

It makes sense you like ambition Grace as Slytherin is described as people who are ambitious. There is nothing wrong with having ambition it is all about where the individual takes their ambition and if its at the expense of others.

I find it so interesting because I loved the first film, but I totally understand why someone would have a problem with it. I think it's a movie that has such a controversial take on such an important topic that the message can make you love the movie or hate it. Personally for me, I didn't agree with the message fully, but I understood where it came from, respected it, and loved the movie anyways. Hopefully the same will happen with the sequel

I feel like I learn so much about grace when she talks about inside out 😄❤️

TBH Pixar world-building has never been very good. And it's why their sequels can be kinda bad. And why they couldn't make a good tv show to save their lives

STILL SURPRISED THAT GRACE HATES THE FIRST INSIDE OUT!

I appreciate your honest review Grace, it makes me interested in the film. My only comment is perhaps you’re wanting kids film to give adult nuance and that’s never going to happen. So perhaps it’s unfair to hold it to that standard.

Ive been diagnosed with one of the worst bouts of anxiety any doctor has ever seen. I wont take medicine for it. I havent left my home for anything than walking dogs, and eating and getfing groceries in 9 years. My room mate does most my shopping since im also disabled and not just anxious. Anxiety is not a emotion or a thing it is a choking poison that invades every pore and makes me afraid to even breath. I have no sympathizers or emoathy in my life. I got 13 surgeries a few years ago, gidlfriend left me after a miscarriage, and lost my job and been unable to work or do anythinf or really live. I spemd six hiurs a day in a bathtub. Every day is hell and my anxiety makes it worse, but it isnt anxiety no one cares about me anymore and is just hoping to watch me fade away into nothjngness.

And the thumbnail wait grace hated the first one but that’s crazy I was 15 when the first film came and now with the sequel coming I’m almost 25 my gosh 😭😭😭🥹🥹

watching these movies was such a delight when you're studying psychology. I'll watch this whenever i feel this course will kill me lol

I couldn't chat or leave a comment, I'm a big fan of yours but please please say Aulii Cravahlo name right.. She represents us in Hawaii and it's pronounced Au Lee ee.. She deserved to have her name pronounced accurately

Good for you Grace. Owning your anxiety and having the courage to be so open and vulnerable with your audience. 100% agree with your read on Disney’s presentation of our emotions. Makes me wanna grab you and give you a huge hug. Huge respect. ❤ :)

Anxiety being Grace's lead emotions makes a lot of sense! Full of ambition! And I'm not saying that is a bad thing, it would be nice to see in people's heads where Anxiety is in control more or part of the team not locked away.

I don’t think the new emotions are depicted in a bad light. They are depicted w a touch of reality. She puberty hits - those emotions are hard and take over in a crazy way.

I’m just saying most teenagers do not reach for help by an adult because we feel we can get out of it because we always have. To a certain extent I still have that mindset.

I agree, Grace, you basically COULDNT mess up a story about emotions changing during puberty. This was an easy one for Pixar - so to me, this is DEFINATELY NOT the real test for the studio :-)

Anxiety looks like a fraggle.

2:46 Honestly, what an awesome take on Pixar, I believe it is a balance between the two for sure

Riley's expanded mind area reminded me of Avatar(blue one) alot. Around the ending, it reminded me of what i said before> Everyone has pros and cons of ourselves while some people have more pros/cons than cons/pros of themselves

Grace they can’t put in 50 emotions lmao

Grace, I think you would benefit from rewatching the film. All of the emotions are helpful, not just joy. In fact, Joy causes Riley to get into trouble and the whole team to run laps. At the end anxiety reminded them of Riley's Spanish test, remember? Lol.

Oh my gosh that’s crazy I’m watching Loot right now on Apple TV and it’s really good! He’s great there and i recognized him as King Shark too when i started watching Loot. Couldn’t be happier enough for the new cast members of this movie!

Not a Pixar fan. I got dragged to this, but it was pretty cute. The "jail" scene was funny.

I loved Inside Out as a teen but I’m so very excited for Inside Out 2 as an adult as I love Pixar so much!

I am really excited for this sequel! I’ll go and see it on Saturday for sure 😊

Yup. Anxiety is my leading emotion too!

I felt an instant connection with ennui. I’m always the one pointing out pockets exist and ordering everything through apps. Oh and the only time I do freak out is when I can’t find my phone 😅

The movies script felt rushed, like there were a lot of logic pitfalls and also so many not used ideas and moments for „puberty hits“ - but it was a pleasant, nice, Cosy movie going evening. It’s pretty obvious also that they will use „love“ in the 3rd movie, which comes out when Riley is 16 …

Grace, I think it is our own interpretation of what anxiety and envy mean that make them seem like negative emotions. I in particular don't think they are, in Brazil at least being anxious about something can mean being excited and we tell people we have "good" envy about accomplishments or things they own etc. If we go down that route, even joy, wich is sold as something positive can mean bad things, like delusion, recklesness etc. As for hope, I think it would be a mix of anxiety and joy.

Grace, did you like this movie ? I mean, really did you ? lol 😂

I just rewatched the first and I forgot how crazy annoying Joy is in it. This one looks much funnier though.

Pixar still knows how to make movies

Watched it today and it was brilliant. I just love the worldbuilding of this movie and how they personify/imagine actual psychological concepts. They really expanded from the first movie and made it more sophisticsted. It is such a great movie with laugh out loud moments as well as some very deep meanings.

9:42 ROOOON!!! My boi, Cooper! Long lost prince of the Funk Trolls! The goofiest pop troll you’ve ever met, and a bit of a fire bug! THE COOPER OF TROLLS, WOOHOO!!! So glad to know that Pixar realized how great a VA he is!

as someone who works with teenagers "needs more adult supervision" is true for a number of kids, sadly the other extreme is also true, boy is balancing life difficult.

I thought Grace said of the original team in _Inside Out,_ "Those are not what my emotions look like!" But I went back to watch her original review of the first movie, and it was before I followed her and not there. Maybe it was an off-hand remark in another video, like the trailer?

Did they explain where the other emotions were, in the heads of the parents during the first movie?

I think if Disney wanted to, they could have made Young Woman and the Sea do good like a Saving Mr Banks type of Disney movie.

It's been a long time since the Fox show _Herman's Head_ was in their starting lineup with the actress that voiced Lisa from the Simpsons, Yeardley Smith, I think. I don't remember much about that, other than it got repetitive and I thought they needed an opposite for him: a woman with characters in her head. So they finally got around to that in _Inside Out (2015)_ though it was a girl.

Grace, did you like Anxiety?

You couldn't get through the first Inside Out? Twice? There's something in that movie that you're relating to then.

Thanks for sharing Grace 😁🍿🎥 Looking forward to seeing this movie 😍

Anxiety would be the at the helm of my ship too. As someone without a support system really, the negativity didn’t bother me, lol. I loved the first movie.

Thanks for the review Grace ❤

Never saw the first one but went last night , really enjoyed it and like Grace I was thinking I need the merch and the ride .