We Were 'Anxiously' Awaiting This Movie - Inside Out 2 First Time Watching Reaction 

I love that in the first movie, Joy says, "Sadness, Riley NEEDS you", and here Sadness says, "Joy, Riley WANTS you". We need sadness, but we want joy.

Me: la la la this is fine, this is no where near as emotional to me as the first one Joy: maybe this is what happens when you grow up, you feel less joy. Me: oh 😳.... 🥺.... 😭

The anxiety attack scene absolutely broke me. That’s exactly how it feels.

also, not just a kids move, it is an animated film that everyone can enjoy, especially with most adult millennials dealing with severe anxiety nowadays

You have to have Anxiety, just as much as Joy. No emotion is the villain, they just behave bad sometimes. I love this story and how it communicates. As someone with C-PTSD this does a great job at introducing concepts that help with therapy and growth.

His reaction to the “you feel less joy” part has me in shambles mannn 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 now I’m bawling like I did at the bing bong scene because I remember when I lost my imagination during childhood 😭

This movie didn’t have to go as hard as it did. But it did and I’m glad it did. It related to kids and adults. My sister saw this movie in theaters and cried; she suffers from anxiety attacks and felt so seen by this movie.

I have suffered from depression and anxiety since I was a kid. I remember seeing the first movie and leaving wondering where my joy went. Seeing this movie put some of my other feelings into words and visuals I could point at and go “YES!”. Luckily a few years ago, I started medication and have been able to regulate and understand it more but it is still a struggle… that doesn’t mean there isn’t help and ways to work through it. Keep fighting out there everyone! ❤

I think you guys should watch Soul :D It’s another great Pixar movie, I mean Pixar has a lot of great movies

What I hope is that we get enough Inside Out movies to see her grow up, fall in love and than she starts her own family. Because the change that will occur in her brain when the twins Love and Hate show up would be a very powerful thing for this series to show.

If I have too many energy drinks they start to trigger my anxiety, so Anxiety horking them is really clever. This movie is such a banger on so many levels. Mixing traditional animation with the 3D was great visual language, and I think Dark Secret might be my favorite character lol.

Jay’s reactions are always what I need my heart to feel, and Adam’s reactions keep me from taking those feelings too seriously 😂 Re: school assignments. When I was a junior in high school, our town built a third high school. The districts were different for every age level as well, so there were certainly kids I went to both elementary school and middle school with who didn’t go to my high school. But also when the third high school opened, they redistricted for everyone grade 10 and below, so kids I was friends with in high school who were just a grade or two below me were sent to a different high school for the rest of our education. It totally happens and it’s awful for the students.

Not me haveing an anxiety attack while Riley has an anxiety attack.

I still remember the whiplash of watching Puss in Boots The Last Wish and realising how much I (an adult) needed a movie like that at that point in my life (particularly the panic attacks). I was (and still am) in a much better place when I first watched Inside Out 2, and while it was very emotional, it was a nice contrast to how far I'd come. The emotional intelligence of kids films these days is underestimated.

The first movie is about depression. This one is about anxiety. The good news is, I think they're out of relatably painful experiences to destroy me with in the third movie... 😅 From the moment New Sense of Self becomes "I'm not good enough" until the end of her panic attack, I cried. And I still cry every time I watch someone react to it. That is entirely the core of my diagnosed anxiety disorder... I wish I could just logic it away like Adam and be like, "This isn't helpful, I'll just stop feeling it and stop spiraling". That must be nice, ADAM 😒😅

Oh yeah and wow Anxiety came in and basically just said look at me look at me i'm the Captain now

So boys, now do you understand why it’s the highest grossing Pixar movie of all time?

If only controlling your emotions were that easy

Adam finishing the movie hating anxiety just tells me he didn't get the whole point of it. Accepting and embracing your emotions is important. Anxiety is not a villain. It's all about 'dosing'. If not controlled, any emotion is harmful.

The moment Joy just embraced her sense of identity.😢 And realizing the emotions are facets of herself, accepting themselves.

Enuis is voiced by Adèle Exarchopoulos who until this basically only acts in french arthouse indie films and that makes it such a funny and perfect choice lol

I'm a little worried for Adam. Suppressing any emotion can lead to weakness. All emotions are valid. Anxiety is warning. Envy is desire. Shaming or botting any just leads to problems down the road. Accepting and owning all is the message. You're made of everything.

Lance Slashblade is voiced by YongYea.

Man, I’m right with you, Jay. I cry every time 😭 I love that in the first movie it’s, “Sadness, Riley needs you.” And this time it’s, “Joy, Riley wants you.”

I am so happy you guys liked it. I have heard one to many critics say it was not as good as the first. I disagree , I think it was equally as good but in a new way. That is exactly what it was supposed to be. I was just so glad they did not ruin it. 🥰

I definitely relate with the feeling of not knowing how to stop anxiety, sometimes it takes alot to stop that run away train. But I am learning my triggers and try to take steps to avoid them

Little not so fun fact severe Asthma Attacks can actually trigger both Anxiety and Panic Attacks and let me tell you as someone who has asthma and has experienced all three at the same time it really sucks to be hit by all three oh yeah and Adam and Jay i got two movie suggestions for y'all they are Moana 1 and Coco

"No, we're enemies now. When we're on that ice..." lmfao

The Crimson Sky reference lmao

Awww..y'all are adorable 🥰

This one actually made me shed tears instead of just feeling sad, especially the last half

10:49 yup. My Jr. High fed into 3 different High Schools and I lived right on the edge of the dividing line. There were kids I knew and played with literally a block away from my home that ended up going to a different school.

I saw this I. The theater with my 35 year old son his wife and my 4 year old grandson. WE ALL LOVED IT ON A DIFFERENT LEVEL. HOPE YOU DID TO!

Only true hockey fans protest that opening penalty. Those of us who don't watch the sport were like, Cool way to pause the action for an exposition recap! LOL!!!

Loving these movie reactions guys!

I don't know if this would instigate any trademark or copyright issues, but it would be fun to see you guys do a reaction while cosplaying Statler and Waldorf and possibly doing impressions of them. It would be fun, and you guys could totally pull off those cosplays. Thoughts?

I clicked on this the second I opened the RU-vid app because this movie wrecked me in the best way! I just started and I am guessing there will be tears

WAITED FOR THISSS SO HAPPY YOU GUYS REACTED TO INSIDE OUT 2

This was such a realistic interpretation of a panic attack. Not just the physical side of Riley before, during, and after it, but also Anxiety at the console. There's this swirling, sharp storm while you're also kind of frozen in mental limbo, unable to grab onto any coherent thought. The fact that she was kind of phasing so that she couldn't be physically touched and then starting to tear up really put a visual on how I feel when it happens. This movie was great but it was actually a very hard watch since it was so relatable. I wonder if they'll make a third. If they do, I feel like a good time to place it in is when Riley first gets to college. I don't think there was ever a time when I went through such a huge mental shift in such a short period of time. I made a lot of mistakes but I can't say I regret them because it was all a part of maturing. But you also do a lot of experimenting with who you want to be and what you like and what you're passionate about. It's rich ground for storytelling. Though this is technically a "kids movie" I feel like they pulled a real toy story which kind of aged up the maturity of the films in order to stay relatable to the same group of viewers (and older). While I'm sure kids enjoyed Toy Story 3, it was very much about letting go of your childhood as you leave it. So I don't think it would be a bad idea to make a third one even more mature (but still family friendly) that young kids may not fully be able to understand yet. My only hope is that they wouldn't make it about romance (even though it would be natural) because I'm aro/ace. They'd checking the schedule, wondering "was't romantic love supposed to show up today?" and then they'd get an email saying, "oh sorry, we forgot to hire someone for that position. oh well. maybe disgust can take on those duties?"

I don't understand why, but Adam's outrage at the bad hockey calls gives me joy. 🙂

The first movie was for depression, and the spectrum of that, and the second movie is for those who struggle with anxiety.

how did you guys miss that you spilled the tea joke

the way jays face dropped when the anxiety sense of self spoke man felt real pain

Put some Kleenex next to your recording area!

There’s a spin off show coming out in December on Disney + called dream productions.

Jays reaction really show that he was going through it. Looked like he was having his own set of recalls of his own thoughts and experiences. It took me a while but Anxiety was driving in my brain for years and years. All the emotions except for Anxiety. Ennui and Fear were handcuffed to the controller. Eventually I learned that no I dont need it to be driving. First emotion I felt come back was anger and it was utter delight. I went to my therapy session like "I FELT ANGER! I WAS ANGRY! I WAS PIIIIIIIISSED! LIKE SO EFFING PISSED I TOLD HIM OFF!" in utter joy, and then I was like "OMG I feel good that I felt angry!" Anxiety still tries to drive, but most of the days, it touches it to give me the thought, but then everyone else goes through my check lists and tells me its okay. Fear probably is the one driving now. But like fear in the movie its more like "Have your checklists, you got this you have this in your back pocket, you already came prepared, or you're observation you're resourceful, even if you dont have it, you have things that can help."

I like how it took 10 minutes for Jay to start crying

I cried several times. It hit so HARD.

Woohoo! Happy to see this! Love you, pReview'd! been a peach for a while now. :) :)

Jay's reactions were basically mine, spot on, frame for frame. Jay is my new spirit animal.

@45:54 My favorite Adam moment on this channel when he reveals joy is the mask of vengeance.

Y'all are JUST seeing this !?

“It’s been a day and a half” 😂😂😂 I lost it!! 44:20

Adam, I am deeply concerned for you. It sounds like you have a toxic, rather unhealthy relationship with your emotions. Anxiety in particular

Adam, sorry my guy, but you really should take the message from this movie about what anxiety is, the good with the bad. That's the point. It's helpful to be emotionally aware for those in your life who do have debilitating anxiety.

When I saw this with my mom in theaters, she related to anxiety so much. So much so that she thought that the reason for my anxiety was because of her. This movie does an incredible job of speaking to people like me. It deserves to be the highest grossing animation film.

WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT THE REF’S KNEES ADAM?!?! I think that’s the dirtiest joke he’s ever said!!

For your confusion about the school situation -- SF schools are assigned by lottery, not neighborhood. Prevents the 'poor' schools vs 'rich' schools thing. It's just bad luck that Grace & Bree got assigned to a different school than Riley.

Yes, always remember, be they right, wrong, or incredibly stupid, your emotions are always trying to help you. You may need to keep your anxiety in check, but it is there to protect you, you just need to keep giving it a reality check on what is real and what it is making up.

I think it's also good to have a trilogy on inside out where Riley's older, maybe fresh out of college and trying to find a job and settle down and support her aging parents and dealing with "life". If we add new emotions, where Nostalgia can be represented by Grief deal with a trauma. I also think that we can also dive more into how the emotions themselves mature and Joy struggling to find herself: - Sadness -> Maturity - Anger -> Assertiveness/Drive - Fear -> Awareness - Disgust -> Disapproval - Embarassment -> Shame/Cringe - Anxiety -> Stress - Ennui -> Apathy - Envy -> Desire - Nostalgia -> Grief - And then you have Joy, lost and unable to figure how to grow when she's stuck in the old ways, constantly trying to be Hope or in search of Happiness (and getting disappointed when things constantly don't go in her way, especially when dealing with some major event/trauma/love/loss. And then maybe finding a way to grow into becoming the more nuanced and balanced version between happiness and hope: "Content/Appreciation". Being able to appreciate the things she is vs what she wants to be, and letting Riley understand that not everyone can get anything they ever wish for, but that shoudn't deter Riley from being Content with what she is and what she has, and appreciate it, while still holding on to those hopefully opportunities, and not letting Apathy take the wheel too long.

What I love is how they kinda referenced the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding method as Riley comes down off her attack. For those that dont onow, the method helps reduce anxiety by actively seeking 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell and 1 thing you can taste. So showing her feeling the bench (which was beautifully rendered i might add) and hearing the sounds of the stick on the puck and the skates on the ice, showed absolutely phenomenal awareness on the part of the creators!

Very cute and funny and entertaining and all the things you expect from a Disney Pixar movie. I enjoyed it immensely. The voice acting is top notch like the first one. Me and Trish felt so many similarities with sadness and Phyllis from 'The Office', only to discover that she is the voice actor for sadness.

I'm really enjoying just how much Anxiety is getting to the homie on the right, paired with talking about how he "murdered his anxiety" it's a great dichotomy lmao. Love the sorts of feelings these two films bring out, even in adults.

29:36 I just realized Anixety’s hair gets taller as she drinks

ayo edebiri as envy is a best supporting actress winning performance TO ME

Lantern Corp!!!!!

Really loving the movie reactions guys! Keep them coming!

So hyped for this and tomorrow’s Bluey. I cried when I saw this for the first time and was excited to see your reactions.

Overthinking being portrayed like overworked animators was way too funny to me. And I'm sure some of those brain beans were direct representations of animators who worked on this film. I'm feeling so seen by this movie and Jay's reaction! I really wish it was as easy as Adam makes it sound. Like the first one I love how the main plot is a simple slice of life story, while everything inside the head can be fantastic and epic. 1 is about a girl sad about moving who doesn't know how to be sad. 2 is about a girl who just learned she'll be separated by her friends (again) while struggling with puberty and trying to find who she is and wants to be.

36:15 "I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH." ...Gut punch!

I love you guys as you are and for what you will be. ❤

I love how the personality of the emotions comes out in how they interact with the pannel. As a quick example, Anxiety almost jabs at it and works recklessly, while Joy is care full and delicate with the pannel.

I regret that I have but only one like that I can give to this reaction

Anxiety gave me actual anxiety at the theater to the point I was thinking of leaving . They depicted it so well!

I'm really happy you got the 1984

I have been looking forward to your reaction to this movie for a while!

People only say the first one was better because it had that scene with Bing-Bong (RIP), but this was honestly just as good.

Just found your channel and I love your reactions especially Adam's reactions are very funny

Adam is like "and I thought sadness was bad!" nope.

Thanks to Jay and Adam! 🧠

Joy: “Maybe this is what happens when you grow up. You feel less joy.” If that isn’t the truth, I don’t know what is 😔

Let's feel. Yay!

I don’t like how in the first movie joy and sadness got sucked up like happiness and sadness together I don’t like and only having 3 emotions is terrible

Maybe the emotions favorite colors are the colors that they are yellow is joy blue is sadness red is anger purple is fear and green is discussed

Why can’t they do the same thing as the first movie took it back to headquarters that was a pretty stupid idea because they went through a brainstorm

Maya Hawke's vocal performance as Anxiety honestly blew me away.

The thing that I saw in the original movie there wasn’t anxiety, but I knew that in this movie that came out in the 25th September Wednesday I saw this funny joke here you have a parachute yes the real question is why don’t any of you but this was came out in June 14 2024 only in theaters and I was like I hate theaters

Can vouch for the different schools thing. The Elementary School I went to funneled you into 1 of 2 High Schools based on your address and zone on the city map; If you wanted to go to the other HS you had to enter into a lottery system, but it was the school county's way of organizing things to not over or under populate a school and keeping.

While I thought that this sequel was only maybe 60% as good as the original, the idea of creating a whole new sense of self at the start of puberty is definitely something I can relate to. I wanted so badly to fit in with who I saw as the "cool kids" that I found myself becoming someone totally different from who I was just a few years earlier. It took me a few years to reinvite that old self back into my life, and I ended up sort of "merging" the two. So, as much as I didn't care for the Anxiety character, at least the idea was grounded in what has been the reality for a lot of kids growing up and coming of age.

I don’t know about you, but I think that sadness looked cute when she was going through the tube

This one hits home because I remember my daughter going through very similar things at the age of 12/13/14 and when we watched this movie together I can tell that it's the way she actually felt back then

10:40 they are in eighth grade which is middle school. they are going into high school and sometimes you aren’t assigned to the same high school. Sometimes two people can be assigned to a middle school because that’s the closest one, but then they both have different high schools that they’re closer to.

Did yall ever watch the “Good boys” movie? Yall did watch the trailer but you never watched the actual movie (atleast on youtube)

Adam is such a liar, his head emotion is a lovechild of the love children of joy and anger, and disgust and ennui 😂

this is what i imagine my brain is like before my zoloft kicks in but truly the moment that made me burst into tears was "joy...riley wants you". when joy doesn't come easy (as it often doesn't with someone like me who deals with anxiety and depression) you really have to try very very very hard to summon her. also never in my life did i think i'd want to defend the emotion of anxiety but adam is making me want to lmao my anxiety is a part of me. i live with it. i will never get rid of it, you cannot suppress any emotion even the ones you have too much of or have an imbalance of. you live with it and you sit with it, it's part of you just like the good emotions are. that's the whole point of these movies, dude. the whole point of being human. it's taken me my whole life of coming to terms with it and my life is better now that i'm living WITH my anxiety and depression and not trying to pretend they don't exist. i sit with them because sometimes that's all you can do. also zoloft lmao

32:17 Oh well played sir lol I can just see Bruce sneaking about the Naka-Riley Tower

I saw this in theaters with a huge group. All the kids that were there were dry-eyed. Most of the adults were crying. When I got home, I stared at the wall for a few hours until my therapy session.

the Die Hard joke caught me. "come out to the cortex, we'll have a few laughs". top notch reference

i like that Envy was teal cause it was kinda like disgust mixed with sadness = we think we r gross when we aren't what they are and that makes us sad. Maybe its not that deep tho

5:40 Adam, it's not the trip. It's the journey. Hug a Jay. ❤