Disney and Pixar return to their world of thought and emotion with Inside Out 2, this time with four new emotions and puberty added.
Disney and Pixar we kind enough to send us a copy of their latest film, Inside Out 2 for the purpose of our review. The story continues with Riley becoming one of the stars of her hockey team and along with her two best friends are invited to a hockey camp. There she will be learning from the coach of the team she hopes to join in the next year. On the way she learns she won’t be attending the same school or team with her friends as she first thought. This causes a spiral of feelings and emotions to reveal themselves as she decides between her current friends and her future teammates.
With the addition of puberty, several new emotions join, Anxiety quickly taking over Riley’s console. Refusing to give up control, Joy questions and argues against each decision. She is then removed from the control room along with the original emotions, leaving only the new four alone and in control. As the original emotions work to restore Riley’s sense of self, Anxiety works to change her entire personality, eventually spiraling out of control.
The team did a fantastic job with this one. The original film took me a few watches to really start enjoying it but this one, they really knocked it out of the park. Between animation quality, the writing and performances, from start to finish this film far exceeded my expectations.