Inside Out 2...?

[@kathi7948]

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.

[@wisdomekanem1725]

comment I was looking for!!!

[@QueenOfTheZombieApocalypse]

@@kathi7948 I was already crying before that moment but went full on 😭 at “Riley wants you” it was beautifully done.

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

Adults control their emotions, but you cried at a children's movie?

[@wisdomekanem1725]

@@maryannclementiii-uw5pk they chose to cry, bro get a life

[@christopher9727]

...... Do you know Jesus Christ can set you free from sins and save you from hell today Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Romans 6.23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

[@Iris_yuh]

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

[@SnoopyReads]

That's just being a woman at any age

[@user-vf2yp3lw5p]

@@SnoopyReadsour hormones are just bonkers 😅🙏🏽

[@iclynnx]

Exactly. I know that feeling. When you realize it, you might feel even worse. "What am I freaking out for?"

[@rpgqueen8737]

@@iclynnx that's me every month

[@dextermorgan-u2z]

nothing happened in the 1st movie either. or not much. it was still brilliant. in this movie enough stuff happens, about the same amount as in the 1st

[@RiriRuruu]

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.

[@ruthie8785]

And if you were the kind of kid who struggled to make friends because of social anxiety, it was even worse!

[@nmoney6655]

Nah I struggled to make friends as a teenager-even though I was (very) popular I didn’t believe I could make friends that had my interests at heart so I channeled my energy into my interests which included being in drama and Coding club

[@jamiew.6606]

I agree, I related with this movie so much more lol.. and I'm 30. All these emotions and life changes are very real and still happen into adulthood.

[@Grant-nj2my]

Dyaum 9:46

[@lucindaleal8020]

I'm not sure if I'm just weird but when I was that age I bounced around between schools like a pinball and I didn't really care where my friends went - maybe Riley has a lot bigger friendship island or something but in the days of social media its really no big deal

[@yashvardhanraju8052]

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

[@EtheriaI]

Yea exactly like when they were talking about the homework or maybe at the beginning

[@nienke7713]

Indeed, and I felt like the ending reinforced that message by saying "considering the consequences of our actions and planning for the future is good, but we need to keep anxiety in check and focus on the things we can control instead of worrying about things out of our control"

[@nienke7713]

And similarly with the other new emotions: -Envy when in moderation can help strife to being the best version of yourself and having motivation to be as successful as others -Embarrassment in moderation is a way to learn from mistakes -Ennui in moderation is a way to protect herself in vulnerable social situations and let things slide when they don't go as she hopes

[@TheTardisDreamer]

Yeah, in psychology it fits into the "window of tolerance" idea or similar frameworks. Some feelings of anxiety and worry are healthy, because they're what motivate us and challenge us and keep us focussed and going at important times, like in sports or performances. But you have a window of tolerance, depending on a lot of individual factors (I.e. long-term ones like family, but also short term ones like how tired or stressed you are). Once that anxiety pushes you past your window of tolerance, it works in the opposite way and hurts you. You become overwhelmed and "deregulated", where you are no longer basically in control. Neurologically you stop being able to process information or focus as effectively or regulate your emotions. Aka leading to panic attacks, for instance. And it can trigger the neurologic reaction we call disassociation, which comes from an evolutionary trait we developed to deal with very traumatic or stressful situations. Except in people with high anxiety where they're deregulated it can be triggered when it's not needed. And it severely affects someone's cognitive function basically. It's why often when someone has just gone through a really traumatic event, they feel spaced out, can't think straight and lose time and memories. That's disassociation. There's sort of a similar thing that happens with depression, but it "deregulates" in basically the opposite way.

[@andreasmeelie1889]

Joy even tells Anxiety at the end of the movie that she can work as long as it's not too overboard.

[@Zackattack3055]

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. 😭

[@sleepyfoodie4959]

Man .... I was tearing UP in the theater when Joy said that 🥲

[@vstro_i]

“I don’t know how to stop anxiety. Maybe you can’t. Maybe you just feel less joy when you’re older” something like that, every single part of that quote hits hard

[@finnnow3647]

And then at the end when it said "Joy, Riley wants you" or whatever-

[@theymakefunofmyname-qz4dq]

I cried during that scene 🥲

[@hassanhazrat3615]

I thought I was the only one 😢

[@kumatoni5245]

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.

[@CarriBurge]

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

[@GohanKanor]

Inside Out 2 is a metaphor for adolescence that deals with mental changes, just as Turning Red did with physical puberty.

[@lauracerqueiramachado8979]

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

[@Panimal98]

Exactly. Much like the first film and in real life, it's all about moderation.

[@jannikel2640]

Psst not too loud, you're actually gonna have to make Alex think about a movie he watched

[@technoLorecana213]

@@jannikel2640😂

[@samuraicupcake289]

Ennui also makes you save energy, time and money.

[@scaraptor2106]

Ennui also ALSO means that when Riley is bored, she’ll want to do something interesting or new to fight that boredom and then potentially learn something new

[@Yuumiiiiiiiii]

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.

[@emilyfenstermaker2094]

I agree that’s why I liked Luca. Simple.

[@caradiel2644]

I think it's better than the first one personally

[@TheTardisDreamer]

Yeah, this was extremely relatable to me. Riley is the age where, like a lot of people, I developed anxiety too, and had a lot of these other experiences as well. I felt the same way and behaved exactly like she did at that age.

[@violette_lilies4484]

Yea, not all stories should have a big dramatic plot or scene in it to be good. Inside out 2 is about teens and how hard it is to make friends, and as a teenager I find that very relatable

[@MichaelQ-iv7pt]

Most of us have not had panic attacks.

[@Hepoxni]

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

[@Zenith_X3]

That's a great analysis

[@jamiew.6606]

I agree with this. That's the first thing I said when all the memories became beliefs. They make Riley who she is. As painful as memories can be, we learn from them.

[@alexanderfigueroa74]

I felt this as well, the first movie centers so much more around the emotions and realizing that all emotions are good to be felt and can be helpful. Joy even says so in the second movie, trying to accept anxiety and find out what makes her good for Riley. However, Joy and Anxiety were picking and choosing MEMORIES to focus on and make a sense of self from. It wasn't about the emotions anymore it's dealing with memories. Something many people do is try to suppress bad memories because they hurt to think about. This movie is just embracing the bad memories and showi g that you can still mess up and make bad choices fueled by anxiety, and still come out as a good person. The whole reason her friends accepted her apology was because she took accountability for hurting them. I fully recommend watching CinemaTherapy's video on this movie ❤

[@bismi546]

yes

[@Jonathan_Collins]

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.

[@shreya...007]

Yes, just yes. And the best part of that for me is, I'm not too different of an age group as Riley. Only slightly older. So it hits so hard.

[@huntrr_44]

I keep seeing you in every comment section how

[@VladTepes-SaviorofEurope-mw4uy]

Any movie that contains Muslims is a no watch for me. I don't hate you, only your sin.

[@1218random_person]

When you get to the one where she dies of old age but you're the same age as her.

[@VladTepes-SaviorofEurope-mw4uy]

Any movie that involves the religion of pieces is an automatic boycott. I don't hate you, only your sin.

[@Rembreiker_lychec9257]

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.

[@chezperky]

Disney missed that because they covered up that quip about Disney by making it a pop culture reference

[@JDB51]

See here’s the thing, obviously Disney is the embodiment of that joke, but they are in denial and think that they aren’t so of course they wouldn’t remove it

[@livywithane]

Oh wow… I totally forgot that was the imagination land😭

[@NewyorkJKSK]

At least they’re not doing any live action movies

[@MrGabeanator]

Animation sweatshop hmm I wonder what that’s a reference

[@katelinjoyner7716]

After YEARS of watching you, I think is the first time I ever disagreed with you. This movie actually hit on exactly what it wanted to hit and meant a lot to a lot of people seeing themselves REALLY represented on screen. I think you are just too far from the demographic of this movie to see what it’s doing. You calling anxiety the bad guy is actually exactly NOT the point of the movie. Anxiety was genuinely trying to help Riley. Those “bad” feelings are your brain trying to protect you, but the movie is saying that they can exist without you having to fear them and give them power. Anxiety wasn’t the bad guy at ALL, and that’s the literal message of the movie. You are not bad for having anxiety, you are not stupid for worrying, you are not alone. I actually had the thought half way through movie, expecting anxiety to be “the bad guy”, but I had a moment where I genuinely wanted to cry because I saw what they were doing. “Anxiety is not the bad guy” is something a lot of us needed to hear. I think you just watched it with a literal lens, but it was relying on experience to push the message forward. At the end, your pitch was good but it was a very straight forward and widely relatable story we’ve seen a million times. This hit a nerve that it meant to hit, that would miss with some people inevitably. You watch a lot of movies that aren’t necessarily “made for you” but I think this one was REALLY not meant for you lol. I’m a long time subscriber, so No hate at all, just my thoughts.❤

[@thusluxx1358]

Exactly there is actually nothing wrong with this movie and I’ve now watched it twice it’s crazy

[@kie.sjaz.]

perfectly worded

[@tonton.-]

meh the movie was honestly so mid and overrated.. good but not great. High end Mid tier. I mean. I guessed the movie plot in theaters in the first 5 minutes..

[@thusluxx1358]

@ it’s a kids movie my man 😭

[@tonton.-]

@@thusluxx1358 agreed.. Commenter is definitely overdoing it. Kids movie, boring.. snoozefest when i watched it

[@interdimensionalmusic4522]

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.

[@libbyf51]

i agree, as soon as he said about how it’s not that big of a deal about riley’s friends moving to another school i digressed, because to a teenager that’s an insanely huge deal

[@milenartmeire2588]

​@@libbyf51Exactly

[@TheTardisDreamer]

​@@libbyf51Completely. It's so painfully relatable to what I sent through. I moved at 12, like she did about in the first film, and it was extremely upsetting. And then when I was about her age (Australia doesn't have middle school), the few friends I'd made at school, because girls can be so bitchy, stabbed me in the back. So for half a year I sat by myself every day and in every class and had to watch them be best friends. It was horrible. That was the age where I first developed depression and anxiety (I also had family stuff going on) like is common, and I don't know if I've ever felt worse in my life. I used to disassociate every day when I walked through the school gates, and I would get home from school and sob or explode. It definitely isn't always an easy age.

[@Jose04537]

Riley's new emotion, depression!

[@interdimensionalmusic4522]

@@Jose04537 I think that was Ennui, it's the feeling of absolutely nothing, people often think depression is this deep sorrow, but in my experience, it's literally your emotions shutting down, like in inside out one, Riley completely loses the ability to feel or be influenced by her emotions, that is depression.

[@rosesthornsandreads]

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.

[@user-vf2yp3lw5p]

i was shamelessly crying in the theaters when riley experienced her panic attack. it's a faithful representation of what people with anxiety go through.

[@marshallc6215]

The Last Wish did a pretty decent representation of a panic attack. They let the scene play itself out and slowly ride the adrenaline down instead of timeskipping or rushing the process or just skipping most of it like another movie would.

[@digitool5944]

Anxiety the whole movie was the drive to be better, to not be alone, as she said, she is there to protect Riley from invisible threats, like loneliness and failure, she is the worst of Fear and Disgust put together, but the strive to be better is a good emotion that all stems from Anxiety

[@bashlord1983]

Totally agree I loved it so much and it was so real

[@chantalhamilton2374]

Yup. Alex was right in that this movie perfectly targets people who experience an overload of anxiety, but he was wrong in it being a "bad" thing or not as impactful as the concept of growing out of childhood.

[@chrispylee1019]

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.

[@syrianaspect6281]

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

[@Gaby-yb8vj]

The first movie came out in 2015 so it’s safe to assume the sequel takes place in 2017/2018, equally distant from 2012 and present day.

[@hopelessromanticcccc]

which is perfect

[@syrianaspect6281]

@@Gaby-yb8vj ok sure

[@DaRealICantThinkOfAUsername]

@@Gaby-yb8vj bro I’m jealous of Riley. She gets to be in 2017!

[@Moonlight.Howlings.666]

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

[@trusha_tungare]

agreed!

[@celestlemirage2304]

There was no metaphor it was LITERALLY about that

[@manoking9619]

@@celestlemirage2304 "Allegory" was the more appropriate word

[@Operager]

This was Turning Red but good

[@Delusional_Man]

but my favorite part about inside out 2 was how nonspecific it was, where turning red was an allegory for periods and a woman going through puberty, inside out 2 can apply to literally any teenager going through puberty and what that felt like, it was able to speak for everyone instead of a specific group

[@TheRealLeewon]

As someone who struggled with extreme anxiety and depression this year, watching this movie made me cry

[@kateealer7]

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.

[@PrincessBrae-r9f]

Ennui is a girl

[@Konani_the_unicorn_queen]

@@PrincessBrae-r9f you sure about that?

[@claudiafernandes1150]

my aunt was like "I didnt know they were basing a characther off your cousin" XD, there was no defending him.

[@FallenAngelHiroko]

@@PrincessBrae-r9fShe was? I thought it was a guy going “goth-emo” from the 90s.

[@tiernanmcveigh4102]

My French gf was not impressed that they used a French stereotype and that Joy was so dismissive of her calling her yes yes in a way that a mother ignores her child when she's busy. Another dad joke 😅

[@bjp1101]

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

[@snoopy_burpo_lover]

ikr?

[@PussInBootsTheLastWishFan2003]

It’s a perfect Pixar sequel

[@weareprobablyinanarguement]

For sure

[@weareprobablyinanarguement]

And I haven’t even seen the whole movie

[@oreolover9321]

I agree I like the second one better

[@enhaworld]

i went through bullying in middle school and once i started high school with no friends i basically did the same thing, which was having a panic attack inside the counseling office when i was trying to get my laptop. this movie really hit home for me because of how much i understood how riley was feeling. wanting to be liked and trying to pretend to be something you’re not for other’s approval is something i know all too well. i think the movie perfectly emulates being 13.

[@GeneralNickles]

Soooo.... Don't be a two-faced lier? And stop caring so much about people liking you? Seems like a pretty simple solution to a basically non-problem. People liking literally doesn't matter in the slightest anyway. It's completely inconsequential. There is no reason to care about it.

[@waterlily3522]

Yes, this movie totally does! Hope you're doing better now!

[@BlackSheepBagel]

Hope you’re doing okay now

[@user-anayash]

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.

[@nyassaisleaving990]

I’m a few years out of middle school now but I felt that too and have to say that I am so jealous of you for having this film and so glad both younger kids who are becoming teenagers and are maybe worried about it and actual teenagers have a film like this. The first film had a huge effect on me when it came out when I was a kid, I still adore it now, simply because I was so happy to see a film that was saying that being sad is okay! I’ve suffered from anxiety and being a miserable sod basically since I was born, that’s not to say I was never happy but I was never a jumping for joy 24/7 child, and I always felt like there was something wrong with me and that I was disconnected from most people because of it but Inside Out made me realise that there isn’t anything wrong with just not feeling happy all of the time. Fast forward to Inside Out 2’s release and it felt like watching my own 13/14 year old life: panic attacks, struggling with friendships, having a huge amount of admiration for my peers but not knowing how to express it, really hating my body being different and I couldn’t help but wish it had been released a few years earlier so maybe I’d have experienced it the way you and others are now!

[@user-anayash]

@@nyassaisleaving990 omg, I adore you sm, I’m in 7 and I’m struggling so hard, ALL my friends moved away and like I’m the only one 😭

[@nyassaisleaving990]

@@user-anayash I had a similar experience and it does suck. I went to a middle school that nobody else I knew went to then ended up having to change schools twice after that, again to schools where I knew nobody, it was pretty rough (+ going through family dramas and mental health issues) but I’m still alive somehow! Just believe it will end up okay in the end, even if it’s pretty crap for a while, because chances are they will be. Try and keep in contact with your friends but there’s nothing wrong with making new ones! No feeling lasts forever, if I told my younger self that she wouldn’t believe me but it’s true!

[@user-anayash]

@@nyassaisleaving990TYSM, luckily I have supportive parents, but the people I hang out with, two of my old friends, I feel are not the same anymore, we were a close group, of 5 people, 2 of the people I’m closest with moved aboard and one of the people I’m closest with changed schools, there are two left with me but I’m not that close with them I feel, they trash talk a lot, I hate it so bad, I don’t wanna do this, but the school year has started, everyone is in groups and I go to a school where getting into friend groups is SUPER HARD, I don’t wanna be alone, but the two people left with me, they trays talk others, curse to, which I hate, and somehow are talking about dating, just in seventh grade, they talk negatively about everything, make everyone believe school is hard and just are the type of people who’d make you believe they love you but end up talking trash about you later, one of them is nice but she talks negatively, the other is a total backstabber, she hangs out with ninth graders and ALWAYS excludes me out if I try to talk to them and make friends myself.

[@nyassaisleaving990]

@@AG-fg1uk You liked your own comment, worry about yourself first.

[@Cairo198]

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

[@caradiel2644]

Yes !!

[@nikkistudio...]

Also the fact that anxiety was just trying to help making Riley practice so she can get better, and also talking to other people so her social life doesn't just end once her friends are gone 💀

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

Yeah, that'll be really useful when she gets a job as a dishwasher.

[@_Feyd-Rautha]

Anxiety serves an important function. The problem is the world we evolved in and the world we live in are so different. Saber tooth tiger and Spanish test don't have the same threat level but can create the same anxiety

[@ayanaatthrivebewhole]

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!

[@EngineerRiff]

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

[@JDB51]

Yeah but that should be a given considering how much money was spent to make it

[@OdogRuby77]

@@JDB51 Wish spent around the same much money maximum to make that movie and yet it looks like someone put a "snapchat filter" on a 3D movie instead of actually changing it up. (Someone else's words, not mine.)

[@Floatiestgoatintown]

Msm fan watching alex?!

[@Red-zd4xm]

I saw it pirated at 240p. Insane quality

[@The_Trident_Master]

It wasn’t as good as the first one, though

[@hennessyiscool]

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

[@HavenlovesGod]

I like liked the first inside out better than the first one because in the new one they spent more time on the outside world more than they did her mind

[@GLE_1290]

Or criticism 💀💀

[@Crazyfellow2005]

​@@HavenlovesGodwait you found that first one is better than the first one. Pfffffft sure (I didn't mean to hurt anyone it's just a slight mistake I was making out even I do one okay?)

[@randomusername429]

Apparently this movie originally was actually going to do something like that by introducing "guilt" and "shame" as two of Riley's new emotions, but they decided not to include them after a while because it made the script too depressing.

[@spbot2]

​@@randomusername429they did introduce shame tho. Its the big pink one

[@QueenOfTheZombieApocalypse]

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).

[@nanalove3819]

At this age I was sad cause I wasn't in the same class than my friends, so not in the same school? Hard. (our school system is different so we are in the same class all the time for the whole year; from what I get from movies, it's not the case in the USA when classes change depending on the subject you study)

[@mintyleaf8796]

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.

[@imadethiscuziwsbored]

I agree. I went to a different high school than all my friends and it was very very anxiety producing. I didnt know anyone and it was a big deal

[@mintyleaf8796]

@@imadethiscuziwsbored Exactly. For a teenage girl, your world is small-should be small. Her world is largely her close friends. Having them pulled away is a huge deal.

[@Ratress6]

I was thinking how much of a big deal that is!!! Maybe I’m biased as I’m a teenage girl

[@gracecarter2690]

I think maybe because the last film ended with Riley having to learn to rely on and trust her family more and rebuild Family Island that it just feels a bit cheap to reduce that so drastically in what is only a year for the characters when we could already see by the end of the first film that she had made new friends because she was just a naturally social person. Not trying to dismiss how hard it is to go to a school without friends or what Riley experiences in this film, just trying to rationalise

[@mintyleaf8796]

As a teacher who has specialized in kids Riley’s age, the movie hits the age development spot on. This is exactly the change that happens from 8th to 9th grade. A lot of junior high kids at the end of that year go from social and gregarious and outgoing to shy and inturned as they become more and more aware of social mores and expectations and how much their social status changes when others see them. Your friend group gets more important as this is a natural age to begin gaining independence. Riley’s reliance on her close friends is a healthy and normal development at her age, and the family island being more distant doesn’t mean it’s smaller, just that Riley is prioritizing friendship right now as she learns to stand on her own two feet apart from her parents and starts to believe in a future she will build where she isn’t reliant on them.

[@TheMeta141]

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,

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

I think the better point is that basically nothing you go through as a teenager is a "struggle" in the first place. You just blow it up to seem like one because of anxiety. That's why you can tell the age of anyone online by how loosely they use the word "trauma." Twenty years from now, Riley will realize that not one thing she went through in these movies actually mattered.

[@dinosaur___7209]

@@maryannclementiii-uw5pkThat's not true - losing her friends is a huge deal. Going to a different school usually means they won't be friends anymore. None of these things are little.

[@eternelleee]

@@maryannclementiii-uw5pkLiterally *everything* is a big deal when you’re a teenager. You don’t think much of it because you’re a grown adult and have control over your emotions (and may think it’s silly), but teenagers are still growing since they’re going through puberty. Plenty of shit happens throughout puberty, like in this movie for instance, emotional and hormonal changes. Small things tend to get to you easier, and you overthink about on all of these “what if” situations, wondering if they’re going to get better or not. Or wondering if you’ve made the biggest mistake of your life and that it’s going to change for the rest of it. Again, you may not think much of it because you’re not the target audience, but even then, some people in *(and* out) of the target audience can relate to this film because they may have dealt, or are currently dealing, with similar situations that Riley went through.

[@mannydiaz3324]

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

[@bibisarab.7972]

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

[@TCK7890]

For me it’s about the same except that each emotion moves at Mach 10 for literally anything I call it adhd

[@just_a_silly_weenie008]

For me, I imagine anxiety is just at the panel all the time while the others are out getting food. Anxiety is exhausting😭

[@jeremiahreed6794]

My emotions constantly put Anxiety on dream duty and let her press as many buttons as she wants That's why I always have anxiety-ridden thoughts at 3AM

[@just_a_silly_weenie008]

Orange is my favourite colour so I relate to anxiety.. TOO much. I'm happy others relate to her :D

[@shiannafoxx]

@@TCK7890 Relatable

[@zackonvr]

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

[@Tomy_Yon]

He's an animation. There's a difference. 😊

[@thegrinch1044]

How's your notifications?

[@PiXEllzz_DRAWzz]

Fr, he even sounds a little like a kid

[@betsybreen1102]

He’s a child at heart

[@SugarSwirl]

@@PiXEllzz_DRAWzzwhat little kids are you talking to 😭

[@antoniorullo8804]

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.

[@antoniorullo8804]

not to me mention that at the end of the movie, after all the subtitles, a little ‘this is for you kids, your perfect just the way you are.’ I SOBBED

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

@@antoniorullo8804 You should sob. Perfection doesn't exist, and you'll realize within the next couple of years that most people are better looking than you'll ever be.

[@hamberger837]

​@@maryannclementiii-uw5pkbruh... Out of everything you could of said, you said that?

[@elise.ch4nn]

@@maryannclementiii-uw5pkreally ..

[@iBe_Sarah]

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.

[@talizorahvasnerd]

That scene actually had me crying in theater

[@gtd5626]

It was an anxiety attack.

[@jasminemitsubachi525]

@@gtd5626 Anxiety = panic

[@DecayOpossum]

@@jasminemitsubachi525Anxiety attacks and panic attacks are actually different (I’ve had both, they’re similar but so different at the same time. panic attacks are more sudden and without identifiable cause while anxiety attacks build up and have an identifiable cause). I know it seems like semantics but it is important to differentiate between the two for medical purposes and figuring out if you have anxiety or a panic disorder.

[@lunaria8024]

​@@DecayOpossumthey actually had 4 psychologists working on the movie, so I'd expect it to be good, good on pixar.... Good on pixar, hate you for being too damn real, but I love ya.

[@TheLoneReni]

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.

[@Lenci_the_Nugget]

Same. They asked her for advice on how to plan something in that end scene too. The point is that anxiety helps you plan for the future and is useful if it's in balance with the other emotions.

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

Yeah, Anxiety wasn't ignored at all. Just relegated to a vibrating recliner as far away from the control panel as possible.

[@bumbabees]

yes, they were telling her when she needed to take a step back but also reassuring her when she did something helpful. ive been in therapy for anxiety for years and thats a major part of learning to handle it. you dont get rid of anxiety, you just learn whats reasonable to be scared of and whats not. because at the end of the day, its there to protect you. you just have to learn to filter.

[@Birdsong231]

I think you need to have suffered with an anxiety disorder to truly understand the meaning behind this movie. Anxiety wasn't portrayed as a villain. It's actually quite the opposite... She was portrayed *perfectly.* Every living being has anxiety. We tend to call it our survival instincts. Sometimes, those instincts can overload with unrealistic scenarios and turn into a very troublesome and self-destructive lifestyle. That is *exactly* what happened in this movie. Yea, it's a little weird that her friends just immediately forgave her for her actions, but they understood that she was acting out of stress and irrational fears... Aka, anxiety getting out of control. All of us have gone through this one way or another. Also, remember what it was like to be 13-15? Every itty bitty little thing going wrong felt like the end of the world, did it not? Riley's reactions are actually quite normal for someone her age, ESPECIALLY considering what she went through in the first movie. She historically doesn't react well to big changes. Basically what I'm saying is, don't shame Riley for being a kid. She's still learning, growing and experiencing things. Expecting a child to act like an grown adult is utterly absurd (and cruel, because it actually causes childhood trauma).

[@bad-girl-coventhe-owl-club1119]

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.

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

Not trying to be one of those commenters who just swoops in and gives unnecessary grammar advice. But since we're talking about a movie where emotions are chief characters, it's worth noting that envy and jealousy are not the same thing. Envy is more about wanting/aspiring, while jealousy is more about not wanting to let go. It doesn't have to be fear of letting go of something you actually have, like you can be jealous when an unrequited crush flirts with someone else. But since a third movie would probably put Riley at the right age to start dating, it would actually be interesting to introduce Jealousy as a character and see what their interactions with Envy are like.

[@stella-G]

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

[@blueseraph8618]

Yeah, I bet they forgave her at some point

[@modkip25]

yeah, why did alex act like she didn't apologize? 🤷

[@starpops02]

@@modkip25 Because there's a 'teenage girls are vapid and bratty' running joke in the video and pointing out Riley's accountability would ruin that

[@caradiel2644]

Yeah there's a lot of criticisms in this video I don't understand especially that one having a friend that close to you for a long period of time when they start acting out of character you'll be mad yes but you'll also be concerned Riley's apology was a good one and me as a stubborn person who is not someone who likes to forgive I would have forgiven her

[@vkiran3576]

​@@modkip25 The comment about anxiety being a negative emotion didn't make sense either. The movie goes out of its way to tell us that anxiety is good but in small doses. Making jokes is okay but lying is just cheap.

[@danisaur6487]

The anxiety attack scene made me feel so many emotions. I had been going through a few anxiety attacks before seeing this movie and boy was I not ready for how real that scene is. Honestly I just felt really seen. Tbh I think I may have liked this movie even more than the first since the emotions are even more complex.

[@simulation2250]

This movie is not allowed to be this relatable omg

[@DonnovanThomas929]

Literally I gave it 4.5/5 and almost cried because of how relatable it was

[@simulation2250]

@@DonnovanThomas929 IKR.Litterally sobbing 😭

[@EllieDickinson28]

I cried a little as well. Anxiety taking over and joy feeling like she was no longer needed just hit a little too deep 🥲

[@weareprobablyinanarguement]

I’m not even a girl but this is so real

[@simulation2250]

@@weareprobablyinanarguement Exactly😫

[@FizzyBelly]

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.

[@leontoro4737]

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.

[@Azzrealwaza]

Alex would make a great emotion in inside out

[@maderaartstudios4738]

the emotion of Snark

[@Trey-qm1bb]

Nostalgia

[@WaterLemonDuck]

The emotion of memes 😂

[@josephine.france5]

Cynicism

[@Lauren2284]

Intrusive / impulsive thought

[@becklewis9889]

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.

[@Panimal98]

You're very smart for your age. Stay and school and stay safe.

[@Someguy6851]

Yeah don’t drop out

[@becklewis9889]

@@Someguy6851 wasn’t planning on it

[@rachaelb.471]

Exactly! Hit the nail on the head.

[@snowkittinn]

Your reallly mature for your age...

[@petros_thebot]

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.

[@powerjolt7215]

Yeah there's a time and a place for each and every emotion. The key is just moderation and this counts for everything. For example Joy. As seen in the first film her absence literally made Riley depressed, because she was too used to being happy all the time, unable to feel much else. That movie spoke to how important it is to feel your emotions. This movie brought up the same thing, but expanded on sense of self, the affects of puberty, more complex feelings and how to not let them dictate your life. And lastly, how it's okay to feel these things and how it's okay to be you. Imperfections and all. I love these movies!

[@r.s.9239]

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

[@lunawolf6288]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@LovelyLara123]

Yeah, I was SO worried they forgot, and then, out of nowhere “TrIpLe DeNt GuM”

[@keyblademasterct2]

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.

[@manoking9619]

He did mostly highlight the bad, but that's not necessarily a bad thing when the movie is mostly good. A lot of what he found dissatisfactory I actually agree with, but I would still rank this a nine out of 10.

[@daniella_otsuki]

I disagree. Alex made a lot of points that I left the movie thinking about. It's important when it's sequels we are talking about that they don't feel smaller than the original (think the 2nd and 3rd toy story). I don't think this is a bad movie but it's not nearly as good as the first one and doesn't feel like a big enough expansion of its universe.

[@roxassora2706]

Also his nods to "search history" for boys and "fanfiction" for girls. Someone tell him that girls are exposed to, and watch, 🌽 too.

[@Real_lucifer_devil]

It’s like the same movie they did what no one fucken wanted no cares about anixety👹

[@roxassora2706]

@@Real_lucifer_devil Ooh, so edgy. 🙄

[@Iluvcookies123]

19:04 in my opinion this movie was a little more for girls hitting puberty. I also think the voice actor for anxiety was perfect. But I do wish they brought back bing bong

[@NFrealStan]

isnt bing bong dead 😭

[@Iluvcookies123]

@@NFrealStan yeah but he could’ve somehow came back lol idk 💀

[@jinminxluvs1032]

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!

[@Auron1Roxas2]

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.

[@caradiel2644]

Thank you !! I don't like when people say this is just the same lesson as the first movie also it's not learning to express your emotions and that it's okay to do so it's not the same as learning to accept yourself

[@maximumdinosaur]

10:40 as a video game dev, the video game character was the best part of this movie. Absolutely hilarious

[@Applemangh]

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.

[@mae1513]

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

[@kolonarulez5222]

Yes for real no one even tried to correct her like nope it doesn't get better after all. Enjoy youth

[@TheTardisDreamer]

Yeah, that line hurt a lot, especially as someone whose had depression and anxiety since her age. I didn't exactly have an easy childhood, but at least I had hope for the future and didn't have to deal with this awfulness every single day.

[@ruthie8785]

@@TheTardisDreamer Less joy does not equal no joy. Adulthood has plenty of perks, please don’t feel hopeless. It’s just that the joy of childhood is often unique simply because you are a child and the world is simple.

[@bumbabees]

​@@kolonarulez5222i dont think thats what that means. you feel less joy as you get older, yes. the world feels more complicated, but thats just because youre old enough to understand it now. you feel less childlike joy and wonder but that doesnt mean its gone. that there isnt ANYTHING to be happy about anymore. you dont have to be miserable. you just learn to accept harsh realities.

[@Dopesickgypsy]

That's the line that stuck out to me

[@MagsGreenaway]

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

[@geardog24]

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

[@matthewbraith0411]

That would give Envy a point in the movie and we can't have that.

[@NinaPrado-l4k]

Inside Out's main message is that all emotions are valid until it starts to get too much, but it would be harder to do with Envy than Anxiety. Name ONE movie in which the envious villain becomes a better person while understanding how their jealousy could be used for a good cause. It's possible, but painting Anxiety in a better light is easier and more relatable to most people who have probably already experienced panic attacks and need confirmation that it's natural and not always a bad thing, if you keep it under control.

[@ax8893]

@@NinaPrado-l4kyeah but you could do something about how jealousy is to protect what you feel is yours or a part of your life, but too much of it becomes envy

[@forlegalreasonsionexist7711]

If I'm correct and they bring "love" as a new emotion in the next movie, I think envy would play a big part in there

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

@@NinaPrado-l4k Wait, so your argument for why Inside Out 2 couldn't do that is because you can't think of another movie that's done it? So, in shorter terms, you're making an argument AGAINST originality in storytelling? Also, envy and jealousy are not the same thing. But they do coincide. So the better version of your premise is one where the villain realizes that their envy could spur them to become a better person, but only if they keep their jealousy in check. And that's actually a pretty damn realistic life lesson that could hit hard in the third movie if they introduce Jealousy as a character.

[@ellie_9063]

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.

[@yaB0i_Hawkx]

Ye really liked anxiety's voice

[@cc1526]

Same. I’m usually pretty against celebrities doing voice over work if they have no experience or talent for it (looking at you Beyoncé in lion king) but I actually think every voice actor in this movie perfectly matched their emotion and considering two were recasts and I didn’t even notice - that means they not only matched the character but also had to match the original voice actor. That takes a lot of skill to make it believable and not sound like a KZbin/TikTok impression.

[@fireruby1882]

I fully agree she was the perfect voice

[@nateroo1486]

yeah Maya did alright. I think Alex is confusing lack of voice acting talent for lack of communication through departments. Normally in productions like this the animation will be blocked out over a scratch track, then the actors record, then it's properly timed and lipsynced. Mayas words not matching Anxiety's mouth movements is just from the animators not being in good communication with the voice directors and sound techs so they animated for the script instead of for the track. Either that or the animators were given a different track that the editor threw out in post, the timing was off due to a rendering fault, the director could've done that scene out of order, the original file could've been lost and they had to redub it last minute, a thousand things could've happened to make it look weird. Maya being a bad voice actor is not one of em. I think she did at least a servicable job and she's a lot more expressive than most celebrity voice actors. Still hire actual voice actors but her performance was good lol

[@dennyjones6921]

I feel like she was the perfect voice

[@justshutup0395]

I loved the movie. For me, it portrayed a lot of things I felt and have been feeling since middle school. What I felt for year, what I'd like to call a journey to finding myself after suddenly not having the belief that I was a good person anymore, it was summed up in three days for Riley. I wished I could have seen this movie when I was a little younger, maybe when I was filled with just anxiety and Joy was rarely there. But I'm not sure I would have understood it and related to it at the same level as me watching it now, at 20 years old, when I still haven't really found myself but I've come to believe that I could be many things at the same time, I'm not always nice, but that doesn't necesserly make me evil. I'm not always happy and that's fine. That scene where Riley starts having different beliefs about herself made me tear up

[@xxcamelia]

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

[@caradiel2644]

Thank you this is not the same lesson as the first movie

[@paiget6200]

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 😂

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

Between that and the way she initially acts around her coach, I was like 90% ready for this to just be a movie about Riley coming out.

[@D3viant517]

@@maryannclementiii-uw5pkApparently that was the original intention and was gonna be made very explicit, but the higher ups struck it down for fear of it causing the movie to bomb like lightyear(A movie that bombed for many other reasons besides the small amount of gay stuff but apparently the Pixar execs don’t see it that way). Obviously their efforts didn’t work since just about everyone still thinks Riley has a thing for Val.

[@feriantoaryonugroho6735]

Put some respect on Soul. Its one of pixar's best work

[@claudiaamengualmateo6989]

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.

[@tyleroutland435]

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

[@Animalsarefamily-p2n]

It’s such a good sequel!!

[@tyleroutland435]

@@Animalsarefamily-p2n I agree

[@HelloBOT-g8h]

Yeah didn't know we would get two great sequels this year dune 2 and inside out

[@tyleroutland435]

@@HelloBOT-g8h and Despicable me 4 was a good sequel as well

[@noobmasterruben5167]

It also deserved to beat Lion King 2019 and Super mario in the box office

[@PacDino11]

My biggest problem with this review is how he complained about Maya Hawke being an overused actor, comparing her to Awkafina, which is just, not true in the absolute slightest.

[@LeahRobinson-fg4lu]

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.

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

Maybe the one that changed is you. Don't really get to say another person isn't "sweet and kind" anymore when you're the one saying they don't care about life. That's not your judgment to make, and assuming it is doesn't make you so sweet and kind either. Maybe instead of clutching pearls over the fact that someone took up smoking, you could spend that energy questioning whether you've really earned the right to judge people as harshly as you do.

[@lookhereandreadit]

U told someone after seeing them again years later that u two aren't friends anymore???

[@AA-wn1ed]

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

[@soupergiffy]

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

[@Arrowkeys]

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

[@ReptiliansRule]

Think you mean "hard disagree "

[@Arrowkeys]

@@ReptiliansRule oh thanks, English isn’t my native language so I appreciate the help. I actually always thought it was „I hardly disagree“ but now that I’m thinking about it doesn’t make sense

[@Seablobel8]

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

[@canvasofgrey6958]

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.

[@Vociferous]

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.

[@TheEscapistDreamer]

Think you missed the point. She is a teenage girl now. Everything means the end of the world. Not getting into the hockey team, not being friends with the cool girl, dying your hair...these may seem like small things to you, an adult, but to a 13yo that is everything. The movie creators actually had a group of teenage girls they consulted about the movie every few months to get pointers and stuff, so this is pretty much accurate most of the time. Also, remember: teenage GIRL. xD

[@claracatlady9844]

*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

[@richardbaines5740]

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

[@elid3630]

Anxiety isn’t the villain of the movie. She’s the main antagonist sure, but like Joy in the first movie she went about “helping” Riley in all the wrong ways. Which is why when Riley’s sense of self says “I’m not good enough”, anxiety freaks out trying to fix it, which only made it worse, because that’s not what she wanted, hence the anxiety/ panic attack. It took the bad and good memories coming together for Riley herself to come to the conclusion of who she is, not the emotions driving her.

[@kendalrain4100]

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

[@Applemangh]

Not without sugar. You know, the kool-aid packets that expect you to add your own sugar? I've known people who have died their hair with those packets and they didn't have any bug issues from it.

[@JYJnKumi]

It works for the inmates. 😂

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

Finally, the Archer/Pixar crossover we've all been waiting for. Although I actually am low-key surprised Jon Benjamin hasn't done at least one character for them yet.

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

@@Applemangh Nobody dies without having bug issues. Maggots are most definitely a thing.

[@ordenax]

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.

[@Yams-Hams7734]

Not to be facetious, but it was actually an Anxiety Attack. Panic attacks can occur randomly without any trigger, but Anxiety Attacks are more situational and often have triggers. Also, normally if someone has panic attacks, they keep happening, they don’t just pop up in one instance and then it’s over. Based off of the situations in the movie, it was an anxiety attack, not a panic attack.

[@ischwhit6747]

you did NOT have to draw Joy like that, Alex

[@VanessaSamuels-v5x]

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

[@Panimal98]

I don't think Pixar was ever dead nor dying. Besides Disney placing some films on Disney+, Pixar films (besides Lightyear) have continued to be financially and critically viable. Their last 10/10 was Soul, but Luca, Turning Red, (not Lightyear), Elemental, and of course Inside Out 2 are very solid films.

[@babygurlcatzsparklezz]

I definitely wouldn't go this far. It's a very good movie but definitely not emotionally on par with what Pixar has offered in the past, and it's still a sequel that's just gonna keep encouraging them to stop trying new things.

[@_linlin_]

@@babygurlcatzsparklezz People are going to say that for the future movies and compare it with Inside out 2, saying it's their best project of the new times. I've seen the cycle go on and on, the movie is DEFINITELY the best of their new collection.

[@saifjassim6067]

@@_linlin_as a person who has not seen any good animated movies accept puss in boots that are good and animated and made recently inside out 2 is lit but puss in boots is lit

[@Monasaurus_Rex]

@@Panimal98 one of the issues disney execs didnt get was that movies like luca and elemental wouldve been a hit at the box office but they released them on DIsney+ first, so anyone who has disney+ is getting the movie for free and wont pay to see it in theatres. But we might be nearing Pixars demise. One of their most talented directors/writer is now head of Pixar and turned into a Disney villain, saying that they wont allow people working on movies to put parts of their lives into movies because "not everyone will relate to it", even though not only is putting real life emotions and events into movies what makes them so deep, but HE had done so previously too. Im hoping he only made the press release to make disney happy, and not actually enforce it, because lifeless movies that pander to every conceivable audience is how franchises are ruined

[@BigRedHead51]

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

[@RumBrave]

So true. When I saw the anxiety character design, I did not expect it to have such a boring voice

[@florianmeyer6248]

that's true... as german, i'm happy to say, the our syncro-culture is so good

[@caradiel2644]

I agree that voice acting should be given to voice actors but actors are also good in certain roles and if directed properly I really like the anxiety voice

[@lizzmartins125]

There are actors who can do both but not all.

[@ruthie8785]

Robin Williams wasn’t a good voice actor?

[@twinswords79dualblade84]

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

[@gacha_Lynx]

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

[@larkspurmoon]

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.

[@sadina1348]

yesss that's why I love this movie it conveys anxiety so well, she just wanted her to have a bright future and be the ideal version of herself, I love how she was so shocked to hear the ,,I'm not good enough" for the first time, it wasnt her intention at all to make her feel this way.

[@DumbPyroLes1037]

Chad that was a bit aggressive don't you think girl

[@Alenaexists]

I just saw the movie and one key thing Alex missed is how all of Riley’s memories chosen against her will to go in the back of her mind flooded into the root of her beliefs. Instead of continuing to disregard certain memories, Joy realizes that she can’t pick and choose who Riley is. Everything about her, the good, the bad, the ugly, IS a part of her. It’s Riley’s choice of what to make of herself in the midst of her messy life, not just sugarcoating her sense of self, which Joy realizes is wrong. Also, the first movie was more about how every emotion is valid. Joy doesn’t regress as a character. She states at certain moments that it’s okay for Riley to cry because she needs it, or is empathetic towards anxiety initially because she learned all emotions are valid, but they can’t overtake you as a person, which is the central theme of this movie. Anxiety took full control of Riley’s head, and Joy took full control of the moments that curated her sense of self. Both of them realize this is wrong, as they can’t choose who Riley is.

[@OdogRuby77]

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."

[@maryannclementiii-uw5pk]

In other words, introducing new characters allowed them to write a movie where Joy learns the exact same lesson she already learned about the existing characters. Genius.

[@OdogRuby77]

@@maryannclementiii-uw5pk While I don't really like it when Pixar regresses their characters, I also don't like it when people see the negative traits in a character who already learned their lesson. Did you not listen to me when I said that Joy now appreciates Anger, Fear, Disgust, and especially Sadness in this movie? 🤨

[@Bllll957]

No one is controlling Riley tho. Riley is controlling Riley. The emotion characters are vehicles to express the emotions but they aren't beings that do things. When Sadness was touching Riley's memories in the first movie it was an uncontrollable thing she was "thrust to do". By Riley, who NEEDED to express her Sadness. That's why Riley's sense of self is building itself up, not something the characters inside her head are creating. That's why we see, in the adults' head, the emotions working more harmonously. Riley is a person still shaping the basis of her personality, she's provoking the changes inside herself.

[@OdogRuby77]

@@Bllll957 Precisely, the Sense of Self was something that Riley created herself. While the emotions just govern how Riley feels in a particular moment, they aren't controlling her every action.

[@purely_mish8708]

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 😏❤

[@danielo.romelus5838]

18:24 Did he just write Inside Out 3

[@king_is_king735]

inside out 3:Heroin addiction

[@vexywexypoo]

Inside Out 3: GOD I FUCKING HATE HIGHSCHOOL IM GONNA KILL MYSELF

[@bagsofbonez]

inside out 4: rehab

[@clairenewberry9957]

@@bagsofbonezInside Out 5: Relapse

[@Jbuildngame]

​@@clairenewberry9957 inside out 6: Overdose

[@StickminDude2.0]

Inside out 5:The rampage

[@isaacrogers4174]

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.

[@caradiel2644]

Also I think the voice for anxiety was perfect

[@cassie6645]

And the girl who plays Envy is famous from The Bear. I didn't even realize she was a VA until I saw a behind the scenes!

[@ruthie8785]

Yeah I DO NOT get this weird argument about voice actors, been hearing it a lot lately in the animation sphere. Like, some of the best voice performances have been given by established screen actors. Robin Williams? Hello?

[@Bllll957]

​@@ruthie8785well... let's not kid ourselves, Chris Pratt wasn't exactly the ideal Mario voice, for example

[@FlossTheBoss-iv3tf]

The thing about anxiety is that while a little is good, it can help you be more ready to get out of a dangerous situation on encourage you to work harder for something you want, stuff like that, it is, in the amounts the other emotions get to work the control panel, damaging. Anxiety can have her moments of use and should be allowed to shine sometimes - giving Riley something to prove to herself or having her think her words through before she says them - but she SHOULD be spending most of her time in her chair because anxiety shouldn’t be something that gets as much brain time as other emotions. It’s a natural thing to have but it’s not exactly equal to other emotions in value because unlike the other negative emotions, in most situations anxiety isn’t protecting you from anything like fear and disgust or acting as an outlet like sadness and anger. It’s the thing CAUSING the problems in the first place. Like she said herself, she’s there to ‘protect Riley from the scary things she can’t see’. In some cases this can be useful, like helping you think twice before going places alone at night because you’ve heard the stories and what if it happens to you too because statistically yeah going places alone at night is probably one of the more high risk situations you could put yourself in but in most cases the scary things you can’t see you can’t see because they’re not real in the first place. Anxiety, in most cases, is a liar. I’m a teenager now but I’ve been struggling with anxiety and intrusive thoughts since I was a little kid. It SUCKS. Anxiety has, for most of my life, been a net negative to my mental state and happiness. Essentially: Joy was opposed to Sadness because Sadness is a negative emotion. Joy was opposed to Anxiety because Anxiety is an emotion with negative effects. One of those is much worse than the other. Sorry for going on a tangent, like I said I struggle with anxiety disorders (and disorders that anxiety is a symptom or result of) so I feel pretty strongly about this.

[@aftabshahzad9321]

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.

[@xoxoalyyy]

I know, same!! I loved the portrayal of anxiety in this movie, it was so well done and very relatable

[@ipromiseimtrying]

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

[@kittydemon06]

i can't believe no one is talking about nostalgia 😂 also, as someone who has struggled with SEVERE anxiety my entire life, didn't have many friends and the one time i did they all ended up ditching me and ive never felt good enough to do anything, this movie had me bawling my eyes out at the theater and hit a little too close to home. i also love the fact of how calm and supportive rileys parents are in both movies, i think we all need parents like hers.

[@Axstories]

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

[@DICHOTOMY-1]

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

[@MeganBacon]

5:39 OMG NEVER ONCE DID I SEE THAT NOOOO 😭😭😭💀💀

[@jocelynarianna11]

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.

[@excessivelyfangirlingbookw3339]

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. 🤷‍♀️

[@Bllll957]

It's also a big thing when related to the fact that two years ago, she moved and lost all her friends as well. It was already a trauma for her then, the mere IDEA of that trauma repeating can be quite anxiety-inducing

[@Earthenfist]

I'm actually glad you're pointing out that Anxiety IS NOT A GOOD THING. Like, I don't think that Anxiety should have been that emotion's name. It should've been Anticipation or something- write the story as a coup by Fear, still 'for the good of Riley', but using an established character, with the 'new guys' as enablers. You could then have some stuff about that, too- how enabling bad behaviour or poor emotional control is a bad thing and can lead to self-destructive actions. And I'm one of those people with anxiety issues. The way they showed an anxiety attack, both from the inside and the outside? Spot on. Solid. Boredom, Envy, and Embarrassment as new emotions? Good. Could have been used more. Anxiety? No. Anxiety is- as you said- never a good thing, and it's not really a separate emotion (at least in my experience), it's just an overblown fear response to things that shouldn't have fear responses. Turn Anxiety (the character) into Anticipation, have Fear be the one that goes power-crazy with the AID of the new emotions, you've got the same basic movie but with a more solid theme, and without sort of legitmizing something that exists primarily to cause self-harm and unreasonable stress.

[@jacobtarter2237]

I think anxiety can be a good thing , it can push and motivate us to work harder . Just like it did to Riley , but she didn’t know how to control it which is where it goes wrong . But anxiety is ofc similar to fear , but there is a difference. Anxiety is fear but of stuff that can happen in the future . Like how Riley was in the movie , she wasn’t nervous of what’s going on currently just what she might experience in the future cause of her friends leaving and her potentially being alone at first . Fear is more present , like being scared of the dark . No one is really that scared of it a day or 2 before hand , like u are with a test u didn’t study for or first day of whatever . Ur not anticipating it like u are with those , but in then moment when the lights get dark . Ur not nervous , ur scared . Basically i think anxiety is like an extension of fear cause ur still scared but theres a difference. Ur scared of what might happen to whatever in 3 days compared to ur scared of whats currently going on

[@LindseyMeeks]

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

[@insertname193]

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

[@caradiel2644]

Thank you !! I genuinely praise this movie fortnite Rap God in the lesson in the first movie