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This is meant as a constructive view of Inside Out 2’s major flaw. If you liked the sequel I am happy you can enjoy it, but for me it is fundamentally flawed and its presentation misunderstands Inside Out and almost ruins what made it so special and interesting. I cannot get past the blatant disregard of world building and I am astonished that every reviewer out there just accepts this without real criticism.
I wanted to include my discussions but I could not include them all because of the character limit so I will have a link to the full description in the pinned comment. I included the two biggest ones here:
"Fear and Anxiety are different"
This is the biggest disagreement I have seen and I don’t blame people for saying it. Anxiety is clinically and psychologically different from Fear, but for the context of Inside Out it hinders the movie separating them. There are nuances, but anxiety triggers the same fear response; Whether or not that fear is immediate or imaginary shouldn't matter. It feels so different because the context of what it's responding to is different, but they are still responding from the same base human instinct. It's about their core roles in the movie. Going into their roles I first should define what I believe makes the Emotions the species that they are. Each Emotion represents an integral and reactionary Human instinct/response and are introduced with a unique purpose and job. The response they make is intrinsic and natural, you can feel it without thinking it. Anxiety is contradictory to this. Anxiety is too complex to be boiled down into one emotion, since it is a whole mixture of beliefs, fears, sadnesses, regrets, mistakes, future possibilities, and memories. It almost requires overthinking to be felt, which would not make it a core emotion. I would define it more like a unique state of thinking that can be created and displayed in a much more clever way. In the first they didn't make a character called "Depression" but instead removed emotions to display what it actually feels like. Anxiety could have worked the same, creating that feeling and state of mind by showing which Emotions and types of thoughts cause it to spiral. Regarding Fear’s role specifically, When Fear is making his list of disasters, he includes “Getting called on by the teacher” which is not a physically dangerous scenario but a socially dangerous one, since Riley is not in the right headspace to talk in front of her classmates. He and Disgust also both acknowledge the cool girls and are already playing damage control for how to approach them, meaning that Anxiety's social responsibilities are already divided into our core 5. She is a good character and is distinct, but essentially fills the same purpose from a base level. Keeping Riley safe does not need a “present” emotion and a “future” emotion. Fear has been shown to make lists and records of things that might happen, even being commanded by Joy to do so. In the lore of the film, Fear was given these tasks already. They also botch the metaphor by removing Fear from Headquarters in the second movie. It makes no sense to bottle up Fear because you're Anxious, as anxiety usually triggers the same fear response. She would be useless without him unless they can trigger the same sense of worry or dread. If they can, then she is redundant at best. Creating Anxiety also implies that Riley was incapable of being Anxious until she was 13, which is a bold claim to make given her expressions in the classroom scene
“That is not Ennui”
Ennui is more than simply Boredom. Webster Dictionary claims it is, “A feeling of weariness or dissatisfaction: Boredom” and Dictionary.com says, “a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom.” Both include boredom and there are scenes included here where she is bored and disinterested with her life, but I also included the scenes where she is more in a state of uncaring or despair (depression). It's a feeling of emptiness or a lack of passion. This can be achieved either with Disgust, as seen in Inside Out, or by removing all the other emotions, as is also seen in Inside Out. It is more the lack of emotion and therefore does not require a separate character to create. I do admit the bus scene should have a question mark on it but I do not regret including it for the purpose of the video. I do believe it is impossible to actually feel NOTHING. I understand it is meant to show depression. Riley is listless and in a state of melancholy, which is one of the primary feelings of Ennui. If they wanted to have boredom as the new Emotion they should have called her as such instead of choosing a niche word with a more complex definition. It’s also an odd choice to include a boredom Emotion, since the Emotions react as if they have never seen this attitude before, which is psychologically untrue as children are very prone to boredom.