Pixar Is DEAD...(just kidding, Inside Out 2 made like a BAJILLION dollars)

So it looks like Pixar still has some fight in it! Despite its last few releases, Inside Out 2 was able to be the hit the studio (and Disney) needed to build confidence again but that leaves us with 2 big questions: 1) Is the movie any good? 2) Are we about to see a LOT more sequels from Pixar? Well, let's find out!

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Video Credits
►Video Script and Research by Saberspark
►Video Edits and Thumbnail by CosmicKeyframe
►Audio Edits by dBPony
►Avatar by Rishi
►Intro Music/Outro Music by Hirosashii

[Saberspark]

BUT what did you all think of Inside Out 2? Lemme know in the comments!

[bezierballad]

I just hope Pixar doesn't take this win as "sequels both perform and are objectively better than personal real-life stories"

[DanGamingFan]

Anxiety turning Riley's Imagination Land into an animation sweatshop where joy isn't allowed is such a corporate clapback that I'm so glad Disney didn't remove.

[Vampyroteou]

I have generalized anxiety disorder and that scene where anxiety basically makes a tornado around the control panel hit so hard. The way she was completely frozen as well, clearly wanting to pull away but unable to, and how the tornado kept going even after she let go. It was such a good artistic portrayal of what anxiety attacks really are like.

[wirlogx]

My 17 years old niece said: "I bet horny was locked..."
I just looked at her dumbfounded

[timothyserabian]

“You feel less joy when you grow up.” Dude, I teared up so much at that line my seven year old son held my hand and said, “it’s ok daddy.”

[DanGamingFan]

I love how Anxiety isn't really a villain. She's a normal emotion who means well like the others, while also showing why it's important to keep it in check.

[Jack-symr]

Anxiety: “You guys are fired”
Joy: “You can’t fire us, we don’t even exist, we’re just a clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought”

[Persephone_]

My favorite little thing in the movie is how all of Anxiety’s belief are conditional.

“If I get into the FireHawks, THEN I won’t be alone.”

Having your sense of self tied to something external like that is exactly how depression starts.

What happens when somebody say’s “You’re not ready.” When your entire belief system is structures around needing to be?

[AceDonald]

I'm baffled by the people who said Anger was "out of character" in the movie. You mean the little dude who's just as focused in protecting Riley might also have a softer side!? Who would've thought!?

[Rembreiker_lychec]

Only problem with its current success is that Disney is using it as an excuse to say original passion projects aren’t profitable, ignoring the fact that the reason those films did poorly was because they basically trained people to wait for their Disney+ releases and did a terrible job marketing them.

[sharingheart]

I thought both movies made it clear that the emotions were never "in control" of Riley. They could input suggestions and what they desire into the console, but it was up to Riley to act on them, just like people in real life can choose to act upon their emotions or not. As a child, in the first movie, Riley was more sensitive to the emotions, but as a teenager in the second movie, she develops a sense of self thanks to the beliefs she developed from her memories, so she relies less on pure emotion. The belief system also being different from the islands of personality: "What do I act like" vs "Who I am". Nostalgia showing up also shows that the emotions were there all along. They just weren't in "headquarters". I assume they had some influence from wherever they were, but in climbing up to headquarters, they have a much bigger influence.

[SamTheMarioMan]

Something I find hilariously ironic is that Anxiety is a completely perfect representation of what Pixar was becoming. Afraid of potential failure, she drastically changed Riley in order to make her appeal to the popular crowd. In doing so, Riley's emotions were stunted, being stuck doing what was "cool" instead of doing what she wanted.

Here's hoping that Pixar learns their lesson like Anxiety did!

[Kriskirby]

Didn't surprise me that the movie about literal emotions had the only accurate portrayal of an anxiety attack since Puss in Boots 2

[BobbyBermuda]

Whenever people nitpick the logic of the world of Inside Out, as someone who studied neuroscience at school, but who also appreciates art…I just wanna scream, "THIS IS IRRELEVANT!" The concept of a homunculus, or a little man running the show inside the brain as a thought experiment is just that, a rhetorical abstraction. It's never meant to be taken literally. It's like when you see the performers behind the animal costumes for the Lion King musical onstage…it doesn't matter because the ride we are on is highly enjoyable as a story. Calm down, folks

[Aspoonz]

Fun Fact: Pixar intentionally waited years after the first Inside Out movie. They probably did this so as we grew up, Riley’s experience and emotions and how they affected her would be more relatable and understandable. They also brought in 9 teenagers into the studio to review and comment on Riley’s emotions to make sure that it was as accurate and relatable as possible.

[chaotic_vibz]

Some details i want to point out that may suggest that riley is indeed her own individual and not just a meat suit for the emotions:
-in the first film, when anger inserted the running away idea, he mentioned how riley "took it". Meaning Riley herself accepted the idea to run away. She very well could have denied the idea, and I'm pretty sure that means there wouldn't be anything the emotions could do about it.
-the emotions talk about Riley as if she is her own person. "Thats out girl", "Riley needs to be happy", ect.
-when Anxiety was trying to push Riley to join Val's team, Riley hesitates a while before moving. Anxiety even said something along the lines of "come on Riley move"
-the "sense of self" that Anxiety developed wasnt at all what she wanted. If the emotions had full control over Riley then that should not have happened.
-The emotions cannot chose when core memories form. It just so happened that until inside out 1, all of the core memories were happy ones.

I see the emotions less as little creatures that control Riley's every move, but more like they're influencing her. They're making her feel, rather than controlling her. I think this is especially apparent towards the end of Inside Out 1, where the control panel stopped working outright. Riley didnt stop functioning, she just stopped feeling.

[meathead]

Inside Out 2 is a testament to how Pixar's recent work has been better than Disney Animations' work lately

[luistigerfox]

I prefer to consider the emotions in inside out as abstract personifications of Riley's feelings and mental states. They're not /actually/ there controlling her, but are instead a way to demonstrate her innermost feelings and thought processes on both a conscious and subconscious level. Arguably would mean that these characters and the events that happen within Riley's mind there do not exist within that universe. Their abstract nature is also why they, and their actions don't always make sense.

For instance, in the first one, it's not actually joy suppressing sadness, but rather Riley trying to use that feeling of joy with her past memories to suppress the sadness she's feeling after the big life changes. And then at some point, both of them being thrown out the window, and the movement toward emotional shutdown is pointing to the representation of depression, a profoundly numb state where both joy and sadness hold little meaning.

[doctor]

11:52 Inside Out 1 and 2 both conclude with the lesson that emotions cannot dictate everything a person does, but emotions can generally guide the person's behavior.
The entire reason why Joy realized that Sadness is necessary, is because Reily's homesickness motivated her to run away, despite the emotions best efforts to stop her (but Sadness helped Reily connect with others, so she stopped).