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The feel-everything movie of 2024.
Inside Out 2 is the twenty-eighth animated feature film produced by Pixar and the sequel to their 2015 film Inside Out. It is directed by Kelsey Mann and stars the voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Tony Halenote , Liza Lapiranote , Kensington Tallman, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Maya Hawke, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Paul Walter Hauser, and June Squibb.Picking up two years after the previous film, the film follows Riley's emotions — Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger — as they continue to help guide their girl through life. Things take a turn, however, when Riley hits puberty, forcing the quintet to share the stage with some new emotions, including Envy, Ennui, Anxiety, and Embarrassment. With Riley entering high school and social pressures mounting, the new emotions take control of the command center and the original five must go on a whole new adventure to set things right. The film will premiere on June 14, 2024.
Inside Out 2 includes examples of the following:
- 13th Birthday Milestone: The teaser sees Riley blowing out candles on her thirteenth birthday.
- Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Tony Hale voiced a Nervous Wreck character.
- Aesop Amnesia: Joy has a moment of this in the second trailer, as she pushes Anxiety aside while Riley is chatting with a new classmate, resulting in Riley making a fool of herself; apparently she's already forgotten that overriding other emotions does more harm than good. To her credit, she remembers the lesson again when she protests Anxiety's plan of suppressing the original five emotions. (It's also somewhat justified given that Anxiety is the first new emotion to join Riley's mind in several years and Joy is understandably hesitant to let her immediately take the wheel.)
- Broken Echo: The second trailer introduces the Sar-Chasm, whose echo makes any statement shouted across it sound sarcastic.
- Color-Coded Emotions: In keeping with the trend established by the previous film of each emotion having a dominant color, as seen in the main trailer:
- Anxiety is bright orange.
- Envy is aquamarine.
- Embarrassment is blush pink.
- Ennui is a dark, grayish indigo.
- Company Cross References: One shot in the trailer shows that Riley has a 4*Town poster in her bedroom.
- Evil Laugh: A sinister, reverberating laugh is heard at the end of the first trailer as part of the backing track, “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne.
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: In the trailer, Riley chooses to hang out with the cool kids, rather than her current friends.
- Gilligan Cut: When Embarrassment grabs the five classic emotions in the trailer, Joy protests, "You can't just bottle us up!" Cut to all of them trapped in a sealed jar.
- Goofy Print Underwear: Anger is seen wearing nothing but heart-print boxers in the trailer when the demo crew lays waste to the command center.
- Greeting Gesture Confusion: Happens on the trailer when Joy tries to say hello to Embarrassment and the two can't coordinate how to greet each other.
- Mama Bear: In the trailer, Joy takes a protective stance in front of the other emotions when Anxiety shows up.
- The New '10s: Riley went from being 11 to being 13, with the sequel taking place 3 years after the first movie, thus still taking place during this decade.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: When Riley greets some other girls with an awkward finger-guns gesture in the trailer, Anxiety says sarcastically, "That's not going to haunt us for the rest of our lives at all!"
- Pubescent Braces: In the second trailer, the 13-year-old Riley is shown getting braces.
- Red Alert: When Riley's puberty alarm goes off in the teaser trailer, it gives off a red siren light and a loud buzzer sound. Moments later, a demolition team arrives at headquarters.
- Remember the New Guy?: Post credits scenes from the first movie show inside several other people's heads and nobody had anything other than the standard five emotions that Riley had. Though as shown in the second trailer, Riley's mom still has the same five emotions as usual.
- Repression Never Ends Well: Discussed in the trailer. When it seems the new emotions are going to have the main emotions bottled up, Joy speaks out about how you can't just bottle up feelings.
- Repurposed Pop Song: Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" blares throughout the teaser trailer as the maintenance team arrives to upgrade Riley's console for puberty.
- Sarcasm Mode: Any statement yelled over the Sar-Chasm introduced in the trailer will be transformed into a sarcastic one.
- Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Nostalgia is a new emotion that hasn't been shown in the trailers.
- Sixth Ranger: Along with seventh, eighth and ninth ranger. As shown in the trailers, headquarters recruits four new emotions.
- Tempting Fate:
- In the second trailer, Fear begins to say "It should be nothing but smooth sailing—"; immediately cut to Anxiety's introduction.
- As the new emotions take over Riley's mind in the trailer, Joy says that the original five can't just be bottled up. Cut to the next scene where they're shoved in a jar in a dark room.
- This Is Gonna Suck: When the new emotions turn Riley into an overly-emotional mess in the trailer, her mom's Anger says "Welp, that's a preview of the next ten years."
- Visual Pun:
- When Anxiety is first seen in the teaser trailer, her arms are full of baggage. Emotional baggage, if you will.
- In the main trailer, when the original five emotions are grabbed by Embarrassment on Anxiety’s orders, Joy tells her that she can’t just bottle them up. Cut to the original five in a giant bottle.Fear: We are suppressed emotions!
- At the end of the trailer, the emotions discover the "Sar-chasm", a giant chasm that makes its echoes come across sarcastic.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: According to the trailer, Anxiety and the other new emotions are this, wanting to change Riley for her teenage years, but literally bottling the original five in the process. This is precisely what Joy did to Sadness in the first film, which she eventually learned from, except it's the new four bottling up the original five emotions. Joy, having learned her lesson, protests against this herself.
- Wham Line: From the end of the teaser trailer:Joy: (uneasily) A new emotion! Wow...
Anxiety: Oh, I'm sorry! We wanted to make such a good first impression–
Disgust: Uh-uh-uh! What do you mean, 'we'? - Wham Shot: The introduction of a new emotion, Anxiety, in the trailer.Anxiety: Hello!
Fear, Sadness, Anger, Joy, and Disgust: (shocked) AH!!!
