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

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

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.

“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.”

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.

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!?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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”

Disney+ is the biggest problem, and DISNEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER! In the 1980s, home video almost sank Disney. Disney dumped their movies onto VHS and people stopped going to the theater. Disney released Pinnochio on VHS and Black Cauldron in theaters the same month, and most parents bought the video tape. Disney put a moratorium on video tape sales - which eventually became the "Disney Vault" - in time for The Little Mermaid and audiences returned to theaters. Limiting home video saved Disney's box office. Disney+ is the exact same situation, it's killing Disney's box office. The irony is, every family that UNsubscribes to Disney+ is a family that will potentially go to the theater to see a Disney or Pixar movie.

Of course, I’m glad that “Inside Out 2” captured such a W for Pixar, but… ya know what? I ain’t gonna jinx it and just be glad they secured this victory.

Considering how the first movie showed Joy emerge out of thin air, I imagine that's how the new emotions came into existence during this film. And depending on how many emotions the staff will introduce in potential later productions, I'm guessing the other emotions will have their own space in other parts of the headquarters. The fact that Nostalgia seems to possess her own little area in the base gave me that idea. Also, Anxiety is the best new emotion here.

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.

I dont get why so many people hate on anxiety, she means well throughout the whole film and you can get where shes coming from because she just wants to help riley, sure it was bad to kick out all the other emotions but she just wanted to help. The plot of her slowly realising that maybe riley needs some time to think for herself and its too much stress to constantly feel anxious was good. And the panic attack scene, it was all too real and relatable for id say a lot of people, it wasnt just riley who was panicking it was anxiety herself who freaked out so much she didnt know what to do, and it took a lot of help from joy to help her calm down.

I remember someone saying that marvel destroyed people's vision of the box office because if a movie doesn't make a bajilion dollars in 2 days then the studio says that's it's a flop and takes it away from cinemas

What should be taken away from this sequel’s success: animated movies with GOOD STORY and SPECTACULAR ANIMATION perform well with audiences, it doesn’t matter if they’re sequels or original properties. Knowing executives they’ll most likely take away “oh people want more sequels and spin-offs” instead of the idea that people want movies with good execution, visuals, and don’t dumb it down bc it’s “a medium for kids” (bc animation is NOT a medium for kids, it’s for everyone).

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.