Back when I watched the first movie when I was younger I loved it. I thought it portrayed perfectly to me, which is why I loved the second movie even more because it perfectly describes the changes and growth from a preteen to a teenager.
The first “Inside Out” movie alone that came out in 2015 won one Oscar and 99 other awards, 100 awards in total. Based on the first movie, I expected the “Inside Out 2” movie to be full of wholeheartedness with just a sense of nostalgia.
Even though both “Inside Out” and “Inside Out 2” center on different ideas, they both talk about how a person processes their emotions and how we as people make mistakes when trying to convey them.
In “Inside Out 2,” they portray the experience of growing older and feeling new things, but never knowing how to execute them properly, leading to confusion about our own emotions, which most of us as humans can relate to.
After watching the movie, I was surprised at how much I related to the movie from my perspective as a 14-year-old. In my opinion, the highest point of this movie was when Anxiety was causing Riley to have a panic attack and Joy told Anxiety that every emotion needs to be felt, bad or good. But no emotion should be overlooked because it’ll just suffocate Riley until she has no more left to give.
The movie was directed by Kelsey Mann, a 49-year-old man who has peered through the eyes of an adolescent child and has spoken the words that are difficult for us to find through a Pixar movie. A masterpiece such as that deserves the credit that it’s been given.
Aside from me, professional critics such as Owen Gleiberman also believe that “Inside Out 2” is a “triumphant creative return for Pixar, and that it finds the sweet spot of merging the gaze of children and adults.” Aside from Gleiberman, there were many other good critic reviews from people such as Aaron Neuwirth, Meara Isenberg, and many others.
Overall, what I took away from the movie “Inside Out 2” is that as we get older, we start to experience changes in our emotions and how we handle things. We all have joy, sadness, anger, fear and disgust, the original five emotions of “Inside Out” and “Inside Out 2.”
But as we grow as people, new emotions such as envy, embarrassment, anxiety, and ennui come into play and it starts to become too difficult to regulate our emotions because as we get older, we might start running out of room for emotions such as joy. “Inside Out 2” is the perfect movie to illustrate that through the eyes of a 13-year-old girl named Riley.
