Inside Out 2

The first Inside Out was such an emotional gut punch for me (hitting harder and harder the older I got) that I was honestly really apprehensive about this one. I didn’t want such a great concept to become cheap and badly written, and I had hope but I definitely wasn’t expecting to like it nearly just as much as the first one.  Anxiety was portrayed so well, especially the moment it was completely paralysed and overwhelmed. The jokes were on point nearly every time and I’m such a sucker for mixing animation styles, it gets me every time. They still managed to add more creative details to the world inside Riley’s head, like the brain storm and the sar-chasm, without making it overly gimmicky or goofy.  It’s honestly hard to think of this as a kid’s film sometimes because it’s the teenagers and adults who truly relate and understand. I do feel like the first film was stronger and more emotionally impactful, however everyone remembers being 13 and embarrassing a bit more than they do being a child with underdeveloped emotions.