Inside Out 2

I went into this movie expecting to have a stupid time with all my friends and write a dumb review. I was ready to say something like, "where was the 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 emotion?" However, I was surprised by this movie. I was making all those jokes, dont get me wrong, but there was something more to this movie that I didnt expect. The first movie came out when I was about Rileys age. I'm older than Riley is now, I'm 16 while she's 13, but this means that I have lived that part of my life and I can look back and see my middle school self in this film. Riley's panic attack scene, every memory sent back to the back of her mind coming back to the forefront, really resonated with me. The belief switching from believing she's a good person into her not being good enough reminded me of myself in 7th grade. To me, this was more than just a kids movie. I wasn't watching this as the 16 year old high school junior with a defined sense of self that I am. The person in the seat of that theater was the 12 year old 7th grader who struggled with mental health and had no clue how to process their emotions. This movie was so much more than I expected.