Inside Out 2
Overview
Riley is thirteen now, and headquarters is under new management. Inside her mind, Joy (Amy Poehler) is still running the console the way she always has, with Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust at her side - and then puberty hits, the alarm goes off, and a whole crew of new emotions moves in. There's Envy, Embarrassment, Ennui, and loudest of all, Anxiety (Maya Hawke), who grabs the controls with the best of intentions. Anxiety wants Riley safe: popular, perfect, prepared for every possible disaster. So she starts rewriting Riley to make it happen - new personality, new priorities, old feelings bottled up and shoved to the back of the mind. The result is a girl having panic attacks, drifting from her best friends, quitting the hockey team she loves, and turning into a shell of herself while Anxiety insists it's all for her own good. The original emotions have to journey through a changing mind - past the Sar-chasm, through a Brainstorm, into the Vault of Secrets - to get the old Riley back. The ending is smarter than you might expect: it doesn't defeat Anxiety, it learns to live with her. A funny, painfully accurate portrait of being thirteen.
