"Inside Out 2" Is Almost Here, So These Are All The New Emotions Joining Joy, Sadness, And More (2024)

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What are the new emotions for Inside Out 2? ›

Anxiety has brought along her own team of emotions. They're basically the three E's: Envy, Ennui and Embarrassment, voiced by Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Paul Walter Hauser.

Stranded in the hinterlands of Riley's mind, Joy bemoans her inability to control Riley's anxiety. “Maybe I can't,” she says despondently. “Maybe when you grow up you feel less joy.”

SPOILER ALERT: In Inside Out, the primary conflict is between Joy and Sadness. It seems like Sadness is ruining everything. Joy didn't want to Riley to be unhappy. What she didn't realize, was how important it was for Riley to experience all emotions, particularly Sadness.

Two Pixar years later—or nine years in real time—Riley is 13 and puberty is proving pretty important indeed in Inside Out 2, a sequel by Dave Holstein and Meg LeFauve out June 14.

Disney and Pixar have yet to announce a third Inside Out film. However, director Kelsey Mann told Comicbook.com ahead of the sequel's premiere that he has “so many ideas” that were not included in Inside Out 2 but could fit into another film down the line. “I love this world.

Is Inside Out 2 as moving as its predecessor, to the point that it'll bring the audience to tears? Though this film didn't evoke the strong emotional response from me that the first one did, it delivered another sincere narrative that, combined with humor and stunning visuals, still won over this moviegoer.

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All of the other characters whose minds the viewer sees into have emotions whose genders match those of the person's. Riley's dad has male emotions, and her mom has female, etc. This further proves the point that Riley can be seen as a gender-neutral character whose experiences can be adapted for boys or girls.

Joy's goal has always been to make sure Riley stays happy. She is lighthearted, optimistic and determined to find the fun in every situation. Joy sees challenges in Riley's life as opportunities, and the less happy moments as hiccups on the way back to something great. As long as Riley is happy, so is Joy.

Puberty blues

Now, Riley is 13 and a lot has changed. She's taller, stinkier and she has a defined Sense of Self, represented literally by a glowing tangle of beliefs that are born from memories.

Why does Joy have blue hair like Sadness? ›

Why Joy has blue hair: Director Pete Docter: “Giving her blue hair, which was completely opposite of yellow, just rounded her out and made her a more visually complex character. And we liked the idea that even though she doesn't understand sadness, she has an element of that in her right from the very beginning.”

Yong Yea as Lance Slashblade, a heroic video game character whom Riley had a crush on when she was younger. He is similar to characters from Final Fantasy. Yvette Nicole Brown as Coach Roberts, a hockey coach and head of the summer hockey camp. Ron Funches as Bloofy, a character from Riley's favorite childhood TV show.

Box Office: 'Inside Out 2' Launches to $13 Million in Previews, the Most of Any 2024 Movie. Move out of the way, Sadness: “Inside Out 2” just scored the biggest box office previews of 2024.

Overall, most of the content is appropriate for elementary schoolers and up, but younger kids may need a bit more explanation about what's going on.

Disgust in 'Inside Out 2'; Liza Lapira. Liza Lapira is Disgust, vocalizing all the yucks in Riley's mind. In her first prominent role in an animated film, Lapira voices the green-colored, broccoli-hating emotion. She replaces Mindy Kaling, who voiced the character in the first Inside Out.

Riley, a rising freshman who's just learned Grace and Bree will be attending a different high school, experiences a mini-meltdown, convincing herself that she needs to impress the coach (Yvette Nicole Brown) and make her school's hockey team or risk being socially abandoned.

Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust have been running a successful operation by all accounts. However, when Anxiety shows up, they aren't sure how to feel.

Inside Out 2 / Film synopsis

The sequel stays close to familiar neural pathways. There are new cerebral puns — the echoing depths of a Sar-"chasm,” a brainstorm that rains light bulbs — and a new cartoon relic of childhood to replace Bing Bong: a character named Bloofy, voiced by Ron Funches.