Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Directed by Kelsey Mann
Produced by Mark Nielsen
Written by Meg LeFauve, Dave Holstein
Starring: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira, Maya Hawke, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Paul Walter Hauser, Kensington Tallman, Diane Lane & Kyle MacLachlan.
Cinematography: Adam Habib, Jonathan Pytko
Edited by Maurissa Horwitz
Music by Andrea Datzman
Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures; Pixar Animation Studios
Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
The plot: 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 was Very Good.
Pros: It does continue showing each different emotions. I’m glad seeing these different characters get more time to developed. I do care for Riley a lot with what happens to her throughout the film. The voice acting is as good as the original. It’s successfully being a successor to the original movie, and it also does show the meaning of growing up.
Cons: It is painting by numbers like the original. Ennui, Envy & Embarrassment didn’t have that much depth as I was expecting and it failed to show us what happen to Riley at the end.
The Casts:
- Amy Poehler as Joy, a yellow happy emotion
- Maya Hawke as Anxiety, a new orange anxious emotion
- Kensington Tallman as Riley Andersen, a 13-year-old girl in whose mind the emotions live. Tallman replaces Kaitlyn Dias from the first film
- Liza Lapira as Disgust, a green disgusted emotion. Lapira replaces Mindy Kaling from the first film
- Tony Hale as Fear, a purple scared emotion. Hale replaces Bill Hader from the first film
- Lewis Black as Anger, a red angry emotion
- Phyllis Smith as Sadness, a blue sad emotion
- Ayo Edebiri as Envy, a new cyan envious emotion
- Lilimar as Valentina “Val” Ortiz, a popular hockey player at Riley’s high school
- Grace Lu as Grace, Riley’s friend
- Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green as Bree, Riley’s friend
- Adèle Exarchopoulos as Ennui, a new indigo bored emotion
- Diane Lane as Mrs. Andersen, Riley’s mother
- Kyle MacLachlan as Mr. Andersen, Riley’s father
- Paul Walter Hauser as Embarrassment, a new pink embarrassed emotion
- 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. He is similar to the hosts of interactive children’s shows such as Blue’s Clues or Dora the Explorer.
- Yong Yea as Lance Slashblade, a heroic video game character whom Riley had a crush on when she was younger. He is similar to the character Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII.
- James Austin Johnson as Pouchy
- Steve Purcell as Deep Dark Secret
- Dave Goelz as Mind Cop Frank
- Kirk Thatcher as Foreman
- Frank Oz as Mind Cop Dave
- Paula Pell as Mom’s Anger
- June Squibb as Nostalgia, a new beige nostalgic emotion.
- Pete Docter as Dad’s Anger
- Paula Poundstone as Forgetter Paula
- John Ratzenberger as Fritz
- Sarayu Blue as Margie
- Flea as Jake
- Bobby Moynihan as Forgetter Bobby
- Kendall Coyne Schofield as Hockey Announcer
Additionally, television personality Sam Thompson cameos in the UK version of the film as Security Man Sam, a character who finds himself on a chase with the emotions.
I highly recommend watching this sequel in cinemas.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident film reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe