Inside Out 2

[DisneyFan09]

Sorry for bumping this thread, but I saw Inside Out 2 yesterday and I liked it. It was both fun and breezy and still managed to be full of depth. While it was somewhat retreading it`s predecessor, it still didn`t came across as a complete rehash. Frankly, the premise of the sequel (Riley`s puberty) was essentially more intriguing to build a story upon. What I liked about it, is how Riley felt essentially more fleshed out as a character and not only just a prop for the emotions. Even Sadness also had her small arc of her own. My gripe with the story was Anxiety, who was appealing, but also could be a little bit annoying at times. The hand drawn elements looked cheap and didn`t mesh with the CGI at all. Otherwise, it was a fun movie and definitively a sequel worthy to it`s predecessor.

[UmbrellaFish]

WTF the 4K is $70?!??!?!

This pricing is absolutely ridiculous, I’m beyond pissed. It’s just a standard 4K steelbook release.

[Farerb]

WTF the 4K is $70?!??!?!

This pricing is absolutely ridiculous, I’m beyond pissed. It’s just a standard 4K steelbook release.

If you're looking at the price at Amazon then the price will decrease. They always do that.

[UmbrellaFish]

Sure, but it’s still a ridiculous MSRP.

[D23ExpoVisitor25]

Only $40M more to go til it beats the live-action Lion King

[D82]

Clips from the deleted scenes and other bonus features from the home video release:

Watch 'Inside Out 2's deleted opening scene: Riley bombs at the talent show
Inside Out 2 Digital Release Deleted Scene Highlights "Broken" Joy’s Character Crisis
Exclusive 'Inside Out 2' clip reveals new emotion Self-loathing — and why she was cut
Inside Out 2: Exclusive Deleted Scene (Puberty Park)
Get a glimpse of a cut emotion from Inside Out 2 in exclusive deleted scene
Get to Know Anxiety in This Exclusive Inside Out 2 Bonus Features Clip
Exclusive Inside Out 2 clip dives into Bloofy’s origins
Meet Lance Slashblade in New 'Inside Out 2' Featurette [Exclusive]

[Disney's Divinity]

Yeah, $70 is crazy, but even $35 is ridiculous to me. I don't feel that any movie should be over $25. Reminds me of how videogames go up another $10 bucks every time they advance to another iteration, they did the same thing with the jump from DVD to Blu-ray to 4K. Greedy nonsense.

The coverart for the 4K is so nice though. Gives me the same vibe as the movie itself as far as those old '50s videos of how the body works and all that. Still, I know I would never spend that much on a PIXAR film, but I expect I will pick up both Inside Out's and a few other PIXAR titles on Blu-ray someday for a low price.

[DisneyFan09]

Inside Out 2 surpasses 2019’s Lion King to become undisputed highest grossing animated film of all time.
https://www.slashfilm.com/1655506/insid ... -animated/

[D23ExpoVisitor25]

Inside Out 2 surpasses 2019’s Lion King to become undisputed highest grossing animated film of all time.
https://www.slashfilm.com/1655506/insid ... -animated/

Maybe this can tip the scales in the Animation Guild’s favor of getting a fair deal.

[PatchofBlue]

Inside Out 2 Disney+ Streaming Release Date Finally Gets Announced - And It's Sooner Than Expected
https://thedirect.com/article/inside-ou ... lease-date

September 25.

Way too soon, if you ask me. I don't think Disney's really doing anyone any favors by dehydrating the theatrical-streaming window, including themselves.

[UmbrellaFish]

I agree with you, but I’m glad that the physical release at least came first this time.

[Disney Duster]

This was a really good movie. I feel like both Inside Out films aren't really that deep or powerful because they deal with such low stakes issues like moving or losing your old friends to gain new ones, but I bet a million people here would tell me somehow these movies make those issues, plus the emotions' journeys, deep. I am willing to hear that! But these are still great movies and what's interesting is they are entertaining from start to finish without any villains. They are also most especially smart in how they present how a person's mind works, essentially. The hand-drawn animation was meant to be choppy like modern cartoons for little kids, DisneyFan09. I would have read everyone else's opinions but there are so many. Maybe later. I just thought I would give my 2 cents here anyway.

EDIT: I read all your reviews and opinions on the film! It was very nice reading what everyone thought. It seems only Farerb thought it was mediocre? I do understand him and everyone saying there was a rehash of getting back to headquarters and Joy learning to appreciate and let negative emotions have their turn. But Pixar does this all the time, the recycling of basic plot structure while still creating something new and good. I also totally get the problem some would have with Joy crying, but I think wondering if she has emotions in her head is really overthinking and that duh, they just wanted to make all their characters able to be 3-dimensional. If you feel they shouldn't have, I do understand that, but I think it's also a little nitpicky. You get what they are trying to do. Still, it is cool hearing even nitpicks, and such thoughtful, differing opinions.

Marce82, what were your nitpicks? And I totally loved and agreed with what you said about similar story structure, but new scenarios!

Brelly, I thought the same thing about the coach's notebook in the office, but I guess Pixar wanted to surprise us by going against what we expected!

[Pokenonbinary]

Pixar exploting their workers in a movie about mental health...

Also the fact that they're erasing type of lgbt thing in Pixar on purpose, with the article saying that Riley had romantic feelings towards Val and not platonic (the movie still felt queer coded)

[Sotiris]

This is the article Pokenonbinary is talking about.

Inside Out 2 Was the Hit Pixar Needed, but the Laid-Off Employees Who Crunched on It Are Still Hurting
https://www.ign.com/articles/inside-out ... ll-hurting

[Disney's Divinity]

Inside Out 2 being massive wasn't impressive; everyone knew a sequel to one of their best films would do numbers like that, they'd have to have worked hard to mess that up. No, it will be interesting if the next original film or so does better than Elemental following the success of this.

I still think it would make more sense for the company simply to fold them into WDAS as a department that solely focuses on the sequels to PIXAR films (the employees that want to work on original properties could crossover into WDAS). The fact that they laid off PIXAR employees made me think they're leaning that direction. Makes more sense to just have one large animation company, and they can simply fold the PIXAR films into the Disney Animated Classics numbering or whatever. Works for merchandise reasons (Merida already being in the princess line, for example), and they could do the same with some of the other animated properties they've picked up simultaneously (Anastasia, Thumbelina, and things like FernGully / TLBT which I'm not sure if they own yet or not? ). And keeping them as a separate department within WDAS will cover Disney from that whole narrative that a different company are making the sequels to PIXAR's properties that went around years ago. There are really just the Inside Out, Incredibles, and Toy Story sequels that will probably go on and on anyway. Oh, wait, the third Finding Nemo film, too, I suppose.

[D23ExpoVisitor25]

Pixar exploting their workers in a movie about mental health...

Also the fact that they're erasing type of lgbt thing in Pixar on purpose, with the article saying that Riley had romantic feelings towards Val and not platonic (the movie still felt queer coded)

Gotta stop pushing messaging and focus on story, quality and talent.

[PatchofBlue]

It's really distressing seeing the bottleneck of all the company's larger issues just folding in like this, and I mean from all across the entire Disney company. Like ... you can absolutely see how the mismanagement of social politics in something like the Disney remakes stokes the fury of the right and the left, which generates backlash to "woke Disney" which is why we can't have socially mindful stories. (As though the lesbian kiss was the reason Lightyear sucked ...) Then there's the Lasseter stain necessitating his spontaneous ejection and the grafting of Docter (who, to be fair, has mostly delivered quality output since his inception) and the culture shift there, compounded by Chapek's reign of terror over Disney as a whole. And of course, Pixar will inevitably take the wrong lessons from IO2's success and just dump out more sequels. They'll break more records while continuing to drown their employees. Mid-grade journalists will gleefully document the whole thing with half-truth reporting that generates further controversy ... and then ... and then ...

Just a lot of short-term thinking.

I do think Pixar will course-correct at some point, it's just a matter of how many more casualties they'll accumulate first.

Inside Out 2 being massive wasn't impressive; everyone knew a sequel to one of their best films would do numbers like that, they'd have to have worked hard to mess that up. No, it will be interesting if the next original film or so does better than Elemental following the success of this.

They'll have their opportunity with Elio next year, but if the reports are to be believed, then the movie is already facing an uphill climb. Movies with these kinds of directorial shifts midway through aren't always terrible, but they are seldom memorable. Their next real opportunity to impress probably won't come until their next original movie (the gopher one with Jon Hamm?), but the clickbait sites won't wait that long to start spelling doom.

[Disney's Divinity]

I don't think Disney will take the "wrong lessons" from IO2's (and eventually Moana 2's) success so much as this was the strategy to begin with, to put out sequels that are bound to be massive to hopefully lift up the cloud of negative headlines up off of them. I just wonder if it will help some of the new original products eventually begin to take off or not over the next few years...

Personally, I've always thought there were warning signs for Elio simply because it's in the same genre as Treasure Planet, Strange World, Lightyear, etc.--not a strong one for success. The other film with the beaver, I've only read things about here, sounds like a lesser Turning Red, tbh. Maybe it'll be different than that film though. If so, I suppose I may end up liking it if Shi is the one behind it since I did enjoy Turning Red, but who knows. I would think it would have a better shot than Elio anyway.

[Disney Duster]

I can't believe someone who calls themselves a true Disney fan would want Pixar films to be labeled Disney Animated Classics. Merida being a Disney Princess is wrong too, but that's all just merchandise and marketing. Geeze.

[D23ExpoVisitor25]

I don't think Disney will take the "wrong lessons" from IO2's (and eventually Moana 2's) success so much as this was the strategy to begin with, to put out sequels that are bound to be massive to hopefully lift up the cloud of negative headlines up off of them. I just wonder if it will help some of the new original products eventually begin to take off or not over the next few years...

Personally, I've always thought there were warning signs for Elio simply because it's in the same genre as Treasure Planet, Strange World, Lightyear, etc.--not a strong one for success. The other film with the beaver, I've only read things about here, sounds like a lesser Turning Red, tbh. Maybe it'll be different than that film though. If so, I suppose I may end up liking it if Shi is the one behind it since I did enjoy Turning Red, but who knows. I would think it would have a better shot than Elio anyway.

You forget, Wall-E was the exception to sci-fi Disney movies failing and was a hit at the box office. And I argue the warning signs for Elio will fade if the movie is strong in quality, especially with Domee Shi directing it now and finishing it up from where Adrian Molina left off, and connects w/ audiences.

We’ll see about Hoppers since that one’s being done by We Bare Bears’ Daniel Chong. But, that one could surprise.

So for now, I argue Elio has the better shot than Hoppers since it feels and looks more adventurous and out-there than Hoppers.