Nine years after the Oscar-winning original, we’re back inside the mind of Riley. Now 13, she’s got a lot more swirling in her head besides “Joy,” “Anger,” “Sadness,” “Fear,” and “Disgust.”
With puberty hitting, there’s now “Envy,” “Boredom,” “Embarrassment,” and “Anxiety.”
Like the first movie, the sequel cleverly examines how emotions fuel our everyday lives, especially in our youth. Here, the main focus is Riley trying to fit in at hockey skills camp, which leads to a lot of anxiety and repressing her key emotions.
Though the middle of the movie gets a bit stale as Joy tries to race back before Anxiety goes too far, it gets points for having one of the better endings in the Pixar filmography.
