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Inside Out 2 Reaction! (Patreon)

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2025-02-25 22:07:30
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Inside Out 2 (2024)

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sesskasays

I apologize for missing the post credits scene. I did happen to catch it after the fact.

Josef Schiltz
>>165928728

Hi Jess. Just as a matter of interest, have you ever seen Primeval? i have been itching to ask this as the central subject is one so close to your heart and it seems unlikely that you haven't come across the series or heard about it. Very much enjoying all the reactions so far. Hope all is going well. Take good care. Oh. Really looking forward to your reaction to the final moments of The Mark Of The Rani.

Jenny Chalek

Which emotions are currently driving my bus? I fluctuate between rage (for so many reasons) and anxiety, with moments of joy that I seek out. Thank you so much for sharing your journey. I'm glad you are doing better.

Thomas Corp

Yup, that thumbnail is what I expected, Jess. Hell of a sweater by the way, which, no, it didn’t really creepily stare at me, since you asked. First Pixar movie I managed to catch in the theater since Toy Story 4. A comment that my cousin made upon leaving the theater was, “That movie was WAY TOO relatable.” My bone dry, yet completely sympathetic and understanding response being, “The first one was too. We’re surprised?”, which got a good laugh. I think this might set the record for your tears being as strong and as early as they were. Boded VERY poorly for my own emotions. This entire reaction is one that makes a man just want to give you so many hugs, Jess. Lord, this exceeded my expectations, and the expectations were higher than the Sears Tower. Shared thing of knowing in advance about Anxiety being a big focus, and when I found out about it, I said with complete dread, “...Oooooh, CHRIST.” Your response to the introduction to Anxiety where you said that were getting exposed, that makes two of us, Jess. All of it hit home, as you said it did for you as well, which I KNEW that it would. Both when I saw this in the theater, and when rewatching to prepare for the reaction, you were on my mind practically the entire time both times. Worry for you was STRONG with this one. Was surprised by Anxiety being the direct antagonist of the film. One time I don’t expect a villain or antagonist and I’m fine with that, and then they spring an antagonist on me. It’s an interesting twist of things; I’ll tell you that much. Talk about a few things from the film first. Anger remains my favorite character of this series. Of the newer emotions, Ennui was my favorite; I’m with you on kind of living for her. We both had a strong positive reaction to Nostalgia and her literal rose colored glasses, nice touch. Love your continued love for Disgust. You say you differ with Disgust when it comes to broccoli, and you don’t want the broccoli community to come for you. Broccoli is disgusting, so I had no issues if you did concur with Disgust on that one. The old kids’ show cartoon was a gas. Looked like Blue’s Clues, by way of Dora the Explorer. And I cackled so hard over the old videogame crush, namely saying, “It’s so fucking Playstation 2, Jesus Christ!” You say that he was too much, which, well seeing as he feels very Cloud, of course he’s too fucking much. The scene where Joy is accused of being delusional, and she snaps and yells how difficult it is to be positive all the time, seeing that one in the theater, I said, “Well, that’s going to strike a nerve for Jess.” Loved how sweet it was that Anger is the one to get her back on her feet. The creativity remains wonderful. My favorite bit was probably the Orwellian room where our heroes were almost arrested for Thought Crime. The gag with Anger and the flowers made me lose it. Reason being it sounded like me back in my school days, especially with those that I went to school with from kindergarten to all through high school. Like when we talked about films or shows, whenever I got into a non-villainous character, or I got really into the romance/shipping anything, I’d sound like Anger, and I’d say, “What? I can’t ALWAYS be the villains guy!” And it’s also good on Anger for making it known that he’s as MAD AS HELL and he’s NOT going to take this anymore, leading the other mind workers in revolt. Tying into the mention of school days is the thing of Riley’s friends going to different schools. Didn’t go through that exactly until college, but around the seventh grade, you started seeing your friends less and less during school, so there is still relation to that horrible feeling, as you described it. Leads to the central conflict with Anxiety. Yes, we both clocked how sending the bad emotions to the back of the brain was not a tenable long-term plan. We had roughly the same reaction to the climax of the film. Christ, the panic attack that Riley had was way too fucking real. Ends up being very sweet when the message is conveyed about all the emotions being important. We both love how these films will be something beautiful for kids that we didn’t have way back when. One other big laugh was the dad’s nonchalant reaction to Riley’s underwhelming answer to how the camp was; that tracks with being a fairly standard male mentality. Plus, I’m sure that the dad was happy for the few days of just being able to drink his Heineken in peace without anybody giving him shit for his preference for the brand. ...Then again, I don’t know, do the kids these days go for Heineken or not? Everything you had to say was most appreciated, Jess. Like you said, this film was an immense catharsis, which is now so wonderful to share with you. Been years since I’ve been in therapy. Good people that I worked with. Lovely people, very kind. Good to hear the words of the gentleman you saw were very beneficial. You speak well of how the therapy tells us that the anxiety is in fact a good thing. You highlight the contingency planning for worst case scenarios, which is an example of how anxiety is a useful tool. It’s a gift. And a curse. The tricky part is finding the sweet spot in the middle of that. Understand exactly what you meant about feeding the anxieties and compulsions. It’s one of the most insidious things of all; I know the feeling well. Shared thing of not THAT much in terms of social anxiety. I knew I was very different from others since preschool. Mom and Dad were supportive of it growing up. My brother looked out for me, still does at times. And everyone at school was very supportive and kind. For instance, my love of the villains in most anything, you got the feeling they liked the different perspective, so they never much minded. As to the question of what is the clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought and/or emotion that runs the old creaky brain. Uh, well, it’s not so much an emotion, but a chief temperament running the show would be melancholic. Anxiety is calling the shots a lot. Ennui is there a quite a little bit. Anger’s inevitably there when you work over eleven years of retail. The Dark Side clouds everything during the really bad spells of depression. I think the main emotion avatar would resemble Emperor Palpatine in some way. My anxiety would definitely look like Betelgeuse. There is the thing that I felt so much in this in that how Joy observes you feel less of that as you get older, and as you say, you can still allow it in your life. Yeah. Yeah, that’s very true. As I’ve gotten older, gone through things, I find I’m less and less happy as the years roll by. And yet, you still allow the pockets of joy into your life when you can. Again, loved everything you had to say. You spoke of this being a very special reaction, yes, yes it was, Jess, one I appreciated very, very much.

Thomas Corp
>>165946205

Those are two that are behind the wheel a lot for me as well; occasionally the pockets of Joy peek through. Shared thing of greatly appreciating that Jess shared her journey, and the feelings of gladness that she is doing better.

Ryan

I figured you'd have a great viewpoint on this one as someone whose Anxiety is clearly running things a lot of the time (and Fear is completely obsessed with snakes and needles, but that's a whole other thing). Though the movie has picked up quite a bit of nasty baggage as more has come out about the behind the scenes issues it went through. First was the one they couldn't ever hide, that Mindy Kaling and Bill Hader walked away over the paltry money they were being offered in contrast to Amy Poehler and Phyllis Smith (Riley is also a different actor, though that seems to just be because Kaitlyn Dias' voice had changed too much as she became an adult). Then it was also revealed the animators were pushed into crunch time to hit its summer release date, only for Disney to then fire them all a day before their bonuses for it would have hit. And then the big one, that they were constantly getting notes to take out any potentially LGBT material, which I'd be a lot more upset about if whoever was in charge of that hadn't failed so hard. I knew we were in good hands during the early scene of Joy taking Sadness to see the beliefs, which makes clear they weren't resetting her so she could learn the same lesson. And her new bad habit of sending undesirable memories to the back of the mind is perfectly believable how she'd think it was good for Riley, and ends up tying in beautifully with Anxiety's final realization "WE don't get to choose who Riley is." And Sadness being back in headquarters while the other three are out with Joy is already a great way to give the movie its own identity even when it's in the same areas. And the whole idea of the beliefs and sense of self is a marvelous addition to the world-building that makes perfect sense, and also addresses a concern several people (including none other than Don Bluth) brought up that the first movie was indicating people have no actual free will. A lot of fans freaked out when it was revealed the movie would have new emotions, since that would apparently conflict with only the core five being seen in everyone's head last time, but what do you know, you just need a brief moment in the mid-credit scene showing adults don't always have them at the controls to clear that up. And for the most obvious bit of the de-gaying crew falling down on the job, Riley's now up to three emotions that don't conform to her presented gender unlike literally everyone else, plus two of the new emotions are best known for playing lesbians. I'm very impressed that even with nine characters fighting for screentime, the movie never feels cluttered, and the only one who feels a bit lost in the shuffle is Envy, a shame because Ayo Edebiri is such a powerhouse in The Bear, but she still gets some great line reads in. And as the biggest addition, Maya Hawke immediately fits right in and quickly makes you forget about hearing Robin Buckley as she makes Anxiety completely her own. I do kind of wish the other characters from the dungeon stuck around a bit longer, but I absolutely get that this thing is stretched to the limits as it is. They do their job fine as it is, though whoever thought Riley having a crush on an emo bishounen character would make her not look gay is insanely out of touch. And come on, we all know what the Dark Secret was supposed to be, right? Regarding the human story, it's a relief that Riley is also allowed some deep evolution rather than any kind of reset, giving us just about everything we could have wanted from that cliffhanger with the puberty alarm (including a look at her favorite rainbow shirt, nope, nothing to see here). And I just have to point out that in a movie full of great bits of animation that make you want to rewind to watch every character, her "What the bloody hell are you on about?" face as her mother brings up the butterfly is perfection, bringing to mind the legendary story of Chuck Jones throwing out hundreds of drawings on Feed the Kitty until he captured the exact expression he wanted. She has a big advantage in life with a Kyle MacLachlan dad who's much better than some others I could name, but that doesn't mean she can't succumb to her worst thoughts at times, and I very much appreciate that the final lesson here is that's okay. Also a big relief that the movie keeps Val as a perfectly nice person the whole time, who Riley is definitely going out with once the cameras are away from her. She's introduced with an exact copy of the shot of the Brazilian helicopter pilot, no way that's an accident (I'll stop pointing them out when the crew stops putting them in). It also takes huge guts to do the kind of emotional climax we see here, as unlike Riley running away in the first movie, I have a hard time imagining younger kids will quite be able to grasp what's going on here. I think I've talked before about how in junior high, I had a very public emotional meltdown after messing up a piano performance, and this brought all those feelings back big time. This is now the #1 animated movie of all time, and Pete Docter, who stepped back from the directing job, calls it his favorite that Pixar has ever done. And though it definitely doesn't excuse any of the behind the scenes bullshit, I also have to agree it's a fantastic continuation and a good sign of future things for the company if they take the right lessons from their public shaming (if I can say that about Across the Spider-Verse, I kind of have to say it here too). And hey, maybe by the time a third one gets made, they won't have that anti-gay mandate hanging over them and can do what they so clearly want to. Stranger things have happened.

Ryan
>>165947242

The first movie was going to have the console shutting down create a villain named Gloom, but then they made the very smart decision that it wasn't needed. So it definitely feels like the portrayal of Anxiety is bringing some of that back, but they perfectly walk the tightrope of putting her in the antagonist role without actually being a villain, because that's not what this series is about. Actually, the closest we've gotten to an actual villain is in the Dream Productions miniseries, and even that's just the crew blowing off steam at some of the producers they've dealt with. Making Bloofy even funnier is that he's voiced by Ron Funches, probably best known as King Shark in the EXTREMELY adult Harley Quinn animated series. Seeing him use the exact same vocal performance for an actual kids' cartoon character took some real adjustment.

Thomas Corp
>>165951120

Yeah, seeing this in the theater, knowing that Jess has said that the first Inside Out is her favorite Pixar film, (and in the reaction, she says it is up there on her favorite films, period,) I knew she’d have a time with this one. Heard about the pay dispute leading to the recastings. With Riley, I imagine it’s like Nemo or Dash with recasting there. This film’s a decade later, so of course the voice isn’t going to sound the same. I recall you mentioning about the attempts to remove any and all LGBTQ+ content from this, which hearing you say that, made me say, “The film we got was the de-gayed version? Hm, doesn’t show.” They did a nice job with Joy’s arc in this one in that she needs to learn a new lesson, allowing us to go down a familiar path with newer challenges for Joy to face, without feeling like a complete retread or reset, and all done very organically with the culmination being the line that Anxiety had. They likewise do a smart job of the reversal of Sadness being back at headquarters and Anger, Disgust, and Fear now sharing the journey with Joy. Whilst I got the concerns that those like Don Bluth had, I never quite had them myself, particularly as in this film, it shows the beliefs and the sense of self coming to be/more strongly formulating around puberty. Thus, it matches well how in real life, such things become more solidified/pronounced for us, and the presentation is excellent. I don’t see the fuss over the new emotions. Did everyone just collectively forget that age where we all went through shit with that? I liked that too of how there wasn’t the gender conformity with the new emotions. Not seen The Bear, but I knew that Ayo Edebiri was Envy, and she sounds like June Squibb in this in that ok, you may not have the biggest part, but you still get to be part of the fun, and say you got to be in a Pixar film. I assume Robin Buckley is Maya Hawke’s Stranger Things character. I was more distracted by one realizing she’s older now than her mom was in Pulp Fiction thirty years prior, and that when I saw Toy Story in theaters thirty years ago come the fall, she wasn’t even born yet. Back pain struck there. Shared wish to have seen more of the dungeon characters, as well as more Frank Oz as the one cop. Assuming the video game character wasn’t a gag aimed at viewers around our age, yeah, it is a bit out of date when factoring in Riley’s established age. Seriously, the dude’s graphics looked so Playstation 2, that it had me cackling. As to the deep dark secret, as you say, they want to keep the true nature of that in the closet, we can play that game too. Riley’s story is fantastic with the evolution that she goes through. Puberty is a rude awakening for the emotions, complete with a look at the rainbow shirt, that certain executives probably wanted us to adhere to Frank Drebin telling us that there was nothing to see there. Again, Toy Story being probably the strongest earliest memory of going to a movie in the theater, the growth in the animation is astounding. Amazing that we both sneak in a reference to Kyle being the dad, who yeah, his character here doesn’t seem to have any Vault-Tech connections, so Riley’s good there. We both liked how Val is simply a perfectly nice girl. She even gets a few moments of telling her teammates to ease up with Riley. Sure is love at first sight when Riley sees her. (Think Pixar studied the Hays code to sneak all this stuff in?) The emotional climax was very striking. Younger kids who have had the misfortune of going through the experience, they’ll know what’s up. Other kids, that’s where the parents step in to explain that. I’ve had my share of the emotional meltdowns. The memories were dredged up for me as well. It’s one of the few scenes to portray it as accurately as it did/in a way that you just feel it in such a visceral manner. Behind-the-scenes problems aside, yeah, a perfect continuation to the first film. The Incredibles is still my favorite Pixar film, followed very closely by Coco. Inside Out is at the very close third, and this film shows that the Inside Out series is up there in terms of Pixar’s best franchises. I hope for a third one that’s just as wonderful. Probably put Jess and I through the emotional wringer like the first two did, but the catharsis will be wonderful. And if there is no anti-gay mandate looming over the third one, well, life has its little bonuses, and that would be a nice bonus if that mandate is gone sooner rather than later.

Ryan
>>165951120

With the MacLachlan line I was also thinking of Paul Atreides' later story (I feel like that doesn't count as a spoiler since it happens after when the movies are planned to stop). And maybe a bit of that terrible modern day Hamlet movie where he plays Claudius.

Marissa Nielsen

I would say Anxiety and Sadness run my head console lol. Though I do think that the sadness has turned to anger a lot as I've gotten older, sometimes helpfully so when it comes to standing up for myself a bit more, but other times not so much. I'm definitely trying to lean more into old joys, but it's a process lol. Thank you so much for this reaction. It came on a particularly hard day and it was very helpful. You should be very proud of the work you've put in and sharing your story. It makes people feel less alone. Also, amazing Trixie sweater lol!