Inside Out 2 (2024)

Inside Out 2 is a 2024 animation movie directed by Kelsey Mann, with a running time of 1h 37m. It stars Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke and Kensington Tallman.

Riley is thirteen now, and the tidy control room in her head gets a chaotic renovation. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust have kept her steady for years, then puberty ushers in a new crew led by Anxiety, who arrives with a plan and a lot of opinions. Pixar's sequel follows Riley through a weekend hockey camp where friendships wobble and a new sense of self fights to take the wheel. Kelsey Mann directs, with Amy Poehler back as Joy and Maya Hawke voicing the jittery newcomer. It is bright, fast, and quietly wise about growing up.

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What is Inside Out 2 about?

When was Inside Out 2 released?

Inside Out 2 was released on 11 June 2024.

How long is Inside Out 2?

Inside Out 2 runs 1h 37m.

Who made Inside Out 2?

Inside Out 2 was directed by Kelsey Mann.

Where can I watch Inside Out 2?

Inside Out 2 is available on Disney+, Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home and Spectrum On Demand.

Where to watch Inside Out 2

Stream: Disney+

Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Spectrum On Demand

Buy: Fandango at Home

Official site

https://movies.disney.com/inside-out-2

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For more feeling-forward storytelling about the ache of growing up, the manga A Silent Voice, Vol. 2 handles adolescent anxiety and empathy with real tenderness. Readers curious about how Pixar engineers these emotional gut-punches will find the studio's own history laid out in The Pixar Touch.

Animated adventures about growing into a bigger, scarier world

Inside Out 2 sends Riley into a hockey camp weekend where her whole sense of self gets rebuilt overnight, and these animated features chase that same jolt of stepping into a bigger world. WALL-E's lonely robot, the Croods finding a new age, Buzz relearning who he is in Lightyear, and Zootopia's mismatched partners all discover that growing up means letting go of the shape you used to be.

Broad, colorful animated comedies for family movie night

Inside Out 2 keeps its emotional core wrapped in Pixar's usual sight-gag energy, and these movies lean fully into that side of animated comedy. Ice Age's prehistoric slapstick, Hotel Transylvania's monster mayhem, the Minions' chaos, Tom and Jerry's cartoon violence, SpongeBob's absurdity, and Peter Rabbit's mischief all deliver broad, colorful, kid-tested laughs without asking anyone to take a single thing seriously.

Books that go behind the curtain of how animators build a character's inner life

Inside Out 2 turns abstract emotions into characters you root for, a trick that took Pixar's animators real craft to pull off. These books get into that machinery directly: Thomas and Johnston's foundational Illusion of Life, Richard Williams' Animator's Survival Kit, and The Pixar Touch all trace how a drawn face learns to carry real feeling, one deliberate choice at a time.

Stories where a character's emotions take over the whole plot

Riley's inner world in Inside Out 2 is a chaotic control room fighting for the wheel, and these picks push that idea further. Celeste turns anxiety into a mountain you physically climb, Steven Universe gives a kid's feelings literal power, A Silent Voice sits with guilt as a slow ache, and Elio channels loneliness into a wish for contact with something bigger.