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Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Inside Out 2 When Pixar’s Inside Out released in theaters, my kids were 8 and 5-years-old. It was a delightful movie about the rather limited—but intense—emotional landscape children (and their parents) have to navigate. My kids are now 17 and 14 and that landscape has seen some massive changes, especially since so much has changed between 2015 and 2024.

The intervening years have seen major political change, a global pandemic, big family changes at home, and of course the transformation of my beautiful little kids into, well, teenagers. It’s pretty fitting that Pixar should come out with Inside Out 2 nine years later, and the movie hits all the right beats. As fun as it is for kids, this is a movie that will delight parents more.



When Riley wakes up one morning to her first full-blown puberty-induced hormonal rage, snapping at her mom and barging out the door, we are given a glimpse of the mother’s emotions. “Well that’s a preview of the next ten years,” one emotion says to another. I laughed out loud.

I also cried quite a bit during this movie. Then again, I’m a cryer. It doesn’t take much.

Still, this is easily the best Pixar movie I’ve seen in many, many years and in some ways I think it outshines the original, if only because it tackles the far more complex emotions teenagers (and their parents) grapple with and does it so well, with verve, humor and plenty of poignant moments. Anxiety The Best Ga.

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