Inside Out 2 Director : Kelsey Mann Cert : G Starring : Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Kensington Tallman, Lewis Black, Tony Hale, Maya Hawke, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos Running Time : 1 hr 36 mins If the Pixar film Inside Out had a problem, it sprang from the profoundly American notion that all life, however chaotic, can be categorised, ordered and made to obey a system. You might, for example, reduce elements of the human psyche to characters voiced by the likes of Amy Poehler and Phyllis Smith. That sort of thinking got them to the moon.
There is more of that in this fine sequel, but Inside Out 2 is also largely about the breaking down of such order. What else but puberty could so shake up the inhabitants of young Riley’s head? The protagonist of the first film has just hit 13 and, as we meet her, is heading off for ice-hockey camp. (That’s how they systematise their summers.
) Two of her pals are also on the trip, but it turns out they will be moving to a different school when autumn comes. She begins by doing her best to maintain relations. Then a red light flashes on the console in her brain.
The new swirl of hormones is set to turn the hitherto reasonable adolescent into a hair-trigger flibbertigibbet. That biological change comes with the arrival of new personified emotions to the headquarters within. Maya Hawke plays spiky Anxiety.
Ayo Edebiri voices sour Envy. Paul Walter Hauser is a huge, blushing Embarrassment. Best of all (indeed, bord.
