Inside Out 2 features the voices of Amy Poehler as Joy and Maya Hawke as Anxiety. (From left) The emotions Sadness (voice of Phyllis Smith), Joy (voice of Amy Poehler), Disgust (voice of Liza Lapira), Fear (voice of Tony Hale) and Anger (voice of Lewis Black) in Inside Out 2. Inside Out 2 (PG) 97 minutes, now showing, 4 stars The story: In this sequel to Inside Out (2015), Riley (voiced by Kensington Tallman) is 13 and yearning to be accepted by the popular girls.
They are led by her idol, Valentina (American actress Lilimar), captain of the ice hockey team. In her head, the old team of Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black) and others have to share the console with new teenage emotions – among them Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adele Exarchopoulos) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser). Shows that feature fantastical creatures, monsters or horrors as the physical manifestation of the main character’s trauma are plentiful, but rare is the movie that does the same for other parts of the psyche.
Inside Out (2015) belongs to that little-seen group and has since become beloved by millions. Much of its success is due to its layered approach to its subject, the mind and its mechanisms. Joy (Poehler) is the group leader and the one on a mission to suppress unpleasant memories, represented in the movie by glowing balls flung to the back of the mind.
In the new film, older viewers can continue to play the game of seeing her as a mental .