Inside Out 2

As Disney speeds along the Woke Express on its way to complete irrelevance, is it possible they didn't screw Inside Out 2 up?
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Starring
Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black
Director
Kelsey Mann
Rating
PG
Genre
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Release date
June 14, 2024
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Inside Out 2 is more or less a slightly less focused and less inspired retread of the first film, but its concept so naturally lends itself to emotional connection, and its performers are strong enough that the little originality it offers should be enough to carry audiences of most ages through to the end. That said, it does offer two huge surprises: 1. It's a Disney sequel that's not total garbage. 2. Even though you can feel how badly it wants to be, it's not a woke mess.
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In 1995, I took a beautiful young lady to watch the world’s first entirely computer-animated feature film, Pixar’s Toy Story. It was our first date, but it wouldn’t be our last. A little over half a dozen children and almost 30 years later, she and I haven’t been quite as prolific as Pixar. Inside Out 2 marks Disney’s Pixar’s 28th feature-length film.

Inside Out 2

It’s been a year since Riley and her family relocated to San Francisco from Minnesota, and in that time, she’s made a new life for herself. She has great friends and an even better sense of self. That is, until the Puberty Alarm sounds, and her new life gets turned upside down and inside out (get it).

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Inside Out 2 Review

The first Inside Out was a touching story about the interconnectivity of emotions and how each plays an important role in shaping us as we grow. Inside Out 2 is a slightly less touching story about the interconnectivity of emotions and how each plays an important role in shaping us as we grow.

Unlike the previous installment, which mostly centered on the adventures of Joy, Sadness, and eventually the lovable Bing Bong, Inside Out 2 is a little less focused. Suffering a bit from sequelitis, it tries too hard to be more than its predecessor rather than less derivative of it. It’s a bigger and louder variation on a theme that spends much more time on Riley’s exterior story and features a significantly larger cast both inside and outside the 13-year-old.

Remember in the first movie, how there were several instances in which it looked as though Joy and Sadness would be able to MacGuffin their way back to headquarters only to be thwarted by a new obstacle? There was one moment when a vacuum tube leading back home suddenly appeared, but it wasn’t sufficient to carry Joy and Sadness back, so Sadness got left behind. However, the tube ended up failing due to a chain of events set into motion several scenes prior. This thoughtful, organic storytelling made the characters’ hard-fought accomplishments that much sweeter. Sadly, like many sequels, Inside Out 2’s interior story is far less compelling than the original. Joy, Sadness, Anger, and Disgust quickly travel from one set piece to the next, easily overcoming each obstacle in time to more or less convenience themselves to the next one.

Another major shift is that of its tone. IO1 ran the main characters and the audience through a gamut of emotions, tackling a number of universally identifiable themes with a musical-like rhythm that carried both through the film’s highs and lows. Riley is no less sympathetic in this sequel than she was in the first, but with anxiety, both the character voiced by Maya Hawke and the feeling, as the driving emotion for most of its runtime, older audiences end up reliving their own anxiety from similar past experiences while younger viewers cringe at their present reality. The result for moviegoers is nearly an hour and a half of feeling anxious, which many audience members might not find particularly pleasant (at least, not the sane ones).

However, as unpleasant as experiencing these uncomfortable moments once again might be, it’s also what gives the movie its greatest asset: heart/actual nostalgia of real life (as opposed to childhood movie member-berries). Despite its lack of originality, Inside Out 2 is an entertaining and mostly satisfying family pic. The performances are fairly strong, even if the material they are working with is somewhat lacking, and some of the original cast didn’t return. Furthermore, what it gets right, it gets really right, and the emotional payoff should be satisfying enough to leave you in a good place by the time the credits roll.

 

Inside Out 2 INAPPROPRIATE ELEMENTS

It’s Not For Itty Bitties
  • Inside Out 2 is rated PG, and that’s appropriate. While it offers no major infractions like curse words, etc., it is pretty emotionally intense. More than that, though, it’s emotionally over the heads of very young children and doesn’t offer enough silly fun to make up for it. I think they’d just be bored.
Locker Room
  • There’s a very brief moment in the high school girl’s locker room in which one teen girl isn’t fully clothed. She’s not naked by any means and not even in her underwear. Instead, she’s in a state of mid-dress with hockey pants and an undershirt on. It’s less about anything being shown than it is that it’s evocative of what was happening in the locker room moments before. Since it wasn’t needed, it should have been omitted.

 

WOKE ELEMENTS

Restraint? From Disney?
  • Nearly all of Riley’s story occurs at a girls’ high school hockey camp, and even though you can practically feel the reins that someone put on the filmmakers, no one is openly gay or gender non-conforming, etc. No flags or other coded messages were secreted away for the casual viewer to notice (I say that because the world is changing so quickly, I may have missed something new or something very, very small).
    • I say that you can practically feel it because all of the veteran high school players act indistinguishably from boys in their brief and infrequent time spent as more than digital extras. Furthermore, all but one of them have butch haircuts. There’s simply nothing feminine about them at all.
I Say, “Di.” You Say “Versity.”
  • Even in urban areas, hockey is a sport played almost exclusively by white people, but you wouldn’t know it by watching this movie. Almost none of the team is unambiguously caucasian. Even Riley’s BFFs had their races algorithmically chosen to be as inoffensive (i.e., not white) as possible.

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James Carrick

James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.

52 comments

  • bowill01

    June 13, 2024 at 10:46 pm

    90% based was more than I hoped for from this one. Finally something I can take my kids to see.

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  • Jeff C

    June 14, 2024 at 1:33 pm

    Thanks for the review! This is good news because my kids have been looking forward to this one but we’ve had to skip the last few years of Disney releases.

    Also hugely refreshing to see someone use “none is” properly for a change rather than “none are.” You’re giving out hope like it was candy in your pocket.

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  • RepublicBased

    June 14, 2024 at 2:00 pm

    Do we finally have a Pixar film that is actually not pandering?

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  • Charissa McClary

    June 14, 2024 at 6:05 pm

    Wonderful! Love the title- worth it! Thank you for for being so thorough, I needed to know it wouldn’t be a horrible surprise

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  • Kenneth

    June 15, 2024 at 5:03 am

    No Lesbian kiss? Whew, I can finally take my 3 young kids to watch a Pixar film! It’s been several years since we’ve watched a Pixar film in the theater. I’m glad this is non-woke and family friend (FOR ONCE!!).

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    • Jhon Gomez

      June 27, 2024 at 2:57 pm

      This movie is as woke as you can think. Don’t be fooled.

      From the multi ethnic characters (and some who are clearly lesbians), the rainbow color coded emotions, rainbows in classroom in clear view that says “you matter”, etc etc etc

      Riley’s emotions different sexes while her dad’s are all male and mom’s are all female…..

      DON’T BE FOOLED

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      • Evan

        June 29, 2024 at 12:43 am

        This movie is about a white girl from Minnesota who moved to San Francisco because her dad’s job moved them there. She has crushes on boys. There are black people in the San Francisco area, and this movie accurately depicts that. The movie is not woke, perhaps apart from the hijab, which is seen for maybe 10 seconds total, it’s really no big deal. But the irony (to both liberal Pixar and angry internet conservatives) is the hijab is an overtly religious symbol of female sexual repression, which is probably too conservative even for the person posting this comment, who actually just doesn’t want to see any black characters in anything.

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      • Taylor

        July 23, 2024 at 8:49 am

        Or you’re just 100% sad, delusional and paranoid 🤡🤡🤡🤡

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  • Tai

    June 15, 2024 at 9:19 am

    Thank you so much for this review!! It addressed all of my concerns as a parent of littles.

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    • Review Poster

      July 15, 2024 at 7:31 pm

      I came to look at the review after watching the movie because I thought it was leaning toward being woke. Although gender ideology/ the LBGTQ Agenda isn’t in your face in this movie I’ll read the review if theirs a third. I just wanted an honest opinion because although *SPOILER ALERT* it seems like Riley has crushes on boys, her obsession/ body language toward Val had me immediately wondering. But I’m an adult. Kids wouldn’t think so. I even googled it. Anyways after reading the review, my thoughts aren’t shared. So I could be wrong. What I am wondering about is why the DiVersity thing was under woke elements. I guess I’m a little confused as to why that’s considered a bad thing. Am I missing something? I understand that a large percentage of Hockey players are white, but what’s the big deal if their diverse in the movie? Wouldn’t that be a positive portrayal for children that aren’t white to feel like they can play it too? So I’m really confused about that one…and reading the other comments, someone said “the movies not woke, maybe apart from the hijab” which I also don’t understand how someone’s religious belief/ command (in their religion) is woke? Last time I checked, religious freedom is part of the protection of the actual first amendment lol…This one definitely doesn’t matter since it’s someone else’s opinion and not the OP’s view. But I guess I just don’t see how that is woke at all— such as LBGTQ being hammered into children’s minds etc.

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      • James Carrick

        July 15, 2024 at 8:19 pm

        We do not believe that organic diversity is inherently “woke.” What becomes “woke” is when diversity is forced to meet Hollywood’s quotas. Consider this example: if a movie about inner-city basketball featured only one or two black kids, it would rightly be seen as unrealistic. But what if the filmmakers cast it this way, not to enhance the narrative, but out of a misguided sense of social justice? What if they did it because they believed that portraying an almost all-black inner-city basketball team was racist for no other reason than because of their skin color? This misguided belief mirrors the outspoken and documented approach at Disney, where diversity in the hockey team (in this case) is forced under similar assumptions about white people.

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      • Sweet Deals

        July 19, 2024 at 3:09 pm

        I have a thought on forced diversity.

        When a cast is brown-washed, a woke person might think that she’s saying “It’s okay to be brown-skinned and you shouldn’t view it as a limitation”. But it’s not that simple. Every time the cast inappropriately shoves in a brown person, a perfectly good white person ends up getting pushed out. The more times this occurs, it sends another not-so-subtle message: “Brown-skinned people are superior. If you’re white, you’re not good enough”.

        This may seem like a cognitive distortion, but the more it is reinforced, the more it will breed anxiety, envy and low self-esteem, not only among white kids who are disparaged as inferior, but also among brown kids who feel that their success is unearned. And DEI is not merely based in misguided kindness. Creating divisions and sowing anxiety, envy and low self-esteem is very intentional. The worse people feel about themselves, the easier they are to manipulate.

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  • Boycott Disney

    June 15, 2024 at 9:53 am

    Just remember, this movie might not be woke, but it’s still Disney. By paying to watch this movie you are helping Disney fund their woke agenda. I will boycott Disney until they go bankrupt or they fire everyone and stop their child grooming ways.

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    • Suzy

      June 16, 2024 at 11:21 am

      By paying for what we like and not for what we don’t, they’ll get the message. Although I’m not sure we should even accept this 10%. Although nothing is overt, it sounds like there will be some behavioral patterning going on. That can be worse than overt messages. Behavioral patterning slowly changes the way a person thinks without him or her even noticing.

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    • Chris

      June 30, 2024 at 5:38 pm

      While I agree with your thought process, its also important to let Disney know that non-woke material will do better with audiences. Just like raising children, good behavior should be celebrated and reinforced.

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  • Rebecca Christian

    June 15, 2024 at 11:54 am

    Tough decision kids want to watch but staying away from Disney. But would seeing this tell Disney keep the woke stuff out of kids movies, send the message too

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  • Tiffany

    June 15, 2024 at 12:41 pm

    Thank you for the review. I was honest with my kids and told them I needed to see reviews to make sure it wasn’t inappropriate before we could see it. Happy to find this site and saving it for future movies. And very excited to watch this movie with my kids now!

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    • James Carrick

      June 15, 2024 at 1:08 pm

      Thank you, Tiffany. I’m thrilled that you found us, and so happy that we were able to help.

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      • Mike

        June 24, 2024 at 12:21 am

        You’re trash. You’re a homophobic, racist, sexist, clueless, evil person . You spread nothing but hate. Movies don’t need your recommendations. Karma is guaranteed to make you pay.

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        • Derek Tombrello

          June 28, 2024 at 11:37 pm

          It’s so cute how you think you speak for anyone other than your masters 🤣

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        • T boy

          July 4, 2024 at 6:04 pm

          Lol bro can’t handle a movie review site

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        • Ok Groomer

          July 7, 2024 at 10:52 am

          No such thing as homophobia. That’s not even a word.

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        • Taylor

          July 11, 2024 at 10:17 am

          Notice how the anti dei comments get mass likes and the rightfully disagreeing ones get the most dislikes?Cause these pathetic racists/homophobics/sexists that want to go back to the 1700s know they are, considering its run by a dumb conservative. He’s the type of fool that will sponsor Project 2025, since he put Riley’s non white friends and most of the poc hockey team under “wOkE pOiNtS”. Someone even complained of the hockey coach being black!!

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  • Yugeshan

    June 15, 2024 at 12:57 pm

    I think having most of the girls behave like boys and rainbow nation hockey teams is already pretty woke but much better than disney’s previous movies. I’m actually shocked that they held themselves back from adding trans and lgb stuff, very strange.

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  • Mikeysnotwoke

    June 16, 2024 at 6:42 pm

    Yeah as far as disney goes it’s tame, just took the kids. Buy it’s laughable how they pander. A girls hockey team in San Francisco and they made sure to stick a Muslim girl on the team in a hijab. I mean if nothing else we can all agree that Muslim girls and families LOVE hockey. 😅

    James also wondering what you thought of the “big dark secret” that wasn’t ready to come out. I think we can be pretty sure what that entails.

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    • James Carrick

      June 16, 2024 at 6:50 pm

      I thought it was going to be something awful, but it’s revealed to be nothing in the post-credit scene.

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    • Steven Klingler

      June 16, 2024 at 11:37 pm

      You must not have stayed for the end credit scene, the big dark secret was not bad either.

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    • Sarah

      June 19, 2024 at 3:24 am

      What’s wrong with the Muslim girl? I thought the movie was pretty non woke since disney didn’t feel the need to add any of their lgdbt agenda

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  • Luke

    June 17, 2024 at 2:44 am

    Hopefully this means Disney will finally see making a non woke movie will work.

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  • art

    June 17, 2024 at 2:11 pm

    Hello,
    I appreciate the review but I’ve read other reviews that state that their is a “lesbian scene” and/or “a new emotion…Lesbianism”
    Did they remove it or is it subtlety there?

    Thanks

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    • James Carrick

      June 17, 2024 at 3:28 pm

      There is no new lesbian emotion, or anything even resembling one.

      Riley is a super fan of an older girl/hockey player and her hero worship is a main subplot, but the only people picking up lesbian vibes are those who have been repeatedly burned by Disney and are making unwarranted, if understandable, assumptions, and perverts who can’t grasp the concept of 13-year-old children liking one another without it being sexual.

      The action taking place in Riley’s head clearly confirms Riley’s heterosexuality with “Boy Band Island” and another male fantasy crush.

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  • Sweet Deals

    June 17, 2024 at 4:15 pm

    I agree with the review that Inside Out 2 isn’t as well-structured as the first. I’m a little shocked to realize that it’s been nearly ten years since the first one was released, since only one year has passed in movie time. However, despite its imperfections, I do believe that this film is very timely.

    What the first film did well was show us that even though sadness is an unpleasant emotion, her role is critical in slowing down, solving problems and fostering empathy, which are all important to becoming a more mature person. The new emotions featured in this film are what I would categorize as toxic social emotions. The prevailing idea is that all emotions, even the negative ones, have a key role in serving us and making better judgments if they can be controlled and applied correctly.

    However, there are moments during the film that do an excellent job of illustrating how our emotions can make things seem like a bigger deal than they are or can misguide us. Anxiety believes that she is acting in Riley’s best interest, but as she takes greater control she causes Riley to make lots of poor and selfish decisions. As Anxiety floods Riley with toxic beliefs, instead of making her a better person, Riley becomes a nervous wreck.

    We live in an age where anxiety is far more prevalent than it should be because our social environment loans itself to constant judgment and comparison. I’m hoping that as this movie shines a light on exactly what kind of emotion Anxiety is, we will no longer be so afraid of her and learn how to manage her. That, and perhaps we’ll also learn not to be so hard on ourselves, or each other.

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  • radicalcrazywoah

    June 20, 2024 at 1:48 am

    I don’t know. Seems to me when the plot is “oh, we should take better care of our emotions”, “all of our emotions are equally important”, and “mEntAL HeALtH iS ImPOrtANt”, this movie sounds pretty woke to me. At the end of the day, your emotions do not matter, and they never will. The only thing that matters in life is FACTS, and “feelings” distract from what’s truly important. It may be less well known as the “lgbt” agenda, but this thought that we should “put more emphasis into making sure our emotions are in check” is still a horrible thing. Telling kids that their “emotions” matter is an absolutely horrible thing to teach. Oh, I “hurt your feelings”? Well, why don’t you grow up and be a man. If you were truly a functioning adult, you would know that no one will ever care about your feelings, because there are way more important things to be focused on. This movie is very woke in a way that no one is talking about.

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    • Sweet Deals

      June 20, 2024 at 5:33 pm

      That is a crude oversimplification. Emotions are a biological reality. We all have them, and we have to know how they work, what they’re for, and how to manage them. They exist for a reason.

      If we didn’t learn how to manage our emotions, we’d have temper tantrums over every little thing like babies. If we didn’t have emotions at all, we wouldn’t have any reason to care about anything, nor would we be able to determine right from wrong. Without emotions, people would be committing wrongs against each other left and right and no one would care because no one would get angry, upset or disgusted about it. Emotions are what give things and ideas their value.

      But I guess if no one’s feelings matter, then I guess there’s no reason for me to respect yours. I get the impression you probably don’t respect anyone else’s.

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  • RaGrizz

    June 21, 2024 at 3:51 pm

    Even with a high based rating I wont be watching. Done with anything & everything disney

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  • Uncle Jack

    June 21, 2024 at 7:10 pm

    Too little, too late. Disney burned their bridge with me. Even if this is OK, I REFUSE to pay Disney to see it.

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  • doug

    June 21, 2024 at 8:46 pm

    honestly pretty chill review, made me excited to see the movie! but MAN some of y’all are scared of everything. it’s not bizarre to portray a locker room scene in a high school movie and honestly the girl dressed appropriately is a lot better than we got with either gender in movies deemed appropriate for children in the 1990’s. what does it imply other than she showered? talking in the locker room is a pretty normal team thing.
    i also don’t know where some of y’all live but even in a primarily white sport there’s plenty of nonwhite people playing. not to mention that “white main character has a black and an asian friend” isn’t a New Woke Trope, it’s a cop-out used to avoid being in trouble for all-white casts that has been commonplace in all movies since the 80s or 90s. it’s not recent or unusual and in my experiences in school the amount of diversity in movies is pretty understated, depending on the location. you also gotta remember that hollywood has always been hitting quotas like this. it’s not an attack on you, it’s just lazy. i find it frankly bizarre that so many people are triggered by merely the idea of diversity in a country they live in which is diverse by definition. didn’t take till 2020 for me to see a black person and didn’t feel like anyone was encroaching on my rights by being black or gay near me. it’s also wildly overstated how “woke” disney is. they put tokens in to avoid blatantly excluding people and people say “it’s woke” like the people represented are a major aspect of anything. personally i do prefer the era when film and television felt less need to place things like the lesbian kiss in finding dory, because it’s not exactly significant to people who it matters for and it causes people who are scared of anything different from them to throw a little fit. however, going over a children’s film looking for ways it might be Pushing The Gay Agenda is insane. why are folks thinking about child sexuality this much? i personally don’t think anything about it until “anti-woke” comes up and starts bombarding every piece of media with this feral intent of searching for nonexistent indoctrination or lewd material. can’t anybody just watch a fun movie with their kids? your kids don’t think all this stuff until you start going on and on about it. maybe take a day to touch some grass, unless the color green is also now woke to you.

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    • Derek Tombrello

      June 29, 2024 at 12:00 am

      You seem to misunderstand. No one is bothered by TRUE and natural diversity – using the original meaning of that word, not the NewSpeak redefinition. What we (and I am using the Royal We here, because I cannot speak for others) have a problem with is FORCED “diversity” (now I’m using the NewSpeak redefinition of that word) where everyone and everything is OVER represented just for the sake of representation; just so that everyone feels “validated.” When the racial makeup of a population is 13 / 20 / 59, then for NATURAL diversity (back to the original), you would expect to see those same numbers reflected in media. But that is not the case. Instead, we see more like 60 / 10 / 30; and that is being generous on the 30%.

      Furthermore, when movies are either all-black or mostly-black, we’re told it’s stunning and brave and beautiful. Reverse the races, though, and suddenly it’s racist and abhorrent. Even worse, is when established white characters are recast and rewritten as black. Again… stunning and brave and beautiful. When a Japanese character was recast as a white girl, it was racist and disgusting. Even worse is when REAL, HISTORICAL people are race swapped in film. Black girls with straight blonde hair? Stunning and brave. White girls with dreads? Racist and cultural-appropriation. An entire black hockey team (in this film)? Stunning and brave. One white girl getting some love in basketball (in real life)? Racist. You see the double standard here? I could go on and on, but THAT is the problem that “we” have with “diversity” (back again to the NewSpeak redefinition).

      As for the gay agenda… ain’t nobody SCARED of anything. And LOOKING for elements pushing that agenda is not what’s insane. What’s insane is the need for hollyweird to PUSH that agenda. What’s insane is that hollyweird and the left want to push sexuality on to children before they are mature enough to cope with that subject. What’s insane is hollyweird’s obsession with shoving the agenda down the throats of their viewers. I saw a film once that was supposed to be set in the 80’s. Rainbow flags in the hallways. Pride posters in the classrooms. Nothing forced about that, right? Because in the 80’s rainbow flags and pride posters were everywhere!

      “can’t anybody just watch a fun movie with their kids?” … I don’t know. Can’t hollywierd just MAKE a fun movie for the kids that parent CAN and WANT TO take their children to see with out all of the woke bull###### being shoved down our throats?

      I doubt you’ll even read this, but… I felt your rant required a dissenting rant. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      • MalC

        July 19, 2024 at 9:39 am

        Gay people existing is not “pushing” an agenda.

        Pretending you can erase ‘the gay’ would be pushing an agenda – as would implying you can ‘turn’ people gay. Neither of those things is a real thing; gay people are a real thing.

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    • Lookielookie8

      July 26, 2024 at 7:12 pm

      As someone with experience in girls’ hockey (my 13-year-old daughter plays travel hockey), it’s misrepresenting the diversity on girls’ hockey teams. At most, there are a couple of Asian girls and for some city teams a black girl or two. It is overwhelmingly white no matter if it’s a city, suburban, or more rural team. If it was a girl’s basketball team and had mostly black girls, I wouldn’t be bringing it up since there is a higher chance of black girls playing basketball over white girls. But look up San Francisco Girls Hockey. There are very few other races that play girls’ hockey. If they were looking for the true makeup of a girls hockey team, they failed.

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  • JJ

    June 23, 2024 at 5:44 pm

    Ok, just found this website. Glad to see that i am not a crazy person. Just saw Insideout 2. Black Female Hockey coach? Seriously!

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  • Jean

    June 25, 2024 at 4:19 am

    You forgot to mention the Muslim girl in hijab. It’s totally woke. Pretending that a young girl wearing an Islamic scarf is normal is woke propaganda!

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    • Sweet Deals

      June 26, 2024 at 9:37 pm

      Actually, it is not. Islamic tradition requires that all women who reach the age of sexual maturity must keep their hair covered at all times for the sake of modesty. It’s completely normal for a 14-year-old Muslim girl to wear a hijab.

      Admittedly, it is unexpected to see a Muslim girl on a hockey team in California, but we can always speculate that like Riley, she may be from around Dearborn, Michigan. Or Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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  • CSG

    June 26, 2024 at 7:52 pm

    Thanks for writing this review. 90% based is pretty good. I will watch this.

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  • Taylor

    July 11, 2024 at 10:01 am

    I knew you guys will ###### about Riley’s POC friends to call it “woke and dei pandering”, LMFAO. Y’all are that terrified of non white people existing. Ps you paranoid lgbtqa-phobic losers, there was no lgbtqa at all, you guys are reaching pathetically to turn something that’s not.

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  • Colon Been

    July 15, 2024 at 5:12 pm

    Thanks for your review, I agree with it. It is clear that they so much desperately wanted to put useless misplaced forced diversity into this (eg, the hockey team), but they kept it under control and it stayed on the fringes.

    I am 200% convinced that this movie has been severely edited to remove more political contents. it seems they are finally reining it in and got the right message from audiences (those paying tickets, not justice warriors). Even for someone who is very liberal, yet not US based, the domestic political messaging (irrelevant or misplaced for international markets and for 50% of the domestic one) was really insufferable.

    The movie itself is so delicate in how it treats puberty that it’s a bliss. Compare it with Turning Red, and… well just don’t compare it with Turning Red (I am glad it went straight to streaming, so we could watch it beforehand, I really wouldn’t want to seat in a theater trying to explain 90% of that movie to a kid). We watched Inside Out 2 with the kids and it was as it used to be.

    It’s time to reward the new route. Welcome back, Disney!

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  • Giorgio

    July 16, 2024 at 10:17 am

    I didn’t hate this movie, but I’m not crazy about it either.
    And, do you remember the end of the IO1? When we see the “puberty” alarm going off? What was it about then? Correct, Riley met a boy.
    Well, apparently in this movie they were so scared of the direction they were heading to, that they completely removed boys, the only male character being the father. As much as we can appreciate they neutralized the “rainbow” narrative, in my opinion they end up neutralizing the whole movie.
    The first one will always be special for me, this one not so much.

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    • Taylor

      July 23, 2024 at 9:23 am

      You say that because it’s a sequel and wth? They were hardly any boys in the 1st movie too, except Riley’s crush in the end, so that argument falls trash. This is about Riley and her emotions, not love life and guys, and y’all acting like you’re just hearing about an all girls sport team in 2024. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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  • Lookielookie8

    July 26, 2024 at 7:08 pm

    I liked the movie overall and it still hit me in the feels (not as much as the first) but I had to laugh at the diversity on the hockey team. I am a father to a 13-year-old hockey daughter. She has been playing on a travel team for about 5 years now on Long Island. We have traveled to plenty of places (NJ, CT, PA, VA, Buffalo, RI). Let me just say, that in the entire time I have watched her play (only missed one game in her entire travel hockey career), I have yet to see even close to the diversity that was in Inside Out 2. Not saying it doesn’t exist out there, but it’s highly unlikely. The vast majority of all teams she has ever played including her own was white. Maybe one or two Asian girls on some teams. Philly has some black players. I rarely saw Hispanic players and have seen only a couple of Middle Eastern players (certainly none wearing a hijab). It’s a massively expensive sport (about 5k a year, plus all the equipment, hotels, tolls, gas, food, entertainment, and to progress you need to pay for private sessions and clinics). Ice times vary wildly because girls tend to get the spots that are leftover after the many many boys leagues. Ice rinks do not exist in inner cities and it’s never been viewed as a non white sport like basketball or football. I get the concept of trying to show that any ethnicity can play hockey (I welcome more girls to join, we need all the talent we can get), but it’s just not at all realistic. Even though San Fran is diverse, white people make up the largest percentage at around 40%. Asians make up about 33%, blacks about 5%. No way teams, even in a diverse city like San Fran look like what they portrayed there. I looked up some pictures for local girls hockey and it’s vastly white. It’s diversity for diversities sake.

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