Inside Out 2 4K 2024 2160p WEB-DL

A sequel to the 2015 Pixar cartoon. The emotions Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Squeamishness guide the puberty of the girl Riley. They are joined by Anxiety, which leads to new jams and adventures.

Inside Out 2 4K Review
Earlier this year, it was revealed that Pixar executives were going to write a goodbye check to 175 employees (i.e. cut about 14% of the company) and undertake the biggest restructuring in the studio's history. Now Pixar - led by Pete Docter (director of the first “Inside Out”) - will no longer focus on production for Disney +, and will direct all efforts to the creation of feature films intended for theatrical distribution. The exception will be the animated series “Win or Lose”, which is scheduled to premiere in late 2024.

The main goal of “Inside Out 2” is to replicate the success of the first film and improve the studio's financial position after a string of commercially unsuccessful releases during the Pandemic era, when “Luca,” “I Blush” and “Soul” were sent straight to Disney + instead of theatrical distribution. Originally, the films that were supposed to bring Pixar out of the shadows and restore the studio to its former glory were “Buzz Lightyear” (received subdued reviews and barely broke even) and “Elementary” (became a sleeper hit and grossed $500 million at the worldwide box office). In 2022, the studio decided to return to good old-fashioned sequels and began producing a sequel to “Inside Out”.

Since the move of Riley from her native Minnesota to San Francisco, two years have passed. During this time, the girl had time to get used to life in a new city, make friends and become one of the best hockey players in the school team. The little characters living in Riley's head have also adjusted their everyday life: Fear, Anger, Sickness and Sadness (even her!) take turns at the control panel, accepting each other as equals, while Joy continues to study Riley's brain. She now catapults all negative memories into the Oblivion dumpster, and sends the positive ones deep into the Subconscious, where the key memory fragments that give root to the tree of Beliefs are stored. In this way, Joy shapes Riley's personality, her core attitudes and basic principles. “I'm a good person,” Joy hears herself say as she drops another memory into the Subconscious lake, and nods contentedly.

Everything changes one night when, on the eve of Riley's three-day trip to high school hockey camp, Emotion is awakened by a strange sound. Moments later, a group of construction workers and four strange creatures walk into the Main Office: Anxiety, Envy, Shame, and Chandra. Oh my goodness, I think Riley is starting to go through puberty!

Riley has matured by two years, we've matured by almost ten years. During that time, the director of the first film, Pete Docter, moved into Pixar's Chief Creative Officer's chair and became an executive producer, while responsibility for the release of Inside Out 2 passed to feature film debutant Kelsey Mann and the first film's screenwriter, Meg Leffov. The authors did not continue the romantic line announced in the short film “Riley's First Date?”, released almost immediately after the first “Inside Out”. The protagonist is still indifferent to Jordan (we meet him again during practice) - all her attention is focused on trying to secure a successful future on a dream sports team. Perhaps Loving is a character in future cartoon sequels.

Taking center stage at the helm is fiery redhead Anxiety. Having gotten rid of what she considers to be the unnecessary base emotions we know from the first movie (literally sharpening them in a jar), Anxiety chugs coffee and, with the help of Envy, begins to implement a dubious plan to change Riley's personality. Chandra (originally Ennui, an emotion meaning a mixture of irritability, apathy, and fatigue) is so lazy that she barely gets off the couch and hijacks the main panel controls solely with the help of a gadget. Shame tries to hide in his own hoodie most of the time, but he too will eventually have to do his part in the story of Riley's growing up.

By building the narrative around Anxiety taking over, Mann and Leffow show what happens when all of life is subject to a single law - the endless multiplication of negative future scenarios without the opportunity to be in the present. But despite the fact that Anxiety is assigned the role of the main antagonist, it is far from being as simple and unambiguous as it may seem at first glance. Recall psychotherapy textbooks: excessive fixation on thinking about potentially unpleasant situations significantly impairs the quality of life, but the complete absence of anxiety can easily lead to negative consequences and indifference.

The most successful update in Inside Out 2 was the appearance of the Vault of Secrets. The authors managed to find the right nerve and, playing a little with form and content, make even adult viewers laugh. The comic performances of the video game hero Lance Slashblade are hilarious, and the appearance of Bananchik instantly brings back in memory the hilarious episodes of “Dasha the Traveler” with endless “I'm Backpack, I'm Backpack” and “I'm Karta, I'm Karta”.

“Inside Out 2” perfectly copes with the role of a quality sequel, namely inventively expands the world of the first movie, offering something new not only in the plane of the plot, but also on the level of form. Of course, in front of us is still cute in its naiveté picture, carefully avoiding the sharp edges for the sake of preserving the status of a children's movie, but, as shown by the collections, this is exactly what the modern audience was waiting for - in the first days of the box office “Inside Out 2” bypassed not only the sci-fi action film “Godzilla and Kong: The New Empire”, but also the second part of “Dune” Denis Villeneuve. I wonder what emotion is responsible for capitalizing on proven ideas?