I think this is a first on young heretics. To my knowledge this will be the first time on the show

that I have ever reviewed a Pixar movie. Inside Out 2 over the weekend.

And I went because it's making a huge splash at the box office.

Kind of unexpectedly, Pixar's not known for great sequels,

but the first one of these movies, Inside Out, one, was one of its biggest

successes ever. Huge sensation, I went and saw it in the theater when it came out and was shocked at how much I liked it.

Really surprised. I expected to be kind of grumpy about it because this is a movie

if you're not familiar very high concept kids movie about a young girl named Riley

who's 11 years old and inside of her mind or her brain or her soul or it's never quite

clear she has these five personified emotions,

joy, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust.

And they're kind of the primary colors of her experience of the world clearly borrowed from a range of

psychotherapeutic ideas about how kids develop and the story of the movie is about kind of Riley's inner life as described in

metaphor via these personified emotions the great task is to integrate sadness

into the crew because Riley's had this mostly happy life,

but now she's moving across the country and she's very sad, but Joy doesn't want to allow that to happen.

And so it's this sort of sweet story

about learning to understand and accept your sadness

as an honest part of your experience

and to integrate it into your whole consciousness.

And I went back and re-watched this movie when the second one started to make a splash because I remembered kind of liking it,

but I also had this association in my head with my least favorite modern idea about

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