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Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside their head?

So, in a year where we've desperately needed a box office hit, I'm not sure anyone expected Pixar to come along and be the heavy hitters with Inside Out 2.

This is a studio that has struggled with all of its releases since the pandemic, but Inside Out 2, it's the fastest and animated movie has ever

hit a billion dollars and it's not slowing down. Also, can I ask, is it weird that all of the

successful animation recently has put its main characters through panic attacks? Like

anxiety has one here, Puss and Boots had one, Spider-Man had one, Mario basically had one. Maybe

we're making these movies too, hashtag relatable.

If you don't know, Inside Out is all about the emotions inside of the head of a girl named Riley.

Joy, sadness, disgust, fear, and anger. Together, they basically pilot Riley, helping her navigate her life

and appropriately react to the situations put in front of her.

Right, right, here comes an airplane.

Oh, airplane, we got an airplane, everybody.

While also keeping track of and organizing her memories.

Memories are represented by glass balls, each glowing a color that corresponds to what

type of memory it is. A happy memory, like watching Wally for the

first time? It's yellow, like joy. But a sad memory, like watching Madam Webb for the first time,

it's blue, like sadness, et cetera, et cetera. But with Inside Out 2, Riley has grown a bit older and

has now hit puberty, and you know what that means? A whole host of new, more complex emotions

beyond the first five are introduced.

For this movie, we have anxiety, envy, embarrassment, and onwi.

That's boredom for us non-French speakers,

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