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‘Inside Out 2’ Review: New Feelings Propel a Pixar Sequel Enchanting Enough to Second That Emotion


Riley tries to fit in with the cool kids at hockey camp (but can she be herself?) in a sequel that comes close to matching the high of "Inside Out."

In the Headquarters of her brain, a siren flashes (it’s the one we saw in the earlier film marked Puberty), which means it’s time for renovation workers to bust into the place, tear down the walls, and install a new console that can accommodate Riley’s budding adolescent feelings. The original quintet of Anger (Lewis Black), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Tony Hale), Disgust (Liza Lapira), and the beloved Joy ( Amy Poehler) are still around, but they’re now “suppressed emotions,” shoved to the back of her mind. At first it’s no surprise to see that she’s visualized as a walking nervous wreck, with a feather-duster sprout of orange hair and a face that’s all popping eyes, eyebrows that twitch in the air, and an elongated stretch of toothy mouth — she looks like Emma Stone animated as a rubber space alien out of a Wallace and Gromit cartoon.

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