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Post by Pavan on Jun 15, 2024 9:42:02 GMT
Adds new emotions into the mix just as Riley enters into teenage. You know what emotions to expect. Pixar did a great job with Anxiety . The film v eers a little in the middle portion but rounds up everything nicely by the end. I don't remember laughing this much during the first film. I still prefer the first one but this is a totally worthy successor and Pixar's best since Toy Story 4. A strong 8/10
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Post by countjohn on Jun 15, 2024 17:42:16 GMT
This is a 7 for me, def the best thing PIXAR has done in around five years but still not great. A lot more focus on Riley's life this time and less on the "control room" and as a result the emotions feel more like caricatures and less like separate characters in their own right like in the first one. I didn't like that as much, but I suppose you can give them credit for making it feel different and not just doing the first one again only with Riley in middle school. I also just thought it got too crowded with all the new emotions plus the old ones and besides Joy and Anxiety they all ended up feeling like one joke characters. Really nice score and animation again though. Also glad a bunch of little kids are going to know the word ennui now ![:laugh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/30ulL7PvEvGt97femFHx.gif)
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 16, 2024 5:19:02 GMT
A bit of a mixed bag. Started and ended very strong but was a bit clunky in the middle. Not everything worked for me but the parts that did landed with great humor and/or emotional impact. Both my kids loved it though.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jun 16, 2024 19:20:45 GMT
While I found the ending very strong, the movie as a whole struck me as pretty good but not great. There is a dearth of compelling dramatic conceits and bigger emotional ideas here that makes the middle act drag on a good bit as hardly anything of note transpires. The characters are a bit flatter this time around with less room for growth and discovery, and the stakes while obviously major for a 13-year-old feel much smaller than the major life transition of the first film. The final act is the only time it feels as though the film comes together to have loftier ambitions than "amusing series of fetch quests" and that hit like a ton of bricks for me in a way the best of Pixar can. It just feels as though everything building to it was played in a much more minor key typical of the other non- Toy Story sequels they've made. It'll probably happen, but I hope to god they don't do Inside Out 3. There is no way to age up Riley further without getting into some messier emotions (sexual attraction, existential thoughts, etc.) that cannot be addressed in a family-friendly theme park manner, at least not in a way that would actually be authentic to those experiences. Even this one goes out of its way to set a hyper-specific situation where no messy feelings can come up to the point of even taking away her phone. They're not related much at all beyond the timeframe they explore, but Eighth Grade clears.
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Post by countjohn on Jun 17, 2024 18:43:49 GMT
While I found the ending very strong, the movie as a whole struck me as pretty good but not great. There is a dearth of compelling dramatic conceits and bigger emotional ideas here that makes the middle act drag on a good bit as hardly anything of note transpires. The characters are a bit flatter this time around with less room for growth and discovery, and the stakes while obviously major for a 13-year-old feel much smaller than the major life transition of the first film. The final act is the only time it feels as though the film comes together to have loftier ambitions than "amusing series of fetch quests" and that hit like a ton of bricks for me in a way the best of Pixar can. It just feels as though everything building to it was played in a much more minor key typical of the other non- Toy Story sequels they've made. It'll probably happen, but I hope to god they don't do Inside Out 3. There is no way to age up Riley further without getting into some messier emotions (sexual attraction, existential thoughts, etc.) that cannot be addressed in a family-friendly theme park manner, at least not in a way that would actually be authentic to those experiences. Even this one goes out of its way to set a hyper-specific situation where no messy feelings can come up to the point of even taking away her phone. They're not related much at all beyond the timeframe they explore, but Eighth Grade clears. There are plenty of PG rated teen romances and "existential thoughts" is one of the things that might make it exciting, love philosophy jokes ![:laugh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/30ulL7PvEvGt97femFHx.gif) They tried that with Soul and showed potential but I think it can be done better and Inside Out 3 might be a vehicle for that. It needs to be better than this though.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jun 17, 2024 20:14:18 GMT
While I found the ending very strong, the movie as a whole struck me as pretty good but not great. There is a dearth of compelling dramatic conceits and bigger emotional ideas here that makes the middle act drag on a good bit as hardly anything of note transpires. The characters are a bit flatter this time around with less room for growth and discovery, and the stakes while obviously major for a 13-year-old feel much smaller than the major life transition of the first film. The final act is the only time it feels as though the film comes together to have loftier ambitions than "amusing series of fetch quests" and that hit like a ton of bricks for me in a way the best of Pixar can. It just feels as though everything building to it was played in a much more minor key typical of the other non- Toy Story sequels they've made. It'll probably happen, but I hope to god they don't do Inside Out 3. There is no way to age up Riley further without getting into some messier emotions (sexual attraction, existential thoughts, etc.) that cannot be addressed in a family-friendly theme park manner, at least not in a way that would actually be authentic to those experiences. Even this one goes out of its way to set a hyper-specific situation where no messy feelings can come up to the point of even taking away her phone. They're not related much at all beyond the timeframe they explore, but Eighth Grade clears. There are plenty of PG rated teen romances and "existential thoughts" is one of the things that might make it exciting, love philosophy jokes ![:laugh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/30ulL7PvEvGt97femFHx.gif) They tried that with Soul and showed potential but I think it can be done better and Inside Out 3 might be a vehicle for that. It needs to be better than this though. In terms of actually getting at the inside of a teenager, though, there is more to make that authentic than what can be allowed in a PG/PG-13 teen romcom. Like what, would Pixar allow Riley to develop horniness as a mood? I doubt it.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jun 20, 2024 14:28:52 GMT
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