A new team of emotions including Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment and Ennui appear in Riley's mind.
Anxiety exiles Joy's old emotions and Sense of Self from Riley’s mind. Five emotions - Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust - continue to guide Riley’s thoughts and actions.
Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 is expected to open between $85 and $115 million at the domestic box office in its first weekend.
Disney/Pixar's Inside Out opened to $90.4 million domestically in 2015.
Fandango's pre-sales for Inside Out 2 are already reporting higher numbers than the first Inside Out and the highest for Pixar since Toy Story 4.
Riley has new friends named Bree and Grace and enjoys ice hockey as her hobby.
Universal/Illumination's Despicable Me 4 is the sole competitor for the demo during Inside Out 2’s release but won’t arrive until over the Fourth of July weekend.
Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 is expected to open between $85 and $115 million at the domestic box office in its first weekend. The family audience is ready for the right movie at the right time, as shown by strong holds from Paramount's IF and Sony's The Garfield Movie. Disney/Pixar's Inside Out opened to $90.4 million domestically in 2015 and is expected to perform similarly or better this year. Universal/Illumination's Despicable Me 4 is the sole competitor for the demo during Inside Out 2's release, but it won't arrive until over the Fourth of July weekend. Fandango's pre-sales for Inside Out 2 are already reporting higher numbers than the first Inside Out and the highest for Pixar since Toy Story 4. Bad Boys: Ride or Die is expected to have a superb hold in its second weekend with no direct competition in the market. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's return as wisecracking buddy cops has won over audiences with strong audience scores, 5-star PostTrak rating, and an A- CinemaScore. Inside Out 2 personifies emotions but fails to fully bring them to life. The movie depicts the desperate hopelessness when anxiety has a hold and won't let go. Anxiety exiles Joy's old emotions and Sense of Self from Riley's mind. Five emotions - Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust - continue to guide Riley's thoughts and actions. A new team of emotions including Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment and Ennui appear in Riley's mind. Inside Out 2 introduces new characters representing different emotions: Anxiety, Embarrassment, Ennui, and Envy. Riley has new friends named Bree and Grace and enjoys ice hockey as her hobby. The movie is directed by Kelsey Mann and features the voices of Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira, Maya Hawke, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Paul Walter Hauser and Lilimar.
Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is expected to open between $85 and $115 million at the domestic box office in its first weekend.
The family audience is ready for the right movie at the right time, as shown by strong holds from Paramount’s IF and Sony’s The Garfield Movie.
Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out opened to $90.4 million domestically in 2015 and is expected to perform similarly or better this year.
Universal/Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 is the sole competitor for the demo during Inside Out 2’s release, but it won’t arrive until over the Fourth of July weekend.
Fandango’s pre-sales for Inside Out 2 are already reporting higher numbers than the first Inside Out and the highest for Pixar since Toy Story 4.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die is expected to have a superb hold in its second weekend with no direct competition in the market.
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s return as wisecracking buddy cops has won over audiences with strong audience scores, 5-star PostTrak rating, and an A- CinemaScore.
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Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 is expected to open between $85 and $115 million at the domestic box office in its first weekend.
Inside Out 2 is a sequel to the far-superior film, Inside Out.
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Fallacies
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The article contains some instances of appeals to authority and inflammatory rhetoric. However, the majority of the text is an analysis and prediction of box office performance for upcoming movies based on data and previous trends. No formal or informal fallacies were found that would significantly impact the score.
][Pros] Pixar's best performers have been sequels and spin-offs, giving Inside Out 2 great potential to break out as the first sequel to the animation studio's second-highest-performing original title at the box office. Fandango's pre-sales are already reporting higher than the first Inside Out and the highest for Pixar since Toy Story 4[[/],
Inside Out 2 is a sequel to the far-superior film, Inside Out.
Riley has new friends named Bree and Grace, and enjoys ice hockey as her hobby.
Inside Out 2 introduces new characters representing different emotions: Anxiety, Embarrassment, Ennui, and Envy.
Accuracy
, The story takes place 3 years after the first movie, with Riley now being 13 years old and living in the Bay Area.
Deception
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The article contains editorializing and pontification by the author as they compare Inside Out 2 to its predecessor and other Pixar films. The author expresses their opinions about the film's strengths and weaknesses, implying that Inside Out 2 is less emotionally impactful than its predecessor. They also make assumptions about the audience, stating that certain metaphors in the film will go over younger viewers' heads.
Not only does it ignore the physical changes tied to the emotional ones (another point in Turning Red’s favor), but it also rarely captures the interplay between emotions. It’s too neat in its unpacking of adolescence, and too concerned with explaining its metaphors rather than letting their effects be felt.
It explains plenty about the confusing emotions associated with puberty, often in intelligent ways, but it rarely lets them be felt or experienced, the way its predecessor did.
Surprising and disappointing in equal measure, Inside Out 2 manages to strike a mostly careful balance with its overstuffed new ensemble, while still failing to live up to the rousing highs of its far-superior predecessor.
Fallacies
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The article contains several instances of appeals to authority and inflammatory rhetoric. The author compares Inside Out 2 to Pixar's Turning Red and criticizes it for failing to live up to the original. However, these comparisons are not based on logical reasoning but rather on personal opinion. Additionally, the author uses phrases like 'surprising and disappointing in equal measure,' 'strikes a mostly careful balance,' and 'never quite lives up to this obvious truism' which are inflammatory and do not add any value to the analysis. The score is reduced because of these fallacies.
I’m talking, of course, about Pixar’s Turning Red,
Bias
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The article expresses a clear preference for the movie 'Turning Red' over 'Inside Out 2'. The author uses language that depicts 'Inside Out 2' as failing to live up to its predecessor and having weaker character development. The author also mentions that certain emotions in 'Inside Out 2' are over-simplified compared to those in the original.
It also fails to live up to Pixar’s own high watermarks for emotionally driven tales of adolescence – movies like Luca and Turning Red – so it feels like a step down in several regards.
Surprising and disappointing in equal measure, Inside Out 2 manages to strike a mostly careful balance with its overstuffed new ensemble, while still failing to live up to the rousing highs of its far-superior predecessor.
The major difference, however, is that the movie never really takes the time to focus on the physical and emotional effects of unforeseen new feelings rising to the fore, whether in Riley’s real world or the one inside her head.
The movie personifies emotions but fails to fully bring them to life.
Accuracy
The pandemic negatively impacted Pixar's momentum.
Disney/Pixar's Inside Out opened to $90.4 million domestically in 2015 and is expected to perform similarly or better this year.
Deception
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The author expresses his opinion that Pixar is going in the wrong direction by using emotional manipulation and selective reporting. He implies that Pixar's recent films are creative misfires and middling sequels without providing any evidence or facts to support this claim. He also quotes Bloomberg describing Pixar's new strategy, but does not disclose that it is a quote or provide context about the source of the quote.
It’s full of Joy, light on fun, and overstuffed with a mess of other emotions the film ingeniously personifies without ever really bringing them to life.
The pandemic couldn’t have come at a worse time for Pixar.
The ill-conceived Toy Story spinoff only confirmed that Luxo Jr. had lost his luster.
Fallacies
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The author makes an appeal to authority by quoting Bloomberg's profile of Pixar executives and using their words to frame the studio's new direction. This is a fallacy because it implies that the opinions of these executives are inherently correct or more valid than others, without providing any evidence or reasoning for why that is.
And so we arrive at Inside Out 2, which so perfectly ticks Pixar’s boxes in a way that forces the sincerity of its storytelling into a losing battle with the cynicism of its existence. It’s full of Joy, light on fun, and overstuffed with a mess of other emotions the film ingeniously personifies without ever really bringing them to life.
The studio’s movies should be less a pursuit of any director’s catharsis and instead speak to a commonality of experience.
Bias
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The author expresses a clear bias against Pixar's recent output and their decision to focus on sequels instead of original films. The language used to describe Pixar's films as 'creative misfires', 'middling sequels', and 'ill-conceived' demonstrates this bias. The author also expresses a preference for autobiographical stories, which is then contrasted with the studio's new strategy of focusing on high-concept universality.
It’s full of Joy, light on fun, and overstuffed with a mess of other emotions the film ingeniously personifies without ever really bringing them to life.
Less ‘my coming-of-age as a second-generation immigrant in Toronto,’ more ‘what if toys could talk?’
The pandemic couldn’t have come at a worse time for Pixar. The fading animation powerhouse emerged from a decade of creative misfires and middling sequels
The studio's movies should be less a pursuit of any director's catharsis and instead speak to a commonality of experience.
Five emotions - Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust - continue to guide Riley’s thoughts and actions.
A new team of emotions including Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment and Ennui appear in Riley’s mind.
Accuracy
Inside Out 2 is a sequel to the 2015 Pixar film, Inside Out.
Riley, the main character, is now 13 years old and facing personal changes.
Deception
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The article contains selective reporting as the author only focuses on the negative aspects of the movie and implies that there is no thought or intelligence in it. The title itself is sensationalizing by implying that Inside Out 2 is a talky and uneventful sequel.
Yet this is the path that Pixar have chosen for the sequel to 2015’s Inside Out, a twee but nevertheless thoughtful film that sought to sort out the jumble of emotions inside an 11-year-old girl’s mind as she adapted to life in a strange new city.
But what you don’t get, sadly, is any sense of thought, which, by now, Riley should be capable of assembling. While it does suggest that Riley’s emotions combine in ways that guide her, Inside Out 2 stops short of assembling emotions into intelligence.
Ultimately, the battle is over the control of Riley’s conscience, but seeing as there’s never been any serious dramatic conflict in this kind of family fare since High School Musical did away with it altogether, it’s pretty clear where a Disney production is going to go with that.
But Anxiety – played very, very well by newcomer Hawke – makes her presence felt immediately, and her humble but pragmatic personality seems charming and even quite reasonable. But Anxiety’s needs grow, leading her to stage a coup that sends the other emotions, literally, to the back of Riley’s mind.
This time round, Joy, is the den mother, keeping all the others in check and prioritizing Riley’s ‘sense of self’, which, though it might sound abstract, is an actual, physical thing that she’s very protective of.
Fallacies
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The author uses an informal fallacy by making a derogatory statement about a type of movie and its audience ('Hey, kids! Let’s go to the multiplex and check out that animated movie about a moderately talented teenage girl trying out for a place in a slightly older ice-hockey team') without providing any evidence or justification. This is an example of an appeal to ridicule.
'Hey, kids! Let’s go to the multiplex and check out that animated movie about a moderately talented teenage girl trying out for a place in a slightly older ice-hockey team'
Bias
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The author expresses a negative opinion towards the movie 'Inside Out 2' and uses language that depicts the movie as uneventful and lacking in thought or fun. The author also implies that the film is not worth seeing by stating 'it's hard to imagine anyone will leave this desperate to see an Inside Out 3'.
But what you don’t get, sadly, is any sense of thought, which, by now, Riley should be capable of assembling.
But when all’s said and done, the stakes are so minor, it’s hard to imagine anyone will leave this desperate to see an Inside Out 3.
Ultimately, the battle is over the control of Riley’s conscience, but seeing as there’s never been any serious dramatic conflict in this kind of family fare since High School Musical did away with it altogether, it’s pretty clear where a Disney production is going to go with that.
Anxiety exiles Joy's old emotions and Sense of Self from Riley’s mind.
The movie depicts the desperate hopelessness when anxiety has a hold and won’t let go.
Accuracy
The movie 'Inside Out 2' is a sequel to the 2015 animated film 'Inside Out.'
Disney/Pixar's Inside Out opened to $90.4 million domestically in 2015 and is expected to perform similarly or better this year.
Riley has new friends named Bree and Grace, and enjoys ice hockey as her hobby.
Deception
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The article contains selective reporting as it only reports details that support the author's positive review of the movie. The author also uses emotional manipulation by describing how parents of teenagers will feel seen and get a kick out of certain aspects of the movie. Additionally, there is a lack of disclosure regarding sources.
Every parent of a tween or teenager will feel seen via a construction sign that reads ‘Puberty is messy’ and get a kick out of Mount Crushmore, part of a revamped Imagination Land.
The major friction within the first movie – Joy needing to find a way to deal with Sadness – seems small potatoes compared to a battle over Riley’s entire belief system.
Fallacies
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The article contains a few informal fallacies and some instances of appealing to authority. The author describes the movie's plot and characters without making any assertions that are not supported by quotes from the movie or its creators. There are no formal logical fallacies present in the article.
. . . Anxiety (Maya Hawke) is the leader of this bunch that also includes . . .
Bias
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The article expresses a clear bias towards the positive portrayal of the new emotions introduced in the sequel, particularly Anxiety. The author uses language that depicts Anxiety as an inspired Disney antagonist and praises its role in the story. Additionally, there is a disproportionate number of quotations that reflect this positive view of Anxiety compared to other emotions.
Anxiety (Maya Hawke) is the leader of this bunch that also includes precocious Envy (Ayo Edebiri), disinterested Ennui (Adele Exarchopoulos) -- or, as she calls herself, ‘the boredom’ -- and painfully shy Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser).
Aside from Anxiety, a truly inspired Disney antagonist, they feel more like side characters than Anger, Fear, Disgust and Sadness did in the first outing.
But Inside Out 2 is one of the better revisits in Pixar’s history because of how well it knows its audience. Who hasn’t felt anxiety getting the better of joy, or a natural connection between sadness and embarrassment? With empathy, hope and a heap of metaphors, it’s a matured Inside Out that still understands the wonders and wrinkles of being a kid.
