A question kept shoving itself to the forefront of my mind throughout the duration of Inside Out 2, Pixar’s sequel to its 2015 hit. Are all the personified emotions that scurry around inside the head of the movie’s young heroine supposed to be an allegory for her developing consciousness? Or is Riley actually being controlled by whatever adorable cartoon has seized the console at the moment, like she’s a mecha in the shape of a 13-year-old girl?
Watching the first Inside Out, a lovely though occasionally antic coming-of-age movie about Riley’s struggles to adjust to a move from Minnesota to San Francisco, I would have said the former, without question. But the sequel — I dunno, man. In building on its initial premise to portray the mind as a brightly colored wonderland full of imaginative renderings of someone’s inner workings, Inside Out 2 starts to get a little weird. There’s the real world, where Riley (now voiced by Kensington Tallman) has a stressful time during a three-day hockey skills summer camp she attends with her two best friends, Grace (Grace Lu) and Bree (Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green). Then there’s the interior one, which feels more and more like it’s intruding on Riley’s story rather than enhancing it. New characters and elements get added, the metaphor becomes overextended, and the idea that this world is meant to be a reflection of one person’s psyche gets lost in a sea.
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