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Inside Out 2 ruins one of Inside Out’s best gags — and it’s no big deal
The moment Pixar revealed the first new characters in Inside Out 2, fans of the animation studio started arguing about the film’s basic conceit. 2015’s Inside Out centered on five characters who represent the basic emotions of an 11-year-old girl named Riley: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. In the sequel, Riley hits puberty on her 13th birthday, and new emotions suddenly take form in her head: Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment, and Ennui. Fans of the first film had a lot of questions and complaints: Aren’t these emotions just minor variants of the existing ones? Why are they all negative? And above all, why weren’t any of these emotionsaround in the first movie?