What ‘Inside Out 2’ Got Right About Anxiety, Per a Psychologist

June 20, 2024

(NPR) – Pixar’s new movie, Inside Out 2 came out Friday. It’s the sequel to the 2015 movie Inside Out, which followed 11-year-old Riley and her family as they move to San Francisco. In the first movie, audiences meet Riley’s core emotions – Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger. They live in Headquarters, the place in Riley’s mind from which they operate her emotions.

In Inside Out 2, Riley is 13 and thriving in her new city. She has friends and is a star on her hockey team. But when puberty hits one night, four new emotions shake up Riley’s core emotions: Envy, Ennui, Embarrassment and, most of all, Anxiety. (Read More)