Inside Out 2’s New Storyline Faces Challenges After Pixar’s $20 Million Box Office Flop

Inside Out 2 tackles a topic that proved challenging and even controversial for Pixar in the past, but the studio could pull it off this time with a fresh storyline. The original Inside Out examines the complicated interior world of a young girl named Riley through a set of five anthropomorphized emotions inside her head: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. As Riley goes through some tough life changes, her emotions try to adjust along with her. The movie focuses on how Joy’s resistance to allowing Riley to experience any bad emotions is unhealthy, emphasizing the importance of feeling all of one’s emotions and allowing them to co-exist.