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movie review - Inside Out Two

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is an animated movie about some conceptual figures that live in a girl's head. There's Joy, Rage, and so on. They've had their challenges over the girl's thirteen years, but all is more or less functioning until a warning light goes off: puberty. A whole new cast of conceptual figures moves in, including ennui, embarrassment, and anxiety. It's the latter that starts to take control of our girl during a hockey camp.

I saw this at my daughter's suggestion, and it was an indicator of the degree of conflict and situational stress in the story that we were both hiding our faces in our seats at one or two points. The movie is a sequel to another that came out nearly a decade ago, and it's a worthy follow-up despite that time. It's tonally engaging, hugely cringe-worthy as befits a week in the life of a thirteen-year-old, and peppered with laughs for adults and kids.

Recommended.

One additional note: the place where we saw the movie was interesting. You approach the cinema on the second floor, but there's no indication where the ticket window is. Once we got there, we couldn't figure out the ticket app, so we went to the staff behind the counter. Who couldn't sell us tickets except by cash. They sent us to a convenience store for more of that, then returned. Quite a visit...