Inside Out 2

An inspirational film that is a great entertainment experience.

I should just begin and end with the observation that this is a sensational animated film. Let me just say that I had tears in both eyes as it ended.

Disney and Pixar restore movie magic to the big screen. You watch Riley (Kensington Tallman) as she turns 13. Starting puberty, she is forced to confront a life filled with a kaleidoscope of emotions.

While Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Tony Hale), Disgust (Liza Lapira) and Anger (Lewis Black) are emotions that she has interrelated with before hitting her teenage years, new emotions confront her. The most controlling is Anxiety (Maya Hawke).

Riley is forced to address the heighten Anxiety that confronts her as she begins life at a new school. Desperate to fit in with a new crowd as she spends several days playing ice hockey, her old emotions in her mental headquarters struggle to relate to the power of Anxiety.

Several years ago, the first Inside Out won an Oscar. I strongly suspect this film will do the same thing. Young girls battle a lot of emotions, just as young boys do.

It caused me to remember attending Catholic grade school where we learned to experience confessing our sins to a priest to earn the ability to receive communion. We learned that unbaptized kids who died spent eternity in limbo.

It was our own version of Inside Out. Like Riley, we embraced joy and anger while rejecting the anxiety of an eternity in hell for committing an unconfessed mortal sin.

So, this is a film that you will regret missing. Find a way to take a young teenager and bring a little joy in the world.