When Anxiety Is Not a Superpower
Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has more emotions, and more blobs representing those emotions.
There is no feeling or metaphysical concept that Pixar Animation Studios can’t turn into some sort of blob. This was my complaint with the studio’s previous effort, 2023’s, which conjured a city populated by talking gobs of fire and water who clumsily embodied broader metaphorical topics. The first , released nearly a decade ago, was the peak of Pixar’s blob cinema—a children’s drama about brightly colored beings representing human emotions such as joy and sadness, warring with one another as a representation of an 11-year-old’s evolvingpushed my buttons with practiced ease.
