Do you remember the emotions you felt around the time you crossed into your teen years? In Pixar’s Inside Out 2, Riley turns 13 and Headquarters starts to get a little crowed with the addition of a few new emotions.
Today, March 7, Pixar released the first official Inside Out 2 trailer highlighting the qualities of these four new emotions. While we previously met Anxiety, it was fantastic to meet Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment. Each new emotion truly emotes their feeling in visual form – from Envy’s wide eyes, and Ennui’s complete lack of attention, to Embarrassment falling over and inadvertingly showing their intergluteal cleft – these new emotions have intrigued us.
The nearly 2-minute and 30-second trailer features Riley at (what appears to be) a Hockey camp and the struggle she faces meeting new friends and trying to fit in, all the while juggling old friends and relationships. As Riley’s life appears to be a little unsteady, headquarters itself is feeling a bit off. Pixar has once again hooked us in with the notion that the “Fab 5” emotions (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger) are being taken away and “suppressed” with Anxiety seemingly running Headquarters among an orange glow.
One of our favorite scenes from the trailer features the “sar-chasm” with Joy yelling toward a pair of mind workers and by the time her voice reaches them it changes to a sarcastic tone – brilliant!
In addition, one of the mind workers is voiced by John Ratzenberger. If you recall, Ratzenberger voiced a worker in the first film, as well. The last time we heard Ratzenberger in a Pixar film was Onward (2020) and the last time we visually saw a character of him was in Soul (2020).
INSIDE OUT 2 TRAILER
INSIDE OUT 2 VOCAL CAST
- Kensington Tallman as Riley Andersen
- Amy Poehler as Joy
- Phyllis Smith as Sadness
- Lewis Black as Anger
- Tony Hale as Fear (replacing Bill Hader)
- Liza Lapira as Disgust (replacing Mindy Kaling)
- Maya Hawke as Anxiety
- Adèle Exarchopoulos as Ennui (purple/gray character)
- Ayo Edebiri as Envy (teal character)
- Paul Walter Hauser as Embarrassment (pink character)
- June Squibb as Unknown Character (Vocal announcement here)
- Lilimar Hernandez as Valentina “Val” Ortiz (a high school hockey player who everyone, including Riley, looks up to.
- Diane Lane as Riley’s Mom
- Kyle MacLachlan as Riley’s Dad
- Yvette Nicole Brown as Coach Roberts
- Additional vocal talents: Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green and Grace Lu provide the voices for Riley’s besties. The voice cast also includes Sarayu Blue, Flea, Ron Funches, Dave Goelz, James Austin Johnson, Bobby Moynihan, Frank Oz, Paula Pell, Paula Poundstone, John Ratzenberger, Kendall Coyne Schofield, June Squibb, Kirk Thatcher and Yong Yea.
EASTER EGGS
While it is rather hard to spot Easter Eggs in Pixar trailers, we believe we may have spotted one. If you look above Riley’s bed (as pictured below) you will notice a 4TOWN postcard on her wall.
INSIDE OUT 2 POSTERS
INSIDE OUT 2 DISCUSSION
Stay tuned for details on our next LIVE YouTube Hangout but in the meantime visit the Inside Out 2 thread on the Pixar Post Forum.
Inside Out 2 hits theaters on June 14, 2024.
