– an inventive and moving return to form for Pixar

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In this sequel to the celebrated 2015 animation, teenage Riley battles unpredictable new emotions and peer pressure

to make a summer sequel that explores normative social influence and introduces us to a Gallic character called Ennui, only to give said character a nickname guaranteed to make under-10s giggle. The company has struggled recently to connect with audiences. Kelsey Mann’s fizzily ambitious epic deserves to buck that trend.

In the 2015 original, the San Francisco-based Andersen family possessed brains controlled by five emotions. Now that the heroine, Riley, has turned 13 and acquired whiffy armpits, a new feeling, Anxiety, takes control of headquarters. With the help of Envy, Embarrassment and the aforementioned Ennui, Anxiety muzzles Amy Poehler’s Joy, so that Riley can pass as cool during a weekend at an ice-hockey summer camp.

Admittedly, some elements of the plot create a sense of deja vu. Once again the indefatigable cheerleader Joy takes a journey through the colourful hinterlands of Riley’s mind and learns a useful lesson about so-called painful memories. What’s new is the subtle message that tribalism is toxic.

 

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