A good movie

To be honest, I wasn’t actually planning to see this movie on Disney+ but my youngest daughter was quite eager to watch it in the movie theater. Apparently, it turned out to be a huge success at the box-office and I have to admit that it turned out to be one of the better Pixar sequels. Indeed, the idea of focusing on Riley when she became a teenager was pretty much a no-brainer and a genius move and, during this process, Riley became one of the best Pixar characters. I have to admit that I don’t remember much how she was in the previous movie, I think the focus was mostly on what was going in her head at the time, but here, she became a fully-fledged character and there was something so genuine and relatable about her. Furthermore, the new emotions completely made sense, especially Anxiety which was just so pitch-perfect. Seriously, I had some serious déjà-vu regarding my own teenage years during which anxiety definitely played a major role. I also had a weak spot for Ennui, probably because I’m French, but this character didn’t have much to do, I’m afraid. Embarrassment was pretty neat as well. It's only afterwards that I discovered that Envy was actually voiced by the great Ayo Edebiri but, to be honest, from these 4 new emotions, Envy was the least interesting though. So, it was definitely a decent sequel but, to be honest, it was still missing something to be truly amazing though. The main issue I had was that the plot followed too closely what already happened in the first movie. Indeed, somehow, Joy got kicked out of the HQ and, somehow, she had to find her way back through Riley’s mind. I mean, this concept was perfectly fine the first time around but to give us exactly the same thing for this sequel was just downright lazy. Anyway, to conclude, even if it didn’t become another Pixar masterpiece, it was still pretty good though and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.