'Inside Out 2' Heads To Disney+ With Emotional Homecoming Date
The highest-grossing animated film of all time is headed home to Disney+ on September 25
Oh joy, it’s finally that time. Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the highest-grossing animated film of all time is headed to Disney+. Well, it happened twice-ish in 2020 when the 2019 duo of the CG Lion King remake and Frozen II did. The latter arrived rather hastily because the kids needed their lockdown entertainment in mid-March rather than the full 6 months the former had to wait with its late January arrival. Now it’s happening again with the new king, Pixar’s Inside Out 2, which the company announced will arrive on the streamer on September 25.
The arrival was first teased as one of the tantalizing offerings when Disney announced a new $1.99/mo limited time offer for Disney+ Basic for three months, but a date wasn’t given. That’s what made it a tease. It was actually the Disney+ header carousel that gave the date away. As the trades picked it up, Disney announced on the appropriate socials, borrowing the poster tagline “Contain your emotions”, also releasing a 30-second teaser that went to Pixar’s socials. With September 25 being a Wednesday instead of a Friday, Inside Out 2 will have spent just shy of 15 weeks accruing close to $1.7 billion at the box office, positioning it as the eighth-highest grossing film of all time. Young Woman and the Sea took a rather swift trip to Disney+ at 49 days, and The First Omen took a week longer to get to Hulu. Disney’s first major release of the year, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, took 12 at 84 days, only three weeks(-ish) shorter than Inside Out 2 took.
The sequel to the 2015 film follows the now-teenaged Riley as she heads to hockey camp and her entire emotional core of Joy, voiced by Amy Poehler, Sadness voiced by Phyllis Smith, Anger, voiced by Lewis Black, Fear voiced by Tony Hale, and Disgust voiced by Liza Lapira, are overtaken by Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser) and must find a way back to control before Riley goes down a bad path. The film also features returnees Kyle MacLachlan, Dave Goelz, Frank Oz, and Kirk Thatcher, as well as June Squibb as Nostalgia, with Sarayu Blue, Flea, Ron Funches, Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson, alums Bobby Moynihan and Paula Pell, and Paula Poundstone. It is directed by Kelsey Mann, written by Meg LaFauve, and produced by Mark Nielsen.
Source: Variety