“Inside Out 2” begins a yr after the tip of the primary movie, with Riley — now 13 — having acclimated to San Francisco. She additionally has two new greatest mates, Bree (Sumayyah Nuriddin-Inexperienced) and Grace (Grace Lu), who’re all going to a hockey camp for the summer time collectively. In the meantime, as Riley has grown up, her ideas have additionally began changing into core beliefs, reminiscent of “I am an excellent individual.” To assist with this course of, and to maintain Riley’s core beliefs pure, Pleasure has been suppressing Riley’s dangerous reminiscences by sending them to the again of Riley’s thoughts with a makeshift machine she made.
Ultimately, a purple gentle blinks on the principle console, and a “puberty alarm” blares, which introduces Pleasure and the others to the brand new feelings of Anxiousness, Embarrassment, Ennui, and Envy. At first, there’s admiration from the brand new feelings for the outdated; nonetheless, it turns into clear that the outdated feelings have a tough time navigating the extra advanced social conditions of younger maturity, reminiscent of Pleasure fumbling Riley’s interactions with the “cool children” on the hockey camp, particularly Val (Lilimar).
Pleasure’s bumbling results in Anxiousness freaking out and forcing Riley’s outdated feelings into exile at the back of the thoughts, together with Riley’s core perception, “I am an excellent individual” (which seems to be like a crystalline construction). Now Pleasure, Disappointment, Disgust, and Concern should discover Riley’s outdated perception and return to cease Anxiousness from ruining Riley’s core persona.