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Inside Out 2the highly anticipated sequel to the 2015 original, stirred up all kinds of emotions when it debuted in June of this year. With box office revenue of over a billion dollars, it is officially the highest-grossing film of the year. Inside Out 2 faces the horrors of puberty with a host of new emotions such as envy, boredom, embarrassment and fear. Although it is still doing well in cinemas, Inside Out 2 will be available for digital rental and purchase on August 20, 2024 via AppleTV+, Prime Video and Fandango at Home. However, we will have to wait until at least the end of September 2024 for Inside Out 2 to appear on Disney+. Pixar President Jim Morris said Bloomberg

The film will not be available on the streaming service until it has completed its 100-day run in theaters.

If you want to own Inside Out 2 on physical media, it will be released on 4K, Blu-Ray and DVD on September 10, 2024. The 4K disc will also be available in a beautiful limited edition steelbook. One great advantage that physical media has over streaming purchases is the bonus features, which include a documentary on all new emotions, deleted scenes, an alternate opening scene and other behind-the-scenes looks. While the first Everything is upside down examined Riley’s struggle with sadness after the move, Inside Out 2 deals with more complicated emotions that penetrate the switchboard, the name of the switchboard, which is alternately served by joy, sadness, disgust or other feelings.

The biggest is Anxiety, an orange goblin with curly hair, voiced by Maya Hawke (Stranger Things). Anxiety has some of the most relatable and emotional scenes in the film, like when she moves so fast trying to keep all her worries and what-ifs under control at the center console that she turns into an electrical hurricane, but in the eye of the storm she freezes in fear. Anxiety also oversees a room that looks like an animation studio where workers draw a million different bad things that could happen. These scenes show exactly what it feels like to be afraid, better than any psychology textbook ever could.

Fear has quickly become a ubiquitous part of pop culture, sparking hilarious memes from fans Inside Out 2such as one that shows her with several suitcases, with captions on each suitcase reflecting different stressors that affect people with anxiety. In response to someone who says, “Just relax, there’s nothing to worry about,” Buzzfeed

shared an image with the following written on each suitcase: “Childhood trauma, dying, making an appointment, that one thing in third grade” and “Do I smell?” The meme is simple, but says so much. Not only do people with anxiety tend to overpack in general (What if it rains? What if I didn’t pack enough? What if I get too cold?), but worries from the past, present, and future constantly weigh on them.

Adult TikTokers also share clips of Disney princesses and joke that as children they dreamed of becoming as beautiful and elegant as Belle or Ariel, but instead ended up like little, constantly nervous Anxiety with the messy hair.

The widespread use of these memes, especially among older audiences, shows the universal appeal of Inside Out 2– this isn’t just a kids’ film, but one that manages to perfectly express a feeling that becomes increasingly difficult to deal with after middle school, especially in the face of new, adult responsibilities. Inside Out 2 hits the nerve of allwhich is why it has become one of the greatest films of all time and why we can’t wait to watch it again when it comes out on home media.