Pixar has created an impossibly high standard for themselves. We get a few less than great movies recently and everyone proclaims they’ve “lost their touch”. Inside Out 2 is here to prove their touch is still very much intact. It may not reach the heights of their very best efforts, but it’s a worthy sequel, and a welcome return to greatness for the studio. Many questioned the necessity of this film, as the first is one of Pixar’s best and didn’t seem to warrant a sequel. I would actually argue the opposite. This film is a beautiful companion piece that further expands on the brilliant ideas of the original. It was never going to match the same level of surprising originality, but it avoids retreading familiar territory by jumping ahead to a new chapter of Riley’s life. Doing this allows the film to show us several new emotions, and explore the increasingly complicated range of feelings we experience growing up. Something Pixar has always excelled at is handling compl...