Not suitable under 6; parental guidance to 8 (themes, a scary scene, violence)
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Children under 6 | Not suitable due to themes, a scary scene and violence. |
Children aged 6–8 | Parental guidance recommended due to themes, a stressful scene and violence. |
Children aged 9 and over | Ok for this age group. |
This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.
Name of movie: | Inside Out 2 |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild themes |
Length: | 96 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Thirteen-year-old Riley (voice of Kensington Tallman) is smart, kind and an excellent hockey player. Her parents and her main emotions – Joy (voice of Amy Poehler), Disgust (voice of Liza Lapira), Anger (voice of Lewis Black), Fear (voice of Tony Hale) and Sadness (voice of Phyllis Smith) – have done a great job looking out for her and helping shape the person she is becoming. When the high school hockey coach watches Riley and her two best friends Grace (voice of Grace Lu) and Bree (voice of Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green) do some fancy goal scoring that helps them win a championship game, she personally invites them to attend a hockey camp with the high school team she coaches. Riley is thrilled because she will finally meet her hero, Valentina (voice of Lilimar), a hockey player she has admired for ages. As luck would have it, puberty hits Riley the night before the hockey camp. She awakens feeling emotional and distressed. Meanwhile, Joy and the others are trying to figure out the exact roles the new emotions – Anxiety (voice of Maya Hawke), Ennui (voice of Adele Exarchopoulos), Embarrassment (voice Paul Walter Hauser) and Envy (voice of Ayo Edebiri) – will play in the command centre. Anxiety is sure that she can best direct Riley through the weekend camp, and she is equally sure that if Joy is in charge then Riley will have no friends left in high school. As the two try to help Riley navigate through introductions, it becomes clear that Anxiety knows what she is doing. She and the new emotions take control of the console, locking Joy and the others in a bottle and sending them off to a vault. While Anxiety mans the controls with a bit of help from Ennui and Envy, Joy and the others must escape from the vault, travel to the farthest reaches of Riley’s brain to retrieve her original sense of self and re-establish it before Anxiety can change her into someone she is not. With Anxiety out of control and Riley making some serious mistakes, the emotions must find a way to work together before it is too late.
Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.
Peer pressure; Anxiety; Puberty; Emotional instability; Fears of failure, of being inadequate, loneliness, and not fitting in.
Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.
Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.
There is some violence in this movie, including:
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:
Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.
In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:
Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.
The following products are displayed or used in this movie:
There are some sexual references in this movie, including:
There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There is some use of substances in this movie, including:
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
Inside Out 2 is the sequel to Pixar’s hugely popular Inside Out (2015). Filled with humour and excellent visual effects, the film boasts the original cast of characters in addition to some fabulous new ones, and really shines a light on the teenage struggles of finding your place, fitting in, and the emotions that govern your choices. This is a great family film suitable for all but the youngest of viewers.
The main messages from this movie are that we cannot let emotions control us or determine who we are, and that we are not defined by single memories, but rather by a deep sense of who we believe ourselves to be. Sometimes fears and anxieties cause us to lose sight of what we know to be true but if our foundations and friendships are strong, then our mistakes become lessons that we learn from and, instead of turning into defining moments that lead to dark places, they become part of the complex tapestry of our lives, helping us to become even better human beings.
Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:
This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as:
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