With Inside out 2 Virtually everyone at Pixar (and Disney) is breathing a sigh of relief.
After a few years of less than stellar opinions and movies that were sent directly to Disney+, Pixar appears to be returning to its former glory with the second installment of the Inside out series. It has been raised almost 800 million dollars worldwide at the box office, making it The highest grossing film of 2024 to date, and critics and public seem pleased.
Inside out 2 It also has something more familiar to fans of the animation studio’s films: Easter eggs, quotes and references to Pixar’s back catalogue. In this case, however, there is also a particular reference to a film that will be released in the future.
As often happens in animated productions, it is easy to fill the scenes with nods to other works, a way to attract the viewer’s attention and invite them to discover all the possible links. Inside out 2is not an exception.
In the scene in which Riley’s emotions run through her hypotheses about her future career, for example, the iconic Pixar character is quickly glimpsed. luxury ballLook closely at the boy band posters on Riley’s wall and you might catch a glimpse of 4*Town, the musical group beloved by kids from turning red. When Joy has Sadness look at the new configuration of the Friendship and Family Islands in Riley’s mind, she hands her a pair of binoculars that look like Lenny from History of the toy.
But the film contains more than just flashes of the past. Inside out 2 It also features a character who will join the Pixar family in 2025: the protagonist of eliois about a young man who is mistaken for Earth’s ambassador to alien races and then “summoned” to deal with the future of the galaxies.
During Inside Out 2In the sarcasm scene, although not in the “sar-abyss” scene, there are several spheres of memory and one is dedicated to Elio, the film’s namesake. It’s easy to miss, but it’s also kind of a strange premonition. Elio was originally scheduled to hit theaters earlier this year, before Inside out 2but I have postponed until June 2025. Did you get it?