
In April 2024, Total Film visited Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California to watch the first 30 minutes of upcoming sequel Inside Out 2, and to delve into the minds of some of the people who have helped to make it.
Inside Out opened in 2015, and remains a top-tier Pixar offering (in Total Film’s ranking of the Films of the 2020s, it was the highest-placed animation at #8 on the list). It was a critical and commercial smash, with 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and more than $850m at the box office, and the concept of personified emotions at work inside the mind of a young girl swiftly became embedded in the public consciousness.