Inside Out 2 is a 2024 animated fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Kelsey Mann in his feature directorial debut. The film is the sequel to Pixar's 2015 Academy Award-winning Inside Out, returning to the premise of emotions as characters living inside the minds of their human hosts. Pete Docter, who directed the original, returned as chief creative officer and executive producer alongside producer Mark Nielsen, with a screenplay by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein.

The story follows Riley Andersen on the threshold of adolescence, arriving at high school for the first time and experiencing the profound emotional upheaval of puberty — a shift that floods Headquarters with a new wave of emotions led by Anxiety, voiced with nervous, well-meaning urgency by Maya Hawke. Anxiety rapidly sidelines Joy and her established colleagues in a desperate, misguided attempt to engineer Riley's future self into someone others will accept. Amy Poehler returns as Joy alongside Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Tony Hale, and Liza Lapira, with Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Paul Walter Hauser, and Grace Lu joining as new emotions Envy, Ennui, Embarrassment, and Nostalgia.

Inside Out 2 became the highest-grossing animated film in history at the time of its release, earning over $1.6 billion worldwide — a result that stunned the industry and reaffirmed Pixar's unmatched ability to communicate complex emotional truths through animation. Critics praised the film's empathetic, precise portrayal of adolescent anxiety and identity formation, finding it a worthy and emotionally resonant successor to the original. It received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 2025 Oscars.