Inside Out 2

Inside Out 2
The emotions are crowded together in a tight space.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKelsey Mann
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Kelsey Mann
  • Meg LeFauve
Produced byMark Nielsen
Starring
Cinematography
  • Adam Habib
  • Jonathan Pytko
Edited byMaurissa Horwitz
Music byAndrea Datzman[a]
Production
company
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
[b]
Release dates
  • June 10, 2024 (2024-06-10) (El Capitan Theatre)
  • June 14, 2024 (2024-06-14) (United States)
Running time
96 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$200 million[2]
Box office$1.699 billion[3][4]

Inside Out 2 is a 2024 American animated coming-of-age film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The sequel to Inside Out (2015), it was directed by Kelsey Mann (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Mark Nielsen, from a screenplay written by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein, and a story conceived by Mann and LeFauve. Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Diane Lane, and Kyle MacLachlan reprise their roles from the first film, with Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman (replacing Kaitlyn Dias), Liza Lapira (replacing Mindy Kaling), Tony Hale (replacing Bill Hader), Ayo Edebiri, Lilimar, Grace Lu, Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Paul Walter Hauser joining the cast. The film tells the story of Riley's emotions as they find themselves joined by other new emotions that want to take over Riley's mind.

Work on Inside Out 2 commenced in 2020 after Mann revisited photos of one of his childhood birthday parties. The film features Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter's "five to 27 emotions" idea from the first film that Mann pitched during its production to utilize "truthful" worldbuilding.

Inside Out 2 premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on June 10, 2024, and was released in theaters in the United States on June 14. The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $1.699 billion worldwide, breaking multiple box-office records, including becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time. It also became the highest-grossing film of 2024 and the eighth highest-grossing film of all time. It is currently nominated for Best Animated Feature Film and Cinematic and Box Office Achievement at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards.

Plot

Two years after her move to San Francisco,[c] 13-year-old Riley Andersen is entering high school. Her personified emotions—Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger—now oversee a newly formed element of Riley's mind called her "Sense of Self", which houses memories and feelings that shape Riley's beliefs. Joy, aiming to fill the Sense of Self with only good memories, has created a mechanism that launches bad memories to the back of Riley's mind.

Riley and her best friends, Bree and Grace, are invited to a three-day ice hockey camp, where Riley hopes to qualify for her new school's team, the Fire Hawks. In the mind, a "puberty alarm" goes off the night before camp, and a group of workers upgrade the emotion console, leaving Headquarters in disarray. The emotions find that Riley now overreacts to any inputs they make to the console. Four new emotions—Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment, and Ennui—arrive and clash with the original emotions over their approaches. In particular, Joy wants Riley to have fun at camp, while Anxiety focuses on winning a spot on the team and making new friends, especially after Riley learns that Bree and Grace will be attending a different high school.

Under Joy's control, Riley inadvertently gets the campers in trouble by the strict camp director, Coach Roberts. Anxiety, deciding that Riley needs to change to fit in with the older players, launches the Sense of Self to the back of the mind and has the old emotions bottled up and thrown into a memory vault. Anxiety, Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment then create a new anxiety-dominated Sense of Self and encourage Riley to befriend popular hockey player Valentina "Val" Ortiz, straining her friendship with Bree and Grace. Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust escape the vault; while the others go to retrieve Riley's old Sense of Self, Sadness returns to Headquarters to prepare to bring them back via a recall tube. Sadness is discovered by Embarrassment, but due to his second thoughts on Anxiety’s plan, he helps her remain hidden and eventually helps her out.

Under Anxiety's control, Riley sneaks into Coach Roberts' office and learns from her notebook that Riley is not considered ready yet to become a Fire Hawk. The four emotions find the old Sense of Self on a mountain of bad memories deposited by Joy's mechanism. Unable to use the recall tube as planned due to Anxiety destroying it, they cause an avalanche of memories to return them to Headquarters, causing the memories to spill into Riley's Belief System. Anxiety realizes that the Sense of Self she has created for Riley is one of self-doubt, which causes Riley to perform poorly during her final tryout match, accidentally hurt Grace, and get sent to the penalty box. Horrified, Anxiety frantically swarms the console in a blinding whirlwind, causing Riley to have a panic attack.

Returning to Headquarters, Joy finds Anxiety still in control but frozen; Joy convinces her that Riley doesn't need to change to have a better future. Anxiety relents and Joy reinstates Riley's original Sense of Self, but the panic attack persists. After Anxiety admits that she cannot determine who Riley is, Joy realizes that the same applies to her. Joy removes the first Sense of Self and allows a new one to form from both Riley's good and bad memories. The emotions embrace this third self, calming Riley and helping her reconcile with Bree and Grace. The console calls for Joy, who takes command and helps Riley happily finish the hockey tryouts.

Riley befriends Val and the other Fire Hawks at high school, while maintaining her friendship with Bree and Grace. Living in peace, the nine emotions work together to protect Riley, who checks her phone for the Fire Hawks' recruitment results[d] and looks at herself in the mirror with a proud smile.

Voice cast

  • Amy Poehler as Joy, a yellow emotion who often takes the lead in Riley's emotional life, and is reluctant to accept any influences that could detract from Riley's happiness[5]
  • Maya Hawke as Anxiety, a new orange emotion who catastrophizes every situation, with the stated intention of averting bad outcomes for Riley[5]
  • Kensington Tallman as Riley Andersen, a 13-year-old girl in whose mind the emotions live; she was previously voiced by Kaitlyn Dias[6]
  • Liza Lapira as Disgust, a green emotion who deals with visceral aversion as well as gut reactions like responding to body language[5]
  • Tony Hale as Fear, a purple emotion responsible for protecting Riley from threats in the physical world[5]
  • Lewis Black as Anger, a red emotion who also governs aspects of Riley's hockey game when she plays aggressively[5]
  • Phyllis Smith as Sadness, a blue emotion who helps Riley process upsetting experiences[5]
  • Ayo Edebiri as Envy, a new cyan emotion who motivates Riley to pursue what others have[6]
  • Adèle Exarchopoulos as Ennui, a new indigo emotion with a French accent who expresses Riley's boredom and also deflects uncomfortable situations with sarcasm, feigned disinterest, or taciturn responses.[6] Exarchopoulos reprised her role in both European French and Canadian French dubs of the movie.[7]
  • Paul Walter Hauser as Embarrassment, a new pink emotion who, in response to Riley's embarassment, hides his face inside a hoodie[6]
  • Lilimar as Valentina "Val" Ortiz, a popular hockey player at Riley's high school[6]
  • Grace Lu as Grace, Riley's friend[8]
  • Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green as Bree, Riley's friend[8]
  • Diane Lane as Mrs. Andersen, Riley's mother[5]
  • Kyle MacLachlan as Mr. Andersen, Riley's father[5]
  • Yvette Nicole Brown as Coach Roberts, a hockey coach and head of the summer hockey camp[6]
  • Ron Funches as Bloofy, a character from Riley's favorite childhood TV show. He is similar to the hosts of interactive children's shows such as Blue's Clues and Dora the Explorer.[9]
  • James Austin Johnson as Pouchy, a talking pouch who is similar to Backpack from Dora the Explorer and Toodles from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse[10]
  • Yong Yea as Lance Slashblade, a heroic video game character whom Riley was infatuated with when she was younger. He is similar to the character Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII.[9]
  • Steve Purcell as Deep Dark Secret[11]
  • Dave Goelz as Mind Cop Frank[11]
  • Frank Oz as Mind Cop Dave[11]
  • Kirk Thatcher as Foreman[11]
  • Paula Pell as Mom's Anger[6]
  • Pete Docter as Dad's Anger[11]
  • June Squibb as Nostalgia, a new beige emotion who fondly recalls past events, which due to Riley's youth are always quite recent. The other new emotions shut Nostalgia in another room, saying that she has arrived many years too early[12][13]
  • Paula Poundstone as Forgetter Paula[11]
  • Bobby Moynihan as Forgetter Bobby[11]
  • John Ratzenberger[6] as Fritz
  • Sarayu Blue as Margie[11]
  • Flea as Jake[11][14]
  • Kendall Coyne Schofield as Hockey Announcer[11]

Additionally, television personality Sam Thompson cameos in the UK version of the film as Security Man Sam, a character who finds himself on a chase with the emotions.[15]

Production

Development

After the success of Inside Out, which became the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2015, Entertainment Tonight and The Guardian considered a sequel to be "inevitable".[16][17][18] Inside Out director Pete Docter was germinating ideas for a sequel while the original film's nominations were unveiled at the 88th Academy Awards in January 2016.[19] Development of Inside Out 2 began in January 2020,[20] after director Kelsey Mann revisited photos of one of his childhood birthday parties.[21] Pixar officially confirmed the sequel's development during the D23 Expo announcement in September 2022, with Amy Poehler coming on stage to discuss the film alongside Pete Docter.[22] Mann was announced as the director of the sequel (making it his feature directorial debut), with Mark Nielsen producing, while Meg LeFauve was announced to write the film's screenplay, returning from its predecessor.[23]

To utilize "truthful" worldbuilding, Mann used Docter's "five to 27 emotions" idea from the first film that he pitched during its production.[24] Mann's first pass included nine new emotions to make Joy feel overwhelmed with all the new emotions showing up, but felt that the story could not keep track with so many emotions taking the spotlight or not adding to the story, so after the first screening, he decided to simplify the number. Among those emotions was Schadenfreude (having joy at someone's expense), Jealousy and Guilt, but the latter two influenced the film despite being removed, with Mann feeling that Envy could relate to Jealousy and how remnants of Guilt could be found within Anxiety's introduction, even giving Anxiety some of Guilt's baggage, which was inspired by that of Disneyland hotels.[25] Uncut Gems was cited as an inspiration for all of Anxiety's scenes, specially the visually intensive ones.[26][27]

Research and writing

The production team frequently consulted author and clinical psychologist Lisa Damour and used her books as guidance on accurately portraying how teenagers' emotions change during puberty. Professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, Dacher Keltner, who helped on the first Inside Out, returned as a consultant as well. Keltner played a key role in selecting which emotions should be introduced in the story. A character based on the emotion of shame was intended to be a part of the film but was axed, in part due to Keltner contesting that shame was not an emotion.[28]

To assist with the development of the film, Pixar enlisted a group of nine teenagers, who were dubbed "Riley's Crew", to provide feedback on the film to ensure it accurately portrayed modern teenage life. Their input led to the inclusion of the emotion Nostalgia and influenced various scenes, including everyday elements of the emotions' lives and the transition from middle school to high school.[29][30] Nielsen and Mann were also inspired by their own daughters when crafting the film. As development on the story began during lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the two were able to gather personal research from studying their children, some of whom were Riley's age in the film.[31] Their perspective as parents helped in shaping the film and characterizing the emotions, especially Joy.[28]

Initially, the plot of the film was to involve a talent show, but that idea ended up being scrapped. After about three test screenings, Nielsen, Mann, and LeFauve decided it was best to center the story on Riley playing hockey, as they felt it was a unique aspect of her character. The decision was also influenced by input Mann received from Turning Red director Domee Shi when he asked how to make the film unique from other teenage coming-of-age stories, including her own.[32] The scene where the old emotions are locked in a vault was originally longer but was trimmed down as several gags were cut out due to time constraints.[32]

Casting

Amy Poehler reprised her role as Joy from the original film.

Poehler accepted an offer of $5 million with lucrative bonuses to reprise her role as Joy from the first film. Phyllis Smith and Lewis Black also reprise their roles from the first film, voicing Sadness and Anger, respectively.[6] Following a dispute over pay, both Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling declined to reprise their respective roles as Fear and Disgust; they and the rest of the returning cast were reportedly offered $100,000 each, equivalent to two percent of Poehler's salary.[33] On November 9, 2023, with the release of the teaser trailer, it was revealed that Tony Hale and Liza Lapira would replace Hader and Kaling as Fear and Disgust, respectively, while Maya Hawke joined the cast as Anxiety, a new emotion.[5] Mann auditioned Hawke via Zoom at the office of a back room in Epcot during a family vacation with his kids after Nielsen told him that Hawke was available to audition just then, with her anxious performance driving him to tears.[34] On January 16, 2024, it was revealed that June Squibb had joined the cast in an undisclosed role,[13] later revealed to be Nostalgia.[12]

On March 7, 2024, Disney revealed that Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Paul Walter Hauser, Kensington Tallman, Diane Lane, and Kyle MacLachlan joined the cast, with Edebiri, Exarchopoulos, and Hauser playing the other new emotions, Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment, respectively.[6] In addition, Tallman replaces Kaitlyn Dias as Riley Andersen, while Lane reprises her role as Mrs. Andersen, and MacLachlan also reprises his role as Mr. Andersen.[6] John Ratzenberger reprises his role as Fritz, marking his first voice role in a Pixar film since Onward.[35] Also joining the cast in supporting roles are Lilimar, who plays a hockey player named Valentina, and Yvette Nicole Brown, who plays the coach of the hockey team, while Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green and Grace Lu play Bree and Grace, Riley's friends.[6][8]

Music

On March 7, 2024, with the release of the second trailer, it was reported that Andrea Datzman had composed the film's score, taking over for Michael Giacchino.[36] This made Datzman the first woman to score a Pixar feature film.[28][37] The soundtrack album was released by Walt Disney Records on June 14, 2024, the same day as the film.

Release

Inside Out 2 premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on June 10, 2024,[38] and was released in theaters in the United States on June 14, 2024.[22] It also screened at the 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival that same day.[39] The film was screened in various formats, including RealD 3D, IMAX and Dolby Cinema.[40]

Marketing

The teaser trailer for the film, along with the poster, was released on November 9, 2023. James Withbrook of Gizmodo and Inverse's Rotem Rusak highlighted the introduction of three other emotions in the poster: Embarrassment, Ennui, and Envy.[41][42] The teaser was viewed 157 million times in its first 24 hours, it was the most-watched animated film trailer until the teaser of Moana 2 surpassed that record in May 2024.[e][43] A clip from the film was also aired during the Super Bowl LVIII, named "Team".[citation needed] The second trailer, along with a new poster, was released on March 7, 2024.[44] This trailer also marked the debut of the "standard" variant of the 2023 Walt Disney Pictures logo, which was introduced the year before for the studio's centennial anniversary.[45] The first 35 minutes of the film were screened during the Walt Disney Studios' presentation of first looks at their 2024 theatrical release slate at CinemaCon on April 11, 2024.[46] As part of a partnership with Airbnb, a new rental home in Nevada just outside of Las Vegas modeled after "headquarters" in the film was listed on the website beginning June 12, 2024.[47]

Home media

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released Inside Out 2 for digital download on August 20, 2024, while Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on September 10. Physical copies contain behind-the-scenes featurettes and deleted scenes with introductions by Director Kelsey Mann.[48] The film was released on Disney+ on September 25, 2024.[49]

Reception

Box office

As of December 8, 2024, Inside Out 2 has grossed $653 million in the United States and Canada, and $1.046 billion in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.699 billion.[3][4]

On a budget of $200 million, Inside Out 2 was initially projected to gross $80–90 million in its domestic opening weekend. The sub-$100 million industry projections were partially due to the notion that general audiences remained hesitant to return to theaters, given the direct-to-streaming releases of the Pixar films Soul (2020), Luca (2021), and Turning Red (2022) on Disney+, the underperformance of Pixar's Lightyear at the box office in 2022, and the lackluster box office results of several films in 2024.[2][50][51] After making $63.6 million on its first day,[52] including an estimated $13 million from Thursday night previews, projections were raised to $140–150 million for the weekend.[53] It ended up grossing $154.2 million domestically from 4,440 theaters and an estimated $140 million from 38 international markets, for a worldwide debut of $294.2 million, the highest in Pixar history.[54][55]

In the United States and Canada, the $154.2 million opening weekend was the best of 2024, surpassing Dune: Part Two ($82.5 million) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire ($80 million) to become the first film of the year to open above $100 million, and the third-best for an animated film behind Pixar's own Incredibles 2 (2018; $182.7 million) and Disney's The Lion King (2019; $191.7 million).[e] It was also the fourth-best opening for a PG film after The Lion King, Incredibles 2, and Beauty and the Beast ($174 million). With an average ticket price of $12.53 overall and $10.36 for children, twelve million moviegoers saw the film in its first weekend, nearing the thirteen million admissions for Barbie (2023) in its first three days. It played strongly throughout the day (22% of viewers attended before 1 pm, 35% between 1 pm and 5 pm, 26% between 5 pm and 8 pm, and 17% after 8 pm), benefiting from substantial walk-up business credited to its multi-cultural pull (of the opening weekend audience, 36% identified as Hispanic and Latino). IMAX and Premium Large Formats (PLFs) accounted for 43% of the earnings, while 14% came from 3D showings.[53][54][56] The film found momentum during the weekday, bringing its seven-day total to $255.2 million and reaching multiple box-office milestones,[58] including the second-highest-grossing first Monday for a Pixar film (at $22.4 million),[59][60] the highest-grossing first Tuesday for an animated film (at $28.8 million),[61][62] the third highest non-opening Wednesday after Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015; $38 million) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019; $32.2 million) that doubled as a record for the Juneteenth federal holiday since it began in 2021 (at $30.1 million),[63][64] and the highest-grossing first Thursday for a Pixar film (at $19.6 million).[65][66]

The film made $101.2 million in its second weekend, a mere 34.4% drop to become the most profitable second weekend for an animated film, topping the $92.3 million earned by The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), and the seventh-best second weekend overall. Deadline Hollywood's Anthony D'Alessandro attributed the feat to heat waves and rainstorms prompting people to visit air-conditioned theaters.[67][68] During its third weekend, it beat newcomer A Quiet Place: Day One to remain at the top of the box office with $57.5 million.[69][70] On the Fourth of July, it crossed $500 million domestically, and during its fourth weekend, the film made $30.3 million, finishing in second behind Despicable Me 4.[71][72]

Worldwide, the film surpassed the gross of its predecessor ($858.8 million) on June 27, 2024, after sixteen days of release.[73] On June 30, 2024, it crossed the $1 billion threshold, becoming the first Disney animated film to do so since Frozen II in 2019. With this, Inside Out 2 equalled the record of The Lion King as the fastest animated film to cross $1 billion, doing so in 19 days.[e][74] On July 10, 2024, the film surpassed the global box office of Incredibles 2 ($1.242 billion) to become the highest-grossing Pixar film.[75] The film broke various international box office records in Latin America, becoming the highest-grossing film in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay.[76] On July 28, 2024, it surpassed Incredibles 2 as the highest domestic grossing animated film of all time.[77] On August 25, 2024, it became the second animated film to gross $1 billion internationally.[78][e] On September 1, 2024, it surpassed The Lion King to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time and the highest-grossing film released under the Walt Disney Pictures label.[e][57][79]

Critical response

The film received positive reviews.[f] According to Animation Magazine, most critics praised its color palette, storyline, and the introduction of new emotions, but some expressed dissatisfaction with the predictability of the external plot related to Riley's acceptance by her new hockey team.[84] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of 316 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Spicing things up with the wrinkle of teen angst, Inside Out 2 clears the head and warms the heart by living up to its predecessor's emotional intelligence."[85] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 73 out of 100, based on 59 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[86] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale (the same as the first film), while those surveyed by PostTrak gave the film an average of 4.5 out of 5 stars, with 71% saying they would definitely recommend it.[53]

Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times awarded the film 3+12 stars out of four, commending the voice cast and the film as "a happy head trip, for any age".[87] Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph gave the film four stars out of five, praising the animation, metaphors, and wit while saying "the cast-iron ontological brilliance of Docter's original premise bears expansion well".[88] Owen Gleiberman of Variety praised Hawke's performance as Anxiety and the film's emotional impact, calling it "the most poignantly perceptive tale of the conundrums of early adolescence since Eighth Grade".[89] Manhola Dargis, in The New York Times, praised "Pixar's skill for turning ideas into images, some of which actually manage to slip past the safety of its nice worldview with shocks of the sublime."[90] Other positive reviews include The Observer[91] and Empire,[92] while reviews from the BBC[93] and Los Angeles Times[94] were more mixed. Among the mixed reviews, Siddhant Adlakha, writing for IGN, found the film was "surprising and disappointing in equal measure".[95] David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a 'C–' rating, writing that the film "so perfectly ticks Pixar's boxes in a way that forces the sincerity of its storytelling into a losing battle with the cynicism of its existence".[10]

Various reviewers, including Cindy White for AV Club,[96] unfavorably compared the film to its predecessor and the new characters received a diverse appraisal. Anxiety was the new emotion attracting most attention, for example from Alison Willmore in Vulture[97] or Jordan Hoffman for Entertainment Weekly,[98] while Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian[99] and Odie Henderson in the Boston Globe[100] particularly praised the character of Ennui, voiced by Adèle Exarchopoulos. In his review for NPR, Justin Chang analysed the nostalgia at work in the film but, precisely, criticised the retro sequence based on cartoon images.[101]

Robert Daniels, in his review on RogerEbert.com, felt that the film effectively used Anxiety to transform Riley into a blank character, while Joy and other emotions navigate her mind. For Daniels, this structure allowed the film to blend visually stunning scenes with a whimsical style that is both gentle and entertaining, addressing the pressures faced by teenage girls. Daniels noted that the new emotions introduced were not as memorable as the main emotions.[102]

Writing for Deadline, Damon Wise, however, was rather negative about the film and concluded, "Battle-weary parents of surly teens will have some fun here and there, especially when Ennui's blasé influence opens up a 'sar-chasm' in Riley's brain that makes everything sound, well, sarcastic. But, when all's said and done, the stakes are so minor, it's hard to imagine anyone will leave this desperate to see an Inside Out 3."[103]

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Astra Film Awards December 8, 2024 Best Animated Feature Inside Out 2 Nominated [104]
Best Voice Over Performance Amy Poehler Nominated
Maya Hawke Nominated
Best First Feature Kelsey Mann Nominated
Astra Midseason Movie Awards July 3, 2024 Best Picture Inside Out 2 Nominated [105]
Golden Globe Award January 5, 2025 Best Animated Feature Film Pending [106]
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement Pending
Golden Trailer Awards May 31, 2024 Best Animation/Family "Change" Nominated [107]
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 20, 2024 Original Score – Animated Film Andrea Datzman Nominated [108]
Saturn Awards February 2, 2025 Best Animated Film Inside Out 2 Pending [109]

Possible sequel

When asked whether fans could expect a third Inside Out film, Bob Iger briefly stated that he "would love" to see it get made.[110]

Notes

  1. ^ Original Inside Out themes by Michael Giacchino
  2. ^ Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Walt Disney Pictures banner.
  3. ^ As depicted in Inside Out (2015)
  4. ^ It is left ambiguous whether or not Riley was accepted.
  5. ^ a b c d e Several publications reporting the film's box office and trailer listed The Lion King as live-action when considering records for animated films.[53][56] While photorealistic, The Lion King was computer-animated.[57]
  6. ^ Multiple references:[80][81][82][83]

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