Ticket-selling outlet Fandango just announced that Inside Out 2 has exceeded the pre-sales number of its predecessor 2015's Inside Out.

The sequel is also the highest Pixar advance ticket pre-seller since 2019's Toy Story 4. 

The movie stars Amy Poehler (Joy), Phyllis Smith (Sadness), Lewis Black (Anger), Diane Lane (Riley's mother, Mrs. Andersen) and Kyle MacLachlan (Riley's father, Mr. Andersen) returning to reprise their roles from the first film. Tony Hale (replacing Bill Hader as Fear), Liza Lapira (replacing Mindy Kaling as Disgust), Maya Hawke (new emotion Anxiety), Ayo Edebiri (new emotion Envy), Adèle Exarchopoulos (new emotion Ennui), Paul Walter Hauster (new emotion Embarrassment), June Squibb (new emotion Nostalgia) and Kensington Tallman (replacing Kaitlyn Dias as Riley Andersen) are new to the cast.

Inside Out 2: Make way for new emotions!

The film's logline states, “Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who've long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren't sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she's not alone.”

The first movie's success, which was the seventh-highest grossing of a year stacked with Jedis and Siths, dinosaurs, the MCU, and James Bond, earning $857.6 million at the global box office, made a sequel inevitable. The first film was nominated for two Academy Awards and won best animated feature film at the 2016 Oscars.

This time around, Riley is entering the precarious stage of teenhood when hormones and emotions run amok. She now has five new emotions that seem to war with each other to deal with: anxiety, which makes her bottle up her feelings; envy, which makes her look at others both adults and her peers and compare herself to them and what she perceives as lacking in herself; ennui, a conflicting emotion to feel when everything seems so new to you; embarrassment, which makes her feel all of the cringe; and nostalgia for her childhood that just ended — or so she feels.

When the teaser was released November 2023, it was viewed 157 million times in its first 24 hours across all social media platforms. It garnered 78 million views from TikTok alone. The figures made the teaser the most-watched animated film trailer in Disney's history. It surpassed another Disney property, the record holder Frozen II released in 2019.

Inside Out 2 will be released in cinemas June 14.