Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is indisputably one of the biggest movies of the summer. Unfortunately, even its billion dollar box office earnings can’t overcome one major failing, in my eyes: the vilification of broccoli.

Like in the first film, young teenager Riley despises broccoli. It’s the food that first triggered the Disgust emotion when she was just a baby, and this continues as a gag in the new movie. When thinking about a gross protein bar, her Stream of Consciousness (which in Inside Out fashion… is a literal stream, of course) manifests a giant broccoli — which is rendered to look like a huge unappealing hunk of plastic toy food. Disgust wrinkles her nose at it, but the emotions have to hop on and ride it to get to the end of Riley’s mind.

I get that Riley personally dislikes broccoli and that........

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