INSIDE OUT 2-Puberty's Problems Animated Aims for What Demographic?

Disney's Pixar animated film INSIDE OUT 2 (IO2) is the sequel to INSIDE OUT (IO). The heroine in IO, Riley, was 11 years old.  She's back with her folks in IO2 at 13. The clever and entertaining construct of the original takes us inside Riley's brain where there's a cast of characters that represent various emotions who navigate a control panel to help Ridley deal with her feelings. Riley was a likable preadolescent whose concerns and glee were plausible and pleasurable to observe from both the inner workings of the frontal lobe and her outward actions. Riley dealt with moving to a new city where she needed to adapt and make new friends. Disney's got a friend in the Y/A genre of maturing, changing and making new friends. Now 13 in IO2, Pixar has Riley picture perfect with zits, stinky pits, angry fits, the all important need to fit in with peers and avoid causing embarrassing faux pas or being embarrassed caused by one's parents. Riley's passion to play ice hockey has continued. She proves she's got game out on the ice. Riley has two nice, steadfast girlfriends at her school and on her hockey team. All three girls were selected to attend a hockey camp over the summer. The excitement in route to camp is dampened by the news her two friends will not be going on to the same high school as Riley. Nevertheless, the three plan on having the best time ever together for the summer. Back inside the brain's control center, the crew from IO is back intact: joy, sadness, anger, fear and disgust with joy at the head. An alarm goes off at the helm waking the insiders to the alarming breach of puberty. This clever trigger brings with it new nascent emotional beings: embarrassment, envy, boredom and anxiety at the forefront. Unfortunately, the movie loses its core once these emotions enter the picture. The newly added emotions are drawn too childishly, particularly anxiety and a ridiculous waste of space character, "pouch". The journey that the original crew must do once they're relinquished to the back burner turns into a silly kaleidoscope of balls and blue triangles which are far less appealing than the minions they're poorly imitating. At hockey camp, Riley is besotted by an older, star hockey player. She wants to appear cool and in doing so she's cruel to her two friends. There are well-intended messages but they get repressed in a senseless saga. This is not Pixar or Disney at their best. My conundrum is who's the intended target audience. Pre-teens will find the animation geared for toddlers. Toddlers will find the movie too long and too abstract. And, adults will feel ennui watching the film. Instead, see Disney's INSIDE OUT, TURNING RED and the superior non-animated Y/A film baseARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME MARGARET.