Sloppy script and plotting.

Rating: 5/10 (23 April 2019)

The animation is sensational, but, that is not enough when you sit there and have an absolute dislike for Miguel's grandmother, she is a bloody psycho and she isn't even the villain of the movie.
Anyway, I stuck with it to the end and for a time it was watchable. However, when Hector's story was revealed all I could think of was how was he murdered and his family were unaware of it? How did Ernesto get away singing the songs Hector wrote and claiming they were his when Hector's family had the lyrics written in the letters he sent to his little daughter when he was away. Not to mention the main song of the movie 'Remember Me' ( as it happened, completely unmemorable) a song Hector would sing to his daughter, but, Ernesto' greatest hit which he claims to have written. Well, to get around that they have the grandmother's psychotic hatred of music and the banning of it in the home (Footloose?) But, it would be impossible to avoid it if Ernesto de la Cruz was such a huge star in his home town which is Miguel's home town. Silly, lazy plotting.
Such a shame as the idea for the story could have been really good if they had sat down and thought out the plot a wee bit more.