Sweet movie on growing up, making memories and dealing with change

Rating: 7/10 (30 April 2016)

Riley is an 11 year-old girl. We see her growing up and how her inner thoughts and emotions develop and control her, especially her memories. These thoughts and emotions are represented by miniature versions of her, and live in their own little world, controlling Riley from behind a console. Everything is going well and Riley seems to be leading a blissful, uncomplicated existence. Then she and her parents move home, from Minnesota to San Francisco, and the bottom falls out of Riley's world.
Sweet movie on growing up, making memories and dealing with change. Funny, fun, emotional and reasonably clever. Had the potential to be incredibly profound and intelligent but pulls its punches in that regard. While it does touch on some interesting aspects of the human psyche, it doesn't really explore the subject deeply. Instead we have silly chase scenes and the like.
I guess the problem is that the movie's main target audience is children and an illuminating, deep exploration of human thinking and emotions would be too complex for them.
Overall: enjoyable, with some good intellectual and emotional moments, but uneven, as these moments are interspersed with bland, even silly, adventure-type scenes and plot-lines.