Fun, entertaining and mostly really smart.

Rating: 8/10 (30 June 2015)

Caught an early screening of this at Cinemateket, Oslo. Nice! Because it premieres here in late August. Wah-wah.
Having seen several good reviews and scores, I went into this expecting something pretty great. Albeit, I also heard great things about Up and Toy Story 3, which I found to be overrated, but in this case, what was said, was mostly true.
This movie has a lot of really smart writing. The main idea is really good, and all the small details are super fun, the story in general, as in plot is nothing too special, but it works.
But as I said, what really makes this stand out is the smartness of a lot of the jokes and ideas. The big jokes, main jokes, if you will, I didn't find all that funny, but the small details, those made me chuckle. A chuckle that both said: that's pretty funny, and wow that's really smart.
Funny thing, a couple of times during the movie I thought to myself, 'ah, so that's how my brain works'. Haha, then followed by, 'no wait, we know emotions aren't tiny creatures living in our brains'.. right? My point being, it's really plausible and well made.
The animation is of course superb, didn't expect anything less. The voice cast is also top notch.
I did find a couple of things with the script to be a little lazy, actually, and really felt it took the movie down a notch. I was rather surprised at some parts, well one in particular, giving the fact that most of the movie is so smart.
I had heard that it was supposed to be very sad, or touching in some parts, but it didn't really get to me as much as I'd hoped.
(not trying to be tough here, I love being touched and sad by movies)
All in all this is a well made, entertaining, smartly written (for the most part) movie with heart. Well done.
How soon will the sequel be announced? and spin-off? This could potentially be a huge franchise.