Original idea???

Rating: 3/10 (17 July 2015)

Before I went to see the movie, I heard (almost) everywhere that this is one of the best movie from Pixar, with an original idea. Hasn't anybody heard about Herman's Head? It's the same concept, but cleverer (in my opinion).
Let's get to this movie:
* my biggest problem is with the introduction of characters (and places); the only characters that have some introduction are the 5 emotions. From the command center everything seems to be automated, without any other help/character, but wait, there are some workers that decide which memory gets kept an which forgotten, other workers that build and maintain Fantasy Land, an imaginary friend that just roams through the memory ... repository, a TV studio (dream makers), a jail, memory eraser ...
* Sadness seems to be such a weak character that doesn't account for her actions, you have to make some connections with Riley's situation in order to (somehow) account for her actions (I still don't see a reason for her actions). It's like she's not in control of her actions. I would say that sadness is, sometimes, a stronger emotion than joy, I never saw that in this movie
* Joy seems to be a strong character. After 12 years of controlling Riley, all of a sudden she looses control to Sadness who, as I said, seems a weak character. * there is a lot of focus on the pit where memories are forgotten "everything that falls there disappears forever". Then Joy manages to fall there. Of course she escapes, she's a main character and this is a Disney movie * the islands are lost way to easy, there is no trace of them in the "pit", at the end they reappear bigger and better * the only thing that they got it right (in my opinion) is the fact that dreams are mainly events from the previous day then fears and desires.
I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone, especially to kids.
The only reason I gave it more than one star is because of Pixar's animation. Disney's story ruined the end product.