Meh... Not their best.

Rating: 4/10 (19 July 2015)

First off, I'll start by saying that I usually judge "kid\family" animation movies by the amount of tears and tissue involved. Yes, I'm an emotional person, and I tear up easily, especially when it comes to kids animation movies.
Up and Toy Story owe me 4 boxes of tissue. These movies where emotionally on point. I don't recall Finding Nemo making me tear up, but I do remember it was a hell of a good movie. No wonder it's one of the top grossing films up until this year.
But this time. I was emotionally disappointed. I only cried once, and it was for a brief scene. And I'm as emotional as it gets, trust me. Kinda ironic considering the movie literally revolves around emotions.
The plot is the worst part of the movie. The girl comes off as a spoiled brat with nothing better to do than make up non-existing problems for herself. Which makes sense, considering she had the perfect American girl life. Did I already mention spoiled? Oh, and she's also an only child, shocker.
She seemingly got into a what you would call "clinical depression" as a result of moving out. Like seriously? There are kids out there who deal with life threatening illnesses, poverty, abusive parents and whatnot yet this girl snaps off from moving out?
The most bizarre part in the movie is when she's on her first day at school. She didn't get socially rejected, she didn't get bullied, yet she miraculously got depressed\upset after merely introducing herself to the class.
Not to mention that according to the time-line (she sleeps, wakes up), her so called "clinical depression" only lasted like 4 days. Are you kidding me? There are people out there who deal with clinical depression their ENTIRE LIVES.
And the blue sad emotion doesn't make any sense. All these "oops I don't know why I'm doing this". How can you have an emotion that "doesn't know"? Doesn't this defeat the whole point of attempting to explain our emotions? All I got from this movie was "Why are you sad?" - "I don't know".
Nevertheless, it was not absolutely horrible:

The animation was nice, not over the top

There was this one scene which made me tear up a little bit. It's when the elephant-cat creature sacrificed himself to get "Joy" out of the abyss. I didn't cry because he died, but because he sacrificed himself. Sacrifices always make me emotional.

there was this one adult joke about facts and opinions. The elephant-cat creature accidentally dropped boxes of 'opinions' and 'facts'. Then the elephant-cat said something along the lines of "just shove them all in this sack, people can't tell them apart anyhow". I liked how this was a political comment about people who think their opinions are facts\better than other's opinions.