Not TERRIBLE, But It Has Too Many Problems

Rating: 6/10 (14 March 2016)

Now, I was extremely late when it came to watching this movie, and by then, it had already won the Oscar for Best Animated Picture (Note: A Studio Ghibli film lost to this!) and had read tons and tons of glowing reviews and heard everyone talk about how "life- changing" it is. So, naturally, my expectations were pretty high.....
Well, let's just get right into it. This movie just has way too many inconsistencies in it for me to, in good conscience, enjoy it. First, by the end of the movie, I was still kind of confused on how this world in Riley's head works. It just leaves so much unexplained. Why is it that the orbs only change color when Sadness touches them? How come this has never happened before? Why can't Joy turn them back? Of course, these small problems only add to the OTHER problems I have...
When they first move to San Francisco, Riley's mom asks how her day was, and the emotions scramble to find a positive memory form that day. So, they pull one right off of that days shelf and put it on the weird hover-projector thing. This causes Riley not only to remember it, but also feel happy. Until Sadness effs if up. But, later in the movie, when Riley is playing hockey with her new team, Fear gets a positive memory about playing hockey and tries to put it in the core memories. But, it doesn't work and they have no idea what to do. Why don't they just put it on the projector? Seems to work just fine in these kinds of situations...
How come everyone else's emotions resemble them, but Riley's emotions are completely random? Just bothers me...
Also, this film is kind of repetitive. They try to get to an island in her mind, but it goes down. That's pretty much it. It honestly just feels like the writers were just making it up as they go along. I mean, at one point, we see these workers sending memories for the long- term memory storage to Headquarters. Why don't our two mains go through that thing? We established that they ca FIT in those tubes that emotions go through. That's how they GOT THERE!
This film could've worked really well as a short film, but it just felt as though they were really trying to reach that 1hr and 1/2 mark.
People call this film "original". I don't see it. I mean, none of these characters really seem that original. The only resemblance of creativity in this movie is the scene where they try to wake up Riley in her dream state. The rest just felt like stalling and I just can't get behind it.
Overall, it's not a bad movie, but there's just these small issues that add up to this mess. It's fine as a movie, but a HUGE let down as a Pixar movie and an Oscar winner.