I really wanted this to be a masterpiece!

Rating: 8/10 (28 December 2018)

Let me start by saying that I've seen many bad reviews for this film and some good ones trying to combat those bad ones. I tried to keep an open mind and not let myself influenced by any of them and make my own opinion. So here it is:
First of this movie starts strong and I got me from the first second although I mainly knew what it was about.The concept was very interesting executed although it was way too oversimplified, but hey... it's a kid's movie, would talk about how feelings develop or manifest in science terms? You must make these ideas interesting, captivating and palpable for children and props to the movie for doing that. But after that the movie lost it's tempo for me unfortunately. It got actually unnecessary complicated. It was like this scene here, this scene there could be pulled out of the movie, and the movie wouldn't have suffered for it. I'll enter some spoilers territory here so for those who haven't seen the movie skip this part. ***SPOILERS: When Joy finds herself with sadness along the crest of that cliff and sees that she needs to get back, she realizes that she can't go along the edge of it because there wasn't enough space. But later on when the clock was ticking suddenly there was space between the long-term memories and the edge of the cliff just so that joy could reach the place she wanted to go. That is just lazy writing and some inconsistency. Next, at the beginning of her journey back to the tower joy sees the islands crashing very fast, but later on when the movie is ending and she\s running out of time, the last island (which was family island and a bigger one though) it crashes so slowly that again screams laziness in writing a cohesive story that is constant from start to finish and doesn't contradicts itself on the way. Next when joy tries to reach the train she makes and unnecessary detour with Bing bong that is just there to offer some character development to a character that I didn't need investing in. By the end Bing bong starts to disappear like one hand in 10 or 15 minutes of screen time but at the end when he sacrifices himself to help joy get back on the cliff he instantly disappears in an instant, again inconsistency... END OF SPOILERS***
Apart from that the story was beautiful with some very touching moments that almost made me cry and very mature (but not too mature as some people said here) themes for both children and adults alike. The humor... some of the best humor in a animated movie ever put to screen, and that surely elevated this movie in my opinion. The score was again extremely well don by Michael Giacchino, although not one of his best or better ones.
All in all a good movie with some great moments in it but at the same time with severe incoherence problems that unfortunately for me didn't work as a masterpiece (like it was praised by critics) like for example "Coco" or "Zootopia" or "Wall-E". 8/10