Good presentation, bad storytelling.

Rating: 4/10 (21 August 2015)

Pixar took a familiar idea, personifying emotions, and decided to tell a story about them running rampant, tearing a girl's memory apart and destroying her personality. The problem is that emotions don't govern a self-conscious person's thoughts, they only inform them. This is only the first of the film's many inconsistencies.
There are too many moments where a plot device is introduced but promptly ignored for convenience of the story they wanted to tell. The over-simplified emotions present clumsy and sometimes offensive stereotypes of themselves and other characters. The narrative feels like a pasted-together brainstorming session and concludes itself with a solution that should've been common sense from the beginning.
It's easy to dismiss these criticisms as being irrelevant in a children's film, but Pixar doesn't make films exclusively for children. This simply isn't a good movie.