Saw this today, and it certainly feels like a return to form.
I'll get this out of the way. My GOD is this movie beautiful when it wants to be. So many nice wide shots. The animation is sooooo good, but that's to be expected at this point. Even still, I was pleasantly taken aback by certain shots.
This movie also hit me in the gut. It's so emotionally charged (fittingly enough), and definitely left the heart aching more than once. But the part that stayed with me the most was at the emotional climax of the film, a little girl who sat two seats away to my right started to bawl her eyes out because of how genuinely invested she was in the story. Magic of cinema, right there.
So yeah, it's good. It's extremely funny, but then on a dime will not wait to sucker punch your heart. Beautiful, inventive, and charming, I'm glad to see Pixar return to form.
Only second to Fury Road for me this year.