It's wonderful to see a mainstream hit that centers Latina culture, including music, self-reliance, family, traditionalism, the weight of expectations, being treated as different, and even hostile immigration officers, and a depiction of el Día de Muertos that doesn't spread the hateful lie that it's about being happy that people die. It's their way of commemorating the dead. Are we really gonna pretend like there aren't aspects of us white people's funerals that if you don't know the meaning behind them might put off people? This is why we need open communication instead of propaganda.
All of this does of course enrage white Conservatives. But that's not the only good reason to do it. There is a sizable South American population in America and it's extremely important to treat them well. This delivers everything we expect from Pixar. The animation is gorgeous, the use of lighting and colour deeply impactful, in a time when entirely too many live action movies seem to have forgotten these core elements of visual storytelling. Everything moves just right, usually the exact way that kind of person or creature would in real life or absolutely not if that's the gag. It's exciting, tense, funny, cute, emotional, has an important message, and empathises with people too often overlooked. They get creative with the unique world that they make up. So many fun bits with skeletons walking around, bones separating sometimes on purpose other times not. Especially in the afterlife where it's not actually an injury merely an inconvenience and you get used to reassembling yourself. 8/10.
All of this does of course enrage white Conservatives. But that's not the only good reason to do it. There is a sizable South American population in America and it's extremely important to treat them well. This delivers everything we expect from Pixar. The animation is gorgeous, the use of lighting and colour deeply impactful, in a time when entirely too many live action movies seem to have forgotten these core elements of visual storytelling. Everything moves just right, usually the exact way that kind of person or creature would in real life or absolutely not if that's the gag. It's exciting, tense, funny, cute, emotional, has an important message, and empathises with people too often overlooked. They get creative with the unique world that they make up. So many fun bits with skeletons walking around, bones separating sometimes on purpose other times not. Especially in the afterlife where it's not actually an injury merely an inconvenience and you get used to reassembling yourself. 8/10.