Pixar’s Elio vs Pixar’s everything else
[MOVIE REVIEW] To compare or not to compare, that is the question An honest review of Pixar’s Elio and how it stacks up against classics like Coco. It’s tempting (almost compulsory) to weigh each new Disney/Pixar release against its predecessors, as if the studio’s canon were a single, self-referential fable that grows deeper with each tale. Elio , the latest to emerge from Pixar’s cosmic nursery, has already been touted as the studio’s most affecting work since Coco . The comparison flatters both films while doing justice to neither. Where Coco dazzled with a kaleidoscopic vision of ancestral tradition, its color-soaked afterlife as much a character as its hero, Elio gazes outward, into the star-pocked abyss of space and the universal ache of human curiosity. It is smart, gently funny, and suffused with an innocence that feels both sincere and, at times, too gently handled. The story pivots on a moment anyone who has ever stared up at the night sky will recognize: t...
