I also had a problem with the movie’s (and presumably Docter’s) determinism. The soul counselors and mentors seem to be responsible for imbuing the unborn souls with prepackaged personalities and traits (at one point, happy little souls recite their psychological profiles). Oh, and their pas...
Even though it’s an animated movie about talking fish,Finding Nemofeatures some particularly frightening scenes that may be too intense for little kids. Even so, these scenes heavily factor into the movie’s themes about learning to let go and trust other people’s judgment. Director Andrew St...
According to Powers, “Soulis a story about the meaning of life and the connections we make with each other. In New York, people are literally bumping up against one another. Diversity is visually evident on every single street. There’s really no place quite like it.” To help ...
In yet another bit of bad but inevitable news for movie theaters, Disney has announced that Pixar’s latest movie, Soul, is not coming to theaters after all. Originally scheduled for release on June 19, then postponed to November 20 because of the coronavirus pandemic, the film will now byp...
It’s not always a guarantee that you’ll see a mismatched pair in a new Pixar movie. However, it does seem like a pretty safe bet that if you watch a new Pixar movie, you’re going to cry. Or Pixar’s filmmakers are going to at leasttryto make you cry. Onward has a setup all...
: At the end of the movie, Randall is thrown through a door and ends up in a caravan where he is mistaken for a gator. The caravan is next to the Pizza Planet truck. It also happens to be the same place as the one with the bugs (above). Finding Nemo: While the escape plan is...
In a move that isn't all surprising, given that movie theaters are still closed these days and there's still no telling when people might be able to break from self-quarantine, Disney has officially delayed two more of its titles.
Regardless, the film received critical acclaim with many saying that it is the best movie that Pixar has made since Inside Out. Soul stars Jamie Foxx as the voice of a struggling jazz pianist and music school teacher named Joe Gardner who wishes to become a bigger name in his rather ...
Pixar’s new movie,Soul, pushes the studio creatively beyond anything it’s attempted before. The premise — in which a middle-school band teacher with dreams of being a jazz musician dies moments after getting his big break with a musical legend, and goes on an existential adventure with a...
Soulis a first for Pixar in another respect. “This is the first of 23 features we’ve done that won’t premiere in a theatre and that’s a heartbreaker. It’s a movie that we made specifically to be seen on the big screen, so it felt really tragic,” says Docter. For the moment...