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SYNOPSIS: In a city where fire, water, land, & air residents live together, a fiery young woman & a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.
When two people walked out of last night’s Odeon Screen Unseen when this film’s BBFC black card came up (as well as at least another five within the first reel of the film), it was going to be a tough ride to win over an audience expecting a more adult release than a PG animated film - but at long last, Pixar are back making original movies, for big screen release first rather than day and date on Disney+. And oh how we have missed that charm that only the teams in Emeryville can create, because while it’s
Peter Sohn, director of The Good Dinosaur - widely regarded as one of Pixar’s weakest - takes charge of his second feature with the studio, and it does feel like he learned a lot of lessons from that 2015 critical mauling, as a lot of the issues he faced making that film were rectified, especially as it is based on his experiences growing up in New York. It’s paced well, coming in at a tight 1 hour 42 minutes, and even though the script from John Hoberg, Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh is a bit too formulaic at