Soul (2020)

[Edgy MD]

A music teacher dreams of a life as a jazz performer, but when he dies on the way to his first gig, he tries to convince a fellow disembodied soul to join him as he attempts to return to earth.



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[seawolf17]

I thought this was fantastic. A top-5 Pixar movie for me.

[Edgy MD]

Gosh, terrific. We haven't sampled yet.



Ranking is over-rated, and I guess rating is over-ranked, but I tried to think of what I would consider my top-five Pixar films, and that's some pretty hard-to penetrate territory.

[Edgy MD]

Pixar films I have never seen:

• A Bug's Life


• Cars (I think I bailed at about the half-hour mark on this.)


• Cars 2


• Monsters University


• Cars 3


• The Good Dinosaur


• Coco


• Onward

[whippoorwill]

Cars is really quite good

[TransMonk]

I also liked it. It has a great soundtrack that alternates between Trent Reznor synths and Jon Batiste jazz.

[LWFS]

Yeah, that soundtrack.



This felt like Inside Out for grown-ups, which I mean as a high compliment.

Edgy MD wrote: Pixar films I have never seen: A Bug's Life Cars (I think I bailed at about the half-hour mark on this.) Cars 2 Monsters University Cars 3 The Good Dinosaur Coco Onward

I feel like Cars was where they started doing the movie-star "one for you, one for me" thing, only as a studio. (Thankfully, our little spawn never really had a vehicles-and-nothing-but phase, so we only watched this once, and didn't have to see any of the sequels.)



Of those, the only one I think you'd miss if you didn't see it is our south-of-the-border entry. Coco is pretty delightful, with marvelously filigreed story and animation, and earwormy Mexi-folk-showtune pastiche music (courtesy of the "Frozen" team). And-- be warned-- it has a 97-98% chance of making you ugly-cry.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, Coco is totally the one I'd go out of my way for.



Man, you just used the word "filligreed." I feel like that's a forum first.

[Edgy MD]

I was less overwhelmed than you, I think. I liked the real-world NYC they created more than the cosmic world.



Also, and this may speak to my comprehension, some of the epiphanies, while rendered inspiringly, were ambiguous in meaning. I would have liked a little epilogue to find out how the stories of the two main characters continued.