Oh my God
Coco was freaking amazing. It made me so emotional near the end. I cried a little but not sure if it was because my eyes were open too long (happens sometimes), but I got the
feelings to cry and came
so close to bawling. I have never done that for a Pixar film. Because of my reaction to the film, and because of what it's about, I’m going to say this is Pixar’s best film.
It looked amazing. Gorgeous and stunning. The eyeballs and rest of the skeleton design elements were needed for the film. The music was pretty and moving. The story was thrilling and touching. Miguel was a really good singer, and only a kid!
I did wonder if
Miguel’s dad was Héctor at different times throughout before the big reveal, but I’m going to chock that up to always trying to predict what’s going to happen like all critic ass**** tendencies.
I only have two things I think may be wrong with the film. The first is
that family matters more than your own personal dream that makes you happy and is who you want to be. Yes, you should never totally leave your family forever (unless they like, try to torture or kill you), but come on, if your family won’t let you be who you are, that’s just plain wrong. Miguel would have been miserable without music.
The second thing was
the dead disappearing. Is that really what Mexican people believe? If they don’t, are that ok with that? Why couldn’t it just be that if you are forgotten, you can never visit the living again? Isn’t that sad enough? What do you guys think?
Well,
Coco was a wonderful, amazing movie. A+
Sotiris wrote:I was reading a review and this bit caught my attention.
Coco takes few narrative risks, peddling a simplistic story in which our hero learns pat lessons while failing to undergo any sort of significant inner journey.
Source:
https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/coc ... 36.article
That's the vibe I've been getting from all of the trailers and clips that have been released so far. I suspect this stems from making the character's struggle an external instead of an internal one. The whole thing about Miguel being forbidden to become a musician by his family is incredibly silly and unconvincing (it was just as silly as when Ariel's Beginning did it and Triton even had a better reason than Miguel's grandma). If they needed to make Miguel's central conflict about him becoming a musician they could have come up with a more believable starting point. For example, they could have made him struggle with his need to work in order to support his family and his passion for music. It would have been a good way to introduce some more mature themes like the effects of poverty and class struggle in a nuanced but accessible way instead of making Miguel's main problem so clichéd and artificial. Miguel's need to survive hampering his ability to follow his dreams would have been a much more realistic problem than his family banning music.
Yea but I didn't find Miguel's problem to clichéd and artificial when he was trying to merely get home and had to think about whether to honor his family
or follow his dream of being a musician. And I didn't think the story needed some more realistic problem. I did at first think "Really?
The Sound of Music and
The Little Mermaid III agian?" but if a film uses an element that's already been done well, it's not a bad film.
D82 wrote:And if you have kids who want to see Coco, or if you as an adult are planning on using Coco to kill time or provide a group family activity over the long holiday, the allegations against Lasseter aren't going to cause you to change that.
What the? Adults should want to see this more than just to kill time or have a family activity!
disneyprincess11 wrote:So, my prediction was Hector murdered Ernesto and Hector would either go after Miguel or Hector would be remorseful about the murder. Well….ummmmm, yeah, I was technically right.
Wait, don't you mean
that you predicted that Ernesto murderd Héctor and wuld go after Miguel?
I am so glad
RyGuy,
blackcauldron85,
JeangreyForever,
disneyprincess11, and
Lady Cluck all liked the movie so much! Loved what you guys said!
I agree it was done well though, and it's also more relevant than ever with all the celebrities being exposed as monsters (cough...John Lasseter). You never know what your idols are really like, and family is more important.
