3rd December 2017, 4:25 PM
Is the best Pixar movie. Up had the audience in tears in 10 minutes, but the rest of the movie (though good!) didn't ever quite reach those heights again. Inside Out was extremely good, but a few narrative choices (sight gags with the parent's minds that undermined the premise of the movie for example) kept it from being perfect.
I can't find a single fault in Coco though. IN Coco. There's a half hour Olaf Christmas Special you have to sit through (cute on it's own but too long to work as a "short"), but this movie? It starts out good and just gets better, ending on a powerful moment instead of starting with one and never undermining itself (it even takes time to answer geeky "wait what if?" questions about how the world works that not only make sense but are touching all by themselves). I had to sit through the credits, and I recommend you do, because they'll turn on the waterworks one more time at the very end (with the credits themselves, not a post-credit scene). The villain only appears near the very end, and yet already tops it as the best villain in a Pixar movie. Most of the time, Pixar movie villains exist purely because "kids movies need villains, don't they?" (which is something Ghibli movies tend to respond with "No, just something to overcome or learn is enough"), but this villain works, I mean WORKS so well in what he brings that I can say the movie doesn't work as well without him.
I can't find a single fault in Coco though. IN Coco. There's a half hour Olaf Christmas Special you have to sit through (cute on it's own but too long to work as a "short"), but this movie? It starts out good and just gets better, ending on a powerful moment instead of starting with one and never undermining itself (it even takes time to answer geeky "wait what if?" questions about how the world works that not only make sense but are touching all by themselves). I had to sit through the credits, and I recommend you do, because they'll turn on the waterworks one more time at the very end (with the credits themselves, not a post-credit scene). The villain only appears near the very end, and yet already tops it as the best villain in a Pixar movie. Most of the time, Pixar movie villains exist purely because "kids movies need villains, don't they?" (which is something Ghibli movies tend to respond with "No, just something to overcome or learn is enough"), but this villain works, I mean WORKS so well in what he brings that I can say the movie doesn't work as well without him.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)