Coco - REVIEW (Spoiler Free) 

I rarely cry during movies, but this one made me sob

I kept hearing people saying they cried during this movie and at first I wasn't sure about it. Until I saw it with my family yesterday and by the time it ended, I had misty eyes. It was also nice to see so many Mexican American families in my theatre(which had Spanish subtitles) including my own enjoying the film. So glad they nailed the representation.

In mexico they took out the short because too many people complained lol

Did anyone notice the pizza planet truck when Miguel is looking out the window 😹💜

Say no more about Olaf. I work at a theater and almost every time a coco theater starts playing someone comes out to whine about where the movie is. People actually ask for refunds because it takes too long to get to the movie. Managers printed out that there is the featurette before the movie because so many people asked to complain to a manager. THANKS DISNEY. PRAY FOR US.

Skeletons? I like it already.

My sister took my nephew to see this the other day. She told us that he didn't really like it largely due to the opening short. When it played, he looked at her and said, "I don't want to watch this." She said that it ruined the rest of the movie for him because he was just uninterested after that. She also said that the other little kids in the theater complained too, thinking they were watching something Frozen-related instead. It just goes to show that you really should stick to original shorts to avoid confusion with children. Also, a half hour "short"? Really?

As a Mexican I loved this film, I have seen it two times by now

Coco by far is my favorite Disney Pixar movie, and for everyone who's saying "it's a book of life ripoff" stop, seriously go see for yourself! Definitely a must see!

That Frozen's short wasn't short at all. It lasts 22 minutes!

I think I know why the Olaf short felt too long. BECAUSE IT WAS TOO LONG. *IT WAS 24 MINUTES LONG*

Many of the buldings in the world of the dead and Miguel's town are based on real ones btw. For example, the customs building is Pixar's version of the Palacio Postal in Mexico City. Also Mexico City's Metropolitan cathedral makes a quick appearance; you have to look closely or you'll miss it. Miguel's town is obviously based on Tacambaro, Patzcuaro, and other magical towns in Michoacán. While the palace where Ernesto first meets Miguel is the Gran Hotel de La Ciudad de Mexico (especially that stained glass ceiling). Morelia's stone acueduct appears in the form of a bridge in the world of the dead. The Casino Español is Ernesto's house. Guanajuato's Teatro Juárez is the outside of the customs building; as well as Guanajuato was used as the main model for the streets and light posts of the world of the dead. Also the three pyramids connecting the world of the living and the one of the dead are from Teotihuacan. And the great pyramid of Cholula with the Iglesia de los Remedios (which is on top of the pyramid) makes an appearance during one of Ernesto's concerts. Also real life Mexican icons such as María Félix, Dolores Del Río, Emiliano Zapata, Agustín Lara, Jorge Negrete, Cantinflas, and El Santo make an appearance. As well as a Pedro Infante Cruz inspired character, who's obviously Ernesto de La Cruz. It's an homage to many things, but first and foremost to Mexico.

I just came out from the cinema, and it was so great, loved the colors, loved the songs.. there were some cliché things but boy was it great

Thank God I wasn't the only one who didn't like the Frozen short. Not only is it long and distracts from Coco, it's out of place for Frozen. It feels like 20 minutes of obvious pandering. I don't like obvious pandering.

For all of those saying Coco looks alot like The Book of Life, yes you're right. It's day of the dead themed and talks about the importance of family and remembering family. HOWEVER, those suspicious of it being a rip off can put that to rest. This movie obviously took a LOT of time to create, it's probably been in conception long before The Book of Life released. These things don't happen in a couple of years, they're like 5-10 year long projects that start with an idea that gets molded and altered through the hands of genius writers and animators. So to say that Coco is a rip off to The Book of Life, isn't accurate in the slightest. The Book of Life in comparison to Coco is what home video rip offs are Disney classics which are also posted on Lewtoons. Sometimes rip offs come soon after disney, but in other cases they come BEFORE. There are cases where lower budget studios will take a rumored concept that disney is working on and rush to release it. Not saying The Book of Life did, but that may be something to consider. It's obvious here, the story is original and not cliche in the slightest and was revised multiple times to get this polished project.

The Frozen short was originally going to air on TV, but Disney didn't have much faith in Coco, and so put the Frozen short as an exclusive before Coco instead.

I just saw this movie today, and I'm so glad I went into it only knowing that it had a boy who loved playing guitar in it. Everything else was such a rush for me, and as a lover of gorgeous art, the animation was a real feast for my eyes! And I agree with you on tearing up in the movie theatre for 'Remember Me', Chad, because that's exactly what happened to me. But the Frozen short really sucked when it was such a damn long time.... I ate all of my popcorn by the time it was done!

You don't dance salsa to Mariachi music, you dance salsa to salsa music lmao

One of the biggest ups of going to an early screening of this film was that I didn't have to sit through the Olaf short. The films itself is one of my favorite Pixar's films overall.

Ernesto de la Cruz and Olaf: The 2 villains of this film

As a Mexican, I believe that Coco is better than The Book of Life due to the fact that, for me, The Book of Life it's just a Romeo and Juliet story that's day of the death themed and with some Spanish stuff; Coco in the other hand, has a lot of references to our actual culture (for example: the aztec pyramids being the base of the land of the death) and the moral of it's story ,remembering, is what Day of the Death is about, not some sort of romance between a couple of characters that are as Spanish as they can get.

It hit me in the feels. I didn't even see it coming. This movie played dirty. And i now have a new trigger. They gradually fed me data as i watched, then rushed it all together by me in a series of instant feels punches. I had to hide my tears in my scarf, like 3 or 4 times. I don't think i would have cried as hard if they didn't set everything up so well...

I've seen this movie 2 times already once in Spanish and once in English and let me say Spanish version is best, the English version is great don't get me wrong but the Spanish version just idk it's amazing

What really helped this movie is that it's not only Pixar's most colorful and brightest movie ever, but probably Disney's as well. It was just a treat to see it all and take it in.

I love coco, i've already watched it twice. ps. you can't salsa dance to mariachi they're two totally different things

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Well, I'm mexican, so here we enjoyed the mexican references like tamales, the music, Frida Kahlo, etc....but...How do you feel about that references charge and the ''Spanglish'' langiuage in the movie?

when everyone’s talking about how great coco was, and you have to wait to february before you can watch it, because someone decided that it would be a great idea to not have a worldwide release date, so now you have to avoid the internet for two months to not get spoiled

I've been, for like two weeks now, rubbing my hands together going "Oh boy! Any day now! New Pixar film! Can't wait! America has it, can't be too long!". Just looked up the UK release date, WE don't get this film until FRIGGING JANUARY! A STALWART MIDDLE FINGER TO YOU AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRY!

I arrived late to the theater, luckily skipping the Frozen short in it’s entirety and being able to watch the actual movie from the very beginning.

When i went to see it, everyone in the theatre stood up and applauded. If that dosent say something about this film, then i dont know what does.

As a person who doesn't care for Frozen, I'd go to CoCo late. It was the main two songs playing on the radio over & over again every hour at work over the intercom making me actually hate Let it Go & Do you want me to get a migraine before I even saw the movie.

The Frozen short is long because it was originally meant to be a TV Christmas special, but then Coco started getting bad press for being a " Book Of Life " clone, so they stuck Frozen in front of it. ;/ Really unfair that there can be 600 Christmas movies, but TWO Day Of The Dead movies ....oh no, can't have that.... sigh.

Olafs frozen adventure was actually supposed to be and abc tv special, they added it on to coco because they werent seeing alot of public interest in the movie and wanted to get butts in seats (did the same thing for the first disney live action movie too)

I saw the movie in Spanish and the music is Phenomenal!!!

I'm so fucking proud of *Pixar* !

They did not dub the Christmas short here, they just added subs, which made the kids in the theater pretty confused because they can't read subtitles very well..

Coco was great. The Frozen “short” was not. The dialogue was super corny. The music was super bland and forgettable. Next time I go see Coco I will definitely show up late and skip the Frozen short

Pixar be like 1995: What if toys had feelings. 2006: What if cars had feelings. 2008: What if robots had feelings. 2015: What if feelings had feelings. 2017: WHAT IF MEXICANS HAD FEELINGS. (lmao copy and paste is great)

I watched this movie with my mom, needless to say we cried twice and absolutely loved it. It hit me right in the heart because my dad died ten years ago and we made an altar for him, i know he's probably very happy wherever he is and this movie made me remember him so fondly. As a Mexican this movie made feel proud of my culture and traditions.

Ey, just got back from this! And yes, the Frozen animation wasn't great... I always look on the bright side, so let's just ignore it all and say that the part where they animated one of Olaf's songs in wool-sweater format was pretty cool! Same goes for the beginning of Coco, and the paper animation (There's probably a word for those, I don't know it). Another thing: This was probably the Pixar movie that made me cry the most, and that's a pretty hard feat.

Actually, Coco captures Mexican cinematic identity very well.

Leap and Nut Job 2 are at red box btw

Have I've been eating too much pizza or is that a pizza planet truck 3:27

Anybody here cried at this but not Titanic?

Seeing this movie on opening day was great, except for that damn Frozen short. My family timed it, and it ended up being like 40 minutes long?!?! It's called a 'short' for a reason, people.

Glad to see you’re coocoo for Coco!

I want it spoiler full

All I can say is Coco is gorgeous! 👍🏻

Is the boss baby that high on the list because about 80% of the movies you watched sucked or do you really like that movie? same with cars three, why?

I went to a press screening of this movie, so I didn't get the Frozen short. Sounds like that's a good thing, though. I'm so glad you enjoyed it as much as I did! I know what you mean about tearing up, though. I held it together until I heard my (pregnant and extra hormonal) cousin sniffling next to me and we both just LOST it, crying for the last five minutes of the movie and hugging each other at the end. :D

SpaceJam is a downright master piece

I cryed more than once while watching it it was amazing

Im so excited to see this, AND THOSE GLOWING LEAVES THINGIES AND THE CITY AND THE FIREWORKS I remember my parents getting annoyed about me gushing of the light shining through moanas hair so maybe we should see it seperately

I saw this review before the movie, and I was worried when you stated that Miguel's great-grandmother is Coco that it was a spoiler, but you actually learn she's Coco within minutes of the film starting, so no worries! Also, I love Inside Out. Also also, when will you do that survey/award thing like you did last year?

Salsa isn't native to Mexico

Here in Mexico the movie was a success, literally everyone here loved it and cried with it and it really deserves all our love and appreciation, they represented the mexican culture really well and how we celebrate dia de los muertos! Also y’all should hear the song in spanish, they are better imo

Honestly my biggest disappointment is that Disney seemed to be promoting the Frozen short more than Coco. I got the feeling that Pixar probably had a short ready and waiting, but Disney just went "No, we need more Frozen! Quickly! Before Christmas is over!"

I'm watching coco with my school when coco isn't even released yet in cinemas

Man I gotta see this asap I keep hearing it's a good movie COULD PIXAR HAVE FINALLY MADE A GOOD MOVIE SINCE UP?

I was kinda lucky. When I saw coco, there was no frozen Olaf’s adventure at all. Idk if they cancelled it but I think they did. Even though I saw Olaf’s frozen adventure advertised on a sign.

I really want to see Coco again and I wouldn’t hesitate to watch it again. When the DVD comes out for it, I will definitely buy it :) It was the first time I saw my dad cry while watching a movie. It was surprising, especially because it was a Pixar movie. I can definitely say that Coco is my favorite movie. My family and I is Mexican American and I LOVE how Pixar just represented Mexicans in this. ^_^ I also really love the music, colors, story, animation, and character development.

In England, the frozen short was moved to a showing of Frozen in cinemas, thank god

If you like the music you must hear it in Spanish, I just think it sounds so much better in spanish

I was also crying. The movie was great and "Remember Me" really did make me cry. Thinking on it now, I realized that Miguel lives in similar circumstances to me. As a small child, I loved singing. I said that I wanted to be a singer, but my dreams were crushed when my mom said that we were Muslim and I couldn't be a singer. Now, I'm not religious at all, though my family has no idea about that. And they won't anytime soon. These days, at 13, I still love singing and think I'm fairly good at it, but I also love writing. I'm good at it, and I'm still learning. And Miguel is in similar circumstances to me. He loved doing something, but his family didn't accept him. That is VERY relatable.

Is it wronf for me to be obsessed with Pepita? She's just so magnificent!

The choice of making Coco 'too real' was, of course, deliberate. There is a very contrasting visual between here an the rest of... the movie actually, but at the end she comes as the actual plot device and resolution, so she being depicted as from her own time makes their weight in the movie more noticeable. I see why people could find her creepy, but the look is totally justified.

When lewtoons said the mariachi music made you want to salsa dance looooool. Ummmm.. different culture, fam

It was a good application of the Pixar formula.

Coco is my new favorite Pixar movie. I never thought the Incredibles would be bumped down. Also, that Frozen short was so boring and all the kids in the audience were getting antsy but who could blame them :[

Have you seen "Your Name" and "In this Corner of the World"? Both Japanese films were released in the US this year and I'm pretty sure would scramble up your ranking.

The Frozen short was really long because it was originally suppose to be a TV Frozen Christmas special for ABC similar to Toy Story of Terror, but then they decided to put it in front of Coco.

So glad they didn’t have that Olaf thing before what was my favorite movie. I was sobbing throughout the whole movie... so good.

When Olaf's Frozen Adventure started I shouted "Are we in the wrong theater? I wanted to see coco, NOT Frozen 2!"

This makes me really happy. I've been nervous about this film for cultural sensitivity vs. changing tides at pixar and things like that, so it's good to know that, even though from a more casual film critic point of view, this was still a solid movie. It makes me relieved. On a side note, I did happen to see the Lego Ninjago Movie in between this review and the MLP one, and while I totally see your point on the "having it both ways" arguement, I still personally feel it fared better on this list than where you placed it. (I did also see the smurfs movie in between reviews as well, and mostly agree with you on that one.) I think it should've taken the 6th spot from DM 3, which I did see upon realise and hated a LOT more. But of course this is your list, not mine, and I'm actually pretty interested to hear your thoughts on movies like Leap, the Star and Ferdinand because I've cared so little about them that hearing your invested review is going to be at least entertaining and at most, pretty insightful. Can't wait!! Love your channel!

I saw how long the Frozen short was and was astounded. 21 minutes of Frozen is too much, especially before a movie.

This doesn't release for another 2 months here in the UK. 😞

I love Inside Out because It has a great message about growing up!

Well, originally Olaf's Frozen Adventure was originally meant to air on ABC as a Christmas special. But that fell through and they chose to put it in front of Coco instead.

I saw it. In Mexico

For everybody who doesn’t understand, Coco is NOT A RIP OFF off The book of Life. First of all, the are both Pixar. Secondly, even if they have the the same holiday and main theme they are completely different!

I finally got to see Coco today and there was no Olaf short that played before the movie. :-/ I was confused because I look forward to the short films that play before Pixar movies and I didn't know it was another Frozen short, which makes it even more surprising that they didn't play it considering that it was a Frozen themed short...

There’s actually at least two LEGO canons, most prominently; the cinematic one in the movies and the “main” storyline. The cinematic universe, while serious at times, knows that it’s just a bunch of bricks at the end of the day, and seizes every opportunity to make a joke. The main universe, and the one universally accepted as the canon one, does indeed take itself seriously with some pretty deep details, and it is all but explicitly stated that the characters in it are NOT minifigures in-universe. The problem is that in between the super saiyan furries, robot ice ninjas, holographic ghost wizards, and various other things, it’s kind of hard for the viewer to do the same...

You forgot Brave was after 2009 and it was an Amazing Pixar film and it's first/only disney princess so far (which is why I'm amazed Pixar instead of using their own short film using a Disney animation short for Frozen... it's just odd to me)

Saw this yesterday and loved it, beautiful film. I cried ;-;

I'm really excited to see this movie especially because of alot of the animated films that were made this year released in theaters or not (like Surf's Up 2, Sahara, Rock Dog, Jetsons and WWE Robo-Wrestlemania, Boss Baby, Spark A Space Tail, Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Emoji Movie, The Nut Job 2 and Possibly The Star) are animated films i think are bad either if they are boring, generic, lazy or combining alot of bad animated movie elements into one package (Cough The Emoji Movie)

lol hilariously I was rushing to see the movie and when "Olaf's frozen adventure" played I was VERY upset because I just wanted to se the ACTUALL MOVIE

Ha! My cats name is Coco DISNEY!!!!!! GIVE MY CATS NAME BACK!!!!!!!!!!

So excited about seeing this. Glad to see this review from you. ❤️❤️ Also I don't know why they are making a Space Jam 2. It doesn't make sense to me. Except to make money....Hmmm. Well there you go.

One thing, the songs are so muchhh better in spanish. The English version is really weak compared to the mexican voice actors/singers.

I wasn't expecting anything from this movie, but now I can't wait to watch it!!! Love your reviews

People complain about the Olaf short being long, but forget that in the past they would have full-on Disney shorts for movies. Like one movie (forgot which one) had the entire Mickey prince and the pauper short play before a film and it was around 25 minutes. Like the Frozen short was.

I guess I was blessed that they took out Olaf's short in our theater. I saw Coco twice and didn't see the short either time.

This movie was great and it made me cry. It isn’t a Book of Life ripoff, just a similar theme. GO SEE THIS MOVIE! The short was really annoying and long, but if you can look past that and ignore it, THIS MOVIE IS AMAZING!

Great review! I loved this movie!

I purposely saw Coco when I did so I wouldn't miss the short being removed after its timed limited run. As someone who loves animation I wouldn't miss something just because I thought it would be bad, personally. Ultimately, I loved the short. Then again, I loved Frozen. Considering how many people are annoyed by Frozen its no surprise that so many disliked it but .. I was definitely a fan.

I can’t get over how spectacular this film is.

this is amazing, sad, dark and beautiful!!!

The only good thing about that godawful Frozen short is that theaters were letting people in late because they knew the actual movie didn't start until much later. My brother didn't miss a second of the REAL movie (which he ended up loving to bits) waiting for friends to arrive thanks to that - the only problem is he had to sit through half of the short and suffer lol

I absolutely love Coco. It's such an awesome movie. It gave me SERIOUS "Book of Life" vibes. And I loved that movie when I was younger.