How Disney FAILED Elemental and Pixar 

That's the downside of being famous for never missing. When you fail- you fail hard. That's why people are more forgiving towards DreamWorks. When they fail- people just shrug it off and pretend the bad movie doesn't exist.

whoever thought to release elemental just a little bit after spiderman and transformers should be fired.

Disney really needs to fire whoever is in charge of their marketing team. First Strange World now Elemental. I didnt even know the movie came out till this video. The amount of cancelled movies that look genuinely amazing just makes me sad.

I feel so sorry for the director. Even if the movie wasn’t on par with films like zootopia or incredibles, the director was clearly passionate about making elemental

Dude this movie was actually good it’s horrendous how most of the marketing was “Clod” and he wasn’t even in the movie for more than a minute

Literally the romance would've worked if it was given a longer timescale-like a month instead of a week. Otherwise Wade going all "i cant imagine life without you" after FIVE DAYS is insane

I honestly pity the director behind this movie because he seem like a nice guy and his parents passed away during development of Elemental so this film really means a lot to him. Too bad everything went wrong from the marketing to the reviews and now he has both “the good dinosaur” flop and “elemental” flop on his belt making me feel like he will be fire soon.

I feel so bad for the creator. He put so much heart into this. Imagine the feelings he had when Disney gave him their backing and so much money, and then when the Internet tore the trailers apart. I admit that I too was incredibly put off by the trailers, but I’m willing to give it a chance, now.

TL;DW: Trailers can wreak a movie's viewings if done wrong, and high expectations can ruin a person's experience by "letting them down" when it isn't to their expectation

I feel like if this movie were to be made and released like a decade or so ago people wouldn’t be so pressed about it. I genuinely loved this movie. Shame it’s massively underperforming cause I do think there’s an audience for this. Maybe when it hits Disney+.

Here's the problem - this story has been done before in less than a decade, it's basically Pixar's spin to Zootopia, in lieu of mammals, we get earthy elements. Remember, Zootopia had weak trailer promotion too, which is why it was a surprise hit, no one at Disney expected the film to earn a billion at the box office, then an Oscar for best animated feature. In addition, Zootopia + elaborated on the plot, Mr, Big's story for example, showed Zootopia in an earlier age, before the city was retrofitted to accommodate all mammals, and how Mr. Big and his family proactively impacted the city's evolution. Elemental may had a new spin to an old story, it is not enough to entice the interest of the general audience, moreover, Pixar no longer has a monopoly on animated films, it has to compete with other Disney films, Illumination and Dreamworks, with these choices the audience may likely explore, then choose what they want, hence the waning attention for new Pixar releases.

Honestly with how they marketed this movie, it reminds me of how Disney marketed Treasure Planet. Where they intentionally marketed it in a way that made it bomb along with releasing it during the same week the first Harry Potter movie came out in theaters. So I personally believe they have to be marketing this movie bad intentionally for some reason because it makes no sense why they wouldn't want their movies to do well.

"I feel like every animated feature has had terrible trailers." Oh no no no. This isn't a new issue. This is just a PIXAR issue. ALL of their trailers for their movies are BAD. The ONLY trailer I can think of that INSTANTLY made me go "OH okay INTERESTING" was the Cars 3 teaser trailer with Lightning's crash. After that, the main trailer, also sucked. I don't know who is in charge of their marketing team, but they need to be replaced by someone who knows how to edit trailers.

I personally think it would have been better as a Disney short than a full movie

I love the animation on the fire, water, and air people, the powers and abilities they have are are very creative, I love how they created an entire fake language for the fire people, the music is awesome, and I like the arc Ember goes through. Overall, not one of Pixar's best, but certainly deserving of more attention than it's currently getting.

The movie was very romantic and cute, but like all love stories I think it needed more meat to the story. Overall still enjoyable and worth a watch

It seems like one of those movies that goes unrecognised and forgotten after the release, but fondly looked back upon for what it is in a decade or so

Another example where Disney did the advertisement dirty even tho it was a cute movie overall

I'm now just realizing that we don't see many animated rom-coms that aren't fairytale movies (Disney Animation, Shrek franchise, etc).

I agree with the take on the marketing! Reading the synopsis and finding out it was actually about an immigrant story authentic to its director was surprising, and I don't think it should have been? They should have led with that if anything lmao

I feel like Elemental should've been released when The Good Dinosaur came out, and here's why. Pixar's mantra has more or less been "Find a challenge in animation, then use that as our premise for our films." And you can see this in their early days of film making. Toy Story - How to make fluid 3D animation work. Bug's Life - How to animate multiple models with multiple limbs all at once. Monster's Inc - How to give varying textures to different character models. The Incredibles - How to make believable human character models while keeping over the top animation. Ratatouille - How to give detail to food and ingredients. While all of these were great for the early days of 3D animation, we've reached a point where all of that is the norm, and Pixar's just been struggling to keep up with this experimental and innovative time.

Honestly, when they first announced this movie I really thought that it was a short, not a full blown movie Kinda still can't believe it

something about the characters in elemental make me feel that elemental is a tech demo. Especially with how the Fire and Water were done.

And now Elemental has made a strong comeback.

"people are gonna talk shit" is a timeless classic, no matter the quality there will always be haters

Man, it wasn't even post-covid. Most animated family movies, especially out of Disney, get terrible trailers. Like, I don't know why these companies keep hiring these marketing teams that just focus on tropey lines, often accompanied by badly edited dub overs. Oh and the friggin spoilers. God those piss me off. I will say on that, it seemed like Pixar's movies almost always had more under the surface than what the trailers represented, so there was that. But god, I just roll my eyes at so many animated family movie trailers.

Making a racism allegory using things that will LITERALLY DESTROY EACHOTHER IF THEY MEET, is a bad idea. I honestly like the characters and the animation is great but the plot is lackluster.

When you fail, no one will remember you. When *you* fail, no one will make you forget it. -Monsters University

I honestly didn't even realize this movie was IN theaters, and I've been going every month for Ghibli Fest + Suzume lol

This really sucks, because having watched the film, it's awesome, and very clearly aimed to young adults getting their start in the world. It's full of heart and the visuals are unsurprisingly beautiful. When I went to go see it though, there were only two other parties there, a family with a few kids, and the theater manager. I don't think Pixar is failing, rather they're making more intimate, original stories, unfortunately, intimacy doesn't sell well.

If I had a nickel for every back-to-back Sarcastic Chorus video on a Pixar love story, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

As a 3D artist, with every new trailer I got more and more curios about the technical aspect of how they animated the characters, physics, shaders, lighting… I would love to see how they made this movie! But regarding the story… I have no idea/interest of knowing more about it. I haven’t seen the movie.

Based off the trailers I thought it was mid too but they clearly implying the romance aspect. The spicy food joke instantly got me more interested because my gf is from a province of China KNOWN even in China for their spicy food. Knowing the context you gave me now I’d be more interested in seeing it in theaters m. Because my gf is having a similar dilemma. She loves me but misses her family and she has to choose between me and her family. Torn between two different homes. On top of that money is tight and I had to pass on guardians of the galaxy 3 to make ends meet so…yeah…

i remember seeing the first trailer and thinking " ok but what is this movie about? cause for me the city is not impressing me " . I'M JUST FINDING OUT THAT IS ACTUALLY ABOUT AND I NOW WANT TO SEE IT ( or wait for it to be on disney plus cause teenage kraken is my priority rn) . But yeah they tried to do a zootopia marketing strategy just not really well done and also pre-2020 marketing and post-2020 marketing are completly different things , and it seems that disney hasn't noticed it yet

I think Puss in boots and Spiderverse have spoiled us way too much. Nowadays, if an animated movie doesn't have a breathtaking hybrid animation and themes about death, people don't even bother with it.

reminds me of something the dilbert guy said once about the dilbert cartoon roughly "i learned that everyone in the test liked the show and knew it would fail. The reason is because nobody loved it and you need people to love something for it to be a success."

I was for elemental ever since I saw the first concept art and even with the bad trailers and haters, I still managed to remain excited to see it.

the trailers were so bad that I didn't really know how to feel about this movie, but then I went to see it for myself and was pleasantly surprised, I really quite enjoyed seeing someone who basically has, for lack of a better term, a disability. ember cant really do much in the main part of town cause it could hurt her or even kill her. as someone with a medical issue that will be with me for the rest of my life; it was really nice to see. cause its hard not being able to do the things you like or may like simply cause of the situation. also, it was a more believable romcom than even some of the greats. trying to not spoil the movie in the comments but the "I'm so lucky" scene with wade is prolly my favorite scene. there was so much emotion in it and its...just a good film. the first time I watched it, it seemed pretty jumbled; so this is deff a two or more watch movie IMO. but tldr; liked the movie a lot and I think you should go see it at least once in theaters to make your own opinion of it and find something to love about it, even if its a small part.

when i saw it in the theaters with my friend and immediately after we saw the movie we were just like: 'Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.'

Remember the teaser trailer for Pixar's Ratatouille? Separate from the actual movie, gave you some idea to how the movie will be without using any of it's footage, looked neat, yeah I miss when teaser trailers were like that.

The marketing was a real shame. If they had advertised it with the immigrant aspect as the focus with the rom-com as the side plot, i think I'd havebeen a lot more interested. As it was, they only advertised the rom-com, which already looked kind of generic (there's been opposites attract stories before). I might have streamed it purely because the world looked neat, but that isn't enough for me. Since we made the comparison to Zootopia, those trailers did pull in the murder mustery aspect of the film along with the spectacle of the imagery.

The fact that Disney didn't learn from the Strange World marketing has me worried about the fate of Wish.

2:35 Teenage Kraken hurt so bad, man. The fact that it had so much potential but chose the straight forward cliche route. It hurts.

The thing that gets me is that the "fire girl and water boy fall in lurve" thing has been around on the internet for a while. Just look at peoples' short films. It's one of the classic tropes. So of course people are going to write it off because that, and the "two lovers who can't be together because of outside forces" plot have been done to death

Aside from marketing focusing more on Clod than anything, the movie is extremely tame and generic. The messaging about immigration is kind of strained with the fact that the water people are extremely dangerous to fire people in a more grounded way that they could upright die in their environment. (It could be seen as a generational racism or gentrification metaphor but it isn't a strong one) It's a love story first. It's not groundbreaking or amazing or exciting. And the story beats have been treaded many times before. I can see why even after trailers and general reviews people still don't want to see the movie.

some other people have talk about about the movie being good/alright but yea, this has been a LOONG trend of terrrible generic trailers that do the same beat over and over and over again. Either throwin out the best parts or story beats in the trailers and/or copyin the same format of trailers. It very obvouis that movies have gotten better but trailers for movies have stagnated for decades

I appreciate you not really spoiling anything, I was disinterested in the movie from the trailers I figured it was just 100% romcom with the main plot being “we can all be different and still exist in harmony” or something along those lines. Hearing that the trailers did the movie a disservice makes me want to actually see it now.

If I had a nickel for every time that face was used in a thumbnail, I could probably use it to buy a ticket to go see the movie.

I liked the trailers. And it is a movie I will like to see. But it does not rise to the hype of previous Pixar movies. And it’s hard to compete with the new Spider-Man movie, which was amazing.

What you said the trailers conveyed wasn't what I got at all. I just got "forbidden lovers try to make it work." The lamest of played out tropes.

Elemental have a 93% audience score and 458.3 millions $ box office for a 151.4 millions $ budget. Why is it a failure ?

Watching this video made me think: What if Pixar made a movie about tragedy? Where there is no happy ending at the end of the movie. If they can pull this off and make it work, it would probably be the most “HOLY SHIT” movie they have ever made.

From the trailers I saw I simply thought it was going to be a generic love story seen 20 times over in 20 other pieces of media and I was not into that. But I did love the visuals of the trailers.

Is it just me, or is embers dad kinda hot. No pun intended.

I'm definitely watching Teenage Kraken because at least their trailers actually convinced me that it has an interesting story with heart.

I was like "nice, there might actually be some potential here, shame they're gonna waste it"

A good "Ticking time 💣" can challenge the characters in ways you'd never expect, but one that's arbitrary just to say you have one means the story didn't have anything meaningful to say at all. Feels like Soul did well without that kind of device while Elemental was indeed "SOULless".

Bolt and Brave suffered from the trailers as well. They mislead the audience so much in the Brave and Bolt though. So this one gets a few more points for not misleading entirely.

Pixar and big companies in general seem to avoid making films with a neiche or specific audience. I’m getting pretty tired of seeing movies for everyone because they can never use the potential they create because they have a vivid fear they could alienate somebody. As you said, a film for everyone is a film for no one and these movies are getting so bland and repetitive that people have begun checking out.

While I love the story of the movie and can appreciate it for showing the story of a child not just wanting to take over the family buisness from some rarely seen angles, I end up with the feeling that Pixar is having more and more problems with the fantastical elements of their movies. Like: Toy stories really was a story about toys. Their desires and fears are all affected by that nature. It's of course something we can also relate to, but the characters in toy story wouldn't work if they weren't toys. But there isn't really a reason for the characters to be elementals in this movie to tell this story. Other then, of course, the need to have a "Wow"-element to draw people in to watch the movie in the first place. (Which is fine. You need to get people to watch your stuff somehow. And they are doing some wonderful creative and technical impressive stuff in this movie. I don't want to discredit that.) But with this movie in particular I feel like the character story and the story of the world are just not harmonizing at all where the only positiv I can think of is the fact that it really drives home just how unwelcoming the other elments are to the fire people and how unwilling they are to adjust anything in their city for the new people. I do say that there is atleast one point of the Air and Earth elementals in the city. I think the allegory would be even more weird if this was just "Water City". Elemental City atleast implies that everyone *should* be welcomed there. A water city may end up going too much in the direction of full on segregation and end up making points in favor for it by accident. So yeh. Nice movie still in the end. But can somebody either give Pixar the freedom to just embrace character stories or have them work on stories that are designed for the specific world they are playing in?

I really hope they fix up the advertising next film

I went to watch it bc i thought it was insane how much people were hating on something they hadn’t even seen yet and the animation was fun (they had dropped a few posts about the animating process too and I find it all fascinating) Imagine my surprise when I hear her parents speaking broken English and her feeling intense guilt about wanting to be her own person (and worse, an artist, not even a doctor or engineer smh) despite her parents sacrifice to continue their legacy (TOO VALID). The “you speak so well” joke made me giggle bc I have heard variations of that myself. I was genuinely surprised that the root of her anger problems was understood and that he helped her realize that. Now I’m even more pissed that the marketing showed absolutely NONE of that. Yeah I cringed alot. Typical rom com. The climax was nice, cliche-ish but with a different spin (no they’re not ACTUALLY mad at each other). The end was hopeful and the credits were funny too. The movie has a lot of heart in it, and definitely deserves better. Once again people jump on a hate train before even giving the movie a try. I don’t think it should be supported solely because it is an original IP. It should be supported because of the heart and genuine character relationships. The movie truly got shafted by ads and objectively better films (spiderverse, cmon you know it). I’d give it a 7ish/10, I surely didn’t feel like I wasted money on my ticket, and that’s all I really ask for nowadays.

I love how half the animation review community started proclaiming this a failure too early. Like damn, how so many of you called the reception shit before it turned around and became a massive success

So far, you're the only RU-vidr I've seen with the most accurate review of this movie. The marketing really did it sooo dirty. I may not be an immigrant, but what Ember struggled throughout the film (specifically the pressure on Ember taking over her father's shop vs what she actually wants to do) is exactly what I've been through. It hit so close to home for me, and what Ember said to Wade during their argument near the last act was extremely true due to how I was raised, and I found myself relating to Ember a whole lot. This movie was extremely personal, and I could feel the director's whole heart and soul in it. It resonated with me on an extremely high level, and though it isn't ground-breaking or a masterpiece, it is a genuinely good film. Also, the romance felt realistic to me and these two are truly such a wholesome and sincere couple, probably the best I've ever witnessed. So thank you for the review of how truly deep this film really is and for giving it the praise it deserves. I need a Wade in my life.

I agree with u, the trailers did nothing to help this film. Like I didn’t get the whole immigrant story from it which is very sad to me because the story is relatable to mine but my mom was a single parent raising me while 85 % of the family live in Laos. The only reason I went because I want to know if ember and wade are just friends hanging out,I didn’t get the whole romcom vibe in trailers at all 😢

When I saw whatever small amount of trailers or promotional stuff for this I just got the vibe of: "Oh, so it's Zootopia but with water and fire." After hearing a few people talking about it I've actually gotten more interested in the movie knowing it's not just that, sad it's bombing so hard.

I didnt really vibe with the trailers, but once I saw a few clips, it REALLY got me hooked and I ended up seeing it opening day ! Loved it btw

lol i saw your video and another almost identical thumbnail about this from saber spark and knew this was a hot topic. good vid

Personally, I blamed both Disney, the critics, fans and other movie watchers for Elemental failure. Disney for lowkey meddling and killed off any chance of the film succeeding with their advertisements, the critics being too harsh on the movie, and the fans and others movie watchers being blindsided, believing every single thing a person said even though they never saw the film once to form their opinions on it.

I liked this movie a lot. To me, i related to its story of Ember being a first-gen coming from an immigrant family, i cried. Even tho Ember's and Wayne's relationship isn't unique, the aspect of Ember's family expectation is relatable for many who have strong family expectations. I HATED how shit they did with the trailers. Sure this movie had its generic moments, but i think the concept was fine. I wish they fleshed out Wayne's character more. Other than that, I really encourage people to try to watch it. This movie is more than just "elements" and "love" story. -.- this story geniuely got me emotional when they demonstrated Ember's turmoil with her family/expectations.

Yeah, I remember watching the trailer and not having any idea what it was about. Didn't even know it came out already.

I saw the trailer, the style reminds me of Studio Ghibli. yes based on an immigrant story, show reference in the opening. However, there is more to it, based on the child being 1st generation adapting to the new environment, and falling in love with a different race thus showing a biracial couple. Everyone did not get the vital scene: ember following her traditions based on her culture and being a good daughter. For me, I cry during the final scene because I related to it, and damned I wish my parents would do that.

Honestly I thought it was going to be a stupid Romeo and Juliet kind of story. “WATER AND FIRE DON’T BELONG TOGETHER, WE HATE EACH OTHER!!” But I was so surprised to see that it was more about family and finding your own legacy. That’s why it really got to me. I don’t know about everyone else but I saw too many ads for this movie, so many YT videos had this trailer show up. To be fair though, the trailers were the reason I believed this was going to be a stupid love story. I’m glad it didn’t turn out that way.

I was completely ecstatic to see this movie, It's really been too long since I've seen a movie in theaters, so whenever it happens I'm super excited about it. I think this one will be better than the rushed pieces of yesteryear.

The failure of Disney is thinking that just with the brand name is enough without realizing that the creative force behind the brand is what important. True they did ride the brand for a few years, but they drove it to the ground until it become worthless.

I agree with you saying that it was marketed to everyone, so it drew in no one. I thought it looked really cute, but the trailer gave me the impression it was gonna be some kind of love story with some of the cliches of them showing the parts of their world they’ve never seen. Nothing really specific or discernible from the trailer, but I think if they alluded to some kind of depth like talking about her family and her hopes and dreams, I might’ve been actually interested in watching it

This concept is done to death. If Disney wants to make a movie bout racist just make a movie bout racism and lets not pretend like this allegorys hold up. Ah yes, the specific race allegory of people who can burn things very compelling.

I hate how Disney refuses to be upfront about their latest projects. Turning Red wasn’t my favorite, but it was still a story that needed to be told and I was on board 100%. Strange World was amazing and surprisingly relatable. I’m tired of having to defend these films around my friends bc of the “Disney and Pixar are falling off” bull that’s everywhere. Sure they aren’t masterpieces, but they’re still better than 70% of what’s out there.

I had to pause your video at around the 1:30/1:40 mark just to gather my thoughts and emotions lol... That's exactly how I feel and grew up, and I feel so bad for the director because it's actually so personal to a lot of people and you can tell he tried really hard on the movie... the family and immigrant aspects really hit me way too hard, I haven't felt so much during a movie in a long time

The trailer made me think it is an Inside Out level premise with a Cars level execution

I gotta be honest. I really hope they decide to make some kind of Disney Channel spin off or sequel series to this. I just saw this movie, and while recent Pixar movies have been okay to me, I have not had this much love for a Pixar story since the golden years of Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, and Finding Nemo. I'm not even joking. I truly view this movie in the same light as those movies. You'd be surprised at how much I'm a sucker for animated love stories, which are my favorite kind of animated movies, and while what they did in this movie is cliche, it felt like something you'd never expect from a Pixar film. I've never really seen them handle romance in a similar fashion as the main Disney studio does with their movies, but wow, did the romance in this movie blow me away to the point i would really love to see a continuation of the story to see they're relationship grow. They could even set the series within the months before they even have to leave Element City, but after seeing this movie I would just love to see these characters again.

The fact that they released it on the same weekend as The Flash is absurd. This movie deserved better

I kind of thought the movie was going to be another Romeo and Juliet kind of movie with their being different elements instead of rival families based on the trailers.

Amen about the commercials/ads, I’ve seen the clip of [insert main water guy’s name] trying those hot coals at the fire girl’s dad’s restaurant so. many. times.

Trailer wise, it wasn't a film I was all that excited for, but I was intrigued with Elemental City as Zootopia made me want to see more unique cityscapes. The character designs though I wasn't crazy about, and it just made me wish I got to see it in 2D instead. But I also am really missing 2D animation in big animated films.

I didn't think about giving this movie a chance because of the trailers. But now that I know what the movie truly is about, I will try to watch it next chance I get.

I knew since the first trailer came out that the movie would have an impressive story to tell despite the mid trailer showing neat visuals and shit, and I'm honestly kinda glad they didn't spoil the story in the trailer so you'd walk in the theater with low expectations and walk out completely and unexpectedly touched. I believe trying to subvert expectations was the main motivation for the editors who made the trailers.

We have Elemental at home. Elemental at home: Zootopia

Universal and Dreamworks have got to just be licking their chops right now. What a golden opportunity to totally snatch the animated market away from Disney. They need to capitalize. Disney has just lost so much good will with us normal customers it’s unbelievable!

I do think people are being way too hard on this movie, but I probably won’t watch it myself until it hits streaming. One thing that does bother me though is that Ember and Wade are clearly meant to be a stand-in for an interracial couple, but the movie unintentionally justifies the segregation issue. The fire people are actually dangerous to be around. In one of the trailers, Ember accidentally burns the leaves off of an earth elemental and her heat causes Wade to boil and evaporate. Likewise, water and air can easily extinguish a fire. All this makes it seem justified in keeping fire separated from the other elements, which isn’t really a good message for an anti-racism movie to have. It also detaches it from real world racism. People of different races aren’t inherently dangerous to each other. You’re not gonna keel over from touching someone of a different race than you because, ultimately, race is superficial. Regardless of race, we’re all humans. The elementals, on the other hand, are fundamentally different beings than each other and can pose a danger to one another just by existing. As a result, Wade and Ember come off more as an exception to the rule, rather than proving how stupid the rule itself is. Honestly, I’m kinda sick of movies using stand-ins as allegories for racism. They want to talk about it, but are too scared to outright say it with human characters and human races. They always have to be something else like animals, elements, zombies, etc. It’s taking the safe way out to avoid offending anyone, but dampening the message.

0:47 Everyone lived in harmony until the fire nation a... rrived!

one of my bigger loves about this story was how they conveyed the passage of time in this story. it genuinely feels like (to me at least) that wade and ember took more than a couple of weeks to fall in love. it's obvious they went on multiple dates and probably made things official sometime then. the timespan of the movie probably goes from either a few weeks to a few months. that's my guess at least

I had the same vibe. The initial trailers immediately turned me off to it, but I kept being recommended previewed clips from the movie that were so much better. And then I learned that the story was actually an immigrant's story, which didn't even come through a little. I almost didn't see it in case it was just misleading garbage, but I really, really loved it. I find myself needing to curb my expectations with Pixar now, and when I stopped holding Elemental to my Monster's Inc. or Finding Nemo standard, I really got into it.

I'm glad this wasn't bad, as others were worried if that this ends up bad then the next pixar movie will be bad as well

From the trailers, I originally had a negative perception of it, thinking it was basically what you would get if someone tried to emulate a Pixar film. Then I thought “huh that’s a bit harsh,” more trailers came out, and I thought it was going to be just okay. Then the movie came out, and the reviews range from okay to hey it’s actually really good. If the marketing was just better I think I would go to the theatres to watch it but for now I think I’m going to just wait for it to come out on streaming.

Off of the trailers alone, it looked like there would be a fair amount of shipping I could get hooked on. But beyond that, I thought it would be a flop turned cult classic.

Had no interest based on the trailers, but wanted to take my kids to see a movie for the first time as a family. This movie made me cry multiple times. I loved it.

What I think the problem is... Is that adults now days forget that these movies aren't for them

I cried 4 times watching it! It was such a sweet story and totally undervalued….

I've seen 16 different videos advertised to me about elemental failing and they all use the same image of the water guy.