Quick Vid: Soul (Review) 

Hope y'all had a good and safe holiday season

The Barbershop scene was SOOOOO Organic I feel like the director Pete just sat in the shop analyzing for an entire day to get that so on point xD

This movie has the perfect “Stop and smell the roses” message because they managed to portray it without looking cliché.

I feel like we need more adult animated movies that don't rely on raunchy humor to be "adult"

The creators of this film SPECIFICALLY looked into religion and decided what NOT to put into this movie. I feel like that shows the dedication and respect for everyone on planet Earth to say that this movie is going to be FOR everyone.

SPOILERS! Someone pointed out to me that while Joe is dying the screen shows “Disney Pixar Presents:” but then it continues with the movie. No credits or anything after that screen until we get to the very end of the movie. When Joe Gardner walks out of his apartment alive that’s when they show the Title screen “Soul” because that’s when the story begins, now with his knowledge to live his life every moment.

It was nice having a black movie that wasn’t about race. It was just a story about being human. I loved it so much.

I think Pixar intended this movie to be more like ratatouille in the aspect of it being more for adults than kids Like of course, ratatouille has the cute animals and humor, but at the center of it, it’s a deep story about finding and pursuing your passion- even if people think you’re not fit to do it. Same with Soul- I just think Pixar made this for the older people (Same with The Incredibles 2 when they used some cursing and bigger themes)

Soul spoke to me especially. That "waiting for life to start" vs "Its already started, you're living it" really hit me, especially with a lot of false starts and jobs I had that went nowhere. It felt like it was speaking to adults like me

what stunned me the most was that whenever characters were playing instruments, all notes were animated correctly. (im a music person so that really impressed me.) a small detail to some, maybe, but it really added to the film and made it feel more real. super impressive, as always from pixar

A small thing for Joe being allowed to live again: I think the Jerrys were letting him live again so he could continue to give other living souls sorta like enrichment. Like the little girl that wanted to quit band, 22, Dez the barber... Existing to help enrich others lives and make them a little bit brighter. That's how I see it, anyways! Edit: ... Damn this blew up. I'm glad to see so many of y'all agree with me!

as a person who’s mom is EXTREMELY religious, she loved this movie!

I love how the Jerry is working and then says: These souls will be insecure, and these will be selfobsorbed...we make a lot of those lately.

I also felt like Joe should have died at the end, but I'm also kind of glad that wasnt the case? I started picking up some themes of suicidality around the point when Joe didn't feel fulfilled after his dreams came true, and having him just give his life away at that point (even though it would have ultimately been for the benefit of another person) felt iffy when they teased that possibility.

Joel: H E Double hockey sticks Actual Babies: HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL

I wanna point out the insane amount of detail this movie has: During the saxophone scene with that woman, you could hear the clicking and clacking of the keys on the saxophone while she played it. It's wild!

As a deeply religious black parent: -I can confirm that this was an excellent take on existentialism and I appreciate that they weren't so concerned with building a 'believable' religion of their own for the setting, and also not entirely sterilizing the concept of oblivion, or ridiculing the notions of religion, even going so far as to include shamans and astral plane talk in it, without trivializing characters that are typically disregarded as lunatics in comparable pieces. -They did a good job of acknowledging some of the black experience, without focusing on it, staying neutral enough that I don't believe it would alienate my non-black friends. I too appreciate that the movie was about a middle aged man who looks like me, without sanitizing my culture to the point it's unrecognizable, but also not focusing too much on the struggles of being black as that would neither benefit, nor harm the movie from where I stand. -My kid checked out the second the movie was no longer about cute, colorful, fuzzy wisps. I certainly feel it was made more so for adults as the message is unambiguously about uniquely adult concepts (not saying that pre-teens and teenagers don't struggle with existentialism. I was a pre-teen myself when I grappled with the concept of my own mortality, and I'm no intellectual outlier. The issue of contemplating existence and purpose vs belonging and acceptance generally doesn't manifest until a certain level of maturity) so unless you at least hold a modest understanding of the issue that the message that this movie is trying to provoke thought around, I think it'll be lost on you.

Haven't had a movie hit me as hard as this one did. Easily my fave of 2020

"You can't crush a soul here, that's what life on earth is for." We are all a little bit 22

[SPOILERS] I watched the film on Christmas morning with my boyfriend, and right as the credits rolled, I turned to him and said "I don't know if it would have been better or worse if Joe had died." He made the great point that Joe dying would have made his character development almost pointless. Sure, he was accepting of death at the end. Joe was satisfied after helping 22, but he wouldn't have been able to appreciate everything else in life if he died. Joe learned that he didn't need a purpose in life. He needed to live to fully understand the message.

**SPOILERS** I’m personally really glad that they didn’t let him die at the end. Not only would it be antithetical to the message of the film of making the most of life, but there’d be the horrific implication of one of his friends/family members/Connie (god forbid) finding him dead slumped over at his piano like 3 days later. Which is obviously waaaayyy too dark for Disney to ever do. My biggest problem with the ending is that I was hoping there’d be some kind of nice moment of Joe walking down a street and seeing 22 with her family and just a brief smile of recognition passed between the two of them. But no, she looks like she lands somewhere in Central Asia (which is fine) but I think it would have been kinda neat if somewhat schmaltzy.

For me, my takeaway wasn’t so much “stop and smell the roses and just enjoy life and living in the moment.” It was more like, “Everyone’s life is worth living, and you can love yourself and your life even if it’s not what you dreamed it would be.” And I liked that so much more, but maybe that’s because I’ve been struggling with those issues for so long. Yes, there was a huge emphasis on the importance of living life in the moment and enjoying the small things, but for me it was more of a theme of: love your life as it is, don’t get too caught up in trying to achieve what you think your “purpose” is, likewise don’t get too caught up in feeling unhappy if you haven’t achieved it.

Joe should not have died. The message of the story isn't about death. The message is essentially "It's never too late to change your perspective on LIFE." It's a sort of retelling of "It's a Wonderful Life." Joe began the film so caught up in what he wanted, that he didn't appreciate anything else; he was upset over everything until he got his dream gig. He then died BECAUSE he was so caught up in his elation that he was literally ignoring the living world around him, and that killed him. He then meets 22 who, by body-swapping with them, gets an outsiders perspective on everything he'd been missing because of how hyperfocused he was on the gig: he learns to appreciate the passion of his students, he learns to appreciate his barber, and he learns to appreciate all the little things in New York including the little whirlygig seeds. The story isn't about the physicality of life and death, but the mental state (which is why they have the different mental states of the living enter the metaphysical world). They just use a Joe's literal death as a metaphor. In the end, Joe IS ready to die. He reexamines his life and realizes that he actually did live a fulfilling life. You could argue that he learned that lesson by sending off 22, but this isn't 22's story; it's Joe's. And I like how the ending left his future ambiguous. Because it doesn't matter if he chose the gig life or if he chose to be a teacher; what you do in life isn't important because no one has a "purpose." The message the story is trying to share is that living is the goal, and it's never too late to be "born again" like Joe almost literally was. He, like everyone living now, always has a chance to reexamine life and learn to appreciate every day we have. And, tbh, that's a lovely message.

This movie felt human. I love how while 22 was in Joe’s body, she was constantly looking up, meanwhile Joe himself was always looking down or ahead. Down at piano, at music sheets. He looks ahead at where he is going, his dreams of playing with Dorothea. (Funny enough the first time Joe wasn’t looking down or ahead he fell down the manhole) Also the little times 22 looks at the dad and the daughter walking, the two ladies talking outside, the seeds falling off the maple tree. It’s all these amazing, beautiful, human things, that Joe himself has been missing by not simply looking up and around! How I feel about this movie is hard to put into words but it’s being able to capture and convey these little human moments that are my favorite part of Pixar movies.

The ending of this movie especially hit me and made me cry. just the line: "I don't know what I'm going to do with my life, but I am going to live every minute of it." Made me cry. The movie didn't make anyone else in my family cry but like, personally I've dealt with suicidal thoughts and the ending line just... Really hit me. Also, I've always been really artistic but my mom has always wanted me to get a job like a scientist or something. So the whole dynamic between him and his mom really hit home too. (Also, I really love the black representation and how they didn't spend the entire movie as blue blobs)

"It's designed for kids but i feel like adults can relate more." well like they always say, the protagonist is usually a reflection of the intended demographic theyre going for... I wholeheartedly believe that Pixar made it for adults, but gave it the guise of a childrens movie because disney

I wanted to make a comment on the religious point of view for it. I am a catholic, so is my entire family. My mom, big sister and I all watched Soul last night. All 3 of us loved it. We found it extremely beautiful and my mom who is the most religious out of all of us cried so many times while watching it.

I really liked this movie. I liked the point of the barber; he didn't reach his dream of being a veterinarian but he still found happiness and fulfillment in his life doing something else. I feel that's a message not told very often. My cousin also said she thought Joe should have died at the end but I understand that his story wasn't really about reflecting on his life to let go, it was about him learning to live again and to not be so focused on one thing that he ignores or overlooks everything else. So I like that once he truly learned that he was given his life back. I loved the way the black people were animated. From the various hair types and textures and styles, various body types and facial features and skin tones, even the palms of the hands being lighter, it was awesome to see. I liked that the movie didn't have an antagonist or villain and that it is so philosophical.

As a child death always scared me, and yet this movie has made me feel at peace about it.

I hate how when you said "Joes mom's cool" my brain really went "Joe mama!" I'm gonna go die in a hole now. Great video tho.

I love the part where 22 was trying to paint and she says “hands are hard!” Whoever wrote that joke knows the struggle

Normal Jerries: Skinny tall boi’s/girls Amphitheater jerry: ONE BIG THICC BOI

I always cry during movies but the scene where he confronts his mother and she tells him how his dreams won't pay the bills, I completely broke down in sobs. This movie was a millennial movie tailored to my experience as a 27 year old, "unsuccessful" nobody. That exact dialog he had with his mom I've had countless times and I just...

I feel like this is Pixar’s way of starting to focus on more adult themes and targeting some of there movies for an adult audience. Especially since the kids that grew up with Pixar are adults now.

I really loved it when Joe got to play at the club and live out his dream, yet he still wasn’t satisfied. That felt real to me. I’m still not sure it I liked the rest of the movie, but I do recommend it. A lot of other people really like it, so I think that you should watch it in order to form an opinion.

The Jerrys and Terry were easily one my favorite parts of the movie, as their style reminded me of Super Paper Mario characters, and they way how their dialogue was calm and simple to make things easy for new souls was so nice. Amazing movie. Lil bit of spoilers: The part also where Joe was just playing his piano while remembering moments of his life, not parts of his life towards music or any type of goal but just normal life moments, was the best part of the movie. No dialogue, just astonishing visuals that pulled the heart strings.

It's almost like this movie was made with a lot of SOUL instead of being a soulless cashgrab.

Easily the most intellectual Disney movie yet. Big Ratatouille vibes.

I love that all of the backgrounds are hyper realistic and this world is inhabited by jelly beans

Soul: A movie about finding the biggest questions in life Kids: Haha, funny blue man

I’m religious and I wasn’t bothered or offended by the fact that they didn’t get religious in the film I did cry at the end tho not gonna lie

Fun fact the Jerry’s and Terry’s where created by a concept artist for Pixar by using wire sculptures and they where animated in the real world by shining a light over them during a meeting

I loved the art style used for this movie. How the humans are designed after the jazz painting style thats been around for so long while the abstract are simply just 2D lines in a 3D environment. The Astral plane especially was so visually stunning, I was just blown away. A great movie with a wonderful point

Soul really affected me. In 2018 I nearly died. I had a sudden cardiac arrest and had cpr for 37 mins. No heart signal for a full 11 mins. So I shouldn’t be alive. The things he does, when he comes back, like standing on the beach and letting the water run over his feet, appreciating the little things. That’s what it was like for me. Those little things you suddenly notice and appreciate.

This actually sounds like something I actually would have appreciated as a kid. When I was around 4 years old I Somehow worked out what death was. So I ended up being absolutely terrified of dying because I believed and still believe that once you die that's it. But yeah I've thought about this kind of stuff for most of my life.

They actually did the whole characters part ways ending right.

Anybody else just love the beautiful animation of the Jerrys and Terry? It feels so out the ordinary for Pixar, but they make it work wonderfully! They are also hilarious characters. I like how they don’t make a real villain in the movie. Sure there’s Terry, but they’re just doing their job and don’t have any evil intentions. The creators don’t even make Terry a big deal. They’re more like comic relief that helps the story along a little. I was worried they would make the Jerrys and Terry bad guys, but they really surprised me. The creators didn’t even show them in the previews and trailers! I love how the creators surprised us with the abstract art and one lined drawings that are Jerrys and Terry. Every part of this movie I loved. 22 is a really funny character, Joe has a goal from the begging and they both are surprised themselves by the way they end up in the resolution.

I think this film was definitely something that profoundly resonates with people who have anxiety/depression. Everything really did hit at home, especially coming from someone who is from New York.

reviews from children: (my nieces) 9yr old: "I thought the movie was like wow. touching, funny, good animating , the story I can imagine happening to a real person, I thought it would be like a movie that I would know everything that would happen, I felt lost it was exciting" 6yr old: "very funny and i love the little 22 shes very funny, the people that made the movie made me and my family laugh, the story was about souls and 22, but she turned into a lost one, she was cool and so long, I feel happy for Joe" 3yr old: "I like going trick r treating"

I honestly thought it would’ve ended by Joe meeting a baby that ended up having 22’s soul

Pixar made a movie for adults, and then added child aspects for the kids to enjoy. And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm excited to watch this over the years again and again, to see if my perspective changes. What am I going to think about this movie when I hit 75?

Finally, an actual reason for a celebrity to talk in the body of an animated animal

Can we agree Pete Doctor is the best director working at Pixar today?

7:22 I'm really glad you brought that up. As a black American that loves animation, it's disheartening to see movies that features a black main character(s) but the majority of the screen time is them transformed into an animal, ghost, object, etc (i.e. Princess Tiana) or they are portrayed as the stereotypical black character that raps, is an athlete, etc etc. When that happens, it feels like the studio doesn't know how to portray black culture/characters and their only knowledge is through stereotypes and mainstream opinions, so they opted for the easy way out instead of learning about the character they want to develop accurately. The writers of Soul did a good job and did their homework, as good writers do. Never be afraid to learn about someone else's point-of-view

This movie helped my little 11 year old sister with her anxiety. She’s been overly anxious for years and as soon as this movie ended, she seemed to have relaxed quite a lot. Highly suggest watching it ^^

the reason I liked 22 was that her insecurity felt very real to me, and the way that it was portrayed. I also liked that 22 was suprisingly good with conversations.

Honestly the best scene is this movie was the adorable pre-soul describing themselves as an egotistical megalomaniac, and the Jerri just saying "Sounds like an Earth problem" lol

I groaned when the body swap happened, because I’m sick of that trope. But it turned out being really good.

I actually loved the whole “taking a form that your human mind can comprehend” that WASNT just them putting the actor or whatever, like, gives us a little more credit. Like it has just enough form to make out, any more abstract and we couldn’t make out.

I'm 22 so much it hurts, the whole 'i don't have a purpose/spark' 'i'm not good enough' 'give up' 'life sucks' etc, fuck i was 22 a month ago, pixar stop it's getting real personal

"This movie hit me with the big feels" -Me, yesterday after I watched the movie

Favorite character was Terry! I know he doesn't seem to be that likable, but what I loved about him was that he kinda embraces the unlikeable character. Honestly, Terry is just a guy trying to fix a problem. He’s really bold in his goals and could get puffed up sometimes, but it's those traits that make him the character that he is. He also feels a little bit like an antagonist but isn't actually the antagonist, (setting things right is the story goal) I like how he plays off that feel. The ”stick in the mud” and ”by the books” character deep down is really just trying his best to do his job. He plays his character very well and that's why he's my favorite. (’Spoiler’: I also find it funny how the Jerrys tricked Terry to alter his count at the end of the film, that was really funny.)

I personally love that Pixar is branching to more mature themes. Many of us entering our 30's have grown up on Pixar movies and still love the stories, but this movie shows that a long with us, the studio itself has become more wise and mature. I can definitely see them producing more successful animated movies that lean more on mature and existential themes. Ofcourse they'll still produce movies that are centered towards children, but this may show them there is an audience for people that love the animated medium that are also looking for more mature plots.

The line about the taxis really hit close to home. It was 22 in Joe’s body and they were trying to hail a taxi, and when the taxis drove past, 22 asked if it was the hospital gown making it difficult to get a taxi. But then joe says, “it would’ve been difficult whether I was wearing a hospital gown or not.” That hurt man.

I just like the way he said "Unfortunately for Joe, he died"

I actually kind of liked how the main character didn’t die in the end. I mean, those 2D things could’ve just done nothing and let him die, but it was cool to see them go out of their way to do what they thought was best for him. It also made it so that the lessons he learned during the movie didn’t go to waste, and he was able to live his life the way he would’ve really wanted to. This also leaves room for a sequel that shows what the main character and 22 do with their lives, and if they ever get to meet each other again. Also, if it weren’t for him continuing to live, they wouldn’t have been able to add in that funny scene where that one 2D being had to tell the other one to look away so that he could throw off his counting. I mean, I guess I’m not saying that this movie would’ve sucked if the main character died in the end, but it would’ve probably been a bit of a missed opportunity.

I expected a certain joke when he mentioned Joe’s Mama

I was not to expecting to cry on multiple occasions on this film. I cried on this film more than coco

I disagree 22’s character was spot on. She’s 100% THAT student who’s so paralyzed by past failures and being reprimanded for everything she does she’s just “ok instead of doing that bs again, you’re going to let me not try and we’ll both be on our merry way.”

I think while kids under 10 might not jive with it, in my opinion mid-late teens might find something here. There's a lot of kids out there who don't know what to do after school's over beyond whatever their parents push them to like college or university, and a lot of them may be content to just be as they are and sometimes to their own detriment, because they never found what made them tick, or what made them really live their lives. The movie I feel isn't just about what really matters in our lives, where it's talking about career vs people, and the things that makes our lives worth living, I think it's also about the connection of adulthood and childhood. The relationship of the two main characters really seems that way to me.

Sometimes I wish Pixar would just make an adult film already, they’ve been getting deeper and more complex and I wanna see what they can really do

They were thinking about having Joe die, but they changed it because the whole film was about Joe learning to appreciate life. “If he died, what was the film about?” Thought Pixar. Another ending you see Joe years after, still having the part-time job as a teacher, and one of his students is 22. Pixar decided on a vague ending, because that’s what life is. They didn’t want a destiny; they didn’t want to tell the future that everything will be perfect from now on. The point of life is to live. It’s about appreciating what we got, spending time with loved ones, playing an instrument, making art, lifting others. All of this whether life is good or bad. Have a life that one day you can look back and say, “I’m proud of what I made of it.”

I'm very religious (baptist Christian) and I don't see anything wrong with this movie. It's more a philosophical take on the meaning of life than a commentary movie saying this is what happens when you die. It actually isn't about what happens when you die it's about living your life while you still can and not wasting it. Of course this is a fictional movie I don't think most people would look at this movie and have an issue with it. The movie isnt meant to be taken literally and start a new religion. It's meant to make you think.

I actually think this movie is very good for teens as well. I mean, we all have been in school for basically our whole lives, only to be thrown in the “real world” without knowing what we truly want, so we just continue to do what we already know. I think the movie is comforting in that way. I don’t quite know how to explain it but the movie gives me some peace :)

This movie was pretty clearly aimed at adults. They just the that cat thing in for kids to get SOMETHING out of it. Such a cliché. Everything else was great though!

There is one line I want to point out that really hits me hard, even though it might have just been said on the off chance. At the end of the movie when 22 is about to jump down the hole to earth to be born, she is scared, so Joe says that he will jump with her. 22 then says that they both know he can't do that, so then Joe says something along the line of "I'll go as far as I can with you." This is where I started crying (heck, I'm crying right now) because it makes me think of all the people in my life, my parents, my teachers, my family, MY MENTORS, who will help me along the way, but they won't be with me my whole life. Like I'm talking about all the parental figures in my life, so it's most likely they will die sooner due to their older age. They will push me and guild me forward, but at some point, they won't be able to go with me anymore. They will work so hard just so I can go farther, be happy, and maybe be a mentor for someone else, but my monitors won't be able to see it till the end. They can only hope that they did all they can for me, and send me off into the future, a future that they will never see. I am weeping here, it's so sad.

This movie actually says something important about what's usually a superficial assumption, that your spark will continue to define you when in reality that's our construct and it really doesn't matter as long as you like what you do The barbershop scene shows that sometimes that spark isn't what the future has in store for us, but it can always be something better, that we don't really know unless we try it and we live life taking the curves it throws at us, because fulfilling what we already created as goals isn't as fulfilling as the simplest of pleasures like the taste of pizza or things like asking someone about their life and discovering more about them

This movie requires more then a “quick vid.”

Dude, i deadass finished watching this movie like a few seconds ago-

He doesn't die. he just gets in critical condition. He's unconsious. this is where your consience is when you're knocked out big time.

The production babies in the credits are called "You Seminar Graduates" which I think is adorable.

I thought it was refreshing to see a POC character that wasn’t something non human for the majority of the movie on that same note they didn’t just shove it our face i.e: ‘oh! Lets make him black so poc people pay attention and buy our shit’ but actually made a good movie about a man going through an existential change in his life who just so happened to be black.

Did you know that in the behind the scenes of this film, someone was just trying to look for inspiration and decided to mess around with some art supplies, and created some wire characters?

Saber: *talks about how Pixar has never released a movie on Disney+* Me: *aggressively pointing at Onward*

I felt like Joe’s spark at the end was inspiring others, from the very beginning although he was unhappy being a middle school band director , he was able to inspire Connie with her passion of Jazz and when he was explaining to the students about Jazz trying to defend Connie’s into the zone moment you could see they were a bit more invested into it yet when he talked about his personal ‘spark’ moment he lost them and with 22 he was the only one out of hundreds of thousands of famous intelligent individuals from history to be able to reach her and be able to give her her earth badge. It was really inspiring to see how Joe although not fully realizing it, is able to change others around him .

I'm a deeply religious Christian, and yet I am very glad it didn't get into the whole dieties debacle.

"This is water, what I want is the Ocean."

I personally liked the ending. It felt more complete to me. As a musician and hopefully a middle school band teacher myself, I've thought about my purpose in life as a band teacher, and Joe's character just really spoke to me on a personal level because of that (and both our last names are Gardner, which is a pretty cool parallel). He thought that his purpose in life was his spark, to be a musician, but in reality it wasn't. His purpose was to teach. That's what he did with 22 to an extent, and that's what he should be doing. Him dying at the end wouldn't allow him to fulfill his purpose. My mind goes back to that scene with the trombone girl, who came to Joe and said she quit. She tried to give back the trombone and leave it at that, but after playing, she found her spark again, and even though it wasn't Joe talking to her in that scene, that's what a teacher should do, should say. That's what I would say. He changed her life, and inspired her to keep going. That's Joe's purpose. That's what I hope to be my purpose. And if Joe died at the end of the movie, finally finding his purpose of teaching, it wouldn't be complete. He would never go on to teach and inspire all those middle schoolers. He wouldn't fully fulfill his purpose, his life wouldn't be complete. His purpose wouldn't continue. This is one of the few times that I'm glad the main character lived in a story like this, because he went through all that to find his spark, only to die and never apply it to others around him. I'm also thinking about how the kids in his class would feel if he died. I've had a teacher die the year after she taught me and I was heartbroken. She was an amazing teacher with so much potential in her future, but she never got to fulfill it. And as a middle schooler, that was heartbreaking. So thinking back on that trombonist, it would break her heart, and I feel it'd be better if she had Joe in her life. I believe it'd be better if that school had Joe as their teacher. There's still people who need him, and that's why he got a second chance, because now he can start doing his purpose's work. I don't see that second chance as Disney butting in, I see it as a man who finally found himself and was going to put his new spark to use. The ending was intentionally left open, and I see him going back to that music room and teaching, not going to the jazz club and playing with that famous saxophonist. And that's where I believe he needs to be. A music teacher. And I love that. :)

I just finished watching Soul and that movie really hits different. Disney/Pixar movies normally teach u life lessons but this movie, teaches u life. And I never really noticed how valuable life is until I watched this movie. Damn.

My grandpa got COVID and had to stay on the hospital and one morning I woke up and my mom telling me that my grandpa was done fighting and he wanted the plug pulled on himself so we decided to drive down to where he lived so we could comfort our grandma, I decided that I would watch this movie and I was on that scene where he is falling to the pre-existence and i have no idea why that scene in particular but I started crying uncontrollably thinking about my grandpa. This movie helped me get over his death.

A high concept movie more for preteens. Definitely not for kids, can't imagine my son wanting to watch it over and over again like he does with the incredibles or walle.

As someone who has a six year old little brother, I can safely that he absolutely loves it. He’s rewatched it about four times already

Pixar: we want to make an artsy cool film about life and death. Disney: yeah but we gotta sell toys. That got me off guard 😂🤣

this feels a lot more like an adult movie then a kids movie

I love the jerries so much they are so weirdly animated yet they look and sound beautiful they also picked good actors

I feel bad for paul tho, hes gonna need therapy after his soul litterally being taken out his body also the jerrys are my favorite characters

If Pixar was in the Avatar TLA world, they'd be tearbenders

I loved this movie, it tackled a really mature subject so it pulls in the older audience and still keeps it enjoyable for the kids. I think it's one of Pixar's most visually pleasing movies. It was even really trippy at times which was great lmao. It had a lot more adult humor that would go over kids heads but also had that classic Disney humor for younger viewers. I looked at this movie with a lot of skepticism but was incredibly surprised by it. Overall it has a really great balance between the two age groups that view it, tackled a very interesting subject and had some great characters in it. If I could give it a rating, ehhhhhhh.... 8/10

i actually felt the opposite about the ending - if joe had just died, i feel like the suicidal themes of that would have been... yikes. up until that point where they gave him a second chance i was SO worried they'd kill him, and with the scenes where he realizes that his "purpose" doesn't fufill him like he thought and essentially just realizing there's nothing left to live for, really (as in, him just accepting the fact he's gonna die at the end instead of continuing to fight to live)... i feel like it could've given many people the wrong impression. i loved the film overall, though! makes me feel utterly hopeless and completely furious with the way the world works (see: capitalism) but that's nothing new! it's probably one of my favorite pixar films, if i'm being honest. yeah, great film.

I think to fully and entirely appreciate 22 you have to have fallen into that "life is so utterly pointless that even putting the effort into trying is too much work" nihilistic pit of thinking at least once or twice because I honestly found myself heavily relating a lot more to her than anyone else in the film