Movie Review: Coco

DISCLAIMER: THIS REVIEW HAS NO CONNECTION OF A STORYLINE REVIEW. READERS DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to my movie review.

From a few months ago, i talked about "Cars 3", a sequel that although it was considered to be improvement, but its not as perfect that it use the same story from the first movie, but with a new plot element.

Which it makes me wondering if their second film would better or disappointing us after "Cars 3"? Thats exactly il talk about the film that came out recently.

"Coco" is a 2017 Pixar animation film that was written/directed by Lee Unkrich, produced by Darla K. Anderson, written by Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich.

This is one of the film that it was announced from a few months ago that we're curiously find out about it. Which this animated movie included the theme of Mexican's "Day of the dead". In other words, its an animated movie with Mexican's culture, which i like that idea that i was popped in and find out. And as you already know, this is not the only film has Mexican's culture, there's a film called "Book of Life", which it was actually good, but i never seen this movie.

So, with all that said, will this movie holds up from Mexican's culture, or is this film ended up being foreshadowed by Cars 3 and Book of life?

Lets find out

The Story

It began from the past where the late great great grandmother named Imelda had a relation with a famous musician, but he moved away to travelling in various countries. Because of that, she decided to banning musical stuff and focused with shoemaking. Fast-forward in present time(?), we have our main great great grandson named "Miguel" who's been dreaming to become musician like the late star named " Ernesto de la Cruz". But he realized that Ernesto has a same connection from his great great parents, but he got rejected by his grandmother Elena, believing musical is cursing the family and destroyed his guitar. Devastated from rejection, he ran away as if he was desperate to find out about his great great grandfather. After entering the cemetery, he grabbed a musician's guitar to play it, he realized that after playing it, he was transported to the other world, which happened to be "Land of the dead", since he was entered, he's going to find out about his great great grandfather.

I gotta say, i find the story itself is actually fascinating, its not just for the family or even the music, its more like about remembering the old time that we probably forgot about it. It is pretty sad that forgot what happen to the past about our late parents. But having idea of banning stuff that we like in the past might be hurting our pas that we easily forgot about. Though i may think the story feels a bit similar from the previous Pixar film "Finding Dory". Where "Finding Dory" is about being forgotten about family. In Coco, its about finding whether Ernesto is a father for a song or not. There's a subplot about the song "Remember me" for not only about finding the father, its for dedication to Grandmother Coco, but we not sure who did it for a tribute, but i won't spoil it for the truth.

The story is impressive and yet emotional that we understand about forgotten past that nobody want to believe or not.

The Animation

Like i said, its another great work of animation by Pixar. But in this movie, its not only great looking, but also pretty colorful since "Inside Out". For example, the design of "Land of the dead" looks pretty cool and colorful. There a lot of apartments with colors, i love it. As for the real world (aka Human world), its also looks pretty cool and nicely done for how Mexican's look like. As for the characters, for humans, they look pretty cool like previous Pixar films. And for the dead people in "Land of the dead", they look fascinated, but yeah, i know they're basically like a cartoony skeletons, but it looks nice and sometimes colorful from their body parts, though sometimes some female skeletons can be a bit fan-service-ish from the hips, its kinda weird that i looked at, but i digress. And for the work of animation, it works pretty nice for how the human moves, sometimes fast-pace and interesting effects like lighting, fading and colorful change.

The animation is amazingly done of Mexican cultures with colors, the designs and how nice and smooth of animation.

The characters

When it comes to the characters, i find some of them are quite interesting.

First is our main boy Miguel Rivera (voiced by young actor Anthony Gonzalez ), its obvious to tell he's a typical kid who conquer his dream to become famous for music. But he's not a typical dreamer, but he was fascinated from his great great grandfather, because he loves musical, despite that again, his family claimed that it causes to ruining their parentship for moving away to vanished. But to be fair, he's rather an interesting kid and i can say Anthony Gonzalez did  a nice work of his role and i think its the first time as a main role.

Next, we have Hector (voiced by Gael García Bernal). He's portray as a trickster who's trying to hide his identity for travelling in living world as a ghost in "Day of the dead". Which at first, i though he's gonna be like an out of context character of the movie, but in reality, he's a character for a plot device for helping Miguel for a music for his supposed great great grandfather. I find him good character and for the fun fact, Gael is not the only language that he voiced his character, but he also provided his role in Spanish language. Nice touch.

Then we have Elena Rivera (voiced by Renee Victor). She sorta like Imelda for protecting her family with banning music for obvious reason. Which at first, i usually hated her, because of over-protection from the "curse of family". Despite Renee did a nice work of her role, but she's easily my least favorite for her over-protective with banning.

Speaking of that, we have Imelda (voiced by Alanna Ubach), who's not only the one who first banning music, but she's also a matriarch of Rivera Family. Unlike Elena, i find her to be rather interesting, not because for her attention of music is bad, but its just that despite her death, its nice to see her in "Day of the Dead". Though she sorta have a sympathy for Miguel for music, but thats a different story, which again, i won't spoil it.

Speaking of sympathy, we have Mama Coco (voiced by Ana Ofelia Murguía). That lady is the one that i probably feel sorry for her, which she may know about her father, but she lost her memory from the past almost everything, since she's nearly dying. I mean, its not easy to find about the past, due to the issue of separation family.

Finally we have Ernesto de la Cruz (voiced by Benjamin Bratt). As you know, he's a famous musician that it got inspiration from Miguel. Even though he had an unexpected death in his stage of "Remember me". I find him to be interesting, for charming and love for the fans, especially for the dead people. And i think its the second time that i saw him since MCU's "Doctor Strange".

They're few other characters, most notable is various late parents of Rivera like Julio (voiced by Alfonso Arau), Rosita (voiced by Selene Luna ), Victoria (voiced by Dyana Ortellí) and brothers like Felipe and Oscar (both of them voiced by Herbert Siguenza). Although there's few mores aside of Rivera Family, especially some of them are voiced by John Ratzenberger (aka Hamm from Toy Story) and even Gabriel Iglesias ("DAAAYUUM!! 0_0"  I always wanna do that. XD)

Some of the characters are likable for their truth, personalities and others. Even though some that i don't like.

And now for my final opinion of this film.

Overall, Coco is another Pixar's successful movie they've ever done. With beautiful story, amazingly colorful animations and the characters are pretty good. I can say the Mexicans will enjoy this movie for the not just for cultures, but also feels similar for looking back from the past that we missed a lot, despite if we're a part of parents, we like to keep in privacy in public, until later or not. Despite that, i can say its the best animated film of 2017. But if not THE best film of the year, since few months ago, i enjoyed Logan with 10/10 for a good respect to our legendary actor's final role. But will Coco will be better than Logan, or it'll get foreshadowed by "Star Wars: The Last Jedi".

Oh btw, you're probably wondering about Disney's short film called "Olaf's Frozen Adventure"? I can its a nice short. But my problem is WE GET IT!! FROZEN 2 WAS ALREADY ANNOUNCED TO 2019!! IT WOULD'VE BEEN OK TO PUT IT IN 2018!!!

Sorry!! Sorry, i lost my patient before Coco, im so sorry about my temper of losing patients, its just unprofessional. I supposed to be positive at the end of my review.  So either way, il give this short 8/10.

Anyway, il give Coco a perfect 10/10. Go watch it if you love Pixar and even Mexican cultures.

So this ends of my movie review, if you guys have your opinion or any suggestions, let me know in the comments bellow.

Thanks for reading, and im Anthony, signing out.

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