Elsa Shortlidge

Best from Pixar in a while, I’ve never finished a movie left breathless by the meaning. I lost my mother at a young age so I was expecting a movie telling me to move on because dead people be living it up in the afterlife, but it made me feel better about it because she lived a good life. Soul isn’t about death, it’s about life and every reason to go outside and live it. I do have a few complaints though, but I wouldn’t change much. I think some side characters could have more story, but I understand that wouldn’t make them side characters. The transitions were strange, but I’m sad to say that most of the story progressions in movies this year haven’t been anything to gawk at. Weirdly the trailers made me want to hate the movie, especially the cowboy dance that I don’t think was in the movie The movie also had a lot pros as well! The character and basic world building was perfection! How Joe slowly learns his flaws by looking at 22 as him, and improving on them. And the thing that really hit me was the truth that dreams come true, but they aren’t going to change your life. When Joe goes home it made me reminisce on all the times I thought I would peak but I ended up empty inside. Overall an ambitious movie from Pixar!

It wasn’t anything special. The message wasn’t inspiring, and the beginning didn’t transition well into the rest of the movie. The villain didn’t feel scary when he was meant to be, and when I was supposed to feel sympathy, I didn’t. Also why does Diana’s entire personality revolve around Steve, I mean I understand that he meant a lot to her but I fear that will become what Wonder Woman is known for. I enjoyed Kristen Wiig, she wasn’t anything special, but she had the most character. Chris Pine was kind of just that, he didn’t have much impact to the story. Pedro Pascal did his best, but I still have no idea why his character did the things he did, how he found out about the stone, and how he did anything to be honest. Gal Gadot was pretty boring, but I think that was just her character not having much of a character. Overall it was boring, lacked the love of the original, and had no character.