Review of Coco (2017) by Jluis_001 — 25 Nov 2017

While one might expect me to be more benevolent with this film because it focus on celebrating a very important part of the Mexican culture, Coco does not appeal to that, after all it is Disney and Pixar film and quality has never been a problem with them.

Although Coco's has a certain fallacy because the family of the main character, is a Mexican family rooted in the rural spectrum and these people celebrate music, the fact that Miguel's passion is forbidden it certainly does not seem entirely believable, but at least the background is believable and functional.

Evidently Coco plays with the idea of ​​any children's movie where children seem to know more than adults and adults do not react well to that, after his grandmother smashes his guitar, Miguel's true odyssey begins and Coco's magic appears .

The visual aspect - not the animation - is frankly rich and any Mexican or Latino living in the US will find it familiar, all the inconography and folklore are present and they are the most striking strength of this film.

That it does not feel original? No, undoubtedly it does not, but the difference lies in the more entrenched quality that Pixar imposes on the film, its message is not new either and although it's fair to believe that Pixar took something already seen and improved it's also fair to give this film the chance and appreciate it for the quality it contains, not for what it did better than those who came before and at that point, like it or not, Coco is better.

Maybe I am softer than I usually am but frankly Coco is what I expected, I did not want surprises or something lavish, I wanted quality, I wanted a beautiful animation and I wanted a good story and in my opinion Coco has all that.

*** By the way when the movie gets released, if you're not very interested In Frozen, skip the first half hour, Disney included the long and boring short of ''Olaf's Frozen Adventure'' and that was a very annoying experience. Ironically, the rest of the audiences here in Mexico also hated it so much that it was removed. I don't think that's going to happen in the US so that's why I'm preventing you.