Review of Coco (2017) by Harry W — 14 Dec 2017
Deftly emotional and sincere with its story, Coco carves its own edge into Pixar's brilliant track record and stirs up a tale of music, family and purpose all intertwined with the backdrop of the Mexican celebratory day of the dead.
Like Monstropolis or Andy's Bedroom before it, the Land of the Dead is both intoxicatingly deep and also viciously energetic. At some points of the film I did feel like it went a little off track and the film also unfortunately suffers from an extremely under-developed main villain and this was an aspect of the film that felt pretty rushed, but apart from that everything else was pretty much perfect.
The few songs that are in the film are all extremely memorable and soulful and the voice acting is brilliant, particularly Anthony Gonzales as the protagonist and Gael Garcia Bernal as Hector. There weren't as many "wink wink nudge nudge" moments as are usually present in Pixar films, so this may be one for the adults to avoid slightly as there wasn't much comedy present there for more mature audiences, however the emotional punch of an ending was definitely something that all would be able to appreciate.
This review of Coco (2017) was written by Harry W on 14 Dec 2017.
Coco has generally received very positive reviews.
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