Review of Elemental (2023) by Infrarecon — 03 Jul 2023

This movie did the best that it could with the material and aesthetic it uses. This is a love story that takes very little inspiration from Romeo and Juliet and does an elemental twist to it to add some Differential factors to the film.

Is this film good to look at? yes.

Is it entertaining? mostly yes.

Does the story do something different? kind of.

The animation's pacing, story and Dialogue are subtle negatives. I really don't understand why this was set for a Theatrical release, this should go straight to Disney +.

Anyway, let me rant about the negatives.

The dialogue is garbage just like Nimona, it has its moments but it really does not like to talk or explain anything about this universe in a well-executed manner.

The music choice is a bit off if you were expecting a grand city adventure, this film lets down in every scene. There is nothing here that is like "Wow that's a pretty cool thing I've never seen before", it is more like "Oh it's just flowers", or "Hey they live in a pool". Again don't get me wrong, the animation is pretty to look at, but that doesn't mean anything if they don't do some interesting environmental work.

Ratings:

Visuals: 9/10, nice to look at but doesn't use it to pure maximum levels.

Characters: 6/10, There are more entertaining and relatable characters here than in Nimona(excluding Nimona).

Story: 5/10, Just a Standard love story, with a visual twist.

Plot and Pacing: 4/10, Pacing can't decide what scenes are important, Logically it is inconsistent.

Dialogue: 4/10, it's bare bones, and sometimes stupid in the way characters act.

And the Final Rating is, strange I was going to give this a 6/10, but I think it's on par with Nimona. It succeeds where Nimona Fails in some cases, yet to me, it's a 5/10. It gets some aspects right and the other overlooked aspects wrong.

Again, I rate animations fairly and easily. This movie as well does not meet the Animation Standard for it to be a film that you should go out and watch. It only succeeds because of the animation and the somewhat story flow it tries to pertain. I do not like this film and Don't intend to watch it again. PIXAR and Disney must do better. Is this the worst animation in the world though?

Definitely not, That goes to Strange World.

Thanks for reading, Don't forget to turn the stove off.

Message to Disney:

So Disney now that you're done screwing around with fire, can we get an Incredibles 3? Or do we have to wait another 10+ years for that too?

How about Big Hero 7?

Treasure Planet?

I know, Ratatouille 2.

Seriously why do we have to suffer through such unpleasant animation in 2023? What? Is creating a simple Idea of characters, stories and Plot lines so hard to do, I can literally do this in my sleep. Anyone with a brain and Imagines can do this.

Whoever Disney Hires to come up with all the material needs to be fired. Hire me instead, Hire anyone instead that loves animation and the cool things that can be done with it. You definitely won't regret it.

The end, So far...