Review of Soul (2020) by Olavl — 28 Dec 2020
This is a really great Pixar movie. I just wanna start off with that. It has breathtaking visuals, amazing music, and a great cast. Richard Ayoade keeps on being one of the best actors no one seems to recognize.
The visual ideas are really inventive and interesting, "The zone" being one of the most creative things I have seen in a film. The montage towards the end of the film made me cry, and is peak Pixar.
Pretty much every scene spent in the spirit realm is really great. The scenes on earth is more of a problem. They have a bit of a whiplash effect, after the creativity on display in the spirit realm. Another problem is the weird, essentially tangential part where the protagonist is turned into a cat.
I really appreciate that 22 got to be a human, but couldn't she just discover the wonders of the world as a cat? Anyway, I really liked this movie, despite its mistakes. It isn't very funny, which is a bit of a sad trend with modern Pixar, but it is still pretty great.
It reminds me of the glory days of pixar, of Ratatouille and Wall-e and Up. I really hope this might usher in other films like that. And also that they stop making movies like Onward.
This review of Soul (2020) was written by Olavl on 28 Dec 2020.
Soul has generally received very positive reviews.
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