Luca2021

Verdict: 🥈 SHOULD SEE Entertaining and funny, but missing an important theme to tie it all together. Feels like they took what should have been a short and made it a full length feature without giving it a greater purpose. Still, it has a signature Ghibli feel to it, oozing with authentic Italian scenery and a simple plot line (in a very good way). It’s gorgeous to look at and innocent in nature. I love how Pixar’s villain formula is so distinct and never implies straight evil. More studios should learn from this. Even at their least consequential (Cars 2, The Good Dinosaur, and now Luca) Pixar is still working at a higher caliber than most other studios out there. It’s not animals escaping something or singing & dancing again and again like the kids movies from every other studio. Feels like something important was lost at Pixar when John Lasseter left, and they still haven’t been able to fully recover.