One of my proudest recent moments has been watching my two year old run up to my mom, tell her he has a secret, then whisper "poopoo peepee" into her ear.
Another thing I did (which I technically stole from my friend Carlos) was to teach my son that the answer to “what sound does mommy make?” is a fart sound. I didn’t tell her about it until he did it in front of her.
Just like your Inside Out review, I agree. I only like that the end became about her going to try glass blowing and she was going to do that regardless of Wade.
What I didn't like was the dam plot, although dumb, was abandoned and just used as a metaphor for her boiling over and breaking Wades heart. Wade really seemed coded gay to me too, as a gay man. He was also dopey to the point of being childish. I get bring sensitive but this was crazy.
Also was hoping the Dad would end up less racist maybe add a second recipe to serve more elementals or even apologize to Wade but... no.
I'm pretty sure if I asked ChatGPT to make a movie about the elements, it would spit something out like "fire and water fall in love with one another, but they must never touch lest they turn to steam"
I’d love to hear the exasperated gripes of the Pixar employee(s) who argued internally that it’s stupid to personify Wind (instead of Water) as a cloud, since clouds are literally water.
Woo boy, how long did you have that Pixar labeled bullet in the chamber? Feel good to take a shot at a children's movie that was just trying to make people happy? I kid, I don't give a fuck about kid's movies. Trash away.
If anything, it was a tech showcase for Pixar. I thought CGI ran out of ways to depict flowing water in exciting ways but oof it’s bad when all you have to say about a film from mighty Pixar is “those water physics were dope”. Also i liked Ember’s lil flickering nose
It's funny - this was the most I've enjoyed a Pixar movie since Coco, and I also agree with the complaints. Star-crossed lover stories get me, what can I say. There was a kid sitting near us who was audibly bored, and I don't blame her - do kids give a shit about urban planning/building codes, immigrant/child of immigrants stories, or romance?
But to your gay vibe point, I was kind of surprised Disney burned a queer protagonist on the terrible, generic Strange World, instead of using it here, where it would have added another layer to the metaphor.
I think the big issue with Elemental is that the metaphor doesn't really serve a purpose. The characters are such obvious ciphers to something "real" that, by making them a part of such an elaborate artifice, it ends up feeling like the creators were weirdly afraid to be like "this is about Korean people." I realize it's a kids movie and it needs some sort of whimsy and/or something visually fantastic to make it stand out, but I wish it was more like "Turning Red": a fantasy story told from a specific character POV.
Needless to say, I tried watching this with my kids this weekend and retreated to my phone after 20 minutes. Found it super boring.
One of my proudest recent moments has been watching my two year old run up to my mom, tell her he has a secret, then whisper "poopoo peepee" into her ear.
Another thing I did (which I technically stole from my friend Carlos) was to teach my son that the answer to “what sound does mommy make?” is a fart sound. I didn’t tell her about it until he did it in front of her.
Just like your Inside Out review, I agree. I only like that the end became about her going to try glass blowing and she was going to do that regardless of Wade.
What I didn't like was the dam plot, although dumb, was abandoned and just used as a metaphor for her boiling over and breaking Wades heart. Wade really seemed coded gay to me too, as a gay man. He was also dopey to the point of being childish. I get bring sensitive but this was crazy.
Also was hoping the Dad would end up less racist maybe add a second recipe to serve more elementals or even apologize to Wade but... no.
Crap.
I'm pretty sure if I asked ChatGPT to make a movie about the elements, it would spit something out like "fire and water fall in love with one another, but they must never touch lest they turn to steam"
I’d love to hear the exasperated gripes of the Pixar employee(s) who argued internally that it’s stupid to personify Wind (instead of Water) as a cloud, since clouds are literally water.
Woo boy, how long did you have that Pixar labeled bullet in the chamber? Feel good to take a shot at a children's movie that was just trying to make people happy? I kid, I don't give a fuck about kid's movies. Trash away.
If anything, it was a tech showcase for Pixar. I thought CGI ran out of ways to depict flowing water in exciting ways but oof it’s bad when all you have to say about a film from mighty Pixar is “those water physics were dope”. Also i liked Ember’s lil flickering nose
It's funny - this was the most I've enjoyed a Pixar movie since Coco, and I also agree with the complaints. Star-crossed lover stories get me, what can I say. There was a kid sitting near us who was audibly bored, and I don't blame her - do kids give a shit about urban planning/building codes, immigrant/child of immigrants stories, or romance?
But to your gay vibe point, I was kind of surprised Disney burned a queer protagonist on the terrible, generic Strange World, instead of using it here, where it would have added another layer to the metaphor.
I think the big issue with Elemental is that the metaphor doesn't really serve a purpose. The characters are such obvious ciphers to something "real" that, by making them a part of such an elaborate artifice, it ends up feeling like the creators were weirdly afraid to be like "this is about Korean people." I realize it's a kids movie and it needs some sort of whimsy and/or something visually fantastic to make it stand out, but I wish it was more like "Turning Red": a fantasy story told from a specific character POV.
Needless to say, I tried watching this with my kids this weekend and retreated to my phone after 20 minutes. Found it super boring.