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2023

Pixar Takes on Immigration With Lukewarm ‘Elemental’

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In 2003, my dad took my sister and me to see a Pixar film for Father’s Day: Finding Nemo, a film more remarkable—and remarkably well-suited for the holiday—than any of us could have expected. This weekend, 20 years later, the three of us have a new holiday-appropriate Pixar pick for a Father’s Day outing. Elemental (in theaters June 18) is another emotions-heavy adventure about a parent and child’s efforts to understand each other. Although it doesn’t come close to reaching Nemo’s heights (very few films, animated or otherwise, can), Elemental neither needs nor tries to, mostly to its own benefit.

Instead of being a gorgeously reassuring tale for helicopter parents or upcoming empty nesters, à la Nemo, Elemental focuses on the children eager to chart their own paths—and maybe even start their own families. While not unheard of for Pixar, Elemental’s cast is almost exclusively composed of adults, ones with adult dreams. The characters have all your classic ol’ goals here: retirement; finding your soulmate; upward mobility out of the lowest rung of your society’s discriminatory class system. These familiar aims are filtered through a high-concept premise, one that feels less complicated than other conceptual Pixar fare like Soul and Inside Out, yet somehow less well-defined or explained. As Elemental tries to tell a straightforward story in this complex world, it unfortunately falls flat nearly as often as it soars.

Elemental takes place in a world divided into four tribes: fire, water, earth, and air. But the similarities to Avatar: The Last Airbender end there. These are actually communities of anthropomorphized elements, each with their own cultures and quirks—fire people, whose bodies are covered in flames, eat flint to keep themselves alight; water people’s homes are basically indoor pools. Unfortunately, some of those elements don’t mesh well with each other. That’s especially so for fire people, whose combustible bodies are both a danger to themselves and to others.

Read more at The Daily Beast.




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