![]() ![]() My screening was almost quiet for the entire hour and 42 minute run time. Sadly, Earth and Wind characters were used very sparingly. Getting back to compliments… not only did Earth and Wind look phenomenal, that’s where most of the humor in the film came from. However, I wish they had chosen and a different look. Though I didn’t care much for how the water looked either, why did Earth and Wind look so good? There are moments where visually fire gets to dazzle us, mostly when we’re watching the film’s star Ember. What I said to myself just a couple of minutes into the film was “How come every element looks better than fire?” It’s almost as though a different style of animation for the fire elements. To say a Pixar film looks amazing is expected. They do need to know but from Pixar? That’s not what I go their films for. I’ll move on to discuss other elements of this film (see what I did there?) but I just don’t understand who thought the children needed to learn that hatred exists, but we’re all people so we can get along. I suppose that it was meant to be a nice way to introduce children to bigotry. If that seems at all familiar, then you get what I was saying in the previous paragraph about how you can tell where they’re pulling some of these statements from in real life. Part of me thinks that fire is black people because the fire then turned their hatred towards water. It seems like most of the elements get along, but fire is looked at very negatively. They don’t make any statements that could be truly offensive, but it’s not hard to see where the statement came from in our society. Almost immediately the audience is subjected to the cutest biases you could imagine. Oh wait, there’s also a lot of bias and bigotry woven throughout this Disney and Pixar film. That’s the most important piece of the story. He’ll be ready to retire whenever he feels like she’s ready to take over. He expects for Ember to take over once he’s ready to retire. Outside of the big city where fire is more welcome, her father Bernie (Ronnie del Carmen) has established a shop he’s very proud of. To give a brief synopsis: Elemental is a film about Ember Lumen (Leah Lewis) and her family that owns a fire shop. Let’s see if I meant that as a positive thing. ![]() I’ll begin by saying I am genuinely shocked the Rotten Tomatoes score, at the time of this being written, is 79%. Dug is cool but it would be nice to see a grown Russell come back and deal with the very ornery Carl. since this is the second short to feature these characters, I hope that we’re moving toward a series of some kind. Up was such a great film that just a few piano notes remind us not only of the film but of the love that Carl lost. Without giving away the plot, which I feel like the name does well, it was a nice 7-10 minute piece that still found a way to almost bring a tear to my eye. I thought it was refreshing to once again see Carl and Dug living in some new neighborhood yet still up to the same old schtick. To begin I’d like to start this review by discussing the Pixar short Carl’s Date which prefaced my screening of Elemental. **This review is intended for entertainment purposes** ![]()
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