Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
- Released: 2020-12-25
- Runtime: 101 minutes
- Genre: Animation, Family, Music
- Stars: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, Alice Braga, Richard Ayoade, Phylicia Rashād, Donnell Rawlings, Questlove, Angela Bassett, Cora Champommier, Margo Hall, Daveed Diggs, Rhodessa Jones, Wes Studi, Sakina Jaffrey, Fortune Feimster, Calum Grant, Laura Mooney, Peggy Flood, Zenobia Shroff, June Squibb, Ochuwa Oghie, Jeannie Tirado, Cathy Cavadini, Dorian Lockett, Doris Burke, Ronnie del Carmen, Esther K. Chae, Élisapie, Marcus Shelby
- Director: Pete Docter
Comments
- boe_dye - 26 December 2022
A delightful tale!
Certainly one of the more original Pixar films I have seen in while, just about everything in it was great. The animation style was challenging and original, the characters were likeable and the overall story was thought provoking.
The music, most especially was wonderful; all of these elements pulled together to make a fun and delightful tale.
The only thing I did not like was the ending. The ending was too vague and open ended. It did not really resolve much (in a sense), and more or less devolved into less than satisfying motif. There was no actual resolution to Joe "making it", nor was there any actual final closure for Joe. He just "lived" as it were.
Personally I think it would have been much more satisfying for Joe to have realized that his life could have had meaning both on and off the stage -- instead it almost seemed like he pursued neither (or both) depending on how you wanted to interpret the ending.
Otherwise, I still think it was a great film and worth a watch! - dgos-66676 - 14 August 2022
Really good.
This film is perfect in almost every way. Key word: Almost. The ending falls a bit flat, and doesn't exactly end on the most satisfying note, but it's still entertaining the whole way through.
