Remember me! Oh how layered is that song!
Coco, Pixar's 19th feature film. The movie revolves around Miguel Riviera, a young boy who aspires to become a musician. Only one thing stands between him realizing his dream and that is, his family hates music, with a vengeance.
Coco is set in Mexico in the fictional town of Santa Cecilia celebrating Dia de Los Meurtos aka The Day of The Dead, a traditional Christian festival. Here is a piece of trivia, St. Cecilia is the Patron saint of musicians, so aptly named, for reasons you will understand on watching the movie. The movie portrays Mexican culture and traditions in a beautiful, vibrant way, exactly like in real life.
I was so excited for this movie that I violated my personal rule of watching no trailers and literally watched every single video featuring the movie. From the trailers what I noticed was that the ending looked obvious, but knowing Pixar, I knew this was a diversion. Keeping that in mind I entered the theatre. The wonderful colors and the wonderful visuals distracted me, but not enough, that I kept checking the time to make sure we had not reached the climax. There was never a bad or dull moment in the movie but I felt betrayed that a few key scenes were shown in the trailers thereby spoiling my watching experience.
The visuals were stunning, the jokes genuine and really funny, the Easter eggs plenty a piece. The music especially was brilliant. So brilliant in fact that I have most of the tracks on loop in my music player ever since. La Llorna, Remember me, Poco Loco, all wonderful songs. By the end of the movie, I was a blubbering mess of tears, trying hard to hide my face. This because, I was possibly one of the few adults in a theatre packed full of kids and their parents. The last scene had me a blubbering mess.
Overall I would give this movie a 9/10. and This is officially my second favourite Pixar movie ever!
Coco is set in Mexico in the fictional town of Santa Cecilia celebrating Dia de Los Meurtos aka The Day of The Dead, a traditional Christian festival. Here is a piece of trivia, St. Cecilia is the Patron saint of musicians, so aptly named, for reasons you will understand on watching the movie. The movie portrays Mexican culture and traditions in a beautiful, vibrant way, exactly like in real life.
I was so excited for this movie that I violated my personal rule of watching no trailers and literally watched every single video featuring the movie. From the trailers what I noticed was that the ending looked obvious, but knowing Pixar, I knew this was a diversion. Keeping that in mind I entered the theatre. The wonderful colors and the wonderful visuals distracted me, but not enough, that I kept checking the time to make sure we had not reached the climax. There was never a bad or dull moment in the movie but I felt betrayed that a few key scenes were shown in the trailers thereby spoiling my watching experience.
The visuals were stunning, the jokes genuine and really funny, the Easter eggs plenty a piece. The music especially was brilliant. So brilliant in fact that I have most of the tracks on loop in my music player ever since. La Llorna, Remember me, Poco Loco, all wonderful songs. By the end of the movie, I was a blubbering mess of tears, trying hard to hide my face. This because, I was possibly one of the few adults in a theatre packed full of kids and their parents. The last scene had me a blubbering mess.
Overall I would give this movie a 9/10. and This is officially my second favourite Pixar movie ever!
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