Coco review

Pixar Animation Studios have done it again. Coco is so much more than just a simple kids movie it is amazingly balanced well thought out heartwarming and executed to absolute perfection.

The story follows a young boy named Miguel an aspiring musician who is confronted with his family ancestral ban on music. This causes young Miguel to enter the land of the dead to try and find his great-great-grandfather a world famous and beloved musician. That's the story in a nutshell and while it is simple the characters and animation is what really bring it to life. Instantly likable Miguel is a charming boy who you will always find yourself rooting for. He is joined on his quest throughout the land of the dead by Hector a rejected man who cannot enter the realm of the living as his daughter is forgetting him. I won't go anymore into the story as it is full of spoilers but there is a twist here that is just a masterstroke and Pixar again prove they have the unique gift of storytelling and character development down path and every movie that they make just seems to get better and better.

I went to a fairly late showing of this and it was full of adults, not a kid in sight which was quite odd considering this is a movie directly aimed at kids for the most part but that just shows how much people love and appreciate Pixar and their amazing way of telling their stories. I touched a bit on it earlier but the animation is incredible filled with so many amazing and varied colors. Coco is truly spectacular and something that needs to be seen by everybody and I really do mean everybody. It tugs on the heartstrings in all the right places and is another home run by Pixar. A must see!

★★★★★