Elemental confirms it - the golden age of Pixar is over 🖊️ It’s almost as though the contours of what made it great have been copied out here in vague watercolour, writes christinalefou ★★
and say it wasn’t true. But gone are the days, it seems, when one could reliably turn up to a new
animated film, and have an emotive, funny, sweet, poignant viewing experience, with a kind of visual wit and occasional sight gag that made for a vivid aesthetic world, too.Pixar great have been copied out here in vague watercolour. The characters are less well-defined; the animation is more childlike; the story’s allegory is both too simple for adults and likely to go over children’s heads.
Peter Sohn’s film is the story of a boy and a girl from opposite ends of the social strata who fall in love: only here, in a world known as Element City, that social strata is divided by which element they belong to. There’s Ember , a hot-headed and creative girl who comes from the fire element, seen as lower class. And then there’s Wade from water, a more middle-class and evidently more emotionally voluble background.
Element City is a place of class and element-divided neighbourhoods, much like our own urban enclaves, and many of its brightly coloured inhabitants have emigrated from places that only had others of their own element there. Fire and Water don’t mix well, geddit? But the fact thatRelated Article
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