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Yesterday, I went to see Coco with A (person to by psuedonymed later). It's a gorgeous Pixar movie about a young boy who wants to be a musician even though his family is firmly anti-music due to the fact that his great-grandmother's father abandoned the family almost 100 years ago.
Young Miguel is pretty inventive -- he's built his own guitar from scratch, scavenged up his VCR and tv to watch clips of his idol, and figured out how to play a guitar quite well just from watching film clips.
Otoh, he's got almost no common sense at all. Stealing a famous guitar from a tomb (well, he was trying to merely borrow it, but still, a tomb) on the Day of the Day, and then walking backward on a marigold path while playing his stolen instrument... he'd have been safer dancing in a ring of toadstools.
The Land of the Dead is an absolutely glorious mess of color, and even the background skeletons are distinct, so kudos to the animators. There are some hilarious jokes that go by unless you think about them -- like the fact that the Dead use MacIntosh computers and vaccuum tube walkie-talkies aka dead technology -- and that Miguel's great-great-grandmother's giant winged puma of an alebrije is named 'Pepita' (a snack food of toasted pumpkin seeds, like naming your monstrous three-headed dog 'Fluffy' or 'Spot').
There's a twist in the movie that I won't spoil, but I definitely suggest you bring kleenex when you go. It doesn't pull its punches -- this is a movie about family, including dead family, and that means people die and talk about death.
Young Miguel is pretty inventive -- he's built his own guitar from scratch, scavenged up his VCR and tv to watch clips of his idol, and figured out how to play a guitar quite well just from watching film clips.
Otoh, he's got almost no common sense at all. Stealing a famous guitar from a tomb (well, he was trying to merely borrow it, but still, a tomb) on the Day of the Day, and then walking backward on a marigold path while playing his stolen instrument... he'd have been safer dancing in a ring of toadstools.
The Land of the Dead is an absolutely glorious mess of color, and even the background skeletons are distinct, so kudos to the animators. There are some hilarious jokes that go by unless you think about them -- like the fact that the Dead use MacIntosh computers and vaccuum tube walkie-talkies aka dead technology -- and that Miguel's great-great-grandmother's giant winged puma of an alebrije is named 'Pepita' (a snack food of toasted pumpkin seeds, like naming your monstrous three-headed dog 'Fluffy' or 'Spot').
There's a twist in the movie that I won't spoil, but I definitely suggest you bring kleenex when you go. It doesn't pull its punches -- this is a movie about family, including dead family, and that means people die and talk about death.
