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In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.
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- r96skon TMDB · Jul 20247/10
I'm yet to dislike a Disney/Pixar movie*, <em>'Elemental'</em> is another that is a pass in my books. Admittedly, their more recents works haven't had an exceptional impact on me personally; in seven releases since** the sensational <em>'Coco'</em>, I've only given <em>'Turning Red'</em> more (marginally) than 7/10. Still, I'm yet to give any of their movies less than that rating, so swings and roundabouts and all that. As for this 2023 film, I did enjoy it enough so that's all that really matters. The animation is as impressive as expected, it's pretty cool how the world is brought to life via all those different elements; namely water and fire. Leah Lewis and, particularly, Mamoudou Athie do good work in voice roles, I didn't totally click with their characters as a two but no complaints with the actors. On that note, Ronnie del Carmen is a plus, too. <em>* yes, I even like 'Cars 2'... <b>and what?!</b></em> <em>**yet to see 'Inside Out 2'.</em>
Read the whole review on TMDB - Dark Jedion TMDB · Apr 20248/10
This was a surprisingly good movie for being a Disney movie these days. It is a decent story without being filled with heavy handed far left preaching. Sure, the lefties can probably construe some message that suits them out of it and, as can be seen from the blurb, there are a message that you can exist together even if you are very different but it was not heavy handed, no preaching of certain sexual preferences or religious or political fanaticism and it is a message that I can get behind. My girlfriend and I have both different skin tone and religion after all. The story was good, plain and entertaining. Some adventure, action, suspense, romance and of course quite a bit of humour. It was a movie I could have let my kids watch when they were younger without having to explain the political bullshit and downright evilness of Disney’s woke script writers. The animation was nice. Especially the fire guys. The various jokes and comical moments in the movie was generally good. Overall it was movie that me as well as my (now adult) kids enjoyed.
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20236/10
"Ember" and her ailing grandfather arrive in the big city where everyone is personified as one of the four natural elements. Needless to say, fire is not the most popular but they resolve to open their shop selling all things smoked, toasted, burnt, and red hot! It's an old building, though, and when one day the pipes give birth to the local, watery, buildings inspector "Wade" she discovers that they have no planning permission for their business and that he is going to have to report them. What now ensues is, sadly, a rather unimaginative series of escapades as she must track him down and stop him - and the authorities - from closing down the family's flaming enterprise. The animation is characterful and top notch - and the story certainly had potential, but somehow the thing just becomes a bit of a cheesy romance all too quickly. A lot more fun could have been had demonstrating just how incompatible the four - air, earth, water and fire - can be when mixed together; or - indeed - how symbiotic they can be, but the emphasis and the dialogue focusses just a bit too much on "Ember" and "Wade" and I am afraid that I rather lost interest. It's colourful and vibrant, there is some ente
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Cast
- Leah LewisEmber (voice)
- Mamoudou AthieWade (voice)
- Ronnie del CarmenBernie (voice)
- Shila OmmiCinder (voice)
- Wendi McLendon-CoveyGale (voice)
- Catherine O'HaraBrook (voice)
- Mason WertheimerClod (voice)
- Ronobir LahiriHarold (voice)
- Wilma BonetFlarrietta (voice)
- Joe PeraFern (voice)
Crew
- Peter SohnDirector
- John HobergScreenplay
- Kat LikkelScreenplay
- Brenda HsuehScreenplay
- David Juan BianchiDirector of Photography
- Jean-Claude KalacheDirector of Photography
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Stephen SchafferEditor
- Denise ReamProducer
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