There’s a cotton candy lightness to Pixar’s ebullient summer confection Luca: a sunny, nimble little story that also threatens to blow away in the sea breeze, as charming as it is minor. It’s a story of friendship and acceptance and one that many excitedly speculated might be about something more groundbreaking but, finally unveiled, it’s mostly more of the same. Another reliably slick combination of the Pixar playbook elements we’ve come to know so well, it’s a gentle, calming whisper that grows faint once it’s over.
Like many of their originals, it’s structured around an inventive, how-did-they-think-of-that conceit: sea monsters do in fact exist but when they make it to
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