Genre: Film
Grade: A-
Notable People: Voices of: Jamie Foxx, Tine Fey, Graham Norton, Phylisha Rashad, Questlove and Angela Bassett, Directed by: Pete Docter
Title: SOUL
Review: Released originally in 2020 and winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature that year, SOUL was recently re-released tot theaters. I took my 5-year-old cutie, Sloanie, to see it this week, and all I can say, is Pixar are the masters at making films that can appeal to both kids and adults simultaneously-even little kids. Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn’t quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz — and he’s good. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul. Director Docter states that he “conceived Soul in January 2016, examining the origins of human personalities human personalities and the concept of determinism ….…. I mean, no shit. This is heavy stuff that still kept a five-year-old engaged for almost two hours, even riveted. The music is fabulous and the animation startlingly good. Go see it, with or without your 5- year- old plant.