COCO MOVIE REVIEW

Coco" is the sprightly story of a young boy who wants to be a musician and somehow finds
himself communing with talking skeletons in the land of the dead. Directed by Lee Unkrich
("Toy Story 3") and veteran Pixar animator Adrian Molina, and drawing heavily on Mexican
folklore and traditional designs, it has catchy music, a complex but comprehensible plot, and
bits of domestic comedy and media satire. Most of the time the movie is a knockabout
slapstick comedy with a "Back to the Future" feeling, staging grand action sequences and
feeding audiences new plot information every few minutes, but of course, being a Pixar film,
"Coco" is also building toward emotionally overwhelming moments, so stealthily that you
may be surprised to find yourself wiping away a tear even though the studio has been using
the sneak-attack playbook for decades.

The film's hero, twelve-year old Miguel Riviera (voice by Anthony Gonzalez), lives in the
small town of Santa Cecilia. He’s a goodhearted child who loves to play guitar and idolizes
the greatest popular singer-songwriter of the 1920s and '30s, Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin
Bratt), who was killed when a huge church bell fell on his head. But Miguel has to busk in
secret because his family has banned its members from performing music ever since
Miguel's great-great-grandfather left, abandoning his loved ones to selfishly pursue his
dreams of stardom. At least that’s the official story passed down through the generations;
it’ll be challenged as the film unfolds, not through a traditional detective story (although
there’s a mystery element to “Coco”) but through an “Alice in Wonderland” journey to the
Land of the Dead, which the hero accesses through the tomb of his ancestors.

Family and legacy as expressed through storytelling and song: this is the deeper
preoccupation of “Coco.” One of the most fascinating things about the movie is the way it
builds its plot around members of Miguel’s family, living and dead, as they battle to
determine the official narrative of Miguel’s great-great grandfather and what his
disappearance from the narrative meant for the extended clan. The title character is the
hero’s great-grandmother (Renee Victor), who was traumatized by her dad’s disappearance.
In her old age, she has become a nearly silent presence, sitting in the corner and staring
blankly ahead, as if hypnotized by a sweet, old film perpetually unreeling in her mind.

The machinations that get Miguel to the other side are too complicated to explain in a
review, though they’re comprehensible as you watch the movie. Suffice to say that Miguel
gets there, teams up with a melancholy goofball named Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal), and has
to pose as one of the dead with the aid of skeletal facepaint, but that (like Marty McFly
returning to the 1950s to make sure his mom ends up with his dad in “Future”) the longer
Miguel stays on the other side, the more likely he is to end up actually dead.

I’m reluctant to describe the film’s plot in too much detail because, even though every twist
seems obvious in retrospect, Molina and Matthew Aldrich’s script frames each one so that
seems delightful and inevitable. Many of them are conveyed through a stolen family
photograph that Miguel brings with him to the Land of the Dead. The deployment of the
photo is a great example of how to tell a story through pictures, or more accurately, with a
picture. Somebody’s face has been torn out; there’s a guitar that proves to be important
later, and there are other ways in which visual information has been withheld from Miguel
(and us) so that it can be revealed or restored when the time is right, completing and
correcting an incomplete or distorted picture, and "picture.”

What’s freshest, though, is the tone and outlook of the film. “Coco” opened in Mexico a
month before it opened in the USA and is already the highest grossing film of all time there.
It assumes a non-American point-of-view on spirituality and culture—not in a touristy or
“thought experiment” sort of way, but as if it were merely the latest product of an alternate
universe Pixar Mexicano that has existed for just as long as the other one. The film’s stable
of voice actors reads like a Who’s Who of Latin-American talent: the ensemble includes
Edward James Olmos, Alfonso Arau, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Alanna Ubach and, in a small role,
to my surprise and astonishment, playwright Octavio Solis, who was one of my teachers in
high school back in Dallas. Michael Giacchino's score is unsurprisingly excellent, as are the
original songs—in particular, the future Oscar winner "Remember Me," the greatest tear-
eruption mechanism to accompany a Pixar release since the "Toy Story 2" centerpiece
"When She Loved Me."

Like most Pixar productions, this one is filled with homages to film history in general and
animation history in particular. I was especially fond of the references to the dancing
skeletons that seemed to pop up constantly in cartoon shorts from the 1930s. There’s a
touch of Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki in the film’s matter-of-fact depiction of the dead
interacting with the living, as well as its portrayal of certain creatures, such as a goofy,
goggle-eyed dog named Dante (modeled on Xoloitzcuintli, the national dog of Mexico) and a
gigantic flying dragon-type beast with the personality of a plump old housecat.
Also notable are the film's widescreen compositions, which put lots of characters in the
same frame and shoot them from the waist up or from head-to-toe, in the manner of old
musicals, or Hollywood comedies from the eighties like "9 to 5" or "Tootsie." The direction
lets you appreciate how the characters interact with each other and with their
environments and lets you decide what to look at. At first this approach seems counter-
intuitive for a movie filled with fantastic creatures, structures and situations, but it ends up
being effective for that very reason: it makes you feel as though you're seeing a record of
things that are actually happening, and it makes "Coco" feel gentle and unassuming even
though it's a big, brash, loud film.

I had some minor quibbles about “Coco” while I was watching it, but I can’t remember what
they were. This film is a classic.
 Coco (2017)
Cast

Anthony Gonzalez as Miguel (voice)

Gael García Bernal as Hector (voice)

Benjamin Bratt as Ernesto de la Cruz (voice)

Renée Victor as Abuelita (voice)

Ana Ofelia Murguía as Mama Coco (voice)

Alanna Ubach as Mama Imelda (voice)

Edward James Olmos as Chicharron (voice)

Gabriel Iglesias as Head Clerk (voice)

Cheech Marin as Corrections Officer (voice)

Alfonso Aráu as Papa Julio (voice)

Director

Lee Unkrich

Co-Director

Adrian Molina

Writer (original story by)

Lee Unkrich

Jason Katz

Matthew Aldrich

Adrian Molina

Writer

Adrian Molina
 Matthew Aldrich

Cinematographer

Matt Aspbury

Danielle Feinberg

Editor

Steve Bloom

Lee Unkrich

Composer

Michael Giacchino

Adventure, Animation, Family

Rated PG for thematic elements.

Question and Answer regarding to the idea, themesand
values
1. What is the message of this movie? Do you agree or this agree with it?

This movie teaches us how important is a love and support from our family. And this movie
also teaches us how important is having a dream. Family's love and support gives us power
to reach our dream, no matter how hard the way we absolutely can reach the highest star.
Here, in this movie, at first, the boy doesnt get any support from the family but the end, he
finaly catches his dream become a guitarist because his family support him.

We agree with the message because without family's love and support we'll faced a hard
way to go.

2. Was there something you didn’t understand with the film? What was that?

We don’t really understand about the relation between the movie and the title of the movie
itself. This movie mostly tells us about how a boy love his family and how hard is his way to
reaches his dream. That boy named . Miguel Riviera , but the tittle of the movie is Coco
whiches it means that Coco isnt the character that we foccussed to in the movie. Coco is only
a name of the grandmother of that boy, and she also only shows up two or three times in the
movie.

3.What did you like the best about the movie?Why

We like the last scene of the movie. Because, eventhough it feels sad that the boy should say
good bye to his ealry death family, he also should be sad because of loosing of mama coco, it
also feels so happy because mama coco finally can meet her real parents in another life.

And when the Día de los Muertos, the boy sings and play his guitar perfectly and the soul of
his death family comes and sing along, dance and also play the guitar with him.

4. What you like least about the film? Why?

We dont like the part of the fake great grandfather of that boy realize that the boy isn’t his
great grandchild and becomes a bad person and doesn’t let the boy go back to the real life.

And we also like the least about the scene that shows that the fake great grandfather was
the person that killed the real great grandfather in the past and gets the famous or even the
glamorous life with no sin.

5. Who was your favourite character in the Movie ? Why?

The boy (Miguella), the great grandmother and the real great grandfather.
The boy is quiet brave to go to the Funeral and stole the legend guitar belongs to his great
grandfather. There, eventho he feels scared of many things, he faced it with braveness. Until
he can go back to the real life, helps mama coco to remember about her father and reaches
his dream.

The great grandmother is a very brave woman. She helps her husband to beat the bad death
guy there. She punches him just like there's nothing that she scared of.

The great grandfather is a brave guy, because he tries so many times to go back to the real
life only to see his daughter (mama coco). And he also helps the boy that actualy his real
great grandchild to go back to his real life. And the great grandfather is also a funny guy. He
makes us laugh all the time.

6. Who was your least favourite character in the film ? Why?

Ernesto de la Cruz

because he took everything from the real great grandfather named Hector with no sin or
even shame.

7. Did anything that happened in this movie remind you of something that has occured on
your onlife or that have you seen occure to others?

in Daily life almost Happened occured like this , The dreams comes true after we do and
never giveup and always brave to get the challange

8. What were your thinking as you finished watching the Film?

Feels like we can feel what miguel and the great grand father feel. The feeling of sadness
and happiness.

We also feels like there's some kind of energy that makes us stronger and endure our spirit
to reach our dreams atleast to reach our end of school.

Then, we also know how to treat our child about their will in the future. We cant push them
to do and to be what we want. Let them be anything they want and we as parents should
support them the best.

9.Would you recomended this movie to Friend? Reason why?

Yes we would. Because this movie is fabulous. Eventhough its an animation movie, it has so
many moral message for children or even for adults.

This movie also a kind of funny animation, so it can entertain us a lot besides the sad story of
it and the moral messages.

10. What part of the story told by the movie was the most powerful? Why?
The magical thing could happen to anyone of us who believed that we could be anything we
want as long as we have a great will. A dream whiches come true tastes sweet.

11. If You were writing the screenplayfor this movie, would you have changed the ending?

No we wouldnt. Because it has a happy ending besides the sad ending (the death of mama
coco). Miguel reaches his dream and mama coco meets her parents in another life. We like
this kind of movie ending.

12. What feeling did you share with any of character in this movie?

Happy, sad, angry and also lovely feelings.

13. Did any of characters into this movie make you angry? Tell us why?

The fake great grandfather Della Cruz is so rude to miguel and the real great grandfather.
He also killed the real great grandfather that actualy his bestfriend and also his partner in
musicaly group only glamorous life, becomes famous and also rich life. Eventho he dead
already, he still becomes a bad guy. Still underdog his bestfriend and rude to his bestfriend's
grandchild.

14. Did you come to respect any of characters in this movie? Who was it and why did you
come to respect that Character?

Hector , miguel's real great grand father. He's a good man that never forget his family.
Eventhough his family always trying to forget him, he still trying so hard to meet his
daughter, mama coco.

He tries his best to make his wife that already dead also to understand what was the reason
he never came back to her and her daughter, and tries to make him accepted again in his
family.

It's never success before miguel come to their life (dead people's life). Then, because of his
patienity and miguel's help, he's back to his family and get their love back.

15. What comment is the author trying to make about the culture of the characters in this
story?

Coco" is the sprightly story of a young boy who wants to be a musician and somehow finds
himself communing with talking skeletons in the land of the dead. Directed by Lee Unkrich
("Toy Story 3") and veteran Pixar animator Adrian Molina, and drawing heavily on Mexican
folklore and traditional designs, it has catchy music, a complex but comprehensible plot, and
bits of domestic comedy and media satire. Most of the time the movie is a knockabout
slapstick comedy with a "Back to the Future" feeling, staging grand action sequences and
feeding audiences new plot information every few minutes, but of course, being a Pixar film,
"Coco" is also building toward emotionally overwhelming moments, so stealthily that you
may be surprised to find yourself wiping away a tear even though the studio has been using
the sneak-attack playbook for decades.

References:
- https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/coco-2017

- Coco Official US Teaser Trailer

- youtube.com- https://cocofullonline.com/
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