Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina direct Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal and Benjamin Bratt in this Pixar adventure following a young boy who finds himself on the wrong side of the spiritual plane during the Day of the Dead. 

The Pixar formula is growing stale and the platitudes and twists this builds up to are now utterly guessable. The slapstick dog and the colourful design work are distracting eye candy. Trad Disney aside, I don’t know why adults go to kids’ movies anymore. This is at least inarguably better, more wholesome, and slavishly crafted than the other shite trailered before it. Peter Rabbit as a lad on tour, gnomes farting in mankinis (remember those)… no wonder this perfectly alright distraction is being treated like a classic in comparison.

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