Luca is a beautiful movie, a homage to great Ghibli movies with memorable slice of life moments. Moments like gobbling up a great pasta (trenette al pesto and you can get the official recipe from Pixar's Instagram page), learning about space (a nod to director Enrico Casarosa's directorial debut La Luna), and fishing.
But taken as a whole, the movie lacks coherent narrative pull. It doesn't help that challenges easily conquered and conflicts neatly resolved. It's a good movie to curl up with your kids with popcorn on Friday night, but it's not in the same caliber as last year's Pixar greats, Onward and Soul.
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Luca is a beautiful movie, a homage to great Ghibli movies with memorable slice of life moments. Moments like gobbling up a great pasta (trenette al pesto and you can get the official recipe from Pixar's Instagram page), learning about space (a nod to director Enrico Casarosa's directorial debut La Luna), and fishing.
But taken as a whole, the movie lacks coherent narrative pull. It doesn't help that challenges easily conquered and conflicts neatly resolved. It's a good movie to curl up with your kids with popcorn on Friday night, but it's not in the same caliber as last year's Pixar greats, Onward and Soul.