Coco Review

Rating: 9/10 (23 April 2018)

Coco, a Disney-Pixar film about Family Importance and Day of the Dead is a spectacular movie for all ages. This movie captures Dia de Los Muertos or Day of the Dead which is involved throughout the film. After researching Dia de Los Muertos, I found that the movie accurately depicts the Mexican holiday. In this holiday they leave out offerings for their late relative or friends, and this is seen in the movie on the family's altar. Helene Henderson declares that "Long before sunrise, people stream into the cemeteries laden with candles, flowers, and food that is often shaped and decorated to resemble the symbol of death," (145). In the movie they have candles, and flowers on their altar and they believe that the flowers lead the spirits back to the family altar. This movie also shows that the story is accurate in portraying Dia de Los Muertos. According to the legend, if they fail to do this then their family members are forgotten and fade from the spirit world. The movie does a good job explaining this to the viewers. An example, is when Hector's friend with the guitar fades out of the spirit world. Hector explains to Miguel that when the spirit are forgotten by anyone who knew them in their life then they fade out of the spirit world. Mexican native, David Guerrero Baez, "Dia de Los Muertos for people who died when they were older than 18 years old" (2 April,2018). When David came into our classroom he explained what his family has done for the Dia de Los Muertos. He stated that they put out candles and food on an altar for their family. In the movie this seen with Miguel's family, and pictures of family members are on the altar. Although Dia de Los Muertos is in the movie, there is one thing missing in the film. The film doesn't show Dia de Todos Los Santos which is basically the same holiday with a slight difference. David went on to say "Dia de Todos Los Santos is still Day of the Dead for people who died at the age of 18 and younger" (2 April,2018). David said that when people usually celebrate this holiday they are remembering friends. However, in some cases if someone has someone who died at that age in their family then they would celebrate both Dia de Los Muertos, and Dia de Todos Los Santos. In the film they don't show this but, this wouldn't have had a big effect on the movie. Due to the fact that all of Miguel's family died over the age of 18 and there weren't any dead kid in the spirit world. Even with the movie Coco not including Dia de Todos Los Santos, the film still captures and depicts Dia de Los Muertos vividly. This is a great movie that shows how your family is alway going to be important no matter what through Day of the Dead. I give Coco a rating of 9.5/10, as I explained above.