A well done child's movie expressing the Latino culture

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2018)

In the cartoon movie CoCo (directed by Lee Unkrich), a young boy named Miguel (Voice by Anthony Gonzalez) tries to find his voice in being a musician meanwhile celebrating his ancestors in day of the dead. During day of the dead (From October 31st to November 2nd) the latino culture celebrates and honors their past ancestors. Due to a rough past in Miguel's family's past, they decided to not enjoy music like the rest of the culture does in the time of celebration because of how a great great grandpa left the family for his love of music. Miguel's family found that as a disgrace and decided not to honor him or his music. So later on Miguel realizes he has a passion for music and he wants to share it with everyone. His family disagrees with this passion but despite that, Miguel's feelings got the best of him and he tries to steal his great great grandpa's guitar (voice played by Benjamin Bratt). It turned out the guitar had magical powers so he then magically transfers to a colorful world of his past ancestors, away from his current family. Miguel meets his past ancestors and sees their past. Later with a blessing from Miguel's great great grandmother, he goes back to the current world and lives happily after. CoCo does a good job with making sure most of the movie's events matchup with what the Latino culture does. It's easy to tell the director paid close attention to this. The only choke point of this movie is that in the Latino culture, it is not believed that a living person can go back and visit their ancestors in there world. Obviously this is just a cartoon catering to a very young age group so it at the end of the day it doesn't make a huge impact on the movie. It's mind candy for the little children. All things aside, overall CoCo is a well done children's movie that resembles a lot of the Latino culture and helps others learn about it. I recommend this movie to little children whose parents want them entertained for a few hours.