A rare Disney gem with great surprises

Rating: 8/10 (25 June 2019)

I'm not a Disney fan. I hated the formulaic market-friendly movies churned out shamelessly by this studio. The musicals are frequently filled with bad songs, the superhero movies with bad jokes, the remakes/reboots rarely as interesting as the original.
But Coco really surprised me - both in terms of its quality, and in terms of its real surprises in the latter half of the movie. I won't go into detail of it, but what seemed a somewhat formulaic heart-warming Disney movie soon developed into a gripping plot with every twists and turns.
This is one of the best movies in recent years, and certainly one of the best from Disney.