Almost a 10

Rating: 9/10 (27 November 2017)

Flirts with bathos sentimentality in the last ten minutes, but other than that awesome. Pixar is the successor to Walt Disney, who advanced animation in the 1920s. Coco's creative team -- numbering in the hundreds -- can sleep well because they took some risks with this story and hit the sweet spot of imagination and intellect (smart people make life meaningful by carefully observing the world they see and adding possibilities that cannot be seen; dia de los muertos is totally plausible to me because it honors all souls). The triumph of Coco belies building a wall. Sorry John Wayne.