English Class Movie review

Rating: 9/10 (14 October 2018)

El Dia de Muertos, also called Day of the Dead, is the main focus of Pixar's new movie Coco. The movie is centered around a child named Miguel and his family during the festival of Dia de Muertos. It begins with a backstory of his great great grandfather walking out on his wife and child to pursue his music career and never returns. But the wife steps up and takes matters into her own hands. She teaches herself to make shoes and begins a business. Since her husband left her for music she forever forbids music from her family. The music hating tradition is passed down through the generations. But this seems to be a problem for Miguel because he loves music and wants to a musician. He secretly plays the guitar and listen to music. Soon he learns that his great great grandfather is his lifetime idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. With this information he declares to his family that he is going be a musician but is crushed when forcibly say no. So he runs away to prove that is great at music at the local music contest but he needs is a guitar. He tries to find one, but no one will give him one. He eventually goes to the grave of great great grandfather and borrows his famous guitar but when plays it he is sent into the land of the dead. He meets his extended family and tells them of his plan to become musician. But his great great grandmother forbids it and he runs off to find his great great grandfather, Ernesto de la Cruz, with a man he meets named Hector. Miguel is sent through a wild journey through the land of the dead to find his great great grandfather while learn the importance of family and the meaning of music. In the end learns that Hector is his actual great great grandfather and Ernesto de la Cruz murdered him to get all of his songs and that is why he never returned to his family. Miguel goes back to land of the living tells the truth of what happened and becomes a musician.
There are many reasons why I love the movie Coco. One of them is the great visual details and the beautiful array of colors. The level of Pixar's computer animation has come a long way from the beginning. The city streets and walk ways covered in cobblestone and colorful festival decorations seem so photo realistic that you would think it was real picture in a travel magazine. And the land of the dead was so beautiful. The bridge between the worlds was a great visual connection between all the flowers in the living world and the connection between the other world. Another reason why I loved this movie was the great music and guitar work. The music was warm as the tone and theme of the movie. But what did you expect from Disney and Pixar? They always kill it in the music department. The movie also brought so many people into Mexican and Spanish culture. The movie gave great details about El Dia de Muertos and made the holiday seem like we have known it for years. It made remembering those who have come before us theme seem more important than before. In conclusion, Pixar's movie Coco is another great motion picture to add to the Disney collection.