Coco (2017 film)

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### **Screenplay by**

* Adrian Molina
* Matthew Aldrich

### **Story by**

* Lee Unkrich
* Jason Katz
* Matthew Aldrich
* Adrian Molina

### **Starring**

* Anthony Gonzalez
* Gael García Bernal
* Benjamin Bratt
* Alanna Ubach
* Renée Victor
* Ana Ofelia Murguía
* Edward James Olmos

### **Cinematography**

* Matt Aspbury (camera)
* Danielle Feinberg (lighting)

### **Production company(s)**

* Walt Disney Pictures
* Pixar Animation Studios

### **Distributed by**

Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures

### **Release date(s)**

* October 20, 2017 (2017-10-20) (Morelia)
* November 22, 2017 (2017-11-22) (United States)

### **Budget**

$175–225**Script error: No such module "String".**million

### **Box office**

$807.8**Script error: No such module "String".**million

***Coco*** is a 2017 American computer-animated fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Based on an original idea by Lee Unkrich, it is directed by him and co-directed by Adrian Molina. The film's voice cast stars Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Renée Victor, Ana Ofelia Murguía and Edward James Olmos. The story follows a 12-year-old boy named Miguel who is accidentally transported to the Land of the Dead, where he seeks the help of his deceased musician great-great-grandfather to return him to his family among the living and to reverse his family's ban on music.

The concept for *Coco* is inspired by the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead. The film was scripted by Molina and Matthew Aldrich from a story by Unkrich, Jason Katz, Aldrich, and Molina. Pixar began developing the animation in 2016; Unkrich and some of the film's crew visited Mexico for research. Composer Michael Giacchino, who had worked on prior Pixar animated features, composed the score. With a cost of $175–225**Script error: No such module "String".**million, *Coco* is the first film with a nine-figure budget to feature an all-Latino principal cast.

*Coco* premiered on October 20, 2017, during the Morelia International Film Festival in Morelia, Mexico. It was theatrically released in Mexico the following week, the weekend before **Script error: No such module "Lang".**, and in the United States on November 22, 2017. The film was praised for its animation, voice acting, music, visuals, emotional story, and respect for Mexican culture. It grossed over $807**Script error: No such module "String".**million worldwide, becoming the 16th highest-grossing animated film ever at the time of its release. Recipient of several accolades, *Coco* was chosen by the National Board of Review as the Best Animated Film of 2017. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song ("Remember Me"). It also won Best Animated Film at the BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Critic's Choice Movie Awards, and Annie Awards.

## Plot

In Santa Cecilia, Mexico, Miguel dreams of becoming a musician, even though his family strictly forbids it. His great-great-grandmother Imelda was married to a man who left her and their daughter Coco to pursue a career in music, and when he never returned, Imelda banished music from her family's life before starting a shoemaking business.

Miguel now lives with the elderly Coco and their family, including Miguel's parents and his *abuelita*, who are all shoemakers. He secretly idolizes Ernesto de la Cruz, a famous musician who died decades earlier, and teaches himself to play guitar from Ernesto's old films. On the Day of the Dead, Miguel accidentally damages the picture frame that holds a photo of Coco with her mother on the family **Script error: No such module "Lang".**, discovering that a hidden section of the photograph shows his great-great-grandfather holding Ernesto's famous guitar. Concluding that Ernesto is his great-great-grandfather, an inspired Miguel leaves to enter a talent show for Day of the Dead despite his family's objections.

Breaking into Ernesto's mausoleum, Miguel takes his guitar to use in the show, but once he strums it, he becomes invisible to everyone in the village plaza. However, he can interact with his skeletal dead relatives, who are visiting from the Land of the Dead for the holiday. Taking him back with them, they learn that Imelda cannot visit, since Miguel accidentally removed her photo from the **Script error: No such module "Lang".**. Miguel discovers that he is cursed for stealing from the dead, and must return to the Land of the Living before sunrise, or he will become one of the dead; to do so, he must receive a blessing from a member of his family. Imelda offers Miguel a blessing on the condition he end his dream of becoming a musician, but Miguel refuses and resolves to seek Ernesto's blessing instead. He meets Héctor, who declares that he knows Ernesto, offering to help him reach him in return for Miguel taking his photo back with him, so that he might visit his daughter before she forgets him, causing him to disappear completely. Héctor helps Miguel enter a talent competition to win entry to Ernesto's mansion, but Miguel's family tracks him down, forcing him to flee.

Miguel sneaks into the mansion, where Ernesto welcomes him as his descendant, but Héctor confronts them, again imploring Miguel to take his photo to the Land of the Living. Ernesto and Héctor renew an argument from their partnership in life, and Miguel realizes that when Héctor decided to leave the duo to return to his family, Ernesto poisoned him, then stole his guitar along with his songs, passing them off as his own to become famous. To protect his legacy, Ernesto seizes the photo and has his security guards throw Miguel and Héctor into a cenote pit. There, Miguel realizes that Héctor is his real great-great-grandfather, and that Coco is Héctor's daughter.

After Imelda and the family rescue the duo, Miguel reveals the truth about Héctor's death. Imelda and Héctor reconcile, and the family infiltrates Ernesto's concert to retrieve Héctor's photo. Ernesto's crimes are exposed to the audience, who jeer at him as he is thrown out of the stadium, then crushed by a giant bell in the same manner that he originally died. In the chaos, however, Héctor's photograph is lost. As the sun rises, Coco's life and memory are fading; Imelda and Héctor bless Miguel, so that he can return to the Land of the Living. After Miguel plays "Remember Me", Coco brightens and sings along with Miguel. She reveals that she had saved the torn-off piece of the family photo with Héctor's face on it, then tells her family stories about her father, thus saving his memory as well as his existence in the Land of the Dead. Miguel's family reconciles with him, ending the ban on music.

One year later, Miguel presents the family **Script error: No such module "Lang".** (which now includes the deceased Coco) to his new baby sister Socorro. Coco's collected letters from Héctor prove that Ernesto stole his songs, destroying Ernesto's legacy and allowing Héctor to be rightfully honored in his place. In the Land of the Dead, Héctor and Imelda rekindle their romance, joining Coco for a visit to the living, where Miguel in a mariachi attire disguise sings and plays for his relatives, both living and dead.

## Voice cast

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* Anthony Gonzalez as Miguel, a 12-year-old aspiring musician.
* Gael García Bernal as Héctor, a charming trickster and Miguel's great-great-grandfather in the Land of the Dead who enlists Miguel to help him visit the Land of the Living.
	+ Bernal reprised his role in the Spanish-language dubbing of the movie.
* Benjamin Bratt as Ernesto de la Cruz, the most famous musician in the history of Mexico and Miguel's idol. Revered by fans worldwide until his untimely death, the charming and charismatic musician is even more beloved in the Land of the Dead.
	+ Antonio Sol provides de la Cruz's singing voice, with the exception of "Remember Me".
* Alanna Ubach as Mamá Imelda, Miguel's late great-great-grandmother, Héctor's wife, Coco's mother, and the matriarch of the family.
* Renée Victor as Abuelita, Coco's daughter and Miguel's grandmother who strictly enforces the Rivera family's music ban.
* Ana Ofelia Murguía as Mamá Coco, Miguel's great-grandmother and the daughter of Héctor and Imelda who moves around in a wheelchair.
	+ Libertad García Fonzi as a young Coco.
* Edward James Olmos as Chicharrón, a friend of Héctor's who becomes forgotten in the Land of the Dead.
* Alfonso Arau as Papá Julio, Coco's husband and Miguel's late great-grandfather.
	+ Arau reprised his role in the Spanish-language dubbing of the movie.
* Selene Luna as Tía Rosita, Miguel's late aunt and Coco's sister-in-law.
* Dyana Ortellí as Tía Victoria, Miguel's late aunt and Coco and Julio's daughter.
* Herbert Sigüenza as Tíos Oscar and Felipe, Miguel's late identical twin great-great-uncles.
* Jaime Camil as Papá, Miguel's father and Abuelita's son.
* Sofía Espinosa as Mamá, Miguel's mother.
	+ Espinosa reprised her role in the Spanish-language dubbing of the movie.
* Luis Valdez as Tío Berto, Miguel's uncle, Papa's brother, and Franco and Abuelita's son.
	+ Valdez also voices Don Hidalgo.
	+ Valdez reprised his roles in the Spanish-language dubbing of the movie.
* Carla Medina as Gloria, Miguel's aunt, Papa's sister, and Franco and Aubelita's daughter.
	+ Carla Mendina also voices a Departure Agent.
* Polo Rojas as Abel, Berto and Carmen's oldest son and Miguel's cousin.
* Montse Hernandez as Rosa, Berto and Carmen's only daughter and Miguel's cousin.
* Lombardo Boyar as Plaza Mariachi, a Mariachi whom Miguel meets in Santa Cecilia Plaza.
	+ Boyar also voices Gustavo, a musician of the Land of the Dead.
* Octavio Solis as Arrival Agent.
* Gabriel Iglesias as Clerk.
* Cheech Marin as Corrections Officer.
* Carla Medina as Departure Agent.
	+ Medina reprised her role in the Spanish-language dubbing of the movie.
* Blanca Araceli as Emcee.
* Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Frida Kahlo, a famous artist.
* Salvador Reyes as a Security Guard.
	+ Reyes reprised his role in the Spanish-language dubbing of the movie.
* John Ratzenberger as Juan Ortodoncia, a dentist in the Land of the Dead.

## Production

### Development

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Lee Unkrich first pitched an idea for the film in 2010, when *Toy Story 3*, which he also directed, was released. Initially the film was to be about an American child, learning about his Mexican heritage, while dealing with the death of his mother. Eventually, the team decided that this was the wrong approach and reformed the film to focus on a Mexican child instead. Of the original version, Unkrich noted that it "reflected the fact that none of us at the time were from Mexico." The fact that the film depicted "a real culture" caused anxiety for Unkrich, who "felt an enormous responsibility on [his] shoulders to do it right."

The Pixar team made several trips to Mexico to help define the characters and story of *Coco*. Unkrich said, "I'd seen it portrayed in folk art. It was something about the juxtaposition of skeletons with bright, festive colors that captured my imagination. It has led me down a winding path of discovery. And the more I learn about *[el] Día de los Muertos*, the more it affects me deeply." The team found it difficult working with skeletal creatures, as they lacked any muscular system, and as such had to be animated differently from their human counterparts. *Coco* also took inspiration from Hayao Miyazaki's anime films *Spirited Away* (2001) and *Howl's Moving Castle* (2004) as well as the action film *John Wick* (2014).

In 2013, Disney made a request to trademark the phrase "Día de los Muertos" for merchandising applications. This was met with criticism from the Mexican American community in the United States. Lalo Alcaraz, a Mexican-American cartoonist, drew a film poster titled *Muerto Mouse*, depicting a skeletal Godzilla-sized Mickey Mouse with the byline "It's coming to trademark your *cultura*." More than 21,000 people signed a petition on Change.org stating that the trademark was "cultural appropriation and exploitation at its worst". A week later, Disney canceled the attempt, with the official statement saying that the "trademark filing was intended to protect any title for our film and related activities. It has since been determined that the title of the film will change, and therefore we are withdrawing our trademark filing." In 2015, Pixar hired Alcaraz to consult on the film, joining playwright Octavio Solis and former CEO of the Mexican Heritage Corp. Marcela Davison Aviles, to form a cultural consultant group.

### Story

Unkrich found writing the script "the toughest nut to crack". Earlier versions of the film had different universe rules regarding how Miguel (originally called Marco) would get back from the land of the dead; in one case he physically had to run across the bridge. In one version of the story, his family is cursed with singing when trying to speak, which was included as a technique to add music to a story where music is banned.

### Casting

*Coco* is the first motion picture with a nine-figure budget to feature an all-Latino cast, with a cost of $175–200**Script error: No such module "String".**million. Gonzalez first auditioned for the role of Miguel when he was nine and was finalized in the role two years later. Speaking of his character, Gonzalez said: "[Miguel and I] both know the importance of following our dream and we know the importance of following our tradition, so that's something that I connected with Miguel a lot". During the film's pre-production, Miguel was originally set to be voiced by a child named Emilio Fuentes, who was removed from the role after his voice deepened due to puberty over the course of the film's production.

In 2016, the *Coco* team made an official announcement about the cast, which revealed that Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Renée Victor, and Anthony Gonzalez would voice the characters. Bratt, who voiced De la Cruz, was "moved" when he realized that Disney-Pixar wanted to make a film on Latin culture. Disney officials closely monitored Bernal's movements and expressions while he voiced the characters and used their input for animating Héctor.

Bratt voiced Ernesto De la Cruz, a character who he described as "the Mexican Frank Sinatra"; "[a] larger than life persona". On the advice of the filmmakers, Bratt watched videos of equivalent Mexican actors including Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante. Bratt found the character similar to his father in physical appearance, "swagger and confidence", and worked in the film as a tribute to him. The character Mama Imelda's voice was provided by Alanna Ubach. Ubach felt that the film "is [giving] respect to one quality that all Latin families across the universe do have in common, and that is giving respect and prioritizing the importance of family". Mama Imelda's voice was influenced by Ubach's tía Flora, who was a "profound influence in [her] life". Ubach felt her tía was the family's matriarch, and dedicated the film to her tía.

A cameo appearance was made by Marvel's *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D* actress Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Unkrich stated that Cordova-Buckley's "role in *Coco* pays homage to Ms. Kahlo, her work and the people of Mexico who love her". Unkrich also stated that it was a struggle to find a role in the film for John Ratzenberger, who is not Latino but had voiced a character in every Pixar film. As Unkrich did not want to break Pixar's tradition, Ratzenberger was given a minor role with one word.

### Animation

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On April 13, 2016, Unkrich announced that they had begun work on the animation. The film's writer, Adrian Molina, was promoted to co-director in late 2016. Unkrich said that Pixar wanted "to have as much contrast between" the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead and that many techniques were used to differentiate the worlds. Color was one: "Given the holiday and the iconography, [Pixar] knew the Land of the Dead had to be a visually vibrant and colorful place, so [they] deliberately designed Santa Cecilia to be more muted" said Unkrich.

According to Harley Jessup, the film's production designer, Santa Cecilia is based on real Mexican villages, as the production team "stayed grounded in reality in the Land of the Living". Chris Bernardi, the film's set supervisor, said that the town was made small so Miguel could feel confined. Bert Berry, the film's art director, said that aged building materials were used to depict Santa Cecilia "as an older charming city". According to Unkrich, Miguel's guitar playing is authentic, as they "videotaped musicians playing each song or melody and strapped GoPros on their guitars" to use as a reference. For the scene in which Miguel plays music in his secret hideout, the filmmakers used "very elegant, lyrical camera moves" and "gentle drifts and slow arcing moves around Miguel as he plays his guitar with very shallow depth of field to enhance the beauty of the soft-focus foreground candles".

Christian Hoffman, the film's character supervisor, said that all of the details in Mama Coco's face were not modeled. Instead, his team used special software to design separate layers of detail, which were then added to her face with a shader. The character's model was made with higher resolution to get all the wrinkles right, according to Hoffman. Pixar used some Xolo dogs to use as reference for the character Dante, while a tentacle from *Finding Dory'*s Hank was used for his tongue.

Jessup called the Marigold petal bridge that connects both worlds "elegant and magical". Michael K. O'Brien, the film's effects supervisor, called it "a huge technical challenge" for the animation team, but referred to it as something "so visually exciting with petals dripping from it; it was a massive artistic undertaking. [the production team] wanted it to glow — to feel alive". The scenes in which Miguel takes a few petals off of the bridge and in which Hector sinks into the bridge were given more effects and special art direction.

For the Land of the Dead, Unkrich did not want "to have just a free-for-all, wacky world", wanting instead to add logic and be "ever-expanding because new residents would arrive regularly". Jessup said that the animation team wanted the Land of the Dead "to be a vibrant explosion of color" when Miguel arrives. Jessup also said that "Lee [Unkrich] described a vertical world of towers, contrasting with the flatness of Santa Cecilia. The lights and reflections are dazzling and there's a crazy transportation system that connects it all. The costume colors are much more vibrant than in the Land of the Living, where [the animation team] tried to stay grounded in reality. [They] really went all out in the Land of the Dead to make it a reflection of the holiday". According to David Ryu, the film's supervising technical director, the animation team "figured out a way to introduce a single light — but give it a million points" for the scenes on the outside in the Land of the Dead: "The renderer sees it as one light, but we see a million lights".

According to art director Daniel Arraiga, the animators "had to figure out how to give [the skeletons] personality without skin, muscles, noses or even lips" and that they "played with shapes and did a lot of paintings. [They] sculpted and studied skulls from every angle to figure out where [they] could add appeal and charm". Global technology supervisor J.D. Northrup was hired early in the film's production in order to avoid potential issues in the film's animation process. Northrup said that "Each [of the skeletons' pieces] had to be independent so the complexity of the rig and the stress that it puts on the pipeline were something like we've never seen before." Northrup was also tasked with simplifying the skeleton's elements to render the skeleton crowds. In order to create the skeletons, several additional controls were used, as they "needed to move in ways that humans don't," according to character modeling and articulation lead Michael Honse. Honse said that the bones were a particular problem, stating that "there was a lot of back-and-forth with animation to get it right," but found "really cool ways" to move the skeletons.

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### Genre

* Son mexicano
* Mariachi
* Son jarocho
* Ranchera
* Huapango
* Bolero
* Mexican pop

### Producer

* Michael Giacchino
* Tom MacDougall
* Germaine Franco
* Kristen Anderson-Lopez
* Robert Lopez

### Next year

2018

The film's score was composed by Michael Giacchino. Germaine Franco, Adrian Molina, Robert Lopez, and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote the songs. Recording for the score began on August 14, 2017. The score was released on November 10, 2017.

Originally, the film was meant to be a "break-into-song" musical. Lopez and Anderson-Lopez had written many more songs for the film than what ended up in the released version; one piece that survived in storyboard until late into the production was an expository song that explained the Mexican holiday to viewers to begin the film. In another song, Miguel's mother explains the tradition of shoe-making in their family, and how this means he is not allowed to pursue music. Plans for the film to be a full musical film were scrapped following early test screenings.

Following the 90th Academy Awards ceremony, where "Remember Me" won the award for Best Original Song, the album broke the top 40 on the Billboard 200 charts, jumping from 120 to 39, where it peaked before dropping to 64. In the week of March 8, the Miguel version of "Remember Me" gained 1.58**Script error: No such module "String".**million plays via online streaming, according to the Nielsen Music.
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## Marketing and release

The first teaser of *Coco* was released on March 15, 2017, two days before Disney's *Beauty and the Beast* opened worldwide. The teaser trailer introduced the basic concept of the film, while highlighting its focus on music. Scott Mendelson of *Forbes* praised the trailer as "a terrific old-school Pixar sell, mostly consisting of a single sequence and offering just the barest hint of what's to come." The film's themes and imagery drew comparison to another animated film that centered around Día de Muertos, *The Book of Life* (2014). A two-minute short film, titled *Dante's Lunch – A Short Tail*, was released online on March 29, 2017. It introduces the film's supporting character, a Xoloitzcuintle named Dante. The short was created early in the animation process by Unkrich and his team to have a better sense of the character.

The first official trailer was released on June 7, 2017, followed by a second trailer on September 13. The film was marketed extensively in Mexico, including traditional wall-painted advertising usually used for local events and never for films. Cinépolis, a movie chain in the country, held a contest for dubbing a character in the film, and another movie chain held a contest to become an interviewer for the cast and crew of the film.

*Coco* was released in Mexico on October 27, 2017, the weekend before Día de los Muertos. The film was released in the United States on November 22, 2017, in 3D, during the Thanksgiving weekend, and three weeks after Día de los Muertos, and in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2018. The film was released in a crowded market, preceded by *Thor: Ragnarok*, *Justice League* and another animated film, *The Star*, and followed by *Star Wars: The Last Jedi* and another animated film, *Ferdinand*, three weeks after Thanksgiving. It is one of the three Disney film productions being released in the November–December corridor.

*Coco* was accompanied in theaters by Walt Disney Animation Studios' 21-minute featurette *Olaf's Frozen Adventure* as a limited time offering, featuring the characters from *Frozen*, making *Coco* the first Pixar film not to be accompanied by a Pixar short in theaters since their first film, *Toy Story*, in 1995. The film also has its own VR game, being Pixar's first VR development.

### Home media

*Coco* was released for High Definition online streaming and digital download on February 13, 2018, and on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on February 27, 2018, by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. *Coco* became available on Netflix in the United States on May 29, before transferring to Disney+ on November 29, 2019.

## Reception

### Box office

*Coco* grossed $210.5**Script error: No such module "String".**million in the United States and Canada, and $597.4**Script error: No such module "String".**million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $807.8**Script error: No such module "String".**million.

#### Mexico

*Coco* was released in Mexico on October 27, nearly a month before its release in the United States. It grossed $9.3**Script error: No such module "String".**million on its opening weekend, the biggest opening weekend for an original animated film and the biggest debut for an animated film outside of the summer movie season in the market. In its second weekend, it earned another $10.8**Script error: No such module "String".**million, a 12% increase over its first weekend, bringing its total to $28**Script error: No such module "String".**million. It became the fastest ten-day grosser ever for an animated feature in Mexico, as well as the biggest original animated release ever in the territory. It dropped by 23% in its third weekend, grossing $8.4**Script error: No such module "String".**million. That brought its total to MX$792**Script error: No such module "String".**million (US$41.4**Script error: No such module "String".**million), making it the highest-grossing animated film and the second-highest-grossing film of all time in Mexico, behind Marvel's *The Avengers*, in local currency. A few days later, on November 15, it passed *The Avengers* to become the highest-grossing film in the Mexican market.

#### United States and Canada

In the United States and Canada, *Coco* was projected to gross $55–65**Script error: No such module "String".**million from 3,987 theaters in its first five days, including around $40**Script error: No such module "String".**million in its opening weekend. It made $2.3**Script error: No such module "String".**million from Tuesday night previews, landing between Disney's previous two November releases *Moana* ($2.6**Script error: No such module "String".**million) and *The Good Dinosaur* ($1.3**Script error: No such module "String".**million), and $13.2**Script error: No such module "String".**million on its first day. It went on to debut to $50.8**Script error: No such module "String".**million (including a five-day total of $72.9**Script error: No such module "String".**million), finishing first at the box office. It was the 4th-biggest Thanksgiving opening weekend ever, behind fellow animated films *Frozen*, *Moana*, and *Toy Story 2*. In its second weekend, the film dropped by 46% to $27.5**Script error: No such module "String".**million, a smaller drop than *Moana*, *Frozen*, *Tangled*, and *The Good Dinosaur*, and again topping the box office. It topped the box office once again in its third weekend, dropping by 33% and grossing $18.5**Script error: No such module "String".**million, a similar hold to *Moana*. It became the fourth film of 2017 to top the box office three times, following *Split*, *The Fate of the Furious* and *The Hitman's Bodyguard*, before being overtaken by Disney's own *Star Wars: The Last Jedi* and another animated film, *Ferdinand*, in its fourth weekend.

It fell to number six in its fifth weekend, due to competition from three new releases – *Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle*, *Pitch Perfect 3*, and *The Greatest Showman* – despite a small drop again; it grossed $2.8**Script error: No such module "String".**million on Christmas Day. On the holiday week of December 22–28, the film finished at number six with a gross of $16.3**Script error: No such module "String".**million, which was 6% up from the previous week, despite losing over 1,000 theaters. It finished at number six in its sixth weekend, going up 39% and 87%, respectively, during the three-day and four-day weekends; it grossed $2.6**Script error: No such module "String".**million on New Year's Day. It fell outside the top 10 in its eighth weekend (which included Martin Luther King Jr. Day), dropping 38% and 14% respectively, during the three-day and four-day weekends.

#### Other countries

In China, *Coco* finished number one at the weekend box office, with a three-day total of $18.2**Script error: No such module "String".**million, making it the second-highest opening ever for a Disney or Pixar animated release in that market, behind *Zootopia*. After seeing increases each weekday on its first week, the film increased by 148% on its second weekend, bringing its total to $75.6**Script error: No such module "String".**million in the market. It dropped by 21% in its third weekend, finishing first once again and grossing $35**Script error: No such module "String".**Million. The film fell to number three in its fourth weekend, due to competition from two new domestic releases, grossing an additional $17.1**Script error: No such module "String".**million. *Coco's* success in China came as a surprise to most box office analysts who were projecting a gross of $30–40**Script error: No such module "String".**million. By its second weekend, it had become the highest-grossing Pixar release ever in China, nearly doubling previous record-holder *Finding Dory*, and by its fifth weekend, it had surpassed *Despicable Me 3* to become the second highest-grossing animated movie of all time in the country, behind *Zootopia*. The movie was released in Japan, its final market, on March 16, 2018. As of May 1, 2018[update]**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".** the film's largest markets were China ($189.2**Script error: No such module "String".**million), Mexico ($57.8**Script error: No such module "String".**million), Japan ($41.4**Script error: No such module "String".**million), France ($33.2**Script error: No such module "String".**million), United Kingdom ($26.1**Script error: No such module "String".**million), South Korea ($25.9**Script error: No such module "String".**million), Spain ($21.4**Script error: No such module "String".**million), Argentina ($17.6**Script error: No such module "String".**million), Italy ($14.4**Script error: No such module "String".**million) and Germany ($12.3**Script error: No such module "String".**million).

### Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 97% based on 351 reviews, with an average rating of 8.30/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "*Coco*'s rich visual pleasures are matched by a thoughtful narrative that takes a family-friendly—and deeply affecting—approach to questions of culture, family, life, and death." It was the site's highest-rated animated film and ninth highest-rated wide release of 2017. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "universal acclaim." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "A+" on an A+ to F scale, one of fewer than 90 films in the history of the service to receive such a score; it was also the sixth Pixar film to earn the rating – the previous being *Up* in 2009. It also earned a 95% positive score, including a rare five-out-of-five rating, from filmgoers on PostTrak, along with a 76% "definite recommend".

Michael Rechtshaffen of *The Hollywood Reporter* said, "At every imaginative juncture, the filmmakers (the screenplay is credited to Pixar veteran Molina and Matthew Aldrich) create a richly woven tapestry of comprehensively researched storytelling, fully dimensional characters, clever touches both tender and amusingly macabre, and vivid, beautifully textured visuals." Robert Abele of *TheWrap* praised the film, saying: "If an animated movie is going to offer children a way to process death, it's hard to envision a more spirited, touching and breezily entertaining example than *Coco*." In his review for *Variety*, Peter Debruge wrote, "In any case, it works: *Coco*'s creators clearly had the perfect ending in mind before they'd nailed down all the other details, and though the movie drags in places, and features a few too many childish gags... the story's sincere emotional resolution earns the sobs it's sure to inspire." Debruge also described the film as "[An] effective yet hardly exceptional addition to the Pixar oeuvre." Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film four out of four, writing that "There's a touch of Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki in the film's matter-of-fact depiction of the dead interacting with the living, as well as its portrayal of certain creatures" such as Dante and Pepita. He concluded his review by stating, "I had some minor quibbles about [*Coco*] while I was watching it, but I can't remember what they were. This film is a classic."

Peter Travers of *Rolling Stone* rated the film 3.5 out of four, calling it a "loving tribute to Mexican culture", while praising the animation, vocal performances (particularly of Gonzalez, García Bernal, and Bratt), and its emotional and thematic tone and depth. The *Chicago Tribune*'s Michael Phillips called the film "vividly good, beautifully animated", praising Giacchino's musical score and the songs, as well drawing a comparison to the emotional tone of *Inside Out*. A. O. Scott of *The New York Times* praised the film as "a time-tested tune with captivating originality and flair, and with roving, playful pop-culture erudition", and called the film's cultural vibe "inclusive" and "a 21st-century Disney hallmark". Richard Roeper of the *Chicago Sun-Times* found the film to be "full of life" and deemed it "a bouncy and heart-tugging adventure", while lauding the vocal performances as "fantastic" and "first-rate". Brian Truitt of *USA Today* described the film as "effervescent, clever and thoughtful," calling it one of "Pixar's most gorgeously animated outings", and "the most musical Pixar film, with a host of catchy tunes". Stephen Whitty of the *Newark Star-Ledger* wrote that the backgrounds "have a vibrancy, and its atmosphere carries a warmth. And even after it's done, both linger, just a bit—like a perfectly struck guitar chord".

### Accolades

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*Coco* was nominated for various awards and won a number of them, including several for Best Animated Feature. The song "Remember Me" was particularly praised. At the 75th Golden Globe Awards, it won Best Animated Feature Film while it was nominated for Best Original Song for the song, "Remember Me". It led the 45th Annie Awards with most nominations, garnering thirteen, among them Best Animated Feature, Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production, Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production, and Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production for Gonzalez. At the 90th Academy Awards, it won the Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. *Coco* was chosen by the National Board of Review as the Best Animated Film of 2017. *Coco* also received an "Impact Award" from the National Hispanic Media Coalition for Outstanding Motion Picture of 2017.

### Controversy

In 2018, news outlets discovered that Disney Pixar had failed to disclose that producers for *Coco* had based the character of "Mama Coco" on María de la Salud Ramírez Caballero from the Purépecha village of Santa Fe de la Laguna, "a town of Purépecha potters in Quiroga, Michoacán." In a news interview, Salud stated that the producers "offered me so many things, but nothing came of it. They only came and took my picture and took it with them. They asked me what I need. Well, look at how I live and alone. My daughters live here, behind the house. And I'm here alone, that's what I have." In a report by Telemundo, residents and artisans of Santa Fe da la Laguna recognized that the attention Salud has received by people throughout the world has increased tourism for the town. Gabriela Gabriel Fabián, a potter of the town, noted that "It has benefited us because many more tourists come. This town is known because of the lady's fame, they buy our artwork, everything we do and figures of her."

While the production team at Disney Pixar have recognized that they "based the Rivera family – a multigenerational matriarchy headed by Miguel's formidable grandmother – on real-world families with whom they embedded while visiting the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Guanajuato between 2011 and 2013," they have not acknowledged Salud's contribution to the film. Co-director Adrian Molina stated, "not only is [*Coco*] based in a real place, in Mexico, but it's based in real traditions, so we knew it was very important to do the research, to get every detail recorded, so that when we get back to Pixar and we start deciding what is this town going to look like, what is this grandmother going to wear, what kind of dancing and music are they going to listen to, it can all come from an informed place." However, Salud remains unmentioned in all reports Disney Pixar have made regarding inspiration for the film.

Salud reported that since the release of the film, many people, even internationally, have visited her and will refer to her as "Mama Coco." In response, she replied, "Yes, but ["Mama Coco's"] not my name. [The producers] chose that name. And now all the people who come and visit tell us that's my name. But I tell them no, it's not my name. My name is María de la Salud." Prior to the film's release, Salud was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and now she has to use oxygen tanks to breathe. The family however has expressed that they "aren't looking to receive royalties, or money, despite her grandmother's need to recharge her oxygen tank every two days." They are, however, asking "that the company acknowledge her contribution" to the film, which has yet to occur.

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* Evan Spiliotopoulos
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### **Starring**

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***Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers*** is a 2004 American animated direct-to-video musical adventure comedy film based on the film adaptations of the 1844 novel *The Three Musketeers* by Alexandre Dumas and the *Mickey Mouse* film series by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. As the title suggests, it features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as the three musketeers in their first full length feature film together. This film was directed by Donovan Cook, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and the Australian office of DisneyToon Studios. It was released directly to VHS and DVD on August 17, 2004 by Walt Disney Home Entertainment, and was later re-released on Blu-ray Disc on August 12, 2014, coinciding with the film's 10th anniversary. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics, who praised its musical numbers, action sequences and faithfulness to the original material, but were mixed on certain aspects and elements.

## Plot

Troubadour, a French-accented turtle, inadvertently injures the storyteller just before a live broadcast. Troubadour is hastily made to take the storyteller’s place, takes out his comic book, and tells the audience his favored version of The Three Musketeers.

In 17th century France, street urchins Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto, are one day harassed by the Beagle Boys; but are saved by royal musketeers. Mickey is gifted one of their hats, inspiring him and his friends to follow their example and become musketeers themselves. Years later, the trio are employed as janitors at the musketeers' headquarters, headed by Captain Pete. Pete mocks the trio’s desire to become musketeers, deeming them all too unfit for the job.

Meanwhile, Princess Minnie narrowly avoids a large safe being dropped on her by the Beagle Boys. Captain Pete, revealed to be their boss, chastises them for attempting to assassinate her, as he wants her kidnapped so that he can take over the kingdom on the night of the Opera. In response to the attempt on her life, Minnie summons Pete, demanding he produce musketeer bodyguards to protect her. Realizing that experienced musketeers will thwart his plan, Pete decides to falsely recruit the incompetent Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as musketeers, elating the trio. Minnie falls in love with Mickey at first sight.

While on a carriage ride, the Beagle Boys ambush Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, easily defeat them, and kidnap Minnie and her lady-in-waiting, Daisy. Mickey encourages his friends to not lose hope, and they all hurry to rescue Minnie and Daisy from an abandoned tower. Goofy rushes in first, running up all the stairs and out a window into a series of events that catapults him back into the tower. The musketeers then engage the Beagle Boys in another fight. Donald hides, leaving Mickey and Goofy cornered, but Goofy manages to come up with an idea to jump out the window with Mickey to engage the same events as before in order to force the bandits out of the tower and into the river. Minnie and Daisy are rescued, and Minnie and Mickey spend time together and fall deeper in love.

Pete realizes that the trio is more of a threat than he originally anticipated, so he plans to get rid of them individually. While on night patrol, Goofy is lured away from the palace by Pete’s lieutenant, Clarabelle. Donald is chased by the Beagle Boys and delivered to Pete, who reveals his true nature after trapping him in a guillotine, though Donald manages to escape. Donald returns to the palace to inform Mickey what happened. While Mickey chooses to remain and stop Pete, Donald is too frightened and abandons him. Pete then ambushes Mickey, locks him in a dungeon at Mont Saint-Michel, and leaves him to die when the tide comes in to flood the cell.

Meanwhile, Clarabelle is about to kill Goofy by throwing him into the Seine. However, the two instantly become smitten with one another, and Clarabelle has a change of heart. Clarabelle informs Goofy that Mickey is in danger. Pluto leads Goofy to Mickey’s location, with Donald being dragged along. When Donald refuses to help save Mickey, Troubadour musically berates Donald for his cowardice, angering him into going with Goofy. The duo narrowly saves Mickey. When Mickey despairs that their status as musketeers was a lie, Goofy encourages him by stating that despite their flaws, there is nothing they can't accomplish while together. Rejuvenated, Mickey leads his friends to stop Pete and save the princess.

At the theater, Pete and the Beagle Boys then capture Minnie and Daisy, imprisoning them in a chest. One of the Beagle Boys impersonates Minnie and announces Pete as the new king of France to the public. Mickey, Donald, and Goofy arrive and battle Pete and the Beagle Boys onstage. Mickey, Donald, and Goofy come together and overpower Pete, allowing them to rescue Minnie and Daisy, who profess their love for Mickey and Donald, respectively. Minnie later officially dubs Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as royal musketeers, fulfilling their dream.

## Voice cast

* Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse
* Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
* Bill Farmer as Goofy and Pluto
* Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse
* Tress MacNeille as Daisy Duck
* Jim Cummings as Captain Pete
* April Winchell as Clarabelle Cow
* Jeff Bennett and Maurice LaMarche as The Beagle Boys
* Rob Paulsen as Troubadour
* Jess Harnell as Major General
* Frank Welker as Additional Voices
* Trevor Devall as Pirate Crew (Singing voice)

## Production

An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's *The Three Musketeers*, with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as the Musketeers; was planned during the 1980s at Walt Disney Animation Studios. In 1983, storyboard artists Steve Hulett and Pete Young developed the project with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and José Carioca as the Musketeers, but it fell into development hell. In 2002, in honor of Mickey Mouse's 75th anniversary, it was announced that a featurette entitled *The Search of Mickey Mouse* was in development. The project was about Mickey who gets kidnapped by unknown forces, forcing Minnie Mouse to enlist Basil of Baker Street to investigate his disappearance, and later encounters one character from Disney's animated film canon such as Alice, Peter Pan, Robin Hood, and Aladdin. However, the project suffered script problems with the multiple cameos being thought to be too gimmicky. After the cancellation of the latter project it was announced that a feature film based on *The Three Musketeers* with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy in the lead roles was in development, meaning that Hulett's and Young's project had been revived. However, the film did not include José Carioca as in the early development.

## Reception

As of October 2020[update]**Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".**, *Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers* had a rating of 36% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 11 reviews with an average score of 4.84/10.

## Release

The film was first released on DVD and VHS on August 17, 2004. For the film's 10th anniversary, it was released on Blu-ray on August 12, 2014.

## Video games

A world named Country of the Musketeers based on the movie appears in *Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance*. This is the first time a world in the series has originated from a direct-to-video feature. Like the Timeless River world in *Kingdom Hearts II*, it is featured as a period of Mickey Mouse's past. All the characters except Daisy, Clarabelle, and the Troubadour appear.

## Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the film, titled *Mickey, Donald & Goofy: The Three Musketeers*, was released on August 13, 2004, by Walt Disney Records. In addition to seven classical songs reinterpreted with new comedic lyrics, it also features a rewritten cover of the *Schoolhouse Rock* classic "Three Is a Magic Number" by Stevie Brock, Greg Raposo and Matt Ballinger.
In 2018, "Mickey, Donald and Goofy: The Three Musketeers" became the first direct-to-video Disney film to have its full musical score, released on CD by Intrada Records.
Like the original album, Intrada's release includes all the songs from the movie, though in this release, most of them are put together with the respective pieces of Bruce Broughton's background music that leads up to them.
Some of the music cues include pieces of the score that ultimately went unused in the movie. The "Three is a Magic Number" cover is also omitted this time.

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## References

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