Pixar's Luca

[Farerb]

The Art of Luca:
https://disney-studios-awards.s3.amazon ... index.html

[Daniel]

So much cuteness. You can really see the old school anime and Italian comics influence.

[Daniel]

The sights that inspired the world of Luca:










So cool!

[EricJ]

Well, real-world-inspired animation is not always a bad thing:

[Ben]

The sights that inspired the world of Luca:

So cool!

Cool indeed! Love how they’re lined up.

[Randall]

Very neat!

[Daniel]

Few more:





Simply incredible!

[Farerb]

I love him


https://twitter.com/sketchcrawl/status/ ... c41LQ&s=19

[Daniel]

Ditto!

[Daniel]

Bonus features, including an audio commentary, were added today on Disney+. Yay!

[Ben]

Sneaky!

[Daniel]

Almost a year to the day it was released on Disney+!

[EricJ]

Finally just got through it last week (without the commentary), and yeah, it's not too bad for a mid-tier Pixar:
It's at least got structure, a third act, a...sort of villain (who represents very little actual threat, but still gets a plot comeuppance), and enough alternate-world whimsy with the undersea characters to justify making an animated movie instead of Cinema Paradiso.
We even get the "gasp!" moment of emotional resonance that we expect from a Pixar movie, when

Luca almost sells out Alberto for public acceptance,

something we sure didn't get with the Puberty-Fangirl Panda.

It's just that refreshing to see a Disney/Pixar movie where the emotional climax doesn't consist of "I was never good enough for you, Mom!"

[Ben]

Call me late to the party, but I just worked out what the title of that panda movie is a metaphor for… Boy, they sneaked that one past us, eh?


As for the emotional climaxes (ooh, er!), those characters only just want to make their Moms (or Dads) proud of their boy. Or girl, or whatevs.

[EricJ]

As for the emotional climaxes (ooh, er!), those characters only just want to make their Moms (or Dads) proud of their boy. Or girl, or whatevs.

Ahem, THOSE do, but here, they managed to keep every boys' dilemma of "The day you discovered girls were more interesting than building that rocket with your best buddy" friend-abandonment issues, without (except for maybe one strategically-placed line that an animator wanted to sneak in) making it a Metaphor For Something Else.

Yes, we occasionally have male protagonists who worry about living up to Dad, but they don't spin it into the world or society's pressures and expectations being against them...
And here, it wasn't so much about mom and dad's Expectations, as Not Letting Them Find Out About the World's Coolest Forbidden Vespa. (And Vespa means freedom.)