![]() ![]() Onward, which, albeit the characters sporting mythical creatures’ appearance, is culturally white-centric, received a positive yet lukewarm reception among critics and fans. Pixar’s earlier releases in 2020, too, had their own problem. However, the golden streak continued as the period saw plenty of masterpieces like Brave, Inside Out, and Coco, where heartfelt stories meet spectacular animation and originality. The box office gross for that certain bunch soared even higher, with a particular few even touching the $1 billion milestone still, they’re not as acclaimed. The 2010s marked the dawn of Pixar’s inclination to establish a movie lineup mostly consisting of sequels, namely Cars 2, Finding Dory, Cars 3, Incredibles 2, Toy Story 4, and one prequel, Monsters University. Though ironically, the two pictures’ latest follow-ups, a short film titled Carl’s Date and the announced Toy Story 5, are not received favorably. Not to mention Pixar once achieved the impossible when Up and Toy Story 3 got nominated for the highest honor in the Academy Awards, the Best Picture category. so it's after Toy Story.And things only peaked since then the subsequent productions in the 2000s, that is, excluding Cars, garnered nothing but the highest sorts of acclaim and rarely failed to bag an Oscar win for Best Animated Feature. Importantly, there's the Pizza Planet truck. The boat that drives past Luca at the start is called Elena, a nod to Abuelita, whose name was Elena. However, there's also a later reference to the 2017 Coco. Juliette has a stuffed Donald Duck on her bed and 'Le Avventure di Pinocchio' by Carol Collodi, which inspired the Disney 1940 movie, is in her room. While that movie was released in 1954 placing it a lot earlier than the other Pixar movies it's harder to place Luca in the canon. The movie has references to a couple of Pixar classic Easter eggs - Luca takes a train ticket with A113 on it to Genova, the Luxo ball is seen on a roof and there's a few Disney movie references with the fountain in the piazza taken from Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The pair are able to look human as long as they don't get wet. Pixar went for a more modest approach with this tale of two sea monsters who become friends and venture out of the water into the human world. If we really want to date Soul there's a poster for "Brang" which was the startup that drew Riley's dad to San Francisco in Inside Out (2015). There's also a rat dragging a pizza slice who looks like Remi, but we think this is more for the Pizza Rat meme. There's the joke in Monsters Inc when a hazardous material is brought back through the door to call "2319" we see those numbers on the side of the subway car. There are more general Pixar references (A113, Luxo ball) but there's a more specific movie reference on the subway. There are a ton of Pixar references to place us in a timeline here, the Pizza Planet Truck is in the "great before" when they go to explore the interests 22 might have in the "Hall of Everything". He meets 22, a soul who can't find their "spark" which every soul needs to go to Earth. ![]() When his break finally comes he falls down a manhole and "dies" sending him to his afterlife, which he sneaks out of into the "great before". Soul tells the story of Joe Gardner, a middle-aged jazz musician who is still waiting for his break while he struggles as a school band teacher.
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