The Reel Rejects - COCO (2017) IS ONE OF PIXAR'S GREATEST!! MOVIE REVIEW!! Remember Me | Poco Loco | Disney Animation

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Starting point is 00:00:27 how's it going it's it's been a crazy day so far as we are shooting this but it's Arun and it is Juan and we are back in the studio today and I'm excited man it's time for some music it's time for some animation it's a musical animation Monday both genres animation's a medium but that's a whole other conversation both represented on their respective day of the week with a modern Disney classic

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Starting point is 00:03:03 Gang! If you've made it to this point in the video, thank you so much for joining us thus far. This is one heck of a movie, and God, I'm glad we got to share that, man. Me too. That was real beautiful, and I feel like we are too, you know, Most people like music, but I feel like we're too, especially musically immersed folks.

Starting point is 00:03:26 We are. So, you know, I thought it was pretty cool that we got to take this one on. And as we do, we've started, you know, a new segment kicking off these reviews with some Patreon questions. So before we get to that, big thanks to Prepper for chopping these highlights down, making music out of this medley of moments. We appreciate them mightily. also leave a like on the video. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button. And when you do that, you're going to want to ring that bell,

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Starting point is 00:04:14 All right. Our first patron question, as soon as, the app decides to work with me here, the listy here. Also shouts out to our man, PLD, for compiling all this stuff. Ashley Harris asks, or says, and thank you for chiming in and stoking the fires of our conversation. Miguel knew the basics of his family history, but learned so much more on Dia de los Mertos. If you had the opportunity to meet your ancestors under safe-ish conditions, would you, and what would you hope to learn about them? god oh man i mean i would absolutely take it like if this was possible you know like if if this

Starting point is 00:04:56 literally was how you know the rules of life and death worked out and you know you could cross over back and forth or something like that i think it would be really cool like i i know certain things about my you know family tree going up to at least my great grandparents but there's a lot there that I don't know about or, you know, that, you know, and I'm getting to that point in life, too, where you start to kind of think on, once you live enough, I think you start to realize, you know, and if you're lucky enough to have family close to you, you know, you start to kind of realize that time is precious and also that, yeah, you want to kind of like go back and collect just the details. Like you start to find, there's that old trope, I think, of like, oh, grandpa, like, you're boring story. But like, you know, I love. that stuff and and you know the the more I live the more I'm like yeah give me that like you know let me hear about just what life was like for any number of you know these pictures that I've seen yeah on the wall or an old photo album or whatever it might be I mean yeah I guess I would just hope to learn anything possible any kind of I guess what their passions were like and you know how they

Starting point is 00:06:10 filled their days and you know what they were like and what their relationships and within the family might have been like all that stuff yeah um yeah when i when i hear that question i um i think of my grandpa who passed in 2014 um my grandma on my dad's side passed in 08 and then um her husband i guess technically also my grandpa passed in 20 no uh passed in 94 and i was born in 95 and never got the chance to meet him of course but yeah i'd have a ton of questions um stories history you know from my dad's side like what was it like growing up in louisiana um like on my mom's side i'd ask yeah just so much about what it was like growing up in the 60s and just that time being black in america but i'd also want to share my poetry with them because yeah yeah i mean i knew my

Starting point is 00:07:11 my grandma I knew my grandpa but neither of them ever got to hear me do poetry before so I'd like to share that with them and just here on their own experiences so yeah that's what I would want to do I thought to see somebody that's beautiful yeah man

Starting point is 00:07:26 I would spend all that time talking about me and not let them get a word in edgewise no no no this is my show I am taking time out of my busy life to come visit your death I am the center of attention That was a really thoughtful question though

Starting point is 00:07:42 And I would love to If anybody in the comments Of this video wants to chime in By all means please Tori Jerry, thank you for chiming in as well Dia de Mertos is a Mexican heritage tradition With roots in indigenous culture To learn more visit your local library

Starting point is 00:07:56 To the people across time Who supported and inspired us A lovely way to end off the credits here That's beautiful Oh man A little O'Frenda style Right at the end Remember us

Starting point is 00:08:09 beautiful all right tory jerry cocoa three questions Coco is my favorite film hands down that's a comment as a Mexican it was a surreal experience to finally have something like this that is so informed by our culture and whimsy

Starting point is 00:08:29 you rarely see children's films tackle the loss of death and here's one where it's literally the entire plot how do you think they did navigate that one did you learn anything new about this holiday and or what stood out to you about it and three this is also one of the only i didn't i didn't register this uh it's one of the only pixar films that is a musical how do you think they did with the music oh man the music was incredible i would say yeah start off the question three the music well like i i'm gonna imagine

Starting point is 00:09:03 that all the songs we heard for the most part were originals for this movie i'm sure there's probably some traditional element of music worked in as well. But yeah, I love the music in this. I thought this was really well handled. It was well dispersed throughout the plot. And, you know, again, to have something that is so heavily steeped in, you know, South American Mexican musical culture and stuff like that, those traditions, those sounds, those instruments.

Starting point is 00:09:28 I love that. Like, I love the journey, you know, the cultural aspect of the journey of that. and also the sounds are just beautiful. And I thought that the array of songs that they assembled for this movie kind of hit a lot of different flavors. It wasn't like repetitive or redundant or, you know, fillery. Yeah. I think all the music in this movie was really strong and really fun and catchy.

Starting point is 00:09:56 Yeah, kind of similar to yourself. I think I said at the beginning, like, oh, yeah, I've heard that song before. I was like, oh, yeah, because I, I, that, I watched this one time in theaters in 2017 on Thanksgiving Day, and I didn't remember anything about it other than remember me and Unpoco Loco. I don't remember a single element of the plot, the characters, or anything, but just those songs with the fact that music has, our main character is trying to embark on or at least share to some extent is so important because it transcends time. And it sticks with you.

Starting point is 00:10:32 It is what you remember most. Like the tune, even if you don't remember the lyrics of something, you remember the tune of it. You know, that's why we have Shazam. Like, who's this? What's this song with this melody? And this is, this beat or whatever. But yeah, I think that was the other two questions.

Starting point is 00:10:51 So the first one is, yeah, how do you think they handled the musical element being that this is one of their rare musical films? Did you learn anything new about Dia de Mortos and or what stood out? to you about their depiction of it and how do you think they did navigating the loss of like death in the plot basically

Starting point is 00:11:08 um i guess i didn't realize the importance of the the photos on the display the offreenda yeah and how pivotal

Starting point is 00:11:27 that aspect of um the celebration is and honoring the heritage and i don't i don't know if the story and the the basis of them passing through is something from uh the culture some of the movie made up in of itself but i think that's um yeah there's something beautiful about that that the the honoring of them is based on your ability to show your care and your memory of the people that the people people from the past and you know it even if it's not like a global legacy their stories and their images live on through the descendants and then the the level of impact or just like community

Starting point is 00:12:16 within your own family kind of dictates how how you're presented and the longevity of the longevity of your ability to cross over into this world I thought that was beautiful. Yeah, absolutely. I feel like this is, you know, Dia de Mortos, especially I think, you know, if you're growing up and you're into Halloween and stuff like that, like it's adjacent in time. And so you kind of gather up that imagery and, you know, over the years too, as, you know, we have awakened a bit as a society in some respects. And we have woken up. Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, like along as much as people lose their mind. when you drop that word in anywhere. I feel like one thing about it that is, I think demonstrably and definitively lovely, is the way in which people do go out of their way now to be like, hey, you know, you've seen sugar skulls around,

Starting point is 00:13:18 I'm sure, here's what they actually mean, or here's what the ritual actually is. Here's what the tradition is. Here's what this image is coming from. And so, I mean, in the last several years, I feel like, you know, I have learned to be, sort of more respectful in that regard of, you know, what the cultural aspect of it means. And I think it's really gorgeous. Like, you know, it's, it seems like the kind of tradition that anybody could get on

Starting point is 00:13:44 board with in a way. Like, I think it's beautifully, you know, of its time and place. But also, you know, like the idea of, yeah, setting up a little altar and leaving out these gifts for your family. Like, these are all little scraps that I had gathered over, you know, many years. And then some stuff I had learned when I was a little younger, but I think certainly since this movie came out, there's been a lot more of a direct sort of clarification within society. I'm just like, what is Dia de Moratos? What is the purpose? What is the ritual? What is the tradition? And I just love the way this personified that and clued into the idea that, yeah, like, this is how we, you know, honor our ancestors. This is, you know, the, we live in a world, obviously, where everything is digitized and, and, you know,

Starting point is 00:14:28 it's not we don't live in the natural world the what am i trying to say the further we get into time the less of the natural world we live in and this is sort of a beautiful human thing to do it's a very sort of you know natural world to me kind of thing to do which is you know set up an altar get the image of your loved ones so that you can you know think on and reflect on them and remember them leave out some things that they would have loved and you know i think it on the one hand, it's like, yeah, objectively speaking, like, are they really there to grab it? Who knows? But at the same time, I think, yeah, for us, it, you know, embraces death in a different way and confronts and sort of just sits with it in a sense. You know, it's like it might be sad to be reminded that,

Starting point is 00:15:14 you know, whoever might be on your o'Frenda is gone. But at the same time, I think there is something that is sort of celebratory and in tune with the sort of continuum of. of all things of life, of mortality and whatnot to, yeah, to have something like that that brings your loved ones present, though they may be gone. And, you know, those traditions of like, ooh, during this time of the year, the veil is thin between the living and the dead and, you know, the heavens and the earth and whatever else. And I think this movie, to kind of melt a couple of your questions together, I think this really nicely handled the concept of death. because yeah like it's a Disney trope obviously of like oh they're going to murk someone's parents and this was like yeah there is a certain whimsy there's a certain melancholy but there's also I mean for a movie about death this doesn't skew as dark as it could or as sad or depressing

Starting point is 00:16:08 and in some ways like I can think of more heartbreaking death stories in the Disney slash Pixar canon anyway but at the same time this kind of demystifies a certain amount of things and yeah except death as a part of life and shows how from like a very young age, from Miguel's age, you can be clued into the fact that, yeah, these are our relatives who have passed on, but also this is how we honor them. It hurts. It always will hurt to some extent, but this is how we keep them alive. We can create familial bonds and we can celebrate here and the now together with those of us who are living whilst communing over our, you know, lost loved ones who we might have known or who we might have only just heard about. And again, the more we live, the more precious

Starting point is 00:16:54 that stuff feels. And, you know, it's like my grandparents are gone. And I was lucky enough to hear a lot of stories and be around for a lot of stuff, but it never feels like it's enough, you know. And now, you know, I'm like, okay, well, you know, family members come to visit or I should do this more with my own direct parents. Like, what were a grandma and grandpa like or what was great grandma and grandpa like? It was tell me some just experiences, just recount this stuff. Because like, that's life and that's precious. And so, yeah, like this is, I think, from my outside understanding of the, again, the ritual and the celebration, this felt very much like some type of macab, but very beautiful and bright fiesta, you know, and I thought this was really nicely handled. And I'm glad to see that it appears that, again, folks for whom this is hitting, like, directly at home, you know, people who, you know, have grown up within this culture seem to also really flock to and love this movie. And it's cool to see that. them nail that and, uh, in, you know, get it, you know, spiritually on point. Um, so yeah, I think they navigated the idea of death and, and the idea of being forgotten. I think that's an

Starting point is 00:18:00 idea too that like, like, again, is kind of nuanced and sophisticated, especially for like a young viewer to be like, oh yeah, you know, like, you know, it's sad to think that these people are gone, but here's how we can honor them. And that's even different than simply thinking about them. You know, we can actively honor them. So, yeah, I mean, like, and this just had so many lovely details and stuff like that. So, I mean, yeah, I'm trying to think if I learned anything specifically new about the holiday. I think the thing that this gives me is, like, you know bits and pieces may be going in about, like, what certain, you know, aspects are in a factual sense. But this movie, I think, brought the aura and brought the sort of cultural intermingling with everything else as a factor into it, you know.

Starting point is 00:18:46 You got to see it kind of in action and in practice. if that makes sense. And I think that is a really enchanting detail that then brings you into, again, like the beauty of the celebration and the idea of like you're like, I should do that. Like, you know, we should all do it. It seems like the kind of thing we should all do. You know. Oh, seriously. Yeah. Um, so. One of our ancestors guys on other legacy, on other memories. Yeah. Keep them alive in a way. Absolutely. Um, okay. We got one from Dylan Panther Bone. This question is for both John and Aaron for the Coco movie. What is one song that could take you instantly back? in time much like the grandma at the end of the movie for myself hey jude by the beetles always makes me think of my grandma i would love to hear either of your picks as fellow music nerds music is a powerful thing side note i hope everyone on the team is staying hydrated and finding time to prioritize yourself self care is important and every reject is worth it thank you so much awesome appreciate that what song takes you back oh man a few songs the song uh maybe not thinking of family but so to speak but a song called nine in the afternoon by fandika disco i love that song i love that song

Starting point is 00:19:53 did that karaoke on occasion yeah dude they think of middle school um yeah dude that's that one just rings true and like nostalgia for me also um yeah weirdly demo lovado's cool for the summer makes me think of like my early 20s college era sure yeah yeah there's a lot of them um those are the two I think of at the moment but I'm trying to think of like childhood songs childhood the first one that springs to mind and I'm sure there are others

Starting point is 00:20:26 you know this is the kind of question I would think forever about because there are so many songs that take you places but here in this moment I am struck with listening to Hotel California in the car with my dad when we would be like listening to like the classic rock radio and it's like a song that would come on a lot

Starting point is 00:20:42 and I was always like enamored with like the guitars and the storytelling and like you know my dad would emphasize certain lines of the song or whatever you know it's like it's a well known well loved song but uh lovely place such a lovely face ready your room at the hotel

Starting point is 00:20:57 California anytime of year uh god that's a great question though and you guys obviously jump in the comments and let us know but uh yeah thank you Dylan just for for the lovely sentiments the lovely wishes and uh you know for for checking in with us as people as well as uh giving us a really thoughtful question here

Starting point is 00:21:13 baby when we're grinding who just can't deny That song makes you think of my parents' wedding. Let's go. And I did not know what that song meant until I was a lot older. And I was like, oh, that is a very horny song. If I ever get married, we're going to play Stroke in the entire time. That's right.

Starting point is 00:21:31 Follow by Bustin. And if you don't know Bustin, just Google Bustin. All right, Flev Doren, because we got to wrap up pretty quick. Coco is the best Pixar film there. I've said it. Coco is one of only two films I've convinced my mother to go to the cinema with me to see. And although the theme of the film didn't hit personally, it was still a memorable experience for how great

Starting point is 00:21:49 this film was well yeah and I mean too you know if you're even again if it's not exactly you know your familiar culture or tradition I think that there's just so much beautiful craftsmanship on display with this film that yeah you you couldn't not get something out of it let's see let's see

Starting point is 00:22:05 do we have any more I think that does it for the patron questions today thank you guys for being thoughtful and for jumping in you know this this was really lovely and I think you know we said like we caught this when it first came out and this was like a fresh viewing experience and yeah the animation gorgeous

Starting point is 00:22:22 the texture is beautiful I thought the story flowed really well the twists and turns of the plot I thought were really great the whole twist with de la Cruz and also hector being his actual great great grandfather and just the way they personify the family and you know the the lessons that are learned and the ebb and flow and the whole back and forth

Starting point is 00:22:41 of like I give you my blessing but I only give it to you this way well I'm going to give it to you a certain different way And then finally ending up on, I give you my blessing, no conditions, unconditional love, just get back there. That's what matters. You know, you have the gift of life, live it to the fullest, be with your family. And like the whole resolution with Coco, I thought was gorgeous. Like you said, like it had a certain amount of like, oh, soap opera like plotting. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:06 At times in the exact right way. And just all the fun in games of like how they design the world, how they use the lore and then take you into this world of the dead. and him doing the back to the future fade and all that stuff as he attempts to get this blessing. And, again, like, even when Ernesto is, like, about to give him the blessing, the thing doesn't light up, I noticed. It's, like, little details. And there are tons of, like, important little details, but also other just beautiful artistic details in terms of where all these different skull images are. Like, this is a movie you could, I bet, scrub and just find endless things to appreciate. So, yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:42 Rock stars, Cocoa, video. Exactly. So, yeah, just as a feat of animation. as a feat of rousing, you know, human storytelling as a representation of a cultural ritual and, you know, celebration and ceremony. I just thought this was terrific. It was beautiful. No, I, and the voice cast, too, like, excellent voice cast.

Starting point is 00:24:01 Top-notch voice cast, enjoyed it from top to bottom, enjoyed the heart, enjoyed the culture, enjoyed Zim music, and, yeah, I make one go call my mom. Sure. And have many memories shared of previous generations. My grandpa and her grandma and my dad and the same. I just want to remember everybody and everything. I want to rewatch this after Halloween every year. That would be lovely.

Starting point is 00:24:26 Make this a November watch. Yeah, totally. Nightmare before Christmas. Okay. Real quick, before you head out. Do you want to guess we're on tomatoes? Let's do it. Oh, God.

Starting point is 00:24:34 This had to have been high, man. This had have been like a 96%. For critics? For critics? Audiences. Ninety-nine. you're very close 97 for our critics and 94 of audiences okay sure i i would have almost thought that that you know i thought we could get close but a anywhere in the 90s i think for this is is pretty

Starting point is 00:24:54 nicely you can't scoff at that you know cannot and i mean i'm i would be curious to hear what some people who didn't care for this think of it because i mean i thought this was really beautiful and especially this time like this really sang um who would not care for cocoa this is a great heartfelt film. Maybe people that don't believe in music. Maybe they hate music. This is funny. Miguel, just a little piece of trivia,

Starting point is 00:25:21 was originally only going to play the guitar and not sing. When director Lee Uncrich discovered Anthony Gonzalez was in fact a talented singer, it was decided Miguel would do both so Anthony can share this talent in the film. Yeah. That is freaking cool. And this also spent more days at number one in the box office than any other animated film

Starting point is 00:25:39 of the 21st century. Wow. Yeah. Oh, go, okay. And, oh,

Starting point is 00:25:45 this would apparently be banned in China. Oh, this film contains specific themes

Starting point is 00:25:50 and content which would be ordinarily be banned in China. Reportedly the Chinese censor board

Starting point is 00:25:55 members were so touched by the film. They made an exception and allowed it. Wow. That is freaking

Starting point is 00:26:01 crazy. During one visit, one of the visits to a to a Wahakin family in Mexico for inspiration

Starting point is 00:26:08 director Lee Ancrish paid particular attention to a traditional Frienda that holds pictures of the dead and is also used to offer food during the de Mertos. He noticed the family Bassett Hound had to be repeatedly chased away from the affronta because it tried to eat the food.

Starting point is 00:26:22 He found this so amusing that he included in the scene in the movie where Miguel is horrified that Dante is eating the food. Apparently there was a John Ratsenberger cameo in here. I did not catch. And I guess they were considering Alfred Molina at one point. Really? Yeah. at least according to this uh oh no never mind i take it back adrian malina is the co-director my bad um but yeah golly this was terrific gang gang let us know your thoughts on this movie uh i loved

Starting point is 00:26:55 watching this again for the first time it felt like and uh yeah man i'm gonna be reflecting it's very cathartic this movie like those those this really moved me this time especially so uh yeah I couldn't. I don't have enough words for how much I enjoyed this. Aaron, thank you for sharing this with me. Thank you for sharing it with me. And yeah, I had a great time and thank you guys for watching. And we'll see you guys in the next one. It's been great. Absolutely. And hey, remember me or else I'm going to get Unpocococo!

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