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Elio is a 2025 American animated science fiction adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, and Adrian Molina, and written by Julia Cho, Mark Hammer, and Mike Jones, from a story by Sharafian, Shi, Molina, and Cho, the film stars the voices of Yonas Kibreab, Zoe SaldaƱa, Remy Edgerly, Brandon Moon, Brad Garrett, and Jameela Jamil. It follows an eleven-year-old boy named Elio Solis (Kibreab) who accidentally becomes the intergalactic ambassador of planet Earth after being beamed up to the Communiverse by aliens for making contact. He must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms and navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions.

Elio was conceived by Molina as a "personal coming-of-age story about youthful alienation." He was inspired by his childhood growing up at a military base and eventual enrollment at the California Institute of the Arts when developing the story. The film was officially announced at the D23 Expo in September 2022, with Molina and Mary Alice Drumm already attached to the project as director and producer respectively. Molina later left the project to work on Coco 2 (2029), and in August 2024, it was announced that Shi and Sharafian would replace Molina as the lead directors. The production team devised a process, titled the "College Project", to create the look of the space setting, Communiverse. Pixar's new Luna lighting toolset allowed for the team to more quickly define lighting and the film's overall aesthetic which was shot using a virtual anamorphic lens. Its musical score is being composed by Rob Simonsen.

Elio premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on June 10, 2025, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 20, 2025


Fri Jun 20, 2025 9:00 am
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Elio has some familiar plot beats in its third act, but the creative world and beautiful animation, as well as likable alien side characters and a few unexpected twists, elevate it to the middle of Pixar's canon.

Also, there is some humor that works, but some of it feels a little geared to small children more than Pixar has done in the past.


Fri Jun 20, 2025 9:18 am
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Not that this is a big diss but the story/characters was kinda giving Dreamworks to me. I think what makes some Pixar films really great isn't really present here but its a pleasant enough movie.


Fri Jun 20, 2025 7:26 pm
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If this had come out like 10 years ago I probably would have defended it as a lesser, but still worthy Pixar film. Shit even a few years ago they could still get away with Generational Trauma as the main villain. You can only run the same formula back so many times though. And I just watched a better version of this same movie called Muppets From Space. The only really good scene is when they are navigating through the space junk and it made me wish the whole movie had been about that.

But, despite all the bad stuff, it does still look excellent and is mostly entertaining.

5.5/10


Sat Jun 21, 2025 11:13 pm
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