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Elio - AniMat's Reviews (Patreon)

Published:
2025-06-25 19:00:04
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2025-06-26 01:57:59
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We’ve often asked the question “Are we alone?”, but Pixar looks into a different perspective of that with their next original animated feature, Elio. In this review, I’ll be looking at how a boy’s adventure in the Communiverse may sound familiar, but his journey to break through his loneliness gives it that signature charm that Pixar is known for to create a movie that’s so cute, it might even be their cutest movie yet!

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Justin Monti

I really liked this movie, while I wouldn’t say it’s one of my favorite Pixar films, it’s still overall fun and enjoyable, while the story is very familiar and definitely recognizable, it definitely makes up for it with a lot of heart, the animation is really beautiful especially with all the different alien creatures, and the characters are highly enjoyable, overall while not Pixar’s best, it’s still a fun and enjoyable movie. And honestly it’s really unfortunate that this movie is not doing that well at the box office right now and ended up having the lowest opening weekend for a Pixar movie, mainly because of Disney’s lack of marketing the film, honestly I’m hoping this movie will end up similar to Elemental, where it has a weak opening weekend but thanks to positive word or mouth it ends up turning a profit, because honestly this movie definitely deserves the love and attention.

Toontastic Juju

It’s no doubt that I highly admire Elio. Even with several delays, it comes out amazing and beautiful. I definitely felt Elio throughout the film with his loneliness and rough life. My dad loves the story too. Sucks that it didn’t too well on its’ opening weekend, but let’s face it, dooming and glooming about it is cringe, let’s just wait and see on that, but for the movie itself, it’s amazing, I highly recommend giving Elio a chance, it’s phenomenal!

Hugo Segal

As an individual on the Spectrum, Elio’s quest for unconditional love and acceptance hit home for me, even with those familiar story beats. I haven’t seen ‘Turning Red’ as of late, but I continue being impressed with Pixar’s output under their new creative trust!

Hunter O'Laughlin

Saw this yesterday in the theater with my older brother and we both thought it was cute but not really among Pixar’s best. I’ll admit I did have the same issues where I felt the film was rushed and could’ve used some extra minutes dedicated to fleshing out Elio’s social awkwardness at school and his family struggles with his aunt, but I think they’re the result of the film’s rewrites following the departure of Adrian Molina and Domee Shi & Madeline Sharafian taking his place. Speaking of which, while I do applaud Domee Shi for doing the best with what she was given, I can tell this film was harder for her to direct compared to her directorial debut Turning Red, where that film was entirely her own idea and based on her experience as an adolescent thus giving it a personal touch, this one I can tell was really someone else’s idea and passion project derived from Adrian Molina’s experience that the only thing Domee could do was just take over the helm and steer the film onto a newer course. Again, to reiterate, I do applaud Domee Shi for getting the film completed and released, but I don’t know if I’ll ever consider this her film when I can still feel someone’s personal touch and vision.

Bryce Gundy

Maybe Elio will have the same situation as Elemental in terms of its box office performance where it may start out week, but slowly earns more money to be considered a hit.

Anthony Estrada

I don't see the white lie plot as a problem if the execution is done well (which it generally is aside from the rushed nature at times). Mant Pixar films generally have plots which at surface level seem basic and predictable like finding nemo and yet became classics because the execution of those films elevated the plots into something where even what might be considered cliche felt essential to the storytelling.

Edward Baillargeon

I absolutely adored Elio! I felt like this was one of those films that was made for me as a Pixar fanatic and a sci-fi geek. And its themes really struck a chord for me on a personal level as feeling alone was a struggle for me as an autistic person. Elio is absolutely an autism coded character with his struggles and his hyperfixation on space. I honestly didn't have a problem with the liar revealed story because the execution really worked and when it does something right, it does it amazingly. Elio and Glordon's friendship is absolutely adorable, the humor gave me some big laughs, particularly the dark humor that leans a smidge into horror, its emotional core did make me foggy eyed a couple times, the animation is stunning, and Rob Simonsen's score is beautiful. For a film that had a lengthy production with a director switch, I thought it came out pretty strong. I wasn't trying to find where something was Molina's original vision and what was revised when Sharafian & Shi took over, and that's because I don't know, so I'm not going to pretend that I know what happened at Pixar when they were making this. I prefer to focus on a film for what it is, not what it isn't. And YES to everything you said at the beginning. I hate the doomer mindset the internet has that "PIXAR'S GOING TO MAKE NOTHING BUT SEQUELS FROM NOW ON!" Yes, Inside Out 2 was a massive success and we're getting Toy Story 5, Incredibles 3, and Coco 2, BUT we're also getting two more originals in the near future with Hoppers and Gatto. And looking at the 2020s overall for Pixar, we've gotten double the originals than we did in the 2010s with 8 compared to 4. Onward, Soul, Luca, Turning Red, Elemental, and Elio have shown Pixar's still going strong with their original films, plus Win or Lose was a great show, and both Hoppers and Gatto have a ton of potential. It sucks that Elio had a terrible opening, but I hope it pulls an Elemental and eventually makes its money through strong legs and word of mouth. I wish the community actually did more to show support for the originals they claim to want, instead of doing another copy-paste rant about how "live action remakes and sequels are evil" just because it's easier and gets more clicks. Especially since last weekend was a pretty awesome weekend to be an animation fan getting two awesome original films from Pixar and Sony with this and KPop Demon Hunters.

Jon Bilgutay

I wonder what the eyepatch is suppose to represent?

Jeff B. Hughes

This Movie was interesting for me not when I saw premiere the theater was nearly filled another reason being I saw Life of Chuck before Elio and ,while both movies are massively different they have one similar theme: multitudes we are never alone through outer space and inner space. If anyone can find Life with Chuck I highly recommend watching it not just to see Mark Hamill ,Tom Hiddleston, & Jacob Trembly giving amazing performances but to represent my hometown where 60% of the filming took place

Kenneth Stoddard

I seen on Thursday night and I thought it was good but wasn’t really that great. I know this movie went through production trouble especially changing directors and the storyline element from what we saw in the original trailer back in 2023 to what we got now with the final product and after seeing it, it was fine for what it is as a sci-fi adventure animated film for families. My main problem with this and why I wasn’t on board with this is the white lie plot and it family story that I seen many times before. Not to mention it rush pacing at times particularly the first act and the writing kinda felt like a mess. However, if it weren’t for the direction, voice acting, animation, characters, humor, score by Rob Simonsen, themes, and heart, I would’ve called this a mediocre movie but overall it looks like very flawed but good Pixar movie. I should mention kid friendly horror scenes as well that I don’t seen people aren’t talking enough particularly with the clone version of Elio which I thought it was fun the most. Though given how it really underperforming at the box office since it is another original animated sci fi movie, I have a hard time believing that it will have legs like what happened with Elemental despite no competition besides competing with Dragons until the Smurf movie so I don’t think it will be as lucky as Elemental unless I’m proven wrong. It a shame that Disney is not doing anything favor when it comes to marketing towards Pixar’s original films as a late.

Jon Bilgutay

I would think that's he's only seeing half of the picture, or only seeing what he want to see.

LemonDropHarleyWolf(Wolfie)

Mmmm I don’t agree about the white lie plot, i understand it can be typical but as long as it’s done right(which it does for this movie and it saves the plot) it can be effective

Lady Helen Bio Rodriguez

Its a shame I saw this film barely marketed anywhere, I might give it a watch now.