A new trailer for Pixar’s Elemental introduces Romeo & Juliet for the science fair set
In Element City, all four elements live peacefully alongside each other obeying one rule: elements can never mix. Naturally, mixing ensues.
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If Pixar can’t be the first, they can at least be the latest to compare forbidden love to fire and water. In a new trailer for the next Disney/Pixar animated spectacle Elemental, the metaphor goes glossily literal, introducing viewers to Element City, where fire, water, earth, and air live in a certain bustling harmony. That is, as long as the residents—anthropomorphized elements—follow the city’s one rule: elements cannot mix.
Helmed by Peter Sohn—the architect of Pixar’s 2015 flop The Good Dinosaur—Elemental is Pixar’s only slated film for 2023, and leans into a classic set of sweeping themes: finding yourself, trying to impress a somewhat fuddy-duddy parent, and ever-so-chastely falling in love. In the film’s first teaser trailer, released last November, protagonists Ember (voiced by Leah Lewis) and Wade (voiced by Mamoudou Athie) brush hands on the subway, meeting for the first time. In the latest trailer, Ember and Wade’s world gets a whole lot bigger, which makes their relationship that much dicier.
As the new trailer indicates, Wade is the go-lucky dreamer of the duo. “Why does anyone get to tell you what you can do in your life?” he tells Ember when she laments how her father (Ronnie del Carmen) would react to her new friend. He’s most definitely not a bad boy, but from the look Ember gives him, he has a certain Coexist-bumper sticker charm that’s working perfectly for her.
Despite how young love can feel, it’s not just Ember and Wade in the universe together: Element City is no ghost town! Rounding out the (as-of-yet) introduced cast are Shila Ommi as Ember’s mom, Cinder; Catherine O’Hara as Wade’s mom, Brook; Wendi McLendon-Covey as Wade’s “stormy” boss, Gale; Mason Wertheimer as Ember’s earth neighbor, Clod; and Joe Pera as local bureaucrat Fern.
Elemental arrives in theaters on June 16.
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I really don’t understand the world they’re presenting here. Like, why is some air sentient and other air not? Why would water eat food? And I have no confidence this will be explained satisfactorily.All things I would probably be willing to overlook if it looked like it had anything to offer. Oh well.
It’s like they saw all the online discussion about the Cars universe and said, “Hold my beer.”
Also, elements do mix. That is kind of the point of elements. They mix together to create other stuff.
seems like that’s the plot
Will they create a steam baby?
Why do they wear clothes that seem to be an inconvenience to them? And since they do wear clothes, why does the water dude not have pants on?
K-K-K-K-Korben, my man? I-I-I have no fire.
…Multipass
A new trailer for Pixar’s Elemental introduces Romeo & Juliet for the science fair set arrives right on cue to distract from the ongoing Disney layoffs debacle.
Nothing in this trailer makes me think Elemental will be inspired. It seems to be a hodgepodge of many other Pixar and Disney movies (Inside Out, Cars, Zootopia, Soul). Also, The Good Dinosaur was the bottom of the barrel for Pixar movies IMO so that’s not great.That being said….two of the writers were producers on Better Off Ted! So, maybe. Maybe.
This film will create a furore! A furore that will sweep across Europe … no.
I’ll reserve judgement until I see it. But I do kinda miss PIXAR trailers just showing off how fun they are without giving away what the emotional core will be.
Why does Pixar seem so determined to make movies for little kids about adolescent themes? They didn’t learn their lesson with Strange World, clearly. Make the protagonists kids whose *friendship* is forbidden and voila. Why all the angsty teen crap.
strange world wasn’t pixar
Osmosis Jones?
Someone make a steamy romance pun quickly.