‘Elio’ Review: Pixar’s Sci-Fi Spectacular Gets Lost In Space

Review: Dazed and amused, 'Elio' is Pixar on a spaced-out psychedelic trip

Pixar trades soul-searching for star-seeking in its most whimsical — and least self-serious — original cartoon in over a decade.

‘Elio’ Review: Pixar’s Space Opera Adventure Needs More Time on Earth

The animation studio's latest feature focuses on a young, space-obsessed boy who is mistaken for Earth's ambassador by a galactic council.

‘Elio’ Review: Pixar’s Sci-Fi Spectacular Gets Lost In Space

The latest animation from Pixar has been in the pipe for quite some time, and while that’s not so strange for such a labor-intensive production, it’s telling that the finished version bears little resemblance, story-wise, to the film promised by the trailer released in 2023. But even without that knowledge, there’s definitely something off here; despite a cast-iron central premise — a desperately lonely young boy seeks a close encounter of the t…

Elio Review: Space Feels

If anything, Disney Pixar’s latest sci-fi animated film Elio is just one big tribute to Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi films like E.T. and Close Encounter of the Third Kind. Only instead of Super 8’s case, this one from the revered animation studio(s) feel more genuine and goes off its own deep intergalactic end in the best way possible. The Final Frontier In Elio, our title character (Yonas Kibreab) is a young boy who has a fascination with extrater…