With exaggerated character expressions and cartoonish backgrounds, Pixar’s new movie Luca is an outlier for the studio. The movie tells the tale of two young sea monsters who venture to a human town ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You had the Italian seaside setting, a protagonist eerily resembling Timothée Chalamet and a story about a life-changing summer.

Animated movies take years to complete, and as scenes change the actors return for new voiceovers. So the last year of Luca’s production was necessarily important. When pandemic lockdowns began in ...

Pixar's latest uses sweet sea monster mythology to address the very human issues of inclusion and respect. Even charming sea monsters need to come of age sometime: such is the cute theme behind Enrico ...

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The sea monsters required special attention and lots of retooling, especially for the crucial transformations, which became an animated sleight of hand. For Pixar director Enrico Casarosa, “Luca” ...

The internet age may have made queer reads of canonically non-queer media more widespread, but they’re nothing new — and neither is the reactionary resistance against them. Even in 2021, in spite of a ...

When a 13-year-old sea monster, Luca, met an adventurous friend, Alberto, the two boys set their sights on owning a vesper. Luckily, they ran into Giulia, who showed them the ropes to train for the ...

"Luca," which arrives on Disney+ on Friday, currently holds a 91% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 88 reviews. Critics praised the film's tight story, visuals and heart, calling the film joyful ...

For Luca, director Enrico Casarosa wanted to show how friendships impact children in most positive ways. Based on his own memories of meeting his childhood best friend, Luca is about how a real ...