Luca is the newest Pixar production and concerns what the surface world calls Sea Monsters and a coastal town on the Italian Riviera where a young boy named Luca (Jacob Tremblay) dreams of a life more than just herding fish and living in the deep with his uncle so one day he goes to the surface world and meets Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer) and the two become friends and dream of a life riding a Vespa and exploring the surface world.
Luca is a smaller scale Pixar production than some of their previous films which dealt with the afterlife and the mind like Soul and Inside Out did respectively but it is nonetheless a charming watch and I liked it more than I liked Soul last year and first off the visuals here are gorgeous, nice sunsets, the waves under the sea, the little Italian town with its hills and villas and the spaghetti it all looks great and I wish this had gotten its originally planned cinema release before it was dumped onto Disney Plus.
Secondly the story here is a very sweet with its themes of friendship and understanding that really worked for me, Luca and Alberto and Giulia (Emma Berman) make a great trinity of young kids and they play off each other really well especially when Giulia begins to teach Luca about the outside world and what the stars mean and how she learns things from School much to Alberto’s unhappiness and Alberto helps to bring Luca out of his shell and not to fear the outside world and to also help him become his own man away from his overprotective parents and all of that works very well.
As does the understanding themes regarding Giulia and the way she treats the boys she befriends throughout the course of the film.
And so that was Luca and it’s a smaller scale Pixar film but one that I found to be a charming watch nonetheless, 3 out of 5.
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