Film Review - Elemental (2023)

Elemental is the new Pixar film and concerns Element City where Earth, Water, Fire and Air elements all live together in harmony and here we meet a Fire element called Ember (Leah Lewis) who is poised to take over her father’s store but one day she meets a Water element named Wade (Mamoudou Athie) and well Opposites soon attract.

Elemental is not a great Pixar film but it is a good one and I am surprised by how much I did enjoy it and firstly the concept of Element City is a good one and the film does a good job developing this idea where a Fire element can be partially put out by Water and Water can help an Earth element grow more and Air elements can fly in the air and have their own skyways and when the Water elements cry it is good fun to watch as they almost could create a flood with their tears.

And also the film works very well as a romance story of opposites attracting and each person bringing out the best in the other and culture clashes especially when the parents grew up in the traditional ways and the children grew up in the West and were exposed to those ideas and customs of that culture moreso and those scenes really got to me and because of that the film worked for me more than I thought it would.

And so that was Elemental and it is a good Pixar effort and my favourite of their since Onward in 2020, 3 out of 5.