Elio (Pixar - June 2025)

[Phroobar]

 

[Phroobar]

"Pixar used Disney’s D23 Expo to reveal a new toon pic. Elio is about an 11-year-old boy who finds himself transported across the galaxy and is mistaken for the intergalactic Ambassador for our Planet Earth.

Yonas Kibreab (Obi-Won Kenobi) stars as Elio, with America Ferrera as his mom, Olga Solis. The pic is directed by Annie Award-winning Coco co-helmer and screenwriter Adrian Molina and produced by Mary Alice Drumm (Coco)."

‘Elio’: Pixar Sets New Pic About 11-Year-Old Boy Beamed Into Space; America Ferrera Stars & ‘Coco’s Adrian Molina Directs

Pixar used Disney's D23 Expo to reveal its next toon pic, 'Elio' is about an 11-year-old boy in space. America Ferrera and Yonas Kibreab among stars.

deadline.com

This isn't what we got.

 

[Willmark]

Up was the pinnacle of Pixar IMO. Since then it’s been very uneven in its output.

With Up it hit all the right notes. Of course YMMV.

 

[Tha Realest]

Did they get rid of America Ferrera?

 

[Disney Irish]

And what about that description doesn't describe the final product?

 

[Phroobar]

And what about that description doesn't describe the final product?

It's part of it but not the entire story.

 

[Disney Irish]

It's part of it but not the entire story.

Have you seen it yourself? The only thing different from that description is that America Ferrera is not in it.

 

[Disney Irish]

Did they get rid of America Ferrera?

She had a scheduling conflict as I recall.

 

[Phroobar]

Have you seen it yourself? The only thing different from that description is that America Ferrera is not in it.

Yes! It has my $14. I kind of want it back. Does it have yours?

 

[Disney Irish]

Yes! It has my $14. I kind of want it back. Does it have yours?

Yes I saw it on Thursday before many others, and no I don't want my money back as it was money well spent in my opinion.

 

[Agent H]

Elio trailer from two years ago.

Off topic but I love the Disney 100 logo.

 

[easyrowrdw]

There where humans in Up, Wall*E and Soul.

Don't get me started on Andy in Toy Story.

Yes. I was referring to the movies the previous poster mentioned (Toy Story, Monsters, and Nemo). Humans were not the primary characters in those movies. Whatever design similarities those humans had is easier to overlook/ignore when you only intermittently encounter them. That is different than products like Red, Luca, and Win or Lose that have similar (unappealing IMO) human designs and those characters are the primary focus.

 

[FettFan]

It doesn’t look good. And that blurb about “make an alien friend and become the ambassador from Earth” sounds suspiciously like the plot to the ET Adventure. Just replace the Speak-n-Spell device with a ham radio.

Hope you have your special interplanetary passports.

 

[Casper Gutman]

There where humans in Up, Wall*E and Soul.

Don't get me started on Andy in Toy Story.

Do you think these characters would look mismatched if interacting in the same shot? What if they were interacting with the characters from Spiderverse, which DOES have a very different style? How about Charlie Brown or Dog Man?

 

[coffeefan]

 

[EagleScout610]

It's not a bad movie, just "ok" for PIXAR, marketed horribly, and sandwiched between HHTYD, Stitch, Jurassic, F4, and Superman. I personally think moving it again to September/October would have been a better move since kid content will be light aside from Bad Guys 2, and gives it time to breathe until Zootopia 2

 

[Phroobar]

It's not a bad movie, just "ok" for PIXAR, marketed horribly, and sandwiched between HHTYD, Stitch, Jurassic, F4, and Superman. I personally think moving it again to September/October would have been a better move since kid content will be light aside from Bad Guys 2, and gives it time to breathe until Zootopia 2

I think Disney's confidence was low that is why they buried it.

 

[Disney Irish]

I had been hearing a theory out on the interwebs that the reason why Elio was moved to June 20th was to try to pull some focus away from Dragon. So it was sacrifice. And while it didn't have a huge effect, at least yet, it did have some.

It'll be interesting to see if it has a larger impact as time goes in the weeks to come.

 

[Hawkeye_2018]

Still a ways to go to match Elementals half a billion worldwide

 

[Tha Realest]

Up was the pinnacle of Pixar IMO. Since then it’s been very uneven in its output.

With Up it hit all the right notes. Of course YMMV.

I adore this film. I recently bought the LEGO set.

My wife pointed out to me, “Huh - you really like a movie about a recently widowed old man who gets to go off and have fun adventures after his wife dies.”

Still a ways to go to match Elementals half a billion worldwide

”Too early to tell!”