Pixar's Coco arrives in DCA - Entertainment, Food, Characters, Etc.

[TP2000]

Pixar's new movie Coco is arriving in theaters this Thanksgiving, but has already arrived in DCA. Piggybacking on all the new Halloween decorations in DCA this year, this movie that ties in with Mexican Halloween has landed in the Paradise Gardens area. It looks cute!

Our favorite lady blogger was there earlier this week to capture the new entertainment, decor and food being offered in celebration of Coco.

 

[TROR]

So Day of the Dead is from Oct 31st to Nov 2nd and Pixar decides to wait till Thanksgiving to realize their movie about the holiday? That's like releasing a Christmas movie on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

 

[Rich T]

I loved Coco when I saw it 3 years ago when it was called -- Oh, never mind!

I'm looking forward to Coco, because there's certainly room in the world for 2 animated films about The Day of the Dead.... featuring a main character who wants to play guitar instead of following the family tradition... Pixar, I'm trusting this'll be a wonderful movie and significantly different from "Book of Life!" Fingers crossed!

 

[Curious Constance]

I loved Coco when I saw it 3 years ago when it was called -- Oh, never mind!

I'm looking forward to Coco, because there's certainly room in the world for 2 animated films about The Day of the Dead.... featuring a main character who wants to play guitar instead of following the family tradition... Pixar, I'm trusting this'll be a wonderful movie and significantly different from "Book of Life!" Fingers crossed!

I think one of the reasons I'm not looking forward to this is I saw Book of Life and hated it.

I just realized how similar the plot lines seem to be!!!!

 

[Rich T]

...and hated it.

You just made me cry.

 

[mickEblu]

I think one of the reasons I'm not looking forward to this is I saw Book of Life and hated it.

I just realized how similar the plot lines seem to be!!!!

I didn't see Book of Life and I didn't know it also had the whole music/ guitar element. I think the soundtrack will be pretty strong with Coco and tbh that's maybe 50% of the animated film experienced for me.

 

[Curious Constance]

You just made me cry.

LOL sorry

 

[Rich T]

I didn't see Book of Life and I didn't know it also had the whole music/ guitar element. I think the soundtrack will be pretty strong with Coco and tbh that's maybe 50% of the animated film experienced for me.

I really do recommend "Book of Life." It's a sweet story with tons of style (cgi that looks like carved wooden puppet animation). One warning: The wonderful story is prefaced by an obnoxious opening involving a horrid group of modern-day kids on a museum field trip. Once you're into the main story, things get a LOT better. Also, the songs in the film are fantastic. Some are adaptations of existing pop songs, but done very well.

 

[D.Silentu]

I think one of the reasons I'm not looking forward to this is I saw Book of Life and hated it.

I recall watching the trailer and was interested until the "frosted churros" moment changed my mind. I'm more optimistic about Coco.

 

[Rich T]

I recall watching the trailer and was interested until the "frosted churros" moment changed my mind. I'm more optimistic about Coco.

Now, you know good movies often have rotten trailers. At least Constance actually watched this gem before... y'know, hating it. I think BoL is a wonderful film, and I'm glad Gutierrez is doing a sequel.

 

[D.Silentu]

You have a point about trailers, still it seemed at the time that if that was the foot they wanted to lead on then the movie wasn't for me.

 

[Curious Constance]

Now, you know good movies often have rotten trailers. At least Constance actually watched this gem before... y'know, hating it. I think BoL is a wonderful film, and I'm glad Gutierrez is doing a sequel.

I had no choice in watching it as I was sitting on the couch while it was playing lol

 

[OliveMcFly]

I enjoyed Book of Life and I'm looking forward to Coco plus all the Day of the Dead merch!

 

[DisneyFan18]

Do you guys think that the movie being successful and the guest satisfaction of Plaza de la Familia, could somehow increase the presence of Coco in DCA?

 

[Ismael Flores]

I would love to see a very colorful dark ride made from this movie. Get rid of Goofy sky skool and the balance of that northern half of the Pier and create an entertaining dark ride using lots of state of the art animatronics and digital effects. As long as they do not use an omnimover and instead use a trackless design or a new ride system that uses an overhead track so we could glide thru the world of the dead

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

This is confusing. Coco is a Colbie Caillat album and a restaurant.

 

[Phroobar]

This is confusing. Coco is a Colbie Caillat album and a restaurant.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

So Day of the Dead is from Oct 31st to Nov 2nd and Pixar decides to wait till Thanksgiving to realize their movie about the holiday? That's like releasing a Christmas movie on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

It wil be released in Mexico on October 27th.

As for the November release elsewhere, it's being paired with an Olaf Christmas short.

 

[brb1006]

So Coco is actually getting a release at Mexico first before the US? That's actually different but intreasting.