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Elemental

Name: Elemental
Director: Peter Sohn
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Romance
Released: 2023-06-14
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey

2023 · 1h 42m · Animation, Comedy, Family, Romance

IMDb 7.0 Metacritic 58 RT 73%

Skip it—Pixar's latest is a paint-by-numbers buddy comedy wrapped in a generic environmental metaphor that feels more like corporate mandates than genuine storytelling. The chemistry between mismatched characters has been done to death, and no amount of elemental world-building can salvage a premise this thin.

Plot

In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.

Director: Peter Sohn

Cast: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey

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