✗ SKIP — Not worth it

Elio

Name: Elio
Director: Madeline Sharafian
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Science Fiction, Family, Comedy
Released: 2025-06-18
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Yonas Kibreab, Remy Edgerly, Zoe Saldaña, Brad Garrett, Brandon Moon

2025 · 1h 38m · Animation, Adventure, Science Fiction, Family, Comedy

IMDb 6.6 Metacritic 66 RT 83%

Skip it—this looks like a paint-by-numbers kids' sci-fi adventure that we've seen a hundred times before, and without any critical buzz or standout creative pedigree to justify the watch, you're better off rewatching a Pixar classic tonight.

Plot

Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.

Director: Madeline Sharafian

Cast: Yonas Kibreab, Remy Edgerly, Zoe Saldaña, Brad Garrett, Brandon Moon

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