By, MICHELLE WILLSON, Features Editor
“Soul” is a Disney Pixar movie that was released in 2020. It is voiced by several well-known actors, including Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey and Daveed Diggs.
The story follows a middle school band teacher named Joe Gardner after he falls into a manhole, and his soul separates from his body. You watched as he struggles to reunite his soul and his body by traveling through the astral realm, and you get to see how souls get their personality before you’re born.
Along the way, he meets a soul called “22” who doesn’t want to go down to Earth. You get to see how this grown man interacts with this old soul who has never had a body, and it makes for some funny interactions.
I really like the movie. I had a lot of people around me hype it up, so I knew kind of what to expect.
Disney and Pixar did get backlash for turning all their POC characters into things that weren’t human. From “Princess and the Frog,” “Brother Bear” and now the movie “Soul,” I do feel like they should work on that as a company.
I give this movie four and a half out of five stars. I really liked it, and there were really good character dynamics. It had a really good plot and teaches a really good lesson. I don’t want to give too much of the storyline away, but I think anyone who likes Disney Pixar movies will like it, especially if you liked “Inside Out,” because it has more of the new Disney Pixar “feel” to it.
I think this movie gives an interesting view about before and after life that is not talked about often. It shows that maybe we don’t just “poof” into existence. And I like to see that side of the story.
It definitely leaves you thinking about things and might send you into an existential crisis about what your purpose here in life is.