![]() ![]() ![]() 'Elemental' movie review: Fire and water mix but nothing else does in Disney Pixar's first rom-com Not your usual romantic comedy woes.īut true love has a way of defying chemistry, and much of the film is centered on Ember’s struggle not so much with her love life but with her identity. Namely, that a kiss will mean she'll be extinguished and he'll boil and evaporate. They live in Element City, surrounded by diverse, well, elements (including earth and air), but find their mutual attraction might come with disastrous consequences. “Elemental” charts the romance between two polar opposites: fire (Ember Lumen, voiced by Leah Lewis) and water (Wade Ripple, voiced by Mamoudou Athie). “That one day in the Bronx was the seed,” he says. “I had invited my brother and my parents, who came here from Korea with nothing, and I looked at them and thought of their sacrifices and just cried,” says Sohn, 45.Ībout a year later, he was telling that story to friends at Pixar who immediately told him this should be his next film. Pixar veteran Peter Sohn − he directed "Elemental" as well as 2015's "The Good Dinosaur," and his likeness informed the face of Russell in “Up” − was back where he grew up for a festival celebrating the arts. The journey to “Elemental,” Pixar’s new animated film (in theaters Friday), started eight years ago in the New York borough of the Bronx. ![]()
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