FILM
ELIO
PIXAR GOES TO A DIFFERENT INFINITY AND BEYOND
Space is ace: Elio (Yonas Kibreab) and best friend Glordon (Remy Edgerly).
★★★★
OUT NOW / CERT PG / 98 MINS
DIRECTORS Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina
CAST Yonas Kibreab, Zoe Saldaña, Remy Edgerly, Brad Garrett, Jameela Jamil, Shirley Henderson
PLOT Lonely orphan Elio (Kibreab) is mistaken for the leader of Earth and abducted by friendly aliens seeking intergalactic friendship.
PIXAR HAS HAD a few creative wobbles over the past few years. Its biggest successes recently have been sequels: Inside Out 2 broke box-office records while their last original film, Elemental, hardly set the world alight. Thank goodness, then, for Elio. Helmed by a trio of co-directors — Domee Shi (Turning Red), Madeline Sharafian and Adrian Molina (Coco) — it’s a vivid, sweet but not saccharine voyage of discovery that proves Pixar is still capable of imagination, even if it still has plenty more sequels in the pipeline.