Featuring "Remember Me," an original song from Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (the husband-and-wife team behind the Frozen soundtrack), and other songs written and produced by a team of Mexican songwriters and consultants, Coco boasts an authentic soundtrack and a memorable score by award-winning composer Michael Giacchino. He may not be a household name yet, but after his movie-carrying performance, it's clear the 12-year-old is, like his animated alter ego, a talented performer. Gonzalez, a tween who performs Mariachi music, is an ideal pick to voice the movie's main character. Miguel just wants to make music, even though it's forbidden to him because his family believes that music cursed them. Show moreĬolorful, beautifully animated, and culturally sensitive, Coco is an affecting, multilayered coming-of-age drama. Instead, Miguel teams up with Hector ( Gael García Bernal), a scheming skeleton who claims to know de la Cruz, on his journey to find the dead idol and earn his blessing, musician to musician. Because Mama Imelda ( Alanna Ubach) inserts a no-music clause into her blessing, Miguel flees her and the rest of his skeletal relatives in search of de la Cruz, whom he believes to be his great-great-grandfather. There, Miguel meets up with his deceased relatives and learns he can only return to the world of the living with a dead ancestor's blessing. On the Day of the Dead, Miguel fights with his family, steals de la Cruz's guitar from a crypt, and somehow gets transported to the Land of the Dead. But Miguel secretly plays the guitar and yearns to become a famous musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz ( Benjamin Bratt), the long-dead singer/actor from Miguel's hometown. For generations, the family has imposed a ban on playing or listening to music because, decades earlier, Miguel's great-great-grandfather left his great-great-grandmother Imelda and their young daughter, Coco, to become a musician. Show moreĬOCO follows Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), a young Mexican boy born into a family of zapateros (shoemakers).
But it also has powerful themes of perseverance, teamwork, and gratitude and encourages audiences to love and appreciate their family and always follow their dreams.
There's also some drinking by adult characters (a shot, cocktails at a party) and a few uses of words like "stupid." While all is well in the end, the movie can be dark and sad (as with most Pixar films, it's likely some viewers will cry), especially for those who've lost beloved relatives. A few moments of life-or-death peril are fraught with tension, but none of the major characters die (at least, who aren't already dead). The Land of the Dead contains some potentially disturbing imagery, but most kids will probably get used to all of the skeletons quickly. Told from the point of view of Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), a young boy who ends up in the Land of the Dead, the movie - which features an all-star Latino voice cast (including Gael García Bernal and Benjamin Bratt), as well as a Latino co-director and many Latino crew members - is a tribute to Mexican traditions and customs. Parents need to know that Coco is a vibrant Disney/Pixar film that explores the traditions of the Day of the Dead, a child's desire to become a musician despite his family's wishes, and the power of unconditional love.
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