Soul
Soul
Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.
GBWest reviewedJune 14, 2025
Ugh...wake me when the film ends.
I love movies, comedy, drama, sci-fi, it's all good. I do have my limits to what and in how far I'm willing to go though. Disney animated films should be fun, not existential; light-heart heroes and over the top villains, not an analogy for life, the universe, and all of it...or at least if it is make it fun. Yes I know the reference, and Disney couldn't even get that movie right.
Anyway, I digress. A Disney film should first and foremost be a fun adventure and soul does not deliver in the slightest. It is an existential analogy for life, and how we deal with death told in jazz, and r&b. Older Disney films did the same thing, only shorter. For example 'the elephants on parade' in Dumbo dealt with grief through alcoholism, then followed it with getting sober.
Soul is a 90 minutes version of 'elephants on parade' that lost the sense of humor immediately and caused everyone around me watching it, including me, to declare nap time out of shear boredom.