Elemental is an EXHAUSTING movie

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elemental is actually the "not up to pixar standards, but still good" movie. lightyear was not even actually good

I think the biggest thing that bugged me is that they never truly establish what fire people can and can't touch. Ember literally burned off an earth person's grass off their body, but 10 seconds later, she's holding a piece of paper just fine. Do they need to will themselves to not burn anything? Is it simply a matter of thinking "I will not burn this" and then it's fine? Like what the hell?

The animation is sooo beautiful yet boring simultaneously

16:28 This HAS to be a metaphor for a war, right? Like an air elemental war/invasion into the firelands? But Disney didn't want to challenge the kiddos too much so they dumbed it down and down to be unrecognizable.

The fact this movie's marketing was ABSOLUTE garbage but this movie succeeded in the box office is insane. Also I'm not trying to say "Oh I hate the movie blah blah blah" it's just they could've done better marketing the movie like making a character that is unimportant to the plot and has barely any screentime for your commercials makes the movie look like it's bad but the movie is still a good romance Pixar movie.

Elemental is a movie that is fine for the first watch but becomes infuriating the more you watch it, from how the story goes, to it's worldbuilding and it's characters, everything ended up feeling half baked, the racism message, the government not doing anything allegory, the generational trauma part, even the love story between Ember and Wade felt really rushed and not fully fleshed like with Wall-e and Eve

I kinda wished the story was just an immigrant family that were actual humans and not just fantasy elements so Pixar and Disney can mask the real world to make it safe.

you know what this should've been? a short film... compress it to like 15 to 30 min, and it'd probably work just fine... in fact, from how it looks, I'm kinda thinking it PROBABLY WAS a short film project, that was just "upgraded" to full-blown production, with barely any changes, and because it was NOT written with the full length in mind, they really struggled to adapt it properly...also explains a lot of the weird parts, e.g. why there's a short flashback with basically no context, but it wasn't at the beginning...because in short form, you don't have time to have a long backstory on such barely-relevant stuff...and there wasn't anything they could think of fast enough, that didn't need reworking the entire plot, to change it... etc

Disney's big mistake was releasing the film in the most crowded June ever. There were so many other films that people wanted to see that Elemental flew under the radar. They should have pushed it to August, it would have done great then.

While I thought the movie itself wasn't that great, the background music was an absolute bop, and honestly I was so shocked by Wade dying that I just burst out into laughter and everyone in the cinema just started looking at me.

I'm not gonna be super defensive for this film, because I understand why it wouldn't work for some people but I'm genuinely glad it did work for many other people in a hard hitting way (myself unexpectedly included)

I thought all the water people crying a lot was clever because in new age astrology, the water element represents being emotional

I'm so glad the world didn't forget about Elemental already. This movie actually was very poignant for me as I could relate with Ember's struggle to get in touch with her emotions and grapple with what she wants to do vs her obligations, and Wade is just so healthy and supportive to her, it's, SHOCKING. Despite the flaws of the plot and some of the choices the characters make, I'm super invested in the politics of element city and in Ember and Wade's future together anyway. And I want this movie to be a lesson to people, before you form an opinion about something, actually look into it and think about it. So many of us just shat on the trailer and called it a day, me included. Turns out the actual movie is beautiful, albeit truly a little annoying at times (C L O D) but for about a month after watching it I couldn't stop thinking about it. I wish the Walt Disney Company's terrible decision making hadn't destroyed Pixar's reputation so completely, otherwise this movie might've had a chance.

I wish this movie didnt so heavily rely on the whole "racism" part of the story to work. I did like the message of being your own person though

the movie really tugged on my heartstrings, the way wade and ember danced with the scenery in the background was so amazing. Im just glad they put it on Disney + because if they didnt I wouldve never watched it on the big screen (because of the marketing and the commercials). Elemental isnt a memorable movie like Cinderella or Snow White, but i did remember the two main characters names without looking it up even though ive watched it once so🤷‍♀. Though the love story is pretty generic (enemies to lovers) it was a very cute and charming movie.

I've been concerned for Pixar ever since Lightyear was released. Don't get me wrong, the animation and visuals are pretty good. Clod got only 2 scenes in this movie, yet Pixar marketed tf out of that fertilized kid. I am impressed at their comeback though, I didn't know Wade's introduction was that bad though 😂

This movie just does not make any sense plot-wise. It quickly goes from Wade attempting to get Ember's family shop closed down which could potentially destroy their entire lives and leave them with nothing to him suddenly feeling sympathy for her at the very last moment, tries to help her out, then suddenly falls in love with her and the movie turns into "will or will they not be able to be together due to different elements not being able to mix?" and hardly about whether or not they can save the shop so that Ember can run it one day which turns out to not even matter in the end because she wants to go off somewhere else and make glass instead. This entire movie I was like wth is even going on?

I hate the conflict of “do the glass art thing or stay at the shop” because they write it soooo poorly. First off, Ember, girl, your emotions aren’t trying to tell you that you “don’t want to run the shop.” You’ve been excited and happy to run the shop your whole life. Here’s a crazy thought: maybe you’ve been bottling up your anxiety about failing to run the shop for so long that it’s now manifesting in this anger? And all you STINKIN need to do is TALK TO YOUR DAD ABOUT IT??? Hmm??? HMMM??? just a thought. And Wade’s family—they’re the ones who encourage her to pursue glass making, WADE is the one pressuring her to do it, she is shown to have 0 agency or desire to make glass art for a living, it’s all the Ripples. And the kicker is that argument she and him have near the end of the movie. “Why should anyone get to tell you what to do with your life?” Says Wade like the stupid, entitled, spoiled rich boy that he is. And then Ember makes the VERY mature decision to honour her father and take over the shop, despite her feelings, and HE HAS THE GAWL TO GET MAD AT HER?! Oh, I’m sorry Wade, but I thought NO ONE SHOULD GET TO TELL HER WHAT TO DO!! WHY ARE YOU CRASHING HER PARTY, BEGGING HER TO CHOOSE YOU AND THE STUPID GLASS JOB?!!?!? HYPOCRITE!! UUUUUUUgh it’s just so infuriating. And—plus—why does she have to leave to pursue glass art? If that’s genuinely something she wants to do—here’s a bright idea—MAKE YOUR OWN ART AND SELL IT AT THE SHOP!!! START YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!! YOU DON’T NEED TO GO ANYWHERE!!! CHART YOUR OWN COURSE, MAKE YOUR OWN PATH!!! Honestly, this whole movie could have been avoided if Ember had JUST. TALKED. TO. HER. DAD. FROM. THE. START. AND. WAS. HONEST. ABOUT. HER. ANXIETY!!!!

My main problem with this movie is that it didn’t commit to Wade being dead. Like I know these movies almost never commit to killing off a main character, but I felt genuinely gaslighted. When the movie was acting like he was gonna die, I was like “Yeah sure. And they’ll bring thin back in some BS way immediately after.” So I sit there waiting and waiting for his sudden revival. Only for the movie to actually take his death seriously. I was taken aback. Thinking “holy shit they actually killed him off!” And just as I let my guard down. Just as I thought a family movie would actually kill a character off. The BS Disney magic kicked in and Wade is alive and well…..