Luca review: It's a gentle formula fairy tale infused with an honest nostalgia for '50s small-town Italy. But for Pixar that's pretty small gnocchi
” is as much of a trifle as the Pixar Animation Studios have ever come up with. That sounds like a harsh judgment, but in light of Pixar’s recent track record there are worse things you could say. My own feeling, while far from universal, is that in the last five years some of the most ambitious Pixar projects have gone off the track . “Luca,” set in Italy in the ’50s, is modest to a fault, and at times it feels generic enough to be an animated feature from almost any studio.
Luca is desperate to go ashore, despite the dire warnings of his parents, the brassy Daniela and lumpish Lorenzo . Crawling up on a rocky beach, he becomes a curly-haired, big-eyed kid who looks Italian but still sounds, in the performance of Jacob Tremblay , like a wide-eyed American everykid. He meets the teenage Alberto , who’s like the sea-monster version of a Jonas brother, and who’s been on land for a while, living in an abandoned stone castle column as a real boy.
Every so often, an overhead leak or a thrown glass of water will land on their skin and reveal their psychedelically hued sea-monster selves. But only for a few seconds; they snap right back. And that pasta scene aside, they don’t seem to have much trouble adjusting to acting like humans.
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