There is an A-side and there is a B-side to the current era of Pixar Films. That is just how the company has configured itself over the past decade. The A-side pictures tend to be franchise entries or films directed by company honcho Pete Docter. The B-side pictures tend to be original features by relative up-and-comers. These are smaller in scale and less spectacular in form; films that are beholden to the established Pixar template. If we are honest, however, even the A-siders have begun to disappoint of late, losing in narrative ambition what they have gained in their craft. The animation has never been more spectacular and the ideas have scarcely been as tame. One could tell, with the release of films as humdrum and unremarkable as Finding Dory, that this once venerated animation house had long since passed its prime. Here is where we are met with Luca, 2021’s only Pixar offering.

Here is our reading of Pixar's latest Luca:
www.highonfilms.com/luca-2021-review/