Soul
Pixar took you into the mind with 2015's Inside Out, now go on a journey from the streets of New York City to the cosmic realms to discover the answers to life's most important questions. Winner of Best Film - Animated at the 2021 Academy Awards and Golden Globes. Features the voice talent of Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Rachel House, Graham Norton and Questlove. From Oscar-winning director Pete Docter (Up, Inside Out).
2020Rating: PG100 minsUSA
AnimatedKids & FamilyFantasyMusic
- Director:
- Pete Docter ('Monsters, Inc.', 'Up', 'Inside Out')
- Writer:
- Kemp PowersPete DocterMike Jones
- Cast:
- Jamie FoxxTina FeyRachel HouseGraham NortonQuestloveRichard AyoadePhylicia RashadDaveed Diggs
Soul | Awards
Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 2021 Academy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTAs.
Soul | Reviews
95%347 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Stuff
A joy-filled delight that would have been only improved by being made available to view in its natural, spiritual home – a cinema.
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A.V. Club
It's overflowing, like a bright portal into a new reality, with gorgeous details.
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Slant Magazine
It's hard not to want Soul to be all about music, not just as metaphor but as the very real engine that drives the film's characters forward.
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Variety
Another intuitive, easy-to-embrace metaphor for - dare I say it - the meaning of life.
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The Guardian
It’s all very headspinning, and there is real Yellow Submarine quality to the film’s innocent urgency and idealism which take it to the very brink of incoherence. That can sometimes be exasperating but also really captivating, especially in that final visual cadenza in which Docter and Powers are really are going above and beyond the traditional Hollywood ending. It’s a deeply sweet, happy, gentle film.
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Screen Daily
Visually glorious, frequently very funny and genuinely profound, this is a picture which cries out to be seen on the big screen.
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Hollywood Reporter
This densely packed, exquisitely executed and just a teensy bit batshit film is peak Pixar. It's a vintage mix of the company's intricate storytelling, complex emotional intelligence, technical prowess and cerebral whimsy on dexamethasone.
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IndieWire
Like some of the best jazz compositions, it uses a traditional framework to veer off in many unexpected directions, so that even the inevitable end point feels just right.
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Empire Magazine
While not quite offering the emotional gut-punch it promises, its many ideas never completely cohering, Soul is nevertheless a gorgeous and tender existential trip. It’s full of surprises.
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Soul | Release Details
Soul is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Disney+.