Is **ELEMENTAL** Overrated?? First Time Watching (Movie Reaction & Commentary)

“This doesn’t have to be romantic,” girl, this is a romcom

Overrated? The internet has relentlessly shat on this movie since before and after it came out, praying on it's downfall. I'd say the fact it's a moderate success makes it underrated.

People were saying this was going to be generic and "Pixar's biggest flop", then they actually saw the movie and it turned out to be a great romantic comedy! Such a great time

Pixar's first full-blown romantic comedy is lovely. It's not subtle with its fire and water metaphor for characters from different cultures falling for each other but it's very heartfelt and sweet.

2:32 "That was an attempted MURDER!" Nah Soph, when it's an accident, they call it manslaughter. One more thing; there are water pipes in Fire Town because the fire people repurposed a pre-existing area. It was not, as you said in the video, built from scratch.

It is the Walt Disney company’s 100th anniversary this year in 2023. The animation in this movie is AMAZING! The way the elements move is on POINT.

i get from an outside point of view embers internal conflict might seem unnecessary, dramatic and dumb, but it’s so accurate to the wrenching guilt many of us with immigrant parents feel when choosing to pursue our true selves when we know our parent gave up everything for us but and have strict ideas of how’s our lives should play out. it feel like throwing away their sacrifice. the consequences are often being shunned, and we understand that’s toxic and abusive, but we can’t help that our parent grew up in a toxic and abusive environment and that conditioned them. it’s especially awful when parents are racist or homophobic, and would disagree with the person you choose to love. it doesn’t help that children of immigrants feel more dependant on parents, since parents have far bigger priorities in terms of providing rather than socialising their kids with others and broadening their circle. as well as that immigrant communities are often tight but and monoculturalistic (if that’s a word) and being rejected by parents means being rejected by your entire community. hope this provides insight to yall who haven’t been in embers shoes to get where she’s coming from with her extreme reluctance. sorry for the ramble i had thoughts that needed to get out 😅

Always dig your reactions, especially to animated movies. I'd like to note that 'Elemental' is essentially director Peter Sohn's sorta-kinda autobiography, as he is the son of two Korean immigrants, and the movie is based on his experiences growing up in NY in the '80s. I found it to be pretty solid, myself, if a little uneven and paced rather clumsily... I'll also point out, that Disney 100th logo first showed up last fall before 'Strange World'!

To go from one of the worst performing Pixar movies, to the highest grossing Disney animated movie since 2019 is quite a miracle, and a deserved one at that. I'm glad it's not a total loss, as the film itself is actually pretty good. The animation on the fire, water, and air people is amazing and pretty revolutionary, the powers and abilities they have are very creative, I love how they created an entire original language for the fire people, the music is awesome, and I like the arc Ember goes through.

This is such an immigrant story, starting with 'new names on entry' just so you KNOW what this is about. I love it so much.

I love how the director drew on his experience as a first generation and the conflict of expectations and duty with dreams and desires.

Fun fact: The reason Ember and Wade were able to touch without killing each other was because of a scientific phenomenon known as the Leidenfrost effect which is when something really hot like Ember touches water like Wade and it creates a layer of steam like the one you see when they first touch which acts as an insulator for Wade, preventing him from vaporizing, and by extension, Ember from getting extinguished. How did Wade survive at the end? Well, for that you can thank our good old friend the water cycle. He EVAPORATED into the chimney, CONDENSED onto the rocks blocking the chimney and was PRECIPITATED by Ember making him cry.

This had one of the best comebacks at the box office in recent years. Dare I say, even more impressive than Puss in Boots 2's comeback. The film started out with an awful $29.6 million domestically, the worst opening in Pixar history, but then it continued to hold on strong in the subsequent weekends after the first frame, despite summer competition. The film will soon close with $153 million domestically and $480.2 million worldwide (potentially close to $500 million), almost breaking even. Gives me lots of hope for Pixar's future if Elio and Inside Out 2 are great and hit it big at the box office.

Zootopia isn't a Pixar movie, and it also doesn't really cover the Immigrant aspect of Elemental.

It seems like you sort of went into the reaction with a judgement sort of already made, that it's overrated. Personally, I think it was a fun movie, and honestly I think it is sort of a fresh movie. Zootopia which it gets compared to alot, although may have similarities, does not cover immigration. Also this movie was marketed as the romance genre, so I'm not sure why you said not everything has to be romantic. It's also piper's first romcom, so i dont see how its just using the same ideas again. Will still continue to watch your reactions though, just wanted to share my thoughts.

Overrated? More like Over Hated. This movie got nothing but flack long before it ever came out. And they hated months after. The generic trailers didn't help. Luckily, word of mouth works. And the global reception was way better

What you mean by “you and your people” side eyes intensely 💀💀

It's literally a romance plot it was marketed as such, it's like complaining for Mama Mia to have ABBA songs

The full phrase is, "The customer is always right in matters of taste."

I love this movie. Ember and Wade are so cute together 🧡💙Here in Sweden their names are Brinnie and Vadar