Everything Wrong With Elemental in 20 Minutes or Less

For 9:30 “How do you apply eyeshadow to a cloud?” An airbrush 😏

All sins aside, the fire people were animated so god damn well. Especially Ember changing colour with different emotions.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that it was tough to go the route of racism when there are legit elemental concerns. I appreciate the message, but a fire could kill a tree just by accidentally brushing against it. And it was also unclear of how their fire affected the world around them. They could hold a piece of paper, but accidentally set fire to the doorbell when they ring it. And then they’re upset people won’t let them live there. If they can control the fire they could interact with other elements but ember accidentally sets a tree guy on fire. What are the rules? Again, I get the allegory and I like this movie, but that really bugged me.

They didn't make a "literally watered-down Zootopia" joke. I'm impressed.

These characters would work perfectly in a Romeo and Juliet story with two rival families and them dying at the end since they extinguish eachother.

Love how you kept adapting the word "asshole" to suit each element 😅 gashole was my personal favourite haha

Peter Sohn (director and writer) said the 'Marry Fire!' command on the grandma's deathbed was inspired by his grandma commanding him to 'Marry Korean!' not long before she died.

"Don't forget. Marry fire. *dies*" We were getting dangerously close to "Singing Killed my Grandma" territory here.

Cloudpuff and Fireball aren't racial-slurs, they're actually the respective word for "child" in their race of people, as heard in their dialogue walking out of the stadium... Gail said she was "just a little cloudpuff, attending the games with her dad" while Ember said she's a fireball who doesn't want to let her dad down. Looking at the preceding argument, "just a bunch of overgrown cloudpuffs playing some stupid game" especially in the context of older Boomer executive vs Millenial or Gen Z... or even older generations vs Boomers when they were 20 ish young adults.. So, is it still a blatant insult? Absolutely... it's age/generation discrimination, which sadly is still rampant, even in the most mundane interactions... the whole "I'm an adult whose been around forever, dealing with real problems, which are bigger than your petty concerns." I can't tell you how many times I've been called a child, boy, or brat as an insult by an older adults... having near identical conversations... and I'm 30. But 30 is still 30 years younger than most managers, politicians, heads-of-operations. Swap Cloudpuff and Fireball for child/children, and the dialogue flows perfectly.

I agree very heavily with "dammit Pixar" as a sin, because even at their weakest, a sad Pixar moment always turns me into Wade. That aaid, I found this movie genuinely beautiful and wish very much that Disney had given it the advertisement it needed, rather than promoting it as basically Avatar: the Last Zootopia-Ripoff.

To answer why Wade survived Ember's blowup, while Fern got torched... it's all about exposure time. Water is super efficient at resisting and mitigating heat.

Love how the final sin removal was just "Damn it Pixar!" Even with the flaws we can see that they are still excelent at emotion when it matters

I had just managed to say "Huh, the first pixar film to not make me cry like a baby", and then the father bowed back to her. One of the few actually moving and meaningful scenes in the whole film

If you watch the follow up, the director said this was autobiographical. He is Korean & the racism he actually experienced when his family immigrated to America.

Shower Thoughts: If Ember and Wade have kids on their own, is that means she conceived a block of Obsedian? The Elemental lore is getting more complicated.

The one thing I noticed is how super focused the Racism was toward Fire. We saw the city has a commemorating mural depicting the three other Elements arriving to the land and being welcomed but not Fire specifically. I wonder if it's because Fire is the only element commonly associated with destruction, even though Water can be just as deadly. Plants can die by drowning. I could see "Waterlogged" being portrayed as an illness for Earth people.

14:20 "you dew you" how many other elemental-based puns have I missed?

19:23 That callback was admittedly pretty well-done, and I’m glad Jeremy acknowledges that too!

4:43 I'm surprised you're not sinning the fact that the fire family has lived/worked there for years and never removed these pipes! Sure, they're needed for the plot, but keeping them there, in the way, and operational is a literal death trap for the fire people!

11:00 I CANNOT believe he didn't call them "grassholes."