While some material may hit with younger audiences, Luca makes for Pixar’s least enchanting, least special film yet.
And he seems to know how to find the good ones." And they're not the only potential queer characters in the movie – the two inseparable elderly women at the beginning of the story also come out as sea monsters in the climactic scene after the race. But Luca retreads too much well-cultivated ground and reworks so many achingly familiar tropes as its best qualities sink to a murky bottom. As Luca's Grandma says, "Some people, they'll never accept him. Pixar are renowned for stretching the conceptual boundaries of family entertainment, demanding that kids (and trickier still, adults) keep up: a lonesome robot. And the two boys/sea monsters go through a lot together, mirroring the finding of family that often occurs in the lives of young LGBTQ+ people. The animation is a gorgeous, tender-hearted paean to childhood summers spent with sunburnt noses and callused. Young gay people often feel very different from others before such feelings develop, which can occur squarely in the age bracket the story places Luca and Alberto. Luca review: Pixar’s Riviera dream is a beautiful evocation of youthful possibility. This elides the fact that being gay, queer, or LGBTQ+ is not simply a matter of partners or relationships or sex. I feel like the story would be a little different in that it's slightly more complicated when romance comes in."
So there's an innocence and a focus on the friendship side. "We were quite aware that we wanted to talk about that time in life before boyfriends and girlfriends. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. In an interview with Screen Rant, in response to a question about queer people being able to see themselves in the story, Casarosa said: Luca Director Enrico Casarosa – whose youth and childhood friendship with another Alberto inspired the story – has insisted that the movie is not romantic in any way.