Elio (2025) [No 3D Blu-ray]

[Elsinore]

We rented Borderlands last night (2004, 2D) and thought it was a riot. Looked it up on RT afterwards and it had a 10% critics score … universally panned by pretty much everyone. Only mention this because my experience can be the same with reviews here or elsewhere. They’re fun to read, but sometimes don’t reflect my experience in the slightest.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by Elsinore

They’re fun to read, but sometimes don’t reflect my experience in the slightest.

I mean, you're not wrong there.

For me, this movie had special meaning because like Elio, I also have always been a bit of a science geek and also grew up watching the Carl Sagan show. This movie really made me feel like, you know, seen.

And I absolutely adored it for that!

Not only that, it is the ONLY animated movie released so far this year in 3D. And I do go to the theater to watch every animated movie that comes out. Neither Dog Man nor Sneaks were released in 3D IIRC.

Also, this is from Collider:

In a remarkable achievement, Pixar's Elio opened with an A grade on CinemaScore, maintaining a record that hasn't been broken in the legendary animation house's three-decade history. No Pixar movie has earned a CinemaScore grade below A-, and most of them have received critical acclaim. Some of them have also won Oscars.

Elio's A CinemaScore puts it in the same bracket as past Pixar movies such as Inside Out 2, Toy Story, A Bugs Life, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Brave, Monsters University, Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur, Finding Dory, Cars 3, Toy Story 4, and Elemental. It's the 16th Pixar movie to score an A grade
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