Coming soon from Pixar: Rock Paper Scissors "I'm just an ordinary rock girl, listening to rock music. And then I met this paper guy. He's really into books." *Scissor guy is cutting his lawn* "Now, I don't mean to be blunt..." *Record scratch* In theatres 1/23
I hate when movies try to have a diverse or anti segregation theme but put it in a world where the segregation makes sense. The water guy can kill the fire girl by touching her so they shouldn't be together.
It’s like in kid animal movies (zootopia for example). the herbivores have good reason to fear the carnivores because there are BIG biological differences between the two and carnivores actually have an instinctual desire to hunt prey and eat meat. It’s absolutely not a good way to portray racism. Actual, real-world racism is illogical, but a prey animal’s fear of a predator is logical. A better way of handling an anti-racism message with animals is to use dog breeds or something like that where the breeds have physical differences, but theyre still the same fundamentally (like humans).
Yeah it kinda defeats the purpose of anti racial segretation messaging, which is to say that's entirely illogical. Shit like this only implies that there is logic to segregation because water and fire are fundamentally different in more ways than just skin color.
We all joke about Pixar and their *"What if X was alive?"* kind of storytelling, but they usually put in some thought to how that world works (except for Cars). This looks like the most generic world the studio has ever made.
I watched IHE's review of Sing and he angrily said "someday, we're going to have an AI that scripts and animates the entire movie for you based off corporate trends". Elemental feels like exactly that. An AI was asked to create a standard modern Pixar film and this is what it produced.
@@getmario64 Why not? He's pretty much right. Especially with the rise of AI, it definitely feels like we're getting closer to machines that just write animated movies for their studios.
Saw a post on twitter where the director drew the two main characters in 2D, and man they just looked a lot more charming that way. The shapes were better and they could be way looser with how they’re posed
I guess my big epic critique for anyone who cares is they should have stylized the elemental effects way more, especially since it’s 3D. they tried doing a semi-realism thing and it ended up looking like the cover art for a 2003 computer game
I watched Lackadaisy for the first time the other day and gosh it just made me realize how sick I am of factory made cg animated films with the exact same style.
Can you imagine an eager critic review refusing to write their review for Elemental without adding the word “It has some good elements in it” in his review. 💀
8:32 I understand that the fence scene is supposed to be one of those haha funny self-aware jokes buut. Is it just me or it’s really telling how little thought was put into the world-building? Instead of making the element city comfortable for the ELEMENTS to live in, you just create a regular city but with some elements. It’s like Cars all over again. Why tf would different elements that can physically hurt each other be on the same bus? Why would they have cloths if they’re almost always inconvenient for them? Why am I even asking?
If we think about their world building a little more than they did, we can find that such a fence could only stop Earth elements. therefore concluding that this specific area is Racist towards the earth people, or it was built by Earth people without consideration of other elements, either the builder was dumb, or this fence is ancient, from a time before the Elements learned of each other. at least that's what i would conclude if Pixar gave a shit while writing this.
That's not an excuse for lazy world building, just something to ponder but... It's not like everything in our world is made for our comfort. A lot of things are uncomfortable, and some even designed to be this way.
@@Anonymous_Gambito You're still wrong because the usage of a fence still provides comfort for the owner of that said fence, but still that's not even the point for his usage of comfortable. The commenter obviously meant that some elements in our world have no place to exist in theirs, unless their are modified to justify their existence. Regular chain link fences don't prevent 3/4 elements from trespassing, why does it exist as is? Even if it's just meant to be a joke, they are literally saying "lol our worldbuilding sucks". Utterly embarrassing.
Another weird thing I noticed about the fence scene. It‘s about how the fire girl passed through it. Like, she straight-up erased that thing. Does that mean that she‘s extremely hot, meaning that her and every other fire elemental‘s sheer existence is a danger to all the other elements (except „air“, I guess). Like, if she can melt the fence in seconds, how come that water boy still… exists while being so close to her. Or how come that only the earth dude she touched erupted into flames? That other earth elemental should be in deep trouble too. Or does that mean that the fence is made of the most flimsy material imaginable? Like, if it gets completely erased by one fire elemental in seconds, then it couldn’t stop a running earth elemental either. That means the fence is even more useless than we could’ve imagined. Like, did Pixar just think „lol, fire = melt“ and never even thought about how that would effect this movies world-building? They worked on this for literal years at this point, meanwhile we, a couple YT commenters, we’re able to see all that from a couple seconds of footage?
I'm convinced the talented, driven artists that made Pixar such an exceptional studio twenty years ago have all moved on and have been replaced with Pixar fans who obsessed over the films instead of forging their own artistic identities.
Blaming the wrong people. There are plenty of artists going into the industry with fresh ideas, but execs at the top found a formula that works, and would rather die than let any of them create and present something that's actually unique anymore. Preserving an image is more important to Pixar than allowing creative risks, and this'll be what kills them.
The beginning joke would’ve been funnier if she grabbed his jacket to “save” him, but only ends up burning it. Meanwhile he ends up not dying from getting hit by a car, and he’s upset about the jacket, and her kindness was all for nothing.
I can't believe such a hastily written napkin note got this far into production with no one looking over it. Element City, Flame Town. Like what are these names? It's like they hit the "copy Zootopia" button and just didn't care past that.
To be fair, people always complain about "the pokemon that's just keys", but the pokemon isn't the keys, it's the keyring. The keys are just normal, mundane keys it collected.
I wish Adam would have defended magnemite and grimer. Som of the Pokemon in each generation were a bit unoriginal. I see no difference between the current and the first in terms of originality
"Elements can not mix!" Fire cant exist without air Earth cant live without water 'Air' (clouds in this movie) cant exist without water Also, every pun in this movie is first draft levels of bad
Imagine this movie with a fire and air young couple with a newborn but they gotta learn how to handle all these new emotions without getting overwhelmed (air could even be a bit toxic and “suffocate” fire’s ambitions and fire creates smoke which corrupts air)
If the writers were clever, the movie would be about the hippocracy of the often arbitrary nature of how we characterize things due to the limitations of language.
If the water people are literally made of water, how are they able to swim in large bodies of water without just losing their shape and becoming one with the lake? Like yeah let's make a movie about water people and totally ignore how the properties of water actually work
7:05 Right there. The water people are using a water slide. If they can get trapped in a sponge just by touching it, how are they able to keep their bodies from merging with the water in in the slide?
They even mention that idea in the scene with the water babies. I think it's less that they lose form entirely but join their mass into a body of water and can leave retaining their mass.
Pixar 2024: Every character is based on Astrology Pixar 2025: Every character is based on the Molecules and Atoms Pixar 2026: Every character is based on soft drinks Pixar 2027: Every character is based on types of ice cream flavors Pixar 2028: Every character is based on types of poo and diarrhea
Tbh a story where all the characters are based of zodiac signs or constellations *could* be really fun. Like so many of them have interesting stories attached to them and what they are is usually just so varied, from animals to people to mythical creatures. Just pick an interesting one to be the main character, maybe the secondary character can be a "new" constellation that just got popped into existence for the first time in ages, making them audience surrogate to introduce the world to and tie the main conflict to. Where's my million dollars?
COMING SOON... PIXAR'S..... DRUGS! STARING COCAINE! "I wish I could get out of this ghetto and find a purpose in life!" UNBEKNOWNST TO HIM THAT HE'LL CROSS PATHS WITH ANOTHER CHEMICAL WHILE SHOPLIFTING THAT WOULD CHANGE HIS LIFE!
"Elements don't mix" the fire people are alive by the very existence of air. Elements do mix, it's the reason there is life on earth. The joke with the fence... You acknowledging your world building is bad doesn't make it not bad. Yes, why would this universe have fences? Why would this universe have lighter fluid in a world where beings made of fire exist?
Also this just came up in my head but did no one at pixar realise that if BBQ and ovens exist in this universe, and the fire is alive and self aware, that cooking something with lighter fluid implies giving birth to a fire baby then killing it once your food is cooked?
That's a different sense in the movie than in real life. holy shit this is a pixar movie not a real document. This movie is garbage and so are the complaints 😂
It'd be actually better if each Element had their own fences based on their architecture. The "Elements don't mix" line should've been changed for a more complex topic such as "some Elements aren't meant to interact. For example, Earth people having fences specialized on preventing Fire people to get in, because they're potentially dangerous for them, having air people in diplomatic positions, since they can get along with any other element without problems, etc.. everything presented in this trailer seems very basic, and worst they seem to be retelling the "Family expectation/approval" plotline AGAIN. For God's sake, the only one time I fully like that plot was Encanto; meanwhile, Luka, Turning Red, and Strange World repreated with mediocre to bad executions. They're doing this the same as they did with the "Twist Villain" trope in the 2010s.
I say those statement is just wrong. Element just can't mix with their opposite element like Fire x Water and Wind x Earth, but with other element they can mix into Mud (water+earth), Lava (fire+earth), Ice (water+wind) and bigger fire...okay I don't know what wind+fire produce
You know, I kind of used to defend Pixar on the notion that "at least they're not like mainline Disney who are always remaking their own stuff", but honestly it's getting harder and harder to justify that. It honestly just seems so petty to me that they've given up and have resorted to just making "Toy Story but with emotions" "Toy Story but it's the movie Andy loved", and now "Toy Story but with elements". It's like they've admitted defeat and are expecting YOU to pay for it.
This development was inevitable as soon as Disney acquired Pixar. Not saying it couldn't have happened eventually anyway, but the acquisition eliminated any possibility of it not happening.
About half of Pixars catalogue has followed this "what if x thing was people" formula, it just doesnt work sometimes, probably because of laziness or lack of creativity. I feel the same way about this that I did about Cars or Inside Out.
What if toys had feelings? What if bugs had feelings? Once again, what if toys had feelings? What if monsters had feelings? What if fish had feelings? What if cars had feelings? What if superheroes had feelings? What if rats had feelings? What if robots had feelings? What if old people had feelings? Seriously, what if toys had feelings? Damn it, what if cars had feelings? What if teenage girls had feelings? What if monsters who are in college had feelings? What if feelings had feelings? What if dinosaurs had feelings? I am once again asking you, what if fish had feelings? Despite the negative press covfefe, what if cars had feelings? What if Mexi... I mean, what if dead people had feelings? I still need to know, what if superheroes had feelings? Enough is enough! What if these motherfucking toys had motherfucking feelings? What if... um... your dad's pants had feelings...? What if... musicians... yeah, let's go with that... What if musicians had feelings? What if... kids? Is that what that one's about? Kids had feelings? What if teen... what, didn't we already do that one? What if that one toy isn't a toy at all and actually an astronaut, and what if he had feelings? What if... elements had feelings?
@@IcyDiamond You want to tell me how to live my life, but I won't let you anymore! Me and pineapple slices are meant to be together and we're gonna elope!
My Advanced 3D Animation class watched the initial trailer when it first dropped. We expected it to be a cool showcase of animation effects, but it ended up turning into a complete and utter tear-down of how terrible it looked and that we could’ve made something that looked better. Absolutely EMBARRASSING for Pixar, but what else can you expect? They fired all the creatives for more Yes-men.
@@supersnackbros2423 Sure. The modeling/ texture work is atrocious. You can think of a model as the sculpture and a texture as paint that goes on top of it. The models are simple and boring (a TON of re-used character designs from previous Pixar films) and the effects that are supposed to give each element life look like baby’s first cloth-sim. We laughed about how the Earth-people couldn’t have taken a professional more than an hour. That’s not even mentioning the lighting, which makes everything look fake/ plastic-ey (highlights are too strong, low contrast). This was an issue back in the 2000s when 3D animation was first getting started (hence why Toy Story is about toys, not real people) but this is 2023! In video game terms, they’re trying to pass off PS2 graphics as AMAZING and REVOLUTIONARY.
@@brandonburgos1215 I'll concede some, not all, of the earth folk look like fuzzy muppets, but I think the other elements look fine. Everything else just seems like a stylistic choice. The visuals are the least of this movie's problems.
@@supersnackbros2423 That’s like saying PS2 graphics of a modern, AAA game is an artistic choice. Technically true, but clearly done as a cost-cutting measure and is completely unnecessary.
@@brandonburgos1215 I can't think of a single PS2 game that is on par with this in terms of raw visual fidelity that isn't a pre-rendered FMV. Also I think saying something is of a lower visual fidelity is "clearly cost cutting" is a very poor take. Famous example: which has aged more gracefully, the higher videlity Twilight Princess or lower fidelity Wind Waker? I think it's hard to argue that the characters in the latter are far more expressive and alive. I'm not saying that applies here, but that I think the blanket statement is wrong. Strip away the unique shading and Breath of the Wild actually does look like a PS2 game at best, but it's hard to argue it isn't one of the best looking games on its system.
This feels like a skit from South Park mocking Pixar, like they did with Rob Schneider in the 2000's, "talking toys, talking cars and talking fish? now we have TALKING ELEMENTS! But they can't mix together! How quirky is thaaaat?".
Elements derp dee derp! Until one day... a derp a derp a derp-a-derp! Derp dee derp, de teetaly tum! From the creators of Der, and Tum Ta Tittaly Tum Ta Too, Elements are Da Derp Dee Derp Da Teetley Derpee Derpee Dumb! Rated E for Everyone
Idk why but I live for adam ranting about random things such as air actually being water and asking why they have a jacket 20 seconds into the trailer😂
Spoiler They were actually a next evolution of human society who are somehow turned into elemental being. They still keeping the old culture and habit eventhough it clash with their current biology(?) because they still want to retain their humanity. However the new/ young generation never knew how they used to be, like seen on 8:40, who questioning the usage of wire fence in this society. Which is total bs but seems more fun.
I think it's why he's one of my favorite critics of any medium. The points are often infallible yet very simple and pragmatic, and he has a great attention to detail that just scratches some mental itch for fastidiousness that I have. As soon as he points it out, then it seems obvious, and I think "oh yeah, that is stupid, couldn't they have thought of something better?". Also this movie seems very predictable.
@@MILOPETIT ugh. It's just... hanging a lampshade on your writing being bad does not make your writing good, it in fact makes it look worse, and not well thought out.
@@WasatchWind Yeah from what I've read it's highly inspired by the director's life as an asian american, and it feels like she wanted to tell that story that takes place, yknow.. in the real world
I think the biggest bummer is that an “elements” Pixar movie could’ve been kinda cool - if they did the periodic table of elements. We’ve seen every take on “fire, water, earth, air”, it’s all been done before, and done better. But the periodic table could be both fun and educational.
@@TheAlexSchmidt I guess that would make them a "class" of elements but with certain unique traits, which I think is more interesting anyway. It's kind of how like in Zootopia you basically have prey and predators but you still have different animals, here you could have metals and non-metals with more specific sub-classes within groups (like noble gases, alkali metals, radioactive elements etc.)
This feels like something made by a student that pulled "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Enviroment" out of their creative writing teacher's hat for an assigment,
I know. People crap on object based Pokémon even though they're just as well designed as any other Pokémon. And I don't care what anyone says, Vanillite is adorable.
While we’re here, garbage pokemon are good too. It makes sense to have them in addition to the air pollution pokemon Koffing and water pollution pokemon Muk
I understand that generational trauma is what most people are experiencing nowadays thus making it easier to write and is somewhat more thought provoking than defest evil bad guy, but having nothing but generational trauma films is boring. It's gotten stale.
@@BlazingKhioneus by most people, you mean niggas who think their parents not letting them take crack and change their legal gender on their ID at the age of 14, right? Cause those are the mfs who always talk about this generational bs
They don't even write the good. The only one I actually feel is cool is Encanto, the rest from Disney and Pixar go from mediocre to bad. They're basically repeating what they did on the 2010s with the Twist Villain trope.
I'm so mad that they've wasted time and resources to make this shit while there's like at least 10000 artists with good concepts in the vicinity of any given Pixar studio who are going to live and die without seeing their projects come to life 😭
I'm glad he brought up the air thing because I've been complaining about this since the first trailer. It would've been cooler to see like tornado people or like leaves flowing around the main body just to illustrate that its actually air
I mean that's basically their target audience, middle aged mothers who take their kids to go see these films. I guarantee the kids do not give a damn about these movies. Despite what people say, kids like cool shit and good stories not baby shit.
@@HermitKing731 oh no i bet there will be a fakeout where he accidentely kills her but then shes fine and she spawns like a steam baby and then all the air people are like "of course you can birth one of us like that why didnt you know that". so there would be a moral but it would be tailored to THEIR UNIVERSE and not relating to any human situation at all^^
The fire people look like garbage by Pixar standards. I thought their approach was to make sure they've got the tech down before attempting an ambitious effect, like the hair in Brave and stuff.
This feels like a tech demo, like "look how great and realistic these basic elements look on Unreal Engine 5!" Except we've had better looking elements in 2008 games on Playstation 3.
I think what I personally loved about Luca is that it felt more stripped down compared to the other pixar films. Like it was about two fish people who want to be humans and the humans fear/hate them, but it was also just about two kids being friends and wanting to win a race. It explored differences between people without that being so overwritten and obvious.
As a hopeful future story writer, the world and its characters make me completely sperg out with how it everything makes no sense and just inspires more questions. I want to make an hour long rant video but I dunno if anyone will get through a whole video of me going "BUT WHAT ABOUT-HOW DOES-WHO IS?!?"
Pixar, you were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Mediocrity, not join them! Bring balance to the industry, not leave it in darkness!
I'm so excited for Disney QUIRKY Pixar's new QUIRKY movie with a bunch of QUIRKY abstract characters in a QUIRKY metaphorical world where precisely TWO quirky little guys will go on a QUIRKY adventure of self-discovery.
@@czerkitka141 it's pretty clearly about two elements that aren't supposed to gel together and something about challenging tradition/traditional expectation
Early Pixar would take simple ideas and expand upon them (what if toys were real, what if a robot could love etc), while modern Pixar is just "urrr what if fire and water???"
this would actually be a good short. really pointless making this into a full length, same with that emotions movie that i forgot the name of. why do kids not get cool epic adventure movies anymore? where did those go?
@@Dumbledoresarmy13 Except those two are fun and use their concepts well but Strange World was a snooze fest that wasted the living island concept on another boring generational trauma story
It's especially sad/hilarious that we literally just had Frozen 2 do the 4 elements thing and even that film did it more interesting than this new Pixar film: Frozen 2: Earth: Rock giants Water: a water horse based off of Norse mythology. Wind: is totally invisible and can only be seen by the things it blows around. Fire: ...okay fire being a tiny lizard is the weirdest one, but it's adorable dammit. Pixar: Earth: frumpy plants that are "seedy".🤨 Water: Blobs that do water stuff and wear T-shirts. Wind: are not even actual wind, they're clouds who wear T-shirts. Fire: flames that drink lighter fluid and hate race-mixing... and also wear T-shirts.
@@e.t.2914 alright then hows about my other favourites like literal rocks, tangled vines, Eggs with faces, early 3d polygons and ofcourse Bruce Lee and Jackie chan.
@@rafaynoman1180 Oh shit you got me, their existence totally erases the franchise's clear long dwelling marketing and merchandising favoritism towards the most animal-like pokemon. You showed me!
The first thing that came to mind when I watched this trailer was...The Emoji Movie. The same studio that made Inside Out and Wall E, ladies and gentlemen.
New Pixar movie announced; Sandwiches. It’s about a young slice of peanut butter bread that wants to love a slice with mustard but his family has already arranged a marriage to a slice of jelly
4:30 we're going to have water puns, fire puns, airy puns, and earth puns because it's all an Elemental pun joke. Same in "Cars" it's just car pun jokes.
That implies it has any faith in its own merit. Even Pocahontas, the pinnacle of garbage Oscar bait from the Disney corporation, seemed like the creators cared about their horribly misguided stupid ideas. This feels like the excrement of a sick studio desperately trying to hold on to at least their child demographic before getting outshined by every other major studio (give or take Illumination, but at the very least their films are financially doing better).
This almost feels like the antithesis to Zootopia. While Zootopia presents a world that is made for Animals in service of making it believable for the viewer, this world is not made for the Elements at all as instead just exists in service of lame jokes. In Zootopia, the trains have three separate “floors” for Small-Medium-Large sized Animals so that the mice don’t get stepped on and you don’t have dull jokes like the seats being too tight for the elephants. Here a Fire guy can just go into a car where he’ll burn the Grass guy before dying by bumping into the Water guy. Zero effort went into thinking of how sentient Elements would have built a world for themselves, instead it’s like they inhabit a world abandoned by humans so that you can have jokes like water guys getting stuck in sponges. It's like the joke from Robots where the robot has to disassemble it’s entire body to go through the metal detector at the airport, except repeated through the whole trailer. I legitimately think it’s one of the worst trailers for an animated movie I’ve ever seen; not because it’s bad, but because it too DULL to be even bad.
If you think about it, other than a few surprises, American animation is kinda on the ropes ( at least for movies). Everything that is remotely popular and good, is either Spiderverse, Puss in Boots or a great director delving into animation for a year. ( del toro and wes anderson). Animation is surviving thanks to Japan and Netflix/Prime.
@@loremipsum980 i still don't understand why so many ppl think Japanese media is some apolitical haven. is it oriental fetishism? is their only exposure to Japanese animation 'Pokemon' and 'Totoro'?
@@nathanielblanco1258It still seems like "an apolitical haven" compared to Western media. Obviously, nothing is free from political influences, but in comparison to the Japanese, the West takes it too far.
On the subject of the original 151 pokemon it’s always been kind of odd from the beginning, you have oddish which is a radish, grimer and muk are literal piles of sludge, geodude is a rock with arms, exeggcute are just a bunch of eggs with faces on them, and tangela is just a bunch of vines. So it’s kind of a disingenous argument to be made about how Pokemon designs got “lazy”. Everything else about the actual trailer though I agree with, it looks extremely generic.
Is Pixar/Disney just making blobules for characters now? Is this just what they do now? The world just doesn't look lived in. Every gag is a thing you would not have in a society built around these elements. 9:44 - Wait... Are those kids swimming in what, to them, is a pool of viscera?
If Pixar wanted to play with elements they could have acquired rights to Bionicle and made a high budget Bionicle movie. I would have rather watched that.
No, don’t let them get their hands on Bionicle. Mask of Light, Legends of Metru Nui, and Web of Shadows were already masterpieces in their own right without the need for a huge budget.
It's weird to see a movie so fundamentally flawed both in concept and execution make it this far. Disney has cancelled projects in the past even when there has been years of work behind them. I'm sure there are hundreds of projects that we never heard of but even movies that have been officially announced and have scheduled released dates get axed. Gigantic, an adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk, was slated for a 2018 release only to be cancelled over a year after the official announcement.
Why the fuck would an Earth Person willingly step onto a bus that had a Fire Person on it if a Fire Person bumping into them could immolate their entire frame? Like, not even just clothes, but whatever leaves or needles are considered in this universe? This film isn't passing even simple aspects of a worldbuilding logic test, questions that should be answered for a narrative to even function. It fails at fundamental aspects of creative writing basics, and that's just the _trailer._ _Toy Story_ was the kind of film that had _answers_ to questions like that that were actually somewhat intelligent. This already doesn't.
Finally, someone who recognizes what Foongus and Amoongus were supposed to be: the pokemon equivalent of mimic chests. Anyway, the only way this could possibly be redeemed is if it really is a 10 minute long short that plays before a completely unrelated, unannounced and unadvertised movie. At least that would be interesting.
A movie about elements where the writers didn't (or couldn't idk) put effort into understanding the science of said elements is what happens when you want a release every year. Like remember in Finding Nemo, they actually talked to marine biologist, and, yeah, they broke stuff cuz they're TALKING FISH but man...I don't get hyped for these films anymore for a reason.
I feel like I've seen this concept done before... like on Tumblr in 2014, and it was a lot better then. It's just so generic, the world looks lazy. It's just our world but with elements in it. They even wear clothes! Like why? Also if the world is made of stone or earth, then the earth elements are like walking on a floor of flesh to them. If it was just human people with elemental powers that would probably have looked and worked better but then that's already been done millions of times before, and better, like in avatar. It looks really ugly too. Frozen 2 wasn't a n amazing movie, but it did creatures made out of elements much much better. That water horse looked amazing, so you'd think they'd have the tech and graphics to make the water here look better. It looks comparable to something from like 2008.
Coming soon from Pixar: Rock Paper Scissors
"I'm just an ordinary rock girl, listening to rock music. And then I met this paper guy. He's really into books."
*Scissor guy is cutting his lawn* "Now, I don't mean to be blunt..." *Record scratch*
In theatres 1/23
Careful now. Don't give them any ideas.
Twist villain is a stapler who wants to staple paper guy with a paper girl he doesn’t love.
You're janken my chain.
This guy just wrote a feature length film for Pixar in less than 5 minutes
I laughed out loud
I hate when movies try to have a diverse or anti segregation theme but put it in a world where the segregation makes sense. The water guy can kill the fire girl by touching her so they shouldn't be together.
Wow that's really bigoted of you smh
@@graymyers 😢
It’s like in kid animal movies (zootopia for example). the herbivores have good reason to fear the carnivores because there are BIG biological differences between the two and carnivores actually have an instinctual desire to hunt prey and eat meat. It’s absolutely not a good way to portray racism. Actual, real-world racism is illogical, but a prey animal’s fear of a predator is logical. A better way of handling an anti-racism message with animals is to use dog breeds or something like that where the breeds have physical differences, but theyre still the same fundamentally (like humans).
Yeah it kinda defeats the purpose of anti racial segretation messaging, which is to say that's entirely illogical. Shit like this only implies that there is logic to segregation because water and fire are fundamentally different in more ways than just skin color.
@Goose exactly humans are nearly identical to each other, but a wolf and a sheep are very different.
Honestly this looks exactly like the short movie BEFORE the actual Pixar movie.
It reminds me of the Partly Cloudy short that played before Up
@@Chiwowzajust googled, it's the same director
Facts.
What if this actually _is_ the short and they're advertising it like this as part of an elaborate prank?
This looks like the animation before the short telling you to turn your phone on silent
This movie feels like a parody of what people expect a Pixar movie to be
I swear I saw this concept as a meme after inside out came out.
We all joke about Pixar and their *"What if X was alive?"* kind of storytelling, but they usually put in some thought to how that world works (except for Cars).
This looks like the most generic world the studio has ever made.
@@AverageInternetButterfly you edited your comment and still made an oxymoron
Pixar is basically a parody of what it used to be, so it checks out.
*YUP* and then Dreamworks, not wanting to feel left out, did their own parody of what people expect of *THEM*
I watched IHE's review of Sing and he angrily said "someday, we're going to have an AI that scripts and animates the entire movie for you based off corporate trends".
Elemental feels like exactly that. An AI was asked to create a standard modern Pixar film and this is what it produced.
Oh wow, please don't bring that IHE mention about Sing again.
@@getmario64 Why not? He's pretty much right. Especially with the rise of AI, it definitely feels like we're getting closer to machines that just write animated movies for their studios.
Movies have been feeling like that to me, especially sequels
@@getmario64fix your grammar before telling other people what to do
@@maddieb.4282🖕 Go fuck yourself. Keep your grammar error to yourself! Who the fuck do you telling?
“We showed a neutral ai every Pixar movie and then asked it to create its own”
They should have taken out the sequels....
The animation itself even looks like it was made by crap AI.
*NEUTRAL* AI
Holy shit this might actually be what happened
Saw a post on twitter where the director drew the two main characters in 2D, and man they just looked a lot more charming that way. The shapes were better and they could be way looser with how they’re posed
I guess my big epic critique for anyone who cares is they should have stylized the elemental effects way more, especially since it’s 3D. they tried doing a semi-realism thing and it ended up looking like the cover art for a 2003 computer game
I watched Lackadaisy for the first time the other day and gosh it just made me realize how sick I am of factory made cg animated films with the exact same style.
Sleek and modern is a great aesthetic for cars and homes, not works of art.
2d will always trump 3d in my opinion. Not that there isn't good 3d out there. Rango is a great example.
@@WasatchWind Cg is a great tool that can be used for absolutely everything. It's just misused in the pursuit of profit
Can you imagine an eager critic review refusing to write their review for Elemental without adding the word “It has some good elements in it” in his review. 💀
Not to mention, "the writing was good but elementary"
@@cinnamonnoir2487 At least it was sentimental writing.
@@nicolasbecerra999 sedimental*
The movie wasn't earth-shattering, but the fire character "Ember" had a spark to her character.
The main characters have some good alchemistry between them.
8:32
I understand that the fence scene is supposed to be one of those haha funny self-aware jokes buut. Is it just me or it’s really telling how little thought was put into the world-building?
Instead of making the element city comfortable for the ELEMENTS to live in, you just create a regular city but with some elements. It’s like Cars all over again. Why tf would different elements that can physically hurt each other be on the same bus? Why would they have cloths if they’re almost always inconvenient for them? Why am I even asking?
If we think about their world building a little more than they did, we can find that such a fence could only stop Earth elements.
therefore concluding that this specific area is Racist towards the earth people, or it was built by Earth people without consideration of other elements, either the builder was dumb, or this fence is ancient, from a time before the Elements learned of each other.
at least that's what i would conclude if Pixar gave a shit while writing this.
@@vivil2533 yeah I guess it’s also possible
That's not an excuse for lazy world building, just something to ponder but... It's not like everything in our world is made for our comfort. A lot of things are uncomfortable, and some even designed to be this way.
@@Anonymous_Gambito You're still wrong because the usage of a fence still provides comfort for the owner of that said fence, but still that's not even the point for his usage of comfortable. The commenter obviously meant that some elements in our world have no place to exist in theirs, unless their are modified to justify their existence. Regular chain link fences don't prevent 3/4 elements from trespassing, why does it exist as is? Even if it's just meant to be a joke, they are literally saying "lol our worldbuilding sucks". Utterly embarrassing.
Another weird thing I noticed about the fence scene. It‘s about how the fire girl passed through it. Like, she straight-up erased that thing.
Does that mean that she‘s extremely hot, meaning that her and every other fire elemental‘s sheer existence is a danger to all the other elements (except „air“, I guess). Like, if she can melt the fence in seconds, how come that water boy still… exists while being so close to her. Or how come that only the earth dude she touched erupted into flames? That other earth elemental should be in deep trouble too.
Or does that mean that the fence is made of the most flimsy material imaginable? Like, if it gets completely erased by one fire elemental in seconds, then it couldn’t stop a running earth elemental either. That means the fence is even more useless than we could’ve imagined.
Like, did Pixar just think „lol, fire = melt“ and never even thought about how that would effect this movies world-building? They worked on this for literal years at this point, meanwhile we, a couple YT commenters, we’re able to see all that from a couple seconds of footage?
By this point, Adum's 4K rants should be turned into some kind of drinking game.
Please, it's already poison.
I just stop watching and marvel at how quickly it happened. 7 seconds this time!
Sell it as merch
You would die in a matter of time
You would literally die if you did that
I'm convinced the talented, driven artists that made Pixar such an exceptional studio twenty years ago have all moved on and have been replaced with Pixar fans who obsessed over the films instead of forging their own artistic identities.
Everyone with talent at Pixar was replaced by true believers of *THE MESSAGE™.*
^ saw an... interesting comment from this guy, and i'm pretty sure whatever "the message" means is some kind of dogwhistle btw
@@clownball3457 Thank you for your service.
@@clownball3457 Oh really? Which one?
Blaming the wrong people. There are plenty of artists going into the industry with fresh ideas, but execs at the top found a formula that works, and would rather die than let any of them create and present something that's actually unique anymore. Preserving an image is more important to Pixar than allowing creative risks, and this'll be what kills them.
I want these companies to start uploading in 1440p simply to spite Adum.
I read that as 140p lol
@@Luke-ep7zk Even better
@@Luke-ep7zk Potato Quality so retro
With no subs.
Have the first 6 seconds in 8k and the remaining time in 140p with random flickers of 720p.
The beginning joke would’ve been funnier if she grabbed his jacket to “save” him, but only ends up burning it. Meanwhile he ends up not dying from getting hit by a car, and he’s upset about the jacket, and her kindness was all for nothing.
I can't believe such a hastily written napkin note got this far into production with no one looking over it. Element City, Flame Town. Like what are these names? It's like they hit the "copy Zootopia" button and just didn't care past that.
Zootopia at least was a bit more clever and them being animals made it way more intersting that watching elements interact.
Is it just me, or does the animation looks like something out of Veggie Tales?
honestly thats whats pissing me off the most 😭😭😭 why not use etymology related to the word they need and just. make it sound like a place
To be fair, people always complain about "the pokemon that's just keys", but the pokemon isn't the keys, it's the keyring. The keys are just normal, mundane keys it collected.
Ok but why did they have to give it a massive glowing purple ballsack
Thats even worse
I think the keys are still part of it, like limbs
I wish Adam would have defended magnemite and grimer. Som of the Pokemon in each generation were a bit unoriginal. I see no difference between the current and the first in terms of originality
@@texasbiggalcatlover8200 No, they aren't. The keys fall off when it faints.
"Elements can not mix!"
Fire cant exist without air
Earth cant live without water
'Air' (clouds in this movie) cant exist without water
Also, every pun in this movie is first draft levels of bad
I guarantee you that’s gonna be the message in the movie
They literally have PLANTS, thats the combination of 3 different elements already (all 4 if you consider the sun).
Imagine this movie with a fire and air young couple with a newborn but they gotta learn how to handle all these new emotions without getting overwhelmed (air could even be a bit toxic and “suffocate” fire’s ambitions and fire creates smoke which corrupts air)
Hehe draft
If the writers were clever, the movie would be about the hippocracy of the often arbitrary nature of how we characterize things due to the limitations of language.
If the water people are literally made of water, how are they able to swim in large bodies of water without just losing their shape and becoming one with the lake? Like yeah let's make a movie about water people and totally ignore how the properties of water actually work
Water people are just perpetually committing ego death. Its a real evangelion situation
It's an animated movie. Why does it have to be completely realistic?
7:05 Right there. The water people are using a water slide. If they can get trapped in a sponge just by touching it, how are they able to keep their bodies from merging with the water in in the slide?
They even mention that idea in the scene with the water babies. I think it's less that they lose form entirely but join their mass into a body of water and can leave retaining their mass.
They've achieved Water Instrumentality.
Pixar's crown wasn't stolen, they threw it out themselves.
more like their crown fell off because pixar is half asleep
Disney forced them to sell their crown at a pawn shop.
"Element City". Wow. What incredible and creative world building. Take that, Tolkien!
"welcome to Human City" thanks, I got lost
Reminds me of Reach City on Planet Reach in circle show
Pixar 2024: Every character is based on Astrology
Pixar 2025: Every character is based on the Molecules and Atoms
Pixar 2026: Every character is based on soft drinks
Pixar 2027: Every character is based on types of ice cream flavors
Pixar 2028: Every character is based on types of poo and diarrhea
I'm sad to say that I've done the soft drink one
Tbh a story where all the characters are based of zodiac signs or constellations *could* be really fun. Like so many of them have interesting stories attached to them and what they are is usually just so varied, from animals to people to mythical creatures. Just pick an interesting one to be the main character, maybe the secondary character can be a "new" constellation that just got popped into existence for the first time in ages, making them audience surrogate to introduce the world to and tie the main conflict to.
Where's my million dollars?
Pixar 2030: Every character is based on Recreational drugs.
First one is just honestuck
I feel those examples have been covered by Japan artists. Yes, even the poo one
Imagine how much funnier this movie would be if they were pharmaceuticals instead of elementa
COMING SOON...
PIXAR'S..... DRUGS!
STARING
COCAINE!
"I wish I could get out of this ghetto and find a purpose in life!"
UNBEKNOWNST TO HIM THAT HE'LL CROSS PATHS WITH ANOTHER CHEMICAL WHILE SHOPLIFTING THAT WOULD CHANGE HIS LIFE!
The unexpected love story between a trazodone shut-in and a secret agent cyanide capsule.
Osmosis Jones lmao
Or if they were real elements from the Periodic Table
The legal opioids have to learn to stop discriminating against cocaine and heroin because that is mean
"Elements don't mix" the fire people are alive by the very existence of air. Elements do mix, it's the reason there is life on earth.
The joke with the fence... You acknowledging your world building is bad doesn't make it not bad. Yes, why would this universe have fences? Why would this universe have lighter fluid in a world where beings made of fire exist?
Also this just came up in my head but did no one at pixar realise that if BBQ and ovens exist in this universe, and the fire is alive and self aware, that cooking something with lighter fluid implies giving birth to a fire baby then killing it once your food is cooked?
That's a different sense in the movie than in real life. holy shit this is a pixar movie not a real document.
This movie is garbage and so are the complaints 😂
It'd be actually better if each Element had their own fences based on their architecture. The "Elements don't mix" line should've been changed for a more complex topic such as "some Elements aren't meant to interact. For example, Earth people having fences specialized on preventing Fire people to get in, because they're potentially dangerous for them, having air people in diplomatic positions, since they can get along with any other element without problems, etc.. everything presented in this trailer seems very basic, and worst they seem to be retelling the "Family expectation/approval" plotline AGAIN. For God's sake, the only one time I fully like that plot was Encanto; meanwhile, Luka, Turning Red, and Strange World repreated with mediocre to bad executions. They're doing this the same as they did with the "Twist Villain" trope in the 2010s.
I say those statement is just wrong. Element just can't mix with their opposite element like Fire x Water and Wind x Earth, but with other element they can mix into Mud (water+earth), Lava (fire+earth), Ice (water+wind) and bigger fire...okay I don't know what wind+fire produce
You know, I kind of used to defend Pixar on the notion that "at least they're not like mainline Disney who are always remaking their own stuff", but honestly it's getting harder and harder to justify that. It honestly just seems so petty to me that they've given up and have resorted to just making "Toy Story but with emotions" "Toy Story but it's the movie Andy loved", and now "Toy Story but with elements". It's like they've admitted defeat and are expecting YOU to pay for it.
This development was inevitable as soon as Disney acquired Pixar. Not saying it couldn't have happened eventually anyway, but the acquisition eliminated any possibility of it not happening.
So much Toy Story they're even making a 5th one!
They're not remaking their own stuff, they're just making the same movie for the 5th time in a different setting.
Pixar is just a homogenized subsidiary of Disney©®™ at this point. They might as well just be Disney©®™ Animation Studios 2: Black Rock Boogaloo. Whatever independence Pixar has is as ornamental as private ownership in a socialist dictatorship, but Disney©®™ only lets them keep their name to chase clout.
About half of Pixars catalogue has followed this "what if x thing was people" formula, it just doesnt work sometimes, probably because of laziness or lack of creativity. I feel the same way about this that I did about Cars or Inside Out.
What if toys had feelings?
What if bugs had feelings?
Once again, what if toys had feelings?
What if monsters had feelings?
What if fish had feelings?
What if cars had feelings?
What if superheroes had feelings?
What if rats had feelings?
What if robots had feelings?
What if old people had feelings?
Seriously, what if toys had feelings?
Damn it, what if cars had feelings?
What if teenage girls had feelings?
What if monsters who are in college had feelings?
What if feelings had feelings?
What if dinosaurs had feelings?
I am once again asking you, what if fish had feelings?
Despite the negative press covfefe, what if cars had feelings?
What if Mexi... I mean, what if dead people had feelings?
I still need to know, what if superheroes had feelings?
Enough is enough! What if these motherfucking toys had motherfucking feelings?
What if... um... your dad's pants had feelings...?
What if... musicians... yeah, let's go with that... What if musicians had feelings?
What if... kids? Is that what that one's about? Kids had feelings?
What if teen... what, didn't we already do that one?
What if that one toy isn't a toy at all and actually an astronaut, and what if he had feelings?
What if... elements had feelings?
Pixar Feelings!
What U Doing?
Pixar Feelings
STAHP!!!
Underrated comment lmao
Bro, you nailed it!!😂
"What if Mexi..."
ay caramba
Well done
New idea for a Pixar movie: What are pizza boxes thinkin' about?
But then what do the pizzas think about?
@@IcyDiamond You want to tell me how to live my life, but I won't let you anymore! Me and pineapple slices are meant to be together and we're gonna elope!
@@AuroraDragoness I forgot I made this comment and I thought you were directly yelling at me
Pizza and burgers cannot mix!
My Advanced 3D Animation class watched the initial trailer when it first dropped. We expected it to be a cool showcase of animation effects, but it ended up turning into a complete and utter tear-down of how terrible it looked and that we could’ve made something that looked better. Absolutely EMBARRASSING for Pixar, but what else can you expect? They fired all the creatives for more Yes-men.
Got any examples to share of what was pointed out specifically?
@@supersnackbros2423 Sure. The modeling/ texture work is atrocious. You can think of a model as the sculpture and a texture as paint that goes on top of it. The models are simple and boring (a TON of re-used character designs from previous Pixar films) and the effects that are supposed to give each element life look like baby’s first cloth-sim. We laughed about how the Earth-people couldn’t have taken a professional more than an hour. That’s not even mentioning the lighting, which makes everything look fake/ plastic-ey (highlights are too strong, low contrast). This was an issue back in the 2000s when 3D animation was first getting started (hence why Toy Story is about toys, not real people) but this is 2023! In video game terms, they’re trying to pass off PS2 graphics as AMAZING and REVOLUTIONARY.
@@brandonburgos1215 I'll concede some, not all, of the earth folk look like fuzzy muppets, but I think the other elements look fine. Everything else just seems like a stylistic choice. The visuals are the least of this movie's problems.
@@supersnackbros2423 That’s like saying PS2 graphics of a modern, AAA game is an artistic choice. Technically true, but clearly done as a cost-cutting measure and is completely unnecessary.
@@brandonburgos1215 I can't think of a single PS2 game that is on par with this in terms of raw visual fidelity that isn't a pre-rendered FMV.
Also I think saying something is of a lower visual fidelity is "clearly cost cutting" is a very poor take. Famous example: which has aged more gracefully, the higher videlity Twilight Princess or lower fidelity Wind Waker? I think it's hard to argue that the characters in the latter are far more expressive and alive. I'm not saying that applies here, but that I think the blanket statement is wrong.
Strip away the unique shading and Breath of the Wild actually does look like a PS2 game at best, but it's hard to argue it isn't one of the best looking games on its system.
"Elements don't mix," that's the one thing elements famously do.
This feels like a skit from South Park mocking Pixar, like they did with Rob Schneider in the 2000's, "talking toys, talking cars and talking fish? now we have TALKING ELEMENTS! But they can't mix together! How quirky is thaaaat?".
Elements derp dee derp! Until one day... a derp a derp a derp-a-derp! Derp dee derp, de teetaly tum! From the creators of Der, and Tum Ta Tittaly Tum Ta Too, Elements are Da Derp Dee Derp Da Teetley Derpee Derpee Dumb! Rated E for Everyone
This is the best description for this movie I've seen so far
Every Pixar movie now is just Osmosis Jones but with different fundamental ideas
Either that or Toy Story
Osmosis Jones is very underrated btw.
Idk why but I live for adam ranting about random things such as air actually being water and asking why they have a jacket 20 seconds into the trailer😂
But that is a fair question? Why do they even have cloths?
@@unclexbox85 and how do they even wear it
Spoiler
They were actually a next evolution of human society who are somehow turned into elemental being. They still keeping the old culture and habit eventhough it clash with their current biology(?) because they still want to retain their humanity. However the new/ young generation never knew how they used to be, like seen on 8:40, who questioning the usage of wire fence in this society.
Which is total bs but seems more fun.
I think it's why he's one of my favorite critics of any medium. The points are often infallible yet very simple and pragmatic, and he has a great attention to detail that just scratches some mental itch for fastidiousness that I have. As soon as he points it out, then it seems obvious, and I think "oh yeah, that is stupid, couldn't they have thought of something better?". Also this movie seems very predictable.
I kinda relate to him tbh
This looks like the movie that a movie character would be watching in the background.
Literal NPC movie
Except those background movies look better.
This movie just doesn't make me feel anything. It feels like the concept wasn't developed enough.
Ikr I could watch every one of them perish and would feel nothing
They even made a joke about how poorly defined the worldbuilding is when they wonder what's the point of having fences that don't work on anyone
@@MILOPETIT ugh. It's just... hanging a lampshade on your writing being bad does not make your writing good, it in fact makes it look worse, and not well thought out.
@@WasatchWind Yeah from what I've read it's highly inspired by the director's life as an asian american, and it feels like she wanted to tell that story that takes place, yknow.. in the real world
Even a five-year-old kid could have come up with such a simplistic idea.
I think the biggest bummer is that an “elements” Pixar movie could’ve been kinda cool - if they did the periodic table of elements. We’ve seen every take on “fire, water, earth, air”, it’s all been done before, and done better. But the periodic table could be both fun and educational.
Unfortunately most elements are just metals that look alike but it could work I guess.
@@TheAlexSchmidt I guess that would make them a "class" of elements but with certain unique traits, which I think is more interesting anyway. It's kind of how like in Zootopia you basically have prey and predators but you still have different animals, here you could have metals and non-metals with more specific sub-classes within groups (like noble gases, alkali metals, radioactive elements etc.)
@@moldman5694 That could make sense.
They didn’t want to rip off the kwaser of stigmata :)))))
This feels like something made by a student that pulled "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Enviroment" out of their creative writing teacher's hat for an assigment,
This channel is a one-stop shop for any trailers I don't care about. Not meant as an insult. It's a great service, plus fun reactions/commentary.
Same I watch trailers I probably won't otherwise
I love Klefki and I will defend it to my death. It’s a fairy that steals keys
I know. People crap on object based Pokémon even though they're just as well designed as any other Pokémon. And I don't care what anyone says, Vanillite is adorable.
this guy gets it. Pokemon are Pokemon, not animals.
Pocket Monsters: **are actual monsters**
Adum: „But why isn’t it an animal though?“
While we’re here, garbage pokemon are good too. It makes sense to have them in addition to the air pollution pokemon Koffing and water pollution pokemon Muk
Don't forget that Japanese Yokai are like... literally an umbrella.
"What am I supposed to feel??"
Never would've thought a Pixar movie would have that problem but here we are
Sadly true
If someone asked me to come up with a movie concept on the spot when I was three years old this is probably along the lines of what I would say
pixar confirmed for having a worse understanding of the elements than Plato
Yay, more generation trauma storylines. It's almost as if that's all they know how to write.
Generational trauma is going to be the "twist villain" obsession of the 2020's, isn't it?
I understand that generational trauma is what most people are experiencing nowadays thus making it easier to write and is somewhat more thought provoking than defest evil bad guy, but having nothing but generational trauma films is boring. It's gotten stale.
@@BlazingKhioneus by most people, you mean niggas who think their parents not letting them take crack and change their legal gender on their ID at the age of 14, right?
Cause those are the mfs who always talk about this generational bs
I’m getting sick of generational trauma. Bring back villians!
They don't even write the good. The only one I actually feel is cool is Encanto, the rest from Disney and Pixar go from mediocre to bad.
They're basically repeating what they did on the 2010s with the Twist Villain trope.
I'm so mad that they've wasted time and resources to make this shit while there's like at least 10000 artists with good concepts in the vicinity of any given Pixar studio who are going to live and die without seeing their projects come to life 😭
This, this is what gets me. Fucking suits.
Right? Like when I see concept animation/art on Pinterest, I always wonder where those people are at, and why they’re not recognized
@@tiamystic even deviantart have artists with better ideas than what Disney is giving us these days
@@ivantorojczewko8755Even small, obscure hobbyist animators on TH-cam give us better content than Disney and Pixar nowadays😂
I said Elemental looked terrible in my animation class and everyone reacted like how Dennis Prager thinks people react when he says Merry Christmas
I'm glad he brought up the air thing because I've been complaining about this since the first trailer. It would've been cooler to see like tornado people or like leaves flowing around the main body just to illustrate that its actually air
Dust and water suspended hardly qualifies as air
That would've been too unique and interesting
"The dad's name is Bernie, because fire burns, get it???" - Pixar, probably
That's fine though. It doesn't hinder the movie in any way.
All the jokes in Pixar and Disney movie trailers nowadays can be summed up in one sentence for me: "Oh, something my mom would laugh at."
I mean that's basically their target audience, middle aged mothers who take their kids to go see these films. I guarantee the kids do not give a damn about these movies. Despite what people say, kids like cool shit and good stories not baby shit.
i hope nothing works out for them and they just learn that different people should stay separated
That would be a hilarious twist
I hope water guy kills fire girl by accident and learns his lesson.
@@HermitKing731 oh no i bet there will be a fakeout where he accidentely kills her but then shes fine and she spawns like a steam baby and then all the air people are like "of course you can birth one of us like that why didnt you know that".
so there would be a moral but it would be tailored to THEIR UNIVERSE and not relating to any human situation at all^^
😅😅😅
No joke, that would be a pretty funny twist.
The fire people look like garbage by Pixar standards. I thought their approach was to make sure they've got the tech down before attempting an ambitious effect, like the hair in Brave and stuff.
6:00 yeah, this just looks bad. Not like theyre fire much rather a texture just plastered onto a model
It's an attempt at stylization, they could've made it photorealistic if they wanted to
This feels like a tech demo, like "look how great and realistic these basic elements look on Unreal Engine 5!"
Except we've had better looking elements in 2008 games on Playstation 3.
Yeah. This movie seems focusing on showcasing the graphics, effects, the visual elements (heh).
But like Adum said, the animation don't look that good
The water looks like the creature from the movie the Abyss which released in 1989.
I think what I personally loved about Luca is that it felt more stripped down compared to the other pixar films. Like it was about two fish people who want to be humans and the humans fear/hate them, but it was also just about two kids being friends and wanting to win a race. It explored differences between people without that being so overwritten and obvious.
As a hopeful future story writer, the world and its characters make me completely sperg out with how it everything makes no sense and just inspires more questions. I want to make an hour long rant video but I dunno if anyone will get through a whole video of me going "BUT WHAT ABOUT-HOW DOES-WHO IS?!?"
I’d watch that.
@@brunobucciaratiswife Fuck it I'll record this weekend.
I'd watch that
I would watch that. TBH.
@@MyBenjamin73 I'll sub for the video then
Pixar, you were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Mediocrity, not join them! Bring balance to the industry, not leave it in darkness!
Yms slams Pixar's elemental trailer with facts and logic
Can't wait for Ben Shapiro and Neil Degrasse Tyson's reviews. 😅😂
I'm so excited for Disney QUIRKY Pixar's new QUIRKY movie with a bunch of QUIRKY abstract characters in a QUIRKY metaphorical world where precisely TWO quirky little guys will go on a QUIRKY adventure of self-discovery.
ChatGPT made this movie, no doubt about it.
Remember when Pixar used to care about their storytelling? This movie feels like they just went with the first draft of the script.
Because you have seen the movie and know how good of a script it is, right?
@@anthonymartensen3164
No but the trailer looks absolutely awful and they didnt tell us anything about the story
@@czerkitka141 it's pretty clearly about two elements that aren't supposed to gel together and something about challenging tradition/traditional expectation
Usually the result of the people that made the company what it was gradually leaving over the years.
The new blood just coasting off the name.
@@anthonymartensen3164 that’s just such an overdone story. I’m pretty sure Pixar/Disney has made that kind of film a few times before
Disney uploads in 1080p
Adum: *ANGRY HORSE NOISES*
Early Pixar would take simple ideas and expand upon them (what if toys were real, what if a robot could love etc), while modern Pixar is just "urrr what if fire and water???"
Next year we'll have the privilege of a 480p from Disney.
To answer Adam's question: they wear clothes because otherwise nobody would be able to tell the people apart.
That makes no sense.
They could go with interesting designs for each character instead of conforming fictional elements to modern human society. Kinda weird.
In the movie “soul” you could distinguish the soul characters from the shape.
I can already SMELL the bara fanart that's gonna come out of that one frame of buff Wade
Who is even attracted to some goofy-looking cartoon water man? Enough to compel them to make bara fanart of him?😂
@@loremipsum980 you'd be surprise. I've seen like 2 fanarts already
they’ve done the story of “my family expects this of me but i have dreams and want more out of my life” like…. 6 times
this would actually be a good short. really pointless making this into a full length, same with that emotions movie that i forgot the name of. why do kids not get cool epic adventure movies anymore? where did those go?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Strange World an attempt at making an epic adventure film? Granted, they did bury it, but still.
If you mean inside out then i cant agree on that one. This one is a certified banger with amazing potential on it
They give them zero marketing and try to pretend they don't exist * * treasure planet * * cough * * atlantis * * cough cough * *
@@Dumbledoresarmy13 Except those two are fun and use their concepts well but Strange World was a snooze fest that wasted the living island concept on another boring generational trauma story
Pixar is in free-fall, while Dreamworks is rising from its ashes.
Strange times indeed.
Isn't the whole "it's wrong for X and Y to mix!" already happened in Zootopia?
Will this movie have fanart discussing abortion?
Yes
"Oh, Bernie"
It's especially sad/hilarious that we literally just had Frozen 2 do the 4 elements thing and even that film did it more interesting than this new Pixar film:
Frozen 2:
Earth: Rock giants
Water: a water horse based off of Norse mythology.
Wind: is totally invisible and can only be seen by the things it blows around.
Fire: ...okay fire being a tiny lizard is the weirdest one, but it's adorable dammit.
Pixar:
Earth: frumpy plants that are "seedy".🤨
Water: Blobs that do water stuff and wear T-shirts.
Wind: are not even actual wind, they're clouds who wear T-shirts.
Fire: flames that drink lighter fluid and hate race-mixing... and also wear T-shirts.
Fire is a salamander, which are associated with fire in some cultures. That’s why Charmander is a thing
"Pokemon were always meant to be animals"
Ah yes magnets and sludge my favourite real life animals.
*Names 2 out of 150*
@@e.t.2914 alright then hows about my other favourites like literal rocks, tangled vines, Eggs with faces, early 3d polygons and ofcourse Bruce Lee and Jackie chan.
@@rafaynoman1180 Oh shit you got me, their existence totally erases the franchise's clear long dwelling marketing and merchandising favoritism towards the most animal-like pokemon. You showed me!
@@e.t.2914 ok
@@e.t.2914 He gave like 10 examples and you're just blatantly ignoring them lmao, you don't even have an argument
The first thing that came to mind when I watched this trailer was...The Emoji Movie. The same studio that made Inside Out and Wall E, ladies and gentlemen.
FINALLY someone said it! Her narration of a exactly like the Emoji movie!!! God dammit! It’s so bad!
New Pixar movie announced; Sandwiches. It’s about a young slice of peanut butter bread that wants to love a slice with mustard but his family has already arranged a marriage to a slice of jelly
4:30 we're going to have water puns, fire puns, airy puns, and earth puns because it's all an Elemental pun joke. Same in "Cars" it's just car pun jokes.
So the water guy is all jelly, but has teeth floating around inside him too?
I think elements is so easily detestable because it's Oscar Bait incarnate.
That implies it has any faith in its own merit. Even Pocahontas, the pinnacle of garbage Oscar bait from the Disney corporation, seemed like the creators cared about their horribly misguided stupid ideas. This feels like the excrement of a sick studio desperately trying to hold on to at least their child demographic before getting outshined by every other major studio (give or take Illumination, but at the very least their films are financially doing better).
This almost feels like the antithesis to Zootopia.
While Zootopia presents a world that is made for Animals in service of making it believable for the viewer, this world is not made for the Elements at all as instead just exists in service of lame jokes.
In Zootopia, the trains have three separate “floors” for Small-Medium-Large sized Animals so that the mice don’t get stepped on and you don’t have dull jokes like the seats being too tight for the elephants. Here a Fire guy can just go into a car where he’ll burn the Grass guy before dying by bumping into the Water guy. Zero effort went into thinking of how sentient Elements would have built a world for themselves, instead it’s like they inhabit a world abandoned by humans so that you can have jokes like water guys getting stuck in sponges.
It's like the joke from Robots where the robot has to disassemble it’s entire body to go through the metal detector at the airport, except repeated through the whole trailer.
I legitimately think it’s one of the worst trailers for an animated movie I’ve ever seen; not because it’s bad, but because it too DULL to be even bad.
“Elements don’t mix”
Fire literally cannot exist without air, but okay…
Oh no, It's another 4k rant. 10/10 it's what I come to this channel for now.
The fire ones especially look horrible, like late 90's CGI. Also body-shaming is hilarious when it's aimed at men!
I felt my whole body cringe at that moment.
This movie will be 5% great animation technology showcase and 95% element puns
If you think about it, other than a few surprises, American animation is kinda on the ropes ( at least for movies). Everything that is remotely popular and good, is either Spiderverse, Puss in Boots or a great director delving into animation for a year. ( del toro and wes anderson). Animation is surviving thanks to Japan and Netflix/Prime.
I pray to God that wokeness will never lay its dirty hands on the Japanese animation industry.
@@loremipsum980 i still don't understand why so many ppl think Japanese media is some apolitical haven. is it oriental fetishism? is their only exposure to Japanese animation 'Pokemon' and 'Totoro'?
@@nathanielblanco1258It still seems like "an apolitical haven" compared to Western media. Obviously, nothing is free from political influences, but in comparison to the Japanese, the West takes it too far.
The air characters should just have full body suits that they occupy like The Invisible Man.
or....🤨
Gen 1 has a Pokémon that are magnets.
And a shapeless mass of chemical waste with 1 eye
On the subject of the original 151 pokemon it’s always been kind of odd from the beginning, you have oddish which is a radish, grimer and muk are literal piles of sludge, geodude is a rock with arms, exeggcute are just a bunch of eggs with faces on them, and tangela is just a bunch of vines. So it’s kind of a disingenous argument to be made about how Pokemon designs got “lazy”. Everything else about the actual trailer though I agree with, it looks extremely generic.
This just doesn't come off as creative to me, it seems predictable and looks kind of cheap. Zootopia meets Elements
Is Pixar/Disney just making blobules for characters now? Is this just what they do now?
The world just doesn't look lived in. Every gag is a thing you would not have in a society built around these elements.
9:44 - Wait... Are those kids swimming in what, to them, is a pool of viscera?
I love how the shop she works at is called "The Fireplace". Reminds me of this shop in my own town called "The Asian person place"
"Element City"
I am a human who lives in Human Town
I've never seen Adam get this irritated with chat 😂
You must not see when he streams FromSoftware games.
If Pixar wanted to play with elements they could have acquired rights to Bionicle and made a high budget Bionicle movie. I would have rather watched that.
No, don’t let them get their hands on Bionicle. Mask of Light, Legends of Metru Nui, and Web of Shadows were already masterpieces in their own right without the need for a huge budget.
@@TheChildofAuraReborn Ok how about another go at The Last Airbender movie but 3D animation this time
@@BrianIsWatching that's already in production
It's weird to see a movie so fundamentally flawed both in concept and execution make it this far. Disney has cancelled projects in the past even when there has been years of work behind them. I'm sure there are hundreds of projects that we never heard of but even movies that have been officially announced and have scheduled released dates get axed. Gigantic, an adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk, was slated for a 2018 release only to be cancelled over a year after the official announcement.
7:20 Yup another Romeo & Juliet, Pocahontas, or West Side Story love story that we have seen many times. Come on Disney, we've already done that. 😒
Why the fuck would an Earth Person willingly step onto a bus that had a Fire Person on it if a Fire Person bumping into them could immolate their entire frame? Like, not even just clothes, but whatever leaves or needles are considered in this universe?
This film isn't passing even simple aspects of a worldbuilding logic test, questions that should be answered for a narrative to even function. It fails at fundamental aspects of creative writing basics, and that's just the _trailer._ _Toy Story_ was the kind of film that had _answers_ to questions like that that were actually somewhat intelligent. This already doesn't.
This looks like a parody of a Pixar movie.
Finally, someone who recognizes what Foongus and Amoongus were supposed to be: the pokemon equivalent of mimic chests.
Anyway, the only way this could possibly be redeemed is if it really is a 10 minute long short that plays before a completely unrelated, unannounced and unadvertised movie. At least that would be interesting.
2006 wants it's CGI back..
Imagine how much cooler this world would be if they used actual elements. I want an NaOH lovestory goddammit!
YES. WE WANT THE CHEMISTRY.
A drama-filled love triangle story where an oxygen girl is torn between two hydrogen brothers who are a twin.
A movie about elements where the writers didn't (or couldn't idk) put effort into understanding the science of said elements is what happens when you want a release every year. Like remember in Finding Nemo, they actually talked to marine biologist, and, yeah, they broke stuff cuz they're TALKING FISH but man...I don't get hyped for these films anymore for a reason.
I feel like I've seen this concept done before... like on Tumblr in 2014, and it was a lot better then.
It's just so generic, the world looks lazy. It's just our world but with elements in it. They even wear clothes! Like why? Also if the world is made of stone or earth, then the earth elements are like walking on a floor of flesh to them. If it was just human people with elemental powers that would probably have looked and worked better but then that's already been done millions of times before, and better, like in avatar.
It looks really ugly too. Frozen 2 wasn't a n amazing movie, but it did creatures made out of elements much much better. That water horse looked amazing, so you'd think they'd have the tech and graphics to make the water here look better. It looks comparable to something from like 2008.
Calling a city in this film ‘element city’ is like calling an irl city ‘human city’
Looks like a new grubhub perks commercial
“My new jacket” but it’s literally a polo shirt
“If you’re an element why even wear clothes anymore” - Adum 2023
Started the video knowing this is a pixar movie and still mistook it for illumination 2 minutes in