Movie Review: Elio 6-25-25
Elio Solis is a young orphan boy who’s obsessed with aliens, much to the dismay of his aunt Olga. After getting into a fight with bullies, Olga sends him to camp to make new friends. Elio gets abducted by aliens, gets mistaken for the ambassador of Planet Earth, and encounters the war tyrant Grigon to make peace with him. Elio meets his caterpillar-like son Glordon and learns that he doesn’t want to be a killer machine like his dad. Can Elio warm Grigon’s heart before he destroys the Communiverse?
Elio truly is Pixar’s best original movie since Coco with a paper-thick story, outstanding animation that really shows off Pixar’s bells and whistles from the last 35 years, engaging characters, and strong messages about finding out where you belong and how kids don’t have to have the same dream as their parents.
If I were to complain about one thing, I feel that the movie didn’t showcase the friendship that blossoms between Elio and Glordon as much as promoted. Instead, we get to see Olga bond with Elio’s clone while he’s in the Communiverse, which is basically the outer space equivalent of the United Nations.
In conclusion, Elio is the must-see movie of the Summer, especially since it had a very bad opening weekend of only 21 million dollars. Besides, it’s gotta be better than Chris Miller’s Smurfs next month. Seriously? Do you really need ANOTHER live-action Smurfs movie that also copies Trolls and Spider-Verse? And the Smurfs are accompanied by some random turtle?
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
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