Elemental (2023)

I admit, my expectations were low, and I only watched this out of peer pressure and boredom. The result was mostly what I expected it to be. I suppose the romance is sweet, but that’s the only thing I liked. It’s hard not to watch this without thinking of Zootopia, which handled its racial subtext far better than this. The jokes were mostly puns I didn’t like, and the “follow your passion” message has been done approximately 25,000,000 times prior to this film. It’s not the worst thing Pixar has ever done, but I still wouldn’t recommend it nonetheless. How this film managed to pull off its box office miracle is a mystery to me.