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Soul (2020)

"Everybody has a soul. Joe Gardner is about to find his."
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👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 89%
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Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
PG
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
8.1/10 (11,254 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
83

Cast

Jamie Foxx as Joe Gardner (voice) · 72% avg
Tina Fey as 22 (voice) · 70% avg
Graham Norton as Moonwind (voice)
Rachel House as Terry (voice) · 75% avg
Alice Braga as Counselor Jerry (voice) · 71% avg
Richard Ayoade as Counselor Jerry (voice) · 67% avg
Phylicia Rashād as Libba Gardner (voice) · 78% avg
Donnell Rawlings as Dez (voice)

Is Soul good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 89%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#136 / 661 · Animation
Rank in its year
#7 / 220 · 2020

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Soul is a 2020 American animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Pete Docter. The film follows Joe Gardner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, a middle school music teacher and aspiring jazz pianist in New York City who finally gets his big break — an invitation to perform with a legendary jazz quartet — only to fall into a manhole and find himself as a disembodied soul heading toward the Great Beyond. Desperate to return to his body before his opportunity is lost, Joe ends up in the Great Before, a realm where new souls develop their personalities and interests before being born, and is paired with 22, voiced by Tina Fey, a cynical, world-weary soul who has refused to go to Earth for millennia because she can't find her "spark" — the thing that makes life worth living.

Soul was Pixar's most philosophically ambitious film, directly confronting questions about the meaning and purpose of life that most animated films — indeed, most films of any kind — would never attempt. The film's visual design distinguished between the Great Before and Great Beyond, rendered in abstract, ethereal shapes, and the New York City sequences, which were among the most photorealistic environments Pixar had ever created. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross composed the score for the metaphysical sequences while Jon Batiste provided the jazz compositions.

Soul earned $121 million worldwide during a limited theatrical release amid the COVID-19 pandemic and simultaneously debuted on Disney+. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score.

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