Soul is really sweet. It's a little too cutesy for me to truly love it – rather in the vein of Inside Out. Like Docter's earlier film this seems like an entire movie about teaching a life lesson to a teenage kid. This one's lesson is that there isn't one purpose in life. We don't know what we're going to be good at or what impacts we're going to have; so we need to be careful not to discount the great things around us that don't conform to our idealized version of ourselves. And we need to avoid getting stuck in a dream that is hampering us. This is, quite honestly, an excellent lesson, and this is a very charming movie, but I wouldn't really say it is for adults.
Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Phylicia Rashad, Angela Bassett, QuestLove and Rhodessa Jones (!) are all great.
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