Pixar’s latest blends space adventure and life lessons in vibrant bursts of color and action.
After losing his parents, 11-year-old Elio (Yonas Kibreab) lives with his aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña), a US Air Force major who gave up her astronaut dreams to care for him; struggling to connect, Elio’s obsession with contacting aliens leads to chaos, but when he’s whisked away to the Communiverse—an intergalactic hub of diverse beings—he’s mistaken for Earth’s leader, tasked with negotiating peace with the warlike Lord Grigon (Brad Garrett) to save the hub, befriending Grigon’s son Glordon (Remy Edgerly) and learning lessons of belonging, friendship, and family amidst vibrant action, colorful alien worlds, and zany characters like radiodont-like Questa (Jameela Jamil) and liquid supercomputer (Shirley Henderson) in a witty, heartwarming Pixar holiday film bursting with humor and vivid hues.