Luca the movie6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() While the love story is engaging, the investigation is too dramatic. The film tells two stories, in parallel, life of Luca and Niharika and an investigation connected to them. The chemistry and the interaction between Luca and Niharika are so intense and engaging that you tend to live along with them for a while. Their magical love in a highly creative land which is filled with art and artistic elements leave you in awe. An intense love story which will take you to a dreamland, leave you floundering and then wake you up with a jolt.ĭebutant Arun Bose’s movie Luca tells the tale of star-crossed lovers Luca and Niharika who meet accidentally during Biennale, become friends and quickly connects. The film is just like Luca’s response, a beautiful mess. While introducing his house to Niharika (Ahaana Krishna), when she complains about the mess, he replies, “Ee alongolathinum oru alankaramundu (this mess is decorative)”. ![]() Story: Luca (Tovino Thomas) is jovial, artistic and charismatic. Niharika, a researcher in industrial chemistry enters his life to make it more colourful. It’s rated PG.Synopsis: Luca is a highly talented artist who creates magic out of scraps. Because while it’s not bad, the movie ultimately feels like a little fish in a big pond. In the case of “Luca,” it’s easy to see why Disney opted to bypass theaters and go with the streaming flow. Studios have engaged in an imprecise science in deciding how best to exhibit films since the pandemic began, in some instances seemingly leaving money on the table by redirecting movies to streaming or offering them at home simultaneously with their release. That applies to the casting as well, which includes squandering Sacha Baron Cohen in a throwaway role. Otherwise, it’s the sort of generic concept that’s pleasant enough but falls short of the high standards Pixar has set, and after the disappointing “Onward,” recently achieved again with “Soul,” which exemplified the ambition that “Luca” (the movie, not the character) conspicuously lacks. There’s also a deeper undercurrent in the theme of hiding who you are. Mostly, though, it’s a bit of a bore when ashore – another tale of a kid who feels misunderstood and runs away from home (or the reef), forcing his parents (Jim Gaffigan plays dad) to contemplate whether they’ve been too rigid in demanding that he adhere to family traditions.Īt its best, the film offers lovely glimpses of Italy, while adding to the relatively modest subgenre of human/sea-creature relations. Pixar movies have a habit for finding simple truths and tugging at the heartstrings, and “Luca” accomplishes some of that deftly enough before it’s over. Two sea monsters get a taste of dry land in Pixar's 'Luca' (Disney+). It’s around then that the film, directed by Enrico Casarosa (whose credits include the Oscar-nominated Pixar short “La Luna”), begins to feel like it’s treading water, as the boys experience a rift thanks to Luca’s friendship with Giulia, and weather a series of near misses every time one of them gets wet, at the risk of exposing what amount to their secret identities. Their joint discoveries carry the story for a while, before they meet a human girl, Giulia (Emma Berman), who gives them the half-baked idea of entering a local race, and dazzles Luca with tales of her world. On shore, for some reason, sea monsters assume human form, which is where Luca meets Alberto (“It’” and “Shazam!’s” Jack Dylan Grazer), a slightly older sea monster with a wandering spirit who has this whole land thing down – or at least, insists that he does. ![]() Naturally, Luca’s inquisitive nature exasperates his mother (Maya Rudolph), who warns him, “The curious fish gets caught.” Indeed, he’s introduced nearly doing just that, coming too close to the fishing nets of a “land monster” from the quaint village nearby in the Italian Riviera. The title character owes a debt to another curious ocean-dweller that helped launch the modern resurgence of Disney animation, “The Little Mermaid.” Discontented with his life under the sea, Luca (voiced by “Room’s” Jason Tremblay) yearns for an existence he can scarcely fathom above the waves, which seems magical to a young sea monster (or “little merman,” in a sense). Although the movie touches on familiar themes about friendship, overcoming differences and letting children go, there’s roughly enough story for something between an animated short and the film that lands, understandably in hindsight, via Disney+ instead of theaters. Pixar dips into the ocean once too often with “Luca,” a colorful but thin (and literal) fish-out-of-water tale. ![]()
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