Storyline
Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
Directors
Cast
Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Sohn, Enrico Casarosa, Elisa Gabrielli, Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan, Marina Massironi, Sandy Martin, Jacob Tremblay, Jim Pirri, Jonathan Nichols, Jack Dylan Grazer, Giacomo Gianniotti, Emma Berman, Saverio Raimondo, Marco Barricelli, Lorenzo Crisci, Luigi La Monica, Mimi Maynard, Francesca Fanti
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Reviews
90
TheWrap
Luca is sweet and affecting, capturing the bond that strangers can build over a summer, and how that friendship can endure. And like its shape-shifting protagonists, it’s got plenty going on beneath the surface.
88
Director Enrico Casarosa is making his feature-length debut here, and he and the vast Pixar animation army have delivered a gorgeous and lovely coming-of-age fantasy with plenty of slapstick laughs, the obligatory heartwarming family moments and a friendship for the ages.
83
It may not be the best Pixar movie, or the riskiest — it sure as hell isn’t the most ambitious — but Luca is also one of the precious few that feels like it isn’t afraid to be something else.
80
If this is a story told more broadly than what we’ve seen from Pixar the past few films, so be it. It may not be a masterpiece, but its message is one that can’t be expressed enough. Luca expresses it in a gorgeous, fun way.
75
The Seattle Times
It’s a nice message, told with charm aplenty. And as always, the Pixar magicians create a wonderfully populated world.
