Ifeel like Pixar’s Elio got a little bit of a bad rap. It did not perform well at the box office, and articles in the trades at the time of its initial release detailed its “ catastrophic ” journey to theaters, including the departure of one director and heavy rewrites of the film’s storyline and characters.

I never saw the original concept for Elio. Maybe it would have been a masterpiece that would put the version released to theaters to shame. But ... I quite enjoyed the Elio we got. It was a sweet and charming movie about a lonely orphan who discovers the community he’s always wanted among an intergalactic collective of aliens, including the scene-stealing space slug Glordon.

While certainly not on the level of Pixar’s greatest efforts, it was also far from their wors

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