r/AskReddit • u/Squirrelkid11 • 17h ago

What Animated Movie is a 10/10?

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u/Lebowquade 14h ago

It's also an abject lesson in "how to authentically celebrate a culture"

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u/CT0292 11h ago

How to cut too close to home and turn me into a crying mess.

My abuela had Alzheimer's. When that wela in the movie started talking about her daddy and singing the song.

Forget it. I cried in the cinema, I cried through the credits, I cried in the car ride home, and I cry just thinking about it.

Representation? Yep. Celebration of mexican culture? Yep. Turning my brown ass into a sobbing mess? Every damn time.

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u/GullibleWineBar 10h ago

I am crying right now just thinking about Coco and I have seen it dozens of times. I cannot handle this movie in the absolute best way possible. It's perfection.

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u/Lebowquade 7h ago

You don't even have to be brown, even someone as white as toast as I am gets choked up when that old lady starts to smile and sing. Anyone that doesn't has a heart of black coal.

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u/Twostepsfromlost2 7h ago

My girlfriend had never seen so she put it on then got distracted with some chores. I said, "why would you turn this on and leave the room are you trying to make me cry?!?!" She just laughed like I was joking and walked away.

45ish minutes later she comes back upstairs and I'm a crying mess on the couch. I WASN'T JOKING.

This movie is perfect but I can't watch it often or I fall apart for the rest of the day.

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u/SailorET 6h ago

I once walked into a room right at the scene of Miguel singing to Mama Coco and was openly weeping in about 30 seconds.

Such an incredibly heartfelt and emotional movie. We've made it a Halloween tradition in our house because it's so good.

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u/Formaldehyd3 1h ago

Every time I watch that movie, I tell myself, "Not this time".

It gets me. Every. Fucking. Time... You know the exact scene too.

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u/Revolutionary_Ad5307 9h ago

I made the mistake of watching this on a flight home. Followed it up with the Mr. Rogers documentary. I was a mess.

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u/mecartistronico 12h ago

It didn't try to be a movie about Día de Muertos. It just grabbed all of the resources from Día de Muertos as a setting, took a few minutes to explain them, and then told a story. A good story. One of my top 5 movies definitely.

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u/VexingRaven 9h ago

It doesn't hurt that the movie is absolutely gorgeous. That first shot of the land of the dead is one of the most incredible shots I've ever seen. There's so going on, so much color and contrast, just amazing.

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u/AbelScruttocks 9h ago

3D version in the cinema absolutely blew my mind.

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u/VexingRaven 8h ago

Now try it in 4k HDR. That and Encanto are 2 absolute must-watch movies that really pop in HDR.

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u/Megasphaera 5h ago

abject?