‘Coco’ Trailer: Pixar’s Next Original Movie Reveals Its First Footage
By Jacob Hall/March 15, 2017 6:01 am EST
Set in a small Mexican village and starring a voice cast of actors of Latino descent, Coco is a film that sets out to explore a corner of the world and a culture that generally doesn’t often get a chance to be showcased in big-budget animated movies. Recognizable actors like Benjamin Bratt, Gael García Bernal and Renée Victor lent their voices to the film, with young newcomer Anthony Gonzalez voicing the main character, Miguel. Coco looks to be following a very similar path to Disney’s Moana, which used a mostly Polynesian cast to tell a story dealing with that region’s heritage and mythology.
But will Coco be as good as Moana, which ended up being one of our favorite movies of last year? Let’s watch the trailer (and remember to never bet against Pixar):
This is very much a teaser trailer, introducing the basic concept of the film while highlighting its focus on music. As you’d expect, it all looks very colorful and lovely and I’d very much like to see more.
Coco opens on November 22, 2017. Here’s the description of the plot that arrived last year:
But Miguel harbors a secret desire to seize his musical moment, inspired by his favorite singer of all time, the late Ernesto de la Cruz. It’s only after Miguel discovers an amazing link between himself and De la Cruz that he takes action to emulate the famous singer and, in doing so, accidentally enters the Land of the Dead.
In the beautiful underworld, it’s not long until Miguel encounters the souls of his own family — generations’ worth of long-dead but no less vivacious Rivera ancestors, including great-grandmother Imelda. Still, given the opportunity to roam around the Land of the Dead, Miguel decides to track down De la Cruz himself. He teams up with another friendly (and skeletal) spirit — a trickster named Hector, voiced by Bernal — to find De la Cruz, earn his family’s blessing to perform, and return to the Land of the Living before time runs out.
