FEBRUARY 5, 2021, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
Pixar’s Soul has that and more
By TJ REID
For the Keizertimes
As we reached the be-
ginning of what hopefully
will be the fi nal stage of the
COVID-19 pandemic, the
storied studio behind some of
your favorite animated features
made the surprise decision to
release Soul, the latest entry
in the Pixar canon, for free to
people that already subscribe
to Disney+. It was a move that
was no doubt calculated by the
Mouse Overlord to draw in
more subscribers to a service
that is still struggling to fi nd
success outside of The Mandal-
orian.
When I fi nally sat down to
watch the movie, I was relieved
to fi nd out that these worries
turned out to be baseless, as
Pixar has once again hit it out
of the park with Soul. Or so I
think.
The problem was that I
watched it with my nephews.
Love ‘em to death, of course, but
I will be the fi rst to admit that
they do not sit through mov-
ies very well. At six and four
years old, they can think
of a billion other things
that they would rather be
doing at any given time.
Pixar has always struck an
excellent balance between
appealing to children and
appealing to adults, but it
seems like this balance was
offset a tiny bit with Soul.
My nephews appeared
even less interested than
usual thanks to themes of
death, existentialism, and life
purpose, and the jokes seemed
a bit more subdued this time
around. Soul is defi nitely one
of Pixar’s more thematically
mature movies, and this might
be a problem for some kids.
As a movie for adults, how-
ever, Soul shines. One thing I
was struck by is how pretty ev-
erything looks. From the light
playing off of a saxophone to
the austere simplicity of the be-
forelife (you know… instead of
afterlife) to the character mod-
els, the animation is brilliantly
done. The movie also sounds
great thanks to a beautiful score
by Trent Reznor and Jon Ba-
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tiste, and to the excellent voice
acting featuring Jamie Foxx,
Tina Fey, and Graham Norton.
All of these things made me a
bit sad that the fi lm wasn’t re-
leased in theaters, in fact, as I’m
sure it would have been beau-
tiful to look at and listen to on
the big screen.
The story of Soul is touch-
ing, although that’s probably
obvious, this being a Pix-
ar movie and all. Again, I did
not catch all of it because of
the two rowdy boys, but what
I saw I appreciated. The only
problem is there might be too
many messages the movie tries
to convey simultaneously, and
as a result the end made me
feel like it wanted to make me
to cry instead of doing so or-
ganically.
But there is no doubt that
Soul is a great movie. Your kids
may even love it, too. Maybe
the nephews just had too much
sugar or something.
Soul is now available on Dis-
ney+.
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Teen dies in CO poisoning
Carbon monoxide poison-
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a Keizer teen and her father in
Salem.
Richard Yaple, a 50-year-old
Salem man, and his daughter
Hannah Yaple, 17, were found
deceased inside a fi fth wheel
trailer Monday, Feb. 1.
At 10:46 a.m., a caller re-
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breathing in 5700 block of
State Street, east of Salem. The
caller said they went to the lo-
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