Awful Movies Wiki/Elemental (2023)

Elemental is an 2023 American computer-animated romantic comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios in association with Imagine Kids+Family, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film was released in theaters in June 16, 2023.

Plot
In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While decent, the animation is rather cheap and low-quality, even for a Pixar movie! It also feels like it came from a direct-to-video film rather than a feature-length animated film released in theaters.
 * 2) * Despite being beautiful, the textures and rendering can sometimes go off-model.
 * 3) * Some characters tend to move in extremely strange ways, like Robert Cloudson. When his head moves, it appears to be bulging out of his neck rather than moving like any other character's heads.
 * 4) * On top of that, there are even a few animation errors. One example is when Wade looks at the sky, his right eyeball can be seen sticking out of his head.
 * 5) * The situation doesn't help that the crew had to use over 25,000 computers for the entire movie!
 * 6) Mediocre voice acting, and the portrayers sounds like they're not even trying.
 * 7) * Some dialogue can feel corny, laughable, or just plain stupid. One example is when Wade screams "WHYYYYYYYYYY!!!!", where his voice sounds blubbery and gurgly enough for Ember to not listen to him, and ask what he was saying before. So Wade does the "WHYYYYYY" thing again, only in a much more clearer voice.
 * 8) Walter is mostly just filler for the crew's attempt to add a villain, as he's mostly seen bullying Ember and Wade at times, criticizing them for the wrong reasons. His voice even sounds suspiciously similar to Donald Duck on helium.
 * 9) Pointless pop-culture references and product placement, while better than Ralph Breaks the Internet, feels extremely out of place for a Pixar movie, such as Cold Stone Creamery, XBOX Series X, Pepsi, YouTube, and even Ethan Phatter Productions.
 * 10) * There's also one scene where Wade mentions Sonic the Hedgehog.
 * 11) * There's even a scene with a David Zaslav parody named "Wave-id Splash-vlav", who is infamous for being overhated for removing some shows from "The StreamingHut", which is a parody of Netflix and/or HBO Max.
 * 12) * One TV spot used a extremely outdated song titled "Hot N Cold" by Katy Perry. It's bad enough that some people stopped listening to that song in the mid-2010's, so it's a surprise to hear that song in the trailer anyway.
 * 13) Ember's personality is never changed at the end of this film, as with most terrible romantic comedies.
 * 14) Considering the movie was originally rated R, there were some innuendos, TBA.
 * 15) False advertising: A Canadian TV spot claim that it's the greatest film Pixar has ever made, even though it's not.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Peter Sohn actually does a decent job at directing, despite all the flaws above.
 * 2) Aside from Wade and Ember, some likable characters, such as the side-characters.
 * 3) Ember's backstory is quite sad.
 * 4) There are a few scenes that come off as unintentionally hilarious, such as the David Zaslav parody mentioned above, and Wade trying to calm down Ember by singing him a song about how annoying, and dumb he is.

Trivia

 * Peter Sohn originally considered the movie to be rated R, Pixar's first film with that rating. However, he immediately regretted that idea before production had began.
 * It's the second Disney film to release on Max (and HBO) for two months after its physical release, then hop to Disney+ two months after it departures from Max, the first being the remake to The Little Mermaid.
 * It's also the first Disney film to be co-produced by Imagine Entertainment.
 * And the first Pixar film to be co-produced by a different company, and that company's logo would be on the film itself.