Elio 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Elio 2025 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/transformation/shooting/biting/electrocuting/dismemberment/melting/medical/kamikaze kind/abduction/medical

Hello Elio: briefly; we meet Elio Solís/another character [voiced by Yonas Kibreab:] he is a young boy at the age of 11 years old, that after the tragic passing of both of his parents he is living with his auntie: Major Olga Solís [voiced by Zoe Saldaña:] she is a major in the air force, she works on this base. But after Elio go walking he becomes fascinated with outer-space: this is his adventure.

Generally speaking: straight off the bat I will discuss more about this section and the entire film in the final section of this content; but for now; the framework and pacing of this 98 minutes film is straightforward; even though I did momentarily fall asleep now and again.

Art, comedy and action; sometimes the art looks and feels really generic; such as for an excellent example; I find these human being really obvious chins really odd and I'm not a fan of them; it's like someone having a spot or mole or anything like this really on their face and a person comes up to talk to them and you can't help but stare at it. But then conversely the art can be amazing as we meet these characters with their very defined presentation in one way or another, including but not limited to the location where we meet these characters; this is where they stop at nothing to create this landscape and these characters. I like how this sequence where Elio comes back day after day to do this activity, we have another character attempting to move like a zombie with later on the thumb sequence like/adapted from Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 and finally there is this shuffle navigation sequence which is good fun

Character developments and voice performances; on both counts they are reliably good versions of what they are meant to be as in if this is what they were going for? They achieved it with flying colours.

This film receives: 6/10, this film is good; it does as I have somewhat indicated follows the safe and reliable outlay of an animated project from somewhere between the very late 1990's to potentially 2015: where if you were around in this timeframe we went through a phase of having different projects, but essentially following the same template of the following: solid storyline, highly colourful animation; with sometimes engaging artistic visions such as this project has, our main character feeling out of place, so consequently looking for where they belong, conflict and resolution, maybe finding friendship on the way, some comedy moments and design for the demographic of younger families. But maybe someone didn't get the memo it is now 2025 and possibly what was a potentially solid investment back then if they followed this criteria, clearly isn't any more as over its opening weekend it only took $35 million from a budget of astonishing $150 million: which yes I know this is of an average budget really for an animated project. But in this case even I have to ask how the hell did they expect to get this back or/and at minimum make $50 million profit on top? Especially with being released roughly a week after the live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon 2025 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2025/06/how-to-train-your-dragon-2025-by.html; I think we can all say good luck with that you are going to needed, going up against a project that everyone wanted to see vs. a project that we have very little idea what it was about; obviously there was only going to be one winner which I have just realised I have given them the same mark. There is some extra bits and pieces and an extra scene right at the end of the ending credits and this film also has some awards accredited to its name; 2 Nominees; Golden Trailer Awards 2024 and 2025  Golden Trailer Award Best Animation/Family [Yes: event and award just running back to back years.]