 Did you know that Disney Plus has a movie exclusive that's actually worth watching? It was news to me! I'm referring to the newest Disney animated film, Luca. I have no idea where this movie came from. It just showed up one day. I didn't see a trailer. I didn't see a poster. It's just crazy how movies work these days. You know, typically I'm used to the, like, three years of build-up before a movie comes out. Any movie, really. Now, Disney had another one that came out a few months back called Soul. I'm not gonna lie. I wasn't too keen on that one. Wasn't the biggest fan of Soul. It's just something about it... something about it didn't work for me. Luca, believe it or not, is the titular character of this film voiced by Jacob Tramblay. His best friend is Alberto. He meets him pretty early on in the picture. And this movie's really about the relationship between these two. How it's similar, how they're different from one another. And really how they just trust and look out for each other as the movie progresses. It's a beautiful film with a beautiful storyline. Beautiful's not a word I use often. I've used it twice already. Now, this movie's not all Twizzlers and Hershey Kisses. It starts out, I'd say, the first five, ten minutes a little rough. I'm just watching thinking, dear God, this is gonna be a train wreck. I don't know these characters. I don't know what I'm in store for. It's kind of scary. You know, it's kind of scary to just plunge headfirst into an animated film without knowing the context or the basic plot. It worked in this favor here. Essentially, we have a sea monster family. They don't go on land. It's kind of forbidden in their community. The humans hate sea monsters, as of course it goes. And they will stab them on sight. Luke is not happy, though, being an underwater dweller. He's not fulfilled. His day-to-day is basically just being kind of a ranch hand for a bunch of fish that act more like sheep than underwater creatures. He wants to be where the people are. Walking around on there, what do you call them? Oh, yes, feet. Up where they walk, up where they run, up where they play all day in the sun. Wandering free. He wished he could be part of their world. It did have a very familiar early premise that harkens back to the Little Mermaid. Thankfully, that veers way off course about 15 minutes in. When it turns more into a kid's being kids coming of age triathlon film where they have to compete in swimming, biking, and an eating contest in order to win a prize. The ultimate goal for Luca is to just not have to be underwater in his miserable existence to be free, to be himself. And that's the message throughout this movie, is it's about acceptance, it's about owning who you are, and it's about trusting in others to do the right thing. Now for the pearl clutches out there that might think, oh no, there's an agenda here. I saw the trailers, it's all about gay pride. It's not. You take what you will from it. I watched it with my whole family. My kids didn't think about that at all, and it doesn't matter if they did. It's so well done. I thought they executed it perfectly. I talked to my 12-year-old afterwards about it, actually. I thought, what did you think about Alberto? What did you think that relationship was between him and Luca? And she just thought they were really good friends. I got something completely different out of it, and that's probably why I was tearing up a couple of times as the movie was closing out. If you saw the trailers, you know that Luca does in fact go on land, along with Alberto, and as soon as they get out of the water and start to get kindish dry, they become humans. They get in a human form. If you even think about the semantics at all about this, it doesn't make a lick of sense. I mean, how much water does it take to become dry, you know? I mean, a little bit of water. Can they drink water? Does that turn them into fish people? It's a little silly. It's a little out there, but it really doesn't matter. That's not what the message is. That's not the point of the film. Family-friendly, all ages can watch and enjoy it. I just, yeah, I don't have any negatives here. I can easily rewatch it. It's fun. It's colorful. It looks beautiful. The animation style is really cool. The look is kind of claymation-ish, but not. I don't know how to describe it, but I'm impressed that animators are still finding ways to come up with unique ways to showcase something we've seen so many times. I think this is easily better than the ultra-disappointing Raya and the Last Dragon. I think this is better than Soul. I think this is the best Disney animated film Disney Plus has offered so far, and I would definitely check it out. I'm giving Luca a solid 8 out of 10 Gay Pride Flags. 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