Blue-haired Luca (Jacob Tremblay), a young sea monster, lives in the subaquatic equivalent of a pastoral town, where the sheep are adorable, unruly fish (keep an eye out for Giuseppe and Mona Lisa).

Luca and Alberto figure out that the only way to obtain a Vespa of their own is to visit the town of Portorosso (named in homage to a Studio Ghibli cartoon, Porco Rosso), even if it is populated ...

Luca, therefore, walks a very fine line between queer-coding and queer-baiting. ... Other animation studios like Cartoon Network have featured clearly queer characters in shows like Steven Universe.

Pixar’s newest film Luca is an idyllic summertime adventure about two young sea monsters. It’s also Pixar’s most stylized film yet. Director Enrico Casarosa breaks down the challenge of ...

The live-action movie Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado adapts the animated show Dora the Explorer, but there are several ...

Luca is a fantasy story that still fits loosely in the Pixar mold, ... (Cartoon Saloon’s Wolfwalkers deserved the Best Animated Feature Oscar last year; I will not be apologizing for this opinion.) ...

In the U.S., Luca will premiere exclusively on Disney+ in June, becoming the second straight Pixar feature to forgo a theatrical release. Disney CEO Bob Chapek recently gave his rationale for the ...

That ancestor is called LUCA, the last universal common ancestor, and there is no fossil record to tell us what it looked like. Luckily, we have Jonathan Lambert.

Luca has an after-credits scene... featuring none other than his weird Uncle Urgo. As it turns out, actor Sacha Baron Cohen improvised so much that dire ctor Enrico Casarosa included the little ...

By Pixar standards, Luca is a teeny-tiny film. It's not grasping at the purpose of life or the point of emotions; it's not delving into the Great Before or the Great Beyond; it's not even ...

The themes explored in Luca have since led to accusations of “queerbaiting” - a phenomenon in which LGBTQIA+ relationships are hinted at, but never clearly expressed.