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 ...

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 ...

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.) ...

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.

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.