Dia de Muertos

The most recent movie I watched together with Noshi is this recently released 2019 Mexican animation movie, made in 2019.

In the same style of story as Disney`s Coco, it visits the mexican Day of the Dead festival, or Dia de Muertos, for a story filled with magic and some humour.

In the Mexican town of Santa Clara, lives Salma, a 16 year-old orphan who never got to meet her biological parents. The only story she's been told her whole life is that they abandoned her. Salma has spent most of her life dedicated to searching out clues for her parents' identity and their whereabouts with little to no luck, until she discovers a special book that is filled with stories of Santa Clara and the history of their people. With this new special book, Salma sets off onto an adventure with her two brave and heart-warming foster brothers, Jorge and Pedro, to find the missing links to her family's heritage in hopes to finally get to meet her long lost parents.

It's not to bad a movie, even if it is not the greatest around.  The animation levels are okay and it has the usual "oh that's cute" inhabitants, but it also draws perhaps a bit to much from other movies and builds that into the atmosphere of the movie (for example, you can spot references to Beauty and the Beast, Lord of the Rings, ...).

A good saturday night television movie to wacth with kids, but nothing extraordinary.