PixMix Episode 1: Coco

In the first episode of a brand new podcast series, Arun Mehta from The Arun Mehta Show and Patricia Miranda from Old School Lane watch and review every Pixar movie. The first one they discuss about the 2017 movie Coco. The movie is about a young boy from Mexico named Miguel who has a love and passion for playing music influenced by a musician named Ernesto de la Cruz. However, his family has a hatred towards music dating back to Miguel's great-great grandmother whose husband left to be a musician. During Dia de los Muertos, Miguel wants to enter a music contest, but his family refuses to let him. He runs away and tries to steal Ernesto's guitar, but ends up in the Land of the Dead. He wishes to meet up with Ernesto, his supposed great-great grandfather, to get his blessings to return home before Dia de los Muertos ends. Before the film started, it came with a short called Olaf's Frozen Adventure. When the movie premiered in theaters, it received critical acclaim from critics and fans making $807 million dollars on a $175 million dollar budget making it the highest grossing film in Mexico. What do Patricia and Arun think of the film? Listen and find out.