Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWith the exception of the tot-friendly, adult-numbing “The Good Dinosaur” (2015), “Luca” is as much of a trifle as the Pixar Animation Studios have ever come up with.
That sounds like a harsh judgment, but in light of Pixar’s recent track record there are worse things you could say. My own feeling, while far from universal, is that in the last five years some of the most ambitious Pixar projects have gone off the track (like the Day of the Dead Mexican fantasia “Coco,” which was gorgeous but dragged on, or “Incredibles 2,” which despite knee-jerk raves was notably less incredible than the first one). “Luca,” set in Italy in the ’50s, is modest to a fault, and at times it feels generic enough to be an.
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