While it’s a film that somehow makes me even more proud to be Mexican American, it’s a film that will undoubtedly touch everyone. ![]() But after watching the final product four years later, it’s my turn to issue an apology to co-directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina and the Disney-Pixar team, which includes an entirely Latinx voice cast.Ĭoco is an unexpectedly brilliant and dynamic story about lineage, connection, and self-discovery. Within a day of the social media flurry and an online petition that garnered 21,000 signatures, the duo rescinded their trademark applications and issued a mediocre apology. I suggested the film shouldn’t even be made. Given Disney’s history of perpetuating racial and gendered stereotypes and the absence of any protagonists of color in past Pixar films, I was dubious that their team (led by a white director) would capture the vibrancy and deep spiritual significance of the newly commercialized tradition. ![]() Four years prior, I wrote a scathing douchebag decree amid the uproar around Disney’s attempt to trademark the name Día de los Muertos. I set out to the theater on Thanksgiving Day expecting to hate Disney-Pixar’s Coco.
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