Another Pixar, another winner. The story and central character (wonderfully voiced by Jamie Foxx) engages and draws you in right from the start, and it ends up as part body-swap comedy and part-existential meditation in the way only Pixar makes possible. At times it does feel a little like the director's previous Inside Out, but the design and imagination shown in the pre/after-life sequences are delightful, and the real-world scenes fuse the Pixar style with almost-photoreal backdrops beautifully. The music is also very successful, juxtaposing the free-flowing jazz elements with an atypical synth score. Although yet again drawing on death as a main character motivator, Soul has sufficient creativity and quality to become a worthy addition to the Pixar canon.
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