With Pixar's Golden Age well and truly over, Elemental takes on immigration and identity with moderate results. Opening with a Fire couple arriving at New Yo.. - sorry - Element City and facing a tough start, we see their new-born daughter grow up in the space of ten minutes in true Pixar fashion and become a fiery-tempered young woman, whose encounter with a Water guy leads to a Shakespearean-style relationship of opposites. The film is presented with all the expected vibrancy, detail, inventiveness, colour and attention to detail, and the different elements and their districts are realised wonderfully on-screen. Thomas Newman's smart multi-cultural-referencing makes the family's immigrant experience relatable to anyone. With generations and cultural identity at the fore, the film does nothing really wrong and is pleasantly enjoyable enough, it just, um, fails to catch fire. Maybe the lead voices sound a little too old?
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