The key theme of “Luca,” Pixar’s funny and enchanting new feature ... visual creation here is Portorosso, a fictional village on the Italian Riviera presumably not far from Genoa, Casarosa ...

Pixar dips into the ocean once too often with “Luca,” a colorful but thin (and ... nets of a “land monster” from the quaint village nearby in the Italian Riviera. On shore, for some ...

Courtesy of Disney/Pixar In Luca, two teenage sea monsters — Luca ... when they venture out of the Mediterranean sea and into a village, where they take human form. The idea was inspired ...

That might sound like a lot of heavy material for an animated feature, but Pixar vet Enrico Casarosa ... place in an Italian seaside village in the 1950s, where Luca (voiced by Jacob Tremblay, ...

Pixar is returning to Italy, and this time, it’s through the eyes of a black cat with a debt to the feline mob. At the Annecy ...

The quaint, sun-drenched village looks like a 1950s postcard ... Just, you know, with purple gills. Like many Pixar films, Luca isn’t exactly groundbreaking. This is a family-friendly story ...

Pixar has plunged into ... Still, that doesn’t stop Luca and Alberto from entering a triathlon with the hope of winning a Vespa, or from befriending a village girl, Giuilia (Emma Berman ...

Naturally, they sneak off to a nearby village to investigate Vespas ... The recycled story elements identify "Luca" as lesser Pixar, more in the vein of "Onward" or "Cars 3" than "Nemo" or ...

Vastly different from traditional cel animation, that first Pixar cartoon ... heading to the village – both in human form – to search for him. Meanwhile, Luca, Alberto and Giulia train ...

The film, premiering Friday on Disney+, is not as action-packed, epic or thinky as many recent Pixar offerings, but it’s admirably simple and has a lot of heart. Luca’s got gadgets and gizmos ...

Pixar dips into the ocean once too often with “Luca,” a colorful but thin (and ... nets of a “land monster” from the quaint village nearby in the Italian Riviera. On shore, for some ...

The filmmakers’ most exquisite visual creation here is Portorosso, a fictional village ... token, “Luca” the movie may look slight or modest compared with its more extravagant Pixar ...