CARS 3 is just about to hit theaters, hopefully delivering a return to form for Disney/Pixar, but it’s not their only release this year. In November we’ll see what is arguably the more interesting-looking release called COCO. The concept follows a young Hispanic boy who travels into the land of his deceased ancestors. The voice cast includes Alanna Ubach, Benjamin Bratt, Gael García Bernal, Edward James Olmos, Gabriel Iglesias, Jaime Camil and Cheech Marin. The film is co-directed by Lee Unrich (who directed TOY STORY 3) and Adrian Molina (who wrote THE GOOD DINOSAUR). Take a look at the new trailer below and tell us your thoughts in the comments.
Coco follows the secret musical ambitions of Miguel, who resides in a lively, loud Mexican village but comes from a family of shoemakers that may be the town’s only music-hating household. For generations, the Riveras have banned music because they believe they’ve been cursed by it; as their family history goes, Miguel’s great-grandfather abandoned his wife decades earlier to follow his own dreams of performing, leaving Imelda (Miguel’s great-grandmother) to take control as the matriarch of the now-thriving Rivera line and declare music dead to the family forever.
But Miguel harbors a secret desire to seize his musical moment, inspired by his favorite singer of all time, the late Ernesto de la Cruz. It’s only after Miguel discovers an amazing link between himself and De la Cruz that he takes action to emulate the famous singer and, in doing so, accidentally enters the Land of the Dead.
In the beautiful underworld, it’s not long until Miguel encounters the souls of his own family — generations’ worth of long-dead but no less vivacious Rivera ancestors, including great-grandmother Imelda. Still, given the opportunity to roam around the Land of the Dead, Miguel decides to track down De la Cruz himself. He teams up with another friendly (and skeletal) spirit — a trickster named Hector, — to find De la Cruz, earn his family’s blessing to perform, and return to the Land of the Living before time runs out.