Beautiful mexican cutlure vs barbie cash in in winter: the sequel.

I know a lot of whites are gonna get salty about this.

Coco is good. Not my favorite, but I liked it. Olaf's Frozen Adventure was kind of underwhelming.

By far. Even as a Frozen fan I have mixed feelings towards Olaf short.

Given that my icon's Héctor and Coco is one of my favorite animated movies ever, it's pretty obvious.

deeply unnecessary addition vs. book of life ripoff.
tough choice.

^in what way is Coco a Book of Life ripoff? Just because it features the same holiday and is about a boy wanting to be a musician doesn't mean it's a ripoff. It's like saying Sleeping Beauty is a ripoff of Snow White because she sings to animals and true loves kiss breaks a spell

I never saw Olaf's Frozen Adventure so I'm just gonna pick Coco (I love Coco so that's okay)

^^The only similarities between Coco and Book of Life is the Mexican setting and the hero who wants to be a musician. The rest is pretty different. Like, Book of Life is mostly about romance and Coco instead, is all about family relationship.

"The only similarities" include: the setting, the main hero, the ambition that drives him and creates conflict with the other characters, the themes of death and remembrance, the trippy journey through the underworld, etc.. All of which are pretty important lol. Also the thing with the bad guys getting killed by a giant bell.

It's a story about a boy who wants to become a musician, against the wishes of his family, all of it revolving around the Day of the Dead - why does it have to be a boy? Why does he need to have the exact same motive - music - right down to the instrument? Why couldn't they pick a different holiday?

Come on, you know if it had been any other studio doing a film with this many thematic elements in common with another animated movie they'd (rightfully) be taking shit for it - in fact, this is exactly what happened with Dreamworks and Antz, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Flushed Away, Madagascar, Turbo, etc., which were definite Pixar ripoffs even though their plots were tweaked basically to the same degree that Coco's is relative to The Book of Life.

^that's like saying almost all the disney movies are the same because they're tired of the lives they're living and want more (Nemo, Merida, Belle, Moana, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Rapunzel, etc) and go against their families (Nemo, Merida, Jasmine, Pocahontas, etc)

Themes about death and rememberance has been a thing for Disney forever like Lion King and Brother Bear and Big Hero 6

One of the heroes in Book of Life is part of a love triangle, dies, fights a main villain who has an army, and two spirits have a bet on which boy is going to end up with the girl

The hero in Coco wants to be like his hero and thinks his hero is his great great grandfather, there is no love interest, he doesn't die at all, he runs away from home, is cursed, ends up at the land of the dead, meets a man who wants to cross over, there's no wise cracking spirit, there's more songs, the main villain is a murderer but doesn't have an army and doesn't try to destroy villages, and there's no spirits making bets

You're looking at a movie that takes place on the day of the dead with a main character who wants to play music and you're automatically thinking they're one and the same. that's like saying all christmas movies are the same

I don't think "the whites" are the salty ones here lol

How come? The same whites who voted for Trump and want all mexicans deported are the same people who claim Coco is "pandering to SJWs" and yet Frozen is genuine "norwegian representation". Because god knows we know in this current year norwegians need validation. -_-

"Themes about death and rememberance has been a thing for Disney forever like Lion King and Brother Bear and Big Hero 6"

Cool except it's Pixar that did the creative work, and that really isn't a common theme of theirs. And it's not that it's just one or two similarities, otherwise I'd be saying Coco's also a ripoff of all the movies you just listed. Added up, there's just too much in common with another animated movie - especially for a studio that gets lauded all the time for being so much smarter and more inventive than all the others.

"The hero in Coco wants to be like his hero and thinks his hero is his great great grandfather, there is no love interest, he doesn't die at all, he runs away from home, is cursed, ends up at the land of the dead, meets a man who wants to cross over, there's no wise cracking spirit, there's more songs, the main villain is a murderer but doesn't have an army and doesn't try to destroy villages, and there's no spirits making bets"

Wow, it's almost like they don't need to share every last detail in order to for one to clearly borrow so heavily from the other one. If you copy off someone's paper but change some of the wording to throw off your teacher, it's still plagiarism. They're too similar where it matters. Other movies are deemed ripoffs for doing this - Antz and A Bug's Life weren't exactly the same either. But because it's Pixar, everyone swoons.

"that's like saying all christmas movies are the same"

It really isn't. Skipping the issue of why the Day of the Dead seems to be the only Mexican holiday anyone thinks is marketable, Pixar could have given us a Day of the Dead story about a hero - or heroine even, god forbid - who had different ambitions, skills, conflicts, than the kid in the other Day of the Dead movie, and they didn't; end of.

"wow, it's almost like they don't need to share every last detail in order to for one to clearly borrow so heavily from the other one"
except it kinda does. it's a movie about the day of the dead with the main character being a musician. once again, it's like saying Sleeping Beauty is a ripoff of Snow White because they both sing in a forest, live in a cottage in the woods, and both get cursed into a sleep and need their true loves to kiss them.

also maybe the reason people fawn over A Bug's Life more is because Antz was really not that good

You're the only salty white girl, eryn. So pressed that Frozen gets more love than your French faves. And don't pretend to care about Mexicans when you've made it clear every South American or Spanish speaking country is inferior to Peru in every way.

Also, don't think I forgot when Trump got elected and you were all "haha let us have him to fix our country?" because you were pressed about Muslims living in Spain with you.

I am a white latina so I pick Coco like my "friend" notbrandyss.