Pixar’s Elemental will hit Disney Plus streaming on September 13th
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A still from Elemental. | Image: Disney / Pixar Disney has announced that Disney Plus subscribers will be able to stream Elemental, its parable about interracial relationships, beginning September 13th. The company is also releasing a making-of documentary for the film, called Good Chemistry: The Story of Elemental, and an Up-related short called Carl's Date for its streaming service.
Our own Charles Pulliam-Moore praised the film's visuals in his review for The Verge. But he felt the racial framing suffered, partially from the elements-as-people metaphor but potentially also from the writers' eagerness to avoid mistakes made in Zootopia.
Elemental, which had a $200 million budget, managed to pull in $480 million on its box office run, according to Disney, despite a mediocre June...