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Soul (2020)

PG12/25/2020Animation, Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Drama, Music1h 41m

Everybody has a soul. Joe Gardner is about to find his.

Overview

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Jamie Foxx

    Joe Gardner (voice)

  2. Cast 1

    Tina Fey

    22 (voice)

  3. Cast 1

    Graham Norton

    Moonwind (voice)

  4. Cast 1

    Rachel House

    Terry (voice)

  5. Cast 1

    Alice Braga

    Counselor Jerry (voice)

  6. Cast 1

    Richard Ayoade

    Counselor Jerry (voice)

  7. Cast 1

    Phylicia Rashād

    Libba Gardner (voice)

  8. Cast 1

    Donnell Rawlings

    Dez (voice)

  9. Cast 1

    Questlove

    Curly (voice)

Pleasant film. <em>'Soul'</em> didn't connect with me on any deep level, but it is an undoubtedly sweet film. It attempts a lot of heart and I respect that. Jamie Foxx has been in some of my favourite films and he is good as Joe here. I also like the casting of Graham Norton as Moonwind. One thing that probably stopped me thoroughly enjoying this is the animation and character design, particularly when in the "Great Beyond". It's not that it looks bad, or anything close, but I just found it a bit too plain. I never felt attached to any of the characters or settings there. I did, though, ...