The liveliest movie of the season is about dead people: Pixar Animation Studio’s new movie “Coco,” a joyous celebration of memory linking our past to our present.
Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) is a 10-year-old boy in a big family in a small town in Mexico. Miguel is being groomed to join the family business, shoemaking, begun generations ago by his long-departed ancestor Imelda. But he has a secret dream: to be a musician like his idol, the late, great singer and movie star Ernesto de la Cruz, his town’s local hero. However, music is forbidden in Miguel’s family, ever since Imelda’s musician husband ran off decades ago to fulfill his dreams of stardom.