Soul [SteelBook] [Includes Digital Copy] [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray] [Only @ Best Buy] [2020]

A great film with magnificent animation and soundtrack, which is more inclined to the adult message since the best advice it can give is that you never stop loving what you do and live life to the fullest

Oh this movie is so ethereal! Amazing soundtrack from the other world and overall the story is touching and great representation of black diversity. I didn’t mind it being on Disney +. I wanted a physical version of the movie in the unique Steelbook edition! Excellent collectible!

Good movie! Disney always produces good movies, and this one is no exception. Their animated films, like this one, always look stunning in 4K.

Being a fan of jazz music, a New Yorker by birth, a cat person, and a parent of a kid who loves cats and Pixar movies, Soul appeared to be the perfect confluence of subjects. We were very excited for its release and we were not disappointed. Soul takes the viewer on a trip through the physical and the metaphysical, from the IRT under New York up to the great beyond in the cosmos. Themes of life's purpose and meaning are handled both delicately and with humor. The film is indeed an exploration of Soul. The voice acting and animation were top notch as one might expect in a Pixar film. My one complaint, as a jazz fan who feels strongly that "American classical music" is underappreciated by the public, is that Soul missed an opportunity to make jazz a more unified part of the film. I won't deduct a point for this, but jazz is extremely diverse and the filmmakers featured non-jazz atmospheric music for much of the soundtrack. I believe they should have selected from the array of atmospheric jazz that would have provided a more authentic feel rather than resort to Reznor and Ross (who I always considered relatively "soul-less" even though they do make some important music for movies such as The Social Network. Even some of the main character's playing shied away from real jazz to favor more atmospheric triplets with muted variation or texture. I understood this was to make the sounds more harmonically palatable to an audience that may not appreciate jazz, but it felt like a let-down and opportunity missed to me. Still, there were plenty of uptempo jazz tunes as well as ballads to enjoy. So I can't complain too much.

Music teacher Joe finally gets his big chance to play with one of the jazz greats but ends up dead. That doesn't stop him from getting back to Earth to make his audition and change his life forever. He gets help along the way by a few different and strange characters. In the end he learns the truth about his life goals and helping others.

An original and insightful look into the afterlife (and origin) without mixing religion or any particular theology. It's a wholesome and welcome story about life, about what makes us who we are and how even the most mundane of moments can inspire if you open your eyes. As always Pixar does a stellar job, balancing story, humor, and heart into one beautiful symphony. And having said that, I cannot skip mentioning the music. As a musician myself (and a New Orleans native/jazz lover), the soundtrack is just amazing. The notes hit the emotional points so well, highlighting moments in subtle keys. While it's technically classified as a children's movie, adults should not overlook it. It takes on a rather heavy subject of life and death, giving a measured insight and providing an ending that isn't the princess/sunshine/rainbows fairy tale that so many animated stories do, instead showing that those little moments can mean just as much. I feel given the subject and story that this is aimed for more matured youth, above the princess and castles to the younger of younger adult (as well as actual adults). Overall, I loved this film. Beautifully rendered, beautifully composed, beautifully executed, and a beautiful message. Well done.

Without a doubt, Soul is one of the best films of all time. Pixar is usually terrific, so this isn't a surprise, but they really delivered something extra special here. Anyone interested in owning great cinema should pick up this extraordinary film in one of its Blu-ray editions. I'm glad I was able to get the steelbook, but if you can't find it anymore, the standard 4K release features the same content.

An original and insightful look into the afterlife (and origin) without mixing religion or any particular theology. It's a wholesome and welcome story about life, about what makes us who we are and how even the most mundane of moments can inspire if you open your eyes. As always Pixar does a stellar job, balancing story, humor, and heart into one beautiful symphony. And having said that, I cannot skip mentioning the music. As a musician myself (and a New Orleans native/jazz lover), the soundtrack is just amazing. The notes hit the emotional points so well, highlighting moments in subtle keys. While it's technically classified as a children's movie, adults should not overlook it. It takes on a rather heavy subject of life and death, giving a measured insight and providing an ending that isn't the princess/sunshine/rainbows fairy tale that so many animated stories do, instead showing that those little moments can mean just as much. I feel given the subject and story that this is aimed for more matured youth, above the princess and castles to the younger of younger adult (as well as actual adults). Overall, I loved this film. Beautifully rendered, beautifully composed, beautifully executed, and a beautiful message. Well done.