Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel’s family history.

Credits: TheMovieDb.

Film Cast:

• Miguel Rivera (voice): Anthony Gonzalez
• Héctor (voice): Gael García Bernal
• Ernesto de la Cruz (voice): Benjamin Bratt
• Mamá Imelda Rivera (voice): Alanna Ubach
• Elena Rivera (voice): Renée Victor
• Papá Enrique Rivera (voice): Jaime Camil
• Papá Julio Rivera (voice): Alfonso Aráu
• Tío Oscar Rivera / Tío Felipe Rivera (voice): Herbert Siguenza
• Mariachi / Gustavo (voice): Lombardo Boyar
• Mamá Socorro “Coco” Rivera (voice): Ana Ofelia Murguía
• Mamá Luisa Rivera (voice): Sofía Espinosa
• Tía Victoria Rivera (voice): Dyana Ortelli
• Head Clerk (voice): Gabriel Iglesias
• Tía Rosita Rivera (voice): Selene Luna
• Frida Kahlo (voice): Natalia Córdova-Buckley
• Chicharrón (voice): Edward James Olmos
• Departure Agent (voice): Carla Medina
• Tío Berto Rivera / Don Hidalgo (voice): Luis Valdez
• Emcee (voice): Blanca Araceli
• Additional voices (voice): Polo Rojas
• Additional voices (voice): Montse Hernandez
• Arrival Agent (voice): Octavio Solis
• Corrections Officer (voice): Cheech Marin
• Security Guard (voice): Salvador Reyes
• Juan Ortodoncia (voice): John Ratzenberger
• Ernesto de la Cruz (singing voice): Antonio Sol
• Additional voices (voice): Liliana Barba Meinecke
• Additional voices (voice): Emmanuel Bernal
• Additional voices (voice): David Berón
• Additional voices (voice): Denise Blasor
• Additional voices (voice): Wilma Bonet
• Additional voices (voice): Alex Castillo
• Additional voices (voice): Vicki Davis
• Additional voices (voice): Daniel Diaz
• Additional voices (voice): Roberto Donati
• Additional voices (voice): Efrain Figueroa
• Additional voices (voice): Deb Fink
• Additional voices (voice): Libertad García Fonzi
• Additional voices (voice): Emilio Fuentes
• Additional voices (voice): Daniella Garcia-Lorido
• Additional voices (voice): Mike Gomez
• Additional voices (voice): Lillian Groag
• Additional voices (voice): Joshua Guerrero
• Additional voices (voice): Marabina Jaimes
• Additional voices (voice): Jossara Jinaro
• Additional voices (voice): Christian Lanz
• Additional voices (voice): Constanza Lechuga
• Additional voices (voice): Luisa Leschin
• Additional voices (voice): Ruth Livier
• Additional voices (voice): Maria Dominique Lopez
• Additional voices (voice): Valeria Maldonado
• Additional voices (voice): Richard Miro
• Additional voices (voice): Adrian Molina
• Additional voices (voice): Daniel Edward Mora
• Additional voices (voice): Vivianne Nacif
• Additional voices (voice): Adriana Sevahn Nichols
• Additional voices (voice): Jonathan Nichols
• Additional voices (voice): Arthur Ortiz
• Additional voices (voice): Jessica Pacheco
• Additional voices (voice): Juan Pacheco
• Additional voices (voice): Jacqueline Pinol
• Additional voices (voice): James Ponce
• Additional voices (voice): Al Rodrigo
• Additional voices (voice): J. Francisco Rodriguez
• Additional voices (voice): Eduardo Roman
• Additional voices (voice): Eddie Santiago
• Additional voices (voice): Melissa Santos
• Additional voices (voice): Luis Solís
• Additional voices (voice): Rosalba Sotelo
• Additional voices (voice): Chris Triana
• Additional voices (voice): Trujo
• Additional voices (voice): Lee Unkrich
• Additional voices (voice): Ruth Zalduondo
• Additional voices (voice): James Zavaleta
• Additional voices (voice): Bernardo Cubria
• Additional voices (voice): Gary Carlos Cervantes
• Additional voices (voice): Johnny A. Sanchez
• Additional voices (voice): Levi Nunez
• Additional voices (voice): Óscar Bonfiglio
• Additional voices (voice): Lalo Alcaraz
• Additional voices (voice): Marcela Davison Aviles
• Additional voices (voice): Carolina Ángel
• Sunrise Spectacular’s orchestra conductor: Michael Giacchino

Film Crew:

• Story: Lee Unkrich
• Executive Producer: John Lasseter
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Christopher Boyes
• Producer: Darla K. Anderson
• Production Design: Harley Jessup
• Character Designer: Carter Goodrich
• Supervising Animator: Gini Cruz Santos
• Supervising Animator: Michael Venturini
• Second Film Editor: Greg Snyder
• Lighting Supervisor: Tim Best
• ADR & Dubbing: Doc Kane
• Dialogue Editor: Michael Silvers
• Foley: Dennie Thorpe
• Foley: Jana Vance
• Foley Editor: Dee Selby
• Foley Editor: Teresa Eckton
• Original Music Composer: Michael Giacchino
• Music Editor: Stephen M. Davis
• Casting: Carla Hool
• Scoring Mixer: Joel Iwataki
• Casting: Kevin Reher
• Associate Producer: Mary Alice Drumm
• Story: Matthew Aldrich
• ADR Voice Casting: Terri Douglas
• Editor: Steve Bloom
• Story: Jason Katz
• Casting: Natalie Lyon
• Musician: Bruce White
• Musician: George Doering
• Orchestrator: Germaine Franco
• Second Film Editor: Tim Fox
• Sound Effects Editor: Justin Doyle
• Character Designer: Greg Dykstra
• Set Designer: Don Shank
• Songs: Robert Lopez
• Character Designer: Tony Fucile
• Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall
• Animation: Michael Bidinger
• Songs: Kristen Anderson-Lopez
• Dialogue Editor: Marshall Winn
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Semanick
• Visual Effects: Stephen Matthew Gustafson
• Sound Effects Editor: Jack Whittaker
• Supervising Sound Editor: J.R. Grubbs
• Animation: Shad Bradbury
• Fix Animator: Luis Carlos Uribe
• First Assistant Sound Editor: Lisa Chino
• Orchestrator: Jeff Kryka
• Animation: Frank E. Abney III
• Animation: Royce Wesley
• Music Editor: Warren Brown
• ADR & Dubbing: Michael Miller
• Foley: Blake Collins
• Story Artist: Tony Maki
• Story Artist: Vladimir Kooperman
• Director of Photography: Matt Aspbury
• Co-Director: Adrian Molina
• Additional Editorial Assistant: Sarah K. Reimers
• Animation: Adam Rodriguez
• Animation: Shaun Chacko
• Production Coordinator: Dana Frankoff
• Character Designer: Daniel Arriaga
• Conductor: Marshall Bowen
• Animation: Paulo Diaz
• Animation: Simon Christen
• Animation: K. C. Roeyer
• Foley Editor: Jim Likowski
• Fix Animator: Youri Dekker
• Animation: Don Crum
• Visual Effects: Aaron Conover
• Musician: Andrew Synowiec
• Director of Photography: Danielle Feinberg
• VFX Artist: Jason Johnston
• Playback Singer: Antonio Sol
• Production Manager: David Park
• Lead Set Dresser: Amy L. Allen
• Lighting Artist: Mimia Arbelaez
• Animation: Guillaume Chartier
• Visual Effects: Jonathan Hoffman
• Visual Effects: Michael Honsel
• Animation: Aaron Koressel
• Animation: Bruce Kuei
• Set Dressing Artist: Alison Leaf
• Lighting Artist: Burt Peng
• Animation: Jayson Price
• Master Lighting Artist: Jordan Rempel
• Animation: Michael Sauls
• Master Lighting Artist: Philip Shoebottom
• Animation: Matthew Strangio
• Character Designer: Daniela Strijleva
• Animation: Raphael Suter
• Animation: Jessica Torres
• Additional Editing: Anna Wolitzky
• Visual Effects: Jamie Hecker
• Master Lighting Artist: Ken Lao
• Systems Administrators & Support: Ling Hsu
• Systems Administrators & Support: Andy Thomas
• Animation: Amanda Wagner
• Art Department Manager: Courtney Casper Kent
• Animation: Benjamin Su
• Thanks: Becky Neiman
• Animation Manager: Jesus Martinez
• Animation: Joshua Dai
• Animation: Mike Stern
• Master Lighting Artist: Jose Luis Ramos
• Additional Production Sound Mixer: Rachael Bigelow
• Systems Administrators & Support: Jonathan Hadden
• Systems Administrators & Support: BoB ‘Naked BoB’ Morgan
• Systems Administrators & Support: Shaun Brown
• Systems Administrators & Support: Daryn Cash
• Systems Administrators & Support: Shawn Hovis
• Master Lighting Artist: Charu Clark
• Archival Footage Research: Tiffany Taira
• Animation: Andrew Atteberry
• Art Direction: Tim Evatt
• Additional Editorial Assistant: Meghan Kraft
• Animation: Lance Fite
• Animation: Andrew Gonzalez
• Animation: Dionys Heurtel
• Animation: Catherine Hicks
• Animation: Charles Larrieu
• Animation: Cody Lyon
• Animation: Nicole Ridgwell
• Animation: Ben Rush
• Animation: David Torres
• Character Designer: Daniel Lopez Muсoz
• Character Designer: Zaruhi Galstyan
• Character Designer: Alonso Martinez
• Conductor: J.D. Aguilar
• Editorial Coordinator: Jessica Katz
• Editorial Coordinator: Freddie Sulit
• Editorial Manager: Krissy Cababa
• Editorial Manager: Max Sachar
• First Assistant Editor: Jennifer Neysa Jew
• Foley: Geoff Vaughan
• Musician: Federico Ramos
• Lighting Artist: Dorien Gunnels
• Lighting Artist: Linhan Li
• Lighting Artist: Farhez Rayani
• Lighting Manager: Lisa Fotheringham
• Music Supervisor: Luis David Reyes Reyes
• Musician: Maria Dominique Lopez
• Production Office Assistant: Maura Turner
• Software Engineer: Adrian Bell
• Musician: Baraka May
• Software Engineer: Mike H. Mahony
• Software Engineer: Félix O. Santiago
• Software Engineer: Gates Roberg-Clark
• Sound Design Assistant: Lucas Miller
• Systems Administrators & Support: Dan Berman
• Systems Administrators & Support: Nic Bishop
• Systems Administrators & Support: Susanne Rublein
• Systems Administrators & Support: Collin Allen
• Systems Administrators & Support: Teresa Conaty
• Systems Administrators & Support: John Henry Frankenhauser
• Visual Effects: Kristopher Campbell
• Visual Effects: Michael Frederickson
• Visual Effects: Emron Grover
• Visual Effects: Jonathan Pytko
• Visual Effects: David Ryu
• Visual Effects: Dave Strick
• VFX Artist: Shaun Galinak
• VFX Artist: Erik Shepherd
• VFX Artist: Chris Bolwyn
• VFX Artist: Tyler Bay
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Michael O’Brien
• Vocal Coach: Sam Kriger
• Production Coordinator: Carolina Ángel
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Jamie Williams

Movie Reviews:

• Gimly: Spectacularly colourful with a sweet, (albeit predictable) path. Certainly not a misfire from Pixar, but also did not appeal to me personally in the way that many of their other films have.

  _Final rating:★★½ – Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._

• furious_iz: **Beautiful, colourful and sweet**

  This film has real heart, with great messages about what family can and should do for each other. Great voice acting, great songs without having the burden of exposition via song that you find in the more musical ventures by Disney. I loved that you could see genuine guitar chords being played, so often in live action films the playing of musical instruments, especially guitar are poorly faked. None of that in this animated gem.

  One thing I personally loved was the depiction of Mexican culture. Although I really enjoyed _Moana_, I thought it was a little bit too much of a pastiche of multiple Pacific cultures when it should have just picked one (Maori) and stuck with it. _Coco_ celebrates Mexican culture, and depicts it well. The only thing missing for me was more Mexican cuisine.

  It can get a little dark in places, so maybe be careful when watching it with the little ones, but should appeal to most of the family.

  9/10

• priya_: I loved the movie starting from the characters, animation, colors, emotions, story everything. A good way to tell how important a family is. Happy it had a happy ending.
• r96sk: Sensational! ‘Coco’ is straight into my top five of Disney animations.

  The whole 105 minutes are a joy to watch, thanks to its rich and highly meaningful story alongside the wonderful animation and sharp humour. Safe to say, I was not expecting this film to smash it out the park – which it totally does. This is why I don’t, personally, look up about films before watching them, I love being surprised.

  Big credit also goes to the cast, who play some awesome characters. From Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez) to Héctor (Gael García Bernal) to Ernesto (Benjamin Bratt), among others, they are all very, very good.

  It isn’t just the characters that make this memorable, it is also the excellent plot which is told beautifully. It’s filled with not just comedy but also a load of heart – there’s a few nicely done twists too. The world that they create around the Day of the Dead is fantastic, while the music fits perfectly.

  If you haven’t already, you must watch this! It’s brilliant!