Synopsis
Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
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Cast
- Jacob TremblayLuca Paguro (voice)
- Jack Dylan GrazerAlberto Scorfano (voice)
- Emma BermanGiulia Marcovaldo (voice)
- Saverio RaimondoErcole Visconti (voice)
- Maya RudolphDaniela Paguro (voice)
- Marco BarricelliMassimo Marcovaldo (voice)
- Jim GaffiganLorenzo Paguro (voice)
- Peter SohnCiccio (voice)
- Lorenzo CrisciGuido (voice)
- Marina MassironiSignora Marsigliese (voice)
Recommendations
- 90
TheWrap
Luca is sweet and affecting, capturing the bond that strangers can build over a summer, and how that friendship can endure. And like its shape-shifting protagonists, it’s got plenty going on beneath the surface. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Director Enrico Casarosa is making his feature-length debut here, and he and the vast Pixar animation army have delivered a gorgeous and lovely coming-of-age fantasy with plenty of slapstick laughs, the obligatory heartwarming family moments and a friendship for the ages. - 83
IndieWire
It may not be the best Pixar movie, or the riskiest — it sure as hell isn’t the most ambitious — but Luca is also one of the precious few that feels like it isn’t afraid to be something else. - 80
Arizona Republic
If this is a story told more broadly than what we’ve seen from Pixar the past few films, so be it. It may not be a masterpiece, but its message is one that can’t be expressed enough. Luca expresses it in a gorgeous, fun way. - 75
The Seattle Times
It’s a nice message, told with charm aplenty. And as always, the Pixar magicians create a wonderfully populated world. - 75
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Granted, Luca might not go down as one of the more profound entries in the Pixar catalog. Don’t expect it to make you well up the same way Up or Toy Story 2 did. Still, at a time in which international travel is mostly for the bold, it’s an undeniably pleasant summertime trip. - 67
The A.V. Club
The generous read on Luca is that it has the sweet simplicity of a fairy tale, something that tired kids and the exhausted parents reading to them could follow even while on the verge of slumber. Less euphemistically, this is an exceptionally mild addition to the Pixar canon, pleasant but nearly as shallow as a bathtub. - 63
Boston Globe
Luca has energy to spare and it’s certainly easy on the eyes, if not as visually outrageous as, say, the recent Coco. The moral lessons — be true to your friends, overcome your fears — are tidy and shopworn, fresh to young audiences but lacking the jolts of originality that make classic Pixar films an all-ages proposition.
