Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Jamie FoxxJoe Gardner (voice)
- Tina Fey22 (voice)
- Graham NortonMoonwind (voice)
- Rachel HouseTerry (voice)
- Alice BragaCounselor Jerry (voice)
- Richard AyoadeCounselor Jerry (voice)
- Phylicia RashādLibba Gardner (voice)
- Donnell RawlingsDez (voice)
- QuestloveCurly (voice)
- Angela BassettDorothea (voice)
Recommendations
- 100
The Hollywood Reporter
This densely packed, exquisitely executed and just a teensy bit batshit film is peak Pixar. It's a vintage mix of the company's intricate storytelling, complex emotional intelligence, technical prowess and cerebral whimsy on dexamethasone. - 100
Screen Daily
Visually glorious, frequently very funny and genuinely profound, this is a picture which cries out to be seen on the big screen. - 100
Total Film
Moving ever-onward from the sequels years, Pixar gets right back in the zone with Soul. Deep, witty, and fast on its jazz-loving feet, it doesn’t miss a beat. - 100
The Guardian
It’s a deeply sweet, happy, gentle film. - 100
The Playlist
It’s a ravishing ode, too, to gestures, touches, smiles, and pithy, pointless conversations; in Soul the tiny human interactions that we so often brush over come under the magnifying glass. - 91
IndieWire
Like some of the best jazz compositions, it uses a traditional framework to veer off in many unexpected directions, so that even the inevitable end point feels just right. - 91
The Film Stage
Soul likes jazz very much. That’s a rare certainty in this ambitious film, which attempts to contemplate nothing less than the root of all human experience on this planet. - 75
Movie Nation
It’s comical, but not really a comedy, spiritual without being all that deep. But as it grapples with what drives a creative person, paints the “after life” and “before life” eternity in Picasso-with-a-light-pen strokes and questions what makes life worth living, it can be quite touching.
