![]() Gael Garcia Bernal also sings, as Hector, a desperate, long-dead corpse who must wangle his way back to visit the living so that he’s not forgotten forever. Miguel must meet Ernesto, fend off his own dead relatives (who KNOW why the family cursed musicians forever and ever) and negotiate a return to the land of the living in time for the Big Show.īenjamin Bratt does a Latin Lover purr, and croons a tune or two as the great Ernesto, a silky smooth romancer from the Golden Age of mariachi. Except that it’s in the locked crypt of the town’s most famous expat, the great Ernesto himself.Īnd stealing it transports him into the world of the dead, who are lining up to visit the living who remember them on this festival day. The contest is on the Day of the Dead, and it is while Miguel is in the cemetery, paying his respects to the remembered dead that he spies an instrument that could change his life. If only he can get his hands on a guitar, master playing it and sneak away from the family to enter it. Miguel knows, in his heart, he could win it. There’s a big singing contest in the Santa Cecilia town square. ![]() They’re not having any mariachis in their clan. Somebody in the past was a no-good musician who abandoned his wife and daughter. “Seize your moment! Reach for that dream, grab it right and make it your own!”īut “a Rivera is a shoemaker, through and through,” his big extended family reminds him. ![]() ![]() Miguel ( Anthony Gonzalez) idolizes the late singing film star Ernesto de la Cruz, taking Ernesto’s motto to heart. A Mexican boy needs the help of his ancestors to realize his dream of becoming a famous mariachi in “Coco,” an enchanting musical and the most charming Pixar movie in years.Īnd how does a Mexican lad confer with, debate and persuade his dead relatives to lift the family’s edict that no Rivera can ever be a singer? By visiting the colorful Land of the Dead on “El Dia de los Muertos,” the fall celebration called “The Day of the Dead.” ![]()
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