A new trailer for Pixar's Elemental introduces Romeo & Juliet for the science fair set
In Element City, all four elements live peacefully alongside each other obeying one rule: elements can never mix. Naturally, mixing ensues.
If Pixar can’t be the first, they can at least be the latest to compare forbidden love to fire and water. In a new trailer for the next Disney/Pixar animated spectacle Elemental, the metaphor goes glossily literal, introducing viewers to Element City, where fire, water, earth, and air live in a certain bustling harmony. That is, as long as the residents—anthropomorphized elements—follow the city’s one rule: elements cannot mix.
Helmed by Peter Sohn—the architect of Pixar’s 2015 flop The Good Dinosaur—Elemental is Pixar’s only slated film for 2023, and leans into a classic set of sweeping themes: finding yourself, trying to impress a somewhat fuddy-duddy parent, and ever-so-chastely falling in love. In the film’s first teaser trailer, released last November, protagonists Ember (voiced by Leah Lewis) and Wade (voiced by Mamoudou Athie) brush hands on the subway, meeting for the first time. In the latest trailer, Ember and Wade’s world gets a whole lot bigger, which makes their relationship that much dicier.