Animated Pixar fantasy featuring the voices of Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey. After meeting an untimely demise, aspiring musician Joe finds himself in the Great Before, which offers him a way back to the land of the living. But after a mix-up, Joe's wayward fellow soul "22" ends up in his earthly body while Joe himself is stuck inhabiting a therapy cat.
Between the Monstropolis of Monsters, Inc and Inside Out's emotional headquarters, Pete Docter has long been Pixar's king of surreal worlds. That remains resolutely the case with the Oscar-winning Soul, which Docter co-directs with Kemp Powers (writer of One Night in Miami). A matter of life and death that navigates its hidden depths with delicacy and world-building dazzle, Soul follows New York teacher Joe (voiced by Jamie Foxx), a frustrated jazz musician who meets an untimely demise. Determined to return to life from the "Great Beyond", Joe unites with sulky, unborn soul 22 (Tina Fey), sparking off a playful mix of celestial chase movie, body-swap romp, buddy movie, fish-out-of-water comedy and existential enquiry alike. Even if the free-jazz plotting seems initially wayward, the results brim with exuberance, invention, wit, and musicality. The film's disparate parts cohere beautifully in a bold take on life fulfilment that culminates in a finale as sweetly, softly poignant as Pixar's best.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Joe | Jamie Foxx |
| 22 | Tina Fey |
| Moonwind | Graham Norton |
| Terry | Rachel House |
| Counselor Jerry | Alice Braga |
| Counselor Jerry | Richard Ayoade |
| Libba | Phylicia Rashad |
| Dez | Donnell Rawlings |
| Curley | Ahmir-Khalib Thompson |
| Dorothea | Angela Bassett |
| Paul | Daveed Diggs |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Pete Docter |
| Director | Kemp Powers |
