Watched a few weeks ago. I'm privileged, being particularly interested in jazz, abstract things, black culture, and examining death, so this was about as interesting as family movies get for me. Soul bounced confusingly between these identities. It could have just been the jazz Pixar movie, or the death Pixar movie, or the first black Pixar movie. It juggles all three, which keeps it engaging yet shallow. Nothing was fully explored. That's okay, for progressing things like racial diversity in animated movies, or jazz's popularity -- you don't have to pay so much attention to them that they become abnormal -- but the intrinsic impact of the movie blunts.
It was more engaging for me than most family movies, due to its subject matter. But it's still a family movie, which, apparently, can't do much for me.
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