Trailer for Pixar's _Coco_

Disney/Pixar just dropped an absolutely beautiful trailer for their new film, Coco, this morning. Watch it below:

According to IMDB, the plot synopsis is as follows:
Coco follows a 12-year-old boy named Miguel who sets off a chain of events relating to a century-old mystery, leading to an extraordinary family reunion.

The important thing to note, of course, is that this is, arguably, Pixar's first foray into diversity, as the film deals with Mexican culture and the Day of the Dead. (Pixar films tend to deal with anthropomorphized objects -- toys, cars, bugs, monsters, robots, fish, emotions -- moreso than with humans. While most of their films have human characters, the only Pixar films I can think of that deal primarily with human characters are The Incredibles, Up, and Brave...and all of those characters were white.

There are, I think, two additional things worth noting:

1. The cast -- at least, the cast listed right now on IMDB, which is sure to grow -- is entirely Hispanic/Latino actors. If the entire cast stays that way...I don't know if it's as unprecedented as Moana's all-Pacific-Islander-cast, but it's got to be a big deal.
2. Lalo Alcaraz, an outspoken Disney critic, was specifically hired as a cultural consultant for this film -- which hopefully means good things for the film's portrayal of Mexican culture and traditions. 

I'm pretty sure that people will still hurl accusations of cultural appropriation at Pixar, skewering them for making money off a culture that isn't their own, but...*sigh* You know my complicated thoughts on this. You can't call for diverse books/films for children and then lambast the world's biggest producer of children's films for making a diverse film. I, for one, am happy to see Disney & Pixar branching outside of their normal European-fairy-tale fare (Moana) or their X-has-feelings formula (Pixar) to tell a unique and, yes, diverse story. Especially in our current climate...I think it's all the more important.