“Elemental” offers one answer. After Ember finally tells her father about her new dream of pursuing the arts, she realizes that all her parents have really wanted for her is to be able to ...

Luckily, Elemental soon shifts its focus to Ember, and to her own story as a child of migrant parents. She stands to run the Fireplace when her aging father retires, ...

Instead of a feud, the situation sparks an unlikely relationship between Ember and Wade, who bond as they investigate the source of all the water that shouldn’t be coming into Firetown.

Pixar movies have seldom suffered from a lack of ambition, but that’s still the defining characteristic of “Elemental,” which mixes a tender opposite-side-of-matter romance with an immigrant ...

Pixar's Peter Sohn dreamed up the fire-meets-water love story of 'Elemental' (in theaters June 16) ... (Ember Lumen, voiced by Leah Lewis) and water (Wade Ripple, voiced by Mamoudou Athie).

Disney and Pixar’s latest animated feature, “Elemental,” is a charming drama about family and identity, centering the story of two elements, Ember and Wade (voiced by Leah Lewis and Mamoudou ...

In “Elemental,” Ember Lumen (voiced by Leah Lewis) is the daughter of immigrants from Fireland: Ernie (Ronnie Del Carmen) and Cinder (Shila Omni), both of whom were handed English names while ...

Elemental is ultimately Ember's story, not Wade's. Wade has a story to tell and a character arc of his own, but the film spends much less time on his side of the relationship, making his arc less ...

Pixar’s Elemental — in theaters now from director Peter Sohn — is bursting at the seams with imagination, but its racial metaphors leave the movie waterlogged.

Pixar movies have seldom suffered from a lack of ambition, but that’s still the defining characteristic of “Elemental,” which mixes a tender opposite-side-of-matter romance with an immigrant ...