Highly Suspect Reviews: Elemental

ELEMENTAL MOVIE REVIEW
Disney/Pixar’s latest animated feature is Elemental, the story of a world populated by anthropomorphized elemental beings, either Fire, Earth, Water, or Air. The film follows the Lumen family, immigrants to Element City where fire beings are rare (understandably because of their nature to set fire to everything around them). Raising a family, a business, and eventually being the heart of an entire district isn’t easy but the Lumens manage to create a community around them. The daughter of the family, Ember has a bit of a temper problem, which is the one thing making her aging father uncomfortable about handing the shop over to her. Her temper leads to a broken water pipe in the basement and then a water inspector who could shut everything down. She finds that she’s ready to do anything to stop it from happening, and eventually keep anyone from finding out what happened at all. Not just that she lost her temper again, but that she and the inspector Wade seem to have a friendship and more quickly blooming. Chris, Wright, Tessa, and Beau take on this animated film and decide if it’s on fire or all wet.
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DIRECTED BY: Peter Sohn
STARRING: Leah Lewis, Clara Lin Ding, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Mason Wertheimer, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O’Hara, Ronobir Lahiri, Wilma Bonet, Joe Pera, Matt Yang King, Jeff LaPensee, Ben Morris, Jonathan Adams, Alex Kapp, P.L. Brown, Onanovie Ekakitie, Krysta Gonzales, Ava Kai Hauser, Maya Aoki Tuttle
 
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Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)
Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.
 
 
Tessa Morrison (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Unstabletop Gamers)
Well-rounded nerd and artist, Tessa Morrison grew up in the misty mountains of West Virginia and was constantly ridiculed for being a “weirdo.” Then moved to Austin in 2009 where people said the same thing, but in an endearing tone. Tessa works an office day job, creates puppets and fiber art, cosplays, models for gaming and animation studios,