The idea of inclusion, of the acceptance of those who are different, is a strong and recurring theme in Pixar animated films. From Nemo with his atrophic fin, to the creatures of Monster & Cofrom the over -size child of Up The authors of Pixar have almost always managed to create unforgettable characters and ironic and acute stories, well beyond the politically correct in which it is fully forced and “telephoned”, making the fight against stereotypes an even more subtle stereotyping operation. And once again in Helium The Pixar Animation Studios has hit the center, With an incursion in the science fiction genre that opens up to the possibility of creating a diversity without borders, that of all possible inhabitants of the universe. The protagonist is an 11 -year -old boy, Elio, who after the death of his parents is entrusted to Aunt Olga, greater than the army in service in a space observatory. Elio is grumpy, intolerant, rebellious, and all his pain for the loss of his family pours him in dreaming a perfect world that is not on the planet Earth, where he feels alone, without friends and without love. For this reason, the signs that come from the universe continues to spy on with its equipment, convinced that there is life outside the earth, and that someone from up there will come to take it to bring it to a perfect world, where you can finally feel good. The aunt sends him to an adventure to do friends, but Elio is immediately targeted by the bullies from whom he flees overnight. The boy goes not far away: the three bad boys immobilized him and their head is about to launch a punch when a storm of light attracts him upwards from the sky. And Elio finds himself in the common, interplanetary paradise that hosts intelligent life forms from distant galaxies As ambassadors, looking for an earthly leader who helps them negotiate with a very bad armored alien, Lord Gron who does not want to know about living peacefully with other peoples, but only aims to conquer all the worlds. Elio pretends to be that leader, but of course he overestimated his abilities and ends up in a prison from which, however, with the ingenuity and super technological gadgets with which the ambassadors of the commonly man have endowed him, he manages to escape to come across Glordon, a molliclico monster, with the appearance of a gentle fat, who in reality is only a bizarre child, son of the super bad and not accepted because peaceful. The alliance of these two “orphans” of love triggers a whole series of adrenaline adventures, hymn to emotions that arise from a true friendship between peers. The ingredients for pleasure to children are all and well dosed: ingenious solutions, escapes, dangers, and a path of awareness that leads them to accept themselves and be recognized for what they are. As sub -trace many themes in addition to that of diversity: war and peaceful coexistence, family ties, growth, masks that adults wear to hide their vulnerability. And the question that each of us at least once in life has been made: are we really alone in the universe?
Directed by Adrian Molina (screenwriter and co-regista of Coco) and produced by Mary Alice Drumm (associated manufacturer of Coco), the original version of the film includes the rumors of, Zoe Saldaña, recent Oscar winner, in the role of Aunt Olga, Remy Edgerly, in the role of Glordon, Jameela Jamil in the role of the ambassador this; Brad Garrett is the ambassador Grignon and Yonas Kibreab in the role of the protagonist.
In the dubbed version in Italian Andrea Fratoni is Elio, Alexander Gusev is Glordon, Alessandra Mastronardi La Aunt Olga, Adriano Giannini is Lord Grignon, Lucio Corsi is the ambassador Tegmen And Neri Marcorè is the voice of the user’s universal manual.
