Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
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The dog dante is never harmed but he does turn into an alebrije in the movie and it's implied he stays in the spirit world however he does return on the day of the dead (with a kitty!)
A wife and child are led to believe this is the case and it affects the family for generations but a twist reveals that it’s not the actual case though
Yes and no. Two characters shown to be best friends/close as brothers live and work in close proximity to one another and travel together until one poisons the other to keep him from leaving. The characters aren't related by blood, but it's implied that they grew up with a close enough relationship to be considered domestic.
(Spoiler!) The main villain is portrayed as a good character for most of the film and he thoroughly denies that he ever did anything bad. He also tries to convince his old friend, who he killed, that he did not kill him. When his old friend makes a connection to one of the movies, the villain says "You're confusing movies with real life."
Miguel is forced not to participate in his favorite hobby and a member of his family destroys his homemade guitar, then immediately becomes sweet in an attempt to manipulate him. This is emotional abuse.
Some of the characters are shown drinking and [SPOILERS] it's revealed that one of the characters died after drinking a poisoned drink, but nobody seems to be addicted to alcohol.
Actually, there are a few horses seen in the movie; there is a horse in one of Ernesto's movies, and several skeleton horses are also seen briefly. However, none of them die.
Not really, but skeletons are sometimes seen detaching their body parts, most notably Héctor (one of the main characters). It doesn't appear to harm any of them.
The people inhabiting the spirit world repeatedly get their skeletons disarranged, but they always reassemble and it doesn't hurt them. It is comical rather than scary.
One character does intentionally bypass a flight of stairs by jumping, and has to reassemble himself at the bottom. This is a conscious decision to show off his abilities.
Miguel's grandmother finds his handmade guitar, and later smashes it after Miguel tells her that he doesn't care if he's "put on some stupid ofrenda". Miguel becomes upset and runs away after this.
There is one scene where two characters are thrown into a sunken cavern that has a pool of water at the bottom, although there's a small outcrop of rock to sit on in the center of the water. Still, a character lands in the water and has to swim to this outcrop.
A subplot of the movie basically involves Miguel trying to avoid the afterlife’s equivalent of customs. Otherwise the closest we have to cops in the living world is a security guard at the cemetery. Either way these people are obstacles albeit presented as “just doing their job”
There are a few parts where the main character loses his temper and gets mad at a few other characters (especially his family), though. He also gets really upset after a major plot twist in the movie.
For much of the movie, a man disguises himself as a woman. At one point when he removes his disguise, another male character audibly hesitates before addressing him as a man.
Unless you count a fictionalized version of real life bisexual Frida Kahol dying before the events of the film, but there aren’t any confirmed LGBTQ+ characters in the text