It’s an annual fall ritual for which few tradition writers would need to give thanks. Every November, representatives out of your favourite web sites—together with, sure, WIRED—collect to debate Thanksgiving-week content. (Or “gobblecon,” because it’s referred to as within the biz.) Without fail, somebody within the room finally asks that the majority doomed of questions: “What about a roundup of great Thanksgiving movies everyone can watch together?”

And then … silence. There’s no satisifying reply. As far as family-viewing vacation movies go, Thanksgiving is almost as underrepresented as Whacking Day. You might program 12 straight days’ value of Christmas movies, from It’s a Wonderful Life to Santa Claus Conquers the Martians to Elf. Independence Day has, properly, Independence Day. You might even have fun Easter by throwing on the beautiful however terrifying rabbit story Watership Down, offering you hate your youngsters.

When it involves crowd-pleasing Thanksgiving entries, although, the pickings are slim. The default solutions are often the pleasant Steve Martin/John Candy travelogue Planes, Trains and Automobiles or Jodie Foster’s Home for the Holidays, a 1995 comedy-drama a few tumultuous get-together. They’re each high quality entries, however neither is precisely made for household viewing: Home options extra squabbling than gobbling, whereas Planes is rated R, principally due to a bunch of Fs).

And if you happen to’re in search of respectable Thanksgiving-specific children’ films, you’re just about out of luck. There’s not even an animated musical referred to as Sasquash, which is a disgrace as a result of that looks as if the sort of movie that would internet a savvy studio exec billions of {dollars}, and the songs are already written (please direct script queries to Gourd4WhatAilsU@hotmail.co.uk).

Clearly, it’s time for a brand new Thanksgiving film custom—a unanimously agreed-upon movie that earnestly celebrates the vacation’s values of household, meals, and a normal sense of shared historical past. As it seems, the proper candidate arrived final yr: Coco.

Remember Coco? Of course you do! It was fall 2017’s main Pixar launch, making close to a billion dollars worldwide and finally profitable a number of Oscars. But in case you missed it: The movie, set in Mexico, follows a 12-year-old named Miguel, whose love of music unintentionally brings him to the Land of the Dead, the place he reunites with long-departed members of the family. Coco ends with a serenade of the stunning “Remember Me,” considered one of Disney’s most interesting earworms, although you’ll possible be too sniffly to totally discover it on the time, for causes I received’t spoil right here.

At the time of its launch, Coco was seen as one other sweet-natured Pixar triumph. Granted, it wasn’t as zippy as The Incredibles, nor as narratively bold as Inside Out. And it actually didn’t site visitors within the grown-up existential torment of Toy Story 3, a film that turns over each childhood nightmare attainable like some rogue skill-crane machine. Coco, against this, was charming and catchy in a manner that maybe made the film appear deceptively simple.

But a latest rewatch of the movie on the small display screen—it’s, after all, on Disney+—was a reminder of simply how deeply affecting Coco will be. For starters, it’s one of many best-looking films of the previous a number of years. Even on a comparatively dinky TV, the color-jammed Land of the Dead dwellings and the high-soaring alebrijes are deliriously vibrant. And the film’s tone feels particularly singular on this planet of recent household filmmaking. It’s playful with out being winky or pop-culture-packed, heartbreaking with out ever changing into too mawkish. At instances, Coco looks like Steven Spielberg overlaying Tim Burton, or vice-versa—a little-boy-lost story that includes sardonic skeletons whose eyeballs actually fall out of their heads.