Luca’s parents, too, won’t let their son go lightly; they’ll take human form to find him if they have to, and their plan is to send him down to the safety of his uncle in the deepest trenches of the ocean, where’s there’s nothing to do but passively inhale whale carcass all day.
That’s truly about all there is to the plot, but Italian-born director Enrico Casarosa, a longtime staffer at Pixar, infuses every frame with a pure kind of love for his home country .