Elemental (2023) | Rotten Tomatoes (2025)

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How many Rotten Tomatoes did Elemental get? ›

Worse still for the consistently experimental and technologically innovative animation studio, the reviews for Elemental were decidedly middling to unkind: “dull-witted and syrupy” (Deadline); “the story beats are overly familiar” (Los Angeles Times); “The movie looks good … but its undercooked concept is a problem” ( ...

The animation is perfect, but the script is weak, and for a film like this the writing really needed to be much much sharper. It's all a bit damp. Rotten score. It's not often you get an original concept from Pixar that doesn't work.

If 60% of reviews are positive, the movie is given a “Fresh” status, but if positive reviews fall below that benchmark, it is deemed “Rotten.” A popular piece of media will typically fall between the 70-90% range, but rarely, a project will receive a 100% score. This means every last review from critics was positive.

To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 253 positive reviews.

The woke, occult content in ELEMENTAL is gratuitous. It adds nothing to the story and will annoy many family moviegoers who don't want their children exposed to such content. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.

Elemental has several obvious glaring problems. For one thing, the attempt to make the elements' differences an overt metaphor for race/culture is shallow and misplaced at best most of the time. The story's themes and plot itself are about as worn-out and tired as the art of the story itself.

Pixar is damaged as a big-screen brand. That was one of the rather glum takeaways from the weekend box office, which found “Elemental,” a $200 million-plus Pixar original, arriving to a disastrous $29.5 million in domestic ticket sales.

For the first time, Disney's Pixar is featuring a nonbinary character in an upcoming movie, but the introduction is being mocked by many online. That is because the character in question, which will be seen in the new movie Elemental, is not a human.

Elemental has two LGBTQ+ characters, but they are very, very minor characters.

Why is the Elemental movie woke? ›

WOKE ELEMENTS

Elemental is the perfect metaphor for Leftist views of diversity. Here you have a mostly peaceful and cohesive society filled with a diverse group of people from completely different backgrounds and cultures.

In his broken English, he calls her his “good daughter,” and she lovingly refers to him as “ashfa” — the honorific for “father” in their language — but Lumen also struggles with a burning temper whose origins she fails to fully recognize, and which manifests as her red-and-yellow flame turning dangerously purple.

Citizen Kane (1941), starring and directed by Orson Welles, has topped several international polls, including five consecutive decades at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics. Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country.

On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films that every surveyed critic considered bad have a 0% rating. As of 2023, only 40 films with more than 20 reviews have received this rating.

The longest film ever made, according to Guinness World Records, is 'The Cure for Insomnia' (1987), directed by John Henry Timmis IV.

Other recent series with multiple seasons in the 100% club: The Good Place, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, One Day at a Time, Veep, Fleabag, Jane the Virgin, and Feel Good. Only Murders in the Building season 1 has the most reviews on its perfect 100% score.

'Elemental' parents guide

The film is rated PG for “some peril, thematic elements and brief language,” per IMDb. According to IMDb's Parents Guide, characters engage in kissing, flirting and holding hands. The two main characters, Wade and Ember, have a burgeoning romance.

A place where all the critic reviews are Fresh, as far as the eye can see, without a Rotten mark to disrupt all the 1s and their attendant 0s in the percentage scores. It's a tough road for a movie to get a 100% with critics, fraught with peril.