the fish-boy movie BROKE ME! | LUCA (2021) | *First Time Watching* | REACTION

[@Hearts4SigmaBsd]

OMG FINALLY!!! PREPARE TO SHED SOME TEARS GAYS 😔

[@niallnochill]

it’s time for a **big gay hug**

[@Hearts4SigmaBsd]

@@niallnochill And lots of gay support 🌟

[@inkwolf2979]

@niallnochill Can I recommend you watch a series? I don't know if you've already seen it but it's Owl House, a lovely series and very funny too.

[@jinthefifth980]

It's not even gay though...

[@mr.fishstick_yt9955]

@@jinthefifth980not explicitly. For me what ties it together is as the end is that there were sea “monsters” living among the regular people trying to hide who they really were so they don’t get treated differently

[@rdevries3852]

While the movie might not be explicitly queer, it does bear mentioning that 'Città Vuota', the song that plays during the end credits of the movie, after Luca left for school... is about someone who's desperately longing for their lover to come back home, so the city won't feel so empty anymore and so they can spend the rest of their lives together.

[@spindlycactus]

THATS ADORABLE

[@perseusa3358]

Also, the story director did intended for Luca and Alberto to be gay :)

[@jinthefifth980]

​@@perseusa3358nope.

[@AhSatansART]

Actually the main story director confirmed the boys do in fact get together on their instagram early this year!

[@ParsureArts]

Dawww!

[@FirlowXD]

That last line from the grandma, "some people will never accept him, but some will. And he seems to know how to find the good ones" gets my queer lil heart every time.

[@insertname777]

That line hits so hard. I cried just as bad if not worse. For me personally, I feel it for my son, who deals with autism and is nonverbal. He's only 5 and the disgusting remarks he has gotten from others already when he has his meltdowns in public due to being unable to communicate his wants/needs and feeling overwhelmed or when he's happy and stims. I wish people would stop judging just because they don't understand. Most times they don't care to understand either. If they would just accept and love people for who they are or simply move along then the world would be a better place. The fact that line hits for so many people is sad. We as human beings need to be kinder to one another. I apologize for those who have made you feel less than for simply being you. You are enough. You are worthy of being loved. Never forget that.

[@SkwithOv]

@@insertname777 i'm semi-verbal (sometimes entirely nonverbal, sometimes for days, weeks, or even months) and autistic and i got a degree in linguistics :) it's true, lots of people aren't very accepting or understanding (especially doubled with other disability/health stuff and being nonbinary, pan-ace, and intersex....) but i've found a good handful of people who get me ♥ i have a partner and we live together and he doesn't treat me any differently when i'm nonverbal (besides maybe asking questions a bit differently, and probably being a bit more gentle) and i'm self employed as an artist because i find working outside my home, especially with a strict schedule imposed by someone else, really challenging but i did work in a bakery and at a banquet hall as a server (i even did weddings!) so it's totally possible several of my close friends are Deaf, so the speaking thing hardly matters at all when I'm with them (we either type or do some basic sign, one of them teaches ASL in a college but i'm not fluent in ASL, neither is another Deaf friend) there's so, so many possibilities for your kid and I hope he (and you!) know that ♥♥♥ and seriously if your kid is having trouble with having friends because of being nonverbal, and if there's no other nonverbal/semi-verbal autistic kids around in his age group where you are, i highly recommend trying to find Deaf/HoH kids around his age, especially if you're able to teach him some basic ASL or have them use picture cards - it could really help in meeting kids that can better understand him where he is

[@jhufffamily7920]

@@insertname777 as an autistic adult who struggled with being understand as a kid, i just wanna say you’re doing great. it really sucks when the world doesn’t show kindness or at least the benefit of the doubt, but (coming from experience) having a supportive parent makes it so much easier. with a parent like you, he’s gonna be a wonderful person

[@sylvirgiomanach1491]

I really like that they didn't shy away from Giulia's family status. Her parents are divorced. She spends most of the time in the city with her mom and spends summers with her dad. Her mom isn't dead, she just doesn't have a role in the story. And it also helps to explain Massimo's side of the connection with Alberto. He has his daughter and they have a great relationship when she's there, but she's with her mom most of the year. So here's this dad with so much love and care to give, but he spends most of his time alone. Then this kid shows up in *desperate* need of someone to love him and be there for him. So of course they connect! They are what each other needs most. And I really do think Massimo needs Alberto as much as Alberto needs him. 🥰

[@bettrhalf8006]

I agree! I also love that Alberto's situation is also openly and honestly portrayed. Children (and grown-ups!) who have experienced parental abandonment are being seen by this movie, and also given the gift of a happy ending that doesn't require a deus ex machina of the parent who magically shows up with a convenient "I was kidnapped by wizards" type excuse for being gone. It's an excellent example of family being a far wider net (oops, sorry sea monsters! 😅) than just blood relations.

[@nyx-wo9km]

STOP IM CRYING AT THIS COMMENT

[@felixhenson9926]

I love that Julia's dad was just disabled from birth. Surprisingly rare representation where ppl w limb differences are concerned.

[@COMALiteJ]

Since it was only one arm instead of both, it was most likely a birth defect rather than something genetic. A possible cause back then (the movie’s set in 1968, so Massimo would’ve been born around the 1940s) might’ve been if his mother’d contracted rubella (“German measles”) early in his fetal development. If it’d been a couple decades later, he might’ve been a Thalidomide baby, but that drug didn’t exist in the ’40s.

[@zeekslider]

10:50 - Yeah, this movie came out around the same time as Encanto. Loved how those two movies made everyone wonder "who is Bruno and what did he do to piss off both Disney and Pixar?!"

[@Am3lia77]

Yeah, it turned out that they changed Encanto’s Bruno’s name last minute because Lin-Manuel Miranda thought Bruno was better for the song he wrote

[@sineadlucas3682]

I love this silly little fish movie. I love that the whole point of the film is that they're kids. The antagonist is a bully, the big event is a yearly race, and then end of the film is Luca and Giulia going to school. It deals with so many conflicts, internal and external, through the lens of being a kid during summer and I think it's incredible. (Also, there's a wee short film called Ciao, Alberto which focuses on Alberto staying in Porto Rosso with Massimo and I love it so much)

[@lovelyddeonnu]

yess Ciao, Alberto was cuteeee

[@aliyahpulido953]

36:06 NOOOOO You need to watch the credits sequence, there's illustrations of what happens in their lives once Luca starts going to school and Alberto starts working with Massimo! There's also an end-credits scene of Uncle Ugo!

[@niallnochill]

i watched it after, it was so cute!!

[@lionhxart]

@@niallnochillcheck out the short film featuring the dad and alberto!!!!

[@COMALiteJ]

@@niallnochill There are two sets of end-credit drawings: the main color images shown in the primary credits, then the Uncle Ugo mid-credits scene, then the rest of the credits done in scrolling style with occasional B&W drawings of the characters after the events of the movie or even the first set of drawings. Both sets show important events in the near future of our beloved characters. Among other things we see two B&W drawings towards the end: one on the left side of the scrolling credits, and one on the right. Those are actually two halves of one drawing, split down the middle by the credits. On the right we see Giulia and Luca wearing spaceship-themed pajamas, with Luca having a makeshift space helmet (glass fishbowl, apparently) over his head. Both are looking towards their left, with expressions of sheer awe on their faces. But what are they looking _at?_ The left side shows what: an old 1960s-era CRT TV set, complete with rabbit-ear antennæ on top. The TV may be B&W, but we can’t really tell since the _sketch itself_ is B&W so if the TV were an early color TV, it’d look the same (though maybe with more knobs for things such as Hue and Color/Chroma [Saturation] in those analog days). They’re watching something on that old TV. It’s what’s _on_ the TV screen that’s so important, that has struck awe in them: *the Apollo 11 lunar landing,* presumably shown live! They’re watching _major history_ unfold before their eyes, in a subject that both are fascinated with (astronomy). And with that, we know _when_ this movie was set: since the lunar landing happened in June of 1969, and this would’ve been right after their school year (Luca’s first) ended and they maybe delayed the train trip back to Portorosso so that they could watch this historic event so important to them on Signora Marcovaldo’s TV set (we never saw a TV set in Massimo’s house or anywhere else in Portorosso, as TVs were new to Italy back then). Which means that the movie itself took place in the summer of the previous year, 1968. As seen by the many cultural references such as movie posters in Portorosso, this tracks. Director *Enrico Casarosa* stated that this movie is largely about his own childhood in Italy, and that’s around when he would’ve been a child. People talk about how one of the charms of this movie is that there are no great world-endangering/saving stakes. No vast powerful enemy to defeat (Ercole’s a bully and apparently at least a sociopath if not psychopath). Just a story about two boys who just happen not to be human, and their human girl pal, having a wonderful summer together, and how it affects and changes the characters. But, if _Luca_ were _real,_ if something like that had actually happened in the late 1960s, what would it mean to the world? How would history since then have been affected? Think about it: part of what makes this story so charming, and why we like stories of nearly human non-humans (including elfs and færie folk and such) or talking animals or aliens or gods or whatever, is because as the only sapient species on the planet that can communicate with each other in language and build civilizations and such, we’re just so freakin’ _lonely_ as a species! There’s this hunger deep inside most of us for us _not_ to be alone in the universe, for us _not_ to be the only sapient beings out there. How many of our deep-seated societal problem really stem from this loneliness? Religions exist in part because of it, and how many conflits and even wars happen over religion, because we want _our_ humanoid deities to be the ones that really exist and so resent any competing religions who say that _theirs_ are the real ones?: The end credits show that Signora Maria Marcovaldo (I’ll call her Maria since at least two fandom Wikis list her as having that given name, but none linked to any official source on that) is an artist, and that she paints a portrait of Luca in his natural form (aided by Giulia pouring water on him from a plant watering can) in one of the color sketches. Does this painting make her famous, or did she have some fame already and the painting becomes famous? At first people think it’s just a fanciful painting, but as shown later in the color end credits drawings, Luca reveals himself to his classmates and teacher at the school by sticking his hand in a fishbowl as Giulia looks on, much to the astonishment of the teacher and the two classmates we see [there were presumably more classmates, and I’d _love_ for a sequel to introduce them to us]). Would word of that get out? Luca no longer tries to hide what he is. He may even’ve climbed back into the train car after leaning out of it (the _“Fine”_ at the end) still in his natural form, not caring about passengers seeing him. Reports from those passengers hit the news, maybe? Maybe after Maria does and publishes her painting, and the passengers see that and recognize him and report that they saw this fishlke kid come back onto the train and sit down and turn into a human before their eyes? As investigative reporters come to Portorosso to track down the truth, would Ercole pass up the opportunity to get back at Luca and make a tidy sum of money in the process, and tell his twisted version of events, only to have most of the others in the town realize that the secret is out and tell the truth to counter Ercole’s version of events? Would the Aragosta sisters (Concetta and Pinuccia) reveal themselves to the journalists? The truth comes out before the whole world. Humanity is _not_ alone even on our own planet. In its own way, this’d be _at least_ as big and history-shaking news as the aforementioned Apollo 11 lunar landing. Those of us alive back then remember how amazing it was to have human beings set foot on another spheroid than the Earth, for the first time ever. And then, shortly after that, NASA and the USA gets the publicity wind taken out of their sails because of a tiny seaside town in the Italian Riveria and a middle school in Genova, with the revelation that there really is at least one other sapient species on the planet? And are there others? If these sea “monsters” (I could see scientists naming them _Homo undine_ after the legends of the undines, mythical fishlike people), what about others such as the selkies of the British Isles (especially Scotland, IIRC) myths? Those look like seals in their natural form but can transform to humans. Does Luca’s example in outing himself inspire selkies and maybe others to follow suit? I can imagine Libera (Grandma) Paguro becoming an unofficial ambassador to the UN representing the sea people since she has the most experience. She urges the nations of the world to stop polluting the oceans. Maybe she brings Luca along to the UN, and while in the USA they appear on an episode of _The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson._ At one point Johnny asks Luca what he finds most perplexing about humans, and Luca says racism (this may happen on a night when he also had an Italian actor from the time as a guest who can help translate difficult words, though I think by then Luca’s English would be passable at least - the kid _is_ a genius after all as shown throughout the movie such as when he quickly “unbroke” the “magic singing lady machine” [78RPM disk gramophone] despite it being among the first human technology he’d ever seen). “In my natural form, I have green scales. Mamà has kinda darker green scales. _Papà_ has paler green scales. My _nonna_ here has pink scales. My friend Alberto has pale blue scales. The two ladies in the town who passed for human for so long, one had purple and the other hand darker blue scales. My uncle is _transparent_ scales and skin and flesh! And we think nothing of that. Why do humans care so much about _skin color,_ to _hate_ each other over it? Someone make that make _sense_ to me!” Many racists realize the folly of their beliefs, but many other bigots instead transfer their bigotry from people of color or LGBTQ to the non-human species, to the undines and any others that may exist in this alternate history. After all, they’re different _species_ from humans! And they can _transform_ and _hide among us!_ I wish that _Luca_ had been set even just one year earlier, but then there wouldn’t’ve been the synergy of this news hitting the world around the time of the Apollo lunar landings (the early unmanned and manned orbital flights, yes, but not the _landing_ which was the _big_ news). But, if the existence of undines had been revealed in 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. might not’ve been assassinated. He was assassinated just moths before the events of the movie. I can see James Earl Ray being among those who shifted their hatred from blacks to undines (and selkies _etc._ if those also exist). But as it is, history remains as it does up until the reveal, so MLKjr is still assassinated. 😞

[@intotheunknown2008]

Something that really touched my heart in this movie is the fact that the dad was just born without his arm. (I was born missing my right hand) like there’s no crazy story it’s just the way he is I found that representation really important

[@clarasundqvist6013]

The blend of hyper realistic sets and backgrounds with the more cartoony looking characters is such a fun visual experience, I love the shift in 3D animation towards doing more than just hyper realism in movies like Luca, Turning Red and The Mitchells vs. The Machines

[@spookyk8834]

omgg the Mitchells vs the machines mentioneddd

[@orfeassiozos1575]

A minor detail that I love about this is how being revealed as a sea monster was built up to be this big thing, and it felt like a big thing and it really was one for our main characters, but then we see that the two grannies have been living there, just hiding and vibing, and Luca's grandma has also been going there in her sea monster form quite frequently as well (so there are sea monster supporters in the village). The coming out parallels and how everyone deals with being out differently, feels comfortable in different stages with different levels of openness, it's all so clear to me. The parallels are paralleling!!

[@CampingforCool41]

Fun fact one of the movie’s writers and artists released a few drawings where Luca and Alberto are a couple, including their first kiss which they envisioned happening a handful of years after the movie :) so they are semi-canon gays actually

[@tbhsolee]

I love that fan art sooo much

[@goldengriffon]

@@tbhsolee Is it really "fan art" if it was made by the movie's lead story artist and director of the short? 🙂

[@tbhsolee]

@@goldengriffon you are right I didn't think about that!! So it's canon art !!

[@COMALiteJ]

@@goldengriffon Got a link?

[@videohistory722]

When luca was dizzy, and fish were swimming around his head, it was a play on a cartoon seeing stars. You get it? Because Luca still thinks the stars are fish!

[@aliyahpulido953]

Welp, looks like it's "Time To Make Niall Cry Again!"

[@niallnochill]

favourite day of the week

[@CleoVonGem]

If you want to be even more broken (from happy tears), you should watch the Luca Short, about how Alberto learns to let Massimo become a father figure. It's really sweet and ties the story together very nicely ❤

[@COMALiteJ]

I like to think that shortly after the events of that _“Ciao,_ Alberto” short, Massimo offers, and Alberto agrees, to official adoption. There might’ve been some legal issues once it becomes known that sea monsters exist and that Alberto is one (I can imagine an official wondering if Alberto even qualifies as a person), but I think that that’d get resolved, and by the time Luca and Giulia return to Portorosso in the summer of 1969 (after having watched the Apollo lunar landing on TV as shown in the end credits), that Giulia gets the news that she’s no longer an only child and now has an offical big stepbrother, Alberto Marcovaldo (Scorfano no longer).

[@TAGG16]

The whole 'they'll see each other again one day' ending to any movie makes me cry every time. They got a happy ending but still 😭😫💙

[@ezjimenez]

yes omg your point about Luca being very simple in a comforting, slice-of-life way!! italy’s filmmaking history in the 1940’s introduced a genre called neorealism in which a lot of movies centered regular people in their daily lives with no dramatic plot, for the sake of representing what the italian people were genuinely going through at the time. i think Luca adopts a little bit of this history into its story and it’s so cool :D

[@annelooney1090]

Alberto even has a picture of Marcello Mastroianni on his Vespa! Lol

[@COMALiteJ]

@@annelooney1090 The only realistic human shown in the film that was shown as how he’d look in the real world (albeit B&W 2D mini-photo), not Pixar-style animated humans.

[@avajones6835]

I love how as they get to know each other, Alberto becomes part of Lucas Vespa fantasy! “My dream wouldn’t be complete… without you in it.” - Tiana

[@lulystalgianature2968]

This is such an unique movie. Not so action packed, and with a simple yet realistic plot. And just kids being kids... and of course, a bully being that way just because he can. There's no indication he has a bad life or anything that excuses his behavior. Ercule is that way because he can, and those petty people are truly the worst.

[@Tetrabiblo]

28:28 naw cause same, the first time I saw this scene I bawled my eyes out especially after having heard it’s a queer coded film. We the gays are often abandoned and rejected by the people around us even if they knew us our whole life’s it doesn’t matter, they fill their own heads with ignorance and their hearts with fear where acceptance and love should be smh. Massimo holds a special place in my heart for his actions in this scene 😢

[@phroggio]

Luca and Alberto were actually confirmed to be a couple by one of the directors in 2024, which is why there was a resurgence of Luca fans earlier this year!

[@PrettySaditty1920]

No, they said it was "talked about," and in my opinion, it would've taken away the innocence of this movie. They were just two little boys having fun, that's it.

[@SkwithOv]

@@PrettySaditty1920 what's not innocent about having a crush?? it happens to kids in elementary school all the time.... but if it's because they could be GAY, that's your problem

[@PrettySaditty1920]

@@SkwithOv Don't put words in my mouth. Read my post again. I replied to a comment that was inaccurate about the friendship of two boys. They were NOT a couple. I don't have a problem with gay relationships. That's a personal matter. I have a problem when people try to make something more than what it is. These characters are supposed be kids. Let them just be kids and be friends is all I'm saying.

[@jijitters]

@@PrettySaditty1920 You've misunderstood something. Luca and Alberto aren't "together" in the duration of the film but they very much are considered to reach that point and the film is just them at an age before that part comes. The actual artists of the actual damn movie have shared romantic art they drew of the two of them. Stop being weird and trying to deny what has been fully embraced as the reality by the artists involved in it. You suggesting that "kids" and "gay" are opposing concepts is really disgusting. Most people have their first crushes in kindergarten, including gay kids. You gonna call them weird? Yell at kids for getting butterflies around someone? Examine your homophobic rhetoric before you spew it.

[@PrettySaditty1920]

@@jijitters Who the fuck was talking to you? I dont have to examine a damn thing nor defend my opinion to anyone- especially not to someone who literally insulted me in the same way you assumed I would about these fictional characters.

[@aliyahpulido953]

7:50 "Piacere, Girolamo Trombetta!" is a joke put in by one of the directors (I think.) He grew up in a small Italian town like Porto Rosso, which is fictional. Translated, it means "Nice to meet you, my name is Twisty Trombone!" and as you do the handshake, you mime the silly name. Speaking of Porto Rosso, that's an Easter Egg. This movie's animation style and vibe was inspired by Studio Ghibli's movie "Porco Rosso," about a WWII pilot who is a literal pig named Marco "Porco" Rosso, the Red Pig. The animation fluidity and some of the cheats they do look like Ghibli animation, and the fictional Italian town is named after the Ghibli movie.

[@lohunaa]

porco rosso has a special place in my heart, just the vibe being immaculate and free, very refreshing!

[@stilesstilinski9640]

three reasons (no matter how slightly weird they are) why I watch and subscribed to this channel. 1) It's giving everything it needs to give 2) read number 1 3) Call me weird or whatever but niall's voice is so satisfying to hear. I don't know if its the accent or whatever but its just....satisfying.

[@theojohn0410]

"you got me off the island" f*cked me up in may ways this is such a healing movie

[@k.p1157]

You can look up some official sketches for Luka. I don’t remember who exactly drew them, it was someone who worked on the movie, but basically there were Luca and Alberto a little bit more grown up, kissing under an umbrella and also some sketches of them cuddling on a bed. Very cute

[@merobiba413]

I think it might've been the main story director! They said they had had a scene planned at the end where Luca and Alberto reunited four summers in a row when Luca comes home for summer break, with the last one ending in a kiss

[@goldengriffon]

That was McKenna Harris, the lead story artist (not a director on the film, as some have said, although Harris did direct the short "Ciao, Alberto"). She stated the sketches were unofficial, just her personal head-canon for where the characters might have ended up. But we can all dream. 🙂

[@michellemanton6657]

The one thing I love the most about this movie is how Julia's (The red hair gorl) Father and alberto (I can't spell names sadly) having a father-and-son relationship and how Alberto didn't had a father but he finally has a father figure and I LOVE HOW JULIA'S FATHER WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO FIND ALBERTO AT THE DEAD OF NKGHT LIKE "Biatch I ain't coming back until I find Aleberto"

[@ruffboiALT]

*Giulia

[@levigreywolf6738]

At 29:43, I paused and counted the tally's on the wall.. Alberto was left alone in that place for at least an entire year... Damn.

[@hilltimitdendillen106]

There's also a short called Ciao Alberto about Alberto and Massimo (Giulias Dad) and it's so cute 😭 you'd love it

[@hilltimitdendillen106]

I'd love to see you react to it if you'd like ♥️

[@TheGrossDemon]

I’m so happy we got films like Luca, Encanto, and Coco, beautiful films that aren’t big and tell stories about families. Stories don’t need to be explosive and action packed to be good, I’m just happy that some people are still making these stories because they’re important to tell.

[@cambenji]

The undertones of them saying that he needed to go to “the deep” which is like going to a conversion camp. The parents basically saying we love you but we can’t love you if you’re like this. Luca needing freedom and finding it in Alberto. Her saying “i feel like i don’t know who he is” too. I could go on

[@horsefuntinitan8274]

Also I think its (kind of) confirmed canon by the creator that the film is indeed QUEERRR

[@jmrabinez9254]

Really? How do you know that?

[@Thefrog21]

They showed some Concept drawings on their story, that depicted Luca and Alberto being cuddly :)

[@catatemyname7801]

Not quite. It was talked about during production, but ultimately they went with a theme of kids being kids, and it being a friendship (which could be more later, but not quite yet). To quote: "In my first picture I realized we hadn't done kids being kids, so that was kind of part of me thinking about that. It's also specifically a little bit pre-romance. That was something that I was interested in as well because there's just that moment that maybe we're not thinking about boyfriends and girlfriends yet, which is really more about friendships." In a different quote that I can't find right now I saw him talking about his initial plans not involving them being gay at all, but he supports all kinds of interpretations and head-canons that the viewers see in this.

[@horsefuntinitan8274]

@@catatemyname7801 if I remember correctly the creator posted fanart on her page 💗

[@jdb101585]

@@catatemyname7801 When Luca points at Alberto and yells "Sea monster!"....that is every little gay boy's fear. *smh*

[@NostalgiaEli]

i love this movie! it makes my gay heart so happy 13:25 100% agree someone said exaples of queer metaphors being there are the "corrupting influence," the "sending him away," the concept of "outing" and bonding over a shared secret, Alberto's "stay there, you're still safe," "how am I going to know your okay?" i ALSO love the idea that the two older women who reveal themselves as sea monsters at the end are basically outing themselves in solidarity. AND the grandma's line "some people will never accept him. but some will. and he seems to know how to find the good ones." in a queer light. i just think it's so coded and wholesome I believe the director said it wasn’t gay, the animators said it was lmao. I think someone in the writing team said so too. And Jack D Grazer (who is the voice of Alberto) said for him the characters were queer too (while promoting this movie he came out as bi )

[@Chill_Pill-h8r]

28:45 you should totally watch the short movie, Ciao Alberto on your own time if you wanna see more of this!

[@thearkof-noah]

yessss i was thinking this too, niall really needs to watch ciao alberto!

[@AhSatansART]

The main story director confirmed the boys do in fact get together, they posted it on their instagram early this year!

[@sarahhamaili2197]

Time for our crying session with Niall 🤗

[@Spooktastic-Cat]

Luca is so underrated and as time goes by I hope it will become viewed as one of the classics as it deserves. It has heart, warmth, style, beauty, and subtext that really makes it shine as both a movie and story :)

[@iamangieh]

this animated film captures the beauty and magic in little things and childlike wonder like no other 🫂 maybe a little ghibly esque in that way, but the *love* shown by every character in this is just so pure and magical 🥹 the friendship and paternal love portrayed will always be so special to me AHHHHH okay I have to stop crying now beautiful video as always, Niall 🩵

[@niallnochill]

much love to ya Angie! couldn't agree more

[@risha-mehanse4082]

Yayy! Time with happy tears!!!

[@niallnochill]

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[@GeorgeAlexander3110]

Urgh Such a great movie!! knew this would make you weeeppp

[@rpgqueen8737]

this is what i like to call "slice of life" story telling; Kiki's delivery service is another really good one in that category

[@findme7585]

The queer parts of Luca are understated and based on potential in such lovely ways 🩵 If you look up McKenna Jean Harris (Luca's storyboarder and it's short director), you'll see that she's quite artfully weighted in :) There's a swell and short pinknews article abt it! 💓

[@karmatickenny]

Anyone who denies the Queer lens of this movie is blind. It's so touching, especially with the idea of found family, literally connecting them all together. So breathtaking.

[@gabriellebeavington4164]

The Genre is Slice of Life. Cozy, comfy, feel good film/show. So Cute!! ❤

[@creatingpulsars9979]

I think one of the moments that resonates with me as queer coded was two elderly women who outed themselves as sea monsters at the end when they saw the societal change and younger sea monsters be more accepted. It just reads so much like an older queer couple who went through so much hate now getting to breath a bit as times begin to change.

[@kaleehall6271]

the incoherent noises/sobs in the last ten minutes of the movie… you’re so real for that hahahaha love u niall

[@o0alonexx611]

i cannot lie to you i have binge watched all your disney reaction videos and I am living for them all pls!!! give us more

[@elay8507]

Fun fact: The voice actress of Luca's mom is actually Aunt Cass' from Big Hero 6!

[@MetaLatias5]

There's a short for this movie called "Ciao Alberto" which focuses on Alberto's and Massimo's relationship after Luca and Giulia left for school and it's sooooo worth checking out X'3

i was literally searching if you had reacted to this yesterday so this notification made me so happy, your videos are always great when I need something comforting to watch

[@princembat]

such an underrated recent film! everyone lately seems so focused on hating on disney and pixar films from the past decade (which is partially justified but not entirely) and people just completely overlooked this one it felt like, but its so beautiful and sweet. and im more than aware that it wasnt intended to be queer but WOW it was so queer

[@bluemagix728]

This movie catchures childhood so perfectly. all the problems and the dreams they have. when I watched it first I just cried so bad. I just wanted to be a child again. Just for a day. Going on adventures with friends and dream about something big.

[@elinedefaux]

The way I SCREAMED when I saw this notif. Also if you have seen Call Me By Your Name then you should reconise some sences that have simularities and the final sence is basicly a copy of the train sence in Call Me By Your Name. Also the maker of this movie confirmed that Luca and Alberto were supposed to have a romantic connection so they are cannon. Also seamonster is basicly their term for queer people

[@ChronoBio]

To the “Let kids be kids” people out there: Let queer kids be queer kids. Despite the directors words, the text of the movie reveals that this is an allegory for being queer. Whether their relationship is an allegory for their first queer friendship (very important) or the very early days of a romantic one, the secrets and the fears about being found out and sent away or [unalived] are intrinsic to the queer experience. Compare Luca to other simple films about kids being kids like The Sandlot or the French film My Father’s Glory, which have strong childhood friendships but do not have queer coded text or subtext. TLDR: Luca is a queer coded film due to what is in the text.

[@Ruby-lee33]

luca is just such a cute feel good movie the stakes arent that intense but its so calm and enjoyable and really makes u wish u were a kid again

[@dlynch3007]

23:52 no bc why is that true though lmao 😭 and I recognize her voice!? anyone else think she might've played the voice of Mirabel's mum or Louisa is encanto??

[@twthegoddess]

This movie breaks me every time. The writing plus the amazing soundtrack makes it perfect. And being able to relate to the feeling of feeling trapped by your own parents, makes me sob. The end of him on the train and Alberto yelling "GO LUCA!" kills me

[@stephaniefrost4910]

5:25 you’re so real for that lol I hated the part where they dry up under the lamp too 😢

[@estefpowers173]

I didn't think I'd get so emotional seeing this movie again, but I cried so hard watching this reaction JAJJAAJ thank you again for such a great video!

[@orfeassiozos1575]

OH MY GOSH I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE DOING THIS ONE!!

[@BlueSodaPop_]

I know how this movie goes and yet I sob uncontrollably every time. The vibes, the colors, its so on point

[@tendigitnumber]

I've heard this film described as Pixar's take on a Ghibli film, and honestly I agree. It's so laid back with some fantastical elements but is mostly just a story about life. It really reminds me of My Neighbour Totoro in a good way, in that it's relatively low stakes and it's people just trying to live their lives. It's a bunch of strong characters trying to navigate their way through life and learn about the world around them, with some obstacles to overcome and overall just feels really good and warm and wholesome. I hope this film becomes a My Neighbour Totoro of a new generation, if it wasn't that already. It's a good comfort film.

[@lucaslonewolf1125]

Okay, but now I VERY desperately need to see you reacting to the short. It's called Ciao Alberto, and it is such a heartbreaking, yet healing little story that takes place after this.

[@imagaybanana2004]

FINNNNNNALLLY

[@horsefuntinitan8274]

Im screaming rn cause if I remember correctly I requested it😭😭😭HSNSKSHSBSKSJS

[@niallnochill]

you’re the one that put me through this HEARTACHE !!!

[@horsefuntinitan8274]

@@niallnochill OH MY GOD I FEEL HONOURED 💗

[@remi_pog5852]

This movie was me, my mom, and my little brothers favorite movie to watch before I moved away and the ending always has me sobbing, it was nice to cry with someone else while watching this movie again 🥹❤

[@FedericaCorradino]

Now PLEEEEEASE you need to watch the short film "Ciao Alberto", it shows how Alberto's life goes in Porto Rosso while Luca goes to school, it's too sweet and you're going to cry again 🥺

[@UceyJuceyUce-j9g]

Loved that Julia's dad was not asking abt Luca and Albertos parents, bc he might have thought they were orphans or runaways and didn't want to make them feel sad or alone. Also Luca is a bitch for backstabbing Aberto😭😭😭

[@jaymeetsworld1]

CANT WAIT TO WATCH NIALL CRY OVER SEA MONTERS

[@niallnochill]

a first for me tbh

[@aliyahpulido953]

34:29 There's an A-113 easter egg on the train ticket!

[@carloseduardobarbosa438]

0:33 Yup, Niall would defenetly love OwlHouse, season 2 mostly.

[@orlastarburst]

FRRR

[@Raquel96]

I was totally with you tearing up early into it!! It is emotional 🥹

[@franticchild5269]

I hope he saw how Giulia looks just like her mom, and PLEAAASE WATCH the Alberto and Masimo short!!!! OMG you would love it!!!!

[@Chopsticcs]

This movie is a absolute masterpiece a lifetime gem I still can’t watch this movie without crying or going through all the emotions 😂😅 my favorite part of the movie is at the end when Luca gets to leave and travel the world and gets to go to school it just made me so proud

[@thatmomentwhen345]

The music in this movie is so phenomenal like it’s emotional enough on its own but the gorgeous gorgeous score sends me over every damn time

[@videohistory722]

I actually once wrote a Luca/Good Omens crossover where I dropped Aziraphale and Crowley into the Luca universe. I even changed the race to swimming, running and drinking tea! It's called You're My Best Friend, and under ICanSingNoRequiem.

[@so-meichi]

Luca has become my go-to cozy summer movie 🤭the music, the visuals, the humour ITS PERFECT😩

[@imagaybanana2004]

Luca is go-to cozy all year round movie lol

[@Michelle-DiPalo]

This movie didn't get talked about enough. I found out about it after my son watched it at a sleepover 2 years ago and watched it every night for the rest of that summer. It was so sweet and cute.

[@rohkakaobananenshake807]

Your reaction is SO on point! Cried with you trough this 💜 There is also a short movie called "Ciao Alberto", it's about Alberto and Massimo, I haven't watched it yet, but I heard good things about it c:

[@FrogieFairy]

This movie reminds me of another movie called Over the Moon on Netflix it gives me the same kind of vibes!!! ✨ it’s simple, funny and comforting. Would 100% recommend

[@azirapals]

YESSS!!! the gasp that left me when i saw you post this omg!!! i’ve been waiting for you to watch this soo much!! comfort movie and comfort youtuber in one yep!!!

[@kiefcoffee]

MUST watch the short about alberto n his new pops 🥺

[@alexvillarreal8546]

He missed the credits story. I really want him to watch the short with Alberto.

[@cyndra3792]

Beautiful reaction ☺ Also, you need to watch the short film about Alberto... like, omg.

[@KimonoSuki]

You were talking about subscribers at the end and I JUST realized I'm not subscribed to you! I feel so silly, I've been watching you for months and completely forgot! Loved this! Luca is such a good movie, and I agree with you, about how it's such a simple film about being a kid and growing up, and bullies, and summer and going to school.

[@stefanashley]

Omg yay. I was hoping you would do this! It’s my favourite Pixar Movie! It’s adorable. As always your reactions are amazing and such a joy. Highlight of my day this!

[@savannahwhite7153]

Ugh I love watching these reactions..especially the Disney ones. Die hard disney fan here🎉❤😊

[@LillyCaines]

OMG this the first video Ive seen from you channel and Im def subscribing. I havent laughed and cried this hard at a YT video in foreverrr.

[@flatpigeon9349]

Phantom tail, I feel Luca man, I get that too. ;-;

[@DevanteTalkaholic]

Felt the need to tell you that KZbin knows creator's audiences. I saw the thumbnail earlier, saved to watch later, saw it again just now and here I am🌊

[@Bloomingz]

ITS FINALLY TIME GUYS (also, there’s a short called “ciao Alberto that I recommend watching)

[@YokoshimaSTAR]

You'll make such a great parent one day (if you want kids!). Beautiful life advice. PS: Your videos always make me feel better because I go through so much and never cry, but when you get emotional at the same things that make me, then I cry with you and it's healing lol

[@Urfrndhusker420]

If u really wanna cry u should watch the movie short it focuses on Alberto's relationship with Julia's dad

[@aster891]

I’m crying as well Niall!! This film came out around the time I came out as bi to my mother, so it’s really dear to me. Thank you for watching this!!! ❤❤ Love your reactions!!!

[@brit8851]

Watching how much you loved the relationships between the characters, I think you'd enjoy the short they made as a sequel. It's called "Ciao Alberto" and is around 6 minutes long. You should be able to find it on KZbin. 🙂

[@barawen_who]

I have already watched all these movies, but I still cry when you cry ❤ You have a big heart

[@aliyahpulido953]

I think the type of movie you're trying to describe as "simple, calm, and kind" is Slice-of-Life. I also ADORE slice-of-life movies, shows, comics, etc., and I have a few favorites. Some are slice-of-life combined with a bit of other genres, which is always interesting. Studio Ghibli makes some excellent slice-of-life movies!

[@KittyFighter]

Yeeeeee this movie style was so cute, I liked how the "Sea Monsters" looked in it. 😸 [I'm not sure if you've ever seen or even heard of this movie but if you ever get to it, I would highly recommend watching "Kubo and The Two Strings" it's an underrated gem! And it's a stop motion movie, so I like the effort that was put into it. 😺😸👍]

[@UnoUno_7670]

You should react to the short Ciao Alberto, they show how Alberto’s doing when Luca went to school and how the relationship with Maximo

[@kreginzen]

I just KNEW you would love this film. It is jus such a wonderful story and anyone that has struggled with growing up and being themselves instead of hiding who they are it just hits so good. I absolutely love this movie so much. You need to watch the short film about Alberto as well.

[@Kadukunahaluu]

Fun fact: The word for sea in Italian is "Mare", and for old English it was "Mere". "Mermaid" is literally a "sea maiden"