Subscriber only. Pixar’s ‘Elio’ is a fast and fizzy trip to a boy’s alien nation
If a movie is a bowl of breakfast cereal, Elio is Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, and the audience is Calvin. The title hero is a Calvin, too: a hyper-imaginative orphaned boy who lives with an aunt and is desperate for the universe to send aliens to take him away from it all. This being Pixar, the universe obliges.
