Soul (2020)

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The latest Pixar movie is Soul. It is set in the present day and revolves around a high school music teacher named Joe (Jamie Foxx), who dies after falling down an exposed sewer. Then his soul goes on a journey through the afterlife as he tries to avoid death and return to his life on Earth. The biggest connection to the Pixar Universe comes in the form of the souls we see preparing to enter Earth, like 22 (Tina Fey).

Pre-life souls, like 22, are shapeless blobs preparing for life. These souls do not necessarily have to enter the body of a human being, as we see a cat-shaped soul in the escalator scene after Joe first enters the afterlife. This would explain how certain animals are capable of thinking like humans, such as Rèmy in Rataouille and Doug in Up!. The same could be said of toys in Toy Story and the Cars in Cars series.