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Created Jul 13, 2015 07:49PM PST • Edited Nov 17, 2015 10:24PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Really Great 4.5

   Lava is love, Hawaiian Island style, delivered in seven minutes of sweet love song and volcanic activity. The dramatic contrast works wonderfully well: the violent and the accepting, the unyielding and the hopeful. Pixar should release this short separately after it’s done opening for the great Inside Out.

4. Acting

   Great 4.0

   Kuana Torres Kahele sings the male volcano, Napua Makua the female volcano.

5. Male Stars Great 4.0

6. Female Stars Great 4.0

7. Female Costars Great 4.0

8. Male Costars Great 4.0

10. Film

    Perfect 5.0

    James Ford Murphy, the head of animation at Pixar Animation Studios, wrote and directed Lava, though no writing credit is listed at IMDb. Perhaps that’s because there is no dialog other than the song Lava, written by Kuana Torres Kahele and performed by him & Napua Makua, as the female volcano.

11. Direction Perfect 5.0

12. Play Really Great 4.5

13. Music Perfect 5.0

14. Visuals Perfect 5.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.3

17. Sex Innocent 1.4

18. Violence Fierce 1.6

19. Rudeness Polite 1.0

21. Reality

    Fantasy 5.0

22. Circumstantial Fantasy 5.0

23. Biological Fantasy 5.0

24. Physical Fantasy 5.0