Movie Classification: P13
Genre: Animation
Director: Jorge Gutierrez
Starring:
- Diego Luna (Manolo Sánchez)
- Zoe Saldana (María Posada)
- Channing Tatum (Joaquín Mondragon)
- Ron Perlman (Xibalba)
- Christina Applegate (Mary Beth)
- Ice Cube (The Candle Maker)
- Kate del Castillo (La Muerte)
- Héctor Elizondo (Carlos Sánchez)
- Danny Trejo (Skeleton Luis)
- Carlos Alazraqui (General Posada, Dali, Chuy)
- Ana de la Reguera (Carmen Sánchez)
- Plácido Domingo (Skeleton Jorge)
- Jorge R. Gutierrez (Skeleton Carmelo)
- Eugenio Derbez (Chato)
- Gabriel Iglesias (Pepe Rodríguez)
Running Time: 1 Hour 35 Minutes
Released Date: 16th October 2014
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Language: English
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The Book Of Life Synopsis
A museum chaperone named Mary Beth takes a group of troubled children on a tour and tells them about the famous legends and myths of Mexican folklore. She proceeds to tell them the story of the Mexican town of San Angel from the Book of Life, which holds every story in the world.
The spirits La Muerte, ruler of the Land of the Remembered and Xibalba, ruler of the Land of the Forgotten, appear at San Angel's Day of the Dead festival where they set up a wager after seeing two boys, Manolo and Joaquín, competing over a free-spirited girl named María. La Muerte bets that Manolo will marry María, while Xibalba bets on Joaquín. If La Muerte wins, Xibalba can no longer interfere in mortal affairs, but if Xibalba wins, he and La Muerte will switch domains. Later, María sets free a herd of animals due to be slaughtered, much to the chagrin of her father General Posada, who sends Maria away to a private boarding school in Spain to learn to behave. While seeing her off, Manolo gives her a baby pig, Chuy, while she gives him a new guitar which has "Always play from the heart" engraved on it.
Years pass as Manolo is trained by his father Carlos to become a skilled bullfighter while Joaquín becomes the town hero with the help of Xibalba's Medal of Eternal Life. On the day that María returns, a celebration is held in town culminating in Manolo's first bullfight. During the fight, Manolo refuses to kill the bull, disappointing his father and the crowd but delighting María. That night, María learns her father is arranging her marriage to Joaquín so that the hero would stay and protect San Angel from the bandit Chakal, but she is conflicted by her feelings for Manolo. María and Manolo secretly meet and profess their love for each other, but they are interrupted when a snake, sent by Xibalba, bites María and seemingly kills her. Despondent, Manolo is tricked by Xibalba who offers him a way to see Maria again, as he summons the snake to inflict a double bite which kills Manolo.
Manolo travels to the Land of the Remembered where he reunites with his mother, Carmen and his illustrious deceased family members. They travel to La Muerte's castle, but find it now occupied by Xibalba who explains the bet and that the snake only gave María enough venom to put her into a coma, but it gave Manolo enough to kill him. Once María awoke, she learned of Manolo's death and decides to accept Joaquín's proposal for the sake of the town. Manolo, Carmen and Manolo's grandfather, Luis travel to the Cave of Souls in order to reach the Land of the Forgotten. After accomplishing a pair of dangerous tasks, Manolo's pure heart allows him and his family to enter the Cave, where they meet the Candle Maker, who oversees the lives of everybody in the living world. After seeing that Manolo's story in the Book of Life is empty (due to Xibalba's meddling) and can be rewritten by Manolo's own actions, the Candle Maker takes the group to the Land of the Forgotten. There, Manolo finds La Muerte and exposes Xibalba's cheating. Xibalba appears and agrees to give Manolo life again if he can face his greatest fear, which Xibalba has manifest as every single bull his family ever fought.
In the living world, Chakal learns that Joaquín has the Medal of Eternal Life and leads his army of bandits to San Angel on the day of the wedding. The bandit kills Carlos, who joins his family as they watch Manolo's challenge. Manolo apologizes to the grudge-filled spirit to forgive his family's transgressions and it dissolves peacefully away. Impressed, the deities grant Manolo his life back and send him and his family's spirits to the living world to defeat Chakal. After saving the town, Joaquín returns the medal to Xibalba, while Manolo and María wed happily as Xibalba and La Muerte reconcile.
At the end, as the now-enlightened children leave the museum, Mary Beth and a security guard introduced earlier reveal themselves as La Muerte and Xibalba, and the Candle Maker reminds everyone to write their own stories.
The Book Of Life Movie Review
The movie is talking about the book of life where it's stored the every story in the world. The movie is started with the museum chaperone called Mary Beth took a group of the troubled children on a museum tour and them about the story of the Mexican town called San Angel from the Book of Life. The story started where two young boys named Manolo and Joaquin and a girl called Maria was best friends ever but Manolo and Joaquin tried to get Maria. But there is the largest bet between La Muerte and Xibalba regarding which boy will married Maria started. Xibalba gave Joaquin the Medal of Eternal Life because he want to rule the Land of Remembered (if he won in the bet). One day, Xibalba scared he will lose in the bet, so he turned his stick to become the snake and bite both Manolo and Maria when they met at outside of the town. But Joaquin's Medal of Eternal Life gave her the life so La Muerte lose on the bet. Manolo knew the truth when he and his ancestor found that Xibalba rule the Land of Remembered and he told him everything. Manolo will try to get his ancestor's help to get to Land of Forgotten to find La Muerte. La Muerte was very angry when she find the truth, and this time Manolo have the bet with Xibalba. If he won in kill the bull, Xibalba have to give back his life. At the same time, Chakal, the bandit leader want to burn the town because want to get back the Medal of Eternal Life from Joaquin. Actually, Joaquin is a coward when he lose his Medal of Eternal Life. At last, Manolo won the bet and he managed to get back his life to fight with Chakal. Not only that, La Muerte and Xibalba send the spirits of his family to fight with Chakal and they won. Finally, Manolo married with Maria and that's the story ended with Mary Beth turned to La Muerte and the security guard turned to Xibalba.
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