It’s almost as though the contours of what made Pixar great have been copied out here in vague watercolour.

Gentle and humane but never raw or vulnerable.

There are tonal parallels with Pixar’s Inside Out and Zootropolis, but while it has a peppy visual energy, Elemental lacks the wildly inventive storytelling of the former and the laughs of the latter.

It’s a cherry-picked approach to allegorical storytelling that muddies its own water, or blows down its own structure.