For cat lovers both the feline and jazz musician kind a film that has been hyped and early-reviewed for months and months Soul only came out on Christmas day. A child sees a film such as Soul with very different eyes than an adult. Ideally a child should be writing this piece. Yet Pixar films have always appealed to adults (Toy Story 2 from the late-1990s is still my favourite). After a fairly ponderous first half-hour the film began to truly get its ''spark''. The music, which was composed by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste, actually doesn't figure as much as you'd think it would. However Tia Fuller who provides the real saxophone sound behind the hard to impress bandleader Dorothea Williams probably steals the show in the fictional Half Note when hero Joe (voiced very warmly by Jamie Foxx) finally fulfils his dreams and plays a significant gig after years as a middle school teacher as he attempts to come back from the dead. Favourite scenes? Definitely not the Great Beyond scenes unless you are a big animation fan and are content to marvel at the graphics, more the barbershop and tailor shop scenes where the characters take over that bit more and you get a sense of the film's great humanity. SG. Photo: Pixar