Pixar trades soul-searching for star-seeking in its most whimsical — and least self-serious — original cartoon in over a decade.

Elio,’ Pixar’s new movie about a boy who wants to be abducted by aliens, has its roots in a true story about one of its directors.

The new Pixar animated film “Elio” takes up a question famously posed by astrophysicist Carl Sagan: “are we alone?” It’s in reference to the search for extraterrestrial life, but the idea, according to Sagan,