‘ELEMENTAL’ earns $11.8M in the film’s domestic opening day, the lowest in Pixar’s history

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‘ELEMENTAL’ earns $11.8M in the film’s domestic opening day, the lowest in Pixar’s history - Lemmy.world

Ok I might be totally wrong here but Pixar’s animated character designs just seem shockingly recycled lately. Inside Out, Soul, and now Elemental all feature largely monochrome, vaguely bulbous/geometric cutesy figures that all have that shimmery effect (which I read was incredibly expensive to develop and maybe why it’s being used constantly) and are abstractions of some kind or another (emotions, elements, souls). Am I the only one who finds them weirdly similar and (with the exception of their first use in Inside Out) kind of dull?
For Inside Out and Soul I thought they both made sense artistically. But I simply don't understand what new story Elemental is telling.
Fire is attracted to ice! It's so wacky! They're from totally different cultures! How could they possibly get together?!?