Pooh's Adventures of Coco is another upcoming Winnie the Pooh/Pixar crossover film planned to be made by Yakko Warner. As of now, it is unknown when the film will be made, although it is expected to be a part of a triple feature with Winnie the Pooh and The Book of Life and Pooh and Ash's Adventures of Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico.
Plot[]
The Rivera family history is told, explaining that its matriarch Imelda was the wife of a musician who left her and her daughter Coco to pursue a career in music. To support both of them, she turned to shoemaking which became the family business, and began a tradition which to this day bans music in the Riveras. Her great-great-grandson, 12-year-old Miguel, lives with Coco, who is his elderly great-grandmother, and the rest of her descendants in the small, fictional Mexican village of Santa Cecilia. He secretly dreams of becoming a musician like his idol, the late Ernesto de la Cruz, a popular singer and film star who died in a performance when a stage worker accidentally dropped a giant bell on him. Miguel keeps a secret hideout with many memorabilia from de la Cruz and he is everyday discouraged by his family about becoming a musician. When Miguel tries to enter a talent show for the Day of the Dead, his Abuelita destroys his guitar when he tried to convince her to see him play. With his dream crushed, Miguel runs off to the talent show to perform anyway. While finding a guitar to use, Miguel then discovers something hidden in the photo of Imelda – taken with her husband and an infant Coco – at the center of the family ofrenda: her husband (whose face is ripped out) was holding the guitar famously used by Ernesto.
Concluding that he is Ernesto's great-great-grandson, Miguel is emboldened to steal the musician's guitar from his mausoleum to use in the show, but in doing so, he plays a magic chord and finds that he is no longer visible or tangible to living people (only to Dante, a street dog he has befriended). Instead, he can see his skeletal dead relatives, who are visiting the Land of the Living on this holiday, and they can see him. They believe this is related to Imelda's inability to cross the bridge to the world of the living, and take Miguel to the Land of the Dead to solve the puzzle.
They learn that Imelda cannot cross because Miguel removed her portrait from the ofrenda. Furthermore, Miguel has to be restored to the Land of the Living before sunrise, or he will become one of the dead. The curse from the Riveras, which sent him to this plane of existence, can be undone by the blessing of a family member such as Imelda; she gave Miguel her blessing with the condition of abandon his musical ambitions. Just as he received the blessing, Miguel disobeyed the condition and was sent back with Imelda, which demands him to accept her conditions, but Miguel refuses and escapes to search for Ernesto, figuring he can get a blessing from that ancestor with no such conditions.
Miguel encounters Héctor, a down-on-his-luck skeleton who says he once played with Ernesto and died eating a chorizo (Mexican-style sausage), and offers to take Miguel to him, in exchange for a favor of putting his picture on an ofrenda so he can cross the flower bridge to see his daughter which he agrees. To make the plan work, Héctor paints Miguel's face to disguise as a skeleton and goes for a guitar from his friend Chicharrón who is fading because he has no remaining living relatives to remember him. Chicharrón disappears from the Land of the Dead soon after, and Miguel realizes Héctor is in danger of being forgotten by the living, and he wants Miguel to take his photo back to his world so Héctor can use it to visit his daughter one last time before she forgets him.
Imelda and the dead Riveras are determined to find Miguel so she sends her winged jaguar alebrije Pepita to find him. Miguel and Héctor manage to meet Frida Kahlo, who tells them they can get to meet Ernesto if they win a talent show to be his opening act. Héctor is able to get a guitar from one of his neighbors, none of whom really have family to go home to. Soon they arrive at the contest Miguel decides to play "Remember Me" but after seeing the amount of performers who are also singing that song, he decides on "Un Poco Loco". At first Miguel is nervous but he manages to win the contest, but then Pepita and the Riveras find him and he has to escape, and Héctor is now angry that Miguel lied to him that Ernesto was his only relative and he could have put his photo earlier. Just as Miguel is cornered by Imelda and Pepita, he argues that he won't accept her blessing if she won't let him do something he loves deeply and she wouldn't understand how being a musician is, but she proves him wrong by singing a ranchero ballad. She tells him that she did love music and whenever her husband played it was all she needed, but after they had Coco, their daughter became more important than music. Imelda again tries to manipulate with Miguel, who refuses and runs off, feeling that his family will never support his passion.
Although it turns out that Héctor is actually no longer on speaking terms with Ernesto, Miguel manages to get into the singer's lavish party with his help. Miguel introduces himself to Ernesto, who cheerfully welcomes him as his great-great-grandson. The two bond at the party and playing together, but just as Ernesto was about to give him his blessing, Héctor gets into the party and confronts Miguel, feeling betrayed that the boy has reneged on their deal. In the confrontation, Miguel points out a detail that prompts Héctor to realize that his death had not been accidental, with a scene from one of Ernesto's movies. Miguel figures out that Ernesto and Héctor used to be partners in the music industry, but Héctor wanted to go back to his family, but Ernesto was not a song writer and couldn’t work without his songs, so Ernesto did the unthinkable: he poisoned Héctor’s tequila. After Héctor's death, Ernesto used his songs – and his guitar – to become famous. Taking Héctor's portrait, Ernesto betrays Héctor and Miguel and puts them in a cenote pit.
In the cenote, Miguel tells Héctor he was right and Miguel was worried that he should've listened to his family and that he couldn't trust Ernesto, but as Héctor starts to fade, he tells Miguel that Coco is starting to forget him. Miguel shows the picture he took from the ofrenda, and the two realize that Miguel's great-great-grandfather is Héctor. Upon knowing that Coco is dying, Héctor will fade if she dies, as she is the only living relative that still remembers him, as he also told Miguel that he wrote the song Remember Me not for the world, but for Coco. With the help of Pepita and Dante, who turns out to be a spirit guide, Imelda and the other dead Riveras find them. Although Miguel explains the circumstances of Héctor's death, Imelda still won't forgive him but agrees to help save Héctor. To retrieve Héctor's portrait from Ernesto, they infiltrate his sunrise concert with the aid of Frida. The plan fails when Ernesto recognizes them and tries to steal the picture while he sings "La Llorona" with Imelda, but Ernesto is exposed to his fans as a fraud, thief, traitor, and murderer, when the family secretly broadcasts his true colors to the audience and the orchestra (including their conductor), and is knocked into the air by Pepita, and gets crushed by a bell from a bell tower, echoing his first death.
As the sun rises, Héctor begins to disappear. To save him, Imelda blesses Miguel without conditions, and he rushes to Coco's side. After failing to help Mamá Coco remember, a tearful Miguel is comforted by Luisa and Enrique, consoling that they are together now. Using Héctor's old guitar, Miguel sings "Remember Me", a song that Héctor used to sing to Coco during her childhood, which sparks her memory and revitalizes her. She retrieves from a bundle of mementos the missing part of the photo from the ofrenda, with Héctor's face. With Coco's support, Miguel's family reconciles with him and accept music into their household.
One year later, Miguel proudly presents the family ofrenda – which now features Héctor and a photo of the recently-deceased Coco – to his new baby sister (who's named after Coco). Miguel's revelations about Ernesto have left him to be condemned by the world of the living, who now honor Héctor in his place and his legacy. In the Land of the Dead, Héctor and Imelda reunite with Coco, then cross the bridge to see their living family, including Miguel, who sings and plays the guitar with his cousins who also became musicians for the living and deceased Riveras.
Trivia[]
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Plankton, Man Ray, the Dirty Bubble, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, King Goobot, Ooblar, Professor Calamitus, Beautiful Gorgeous, Ratigan, Fidget, The Horned King, Creeper, Makunga, Dr. Blowhole, One-Eyed Sally and Blather, the Predator, King Goobot, Ooblar, Father, the Delightful Children from Down the Lane, Makucha and his army, Drake, Drago Bludvist, Badalf the Wicked Wizard, Kurumi Tokisaki, Captain Gutt, Flynn, Squint, Raz, Silas, Gupta, Dobson, Heather (from Total Drama), Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Nigel, Gabi, Tzekel-Kan, Scarlet Overkill, Herb Overkill, the Vicious 6 (now, presumably, the Vicious 5), Vector, El Macho, Balthazar Bratt, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote, Chakal and his henchmen (from The Book of Life), Bonnie Bones, Sir Butterscotch, and Pepito (from Santiago of the Seas), El Maléfico (from ¡Mucha Lucha!: The Return of El Maléfico), Revolta and her minions, Revolta's kids (fan-made villain characters), Syndrome, The Underminer, and Evelyn Deavor (aka Screenslaver) will guest star in this film.
- The Winnie the Pooh series, The Little Mermaid, 101 Dalmatians, Oliver & Company, The Lion King, The Emperor's New Groove, Tarzan, The Princess and the Frog, Aladdin, Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Brave, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Zootopia, Coco, etc. were all made by Disney.
- Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Brave, and Coco were also made by Pixar.
- The Jurassic World trilogy, Zootopia, and Coco all featured music scores composed by Michael Giacchino.
- Both Winnie the Pooh and Coco featured songs composed by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.