It would be easier to take the aforementioned 2010s-era Pixar sequel-saturation strategy in better humor if their recent “original” movies didn’t feel so compromised, as if there were suddenly a more stringent series of corporate demands to justify a theatrical release. (At least that’s my fan theory to explain why several of their more-or-less straight-to-streaming features far outclass the theatrical releases that would have had some overlap in production.) Elio was notoriously…

