The first full trailer for Pete Docter's Soul fleshes out the film's story. Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) is a middle school music teacher hoping to make it big as a jazz musician. On the same day as he nails a crucial audition and seems on the precipice of achieving his lifelong dream, he stumbles into an open manhole to his apparent death. Joe then becomes a multicolored blob in some purgatorial void.

He escapes the crowded on-ramp to a bodiless afterlife of what might be eternal bliss, and instead falls again into a different void, but this one has more natural light -- and pizza. It's here Joe learns he's been reduced to a soul and learns about the You Seminar, the place where new souls mature until they're ready to be placed in the body of a human baby on Earth.

There are some superficial similarities to previous Pixar plots, themes and visual styles. Onward toyed with the idea of death, and the separation of a person from their body. Coco romped around the afterlife, too. But the biggest inspiration seems to be Inside Out, especially since both films are from Docter. Soul's aesthetic is remarkably similar to Inside Out's, from the kawaii-cute, borderless depictions of the souls themselves, to the abstract, almost mid-century illustration of the surreal setting. They've also swapped out Amy Poehler for her friend and sometimes-collaborator Tina Fey, who plays potential human soul number 22.

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Amy Poehler is the team leader in "Inside Out."

Some of the similarities are of more consequence. Just as most of Inside Out takes place in the imagined inner workings of Riley's brain, most of Soul is set in "The Great Before," And just as opposites Joy and Sadness team up to defeat pubescent ennui, Joe and 22 will, despite their differences, buddy up and embark on what's sure to be a zany quest of self-discovery.

However, the obvious difference between the two films is not the gender or race of the main character, but the age. Inside Out is all about the evolution that happens as one grows from a kid into an adult. Joy thinks that, to help Riley stay happy, she needs to inject her sunny, yellow disposition into every single one of the girl's thoughts and feelings. In truth, she's as much of an antagonist as Inside Out has; she's the one getting in the way of Riley's growth. Only when Sadness and Joy touch memories together does Riley become self-aware and self-confident enough to speak openly to her parents about those emotions. Kids probably enjoyed the bright colors and snarky humor; their parents cried with nostalgia for a time when things were more colorful and fancy free.

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Adults won't have to reminisce to identify with Soul. Like Up, it adopts the perspective of an adult, this time in middle age instead of his golden years. From the trailer, we can see that Joe will have two (perhaps cross) purposes. He'll have to teach 22, who doesn't want to become human, how wonderful life is, even when it isn't. The premise of Soul is that Joe was unhappy being only a band teacher, but in describing the glory of pizza, and of the myriad meaningful experiences he had on Earth, he'll seemingly come to terms with his life and find value in it, a theme seemingly more likely to resonate with an older audience.

Directed by Pete Docter and Kemp Powers, Soul stars Tina Fey, Jamie Foxx, John Ratzenberger, Daveed Diggs, Phylicia Rashad and Ahmir-Khalib Thompson. The film hits theaters June 19.

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