EMERYVILLE, CA -- Disney and Pixar's "Elio" is about a lonely kid whose dreams of adventures in outer space come true when he's beamed up to the "communiverse," a sort of United Nations for aliens.

We were shown 25 minutes of the movie in four separate sections. The first segment was the very beginning of Elio, which opens on our main character, an 11-year-old boy with the titular name who has ...