Force (2021 film)

Force is an upcoming 2021 American computer-animated fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Pete Docter and co-directed by Kent McKlein and Kevin Temmer, the film stars the voices of Kent McKlein, Walter Gyver, Joseph Kirbakle, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kevin Silva. The story follows four of the main forces of the world who team up to stop an evil multidimensional entity from rewriting the universe.

Force premiered at the El Kadsre Film Festival on December 12, 2020. Originally intended to have a solo theatrical release in December 2020, the film will instead be released on Disney+ and in theatres simultaneously on February 18, 2021.

Synopsis
"Gravity, Electromagnetism, Weak, and Strong aren't feeling so fundamental doing their thankless jobs, but when a multidimensional being threatens to rewrite the universe, they must venture across time and space to save reality itself."

- Kevin Temmer

Plot
Told through a perspective of an angel in The Haven (Heaven), the film begins in another dimension where four of the main forces, Gravity, Electromagnetism, Weak, and Strong have jobs providing forces to Earth in-person while invisible to the rest of Earth. While they do a great (and tiresome) job, they aren’t thanked for their duties and aren’t allowed to visit Heaven in human bodies, as they are against The Lord (God)’s rules. After a long day of providing forces around the world, the four forces plan a “day off” from their duties and visit Heaven. They begin their plan by activating the “Emergency Time Freeze” button while The Lord is asleep, which freezes time on Earth for 24 hours and use human disguise robots used by muses who come down to Earth, in order to visit The Haven. They go by the names, “Xavier” (Gravity), “Michael” (Electromagnetism), “Kevin” (Weak), and “Strongasi The Great” (Strong), in order to have access to The Haven.

Now arriving, they get a tour of The Haven, where they enter an endless neighborhood filled with closet-sized doors leading to people’s, “Personal Havens”, endless personalized reality rooms that are bigger on the inside. Upon visiting, they encounter Sharlene Valencia, a Filipino-American teenager who unexpectedly passed away at age 17 on the day before her birthday. Her personal haven is an endless shopping mall where people come to visit often. Because of her irritable but still kind personality, the main forces instantly befriend her. Meanwhile, a mysterious shape-shifting entity, who goes by the name, Malum, rises from a cloud of smoke, and traps The Lord into a prison invisible to everyone and banishes it to a different time. Later, Malum leaves the room at a different time. Back at the mall, when the forces and Valencia were about to head into an arcade, it mysteriously disappears, along with Valencia’s memories of what an arcade is. Realizing something is wrong, they go back to the office immediately to see what’s wrong.

Upon their arrival back into their office, they discover that The Lord has been captured, and Malum plans to rewrite the universe in his own vision, and he begins by trying to erase Gravity’s discovery. Realizing what the four need to do, they use a time machine to follow Malum in order to stop his plan from carrying on. They arrive in the year 1687, in Lincolnshire, England, where Gravity was first discovered by Issac Newton. As Issac Newton is a “Force Father”, he and his descendants can see the four forces. When Malum threatens to take away the apple that fell on Isaac Newton in order to erase Gravity from existence, Electromagnetism puts a piece of metal stuck to glue in order to prevent his attack. Isaac witnesses this event and questions the four forces of what's going on. Gravity explains that Malum is trying to erase him from the universe, along with other important events. Malum fights back and takes away the apple, causing Gravity to slowly fade from existence. Not willing to give up, the two continue to follow Malum into different times, including the other three forces’ discoveries.

Finally arriving sometime before the Big Bang begins, they encounter Malum, and begin battling each other, with Malum taking different forms in order to overpower the four. Just when they’re about to be defeated and erased from existence, an encouraging quote from Valencia during their time in her personal haven, makes then finally overpower Malum and defeat him once and for all, freeing The Lord when he begins to start the Big Bang, and undoing all the changes Malum has done.

Finally heading back into their offices to apologize to the modern-day Lord, he tells them that since he stopped Malum and saved the universe, they are letting them stay in The Haven with Valencia due to a new machine that can do all their assigned jobs for them, and he finally thanks them. The four forces are finally happy that they’re thanked and get to stay with Valencia, although they do visit Earth sometimes. They finally walk into the portal to The Haven and begin talking about what they’re going to do when they arrive as permanent residents.

In a post-credits scene, The Lord is seen reading a book, when he notices the audience and tells them that the movie is over, breaking the fourth wall.

Voice cast

 * Kent McKlein as Gravity
 * Walter Gyver as Electromagnetism
 * Joseph Kirbakle as Weak
 * Leonardo DiCaprio as Strong
 * Kevin Silva as Malum, a multidimensional shapeshifting entity bent on taking over the universe and rewriting it in his own vision