It wouldn't be a Pixar film, though, if our pre-teen
protagonist weren't also a
rule -
breaking scamp, so against the strictest orders of his guitar - smashing granny (Renee Victor), he sets about entering the town's annual Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) talent show.
Unfortunately, writers get so many stupid so - called
rules about adverb use, «show, don't tell», proactive
protagonists, character change, never using prologues and flashbacks, and so on rammed down their throats until, like young recruits at army boot camp, they
break and conform.