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What's he doing?Why isn't he playing? Bring backthe singing dogs!

Coco • 2017
What's he doing?Why isn't he playing? Bring backthe singing dogs!

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What's he doing Why isn't he playing
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Bring back the singing dogs
Available in 3 languages
Duration
7 seconds
Views
620
Timestamp in Movie
00:51:01
Uploaded
Jan 31, 2026
Genres
animation, adventure, comedy
Production
Pixar,Walt Disney Pictures

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Movie Summary

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
And we both loved son jarocho music, this kind of Spanish Afro-Caribbean style, and it really lent itself to this upbeat midpoint number that Miguel and Héctor could perform together. - Coco 00:15
And we both loved son jarocho music, this kind of Spanish...
Que bien! - Coco 00:06
Que bien!
♪ What color is the sky? - Coco 00:37
♪ What color is the sky?
I always had to put it through the filter of Miguel thinks this is a de la Cruz song, but it's actually a Héctor song. - Coco 00:08
I always had to put it through the filter of Miguel thinks...
This one, I always imagined Héctor wrote the lyrics about Imelda, that when you love someone, sometimes they drive you a little crazy, and vice versa. - Coco 00:10
This one, I always imagined Héctor wrote the lyrics about...
UNKRICH: One of the great things that this led to is we saw the potential to really have fun with the skeleton animation on Héctor. - Coco 00:09
UNKRICH: One of the great things that this led to is we saw...
Dovi Anderson had done a lot of early tests, really inventive, creative ways of breaking Héctor up, and so we gave him a lot of this initial animation of Héctor kind of pulling himself apart and being really creative in the use of his body. - Coco 00:18
Dovi Anderson had done a lot of early tests, really...
Not bad for a dead guy! - Coco 00:07
Not bad for a dead guy!
Speaking of the performing, when Héctor comes out on stage and starts doing this elaborate footwork, we actually had the musicians that we worked with down in Mexico, Grupo Mono Bianco, one of the members did this footwork for us to the music, and we vide - Coco 00:19
Speaking of the performing, when Héctor comes out on stage...
He's close! - Coco 00:18
He's close!
MOLINA: I think later on, the sound design guys also added some kind of bone elements to it, to give it that rhythm and that physicality that Héctor would have. - Coco 00:11
MOLINA: I think later on, the sound design guys also added...
ANDERSON: Oh, right here, you're about to see just a little bit of animation for Dante, his tongue flip out and wrap around his mouth, and his tongue is almost an entirely other character. - Coco 00:10
ANDERSON: Oh, right here, you're about to see just a...
We're looking for a living kid. - Coco 00:13
We're looking for a living kid.
And what we found out about Xolo dogs is that they often lose or never had their back teeth, and their tongues naturally flop out. - Coco 00:09
And what we found out about Xolo dogs is that they often...
And so we thought that would be a really fun and true thing to incorporate into Dante's character. - Coco 00:07
And so we thought that would be a really fun and true thing...
UNKRICH: There's actually a statue of dead de la Cruz, skeletal de la Cruz in the Plaza there, but we ended up not showcasing it because I wanted to hold off as long as possible actually seeing de la Cruz in his skeletal form. - Coco 00:16
UNKRICH: There's actually a statue of dead de la Cruz,...
So, in some of the signs and things, we either kept him in silhouette, or sometimes used the living version of de la Cruz in posters, just so it would have the most impact when Miguel finally got to his house, and he turned around for the first time, and - Coco 00:16
So, in some of the signs and things, we either kept him in...
I am trying to save your life - Coco 00:13
I am trying to save your life
MOLINA: Originally, it was on stage while they were singing, when Héctor figured out that Miguel had lied to him. - Coco 00:07
MOLINA: Originally, it was on stage while they were singing,...
And we thought it was funny that they're pretending to like each other, but they're driving each other crazy in the middle of a performance. - Coco 00:08
And we thought it was funny that they're pretending to...