Genie vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.6/10 for Genie). Genie is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 1h 41m. Soul is the older of the two (2020 against 2023). Both are comedy, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Genie
Soul| Genie | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 33m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Fantasy | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Sam Boyd | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Paapa Essiedu, Alan Cumming, Marc Maron, Ellen Cleghorne, Melissa McCarthy | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Genie
Flora, a genie trapped for more than 2,000 years inside an antique jewelry box, is accidentally called to service by Bernard, whose life is unraveling around him.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…