Helium vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.3/10 for Helium). Helium is the shorter watch at 23m compared with 1h 41m. Helium is the older of the two (2014 against 2020). Both are drama, family movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Helium
Soul| Helium | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.3/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2014 | 2020 |
| Length | 23m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Drama, Family | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Anders Walter | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Casper Crump, Marijana Janković, Pelle Falk Krusbæk | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Helium
A young boy, Alfred, is dying, but through the stories about Helium, a magical fantasy world, told by the hospital's eccentric janitor, Enzo, Alfred regains the joy and happiness of his life, and finds a safe haven away from daily life.
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…