Soul vs Waves '98
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.3/10 for Waves '98). Waves '98 is the shorter watch at 15m compared with 1h 41m. Waves '98 is the older of the two (2015 against 2020). Both are animation, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Soul
Waves '98| Soul | Waves '98 | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 6.3/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2015 |
| Length | 1h 41m | 15m |
| Genres | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy | Animation, Drama, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Pete Docter | Ely Dagher |
| Main cast | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett | Elie Bassila, Cherine Khoury |
Synopsis
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…
Waves '98
Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.