Elio” isn’t up there with the animation house’s finest work — the glory days have been over for some time now — but it’s a fine, fizzy piece of family entertainment, overfamiliar in spots (if a story about multiple species of extraterrestrials can be called familiar) but just as overeager to please.

A lonely 11-year-old boy dreams of being abducted by aliens and winds up on a spaceship in Pixar's animated sci-fi comedy "Elio."

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Zoe Saldana feels like her new film "Elio," from Walt Disney's Pixar Animation Studios, is a story about the imperfect journey that parents and their children go through.