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.

"Elio," in theaters Friday, is another of Pixar's seamless combination of engaging story with deep, resonant themes.