Review: A sunny metaphysical soup in Pixar's 'Soul' The character Joe Gardner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, left, and Dorothea Williams, voiced by Angela Bassett, in a scene from the animated film 'Soul.' (Disney Pixar via AP) The character Joe Gardner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, in a scene from the animated film 'Soul.' (Disney Pixar via AP) Published January 19. 2021 7:12AM By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit Pete Docter's “Soul” features stairway-to-heaven visions of the afterlife, a pre-birth “before” realm where souls are glowing turquoise orbs and an in-between spiritual realm trafficked by some kind of psychedelic pirate. And yet, kind of magically, it's about “just regular old living.”