Luca (2021 film)

Luca is a 2021 American computer-animated coming-of-age fantasy film produced by, for distribution by. The film stars the voices of, , , and Saverio Raimondo. It was released on Disney+ and in certain theaters on June 18, 2021 and then DVD and Blu-ray Disc on August 3, 2021. Luca was later re-released in theaters on March 22, 2024, paired with a short film, For the Birds which was first shown in 2001 alongside Monsters, Inc..
 * Directed by Enrico Casarosa. Written by Casarosa, Jesse Andrews, and Simon Stephenson.

Luca Paguro

 * AAAAAHHHHH!!!! Fish out of the barn! Fish out of the barn! No, no, no! Mom's gonna kill me!
 * Mother of pearl.
 * Silenzo, Bruno!
 * I never go anywhere, I just dream about it.
 * Vespa is freedom.
 * SEA MONSTER!!!

Alberto Scorfano

 * Everything good is above the surface.
 * Rules are for rule people.
 * You just sit on it and it takes you wherever you want to go… in the whole stinkin' world.
 * You and me? We can do anything.

Giulia Marcovaldo

 * We underdogs have to look out for each other, right?
 * Underdogs, you know, kids who are different, dress weird or are a little sweatier than average.

Massimo

 * They're not sea monsters, they're Luca... and Alberto.
 * Where did you boys say you were from?

Other

 * Ercole Visconti: You should've left when I told you. Now, I GOTTA KILL SOME SEA MONSTERS!!! [laughs evilly]


 * Daniela Paguro: I know you and I know what's best for you!

Dialogue

 * Daniela Paguro: Luca! Where have you been?
 * Luca: Uh…. Don’t say surface. Don’t say surface.

[Luca claps his hand over mouth]
 * Daniela Paguro: What did you just say?
 * Lorenso Paguro: What wrong with his foot?

[Luca looks down, one of his foot is still a human foot and he screams in horror]
 * Daniela Paguro: Luca.

[Luca stops his nightmare]
 * Daniela Paguro: Gonna tell us where you were?
 * Luca: Uh….

[Grandma comes to the rescue]
 * Grandma: It’s my fault. I sent him to look for sea cucumbers.
 * Luca: Right. Sorry, Grandma, I couldn’t find them.
 * Daniela Paguro: Mom, his life is maybe a little more important than your snacks.

[Gramdma shrugs. The heat is off Luca.]
 * Luca: Thank you.


 * Alberto: [to Giulia, over his growing jealousy of Luca spending more time with Giulia and Luca possibly going to school with her] Uh, Giulia, your school. Does it take all kinds of people? I mean, what if some of them were not human?
 * Luca: Alberto…
 * Alberto:    What if some were—oh, I don’t know…sea monsters?
 * Giulia:    Sea monsters?
 * Alberto:    I doubt your school would even accept sea monsters, right?
 * Luca:   [laughs nervously] [angrily] Ah, that’s a weird joke, Alberto.
 * Alberto:   Yeah, I know.   It’s kinda hard to imagine.    So, let me just show you!  [he jumps in the water]
 * Luca: No!
 * Giulia:  [to Alberto] Come on.
 * Luca: Giulia, wait!
 * Giulia: We don’t have time to goof around. [Alberto, now in sea monster form, rises out of the water, looking silhouetted with the sunset in a crouched, intimidating position. Giulia whimpers in fear] Help! Don’t hurt us!
 * Alberto: [to Luca] See? I knew this would happen…
 * Luca: [pointing at Alberto] SEA MONSTER! [Alberto gasps with a heartbroken and betrayed expression]


 * Luca:  [At Alberto’s tower, he asks what the markings on the wall mean] Alberto? What are those marks on the wall?   Tell me what they mean.
 * Alberto:    [sighs] I started when my dad left.
 * Luca:   You were living here alone for that many days?
 * Alberto: [sniffles] I just stopped counting after a while. He said I was old enough to be on my own. I just thought that… [sighs] …maybe he’d change his mind.  Honestly, though, I get it.   He’s better off without me. You are, too.
 * Luca:   That’s not true.
 * Alberto: Yes, it is. You’re not like me. You’re the good kid. [voice breaking] And I’m just the kid that ruins everything.
 * Luca: Silenzio, Bruno. That’s just the dumb voice in your head. You taught me that. And getting a Vespa? Seeing the world…
 * Alberto: Just let it go, okay? Look, you and I should have never been friends in the first place.
 * Luca: Don’t say that. Alberto—
 * Alberto: Get out of here! I’m not going to tell you again.
 * Luca: Okay, I’ll go. I’ll go win the race.
 * Alberto: What?
 * Luca: Yeah. Yeah! And then the Vespa will be ours! And we’ll ride away together!
 * Alberto: Luca, that’s crazy.
 * Luca: Well, maybe I’m crazy. Take me, gravity! [jumps off the tower]
 * Alberto: Luca, what are you doing?!
 * Luca: I’m okay. I’ll be back tomorrow. I’m gonna fix this!


 * Luca: I can't do it without you.
 * Alberto: But you're never without me. The next time that you jump off the cliff, or tell bruno to quit bothering you, that's me.
 * Luca: But how am I going to know you're okay?
 * Alberto:  [hugs him] You got me off the island, Luca. I'm okay.


 * [In a post-credit scene, a ball of light from a figure's head floats through darkness. The light shines brighter on the figure. It's Ugo, swimming backwards]
 * Ugo Paguro: [closing lines] Some people think I'm mad to live in the deep. I think they're the ones, who are mad, not me, the one who's mad, it's them. It's a nice life. A simple life. It's away from the hustle and bustle, and all the stuff that you don't want. [eats a bit of food] Mmm! Whale carcass. Anyway, you're gonna have fun. You get to hear me talk. I can talk without stopping, sometimes for, maybe, 12 hours, and you get to listen, so you're lucky. [One of Luca's fish faces him] Well done.
 * [The fish swims away sideways]

Related quotes

 * I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.
 * George W. Bush, referring to a widely reported dispute in the Klamath region of Oregon between farmers with irrigation rights and Native Americans with fishing rights, 29 September 2000.

Cast

 * Jacob Tremblay — Luca Paguro
 * Jack Dylan Grazer — Alberto Scorfano
 * Emma J. Berman — Giulia Marcovaldo
 * Saverio Raimondo — Ercole Visconti
 * Maya Rudolph — Daniela Paguro
 * Marco Barricelli — Massimo Marcovaldo
 * James Christopher Gaffigan — Lorenzo Paguro
 * Peter Sohn — Ciccio
 * Lorenzo Crisci — Guido
 * Marina Massironi — Mrs. Marsigliese
 * Sandy Martin — Grandma Paguro
 * Sacha Baron Cohen — Ugo Paguro
 * James Pirri — Mr. Branzino