It’s borderline impossible — for this writer, at least — not to compare Joseph Kosinski’s latest film to Top Gun: Maverick. The latter might just be the best action film of the decade, equal parts vanity project for its star Tom Cruise and an incubator for the next generation of action stars. Following that perfect storm of action, emotion, and exhilaration is not a task for the faint of heart, but Kosinski makes an admirable attempt with F1 (or F1: The Movie). In some ways, it’s a leaner, meaner answer to all the sappy patriotism of Top Gun, a pivot that largely works in its favor. No matter how fast it zips through its underdog story, however, it can’t quite escape the shadow of its predecessor.

Of course, judging one film on the merits of another isn’t exactly fair — so let’s get the similarities out of the way first. F1 is fortunately a little bit more than just “Top Gun on wheels,” though Formula One does lend itself to allusions of warfare easily enough. Decisions are boiled down to the blink of an eye, and the slightest miscalculation could cost you your life.

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Are we alone in the universe? It’s a big question that many of our greatest scientists, philosophers, and thinkers have pondered, so naturally it’s one that Pixar’s latest animated feature tries to unpack. And though Elio is a wild space adventure jam-packed with all sorts of whimsical alien creatures, its answer to that question is surprisingly small and intimate. Though, if you’ve seen any Pixar movie, it’s probably not that surprising.

Elio follows Elio Solis (newcomer Yonas Kibreab), an 11-year-old boy who, after losing his parents, goes to live with his aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña) on the military base where she works as a space debris analyst. Feeling alone and unloved, he develops a fascination with aliens after stumbling into the base’s planetarium, where he’s instantly awed by the wonders of the cosmos. Elio becomes obsessed with the idea of being abducted by aliens: he turns his wall into a murder-board of UFO sightings, he starts tinkering with a ham radio to try to catch signals from the deep reaches of space, and he goes to the nearby beach every day, laying on the sand surrounded by the message “Aliens! Abduct Me!!”

Like Disney’s recent space adventure movie Strange World, Elio is a bit of a pastiche — dashes of Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Arrival can be seen all over this film. But unlike Strange World, which sometimes felt like it was caught up in the grander ideas and more ambitious concepts of its story, Elio feels strangely down-to-earth. Its strongest themes are its simplest ones: the idea of feeling like a perennial outsider, and wanting to escape a world that doesn’t want you.