If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our .Pixar’s new movie, , pushes the studio creatively beyond anything it’s attempted before. The premise — in which a middle-school band teacher with dreams of being a jazz musician dies moments after getting his big break with a musical legend, and goes on an existential adventure with a pre-human soul — is heady enough. But our hero, Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), is a Black man, the first such lead in a Pixar film.With studio stalwart Pete Docter (Inside Out, Up) at the helm, Soul is one of the most visually...…If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our .Pixar’s new movie, , pushes the studio creatively beyond anything it’s attempted before. The premise — in which a middle-school band teacher with dreams of being a jazz musician dies moments after getting his big break with a musical legend, and goes on an existential adventure with a pre-human soul — is heady enough. But our hero, Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), is a Black man, the first such lead in a Pixar film.With studio stalwart Pete Docter (Inside Out, Up) at the helm, Soul is one of the most visually...WW…