Luca has an IQ Score of 128/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.
Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Enrico Casarosa's Pixar feature set on the Italian Riviera that the studio's marketing undersold as a buddy story. The sea-monsters-as-allegory framing is left open enough that queer-coded, immigrant-coded, and neurodivergent-coded readings all sit comfortably without the film forcing any of them.
The Vespa dream as a cognitive engine the protagonist actually pursues is rare child-animation work.
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Luca scored 128/200 (Competent tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/luca/
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