Is there no Encanto thread?!

[Anonymous]

I thought it was good. I didn't cry or anything (I bawled my eyes out during Coco but I was pregnant at the time). The animation was gorgeous.

I was kind of shocked it was Stephanie Beatriz when I looked it up. I know her normal speaking voice is nothing like Rosa from Brooklyn 99, but still, very different. She's got range.

[Anonymous]

I’m tired of Lin-Manuel Miranda songs. Formulaic. Felt pretty meh about the movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saw it for the second time today and loved it even more. The music, animation, and story are all fantastic. Loved all the positive messages, like we shouldn't have to be strong or perfect all the time.

***Spoiler alert***

But omg, the scene where it shows Abuela & her husband fleeing with their babies, and then when he sacrificed himself to save his family....I was ugly crying so hard. Like, loud, audible sobs. Almost as bad with the raccoon short before the movie, that had tears streaming down my face. Disney's hitting hard with the emotion.

Are you me? I was ugly crying too. It was very emotional short and the movie. That movie was fantastic and so well done. It was also a great presentation of Latinos!

[Anonymous]

I enjoyed the music and animation but thought the story was boring.

[Anonymous]

Im surprised at the positive responses. We didn’t care for the movie at all.

[Anonymous]

We watched it on Christmas Eve and the kids have all seen it at least three more times since then. I cried at the very end, when they sing about how brave Mirabel has been. It’s such a great movie.

The song Surface Pressure hits so close to home for me as the older sister with a mostly dysfunctional family. In talking with other friends with similar-aged kids who have also seen it, many of the moms feel the same. I read that Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote it for his older sister, and I’m grateful to him for capturing the feeling so well.

[Anonymous]

We watched the movie the day it came out and absolutely loved it! The soundtrack is so, so good!
Is the scene where Abuela and her husband flee tied to a real event in Colombia’s history? I feel like there were similarities to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. I think I would appreciate the amazing movie and book even more if I knew more about this country’s history.

[Anonymous]

I loved it and my kids loved it too. I also cried like a baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We watched the movie the day it came out and absolutely loved it! The soundtrack is so, so good!
Is the scene where Abuela and her husband flee tied to a real event in Colombia’s history? I feel like there were similarities to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. I think I would appreciate the amazing movie and book even more if I knew more about this country’s history.

Per Wikipedia the Thousands Day War.

[Anonymous]

It was sweet and enjoyable, but not particularly memorable. I felt like some of the animation was a little too good--the realistic skin textures with the animated faces was a little creepy.

[Anonymous]

My 9 y/o conned 3 different family members into taking her to see it in the theater. My mom was one of them and panned it. But I can’t play anything at home except the soundtrack.

[Anonymous]

Loved it - I didn’t think any of the songs were particularly memorable, but then I found myself humming “Welcome to the Family Madrigal”. And I’ve pretty much been playing the soundtrack on repeat since.

It’s a very different movie, but the more I sit with it the more powerful it seems to me.

This review was really interesting to me as a person who knows less than nothing about Colombian history:

https://www.polygon.com/22851932/encanto-disney-latine-colombia-in-movies

“After arguing throughout the whole movie about how to save the house and who’s to blame for its impending destruction, the Madrigals ultimately have to accept that their miracle wasn’t the magical house, or their magical gifts. In fact, the miracle is that after all these years, the family has somehow figured out how to thrive in the face of tragedy.”

[Anonymous]

Are all of you people who literally bawled...okay? That's not a normal reaction to an animated film. There was no scene that was *that* tragic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are all of you people who literally bawled...okay? That's not a normal reaction to an animated film. There was no scene that was *that* tragic.

Did you really just drop into a thread discussing a movie in order to do a drive-by sneer at people who found it moving?

That’s not a normal reaction to other people being emotionally affected by something that doesn’t personally affect you. You sound kind of sociopathic.

[Anonymous]

Some people were saying they were triggered by the family dynamics, and treatment of the son and granddaughter by the abuela.