Encanto Review

 

Year: 2021

Rating: PG

Run Time: 1 hr 42 Min

Where I Watched: Disney Plus

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Rating: 7.2/10 (IMDb)

Staring: Stephanie Beatriz, Maria Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo, Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Carolina Gaitan, Diane Guerrero

Directed by: Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith

Writers: Charise Castro Smith, Jared Bush, Byron Howard

Summary:

This follows the conflict that surrounded Pedro and Alma, who were a young married couple who were fleeing their home village with their young triplets named Julieta, Pepa, and Bruno. When the attackers kill Pedro, Alma’s candle magically finds a way to repels the attackers.

Now fifty years later, a new village thrives under the protection of the candle. And each descendant gets a gift as young as five to help serve the village and those who live there. However, a decade earlier, Bruno disappeared for scapegoating his gift of seeing the future.
This movie timeline follows 15 year old Mirabel who mysteriously received no gift. On the evening that Antonio receives his gift, Mirabel starts finding cracks in the house. But no one believes that the house is starting to fall apart. When she finds out that Bruno’s last vision before disappearing involves her somehow, she seeks out on a mission to figure out exactly what this vision is and how she can save her family.

But when plan a of apologizing to her sister doesn’t work, Mirabel snaps at Alma because of not being good enough along with being the reason of all of the families misfortune. So Mirabel runs away for several hours only to be found by Alma. When Alma explains house Pedro dies and sees how she ignored her expectations (in order to preserve magic) where harming the family the two rekindle the relationship. They (along with Bruno, the family and the rest of the village) rebuild the house. Giving the family back their gifts.

Thoughts:

I adored this movie. I don’t know what took me so long to watch this movie. Maybe it is like books and I was just waiting for the hype to go down till I watched it. And I get it now. I get why this movie was so hyped from the very beginning. And I wont be sorry if this movie becomes my personality this summer.

The songs were catchy and now I understand why we don’t talk about Bruno (if you seen the movie then you know). I loved the story and the characters in this movie. I think that this is something that you can watch with the whole family or alone.

I will say that some tears were shed during this movie. So if you haven’t watched it yet, be prepared to go in with some tears. I wasn’t expecting to cry (or have a few tears escape) but this was a movie that I am glad that some tears escaped for.

Would I Recommend:

For families? Yes. Because this is perfect if you want to have a family friendly movie night. I would recommend this movie to *almost* anyone who was looking for a new movie. 

Rating:

4.75 out of 5 stars