Encanto - Is It Good or Nah? (Disney Review)
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Bruno did not get the apology he deserved from EVERYONE.
He doesn't need it anymore, all he wants is to be a part of the family again, no ostracization, no weird looks. Yes, he deserved an apology, but after 12 years he doesn't care about that, just about his familys wellbeing, and that makes him a better character imo.
Yeah that's what kinda felt off for me about the movie. Abuela fully ostracised her son and to an extent her granddaughter, then just was like oh my bad guess that wasn't the right thing to do after all and everyone lived happily ever after. I can see Mirabel forgiving Abuela that easily but Bruno? Idk he deserved more than a kiss on the cheek. Him returning home after 12 years needed to be a bigger emotional impact then it was imo. Other than that I liked the movie
@afreen yeah thats the one part that felt the most off to me. Like my man did literally nothing wrong what do you have to apologize for
@afreen But i think he should apologize to the Pepa because he said it would cause a hurricane so he gave Pepa anxiety so...
@@jaimshae5538 actually bruno left on his own in fear that everyone would hate maribel and doesnt want her to go throught what he felt of being useless, if anything i dont think abuela knew for all anyone knew he left and betrayed them, abuela was probably devastated as the son she once held in her arms while seeing her husband brutally decapitated and slaughter, shes not a bad grandma she just wanted the best from everyone and put them under more than stress tha she should off but a whole town looks up to her, anything bad that happens would be blamed on her, she tries hard to make things better for her family
This movie’s moral was “The first step to breaking generational curses is by calling out your elders on their bullshit”
And the second step is their’s to take, because they need to realize the err of their ways and take steps to fix it, as well as apologizing for what they have done
Yeah the scene where Mirabel calls out Abuela was the most satisfying part of the movie for me. I completely understand where the Grandma is coming from, but that doesn't give her the right to blame Mirabel for the family problems and pressure everyone into perfection.
This is why the fight scene between them was my favorite (my sister thought I was weird for it when she asked me my favorite scene) because it’s the moment in the movie where things were actually going to start getting better for the Madrigals. After all, sometimes things go bad before they can get better.
I was soooo thrown when she not only called her out and stood for her family, but was blown away when Abuela admitted her mistake and APOLOGIZED like *bRO-*
In between steps 1&2 is talking and listening. A lot of talking and listening.
My favourite thing about this movie that my 10-year-old brother pointed out, is that Mirabel isn't jealous of her family. You can see how proud she is of their accomplishments, albeit slightly annoyed by Isabela's "perfection". But she never gets mad at her family for having gifts and her not having them. It's more-so that she feels like she's not part of the family because of it and that she herself isn't good enough. That's so amazingly refreshing to see. It's not jealousy but a feeling of not belonging and not being good enough.
Edit: Someone who replied to me brought up the word I was looking for. She's *envious*, not jealous. She wants a gift, but that envy isn't taken out on her loved ones who have them. She is envious because they're "good enough" and she wants to be "good enough" too, but she doesn't take that out on them. Thanks, DelphanGruss!
yeah im surprised its not pointed out more!!
Yeah. The whole sequence in the beginning with the little cousin’s coming of age ceremony really does a good job at showing how supportive Mirabel tries to be for her family, while also struggling with her own self-worth. She’s not angry or bitter at him for getting a special ability, but it still hurts.
i felt so hearbroken for her when they didn't even think to include her in the family picture at the beginning for the ceremony
She's envious, not jealous, yes.
Jealousy is the fear of losing something you have, envy is the desire to have something someone else has - she wants a gift, but she doesn't begrudge her family for having theirs.
O.o
I don’t think Antonio is talked about enough. They put so much character and dimension in a 5 year old and it blows my mind. The fact that Mirabel, the only family member who doesn’t put pressure on him is the only person that brings him comfort, is so telling to how broken the family is. Not even his mother is that warm and welcoming to him. The stuffed animal scene is my favorite scene in any Disney movie, ever
What stuffed animal scene?
@@Gadget-Walkmen Where they're under the bed and Mirabel gives him the stuffed tiger she made for him
@@laura-ni8ym oh yeah, that was nice.
their first scene together, she hypes him up for the gift, insisting it'll be awesome and it's impossible for him to not get one. That felt very reckless to me, since he very well could have not gotten one. She perpetuated the same problem as her family by insisting that it will work out and be great.
How did he have so much character and dimension? His only two traits were he was nervous about the ceromony and he loved his cousin
My favorite part about the movie is when the grandmother finally admits that she's why the family was broken, and Mirabel doesn't say "No, abuela, you didn't break the family." Cause she felt bad. She just didn't say anything because she knew it was the truth, and she was standing by what she said when confronting her abuela beforehand. I thought that was incredibly brave because it shows that you can forgive someone for their mistakes without forgetting all the pain their mistakes have caused. Mirabel and the rest of the family was willing to move on from the pain, but they remembered what that pain caused and use that to move forward without repeating the same mistakes.
I also noticed that! She didn’t refute it, she just led the family onto reconstruction, it was a nice touch
They learned thier lesson after wandavision
You also like Arcane I see
yeah!! mirabel doesn’t refute the fact that alma’s impossibly high expectations on everybody were what broke the family, but she does tell her that she appreciates her for all she’s done and all she’s been through to protect everyone. AND she tells her that they can still fix it. she’s never absolved of any blame, but she’s still seen as sympathetic and fixes her mistakes. it’s so refreshing to see, especially in a disney movie
Just watched it and during the scene, I was really hoping Mirabel didn’t say that. And was happy when she didn’t.
Can we just appreciate that Bruno broke the mold of “ lime green magic in a Disney movie means that you’re evil “ trope
I WAS LOOKING FOR A COMMENT LIKE THIS
Now it just means you ✨seem✨ evil.
@@Minceishere Which goes hand-in-hand with the issue he talks about, where everyone always interprets him as an evil scary guy who mischievously makes awful prophecies come true, when he's really just telling them stuff that may or may not happen and that he has no influence on.
You made me realise that they chose the color because of the trope and how everyone saw him as bad and evil. Until you see that hes good.
It's either green magic, cuz jealous/greed associated color, or red
I actually wish I hadn’t seen the trailers for Encanto because the trailers make it look like Mirabel has to go on this adventure to save the house and the magic, but in actuality it’s just people chilling in a magical house for 90 minutes. I loved that there weren’t any goofy comedic side characters (though Antonio’s animal friends, Bruno’s rats and those three kids from the village who would randomly pop up did get some laughs out of me), and I loved that while there were some comedic moments, it was more about the relationships the characters had with each other. This is EASILY Disney’s best original film since at least Moana. It would be the best since Tangled, but Zootopia exists
Honestly hard agree on that worry
I thought why on Earth would they take us away from the magical house when it seems like such an interesting setting.
Yeah same, I was surprised to find that those adventure visuals were just fantasy song sequences.
I realize about 50 minutes in there wasn't going to be an adventure and got real nervous because it was clearly gonna focus on OTHER THINGS and I am not emotionally equipped to deal with OTHER THINGS. So I cried.
It has some of the most misleading marketing I've seen in years. Of course, the idea of Mirabel going on an adventure like that does sound fun, but there was no reason for the studio higherups to lie about it like this lol
I thought the same thing too, until I saw that Isa and Louisa had their own songs too, and I got confused-
I think my favorite part of Encanto was that there were no *actual villians* . It was just people/charachers struggling and hurting in their own personal ways. Example would be Abuela's trauma reflecting on how she treats the people in her family but at the same time her actions are not justified. Bruno was never a bad guy, just the perception people had given to others about him made him seem like he was when he really wasn't.
the matriarch was definitely a villain imo. She manipulated and controlled the whole family, lied to their faces in front of the whole village, and sacrificed their happiness for stability. She is the villain who gets away with it by saying sorry at the end
@@jeepersmcgee3466 no but nice opinion
@@jeepersmcgee3466 No.
HOOOGGG RIDERRR
Sigh, can't really relate with this sentiment. Oh, I'm not arguing or anything. But one of my favorite parts of a movie is a good villain, fleshed out human villain.
I felt the animation of Encanto was on a whole other level. Literally felt like there was a camera implanted in the virtual world recording the characters in real time moving, while the camera moves along with the dancing and singing. The contrast and colours in this movie also felt exceptionally popping to me.
Even the details on their clothing. Like Mirable’s embroidery or Isabel’s ruffles. Like it was just so impressive to look at
Also the expressions and eye movements :'0
Wall-E did this 13 years beforehand.
if you're watching on a high def screen, you can literally see tiny hairs on the characters bodies. it's most obvious when there's light shining on the back of their necks. its insane.
Yes! I especially love the way the camera seems to float around during "We don't talk about Bruno", combined with the way the characters move it makes such an ominous yet incredibly fun sequence!
it was SO unbelievably refreshing to watch a movie where there isnt some twist villain or big bad corporation. Where it is entirely focused on the characters and the relationships between them.
the abuela is kind of the the twist villain if you think about it, she's just not that obvious. she's more human than a villain character but definitely one of the embodying antagonist
@@personallstrrcks I wouldn’t say that. I could tell Abuela was going to be the antagonist by comparing how she was at the prologue with young mirabel compared to how she acted towards her in the scenes of the first act. It’s obvious she was going to be the catalyst of the climax and main issue of the film so I wouldn’t say it was a twist at all
@@personallstrrcks I wouldn't call Abuela the villain
@@personallstrrcks Villain. No.
She was an unintentional villain. A grandparent that expected a bit much from her children and grandchildren.
She didn't mean anything bad, her prioirites were just a bit odd.
@@personallstrrcks I think the word you’re thinking of is antagonist. Not villain. The antagonist goes against the protagonist but that doesn’t make them evil. Sometimes they can even be right in some cases. So yes, Abuela Alma would fit into the antagonist role.
I think Encanto would benefit greatly from a Disney+ series like Tangled. Mirabel's cousins deserved their own song and a look at their own personal struggles with their gift too, especially Camilo and Dolores. I also would love to see how Bruno is adjusting to returning to the family and getting to know his nieces and nephews better, as well as the townspeople. Maybe a special on how Pepa and Julieta met their husbands? There's so much potential to explore this large family and their dynamics, as well as future generations of Madrigals since Dolores is marrying Mariano.
I absolutely agree omg!
I agree!!! I would love to see more of their family since each person was so unique and interesting
Spoilers: They could also develope the abuela "redemption".
I desperately want a series, even if it isn’t great, Camilo was my favourite character and he didn’t get enough screen time 😭😭
there was a Tangled series?
Personally, I loved that Encanto wasn’t this huge journey across the sea, or across the world to fix something. I LOVED that her whole journey was just to the extent of her town and home. The only thing I didn’t like really was the song under pressure, because it was the only song that put them in all different locations, when the rest are through the town and in the Casita. It’s just a bit of an immersion breaker. But the song itself is amazing.
Couldn't agree more! It's a very inviting movie!
I'd recently been complaining about movies and TV series not having to sit down and actually think of a plot that can be done on a limited set then saw this and it's just so important to have some stories told in a set area. It makes things feel closer to home and more personal.
For me I think the point of surface pressure being so out there is to really drive home how insanely pressured Luisa felt trying to meet expectations. Like if she didn't literally do the impossible (stop a ship from sinking, stop a tornado, etc) then she wasn't enough. Also interpreted it as Luisa having a vivid imagination and using really crazy analogies. Would make sense since i believe the concept art for her room had a secret door that leads to an imaginative theme park.
@@JesykaL perhaps, it just felt out of place for me. If they were gonna do that for Luisa it felt like they should have done it for everyone. But I don’t know that’s up for interpretation
I think the "Surface Pressure" location switches were supposed to be metaphorical...???
Disney is at a point where they can just put out anything and people will watch it. I'm glad that this movie is actually good.
Aren't they at this point since... the 90's I guess?
Its a really sad thing to think about.
and the soundtrack is really good tbh
Isn't Disney always like that?
@@tobigrantlbart yep
I think what seriously brought me to tears was not just that Mirabel didn't have her own Gift- by association, she didn't even have her own ROOM. She had to spend 15 years growing up in a NURSERY with no space to truly call her own.
I had to pause the film when she said 'with me in the nursery' because it just beggared belief and I needed to shout swear words at the screen. I spent so much time resenting Mirabel's family for how ostracised they made her. It was such a sad moment!
@@stephr2980 To play devil’s advocate
They weren’t the ones who would give her a room the house does that.
And her not being in the picture could just be because she didn’t go over to the area to take the picture she just stood where she was and no one noticed since the family is huge
@@Wildcard-Jack-47 yes but the family could have built another room or repurposed one, or partitioned the nursery. She's still in the shared nursery. There's only so much casita is responsible for here. Not once did anyone think well, miracle or not she's growing up and it would be nice to give her a space she can make her own regardless?? That's what angered me. I don't think the house not providing a miracle AND room for Mirabel means her parents couldn't even figure out a way to soften the blow and help her feel seen as an individual as simple as providing her with a room. There was a whole village of people they constantly helped, so surely if the family lacked building skills they could have asked the villagers.
@@stephr2980 if the building wouldn’t just make her a room why would they be able to build one it would just stop them it shows constantly that it can move them around so it’s not it’s defenseless
@@Wildcard-Jack-47 why would the house do that when it's shown to help Mirabel around all the time? But it does obey Abuela's commands as well. So it never occurred to Abuela to say 'Casita, gift or no gift, can you split the nursery to give Mirabel her own space at least?'. And Casita accommodated Bruno in its walls - he had his entire other room he made, while everyone thought he was gone. Yet the whole family couldn't come up with a 'room' for Mirabel. That still stinks.
You cant tell me “dont talk about bruno” was not an absolute banger. When they all sang together in the final part of it i was ascending
SEVEN FOOT FRAME RATS ALONG HIS BACK 😫
@@nat9049 WHEN HE CALLS YOUR NAME IT ALL FADES TO BLACK
@@cozmo_Comet YEAH, HE SEES YOUR DREAMS
@@blumenschweif AND FEASTS ON YOUR SCREAMS
@@searen111 WE DONT TALK ABOUT BRUNO NO NO NO
my only """"complain"""" is that we don't see much of the other characters a side from their gags. which just translates to:
I WANTED MORE OF THE MOVIE GODDAMMIT!! 9/10 would like a show as a sequel
how did i accidentally wrote "prequel" instead of "sequel"?! though, a prequel would also be interesting...
another movie would be better, the animated shows usually suck imo
@@anomalocariscanadensis4723 Did you watch the tangled series?
@@jajie-yl4hu didnt even know it existed
@@anomalocariscanadensis4723 Its good. Like, real good.
I'm shocked that NO ONE in all the reviews I've seen of this has mentioned something big about Mirabel
She is exceedingly talented. She makes all her clothes, and makes them extremely intricate and detailed, crafts nearly everything she wears and gives to her family. Including the gifts and decorations. Which in a normal family would make her VERY special and talented. Not only that she is very athletic*parkors the entire Casita* , a excellent dancer, singer and she plays the accordion perfectly.
Meaning by normal human standards, Mirabel -would- be the gifted child in the family. Yet NO ONE in her whole family ever acknowledges her skills. Not even her mother who clearly loves her. She doesn't even make a point about it. Almost as if even SHE doesn't see all those skills as special. Yet she clearly honed them to be so.
It's the point that no matter how talented she was, no one praised her for her hard work, good attitude, and dedication to the family. All they ever did was tell her to stop trying and get out of the way. That they didn't want her to ruin anything for anyone. Yet she still always tried to be the good kid and make everyone happy.
Needless to say, I cried for a fair portion of the film. The grandmother was a especially dislikeable character and I knew I would dislike her from just her saying in the preview "What are you doing". Her distain for her granddaughter was palpable in that one small teaser scene.
Honestly I kept thinking her gift was that she could make everyone break into musical numbers to reveal something about themselves. I mean really think about it; throughout the entire film Mirabel would start the topic and when it got deeper, they break out into song. If anything, that’s her gift.
Also yeah the grandma was a jerk. Reminded me too much of my grandma, ugh. Thank goodness Mirabel straightened her out
Ok, este es un punto realmente excelente
I am shocked with the fact that no one has mentioned that mirabel’s mother heals anyone with her food yet Mirabel wears glasses
@@juansebastianraadmeza9405 I'm wondering if her healing is only injuries and not born with problems?
Yes to this! Though I think Schaff will probably cover Mirabel as a protagonist in his future videos
I love how the movie didn’t use Abuela‘s trauma as a excuse for her actions. It showed the pain she went through and the sacrifices she made, but it wasn’t a “That’s why”moment. It was a explanation, not a excuse. And the family not dwelling on her and instead choosing to fix themselves up?! Best movie of the year
!!
Best movie of the year? This movie was barely average
I genuinely don’t understand what would be good in your eyes if this near masterpiece is average
@@raddgaming1052 Masterpiece? The characters are hardly developed with a few notable exceptions, although said exceptions still were hardly developed, the music isn't good, it feels like basically nothing substantial happened throughout the whole movie, etc
This movie is at most aggressively average, I don't see why anyone enjoys this film
@@crypt5129 ok party pooper crypt
See the message you get from this movie about kids being burdened by the “gifted child dilemma” is a good one to have for the wider audience of just everyone who watches the movie, but the even deeper issue that a lot of Hispanic families could probably easily pick out was the family and generational trauma. I asked my parents about how they felt after watching the movie and my mother said “that’s just the problems we face in a lot of Hispanic families.” I am not one to care too deeply about media representation, but the fact this exists (and the fact I had hell bound expectations for this movie to begin with) and how it made me feel is kinda incredible. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this movie (especially the bangers “Surface Pressure” and “We Dont Talk About Bruno”)
Yes yes yes! 👏 It's crazy how on a deeper level, us Hispanics can pick up on that. Generational trauma is something that isn't talked about enough and I was so glad to see this movie touch on it -- and not really hold back on the message either! Although my only gripe is that I wish the family didn't forgive the grandmother so quickly, but also Disney movie gotta be a movie and wrap it up before it pads itself out for too long. At least the grandmother acknowledged her mistakes and rebuilt la casita with them.
@@floresdeisla yes exactly this. First of I agree with both of you so much on Generational trauma in hispanic culture cause as you said it really isn’t talked about much and it was honestly hit home so hard. But also with the abuela point I agree as well. And it wasn’t just her, I understand that mirabel and isabella “made up” but there felt like no tension between them. And I get it’s all a Disney movie so they can’t dwell on any of it but i feel like with multiple characters relationships, e.g. abuela and the family, mirabel and Isabella y Bruno and the family, that there wouldn’t just be nothing there anymore. So As I read on another comment I would love a series like they’ve done for big hero six and tangled where they show the lives of these characters post movie. Cause then they could show all the complex relationships between the characters even more.
Yes! The Asian community says hi
I've been working on my own generational trauma for a while now and I picked up the signs right away, phew. Not Hispanic (Black), but the cracks (physical and metaphorical) became more and more apparent with each moment, esp with Abuela's behavior and the things she'd say.
o.o
I was feeling emotional throughout the whole movie but couldn't keep myself from crying during Dos Oruguitas. From the beginning you know that abuela dealt with a lot before the miracle but then they actually SHOW you her meeting her husband, falling in love with him, and starting a family all for it to be stolen from her by meaningless violence. You could truly feel how deep her sorrow was and the weight she has to carry from her grief, the burden of taking care of a whole village, and the fear of it being taken again. And the movie doesn't use this to excuse her actions or make anything she did to her family ok, rather they show how this all made her lose sight of what truly mattered. They really outdid themselves this time, especially with the complexity they lend to the characters.
Gotta love it when a character sacrifices himswlf for no reason at all, and the small amount of time that he might have actually won them was lost because she was sitting still
Dos Oruguitas is like, one of the best songs from that movie.
The flashback was sad enough, but that song in the background really just squeezed some tears out of me-
That scene where she's just sitting on the floor in the dark with her kids makes my eyes water ever time. You can feel how numb she's become, her eyes are totally glazed over. And then it transitions to her walking and not acknowledging Mirabel, Bruno, Isabela or Luisa, even though they're all trying their absolute best
When I rewatched the movie I bawled my eyes out at that scene
@Noah Gutierrez i mean yea i would cry but also run
“All of the songs are good, but not the best by Disney standards”
Me, listening to We Don’t Talk about Bruno for the 100th time this week: *Well yes, but actually no*
Missed opportunity to say, “Well yes , but actually no, no, no”
@@hf.1906 SHOOT I DID
@@hf.1906 well yes, but actual nooooooooooooo
IT WAS MY-
I'll agree in that "We dont talk about Bruno" is tiers above every other song in the film. The rest actually is just okay.
@@xXEPIKgamerXx and luisas song
I love that they touched on the "gifted" person's perspective as well. Being labeled as gifted early on sucks. For people around you it's okay to just get by, but *you* need to be better, and do something extraordinary and, well, not every "gifted" child is up to that. I'm happy that today's children have a movie that tells them that it's okay to not like the high expectations.
I always hated when people said I was smart. I was like, _No, I'm really not -- I'm just killing myself trying to live up to half of what's expected of me, and now you're blowing off my efforts and using my work as a justification to pile on even more!_
Well-meaning people, but an absolutely insane way to grow up.
@@eyesofthecervino3366 Yeah. My family have accepted by now that I'm not really that good, but I think it's left scars on me. As in, I feel the need to please people, even the ones that don't really deserve that, even if by lying, even if by the cost of my own comfort. And making mistakes still makes me feel _terrible._
I dunno... I would rather be like that then always viewed as a nobody who have nothing he realy excels.
@@Acacius1992
In the short term that may be true. In the long term, you're free to decide what matters to you, and then work on getting better at things you actually enjoy -- which, even if you're never the _best,_ the fact that you're comfortably, authentically yourself is profound and inspiring -- instead of getting grey hairs by the time you're sixteen, never getting to invest in the things you actually like (or worse, being too burnt-out to really feel anything), while slowly feeling your exhaustion inevitably edge you closer to a complete breakdown. You know you're in over your head, you know you can't keep treading water forever, but nobody seems to see it, and everyone just keeps piling on more weight.
Yeah, I was labeled as “gifted” in school also, so people pressured me into Science. I got to year 3 of Chemical Engineering and realized that I hate Engineering, and promptly switched to Finance. Having expectations on you to be a certain way is awful and really stressful
I really liked it too.
I also liked how the dad was like "hey, it's OK, I married into this family, I don't have a gift either, most people don't" lol. Definitely much-needed perspective.
Most of the "gifts" were obviously a curse, except maybe the shapeshifting. The weather one is probably the worst, but the hearing one is pretty bad too.
Storm and Mystique: We'd like to have a word
Especially if the weather is controlled by emotions, imagine if Pepa had a mental breakdown, it would be horrible.
Healing things with food its not bad either, Julieta seens to be the least affected(?) between Pepa and Bruno, like Pepa has to supress her emotions and be sunny always, and no explication is needed to Bruno
I liked the touch where the hearing girl has to cover her ears whenever the fireworks went off.
I think the one main cool ability is the “perfect” girl’s gift, she can make any plant appear, whether a flower, cactus, or succulent, I think that’s pretty neat and can be useful at times
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I think that the best song of the movie is "waiting on a miracle", closely followed by "we don't talk about Bruno". First of all, it has by far the best set up. The transition between the photography and the song is so natural and yet so powerful. It doesn't brutally switch to a music clip like in "surface pressure", instead it slowly builds up to be more and more fantastical, while still keeping the song grounded in the setting of the movie. And I know what you're thinking 'it's your typical I want song, it is nothing special'. But what make this one special is how desesperate Mirabel is in the song. And this is made even better with the performance of the singers, especially the "I'm not fine" and the "open your eyes" parts . Other I want songs always sounds like what they are, wants. Here you can clearly hear how much Mirabel needs her gift, it's a necessity for her. And in general, the song is just really powerful, I wish it got more attention.
Agreed. It just has the most raw power.
You can tell the songs in this movie are great since everyone has different views on which song is best. I definitely think that "waiting on a miracle" is a great song, and it does probably have the best setup. Personally, I'd say "surface pressure" is my favourite, also closely followed by "we don't talk about Bruno", but it's probably mostly because of my taste in music and the fact that I really like pop.
What else can I do and Dos Oruguitas for me. All of You comes close and Surface Pressure but those songs bitter sweetly hurt me at this stage of my life so it's a bit hard to look on them.
Waiting on a Miracle is my favorite too
Songs fucking suck. Movie fucking sucks.
This movie's message is one I don’t see a lot. The moral of “sometimes you can’t achieve something and that’s fine” is much better “you can do anything if you put your mind to it”. This movie is so relatable I can’t….
Yeah, sometimes telling people they can do anything if they put their mind to it can be harmful. It might (unintentionally) imply that the reason they're not succeeding at one particular thing is because they're not trying hard enough, and sometimes that's just not true.
Pixar did that with monster's University awhile back too. Even though it was a prequel it was hard to see Mike at the lake and come to terms that he wasn't scary. Even though he did all of that studying and practice he couldn't be a scarer because of who he was. The movie didn't really deserve the rep it got
I especially love that mirabel didn’t end up magically getting a gift at the end of the movie. Really ties in to the fact that sometimes you cant do everything, and it’s okay.
Also -- Mirael _is_ very gifted and talented. It's just that her talents aren't _magical,_ so she gets overshadowed.
I was so glad that she didn’t end up with a Gift, or be offered a Gift and refuse it because “I’m glad to be myself!” There are some things you can’t do, and will never be able to, and that’s okay.
This movie gets a 10/10 because it has a capybara.
I agree, capybaras are the best
Ok I pull up
Hop out at the after party
You and all your friends, yeah
they love to get naughty
It is now official that Ron and Jon aren’t the only directors at Disney that can make visually great musical numbers!
I mean, Byron Howard also did Tangled, and that was just full of great visual numbers
Can't expect anything less from the director of Tangled and Zootopia.
@@michaelstrong5383 I mean this is a huge improvement on the already good Zootopia and the already great Tangled.
Hellfire already existed that wasn't directed by them so its no big deal dude
@@edizgunes Perhaps he's talking about modern Disney
I need a TV series about Encanto because I CAN'T say goodbye to these characters after just one movie (and a possibly shitty sequel). Seriously, I don't know how Disney did this. I haven't had any real attachment to ANY of their more modern characters before but NOW!?!?! I'm in love with a whole friggin cast!!
Mirabel is awkward and a sweetheart, Luisa is hilarious and the BEST protective sibling, Isabela was just getting interesting at the end (If she doesn't turn into an all-out punk rock princess Imma be mad), Dolores is adorable and I wanna see her interact with her siblings more, Camilo is an absolute golden child and needs SO many more lines, Antonio is the cute baby cousin who gets all the hugs, Pepa is my spirit animal, Felix is the dorkiest and happiest husband I've ever seen, BRUNO DIED FOR YOUR SINS, and Julieta seemed happiest when Bruno returned. I need to see the triplets and their mami being a happy family again🥺 Oh also Agustin. Can't forget funni bee-sting man. He should go to a bar with the bois Felix and Bruno :D
Alright, done ranting. Long story short, I'm NOT YET SATISFIED, DISNEY. I will love you again if you do these wonderful characters the justice they deserve.
“And a possibly shitty sequel” I hope the heck not, we’ve had enough of those
I swear if Disney butchered these characters in a sequel like they did with Wreck-It Ralph I'll cry :(((
@@THE_5050 My worst nightmare would be if Disney does what they did to Frozen 2, where they were like "wHeRe dUz Da mAgIC cOMe fRoM" instead of focusing on the actual interesting characters. The magic of Encanto needs to remain a mystery, the interpretation is what makes it so effective as a metaphor for the family's love for each other.
I'm just imagining if they were like "Pedro was the last of a long line of candle-making wizards, and oH nOeS a twist villain has an eViL candle that will dEsTrOy wOrLD"🤣
... Okay I doubt it'd be THAT bad, but I have trust issues with Disney.
We haven't gotten a sequel for Moana yet, so we can hope. Also, has anyone else realized that Disney's been experimenting more? I feel like Frozen 2 and Moana have been both animating experiments but story experiments, because both are more family centered, don't really have a villian, and have similar animating tricks. (Maui and Camilo both shapeshift, most diverse characters, ect.)
@@schleepy6362 wasn't the source of the powers explained?
Bruno…Bruno was the best character
"We don't talk about Bruno."
@@cinderleaves3949 But we can sing about Bruno, it's technically not talking.
Verified animal
We don't talk about Bruno no no no
silencio bruno
The scene where the horse men are chasing the grandmother and her husband to the river is so intense. I was also pleasantly surprised by how emotional and beautiful this movie was!
It was heartbreaking, that movie is a true gem.
as a colombian, i was bawling my eyes out there man.. idk how it felt for ppl from other countries but for us...damn they nailed it
Lets also not brush past they actively showed them burning down the houses and showed the one pulling out the machete. I was balling my eyes out especially with the music along with it
That was heartbreaking for me specially since I'm Colombian, it's a direct reference to the colombian armed conflict, that forced about 8 million people to move from their homes in rural areas to big cities and killed 262k people
ive seen comment from colombian people saying how it reminds them of home loss because of violence, is a sad reality that many Colombianos have lived before and this scene is so strong among them
My favorite thing about the film is that Mirabelle doesn't get a special power in the end, because that would have felt cheap. Though I sort of expected some twist at the end revealing that Mirabelle's special power was to create elaborate musical numbers and she never realized it because it just seemed normal to her.
No man, the musicals were side effects of the drugs the madrigals took
To me it seemed like in the end Mirabel’s power was the same as Abuela’s, to protect and take care of the family. Regardless, I really like that they incorporated a lot aspects from magical realism, the merging of reality with unexplained magic has always been a magnificent way to portray heartfelt stories.
I like the theory saying that Mirabel is the next matriarch. The reason why she didn't get the door is because Abuela is still alive. Her power would then be the leader of the house just like Abuela
I thought she actually got her gift, which is bringing her family back together, while her door were actually the front door.
But they still didn't explain why she didn't get her power, it's not like the house hated her, but nope, no power for you.
I've noticed that a lot of people connect this movie to being an outcast in general, and while I find it great that people can relate to it in different ways, I feel like more people need to see the more cultural side of this movie. In a lot of cultures (especially latino/hispanic ones) there is a continuing trend of generational trauma that comes from grandparents or parents being too harsh on their children or grandchildren because of the trauma that they have endured. I feel like this movie really encapsulates that, especially since it takes place in Colombia. And sure, generational trauma can happen in any culture but this movie shows the specifics of it while in a latin household, and as a Mexican it really spoke to me.
Hard agree! There's a lot of cultural specific nuance even to the type of expectation they get. Julieta, acting as the eldest child, being made to serve others through domestic labor (noticeably, food). Isabela's arranged marriage and her maybe having many children being seen as a good thing. Dolores being the chismosa (gossiper) and also how it relates to her having the future of a solterona (old maid?). Generational trauma is widespread throughout the globe, but some particularities of this movie mark its latino-ness, more specifically Colombia-ness.
I'm Hispanic from both sides and I SEE almost all the adults in my life remind me of Alma. My aunts (mostly) and like one of my uncles and my grandma (all from my maternal side) are controlling not in the aspect of just like "oh do well in grades" but in LIFE. You have to have an outgoing personality (buT not enough to stand up for yourself cause that goes against them), you have to be super intelligent, and also pretty. In my dad's side of the family you *have* to be pretty or you won't be a favourite. Like you'd still be loved but being pretty makes you a favourite. My mom told me that when my dad was younger my grandma pressured my dad get a nose job and even paid for it so he'd do it. and that same grandma would also rip her face out of photos that didn't look flattering.
true but i like how not only can hispanic people can relate, but also other ppl despite not sharing our culture. pretty cool how it reached so many people bc of its subtlety in portraying colombian culture
It speaks culturally to a lot of Asian cultures as well! There are definitely layers of cultural significance that I really appreciated with personal experience
Ohh I see
What I love in Encanto is that it actually has the "Disney Magic" vibe that these movies need. It's really hard to explain, but it's something that I never felt while watching Raya, Zootopia, or even Frozen. While I was watching Encanto I only thought "yep, this is a Disney movie". The other Disney movies from the last decade (except from Moana) felt like movies that any animation studio could do with nothing really special. I'm in love with this movie, more than once I had goosebumps while watching it.
I feel like for me the Disney Magic was in the movie being so comfortable with it's own terms. Most of the other movies were Disney trying so hard to be in on the joke of criticisms people made in like 2008 and for me that kind of meta humor and storytelling really sucked a lot of the fun out (I feel like Lindsay Ellis' video on the live action Beauty and the Beast touched on this pretty well). It was just so nice not to have an instance of "See we're not like those bad old movies please like us internet critics". This is a movie about a magic family in a magic house and you can take it or leave it.
i think tangled had this vibe too
@@frauleinfunf yeah we just watched Raya right before watching Encanto and I gotta say the writing and dialogue was much tighter, and more reliant on the circumstances of the world itself. Trusting that the story as presented would suffice and not making those self-conscious remarks. Like Raya's opening line is "I know what you're thinking: dystopian wasteland" and that took me out of the film immediately and there were a lot of instances like that.
PREACH! I couldn't even sleep last night after watching that movie. It was just so exciting, colourful and vibrant! It was like a song in my head.
I felt the same way!
As a Mexican American, first gen, OLDEST SISTER TOO, I found myself enjoying and relating to this movie a lot more than Coco. Luisa's song hit very close to my heart too. You have to maintain this perfect strong face all the time, especially since you're placing the steps to lead the family after struggling financially, moving to a new country for better opportunities, facing language and culture barriers, racism, and prejudice, so you gotta deal with ALL THAT and be strong with it but it's hard. And this movie helped reminding me that it's okay to let others help.
Very cool Doug dimmadome
@@seventfour Great movie! Has incredible animation, and the director is great too. It also has a really good message that resonates with me. Not only did I find the main character compelling with his personal struggle, but I liked how his rival/childhood best friend wasn't just this shallow asshole that wanted the same girl as him, but had some depth to his character too. The songs are okay, (some are covers which are done to a good amount). I liked them as a kid, they still are good music wise, but I don't think they come as close to bangers like the ones in Encanto. (Bangers such as surface pressure and we don't talk about bruno, I think those both stole the show for me.)
Luisa is the middle child, she isn’t the oldest
thats ok doug dimmadome, owner of the dimsdale dimmadome, you got this
@@key1853 ok? it doesnt matter, she was just saying she related to that song.
As a former “gifted” kid who is now a college student with crushing imposter syndrome this movie punches me where it hurts the most
The amount of times I cried watching this movie 😩😭 it was all too real
I have always been labled a gifted kid, and now I'm a senior in highschool being crushed by the expectations of those around me that I will go to college and get a high paying job. i don't want to do that. but everyone around me has always said I will because of how smart I am. it makes me preassured to go and then go get some job that I will hate but is what is expected of me. i don't wanna be rich. i want to make video games, not program web security.
@@MackAttack101 I’m in my mid 20s, just placing a perspective for you.
I was a “gifted” kid artistically/creatively; but lost it past the age of 10-11.
Since writing that reply, I found out why I cry so often with this movie: Luisa portrays exactly how I feel. I found out she’s not the oldest child: Isabela 21-22, Luisa 19, Mirabel 15. I am the middle child & was the big girl between the three of us sisters. The one who had to do the heavy lifting all the time.
Mirabel is overall a great character that anyone can relate with, so having both Mirabel hit home for never being enough & Luisa being exactly how I grew up between two sisters, yeah, this movie hits home, doesn’t it?
It’s been so long since there was a really heavy hitting movie as beautiful as this since Moana, to be honest. Loved Frozen 2 but it didn’t hit as hard as Moana and Encanto.
Can you explain what imposter syndrome has to do with it? When Shaff said it in the video I was really confused because isn’t that when you feel you don’t deserve the things you’ve accomplished? I’m genuinely confused by how you relate to Mirabel that way.
This movie was so damn emotional too, I wasn't expecting to cry as much as I did.
Spoilers
The Bruno scene where Mirabel realises Bruno watches them eat and made his own dinner plate. My heart broke I burst into tears immediately.
The scene where Mirabel left after the candle was put out, and ended up dissociating as she tried to just hide from the damage that had been done.
The triumph of Mirabel getting her own "door" that was such a sweet scene. It felt so nice seeing her get that.
meanwhile it's the only disney movie i haven't cried in lmao
@@Cosmiichu I have never cried to any Disney movie
@@Cosmiichuchicken little made you cry?💀
i just wanted to acknowledge how Disney briefly touched a very serious and dark subject of Colombia's history at the very beginning of the movie, when the granny said that she and her family had to escape from danger, which at first may seem as a generic plot starter, but if you're Colombian (like myself) you would probably realize that this a reference to the long lasting internal war against guerillas that has been harming my country for over 60 years at this point, and that caused a lot of people to forcibly leave their land in order to escape the violence. I just hope you can acknowledge it on your future video :).
It is extremely ironic how we had this internal joke about colombian people complaining on how this movie was an embellished version of Colombia because it did not show the reality of the country
Like, it did not show the guerrillas or the violence and the main cast live in a house which only narcos could reasonably own
Then, we have literal fire destroying an entire town and a man being violently assasinated
At the end of the day, it was actually spot on
I actually felt a strong connection to the background behind the story
I did not know about the guerillas! If you do not mind explaining, who exactly are they and how did they arise? And for what purpose?
@@katm8128 Oh that is quite a long story. Colombia has always been a VERY poor country, where inequality is the daily bread. The armed conflict officially began in 1964, however it had been going on for a long time, specifically since 1948 when Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a liberal candidate for the presidency was assassinated and that unleashed La Violencia, a civil war that lasted ten years between conservatives and liberals. . This war is directly related to the formation of the guerrillas that would participate in the armed conflict of 1968, since the guerrillas arose due to the persecution of liberal and communist people by the government, this happened mainly in rural areas, since these ideas flourished more there due to poverty and inequality, however there were also some urban guerrillas, but I will mention these later.
Three main parties participated in the war: FARC (guerrilla group, it should be noted that there were many more guerrilla groups), the national army and the paramilitaries. The guerrillas said they were fighting for the rights of the poor, which they did at first, but their principles ended up disappearing over time. The army said that it wanted to protect Colombians and the order and stability of the nation, and the paramilitaries said that they were only reacting to the actions of the guerrillas and that they wanted the same thing as the army. They all said the same thing, that they wanted to protect Colombians, however, each of the parties committed horrible acts, and in the end, the people were the true victim of this senseless war.
Out of the 177,307 civilians who died in the conflict, 80% were committed by paramilitaries, 12% by guerrillas and 8% by government forces.
The war got worse when drug trafficking began to proliferate in the 1980s. Both the guerrillas and the paramilitaries got into this business to be able to use the money to buy supplies and weapons, and they also resorted to kidnapping and extortion to earn more money, which made them lose support. In 1985 there were some peace talks between the FARC and the government, and that is why they co-founded a political party called UP as a way to demobilize and try to make a change through politics and not violence, however, any kind of hope that the war would end soon disappeared since between 1985 and 2002, 4,153 members of the party were assassinated by paramilitaries. It should be noted that the majority were NOT guerrilla militants. This almost kills any chance for peace in the country.
A large part of the conflict was fuelled by the hatred between the guerrillas and the paramilitaries. The paramilitaries were right-wing civilians who had come together to fight the guerrillas, and they did it in the worst possible way. While the guerrillas killed "sympathizers" of the paramilitaries and the army, the paramilitaries killed "sympathizers" of the guerrillas. The quotes are due to the fact that to be considered a sympathizer it was only necessary that you had given them food or shelter, and the problem was that if you refuced to do it they would kill you, and if you did it the other group would kill you. This, together with the war in general, and that all the groups (yes, the army too) wanted to steal land, caused the displacement of more than 5 million people (this displacement was mainly because of the paramilitaries, the major land-grabbers). Again, the victims were civilians who they were supposed to want to protect.
In 1985, an urban guerrilla group called M-19 took the Palace of Justice, taking the Supreme Court of Justice hostage, and with the aim of holding a trial against President Belisario Betancur. This guerrilla was very interesting since it was urban, and many of its militants were university students, not only from public universities but also from private ones. The take did not last long, and at the end of it, 12 of 25 Supreme Court Justices along with almost all the guerrilleros were dead. this was a tragedy since it was said that this was the last good supreme court. Both the government, the army, and the M-19 have been blamed for the deaths of the judges and other civilians. It is said that the M-19 was perhaps financed by drug cartels, and that there was a 24-hour coup against the president by the army, and that therefore there were no negotiations with the guerrilla and that the army only entered to kill whoever showed up. Supreme Court Chief Justice Alfonso Reyes was apparently burned alive during the assault, as someone incinerated his body after pouring gasoline over it, twenty-eight bodies were dumped into a mass grave and apparently soaked with acid, in order to make identification difficult, and la most have not been identified to this day. There are at least 11 missing from that day, most of the workers from the cafeteria, and many guerrilla militants, judges, and civilians also disappeared after being seen leaving the palace after the takeover by the army. Some of the dead even had gunshot wounds that did not match the weapons of the guerrillas.
In the 2000s the government took an offensive position against the guerrilla, which worked and was seen as a good thing, however, the good reputation of the army and the government was stained in 2006 with the parapolitics scandal, in which It was revealed that high-ranking politicians and military personnel had ties to paramilitary groups, who had killed thousands of Colombian civilians and committed horrendous massacres, and some of these with the help and protection of the government (search: La massacre del salado, mapiripan massacre) . In addition, the paramilitaries and state forces were responsible for 85% of the political murders of the 90's, and the paramilitaries mainly persecuted poor people, unionists, teachers, human rights workers, journalists, and leftists political activists. They were also involved in social cleansing, with the support of local merchants, the Colombian military, and local police, they murdered homeless people, drug addicts, orphaned children, and other people they deem socially "undesirable", in 1993, at least 2190 street children were murdered. The paramilitaries tortured, massacred, raped, displaced, and beheaded thousands of people, and most of these crimes were ignored by the government and were even congratulated for them. The fact that something so vile was supported by the government is forever going to be a stain on our history.
The reputation of the government and the army was finished with another scandal: the false positives. This scandal was about how members of the military had poor or mentally impaired civilians lured to remote parts of the country with offers of work, killed them, and presented them to authorities as guerrilleros killed in battle, in an effort to inflate body counts and receive promotions or other benefits. These benefits varied between more vacation days, promotions, or cash. A 2018 study dictates that there were more than 10,000 victims of false positives. This was revealed in 2008 and even today there is impunity.
In 2016, the FARC and the government signed a peace agreement, leading to a ceasefire. However, there are still dissidents of this group, some that from the beginning refused to demobilize, and others that, due to the fact that many ex-combatants have been killed since then, have decided to return to arms. Peace in Colombia is fragile, the peace agreement has not been established correctly and poverty is increasing, it would not be a great surprise if another civil war happens again.
I know you only asked about how the guerrillas came to be, but I got a little carried away.
latin america in general has a pretty big history of opression and violence that is still happening. im proud your strong people survived it, and i hope you all can find real peace someday and we can unite to rise together. stay safe hermanito :)
@Valentina Romero Diaz Thanks!
This movie was ALL about the characters and I love that! I'm so happy to be this passionate about a Disney movie again in a long time.
@L2 Sentinel Definitely, I bonded with all of them throughout. One of the few criticisims I have would be that it felt a little short for such an ensemble of characters. Wish it went for 5 mins longer **SPOILERS** Like for Bruno; he had plenty of screen time already, but I really wanted to see him finally getting a plate of his own sitting at the table :,,,
@@ToadGirlReturns That's one of the few critiques I had for the movie - it should have been just a little longer, like 5 or 10 minutes, so we can get a little more fleshed out character arcs. Even with Isabella and Luisa, they had a song, but I feel like they needed just a little more time to flesh them out more beforehand. Maybe just one more interaction with Mirabel before their songs. It's hard to put my finger in it, other than I was wanting just a smidgen more.
Ikr? I haven't loved a Disney movie this much in s very long time.
Me too.
It was all about the family, but I felt like they didn't show enough about each family member. They should have made the movie longer in my opinion.
as a colombian myself, the movie really hit me hard, you can really see the attributes to not only colombian culture but also colombian/latin mannerisms and family standards, i was also really happy to see colombia included in big screen movie and get the recognition the culture and history it deserves. the amount of love and the appreciation this film got from people (specially that aren’t from colombia) is very positively overwhelming. when i watch this movie it makes me feel proud of my colombian heritage and makes me want to learn more about my culture.
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brazil's familys are exactly like that as well.
I’m from the Philippines and this movie hit closer to home than Raya (which was marketed towards Southeast Asians).
@@SovietMarmalade its nice that the movie did not only show people of the colombian culture, but also reminding them of their own family and/or culture!
I’m Colombian-American and I’m very happy that a Disney film was set in Colombia and it ended up being an amazing film! My Colombian-born father really loved the movie and so did my family in Colombia. I’m always happy to see the bridge between the USA and Colombia come closer together. Especially as someone with both all-American and Colombian ancestry.
I think Encanto is worthy of a tv series, like they did for Tangled. I don't think they will, but they should.
as a colombian, the group of men in horses really hit hard, because relates the history of "la violencia", when we had a crisis and half of the country areas had to leave there homes. really heartbreaking honestly.
I was curious as to who those were. Who were they exactly and what is their purpose?
@@katm8128 during these times , there was basically a war between the two political parties after the murderer of the liberarl president candidate of the time , it was the Conservative party vs the liberal party, and at the time there were various conservative militias as rural town police and political leaders encouraged Conservative-supporting peasants to seize the agricultural lands of Liberal-supporting peasants, which provoked peasant-to-peasant violence throughout Colombia.
When would you say this movie takes place in terms of year?
@@YokaiDisorder 1940-50
@@katm8128 I think they Don even show their faces, there are no symbols either, "they" could be anyone. In Colombia are different armed groups, they could be liberals or conservatives, you could identify them as godos, chulavitas, cachiporros, la chusma, guerrilla, paras or whatever violent group you've been a victim of.
Looking back, I loved the character of their abuela. They did a really good job of making her the antagonist without making her the villain. I loved how Mirabel didn’t immediately say “it wasn’t your fault,” after things went wrong and didn’t act like it wasn’t because of her that they had suffered so much. But I also loved that they didn’t paint her as an out and out villain by showing it as an extension of her trauma from the burning of her home and the death of her husband and showing that she was just afraid her second home falling apart. They don’t try to excuse her actions, but they show that it wasn’t done out of malice and she still has the captivity to change and do better since she does love her family.
I like that they didn't try to force a power onto Mirabel at the end, like, "Your gift is Heart/Kindness/Love/etc!" (Although we all know it's actually the ability to provoke other people into singing a fully choreographed musical number just by talking to them)
I legit have a theory that her “gift” is related to the _Casita_ in some way, idk.
I think Mirabel actually had a gift. She had a connection to the Casita that correlated to her relationship with the rest of the family. She's the only character shown talking to and understanding the Casita, like how Antonio is the only one understanding the animals. The cracks appeared in moments Mirabel's relationship to the rest of the family were threatened, like when she felt sidelined by Antonio getting a Gift or when Abuela confronted her after Isabela's song. When she tried to open the door and it disappeared, she didn't get a special room because her "room" was the Casita itself. And she also restored the miracle and the Gifts by using the doorknob after repairing her relationship with her Abuela and her family and working together to restore the Casita. I think in a sense this is like how Abuela's "gift" is to guard the miracle, they just didn't understand Mirabel because honestly they have no idea how the miracle even works.
I think that in the simple words, Mirabel will take on Abuela legacy - Abuela also didn't has gift as her children have, she is like the guardian of magic in casita. She's taking care of maintaining family relationships which stabilize the magic, and so will be Mirabel later.
You can see that Mirabel already has some sort of control over the casita's power, only when she is feeling really outcast, the cracks appear (even if other family members also have troubled hearts - bruno left, isabella doing everything against herself but still no cracks, mirabel got some bad angst with her grandma and boom)
I really was routing for her that since she was not gifted, so she gets sick and tired of not being good enough and eventually become a villain, then she did had a gift which was destroying. And killing her entire family. I really was expecting the part where she told the grandma "I'm really not good enough for you, am I? No matter how hard I tried" I was expecting her to get out of all control and end up destroying everything and kill everybody.
Of course that wouldn't happen, but IMAGINE.
@@snickbiordking5748 There are two types of people
"I can't express enough how shocked I am that I loved this movie as much as I did."
Sums up my thoughts exactly. I feel like the ending was a little rushed, but aside from that this movie is practically flawless. All the songs are amazing, the characters are all unique, Bruno and Mirabel are up there in my list of favorite Disney characters ever, and the imagery and sound of the songs felt like something out of the Disney Renaissance, something that only Tangled and Frozen (which I also adore) have come close to since the 90's.
(Also I was wondering the same thing about the Hercules cameo.)
Fun fact: 1 of the directors also did Tangled. When I found that out it explained a lot to me.
I haven’t seen this film yet, but I’m glad people are enjoying it so much. It looks really fun.
I cried. Like a lot.
Check it out
9/10 (Please don’t miss this one.) - Schaffrillas Productions (today, 11/27/2021)!
Also ElectricDragon505: 9/10
Makes perfect sense to me! - Bobsheaux, 2013 (when he reviewed Spider’s Web, except when I say that about Raya getting phenomenally high opinions, I mean it, because Encanto lives up to its name)!
Yeah check it out it was awsome
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I started crying when Mirabel confronted her Abuela and told her how her need for perfection was hurting the family. And her speech about how she was never enough no matter how hard she tried. How no one could live up to her impossible expectations. Man...I just cried.
I had the same experience, felt my eyes welling up, sniffling and everything, and as the movie ends my own family comes home and I just quietly sighed and thanked the fact I'm moving out in a week.
SAME SAME
@Cristofer Andrade let a man cry when a man needs to cry 😐
Cristofer Andrade
Right, cuz showing emotions are weak somehow.
Acting like you’ve never cried before lmao 😂
@Cristofer Andrade I know, right? human emotion is so outdated
It was such a treat to see such a diverse range of charatcers and skin tones. It would be easy for a studio to just decide to copy and paste skin tones for film, but this movie really showed off how encompassing Latin culture really is, since it's a conglomeration of European, native mesoamerican, and African cultures.
So Coco?
@@maakujiten3812 nah, everyone in coco was the same skin tone. That film is also different from encanto because the plot revolves around Dia de Las Muertos, whereas encantos plot is just character driven.
@@houston3103 that's my point that everyone in coco had the same skin tone
@@maakujiten3812 ah my mistake. Although coco does take place in Mexico in relatively modern Mexico vs encantos 1800s esc Columbia, so perhaps ethnic uniformity was acceptable in coco, but I'm no expert
@@maakujiten3812 Both films primarily follow a single family, and skin tones among a family come down to heritage. One of the two married couples in Encanto had contrasting skin tones, giving diversity to the family itself, both of the main married couples in Coco just happened to be all the same skin tone, which may come down to the community the family has lived in for generations having more darker skinned people in the local population.
As for characters outside the core family in Coco, that is just pure laziness, making background and side characters more diverse really couldn't have been that hard if they had thought of it, especially at the actual Day of The Dead gathering, all the families in the background had to have had family members from across the country with various skin tones travel down to join.
As a "gifted" kid taking really advanced classes, Luisa's song Surface Pressure is relatable especially the line, "I'm pretty sure I'm worthless if I can't be of service," although that might just be my poor mental health talking.
As a Colombian I spent 70% of the film pointing at things on the screen like “Hey that’s something incredibly colombian”
The movie was so culturally accurate it’s astonishing, even outside of that EVERYTHING about this movie is amazing, Easily my favorite disney film (yes, heavy bias) 💛💙❤️
Americans: *Why, this isn't Mexico?*
100% Colombia culture
@@erizamisorafujoshi7002 This weird Mexican DLC is fire
@@erizamisorafujoshi7002 yes
What really blew my mind is alot of it people who never been to Colombia wouldn't even notice they really showed so much love to Colombia and its culture
My only real problem with encanto is that I wish it was longer! I would’ve loved for each family member to get more screen time. (Maybe a limited series, with an episode per character?)
Im a bit sad some didnt get musical numbers
I would love an entire song of Pepa and Felix going on about how they love each other, or a song about Camilo, maybe an issue that correlates to his powers? idk
@@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard Camilo's singing part in "We don't talk about Bruno" is the highlight for me, he's so good, definitely needed a song
@@josuegarro5437 Same! It's such a good part, Camilo's VA killed it! Dolores was also great, the soft spoken but fast paced singing sounds so good!
I will not spoil the best character's name, but their introduction - "Your hands are very sweaty" - paired with falling and the ground is right there? That's brilliant.
Also their dining table made me cry. You know what I mean.
made my whole family laugh when that happened and pretty much most of his moments, they’re great
That scene! Omg. That broke me. Literally shattered my heart. And when the grandma said "Bruno never cared about this family" and Mirabel responded "Bruno loves this family!". When I tell you I cried even harder I can't!
For real
we don’t TALK about this guy.
OMG YES! I was hoping he was talking about- well, we don't talk about him- because he's my favorite character as well.
...AND WHEN I SAW THE PLATE HE HAD DRAWN AND WHEN MIRABEL FOUND IT HE SAID "MY GIFT WASN'T HELPING THE FAMILY BUT I LOVE MY FAMILY SO.." DEAD. DECEASED. GONE. The world doesn't deserve him, but he deserves the world.
4:04 i love how everyone just collectively agreed that this man is their favourite character. Like every scene he was in WAS SO INTERESTING.
Spoiler!!!
50 yr old rat man in the walls?? Sign me up.
what character is he talking about?
Ikr? Like I'm glad that character is popular and loved by many because he definitely deserves it
@T-Army cause of the song
What character was he talking about?
My favorite song was the first one about the family. I liked “We Don’t Talk about Bruno” and the rest of the songs were ok for me
Luisa's song was pretty awesome though. We Don't Talk About Bruno was pretty funny imo
I can’t find any other songs, but I don’t like theaters so I’m just listening to we don’t talk about Bruno and Luisa’s song on repeat until it comes out on Disney + 😭
Edit: I still want to see the visuals, but I did download Spotify for this. Also the lyric videos here on TH-cam
We Dont Talk about Bruno was the first song i heard from the soundtrack (had it in shuffle) and i was like “I have to see the movie to find out who’s all singing!”
As someone who still didn't watch the movie, Bruno sounds like that one shady cousin or uncle who has connections to the mafia no one wants to invite to family reunions for safety reasons
@@rockhistoria2537 He reminds me of that Uncle that says something offensive at the Thanksgiving table and the whole family just shuts him away from their lives
I love how you could relate to nearly everyone in the movie. They really managed to flesh out all the characters. I _loved_ Camilo (the shapeshifter). Despite him having a pretty small amount of screen time, you really get a feel of his sense of humor and protectiveness over his family. Like, in the scene where the house is collapsing, you can see him repeatedly shift while sprinting as he runs to catch up to Mirabel when she’s running for the candle.
Speaking of the house collapsing, the house is its own damn character. That scene where it desperately tried saving everyone as it basically just disintegrated was heartbreaking but also beautiful to watch unfold, seeing it throw railings to catch people, throw people out the doors and throw every last piece of furniture it had over Mirabel to protect her from the falling tower. The closest thing I can approximate to it was that scene from X-Men Apocalypse (ai think) when Quicksilver had to improvise to save everyone from the explosion.
Yeah! I love it when inatimate objects are given personalities of their own, like carpet from alladin or dr strange's cape.
To me the Casita is an au version of the Monster House but not deeply traumatized, while Pedro isn't the Casita exactly like the House is the woman, a little bit of him is definitely there, protecting and caring for his family
i disagree with the fleshed out characters bit - yes we got a sense of their personalities but a lot of the characters barely had any screen time like you said and were _barely_ fleshed out. though i do understand why that was the case, considering they had to fit 12 family members into a film it would have taken forever to explore each character, so for the time they did have i thought what they managed was decent enough. if there was a series there’s a lot more potential to dive in deeper into more of the family members and the downsides of their gifts, like dolores being overwhelmed with so much noise, maybe camilo having an identity crisis, and julietta.. idk what downsides julietta would have with magical healing food. but you get it
@@cheese3123 Maybe Julietta struggling with guilt over not saving someone in time and being out of stock of the food necessary to save that someone's life- also, as the resident healer, she had to have seen the most gruesome of injuries over her lifetime
The house being its own character was something they tried in Moana & NAILED in this movie. In Moana the ocean being a character felt like an afterthought & wasnt used much, but in Encanto, the house being its own character is integral to the plot & was executed flawlessly
After Ralph 2, Frozen 2, and Raya, this film really feels like a return to form for Disney. Not my favorite of the Disney Revival (Zootopia), but still good!
Don't forget Soul, a banger all the way.
@@grnmjolnir Soul is Pixar but alright
@@grnmjolnir Soul is good, but it's more Pixar.
what did you not like abt raya, if i could ask?
@@lesdaisydoo Of course you can! It, overall, just felt tepid and shockingly uninspired, in spite of the fantastic concept. I felt as if Sisu bring ridiculously trusting after everything that happened was absurd, and the fact that the team went with her plan was kinda dumb. As for Namari, I flipping hate her character. I hate how she practically gaslights Raya into believing they both had an equal footing in Sisu's death, though she had her finger on the trigger.
There's a lot more but those are the main reasons.
4:18
it's telling that I had to stop for a minute to figure out which character you were referring to.
I was like, "how are Felix and Camilo spoilers?"
something that’s also significant to encanto is the fact that it talks about generational trauma, which is something lots of hispanic/latino families go through. they focus in on OUR culture’s trauma and how it affects a person. for example, isabela (perfect girl) was expected to marry someone she didn’t want to because abuela saw herself and her dead husband in them. another example is how abuela seems to continuously acknowledge mirabel in a negative light, and there’s so many more examples. encanto does a good job showing how being ‘gifted’ has so many expectations that need to be upheld.
i hope that when Schafrillas makes a dedicated video to Encanto he gets to talk at least a little bit about this, I get that the interpretation of the theme about being gifted is widely applicable, but this story is more than that, the characters don't have a gift just because, they have a gift because it was born out of necessity; there's so much more to enjoy and appreciate from this movie that comes from understanding the culture that is celebrating
As an Asian person who grows up in an Asian household that have high expectations to their children. I really relate to this movie a lot. I used to be a "gifted child"(around 5-7 years old)because I can read and write better than my peers. But as I grow up, my grades slipped down and my "giftedness" fade away. Although it faded away, the expectations from my parents and myself didn't go away a bit. Now I'm sad and constantly disappointed about myself and uses food for escapism.
ah yes,the classic gifted kid burnout
It’s so great that you recognize what happened to you so well.
Literally the same for me, and the fact that you're fully aware just makes it harder for yourself.
@@robertmarianomolina295 actually, it's easier: at least he/she know the causes and the principles/laws/rules/causes-effects-relations that were there and he/she can go through and pass over them, recognizing that he/she has *not* to accept them.
Same here
To me this movie really spoke to ableism. Mirabel lacks a kind of ability that the rest of her family has, and so the rest of her faculties and her personhood are treated as inferior because the family matriarch judges a person's worth by their ability to perform very specific kinds of acts. They didn't even give her her own _non-magical_ bedroom, just kept her in the nursery where the infants and toddlers were put until they got their own magic rooms. Meanwhile, everyone else has to prove that they're _able enough_ to have a place in the family and not be a disappointment like Mirabel. It speaks a lot that Antonio was afraid of his own fifth birthday because of what happened to her.
i'm glad you mentioned her staying in the nursery and Antonio being afraid of being Gift-less because that was something I noticed and it broke me. Like, because Mirabel didn't get a gift from the candle, she wasn't even allowed her own identity. She had to stay in a nursery, and it's not like they couldn't have just made her a room in a non-magical way. That house was ever-expanding, they totally could have given her her own space. And Antonio, he saw how she was treated and subconsciously processed that as, if you don't get a Gift, you will be treated just as bad as her. And she was his favorite cousin, but he couldn't do anything to help her! Like, there's a whole lot of detail packed into every scene that just shows how deep the family trauma goes.
you’re so right! i love that this movie can have a different meaning for different people!
@@theonahopkins3144 And it implies a really screwed up dynamic, where Mirabel, at ten years old, five years after being denied her own personal space like everyone else in the family, was asked to give up part of the space she _did_ have to an infant and later toddler _instead of the child's parents,_ because the space _technically_ wasn't Mirabel's to control, as she had no official place in the house like everyone else did. Instead of the adults doing something to fix this situation, or taking the L and having Antonio stay in his parents' room, or creating another nursery, or giving Mirabel her own room, they took what little space was afforded from their family's most disadvantaged child, the only one who didn't have any space of her own, to give to another. And that means that it was Mirabel, at _ten,_ at hand and up at night when baby Antonio had issues. Who would have heard him cry? His mother and father were off in a massive magic void room down the hall. Mirabel probably took care of him as much as his own parents simply because they put him in her room. No wonder she and Antonio are close.
o.o
I didn't even realize it was the nursery, I just thought her family was the type to just walk in whenever... I wondered why Tia Peppa was taking a stuffie from Mirabels room. but now that you mention it it's a lot like the closet under the stairs.
I wish people would remember that this movie exists and that not EVERYTHING Disney makes is garbage nowadays. People are just too busy focusing on their hatred towards the Disney remakes that it made them completely forget about this masterpiece. And I think it’s safe to assume Disney will continue to make more masterpieces in the future, even if we do get some cruddy movies from them too.
Disney has always released flops. Disney released 80 movies during the 1990s. They didn't just release Lion King, Aladdin, Toy Story, and Pocahontas during this decade. They also released Squanto, Operation Dumbo Drop, Rocketman, and My Favorite Martian. Not every creation is a roaring success. Disney's failure rate might be slightly higher than usual today, but they have never been able to go a year without a some failures.
At surface level, Encanto is a sweet, fun, and colorful movie about a magical family. At its core, it called out the entire dynamic of toxic expectations on offspring in Hispanic households. A lot of young people are reporting that they caught onto this layer, but older generations think "its not that deep". And that's exactly the problem and why households are the way they are!!!
spot on
maybe the (younger) people calling the movie bad because it 'dOeSn'T hAvE a viLLaiN' expected worse from Abuela based on their own awful family dynamics
"Honey the movie isn't that deep. I just expect hard work from you."
"Abuela that's the f'n point."
Not even just toxic expectations of Hispanic households. Every single culture has one standard or another that kids have to live up to.
@@bumfricker2487 What you point out is half the truth, the other half are kids who over exaggerate how bad their parents actually are in their heads, they ultimately have to learn that their parents are just bad or overly strict, not evil.
Figuring out which is which is something that tends to be a challenge to discern in real life, I've seen things get out of hand and a lot worse when people can't figure out if the parents are out of line or if the kids just don't understand them, just family dysfunction 101 I guess.
what i dont like about the movie, is that they sing when something serious is happening. it may be a kids movie, but if there was a marvel fan watching the movie, i dont even know what would happen.
I haven't been hearing people talk about how this movie uses a lot of musical theater tropes effectively. It's very common in musical theater to have random townsfolk who comment on random things to catch the audience up to speed or start songs. Also having everything go dark and stop moving so that we are able to hear the main characters perspective is common in musical theaters. Plus with the amazing orchestral soundtrack you can really tell the director loves musical theater and wants to pay homage to it!
Yeah i was getting a musical theater vibe than a typical Disney movie musical.
I bet a lot of people would love to see Encanto as a play, myself included
I mean Lin Manuel Miranda wrote it and he wrote Hamilton so thats why it gives a theater/musical vibe
@@alexv.1569 but he didn't animate it
Very evident from Mirabel’s ‘I want’ song at the start too
I heavily agree with all the points you’ve made here. This movie, and the short before it, really hit WAY to close to home for me. Not only do I relate a LOT to the older sisters, especially Isabela, the “perfect” one, but my family has been dealing with issues for a while now so this movie made me extremely emotional in the theatre. I also liked how the short with the raccoons really tied into one of Encanto’s themes about unhealthy family relationships, by showing the cycle of repeating your parents mistakes. My mother often talks about how she stresses about being a good parent and not making the same mistakes her mother did with her, and while she loves her mother dearly and knows she was only trying her best, she knows she was affected by those choices And I guess I just think that these are extremely valuable lessons to be teaching kids. That family doesn’t always look or feel warm and happy to everyone, that grownups make mistakes, and that children suffer under these circumstances.
I wanted to see the raccoons in the short die so badly
@@r4ls3i7 why
@@r4ls3i7 Jesus man
"All that I have, all that I've learned, everything I feel... all this, and more, I... I bequeath you, my son. You will carry me inside you, all the days of your life. You will make my strength your own, and see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father the son." - Jor El - Superman (1978)
@@r4ls3i7 what. the. fuck.
Finally, a disney review by schaff that isn't him masterfully dissing the movie. Also that fake out at the start really got me.
Hi! Artist here! just thought I'd chip in that one of the reasons Encanto is so amazing visually is its impeccable use of color theory. So, the color green is (generally) associated with evil characters. There are exceptions, but generally if you see something glowing green, it's not a good sign. So not only is Bruno's character a subversion from a storytelling point of view, it is also a subversion from a visual point of view. Not only that but, generally when you want to show contrast between to characters you out them in opposing colors. And guess what color Abuela is wearing? Red. The opposite color of Bruno. Also, the different children and their families respectively have a color for their outfits. So, Mirabel's family is all in blue, Pepa's family is all wearing yellow, and Bruno, of course, is green. I'm not sure if this is very interesting to anybody, but I just think it's really neat.
Disney themselves usually use green to indicate evil.
I think it's also very interesting how mirabel is the only family member to have the color schemes of every madrigal. she's the only madrigal to have green in her color scheme other than bruno. it's also her glasses that are green, which is interesting to me, because of how she's the only one that can see bruno for who he actually is initially. she's the one that brings the family together
@@EatyourWafflesplease Trueeee I didn’t even think about that!!
I think a good part of this movie is how in the beginning the all the children are referred to by their gifts, further separating mirabelle but also showing how nobody sees these children outside of their powers. Luisa is the “strong one” that’s what she’s know for. Not for her girly nature, not for her kindness, not for her good dancing. For something that can be seen as a burden. Isabelle(Isabella can’t remember) I’d the perfect flower girl. Further pushing these expectations onto her. Their not described by their personality because as far as people are concerned these gifts are their personality they don’t have one outside of their “gifts”.
If you where to ask a townsperson what Luisa is like they would just say “strong”
Isabelle would Be “perfect”
And mirabelle would be “the one without a gift”
Yup it’s so sad. The director said on twitter something like- everyone is known for one thing. Just like in life.
And I appreciate that they showed it as well. When you rewatch the movie, you can see even from the beginning that both sisters are already cracking under the pressure. (Isabella cringes whenever her boyfriend is brought up). The movie had a lot of great "show don't tell (or tell very little)" moments in it, which seems rare in movies nowadays.
It’s Mirabel** and Isabela**
Mirabelle in Spanish would sound like Mirabeye in English
@@J11_boohoo oh thank you I didn’t quite now how to spell it
I’m honestly amazed how well fleshed out all the characters are. There are twelve family members and several other characters, but even the minor characters have their own personality and struggles. It truly feels like a dynamic family where not everything revolves around the protagonist.
coming in a while after this video was posted, i’m glad to say that “we don’t talk about bruno” has actually surpassed “let it go” in terms of topping the charts. much better of a song i’d say
Literally "Family Madrigal", "Surface Pressure", and "We Don't Talk About Bruno" have lived in my head rent free since I saw the movie. Ain't no way you called the song selection "not the best".
Family madrigal was pretty good, but surface pressure and we don’t talk about Bruno (especially we don’t talk about Bruno but still surface pressure) were absolute masterpieces
Surface pressure made it for me to get Luisa live in my head rent free as well, I relate to her a lot and honestly I feel like she's so iconic ciksksnsnsnsn
He edited his review of it on Letterboxd to say that the music has grown on him and he loves the movie even more now
@@80s_graffiti what a dub
See I think he feels pretty much the same as I did just after watching: I liked the songs but I didn’t really realize how much because they hadn’t grown on me and after frozen II I was a little burnt out from having a song every three minutes. After a few days they’ve grown on me sooo much (the “we don’t talk about rats” meme didn’t hurt either lol)
The part about it being a metaphor for gifted students hit me really hard because it completely recontextualized the movie for me. In that sense, I basically went through the same thing as Luisa, feeling like I was slowly losing my gift as tests began to feel difficult for the first time in my life when I got into high school and how that affected my sense of identity and self worth. Damn.
Right? While watching the movie that’s exactly what I thought about. The extent to which I related to Luisa’s song was uncanny. Being the oldest sibling between a split family with struggling parents and also being gifted, expectations are high. Her song brought me to tears.
Colombian here throwing some facts on why I absolutely loved and cried with every second of this movie:
I swear every frame has something you can identify with: the clothes, the architecture, the food, the fruits, the trees, the chigüiro, the music, the sewing machines, the sandals, the colorful river, the plates, the fireworks, the yellow butterflies, the candles, the fucking emmeralds Mirabel finds; the attention to detail is so amazing that even on the background you find something amazing that references your culture and represents you.
The fact that the story (while obviously not shown in full detail because this is still disney) references the internal displacement of a war we had to endure for over 60 years and just ended a couple of years ago and that hurt so many people, that song make me cry like a fucking baby.
Also the fact that everyone on theater was vibing to almost every song because most of them are based on genres we tend to like and dance to a lot was amazing.
Ah bueno pa' saber 👍
I'm Colombian from my father's side but I was born here in America so I don't know much about my culture. But seeing it being represented in this movie made me so happy because I learned a bit about my culture. I remember my mom and older sister crying because they were so happy about us being represented. I heard my sister burst into tears when she saw Antonio (the animal-whisperer kid I believe) because we are also afro-latina and it meant a lot to her. To both of us actually.
Not Colombian but Venezuelan and very excited to watch this movie. I probably won’t be able to find culture in as many aspects as you did, but our countries are pretty close and it’s been a while since an animated movie touched on Latino aspects, so I’m hopeful!
Not sure why but the scene where Pedro gets caught by the men in the horses and it showed one of them carrying a machete just entirely broke me. I haven’t been directly affected by the conflicts but I always heard of the things that happened far from the capital. Like, most of my family actually left their hometown because of the guerrilla presence nearby.
It blew my mind all the details they put that would go over the heads of most people who never been to Colombia they showed so much love to Colombia and its culture
I love how each character feels real, and so full of personality, without needing much character development to get there and without feeling exaggerated.
The way they move, dance, act, feels like someone you know in real life. You could imagine an uncle who acts and dances like Felix does, or an aunt listening in to family drama like Dolores. They made them ooze with character. Each one has their own distinct style.
As a Latinamerican guy, I just love this movie! The matriarchy is a classical kind of family structure in this part of the world, a very nice touch there.
Also, i think the name of the movie is very clever: "Encanto" can mean "Spell" or "Charm", but also it means "lure" or "hoax". The family had a lie hidden during the generations, which finally causes the conflict, the loss of the magic... Only when the lie was discovered and the family is reconstructed with hard work, only then the magic, the Encanto, returns.
Another fun thing about the word “Encanto” it can also be heard as “en canto” which means “in song” ;]
I’m from South East Asia but my family also has a matriarchy family dynamic as well, my titas and mom plan a lot of things especially during family occasions and I could see resemblances of my family compared to the Madrigals!
@@peaceofpie94 I'm a native Spanish speaker and I didn't caught up on that. That makes it two wordplays in one LETS GOOOOO
Yeah was so good they did that with the title, I also seen the en canto reference and didn’t realise the lure or hoax meaning till my mum pointed it out to me
I hope u talk more about the backstory of grandma, which is a big and important point on why grandma has always pressure the family that much into using their gifts to help the town. And that backstory shows the violence in Colombia
I haven’t watched the movie wat 😦
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Yes, that is so so important
@@exammole4545 You really should watch it. The grandmother's past is a key point in the movie, so spoiling it wouldn't help you that much.
As a mexican I think one thing I love more about this movie than Coco is that I can name and fell in love with every family member from the Madrigals! I feel like they somehow gave moments to every character enough for me to remember at least one thing they all said and what they can do which Coco failed with Miguel's cousins and uncles/aunts (and even his parents lmao i just remember the mom was pregnant and thats it)
Here I have my favorites because la tía Pepa reminds me soooo much of like 3 of my aunts back in Sinaloa with her mannerisms its impressive lol, Camilo reminds me of me when I was younger and used to scare my cousins around with ghost stories and even Bruno reminds me so much of one of my uncles who was really quirky and fun to be around until he passed away, its just lil details that i think most of latinos can relate to with their families and Colombian culture is beautifully represented even in the instruments and rhythms you hear in each song!
Overall I think disney is doing a beautiful job with latino representation so far with those two movies and its just... comforting to see it after all the narco/violent/kinda racist rep ive seen before. Truly thankful
😭😭😭 Yes!!! I'm mexican too and the one I related to the most was Luisa with her expectations song as the eldest daughter who had to become the second mother to my sister and brothers the moment I could walk😭😭 I think it hits close to home to many latino americanos❤️❤️
another mexican here - exactly this! i loved seeing members of my own family in the madrigals. pepa and felix's relationship really reminded me of my aunt and uncle, even down to their dancing and physical appearance. bruno, camilo and antonio all remind me of my uncle and cousins, and mirabel, isabela and luisa all remind me of myself. it just makes me so happy to see such a beautiful representation of latino culture
i'm honduran but this movie is VERY refreshing, i love it so much
Yo no, inche película aburrida jaja
Is Encanto set in Mexico? It reminded me more of Columbia
Fun fact: "we don't talk about Bruno" is STILL top 3 in trending for music.
Hold up, lets get surface pressure on there too. It deserves more respect.
I usually agree with this crab guy, but I am sorry “We don’t talk about Bruno” is a masterpiece. I will not accept any objections.
Same
Agree
Yes totally, I was taken aback when he said the songs were underwhelming.
You are correct, my friend
Agreed
I loved how it didn't include a "twist villian" but more of a "twist good guy" as it made us think that Bruno might just be the bad guy.
Ngl the grandma not wanting to do with her “failure” of a grand daughter hit home for me a lot. Mexican families disown you the moment you dont live up to their expectations.
Kinda like Miguel from Coco.
This is not Mexico
@@Marianoejar didn’t say it was.
@@Marianoejar its in your heart
Wait a minute...
My only complaint (if it even is a complaint, moreso a wish lol) that the runtime was longer for we could see more of the characters. Also I am glad I am not the only one who thought the Trailers were a bit misleading making it feel like a huge adventure, when the setting was in actuality very centered around the house. (Not upset by it turning out to be like that but I wish the Trailers weren’t deceiving!) Overall I really love this movie, and I want to rewatch it!
(Also did anyone get neurodivergent vibes from Bruno? He was so relatable, funny and cute! God this movie is great.)
Yeah, based on the trailers I did NOT want to see this movie. It just didn’t look good. It seemed like another cliche adventure, and the family’s gifts just felt too gimmicky. But I heard so many good things about it, and I’m really glad I saw it. I love this movie so much, I can’t get the songs out of my head, 11/10 film. I really can’t put into words how much I love this movie. It’s so incredible.
Yea I still really dislike the trailer they put out for this movie, it originally completely put me off seeing it until I saw some fan art and song clips and went to see it on a whim yesterday and fell in love!
Bruno is neurodivergant as fuck - from someone who's currently getting tested for autism he really struck a chord with me
Yeah I feel like Bruno fits with the spectrum! Some things he does kinda backs it up! (eg. when he changes from topic to topic, and when he knocks on objects to calm himself down! I have some friends that have aspergers :), so i could see a connection)
i remember being super interested in how all of those scenes shown in the trailer would happen. i thought the story was huge and over the top fantastical. i was disappointed when i realized it wasn't like that and i had kinda been mislead... however the movie was still so good!! i totally agree with you
I like that she doesn’t get a gift even in the end, it is typical to have the character get a gift later print and it always loses the whole meaning of the plot when they do
*cough cough* umbrella academy
@@alexandraeagle2825 ....
Umbrella academy is hardly this.
The whole point of the plot wasn't that Vanya didn't have powers. It was that the fucking world was ending and they didn't know why.
@@alexandraeagle2825 the point of umbrella academy wasn't that Vanya didn't have powers, she did, it was the fact that her "father" was afraid that she would be more powerful than him and she had more power than he could deal with, so instead he had Allison erase her memories. The whole point was that it wasn't fair for Reginald to do that. He shouldn't have excluded her from her siblings and made her feel unwanted. He shouldn't have made her the outcast just because she was the most powerful one.
That was my main problem with the ending. They had all lost their powers and learned to work like normal people but they just randomly got their powers back in the end
@@teokaucher8619 the literal magic of the house burns off of family love.
"Mirabel, what's going on here? Who's this very funny rat man sitting next to you?"
"This is my tio, Bruno."
*"I'm Ernando and I'm scared of nothing!"*
"... I'm, sorry. I guess his name is actually Ernando-"
*"Shh. I'm Jorge and I make the spackle."*
my only problem with this movie is that it basically has no 3rd act. we hit the climax and the resolution at the same time, and i think that 15-25 minutes would've helped this movie so much. Still, a 9/10 movie an so close to being a masterpiece.
Absolutely! the pacing really started to deteriorate after the new prophecy was made... could've been perfect if they'd given the movie a longer runtime
i completely agree! i got to the end of the movie and was so surprised that there wasn't even a little more! 15-25 minutes would have been perfect
I got really confused with how fast the resolution hit, felt extremely rushed to me, but I feel to extend it they would really probably need to go into emotional territory that is too heavy to be child friendly, so they just cut to them resolving their differences and trying to move forward together. That makes it really hard for me to say if a longer runtime would've been a good call, because as an adult seeing a character immediately jumping to forgiving a character who has mistreated them for most of their life just because the person has experienced trauma comes across as not a great message and going into the process of repairing the relationship properly would've been better, but that feels like it would be too heavy for those 15-25 minutes for a film that is meant to be child friendly
This is the reason why I personally don't like this movie. They spent so much time trying to figure out what's wrong with the magic that by the time they figure out what to do, the movie was pretty much already over. It was so dragged on that I just found the movie boring. I straight up said, "Is that it?" out loud when the credits started rolling.
If they had cut out some fluff to move the destruction of the house to be much earlier, the grandma could have more time to reflect on where she went wrong and the movie would've been much better for it.
@@AeridisArt
You missed the point. It's literally not about the magic, the magic is just there for story conflict. The real thing this movie is about is the family and the generational trauma the grandmother passed down to her children. Sorry there wasn't some big boring fight to keep you entertained lmao
I really wish this movie came out when I was younger -- allowing the main character to start without great powers and END without them as well was SO wonderful to see! You don't need to hit greatness to be special and important! And I really enjoyed the deeper (than usual for disney) pitch the women got to sing at for "we don't talk about bruno" and "surface pressure"
I was so worried she'd get powers at the end. So happy she ended without them, too! I got real worried when they handed her the doorknob lol
Yes!!! This movie had similar story lines like other Disney movies but what Enchanto did different is that it didn’t mess up the messages at the end by granting Mirable powers or by undermining the generational trauma, etc, etc. they let the story and main points exist without “resolving” them like a lot of other movies do and I think that makes the messages even stronger.
I was also scared that Mirabel would get some gift at the end, knowing full well it would be some OP and unspecific type of thing. Thank the lord that didn’t happen.
@@Mikescool444 I was just waiting for her to go full Scarlet Witch and become the most OP character ever but I'm SO glad they didn't. It makes the message more poignant.
I’m not crying. I’ve just got some of Bruno’s sand in my eyes. Your explaination has me sobbing and I fell even more deeply in love with it. This is such a fantastic film.
“All of the songs are good, but not the best by Disney standards”
These are honestly some of the best songs a Disney film has made in a long time in my opinion
i've had 'we don't talk about Bruno' stuck in my head for agesss so i agree haha
As a Colombian, the attention to detail musically and the incorporation of the musical culture of the country into the movies songs is incredible, using a Waltz due to its odd time signature for the ‘I want song’ in order to showcase she feels out of place is amazing, making ‘we don’t talk about bruno’ a bambuco in order to showcase that beautiful sason rhythm is marvelous and having the emotional crescendo of the film carried by a beautiful Spanish sung ballad was incredible. Best Disney score I’ve heard.
I think a lot of Encanto's songs had some of the same Lin issues as "Vivo" did. But I think they were still a bop, just not as great as lik Moana.
@@waterwraith1189 haven’t seen vivo, what issues does it have?
The songs are good in a musical theater advancing the plot context. Which makes it weird when they show up on the pop charts. Surface Pressure is the only song with an actual hook.
As a Colombian I actually kinda liked the way they used the setting of the movie, because it didn’t try to appropriate our culture, it just kinda had small jokes and references that only we would understand, something that Pixar has never gotten right in my opinion
True that
I actually HATE musicalls, but had to endure this one due to me being colombian too lol, best risk I took in a while!
How does one appropriate culture through movies?
@@rsotuyo15 Indiana jones
@@rsotuyo15 disney is famous for copyrighting cultural aspects of certain places they show in movies. Like common names on Aladdin, or how they tried with Día de los muertos when making Coco
I bet you didn't understood mexican joke we understood.
I saw colombian reviews and coments, people liked this, but "it wasn't that colombian" and wanted it to be more like Coco. Funny.
I’m happy to hear that this movie broke Disney’s losing streak. Hopefully future Disney movies will be just as good, if not, even better going forward.
No, this is how modern Disney has always been, occasionally making one good animated movie, then later make some dozens of bad sequels and live action remakes, then go back to making one good movie again, rinse and repeat.
@@ryantheanimator1156Yeah unfortunately, them keeping up a streak isn’t very likely.
Hard disagree though. Soul was great, Luca was great, Toy Story 4 was alright, Onward was meh, but none of them were bad. They've never been on a losing streak really
@@deejaydee1578 werent most of the ones you listed pixar (yes i know disney owns them but pixar is still its own thing )
Losing streak? Soul and raya were really good. Morons just love to hop on the Hate train against Disney.
It’s amazing after a terrible Disney film and two mediocre Disney films, Encanto appeared out of the blue and gave us an amazing and well-written story.
It sucks that Encanto is surrounded by a lot of mediocre movies. It’s an amazing movie, but not a lot of people acknowledge it because of the bad movies surrounding it
Ikr. I really hope they bring the writers of Encanto back for future Disney projects, or take notes from them.
@@Frogcoveni really hope so. Everyone loved Encanto when it first came over, but now people don’t hesitate to say that Disney hasn’t made a good movie in recent years, even tho Encanto was only 2 years ago and only proceeds 2 other movie animated Disney movies
I also love how they made the house it’s own entity and gave it personality. You really don’t see that done much and it’s a breath of fresh air.
The house was the best character in this movie and I can fight me on this.
I gotta say, that grandma should _not_ have been forgiven so easily. She guilt-tripped her own son so badly (Bruno) that he was living in the walls of his own house, and whaddya know, she didn't even apologize!
Edit: This comment has sparked quite a debate in the comments, so I feel like it'd be helpful to summarize all three sides here to avoid repeat comments.
Opinion One (From myself and various others): That what the Grandma did was intentional for various reasons, and that her implied apology at the end of the film was either faked or a manipulative tactic; in addition, that Grandma was and still is the villain of Encanto, albeit a subtle one. EDIT: As is pointed out by @ dasmysteryman25, the means and motive do not justify the end.
Opinion Two (From several commenters): That the apology was sincere and that Grandma's toxic influence on her family was unintentional, and that her actions were due to her trauma; in addition, the Grandma should be regarded as a redeemed villain, and that it was a good ending.
Opinion Three (From Latino commenters with personal experience): That whether the Grandma's actions were deliberate or not are irrelevant, and that the average Columbian family would roll with the apology regardless of consequences so as to simply smooth the surface problem out; this means that whether Grandma is the villain or not is also irrelevant, for reasons I don't fully understand, and would appreciate further input on.
(ADDITION: From commenter @M A; "I come from a cultural background that is quite similar to a Latino’s, so I can probably try to elaborate on Opinion 3. Personally, that sort of family would immediately roll with the apology. Why? A lot of people have their own reasons why, but this reason is a common one for these sorts of families.
Most families in this sort of culture are very religious. They adhere to the biblical 10 commandments very seriously on the surface. And what is on the 10 commandments but the infamous “Honor your father and mother, and you will live long in this land,” which basically translates to - whatever your parents or grandparents ever did to you, you need to cut them some slack because they’re older and because Jesus says so. People find it easier to forgive her because of this.
Just a note here - I’m not gonna be one of those atheists who provoke a comment war by saying “But the Bible is just fiction! Christianity is stupid!” nor will I try to promote it like a Christian on steroids. I’m only stating the effects of religion into a specific culture, and its effects on a specific household.
Lastly, it’s such a hassle to get mad at older people who are currently spending their retirement. Chances are, they probably won’t learn anything if they get the consequences, so might as well just forgive them, and make everyone’s life easier."
If I've misrepresented any side here, please let me know and I'll make the appropriate change to this statement.
To those coming here, the comment section below - for once - isn't a bare-knuckle no-holds-barred competition to see who can insult the other more creatively (although that does sound like a fun idea for a TH-cam video). Your opinion will hopefully be acknowledged and taken into consideration.
Postscript: I think i might start a Discord server for mediated discussion from opposing sides about films. This entire comment section is fantastic - barring one or two incidents, you've all kept your argument concise and polite! Thank you very much.
Honestly if you google domestic abuse (specifically terms such as Golden Child, Scapegoat, and Blameshifting) you'll find that the grandma uses just about every manipulative trick in the book!
I AGREE WITH THIS SO MUCH!!!!! I came out of the cinema enraged that Grandma got such a pass. She created two generations of toxicity, and then it was like, No Worries Babe, We All Make Mistakes. I think it was the only thing about this film that I truly disliked. I can accept her being forgiven, but only if more work had been put into her redemption
i agree but this is pretty realistic with latino families , no apologies and only forgiveness . its frustrating but makes sense as to why they chose that ending tbh
@@liasbiggestfan5053 ....they're Columbian tho
Edit: It has come to my attention that Columbians are in fact Latino. Please forgive my lack of brain cells both here and further down the comment section - I didn't notice until comment 64 or thereabouts.
@@liasbiggestfan5053 yeah but just because it's normal doesn't mean it's right to have it as the ending
I do wish that they had established that Abuela’s part to play was something like the guardian of the miracle/magic candle. It’s visually represented, but not verbally established. Then, Mirabel’s part to play could have been to take over as the guardian. So, Abuela could have just misinterpreted the door fading, since Mirabel was supposed to open the front door, because she’s overseeing the entire house. Establishing an extra strong bond between Casita and Mirabel could have helped with that as well.
Also, it should have been named The Family Madrigal.
I don't know about this. I think there's strength in letting the audience figure all this out. Telling it visually like they did is 100x more powerful than straight-up saying it.
3:03 what a brilliant multi-tasker Schafrillas is giving us a movie review while also fighting Maui.
I'm glad that Disney is doing more movies like this, engrossing themselves in Latin culture.
Disney's had a long history of paying tribute to Latin American culture- I remember watching Saludos Amigos and The Three Cabelleros as a kid.
they're are realizing how our cultures are so interesting and gorgeous, but it gives me the shivers to think what disney is capable of, when trying to appropiate or copyright it :( (them trying to copyright dia de los muertos flashbacks)
I would like to see them cover more of Latin America, they seem to have a good track record with movies centered around Latin America.
Yes but they still go like :
South America = Amazon
I don't like Disney as a Latina. They pander too much to white people with showing us off as zoo animals and not as people. Plus I won't support this movie because Disney has been recently using the racial slur Latinx.
I watched this movie last night with my dad and two younger sisters and I thought the movie was great. Great message, great animation, great songs. I got pretty upset because I felt I connected so much with it and even cried some while my dad’s only comment about it was “I didn’t get it.” It just felt super defeating that he didn’t see anything that was actually happening.
Even the short before it hit close to home and I teared up some too
the short literally made me sob before the show even fucking started 😭 far from the tree is actually one of the best shorts pixar has ever done, hands fucking down
@@Child_Friendly_Child_I_Swear yes, it was amazing! I really like how it broke the Disney convention of having talking animals, and instead focused on visual storytelling. Although, it's a Disney Animation Studios short, not a Pixar one - but I see how it feels like a Pixar short.
Dude I feel the same way I literally just got out of the theater with my mom and brother and I’m fighting for my life trying to say that this is a good movie. They hated it for some reason
Sorry but that short wasnt short... it was like 10 minutes long and felt like 20. Glad to know though someone liked it though.
@@eddieanderson9399 youre like the first person ive seen say they didnt like the racoon short
I had a similar experience with this film. I walked in expecting nothing but a decently fun Disney movie. I barely kept track of it and genuinely thought it was coming around Christmas before 2 days ago. And yet I walked away from it feeling genuinely emotional and wanting to see it again. Incredible film!
It’s incredibly impressive that the main problems with this movie are the things that AREN’T there, rather than the things that are.
Things like a song for Dolores and Camillo would be a good addition, and would only add 15/20 min to the runtime, in a movie that’s sorta short, would be a great addition.
Maybe a couple more scenes with Bruno and Mirabel, or Antonio, and Camillo seemed pretty funny, and is a bit of missed potential.
Overall: 9/10
Amazing Movie, but could use some additions.
Pretty much sums it up.
You described one of the very reasons I want a good TV show sequel of this movie. I would very much like for it to be a slice of life series.
as someone who related to both the siblings and mirabel, due to being a “gifted” kid who grew up into a burnt out, depressed adult who was no longer seen as “gifted”, these characters hit so hard. disney really concisely nailed these characters in one go.
I went into this movie completely blind, I only saw one teaser. What I expected was some kind of magical journey meeting new people to save the magic. I never thought it would go the route it did. I was so shocked that it took the route it did, that when the movie was over, I stopped and verified I was watching the right movie, because this is the anti disney movie.
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I feel like this movie especially spoke to children of immigrants or parents that have gone through extreme trauma themselves. As children you see how much they’ve sacrificed and how hard they worked to get you far more than they had so it feels like you owe it to them to take some of the brunt of their trauma in exchange. But often that’s not tenable after years, something’s gotta give and sometimes it’s the whole relationship. It was nice to see that generational trauma be broken with a happy ending.
As a Cuban-American, that's the part that hit me the hardest.
I just was watching Fruits Basket and Encanto just reminded me a little of it.