ENCANTO - we are obsessed!

[Jacarandamanda]

Our family love it (but biased as South American’s!)

Opinions!?

I know a lot who have said they think the story is quite weak

Needing glasses isn't usually a result of injury or illness though which is what I assume she can heal.

Bit like no one fixing harry potter's eyesight despite all the potions, spells and Phoenix tears!

I agree with a pp that it'd have been more magical if the magic hadn't come back and the house had stayed being simply the one the whole village came together to make.

I had the 'Why are they all still more special than everyone else?' question in my head after grandma had freely admitting being a controlling old sod

It was ok. DD (7) has watched the Croods more often over the holidays. She would have that on repeat if she could! We've had Encanto on 3 times i think.

It's pretty - all the colours.

DD loves Bruno song and asks Alexa to play it.

I think it's a rather long deep issueto fit into a disney film with so many songs. The wrap up, with sister ect, does feel rushed.

@SpacePotato

Needing glasses isn't usually a result of injury or illness though which is what I assume she can heal.

Bit like no one fixing harry potter's eyesight despite all the potions, spells and Phoenix tears!

I've just had a flashback to years ago, the first time i watched the first Harry Potter film - when Hermione fixes Harry's glasses on the train - i thought she was going to heal his actual eyesight! I'd forgotten that :)

Probably because her eyes have changed shape due to genetics. That is not an ailment. She's young. Noone suggests it's a degenerative eye condition.

Actually I have one criticism of the film! I don’t like the way that the only sister to have straight hair is the ‘perfect’ one 🙄

Also South American so biased so was ridiculously excited about another Latin American Disney film. I dragged my entire family out to see coco at the cinema.

I loved it, the colours and songs etc. But felt slightly disappointed in the story line. The kids and I have watched it a few times but not one of the strongest films.

I loved it (but then again, I do love most Disney and Pixar movies ...)

My only issue with the room is that I hope they allowed Mirabel to move from the nursery, even if she doesn't get her own magical room. Yes, she is fantastic with children (her younger cousin, and the town's children following her about at the start, and then helping to search for her etc), but it makes her seem like a glorified babysitter to be permanently in the nursery. I mean the grandma had no magical powers (other than being the matriarch), yet she seems to have had her own private sleeping arrangements.

Also, Dolores power seems rubbish - other than to possibly be able to hear if future invaders/attackers come again, how does her power help the rest of the town - I'd be too worried that she could hear all my secrets. It also freaked me out that she would have received her powers as a child (I believe they got them at 5?), and from that age onwards was able to hear the private situations in her parents, and aunt/uncle's bedroom. She must also have heard so many secrets over the years, and been able to keep them to herself (the biggest one being able to hear Bruno, of course!), then why did she suddenly get so freaked, at the engagement dinner party, after hearing Mirabel and her dad talk about the prophecy?

@thewitcherswife
As others have said I assume Mirabels mums cooking works more like an A&E and fixes accidents not genetics.

I also think her green glasses were a foreshadowing for Bruno whose eyes go the same shade of green when having a vision.

@HPandTheNeverEndingBedtimeP I also think her green glasses were a foreshadowing for Bruno whose eyes go the same shade of green when having a vision

Ooh, I like this!

Thanks everyone.
Been discussing it and thinking about it for a few days and hearing other people's thoughts and perspectives have been very interesting and I see all your points :)

I thought nowhere near as good as Moana or Coco.

What was the quest? Who knows?

@Comtesse

Pixar and Disney are essentially the same organism now. Disney is the brand for “princess” like films and Pixar covers everything else. The Pixar crew were so brilliant it was basically a reverse take over of Disney (on the movie side at least). I don’t think Encanto is a 5 film but we all liked it at the cinema and some of those songs are sticky!*
No, they remain separate studios (albeit both owned by Disney, but who isn’t these days), with separate personnel.

Pixar have done at least one Princess type film (Brave). Disney Animation Studios have done lots of non-princess ones (Wreck it Ralph, Zootopia and Big Hero 6 being recent ones).

There was some very pretty music in Moana, and a story of sorts.

@SkaterGrrrrl

I thought nowhere near as good as Moana or Coco.

What was the quest? Who knows?

To save the magic (by healing the family dysfunction).

It was a very domestic quest (to save a house and candle) that required her to find things out, visit new places (Bruno’s tower), find her uncle, her her sisters to find themselves.

There was clearly a plot. And it wasn’t hard to follow.

"dos oruguitas is a straightforward rip-off of little mermaid's 'under the sea', no? agree that the Bruno song is v strong, though."

@puffyisgood - I'm not musical so I could be missing something (and I haven't seen the little mermaid for ages) but I don't see the similarity here at all!

I said this elsewhere on MN, but I love Encanto. Other Disney Films are shallow and fairly similar.
Hero / princess has a problem, there's a romance, bit of a comedy side kick, a cute pet..
There's a quest and the problem is solved by end of movie.

Encanto flips that, barely even leave the house. And all the little details are amazing.
Delores has sound waves in her costume, Luisa has dumbbells on her skirt, Bruno has hourglass on his Cape etc.

I've watched it five times or more and still find new bits I hadn't seen before.

I LOVE it. Watched it with my 9 year old son who also liked it and then again with my 5 month old baby and I get the impression she would like to watch it again and again

I wasn't sore the first time I watched it, thought it was a bit weak and not as good as moana... But I wanted to watch it again, there was something about it and now I'm hooked! Definitely a grower. I remember now that I actually felt the same way about Moana the first time I watched it.

@CaveMum

I enjoyed it, though think “Coco” is better.

My two (4 & 7) preferred Ron’s Gone Wrong - they run around the house singing the “Dikka, dikka, dikka” song 🤣

Ron's Gone Wrong is hilarious!

Got around to watching it last night.

The animation is phenomenal.

The soundtrack isn’t quite to my taste but I can see why others would love it. The chorus to “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” is as catchy as anything they’ve put out in decades.

As another poster said, it was interesting that they eschewed going out on an adventure in favour of staying in the home, and the general themes were good and fairly unique in a children’s movie.

I do agree that the plot itself was a little limp though. There was a lot of exposition at the start, and I understand the story they were trying to tell, but it felt very underdeveloped.

Would absolutely recommend, but falls short of instant-classic for me.

It’s magical realism. Colombia is famous for it.

Read One Hundred Years of Solitude. Garcia Marquez employed the technique so well.

Encanto is carrying on that beautiful South American literary master stroke

I loved it but then I totally overanalysed it and felt a bit sad about it

It’s magical realism. Colombia is famous for it.
I’m not sure if this was a response to me but, in case it was, I know what magical realism is - I just thought the movie’s plot was a bit weak.

We enjoyed it! Don’t know if we’ll see it again. It depends on the DC. We saw Moses a few times and Coco, countless of times!

Really? I thought it was one of the weaker ones.