Review of Encanto (2021) by Sebastianali — 01 Mar 2022

This movie, is decent at best and extremely generic and forgettable at worst. While Mirabel and the Grandma were well developed and the movie has some emotional moments and nice visuals, all of this doesnt compensate by the fact that the movie lore is not exploited at all, remaining very simplistic overall and with a few plot holes here and there, like, we dont know why Mirabel doesnt recieve its gift, and why the house start to break in half movie. The songs, while good by themselves, they dont combine at all with the tone of the movie and they are just too much, padding the movie. A movie with this simplistic plot it should take much less than 2 hours. For last, the ending is one of the most forced and cliche endings I ever seen in a animated movie in a long time. With the house already destroyed, and the magic being gone, all of the people cries a bit, and later they decide to repair the house, and later it recovers the magic!!! Woowwowow, and happy ending!!! Wowowowowow. It was very predictable overall to be honest, and is a shame, because this movie shows that it wanted to introduce more unique things to it, but it never wants to be more than: meh, just magic and power of family love.

It shares some flaws with other recent Disney movies as well, like Coco, but Coco has a much more exploited lore and is just more interesting to watch, as well as more emotional, while Encanto feels like a downgrade of other animated movies with the same concept.