Encanto could have been a perfect little movie if it hadn't succumbed to the pressure to, every once in a while, become a manically twerking TikTok instead. Oscars
animated musical, would’ve been a perfect little movie, had two pressures not been exerted on it. The first is the pressure to end happiestly. Notending, never acceptable, is one in which every last disappointment or injustice or regret is, at the very last moment, vanquished as if by—if not literally by—magic, robbing the audience of the opportunity to sit with the beautiful, aching feelings they’d been preparing to sit with the whole time.
Yes, dance. As in, move their bodies in time to music, often for no better reason than that they can. In “’s catchiest tune, one of the Madrigal sisters, Luisa, sings about the pressure—so much pressure—to be strong for the whole family. She means this both physically and emotionally, as Luisa’s superpower is superstrength, and also because Lin-Manuel Miranda isn’t a subtle lyricist. “Pressure like a grip, grip, grip and it won’t let go, whoa,” she sings.
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