Lin-Manuel Miranda has another hit song on his hands. Disney's latest animated film, Encanto, has soared to the top of the Billboard charts and has managed to dethrone one of the most popular songs from Frozen.
Hitting close to home, it is no surprise that its soundtrack, "We Don't Talk About Bruno," has easily become the highest-charting song from a Disney animated movie in 26 years, surpassing Oscar-winning song "Let It Go" from another Disney hit movie "Frozen."
While Encanto needed at least $300 million to break even, factoring in its budget, marketing expenses, and theaters' share of revenues, it made only $96 million domestically and $161 million internationally before its arrival on Disney+. Fortunately once Encanto was released to Disney+, it quickly became a hit.
The soundtrack reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart dated January 15, 2022, dethroning Adele's 30 (2021) by earning 72,000 album-equivalent units, which comprises 88 million streams and 11,000 album sales.
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They're not exactly “the magic was in you all along” sort of stories but you can see them from here. However, there are some very stark differences and I think those differences make Encanto a fundamentally weaker film than Moana. As I said, Moana is set squarely in high mythology.
As the theory explained, "Because Mirabel already had the brains to take over as matriarch, she didn't need a gift bestowed by the house, so it gifted the brawn and the beauty to her sisters so that the three of them make the perfect group to lead the family into the future." According to the theory, the reason why ...
While there are theories about Mirabel's hidden gift, the movie emphasizes that her intelligence and problem-solving abilities are her true gift. She doesn't need external magic to make a difference. The focus of Encanto is on self-acceptance and finding one's true purpose.
Deadline Hollywood said the marketing failed to distinguish the film from other Disney properties, causing audience members to believe that it would be similar to Coco. /Film was critical of Disney's merchandising, most of which featured Mirabel and Isabela.
Encanto needed at least $300 million to break even. Unfortunately, Encanto hit cinemas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Encanto earned $96 million domestically and $161 million internationally before landing on Disney+. Encanto (especially its soundtrack) was such a phenomenon that its failures were willingly ignored.
Encanto is a fantastic adventure full of magic, but it's also a story about self-acceptance that covers several serious topics, such as toxic family dynamics, transgenerational trauma, and mental illness.
But according to Quora user Gabriel Bell, the films, while existing in two separate worlds, share multiple story elements that practically make them cousins in terms of narrative. Encanto even throws in a direct reference to Frozen when Bruno tells his sister Pepa to "let it go."
WINNER: Frozen 3 / Encanto 3 It's impossible to pick one movie over the other. Both are equally great in terms of storytelling, characters, and themes, and both were the defining cultural phenomena of their time. “Frozen” is an undeniable classic, and “Encanto” is the hot new thing taking the world by storm.
Disney's Encanto, which tells the story of the magical Madrigals, doesn't have a bad guy, but one theory speculates that Dolores was the secret villain all along. Mirabel Madrigal (Stephanie Beatriz) is the only Madrigal family member in Encanto who doesn't get a magical gift.
Abuela treasures the ceremony in which the future generations get their gift, and when Mirabel doesn't receive one, she becomes cold towards her, despite not overtly having a gift herself. She is also harsh on other members of the Madrigal family, but Mirabel becomes distinctively left out.
Lastly, there's Mirabel's door. We're led to believe that it dissolved when Mirabel was a little girl because she was denied a gift. Every other person in her family got to open their door, receive their gift, and get a gigantic magical room that's the stuff of dreams.
“Luca” has been as well-received by audiences and critics as “Encanto.” Both “Encanto” and “Luca” currently hold a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and “Luca” holds a 7.5 rating on IMDb based on user votes, higher than the 7.3 “Encanto” has there.
Encanto is a musical and a much more intimate story about family. Raya is a good movie, but those qualities make Encanto more appealing to the average Disney fan. I can see Raya eventually slotting itself in the same "underrated cult classic" status as Atlantis and Treasure Planet.
Disney's latest animated feature, Encanto, features a nod to Moana that's even better than merely a fun Easter egg. In fact, there's a surprisingly large number of Disney Easter eggs in Encanto, with references to everything from Hercules to Wall-E.
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