{"id":19070,"date":"2022-05-08T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19070"},"modified":"2022-05-09T21:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T01:03:39","slug":"encanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/encanto\/","title":{"rendered":"Encanto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Maybe your gift is being in denial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Encanto<\/strong>, released in 2021<\/p>\n<p>Everyone in Mirabel&#8217;s family has a magic gift, except for her. Fifty years ago a candle produced a miracle &#8212; a town for refugees to live in. And the Madrigal family has been helping the town with their miracles ever since. Now it&#8217;s time for Antonio to step up to the magic door and receive his gift, and then there&#8217;s a big party. When Mirabel sees cracks in the Casa Madrigal, no one believes her because they&#8217;re gone by the time they get back.<\/p>\n<p>This is a gloriously animated Disney movie, with delightful songs. In most musicals some songs are better than others, but in this one they&#8217;re thrilling and often hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>In the scene with Bruno in his room, the rats are very funny.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about understanding and accepting that you&#8217;re not perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Stars the voices of Stephanie Beatriz, Mar\u00eda Cecilia Botero, and John Leguizamo. Directed by Jared Bush (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/zootopia\/\"><strong>Zootopia<\/strong><\/a>), Byron Howard (<strong>Zootopia<\/strong>), and Charise Castro Smith (writer of the TV movie <strong>The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez<\/strong>). The score is by Germaine Franco, with songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Maybe your gift is being in denial.&#8221; Encanto, released in 2021 Everyone in Mirabel&#8217;s family has a magic gift, except for her. Fifty years ago a candle produced a miracle &#8212; a town for refugees to live in. And the Madrigal family has been helping the town with their miracles ever since. Now it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,9,6,51,5],"class_list":["post-19070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-musical","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19070"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19081,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions\/19081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}