Review – Encanto

What a beautiful, awful movie. The story is absolutely uncomfortable: a magical family lives in a magical house. They bully the sister who doesn’t have magic powers, and they ostracize the brother whose gift is precognition of bad fortune. Sure, by the end everybody learns to be better people in an oh-so-Disney way. But it’s a long, sad time getting there. On the other hand, the visuals are incredibly complex and colorful. I wish there had been a way to watch the animation without following the plot at all. Mildly amusing