Vivo (2021)
Directed by Kirk DeMicco
A music-loving kinkajou named Vivo embarks on the journey of a lifetime to fulfill his destiny and deliver a love song for an old friend.
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“Vivo” is lifted by having the music-composition talents of Miranda, who previously contributed his gifts to the 2016 Walt Disney Animation Studios hit “Moana.”
But that sort of over-cranked earnestness fits this material like a glove, just as it did with Moana back in 2016.
Best known for the stage play Hamilton, Miranda was one of the driving forces behind Disney’s 2016 release Moana, which hauled in a quarter billion dollars in the U.S. and more than $600 million worldwide.
What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Vivo may bring to mind other family favorites like Coco , Soul , Kubo and the Two Strings, Tangled , and even Finding Nemo .
Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in animated musical Vivo , written and directed by The Croods ’ Kirk DeMicco and co-directed by Brandon Jeffords.
Written by Quiara Alegria Hudes (Miranda's collaborator on "In the Heights" ), and directed by Kirk DeMicco ("The Croods") and co-director Brandon Jeffords, "Vivo" comes from Sony's animation arm, which produced the "Hotel Transylvania" series but hardly possesses Disney's storied legacy.
As it turns out, “In the Heights” wasn’t the only project from Lin-Manual Miranda’s pre-“Hamilton” days just itching to find its way onto the big screen and that musical’s cowriter, Quiara Alegría Hudes, returns here to flesh out his original songs and characters with “The Croods” director Kirk DeMicco into a colorful and energetic cross-generational and cross-cultural tale in which music is the language of love.
“What difference can one song make?” asks “Vivo,” a super-saturated, instant-classic musical cartoon from Kirk DeMicco, director of “The Croods,” featuring a whole bunch of catchy new songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda — a man who’s spent his career proving just how impactful clever music can be.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and the director of "The Croods" team up for a kid-friendly musical that starts on a high note before losing its rhythm.
Thanks to a sharp script by Quiara Alegría Hudes and The Croods filmmaker Kirk DeMicco, who also directs, the film is a comic delight as Miranda’s one-liners mostly land and Gabi remains the right side of infuriating.
Written by Quiara Alegria Hudes (Miranda's collaborator on "In the Heights" ), and directed by Kirk DeMicco ("The Croods") and co-director Brandon Jeffords, "Vivo" comes from Sony's animation arm, which produced the "Hotel Transylvania" series but hardly possesses Disney's storied legacy.