*"We don't talk about Bruno..BUT we do sing about him."* -The Madrigals, except for Abuela

Fun Fact: Stephanie Beatriz (The voice actor who portrays Mirabel) was 9 months pregnant when she recorded waiting on a miracle, she gave birth about 48 hours after her final recording of the song!

I always saw Mirabel's voice kinda straining with "Waiting On A Miracle" because she was physically holding back her grief at being brushed aside by her family. She's keeping herself together through pure force of will, and the fact Stephanie Beatriz can communicate that in her singing without actually crying, since that would make her voice all stuffy, is incredibly impressive. Also, in regards to Dolores and privacy, the writers confirmed that Dolores' room is completely soundproofed.

i really don't see many people mention it, but in the very beginning when Abeula is talking about what she went through losing her husband, it's glossed over, and the animation reflects that. Later on, when mirabel see's what she went through, you get the full animation, the pain and agony as she watches her love be taken from her, brings her to her knees. So heart wrenching.

Mirabel didn't get a gift because she's a gift herself. She's the magic. She didn't get her own room but Casita is hers.

Fun fact: Lin-Manuel Miranda wanted Mirabel's "Waiting on a miracle" to feel out of sync with the family thus making it more true to Mirabel's reality. He wrote this track in a 3/4 measurement, while the rest of the family solo and group songs were written in 2/4 and 4/4. I think that's a very cool detail.

8:04 Fun fact no one asked for: The lady saying "Luisa, can you reroute the river?" is voiced by Sarah Nicole-Robles, who has done background/scratch voicework for Disney for yeeears, and now she's best known as the voice of Luz Noceda on the beloved Disney show, "The Owl House!"

no matter how many times i watch this my eyes release buckets at "we see how bright you burn, we see how brave you've been" every freaking time!!!

random detail that stuck out to me about this movie: The family photo that Mirabel gets excluded from in the beginning looks very rehearsed and everyone with a very visual gift is demonstrating their powers in the photo (Luisa lifting a big rock, Isabela's flower petals, etc), but the final family portrait in the end is just them all standing together as a family, without any of that polish or fanfare. Goes to show that even in something as simple as a family photo there was pressure on everyone to be a certain way and make the family look good.

When the kids find out Mirabel doesnt have powers and one girl goes "If I were you I'd be really sad". That is such a kid thing to say. Completely honest and brutal! I found that both funny and very accurate!

I love that while everyone else reacts to the "Was Hercules ever like, 'yo, I don't wanna fight Cerberus?'" line, you instead reacted to the next line which always caught me as the more impactful line, "I'm pretty sure I'm worthless if I can't be of service." Also, Bruno's room. I always saw it as being kind of weird and broken because his connection with the rest of the family is severed.

21:42 This movie touched the hearts of SO MANY Colombianos who saw it because it sheds light on Colombia's very tragic, bloodshed-filled history and the sacrifices many people made to keep their families alive and hopefully let them have a future, like Abuelo Pedro did. It helps un-erase something from a lesser-known country's history that many people haven't wanted to talk about because honestly, ... it's very painful and so, so hard.

During Luisa's song ("Surface Pressure"), you caught what a LOT of people seem to miss - the line "I'm pretty sure I'm worthless if I can't be of service". That line BANG! Changes the entire mood.

hannah: "we should be talking about Bruno" me: "don't worry the entire fanbase has that covered"

My favorite part about Isabella's song difference between We Don't Talk About Bruno and What Else Can I Do is the pitch. She's so much higher and princess perfect, then she actually gets to sing more like "herself" and get some low notes and belts. It's such a subtle character change but I love it so much.

It's been over a year now, but I still can't get over how brilliantly 'We Don't Talk About Bruno' is composed and performed It's like the perfect storm of musical talent coming together to crush all resistance.

I truly love how, in the beginning, Abuela looks sad when Abuelo dies, but when there is actual footage of what happens, she has the worst grief and pain a person can experience. She shielded the family for so long, she forgot to be part of it :(

Something I like about Dolores' part in we don't talk about Bruno is the fact that not only does she sing in like a whisper-ish tone but you can also hear all of their movements clearer. Example: their shoes hitting the floor, her grabbing mirabel and pulling her the other way. It's just like we had her powers in that moment and hearing everything amplified

19:25 when Camilo shifts into that half baby person and shouts "Mirabel" is like the funniest thing ever to my omg

Dude I just noticed that whenever a gifted family member is singing, their song sequences are imaginative and Mirabel struggles to keep up, for example getting knocked around during we don’t talk about Bruno and falling off the donkey in surface pressure. But when mirabel has her own songs they happen in freezeframe sometimes, but always in real life

I AGREE ABOUT THE CHARACTER IN MIRABEL’S VOICE. I see a lot of people talking about the quality of singers in Disney “decreasing” and it’s like first of all, no, they still have immensely talented actors/singers. But in this movie they emphasize the CHARACTER over the singing so while maybe vocally it’s not like the best technique ever it has a lot of life to it and it feels like these people are conversing through song rather than just singing randomly.

Can we also talk about how Camilo’s voice actor isn’t a singer but he still sang and was AMAZING

My favorite part is 12:15 when Luisa is clearly struggling so hard and Mirabel finally sees the pain and anguish in her older sister and it breaks her heart.

Fun fact: Stephanie Beatriz, who voices Mirabel, also played a role in a show called Brooklyn 99 in which she played this very violent and emotionally detached character who’s basically Mirabel’s complete opposite

So, we not gonna talk about Camillo? Like, his Part in “we don’t talk about Bruno” alone was astronomical, and being him must give the word identity crisis a whole new meaning. Imagine others constantly wanting you to be someone else, and never really needing *you*

Y'know, there's something I noticed about Abuela Alma's bit during the Family Madrigal opening number. The way she sings her part sounds like the tune from Dos Oruguitas which is really cool.

the way you said "Luisa.....Baby...." that's just- i- hgwefgfwgi I'm crying it sounds so comforting I feel like Im being hugged

Something cool I learned is that a "Madrigal" is a style of song where multiple vocal parts stack overtop of each other to come together into a single polyphonic piece. Like during We Don't Talk About Bruno when the whole family is singing different parts at the same time.

It was recently confirmed that Bruno’s room didn’t originally look like that. It wasn’t as destroyed but because he was isolated and alone, and wasn’t using his gift, his room started to represent that feeling of being deserted, alone, and lifeless. And it was also confirmed by the makers that Dolores room was made soundproof so when Abuela was talking out the window or when Bruno and mirabel were talking, she wouldn’t have been able to hear it if she was in her room since everything is soundproof.

A fun fact with Luisa, the animators actually had to fight to get her to be buff and designed how she was. Disney originally didn't want her to be a buff and thick character.

I really relate to Pepa, and think she's a very underrated character. Like, I relate to her cuz she low-key has anxiety, and has a really hard time hiding and controlling her emotions, so she may come across as mean even though she's not, and needs someone very patient lol. When did this become a therapy session??? Anyways thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

25:20 The song "Colombia, Mi Encanto" was performed by Carlos Vives, one of my FAVORITE singers/musicians/songwriters since I was a very small child! My mom would play his music for me all the time and we love listening to his work today! He is a native Colombian, and he sings a style of music called Vallenato, which is one of Colombia's folkloric song styles; the name "vallenato" means "born in the valley". The songwriters at Disney wrote this particular song with his Vallenatos and another Colombian style of music called "champeta" as inspiration/as a basis, and sort of wrote it with him in mind before asking him to sing it for the film, to which he happily obliged! He loved Lin-Manuel Miranda's (and the other people at Disney's) enthusiasm for learning more and more about Colombia and its diversity, and their love for the country!

Mirabel: *being a supportive cousin* Hannah: she’s such a great auntie!

One lyric detail I also really like and haven’t seen anyone talk about is in the Family Madrigal, Mirabel describes their family like “a perfect constellation, so many stars and everybody gets to shine”, but in All of You she sings instead “a glowing constellation, so many stars and everybody wants to shine”, like they’re now acknowledging that the family isn’t perfect, but that’s ok, and it’s still good. Also its acknowledging that not everyone actually was treated equally, but everyone in the family wanted to “shine”, and to be perfect and have Abuela’s validation.

I will forever be upset that Dolores didn't get more singing parts. Her voice is simply the best

As someone with sensory issues due to autism and ADHD Dolores's gift would be hell on earth. Imagine you can hear every single sound and voice for miles all overlapping cacophonously from every direction at every time of day and being unable to tune it out. How does she function without constantly being overwhelmed with all of that auditory stimuli? How is she able to hone in on specific noises or voices and pinpoint their source? How does she sleep? I physically could not deal.

How are we going to miss the iconic scene of Camilo singing "SEVEN FOOT FRAME, RATS ALONG HIS BACK"

20:25 When Isabela gets yellow on her dress from her plants she freaks for a second and looks at Mirabel for approval, and when she gives it to her Isabela lets herself do what she wants. I personally think that that's beautiful. Idk if this is what's happening but I think it's a nice interpretation.

I love her having an attitude about Mirabel not having a gift. She reacted perfectly as a first time watcher for this movie to this movie on all parts.

I think something that was so awesome about the last song is that it incorporated all of the previous songs rhythms into certain sections. Like when Luisa said “but sometimes I cry”, it was the in the same rhythm as when Isabela sang in “We don’t talk about Bruno”. :) very neat

There's so much emotion behind everyone's voice acting and singing that I can't NOT cry when simply watching other people react to the movie. I ball my eyes out every time.

That look that Louisa gives Mirabel when the pile of rocks comes down on her gets to me. That combination of helplessness, desperation, and pleading makes me cry every single time. An entire lifetime of need to be heard, summed up in a single look is heartbreakingly beautiful.

Luisa singing “Watch as she bends and buckles but never breaks.” As the rocks slip but she knows she has to hold them to protect Mirabel just gets me. I’m that person in my family. I’m always taking care of everyone else and I feel like I’m worthless if I can’t fix all of their problems or if I focus on me for a bit. It makes me bawl

When you realize that the woman who voiced Mirabel was likely in labor when she recorded Waiting on a Miracle I would say that the restriction on her vocal cords makes sense.

Mirabel's voice is made by Stephanie Beatriz, who portrays Rosa in Brooklyn 99. If you haven't watched it you should check out how different she sounds (appart from season 1). It' s crazy.

The main thing I’m obsessed with animation wise is the skirts and other fabrics, like we’ve had decent fabric engines for a few years but to have them actually pick up and hold them, dance with them? And how fluid they are? Phenomenal Also, that animal you didn’t know is a capybara and they are adorable

The fact that you can see the stress and the sadness and depression in Luisa's eyes is heartbreaking

Just an FYI on Delores' gift, it's been confirmed that her bedroom is soundproofed so she has a respite from her power

I love how in “Surface Pressure” Luisa says “all WE know is pressure like a drip drip drip” pointing out that not just her but the entire family feels pressure

I am fascinated by how different the two versions of the story Abuela tells Mirabel are. The first is sanitized for a small child, and the second is full of all the pain now that Mirabel is old enough to understand, and acknowledging the trauma is important to healing

I love Encanto and I have a lot to say so here goes. There is a theory that Abuello became the Casita (they both do the little wave, there are butterflies everywhere which symbolizes his spirit and when Abella and Abuello met, and Casita and Abuello both do everything they can to help and protect the family). Also I believe that Mirabel is the next Keeper of the Candle (Abuela's role) and she didn't get a door 1) because that position was currently being filled and 2) because she needed to embrace everyone in her family, including herself. Her role is to strengthen and help the family grow, something Abuela thought she was doing, but lost sight of the real reason for the miracle. Abuela has been mourning her husband for 50 years (throughout the movie she wears a black shawl to symbolize this) but after the scene with Mirabel she no longer wears it. I also love that the first thing Abuela does after opening up to Mirabel is hug Bruno symbolizing her embracing the future.

20:57 Notice how Abuela Alma was gesturing vehemently towards Mirabel, BUT here's an important thing to note: she never points or shakes just her index finger at Mirabel, which is something not many Latinos who I know do when they're angry/arguing. Instead, Alma uses her lower three fingers with the index finger and thumb folded in, or a closed fist with the index finger only slightly extended out past the other fingers, but still curled. My own family (we're Mexican) has done the second gesture when upset. It's just another unique, small, but meaningful cultural thing Pixar/Disney got right in this movie! (Like Camilo shaking his hand while repeatedly snapping his fingers when Antonio gets his room. This is commonly used to show amazement and awe when seeing something cool and impressive! Mirabel also points with her lips to Antonio's wrapped present she gives him before his Gift ceremony.)

Fun fact: In the family Madrigal song, in Abuela’s part, you can hear a bit of Dos Oruguitas because she can’t let go of Pedro.

just a nice fun fact abuela is voiced by the same actress that was abuela claudia in both in the heights movie and musical on broadway, lin wont let go of her and i thank him for that

I lost my mind when I found out what a "Madrigal" is in regards to music...one happens at 16:23.. look it up and listen again. 😁🤯

14:33 well, you called her Indiana Jones. If you look at the flashback, young abuela looks like Isabella; so, Bruno's vision, it could be said, was also about patching things up between Mirabel and her grandmother

Fun fact: Due to COVID-19 All the songs especially “we don’t talk about Bruno” the voice actors were in separate studios when they recorded the mix which in my opinion was probably very hard with all the parts over lapping and with Pepa and Felix’s part.

Yes, you should buy the glasses. Also, for the songs and dances they contracted a lot of choreographers to help with the animations

One of the best things about 'Waiting on a Miracle' is that the Voice Actress for Mirabel was going into labor while singing it. She didn't tell anyone because she didn't want to delay the song. Once it was over, she was rushed to the hospital to have her baby.

I love that Mirabel wasn’t trying to like sing and she was actually using her real voice and with other Disney like princesses or characters they always go into a deep or diffRent voice that doesn’t match the original voice

i think there's something so special about the fact that this movie doesn't actually have a villain, it's just about how complex family can be and i just. yeah i cried a lot watching this lmao even cried watching ur reaction lmfao it just gets me

I feel like no one even really talks about how young they are to have all this pressure either, not only do they get their gifts at such a young age but Dolores, Camilo, and Antonio (Pepa's children) are 21, 15, and 5 respectively. While Isabela, Luisa, and Mirabel (Julieta's children) are 21 (a few months older than dolores), 19, and 15.

“This movie is wrecking me” 😂 I would love to hear your reaction to psych the musical haha

there's this theory where Dolores actually tried to destroy the miracle (she could keep the secret about bruno but couldn't about mirabel?) All because her gift is more like a curse, she claps with 2 fingers because everything's so loud for her (and her part of the song is a representation of that, letting us hear more loudly things like staps, and her keeping her voice down (and when she told the secret she even covered her ears). Also, when the new door at the end shows the fammily, she's the only one not smiling

This is literally the epitome of Latin families and the problems on us having to live to our elders expectations. The amount i uncontrollably sobbed while watching this, this movie literally made my family and I all have a 4 hour in depth discussion about our issues lmao

One of my favourite things about Encanto isn't just how good the songs are, but how each and every song is a central part of the storytelling, and not just a side event. The songs are the heart of this movie.

22:27 AS A TEENAGER I AGREE

18:23 Bruno: *falls* Hannah: OoHhH Bruno: *magically poofs back into existence* Hannah: *confused* oH My favorite part of the video ahahaha

Only Disney could make me cry over a doorknob, lol. In all seriousness, this is probably one of my favorite movies Disney's put out in a while. It's surpassed Coco and Inside out as my favorite.

I really love Luisa's part, her struggles of self worth being connected to her powers, being the older sister and carrying all the family burdens. Also, the song is really catchy.

I’m just watching your reaction video, but let me tell you that this movie and every song hit HOME for me. Coming from a Latino family, with me in every one of the Madrigal Grandkids and Bruno’s roles, it hit me hard. I cry every time I see it, although Mirabel got her happy ending and so far I haven’t, this movie has helped me through so much trauma because of the music and characters. I’m really glad you liked it!!

3:12 oh my gosh her room is so cool She hasn't seen everyone else's room

About Dolores’s gift. She has a section in her room that is sound proof. So she doesn’t always hear everything.

A good vocal observation I have seen by someone on KZfaq was that Isabella looks and acts and sings like a classical Disney Princess. But during her song she learns more about being herself by Mirabel and this could be heard vocally. She sings louder and more out there and her last belting is actually the only true one she did in the song despite having some other loud moments. It keeps ramping up until she literally sings out of the standard princess range that is normally stays around the same tone hight.

When I first saw this, it made me cry twice. I cried when Waiting on a Miracle first started (even had to pause the movie to outright sob for like, ten minutes) and then I cried I again at the end of All of You when they were singing to Mirabel.

You should definitely react to Over the Moon. The songs are great in there and Phillipa Soo plays the moon goddess Chang' e and absolutely kills it! Definitely recommend.

Alternate Title: Watch me get all these songs stuck in my head for the rest of my life!

Me: “why is she not sobbing at Luisa’s song??” Hannah: “I’m the youngest of 10” me: oh 😅 *cries in oldest child anxiety* Love you Hannah! Love your reaction almost as much as watching the movie!

I always tear up at the end when she goes and finally gets her door and it’s just so iconic and sygnificant because she thought she was just so unspecial and that nobody rly saw her because she had no gift only to find that she is so important and that she is the miracle along with her family. They saw her but when that happened she saw herself. Her grandmother was so worried about seeing things as she wanted to see them that she didn’t see mirabell but when she realized what had happened she saw everything as it was and that mirabell was doing her best the whole time. It was just such a sygnificant part of the movie, and probably my favorite part of it.

My daughter has shown me bits and pieces and most of the songs. And as much as I love the music as a singer and as I commented I love that there are actual alto's in here. Not everyone is a perfect soprano. But to be honest even as a singer I couldn't focus on anything at first but how absolutely stunning every tiny little feature of the animation is the leaves the ground the pebbles the buzz on her back and you didn't mention that you could also see her muscles in her back. The details in their clothing. Probably the best animated movie I've ever seen as far as the animation goes, I also really love the lesson. The main story wasn't about a princess and a prince. It was about a girl making her way through a difficult life and a family locked In fear who finally gets free. And Bruno I don't think there's a single human alive who doesn't know about Bruno. But I loved watching it through your eyes as well the music is amazing every part of it. I also love that I've noticed a trend in clothing coming up with a lot of the beautiful patterns that they have on their clothes which yay! The first time I saw it all I thought is I want mirabels skirt.

Honestly haven't liked all the characters so much in a Disney movie in a while, but I genuinely like every character here. I love Abuela's voice, and it was so cute when she just hugs him and says Brunito and ahhhh when Pepa and Julietta hug him! And also this movie just made me love their names, like all the names just sound so great

Dolores's part in when "WE Don't Talk About Bruno" one of her lines literally says " i can always hear him muttering and mumbling" at 16:10 so when at the end of the movie she says "i always knew he was there i heard him" like she tried cluing her cousin in...on a secret she couldn't say part of her reason for cracks in the house other the Luisa's and Isabella's.

Hannah:"Oh my gosh,that little redheaded baby!" Me:"Reminds me of you,Hannah!" 0:51

15:31 From a filmmaking perspective, I love this Dutch Tilt the camera makes as Pepa leans towards Felix, which symbolically shows the camera trying to "balance/equilibrate" her because when it happens, she looks the most vertically-straight figure in the shot and the house, Felix, and Mirabel all look more slanted diagonally. It's an excellent, cool mood trick!

The harmonies are to DIE for - especially in "We Don't Talk About Bruno" and "All Of You" 😭❤️👏

the person who voices Mirabel actually played Carla in the In The Heights movie! It’s insane the range she has!

I like how instead of just reacting to the songs, she reacts to more of the actual movie

So the entire movie is really emotional but the part that gets me every time is when the house is done and everyone is just telling her how amazing she is but then Bruno tells her that she is good and she's going to open the door that's just the part that.. it just opens all the floodgates

Okay… BUT HOW IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT ENCANTO’S SCORE?!?!?! It is just so well done and every single backing track is so beautiful with these incredible themes especially Casita’s theme. And going into the album and seeing their names is so fun too. Like did you know that the backing track for the scene where Mariano is going to propose to Isabela is called the Dysfunctional Tango? That one is one of my favorites along with Family Allies which plays during the scene in the aftermath of the dinner with the Guzmán’s and the kids stand outside the house frightened of it and Abuela is talking to Julietta and Agustín. Also the songs Dos Orugutias and Columbia, Mi Encanto they wrote those songs in such a way that they sound like real Columbian pop-like songs but with lyrics that perfectly fit the plot of the movie. Also, I highly highly recommend looking up the English lyrics for Dos Oruguitas if you don’t speak Spanish. The lyrics just hit home so much more during the flashbacks of abuela and abuelo Pedro. Another great backing track though is El Baile Madrigal which plays underneath the party scene in Antonio’s room. Another one to check out is Mirabel’s Cumbia, it just has such an amazing melody and I love it. That’s all, byeeee

fun fact: Stephanie Beatriz who played Mirabel was IN ACTUAL LABOR WHILE she recorded "waiting on a miracle". There was social distancing so no one at Disney even knew until after the film's release.

4:54 Mirabel's VA was actually in labor when singing "Waiting on a miracle" so the things with her voice were an accident (not a bad one in my opinion, her performance was awesome in my opinion)

6:32 Hannah: “Can she see the future?” Me: wants to tell her that that's Bruno's gift but instantly shut up not only because she can't hear me, but because we don't talk about Bruno😳🤫.

Encanto. Or as I like to call it, "This One is For the Altos." Finally, a soundtrack I can actually sing!

Others have talked about this, but I honestly think this movie sticks out among a lot of the classic Disney flicks- likely because the music was done by Lin Manuel Miranda, this show's soundtrack sounds like a stage musical, not a Disney Musical. The songs are highly, highly character driven, reflected in every single person having a perfectly unique voice that directly suits the character. The emotions just feel so much more raw, it sucks you in. I know it did me, and I literally had no expectations for this film. Yet it still punched me in the gut.

Wow. I love encanto. I'm in tears every time I hear the pressure song with Louisa. 😭 And yes! Her voice and the beat are sooo cool!!

Minute 4:13, That is because it was Mirabel's love, and not Abuela Alma's, that gave Antonio the gift of speaking with animals, after all, before the ceremony, she knows her cousin too well to know that he loves animals. (4:17) Antonio's room is a fun and happy place, because what Mirabel wanted was for her cousin to feel safe and happy

“Why do people just walk into her room without asking?” Welcome to a hispanic household 😂 At least Augustin had the decency to knock before shimmying in 😂

It's especially unfair that Mirabel doesn't get her own adult room even though Abuela, who also has no 'gift', DOES have her own room with a special door. Hopefully Casita gave her a room after they rebuilt the house.

I love this movie because it really shows the pressure Hispanic family’s put on you (coming from a Hispanic Colombian family) (not saying other family’s don’t put pressure) and also how it shows the Colombian culture! I FREAKING LOVE AREPAS CON QUESO 😫

w0w..never really noticed mirabelle's awesome singing voice until this! 🩷