Lin Manuel-Miranda voices the title character and contributes original songs to this animated film set in locations including Havana, Key West and the Everglades.
The story begins in Havana, a city so charmingly picturesque and brightly colored that it already seems animated in real life. There we meet aged street singer Andrés and his kinkajou partner, Vivo, who spend their days playing music to appreciative audiences in a crowded urban square.
Their lives are upended when Andrés receives a letter from his former musical collaborator, the now-famous singer Marta Sandoval , who invites him to her upcoming farewell concert in Miami. The night before he’s supposed to depart, Andrés, who has been secretly in love with Marta, passes away. It’s thus up to the intrepid Vivo to deliver his owner’s farewell message, a love song, to the woman who never told Andrés that she loved him as well.
To make the journey, Vivo enlists the help of Gabi , the tween daughter of Andrés’ niece , who smuggles him into the States in one of her bags. Arriving in Key West, Gabi advises Vivo to keep a low profile. “If anyone asks, you’re my emotional support animal,” she tells him. It’s but one of many amusing lines in the screenplay co-written by director Kirk DeMicco and Quiara Alegría Hudes .
All that mayhem is certainly lively, but the film’s real pleasures stem from its touching storyline and Miranda’s terrific songs encompassing Latin rhythms, hip-hop, pop and Broadway-style ballads.
The film’s computer-animated visuals, vividly rendering such locales as Cuba, Key West and the Everglades, are consistently arresting. But it’s the joyous musical numbers and sentimental but never treacly tale at its center that make
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