【A Busty Girl Caught Having Sex While Taking A Lookbook Photo】

Encanto’s jazzy opening song “The A Busty Girl Caught Having Sex While Taking A Lookbook PhotoFamily Madrigal” is the most entertaining the movie ever gets. But that doesn’t make watching the rest of its charming tracks, which remix the same themes and tunes, too much of a chore. 

Co-directed by Byron Howard and Jared Bush, Walt Disney Animation’s newest adventure kicks off with a roll call number performed by protagonist Mirabel (voiced by Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Stephanie Beatriz). A smiley 15-year-old radiating love for her family, Mirabel literally sings the praises of her mom, dad, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandma as a gorgeous animated world thrusts each of them into the spotlight for a verse. It's a joyous family affair, combining frenzied festivities with effortless choreographed spectacle.

As Mirabel sing-splains, every Madrigal family member has been blessed with a unique power, like her sister’s super strength or her cousin's shapeshifting. Well, that is to say everyone — except Mirabel. 

---

You May Also Like

---

---

Why doesn’t Mirabel have a power? That’s the question Encanto sets out to answer when a mysterious change to the Madrigals’ magic threatens the family and their enchanted house, Casita. Shortly after that fateful first number, the Madrigals’ future is left in Mirabel’s hands. Her fight to do right by her family, and the surrounding Colombian village that relies on their powers, is full of humor and heart. By the end, audiences have a satisfying enough answer as to what makes Mirabel special, and a decent lesson in accepting others as they are.

Mashable Top Stories Stay connected with the hottest stories of the day and the latest entertainment news. Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Thanks for signing up!

Credit: Disney

Still, the rhythm getting there can feel repetitive. A set of original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, all enjoyable but with no stand-out hits, carry Encanto through a perpetual rehashing of that first number’s best moments that can start to feel old remarkably fast. Scene after scene, we meet a Madrigal, they do something magical, and the plot slowly advances — rinse and repeat.

Like Frozen and Frozen II before it, Encanto doesn’t have a villain. While that formula might have worked then, this time around the action feels aimless. Too often, Mirabel’s narrative progression comes off as arbitrary, even if an explanation was technically given.As a result, watching Encanto can feel more like browsing a family photo album than reading a fairytale start to finish. The middle feels especially tedious, adding multi-minute song flourishes to plot points inferred earlier on.

That said, that can be enjoyable in its own way. Between laugh-out-loud one-liners and a chorus of dancing animals, Mirabel’s story has catchy charisma to spare with a relaxing sameness some will appreciate. Likability makes up for the lack of tension just long enough for you to fall under Encanto's spell. It wasn't until the final swell of an underwhelming final act that I started to feel disappointed. Even then, it didn't ruin the entire movie.

Antonio and his animal friends are *definitely* a highlight. Credit: Disney

A bit too simple but still very sweet, Encanto isn't going to be a Disney classic. But it's still a solid choice for families headed to the theaters this Thanksgiving — or looking for something to cue up after it hits Disney+ over the holidays.

Encanto is in theaters Nov. 24; streaming on Disney+ Dec. 24.

Topics Disney Film

• Life
• Games
• Science
• Digital Culture
• Social Good
• Shopping
• Deals
• Entertainment

• Best smart scale deal: Save over $25 on Renpho Smart Scale
• Chrissy Teigen was definitely asleep during the Oscars
• Surprise! 'Fantastic Beasts' and 'Suicide Squad' are both Oscar winners now
• The Science of Keeping Your Chips Cool
• Swole Jeff Bezos joins Instagram to tease his new ROCKET FACTORY
• 'Homeland' sees 'The Return' of some old friends
• Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling recreated their 'Mickey Mouse Club' days at the Oscars
• The Oscars red carpet was its own live action 'Beauty and the Beast'
• 11 Tech Products That Were Supposed to Fail... But Didn't
• Stop throwing coins into ponds, this sea turtle ate a whole bunch and needs surgery

• NYT's The Mini crossword answers for April 13
• Amazon deals of the day: Sony WF
• Best sex toy deal: Spend $150 at Lovers, get $25 off
• Panasonic sues Xiaomi and OPPO for patent infringements · TechNode
• No, your breakfast cereal probably won't poison you with pesticides
• Microsoft is testing out start menu ad placement in Windows 11
• Hundreds of 'sea potatoes' have washed up on a beach in Cornwall
• New panda mom doesn't know she has twins thanks to sneaky zookeepers
• Best speaker deal: Get the Apple HomePod Mini for $20 off at Best Buy
• Google Pixel 8a, the 'cheapie' of the Pixel 8 series, just had a major leak

• NYT Connections Sports Edition hints and answers for January 16: Tips to solve Connections #115
• Chrissy Teigen and John Legend continued to be irritatingly cute at the Oscars
• Chrissy Teigen and John Legend continued to be irritatingly cute at the Oscars
• Surprise! 'Fantastic Beasts' and 'Suicide Squad' are both Oscar winners now
• Best robot vacuum deal: Save $500 on Roborock Qrevo Edge
• 'Homeland' sees 'The Return' of some old friends
• Twitter can't get enough of Dev Patel and Andrew Garfield's bromance at the Oscars
• Twitter quickly made a glorious meme out of that massive Oscars mess
• How to survive Valentine's Day when you're heartbroken
• Everything from pandas to the ACLU were championed at the Oscars

• VidCon 2025: Creators share their mistakes and lessons learned
• Meryl Streep's hilarious reaction to that Oscars mix
• This giraffe birth livestream is driving the internet insane
• 'Homeland' sees 'The Return' of some old friends
• Best free online courses from Stanford University
• The game that reveals how hacktivism thrives when government becomes oppressive
• Oscars 2017: Full winners list
• Adorable quokka is either in attack mode, or it really, really wants a hug
• Best iRobot Roomba j7+ Robot Vacuum deal: Save $300 at Best Buy
• A reminder that Amy Poehler and Tina Fey should host everything