Vulture Reviews: Vivo

 Welcome back to Vulture Reviews. I think it’s safe to say that Sony Pictures Animation has been getting a LOT better as of late. With movies like Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs The Machines, it’s to see them redeeming themselves ever since their little incident from 2017. So, for their latest feature, we’re getting a Lin-Minuel Miranda musical with the title musician as a singing kinkajou. This movie looked really nice from the trailers so I was interested to see where this would go. Shall we begin?

 

Positives-Something about this movie that really appealed to me was the animation and overall presentation of the film. The way this movie is designed feels like a neat balance of cartoony and realistic which really help the scenes with music truly pop. In fact, the animation on the musical numbers is probably the best thing about this movie. Whether they go completely insane with crazy imagery or just have great choreography, they are insanely entertaining. Of course, some songs like Keep the Beat and Inside Your Heart are pretty good on their since they can be really catchy and use Miranda’s style well.

 

Something I was actually surprised by was the character interactions between Vivo and Gabi. They have a great dynamic with Vivo being the relatable straight man, and Gabi being the goofy one without coming off as annoying most of the time. Can I say that I am SUPER grateful that they didn’t do the third act breakup cliché because I am getting more and more tired of seeing it in films. The voice acting is also great as people like Lin-Minuel Miranda, Zoe Saldana, Michael Rooker, and even Ynairaly Simo fit their respective characters perfectly.

 

Negatives-All of the problems I have with this movie can be brought back to one thing, it has REALLY weird pacing! Allow me to explain. Something I noticed pretty quickly is that the whole thing felt insanely rushed. It felt like it was just going through the motions as fast as possible making the whole thing feel too short. Because of this, several things in this movie feel underdeveloped such as Andres just dying instantly at the beginning for seemingly zero predetermined reason. Another thing is how the movie just… ends. It doesn’t really have any satisfying conclusion.

 

Overall-In spite of some weird pacing, Vivo is a very enjoyable film with fun characters, nice humor, and enjoyable and catchy songs. I highly recommend this for anyone who’s fond of Lin-Minuel Miranda’s music or is fond of Sony Animation’s more recent output. It may not be as good as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse or The Mitchells vs The Machines, but it’s still worth a shot.

8/10

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