The series manages to make its 10 half-hour episodes feel much longer than they actually are.
Throughout, the quick-hit jokes from the show’s rich cast of oddballs serves to suggest a vibrant world outside of the Belchers.
Encanto does a fine job of conveying the notion that even in the best families, it can take considerable work to keep them together.
Consistently surprising and creatively fearless, Jon M. Chu’s film brings monumentality to a work of infinite heart.
The deconstruction of corporatized play culture gets run through the sequelizer machine, with predictably acrid results.
The film displays a sprightly tone and blissful sense of liberation in charting the exploits of characters seeking to live by their own feminine-centric rules.