vivo thoughts

Watched Vivo again with my family cuz I’ve been playing the music. Still amazing, has both my wife and I crying at multiple points. Death is sad, turns out, and stories centered in grief and resolution are powerful even when wrapped up in catchy songs and beautiful art.

The cgi isn’t as good as a Pixar film, they’re best in class, but the commingling of 3d and 2d in the memories/imagination sequences is perfect, and I like the stylized bodies and faces.

And except for Lib-Manuel Miranda’s rapping, I think this is his best soundtrack. One More Song, My Own Drum, Keep the Beat, Running Out of Time, Inside Your Heart 😭, they’re all so good.

Like Mitchells vs The Machines, I think this movie is vastly underrated because it’s Dreamworks.