‘Encanto’ Film Review: Disney Goes to Colombia for a Moving but Overstuffed Family Comedy-Adventure
th official animated film, “Encanto,” directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard and co-director Charise Castro Smith take on Colombia as a magical tropical paradise. This visually maximalist fable of familial mishaps, vibrant and cheerful, joins tales set in the South Pacific (“Moana”) and Southeast Asia (“Raya and the Last Dragon”), as well as Pixar’s recent visits to Mexico (“Coco”) and Italy (“Luca”).Realized with the expectedly superb yet still imposing craftsmanship of the studio, “Encanto” houses the Madrigal family, a large clan granted a miracle manifested in a luminous candle that saves them and their whole town from violence and displacement.