Review of Vivo

Vivo (I) (2021)
7/10
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Gloria Estefan
11 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Vivo is a kinkajou monkey. He works the tourists in the Havana streets with music legend Andrés Hernández. After Andrés' death, Vivo goes on a mission to deliver his last song to his old musical partner Marta Sandoval in her last performance in Miami. He sneaks into the luggage of little girl Gabi on her way back to Key West.

This is a Lin-Manuel Miranda animated musical with a healthy dash of Gloria Estefan. The animation comes from Sony and shown on Netflix. It's Ice Age level animation. I actually got into the simplicity of the quest which has a compelling heart. There is a catchy song although the earworm is rather repetitively annoying. The songs are all very Lin-Manuel Miranda if you know what I mean. It's good but he's also over-saturated by now. All in all, this is good but it doesn't hit that hard.
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