“What difference can one song make?” asks “Vivo,” a super-saturated, instant-classic musical cartoon from Kirk DeMicco, director of “The Croods,” featuring a whole bunch of catchy new songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda — a man who’s spent his career proving just how impactful clever music can be. In fact, it was Miranda who made Disney’s “Moana” so memorable a few years back (marking his maiden voyage into animation). Here, he builds on that experience while also playing the lead character, Vivo, a Cuban kinkajou with the capacity to dance, rap and move all the merch you can imagine.
A kinka-what, you ask? These big-eyed, long-tailed relatives of the raccoon family are so readymade for cartoon cutesification, it’s amazing the tropical tree-dwelling species has eluded the animation spotlight until now. Give the critter a green bandana and a tiny chapeau, and he’s practically irresistible — especially when it’s Miranda doing the voice,...
A kinka-what, you ask? These big-eyed, long-tailed relatives of the raccoon family are so readymade for cartoon cutesification, it’s amazing the tropical tree-dwelling species has eluded the animation spotlight until now. Give the critter a green bandana and a tiny chapeau, and he’s practically irresistible — especially when it’s Miranda doing the voice,...
- 7/29/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
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