Disneyland this month will celebrate its Academy Award-winning animated film "Encanto."
Starting on April 11, Disneyland will present a brief Encanto-themed projection show on the It's a Small World facade several times nightly. The presentation, which will run for a limited time, will feature the movie's number-one hit song, "We Don't Talk About Bruno."
In addition to the Small World presentation, Encanto's Mirabel will meet guests in Frontierland's Zocalo Park. Encanto also will be one of the many Disney animated films featured on the new grand finale float in the Main Street Electrical Parade, which returns to Disneyland on April 22.
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Agreed. That Oscar performance was not good. I mean if it wasn't for the slap greatly overshadowing it, everyone would have been talking about it. It started of well but then... well the less said the better. But yeah this is good news and I'm sure they will do it justice at the parks.
Everyone complains "Why was Bruno not nominated" but the deadline for submissions was before the movie even opened. And it's pretty much clear even Lin Manuel Miranda and the rest never expected "Bruno" to be the song that would take off given it's so central to the plot, trickier to sing outside the storyline.
That said, yeah, that Oscars performance was pretty bad.
@Mike, That's true.
Plus, Disney didn't want to split the votes. (They could've submitted Bruno as well, but they could've run the risk of splitting votes) Encanto was released in late Nov, weeks after the deadline, so there's was no way to know that song would've been huge.
And technically, "Bruno" didn't become a "pop culture" phenom (and hit the top of the charts) until Jan of this year, after Encanto hit Disney+ & TikTok gave it a surge.
The Oscar performance was what it was...I didn't dislike it as much as some people (Choreography was solid, backdrop with TikTok worked, musicians hit). Staging worked for the space they had.
I don't think they needed a total of 4 special guest for half a song though, lol.
I know what they were going for..... & it would've worked better if it would've been a musical sketch vs. the actual performance of "We Don't Talk About Bruno", which is what people wanted to see.
Instead of a Broadway style, full song performance...it was a Grammy style, reworked half performance. That would never happened in the park.
Is it just me or is Disney animation (not Pixar) going through a sort of renaissance. Going back to Frozen in 2014, Moana soon after, and now Encanto those have been some solid headliners with lasting appeal. Reminds me of the early 90's when Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Lion King were grabbing critical and commercial attention.
I can agree, it does seem a nice uptick in fun storytelling. Even the "lesser" ones like Raya and the Last Dragon shine nicely. That doesn't excuse banishing Pixar's latest to Disney+ but yes, Disney animation has been kicking up more in the last few years.
It’s not just you @Manny Barron
With the continued success of Encanto - we’re currently still in what has become to be known as Disney’s Revival period that began with Tangled back in 2010.
It can be easily argued that Disney Animation has seen more critical and commercial/box office success during this Revival period than even during the Renaissance period in the 90’s.
I think a turning point was 2012 when Pixar had "Brave" and Disney "Wreck it Ralph" and a common line of "Pixar made a Disney movie while Disney made a Pixar movie."
Disneyland will present a brief Encanto-themed projection show on the It's a Small World facade several times nightly.
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Hopefully it will be better than the haphazard and unauthentic performance of the song from The Oscars.