Vivo (film)

Vivo is a 2021 animated Netflix film. It starts Lin-Manuel Miranda as the title character, with Gloria Estefan and Zoe Saldana lending their voices. Ynarily Simos makes her debut in debut voice-acting as Gabi. Lin also composed the songs in the movie.

In Havana, Vivo the kinkajou performs daily with his human Andres. They have settled into a comfortable routine, ever since Andres rescued Vivo as a baby. While Vivo and Andres don't speak the same language, they always sing in tune and with perfect sync.

One day, however, tragedy strikes just as an old flame invites Andres to perform with her in Miami. Vivo goes on a journey to Miami to deliver a special song from Andres to Marta Sandoval. Andres's great-niece Gabi, a Sand Dollar truant and aspiring musician, joins him for this important mission.


 * Art Shift: When Andres is singing to Vivo about the Mambo Cabana, the art switches from 3D to 2D, as he has an Imagine Spot about Miami..
 * Bookends: The movie starts and ends with Vivo singing "One of A Kind"; the first is a bouncy opening number in Havana with Andres. At the end, he sings a Triumphant Reprise,.
 * The Cover Changes the Meaning: In-universe, what happens when Marta sings Andres's song for her at the end of the movie. He was singing about how he loved her but let her go so that the world could see her perform and shine. When she sings it, it's about.
 * Earn Your Happy Ending: After all the tribulations and Gabi and Vivo undergo to deliver Andres's song to Marta, they find each other after succeeding, and
 * Gut Punch:
 * The scene where.
 * Later, Marta finds out.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: This is why Andres never told Marta how he felt about her, though he put his feelings in a song. He saw that if he admitted it, she would have stayed in Havana rather than pursue her music career..
 * A Simple Plan: When Gabi finds out why Vivo wants to go to Miami, she says that she has a plan. She buys bus tickets online, prints them, and says they just need to get to the stop in the Key West square. Only problem? The Sand Dollars bust her for playing hooky from their latest bake sale, and chase her and Vivo down because as a wild animal he needs to be quarantined. Gabi and Vivo have to go for plan B when they end up on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, fashioning a sailboat to navigate to Miami through the swamp.