So the movie's about a girl named Mirabelle and her family who head a town named Encanto. In the past, her Abuela and her husband Pedro were forced on the run with other people due to being chased. The movie didn't say who's chasing them but I think it was Americans.
So when they come to a river, to protect his wife and their three children who were babies and the rest of the people with them, he sacrifices himself to the people chasing them to give the others time to cross the river. It doesn't really work and the men catch up with her. Out of grief she yells and slams her candle into the river.
Then a miracle occurs, a butterfly appears of the candle and the men are blasted back, and mountains start to grow around them becoming a barrier against outside threats while the ground and sky become lush and beautiful, a paradise, an Encanto.
There, the people that were with her started to build a town there and since Abuela held the miraculous candle she became its leader.
Due to the miracle the people don't even need to build houses, all they have to do is make a foundation and the miracle makes the house for them.
Abuela herself gets La Caseta(I think that's how you write it) a living house that's bigger on the inside.
Her own children got Gifts, which are magical powers, and their own special rooms which are specifically made for them when they're of age. And the children after them would get gifts, and the children after them. Until Mirabelle who when it came time for her to get a gift and room, the door to her room disappeared into ash, and didn't get a gift.
I was pleasantly surprised by how the story subverted my expectations.
At first, I thought Abuela was the main villain and Mirabelle would go on a Hero's Journey and get her gift before defeating her. But no, Abuela was actually a good person, she was just blinded by the miracle to not see what pain her family was in.
And when La Caseta was destroyed I thought Mirabelle would've been blamed since it was revealed that she may have been the cause for the miracle failing but no.
The family didn't blame her and cared for her even after. Which was great.
I would've liked it if the miracle didn't come back at the end but that's fine.
Since this is a musical there were also songs. My favorites were Louisa's song about pressure and Pedro's Spanish song. Though a few other songs were kinda dragged out. And the ending seemed rushed.
But all in all a pretty good movie.