History YMMV / Vivo

** Vivo lampshades this one; why did Marta wait for sixty years to reach out to Andrés, rather than dial his phone (if he has one) or visit Cuba between tours and concerts? Were they TwiceShy, that Marta also wasn't sure if Andrés returned her feelings? Did her managers push her to focus solely on singing, to the point that she insisted on having more time? Could she have not felt comfortable about returning to Havana, given Andrés said that she would've felt obligated to stay there if he'd confessed his feelings for her?

** Your child has boarded the grown-up bus to a city several hours away, and you do all you can to catch up. Then the driver reveals that she never got on the bus because he would have recognized a purple-haired girl with a bulging backpack. Rosa has a horrified OhCrap expression on realizing that she was on a WildGooseChase before heading for Plan B: find Gabi at the Miami Beach concert hall.

* ViewerSpeciesConfusion: People watching the trailers often mistook Vivo for a monkey (as kinkajous are very much SeldomSeenSpecies and Vivo [[InformedSpecies looks and sounds more like a monkey than an actual kinkajou]]). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMaUAx_Y-WQ This clip]] was released to clarify the confusion.

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** Your child has boarded the grown-up bus to a city several hours away, and you do all you can to catch up. Then the driver reveals that she never got on the bus because he would have recognized a purple-haired girl with a bulging backpack. Rosa has a horrified AdultFear OhCrap expression on realizing that she was on a WildGooseChase before heading for Plan B: find Gabi at the Miami Beach concert hall.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** One from Marta's end. She desires to reconnect with an old boyfriend, Andrés, and confess her feelings for him. Coincidentally, Andrés has nurtured a love for her for the sixty years they've been apart. Marta sends a letter with a ticket, inviting him to her farewell concert and saying that she wants to perform with him.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Marta would follow up by dialing a neighbor with a landline, and ask to talk to Andrés in person. Alternatively, dial someone with a cellphone- it's generally a sensible idea to figure out if someone ''can'' make it to your special event.\\
'''Instead''': She spends the time up to the concert getting prepared and waiting for Andrés to appear.\\
'''The Result''': To her shock and sadness, [[spoiler:her manager knocks on her door mere hours to showtime and hands her a news clipping revealing Andrés died in Havana two days before, with all of his neighbors attending the funeral. Marta nearly refuses to perform because she's sobbing with regret that she sent a message far too late. It takes Vivo delivering Andrés's last song to give her the reassurance that Andrés ''did'' love her, and that he would always return her feelings no matter where she was]].
** Gabi gets one when she determines to help Vivo get to Miami and the Mambo Cabana. When asking her mother if they can go to the concert doesn't work, she buys a bus ticket instead to Miami from Key West. It will be a pinch but they will make it just in time to see Marta before the show.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Since she already bought a bus ticket that Gabi would see if the tickets to Marta's concert are available. They may have sold out or may be too expensive, but it doesn't hurt to check.\\
'''Instead''': She just says they need to print out the bus ticket and they'll be golden, though she has the sense to buy an extra bus ticket for Vivo in case anyone asks questions.\\
'''The Result''': When they make it to Miami much later after one heck of a journey, security won't let in Gabi unless she has a ticket. Gabi goes OhCrap on realizing she DidntThinkThisThrough and that's ''before'' her mother comes to bust her for traveling such a far distance on her own. She has to hop the line and run from security so Vivo gets the chance to reach Marta's dressing room.
** And ''another'' involves the sheet music itself - it's clearly fragile, considering it was written years ago.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Since Gabi knows the whole mission to deliver the music will be pointless if it gets damaged, she'd be smart and at ''least'' make another copy of the music to ensure some record of it remains to give to Marta in case something happens to the original, be it by using a photocopier (if her mom has one) or just quickly snapping a picture of it on her phone. \\
'''Even Better:''' She could negate the need to go to Miami in person ''completely'' by simply taking a picture of the music on her phone, uploading it to her computer, and sending it in an email to the Mambo Cabana (she already went to the site) or even Marta herself (since someone as famous as her probably has an open email available to the public for fanmail), explaining that she's the grand-niece of Andrés and found a song he wrote for Marta among the belongings she'd inherited from him after his death. She could even ''call them'' with this information to ensure Marta gets it in time.\\
'''Instead''': She doesn't think about this at all and decides to set out immediately, with the only copy of the song.\\
'''The Result''': The Sand Dollars, after following Gabi to the Everglades, steal it and hold it hostage to force her to give up and surrender Vivo, and accidentally drop it in the water during their encounter with Lutador. It's only by sheer luck that Gabi and Vivo are able to recreate it from memory.
** The Sand Dollars want to quarantine Vivo because per international travel rules, wild animals may be ill from the journey or carriers for diseases, so they need a clean bill of health. Due to chasing down Gabi, Gabi and Vivo end up falling from the Key West bridge into a barge full of sand.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Considering Gabi and Vivo could be hurt or ''killed'' falling from that height, that their first response would be to call the Coast Guard and explain the situation, or at least their Sand Dollar leader. A trained adult in that situation could locate the pair, stop the barge, administer medical treatment, and ''then'' deliver Vivo to a vet for quarantine.\\
'''Instead''': The girls take their parents' boat without telling anyone to hunt down Gabi and Vivo personally.\\
'''The Result''': When Lutador ambushes them, all the girls can do is run from him, and it strikes them that they are alone in the Everglades, with only Gabi to protect them. Vivo has to pull a BigDamnHeroes moment to stop them from being EatenAlive. What's more, the Sand Dollars are ashamed that they were bullying Gabi the whole time, but she still risked her life to rescue them from Lutador.
** Andrés is in love with Marta. Marta is in love with Andrés. Marta gets a job singing in Miami.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Andrés goes with her, supports her in her career, and they happily spend their lives making music together.\\
'''Instead''': He never confesses his feelings to her out of fear that she would feel obligated to stay in Havana if he did.\\
'''The Result''': Andrés and Marta live out their entire lives a little sadder than they probably would have been if they'd just gotten a place together.

* ViewerSpeciesConfusion: People watching the trailers often mistook Vivo for a monkey. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMaUAx_Y-WQ This clip]] was released to clarify the confusion.

'''The Result''': When Lutador ambushes them, all the girls can do is run from him, and it strikes them that they are alone in the Everglades, with only Gabi to protect them. Vivo has to pull a BigDamnHeroes moment to stop them from being EatenAlive. What's more, the Sand Dollars are ashamed that they were bullying Gabi the whole time, but she still risked her life to rescue them from Lutador.//

** In "Mambo Cabana," Andrés starts playing his instruments while telling Vivo about the Mambo Cabana, how it's a magical music hall where anything can happen. Vivo tries to interject, but Andrés reassures him not to be afraid of change. It's chaotic but also classically arranged.

** The opening number features Andrés introducing Vivo for another performance in the Havana square. Vivo proceeds to kick it up a notch when the audience is unenthusiastic, inviting them to talk selfies with him and his human while dancing around. We also get a soft bridge where Vivo reveals how Andrés rescued him from wild dogs and adopted him.
** In "The Mambo Cabana," Andrés starts playing his instruments while telling Vivo about the Mambo Cabana, how it's a magical music hall where anything can happen. Vivo tries to interject, but Andrés reassures him not to be afraid of change. It's chaotic but also classically arranged.

*** The opening number features Andrés introducing Vivo for another performance in the Havana square. Vivo proceeds to kick it up a notch when the audience is unenthusiastic, inviting them to talk selfies with him and his human while dancing around. We also get a soft bridge where Vivo reveals how Andrés rescued him from wild dogs and adopted him.
*** In "The Mambo Cabana," Andrés starts playing his instruments while telling Vivo about the Mambo Cabana, how it's a magical music hall where anything can happen. Vivo tries to interject, but Andrés reassures him not to be afraid of change. It's chaotic but also classically arranged.
*** "My Own Drum" shows that Gabi is an avid rapper if not the best at musical intonation. She sings to Vivo about how she's her own person and doesn't want to conform to societal or parental explanations. The off-key recorder even gets a few moments.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Even people who criticize the movie for its plot agree that the musical numbers are very catchy and well-composed, as it should be expected from Creator/LinManuelMiranda.

** Vivo and Gabi falling through the crack in the rising bridge; they would have died from the impact of falling into the Atlantic Ocean from that height, and by luck landed on a barge with a float. Worse is the Sand Dollars aren't worried that Gabi could have gotten hurt or killed; Becky gains a DeathGlare and says they need to follow to "save" Vivo, without even addressing him by name.

* AwesomeMusic: Even people who criticize the movie for its plot agree that the musical numbers are very catchy and well-composed, as it should be expected from Creator/LinManuelMiranda.