Funny / Encanto

Mirabel finds herself stuck between some ass cheeks.

A magic house and magic powers this family may have, but they're still a regular dysfunctional family with all its flaws and hilarity.

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• Three kids are really excited and want to know about the Madrigals, and one of the kids is clearly drinking coffee as evidenced by how excited and jittery he is, Twitchy Eye included. Mirabel's reaction as she takes the coffee cup away?
  Mirabel: ...And that's why coffee's for grown ups!^note Coffee in the morning (often with milk) is normal for children not just in Colombia but in other South American and some European countries. Coffee boy is clearly overdoing it, though.
  • What makes it funny is that in every scene the boy appears, he continuously is sipping from a cup of coffee.
  • Even in the ending song, he goes on a caffeine-induced building spree with two hammers.
• When Mirabel brings up Bruno, the entire village bluntly states "WE DON'T TALK ABOUT BRUNO!", which may remind you of another Disney film with a mantra named such. During one such shot, even the background characters as far back as you can see can be seen saying that. Also, the way Mirabel nonchalantly informs the kids that "They say he saw the future, one day he disappeared" before breezing on to talk about Julieta.
  • One of the people waiting for Julieta's curative food is a bearded man stoically enduring being covered in prickly pear cacti in stark, humorous contrast to the more distressed individuals in line ahead of him.
  • The lyric "So yeah, Tío Félix married Pepa and my dad married Julieta, that's how Abuela became an Abuela Madrigal!". Innocent enough lyric but the way Mirabel delivers it implies more than just marriage.
  • The way Mirabel says "grandkid roundup" with the townsfolk joining in on backup vocals, complete with their own improvised instruments.
  • As the children start asking Mirabel what her gift is, Mirabel immediately tries to change the subject and Motor Mouth her way out of the conversation by repeating the family line up. She even attempts to outrun them multiple times as she hides or catches rides on carts.
    Mirabel: I never meant this to get autobiographical!
  • When she runs into Mariano, she goes into an entire bit about how he should get together with Isabela, but also warning him that Isabela is a bit of a "prima donna". Mariano's expression makes it hard to tell if he's confused at what Mirabel was singing (since it was so fast) or was just unsure why she was singing. Makes it funnier when he later on attempts to sing the Madrigals a song he wrote for his proposal to Isabela.
  • Mirabel going through her family again but faster, and when she gets to Pepa, her aunt is causing another storm as her face is annoyed and she's tapping her foot angrily.
  • When Mirabel's song briefly cuts back to her dad Agustín, we see him about to chop a piece of wood, only for the back of the axe to hit the tree behind him and disturbing a beehive. Keep in mind that this is his Establishing Character Moment.
    Mirabel: My dad Agustín, well, he's accident-prone - but he means well!
  • As the song starts to end you can hear Mirabel struggling to come up with more material to pacify the kids as she hurriedly says, "My family's amazing! And I'm in my family, so..."
  • The three musicians seem strangely excited to know how Mirabel is going to explain to the kids that she doesn't have a gift, they even encourage Mirabel to keep singing.
  • Mirabel sings, "My cousin Dolores can hear this whole chorus a mile away." Cue a fast zoom out to Dolores, who is indeed on a cliff far from the village, but still listening and dancing along to her cousin's song.
  • The sheer speed Mirabel sings at to avoid answering the kids' questions about her gift. You'd swear her gift was actually superhuman lungs.
• Osvaldo comes by to give Mirabel a basket full of items for Antonio's ceremony. But then he comes across as incredibly insensitive as he calls it the "Non-Special Special". He even seems to realize how harsh that sounded as he tries to walk back his name to something else. It doesn't get better.
  Osvaldo: Tell Antonio I said good luck! Last ceremony was a bummer. [Beat] Last ceremony being yours, since you didn't get a gift.
  • When the kids start asking why Mirabel doesn't have a gift and if she's sad she's not like her family, Mirabel assures them that gift or no gift, she's just as special as all of her other family members. Cue her family showing off their powers.
    Little Girl: Maybe your gift is being in denial. [Mirabel visibly trying not to cringe]
• The absolute look of "I'm so over this" that Mirabel wears when Isabela appears. Isabela even flips her hair so it slaps Mirabel in the face.
  • Isabela and Mirabel's conversation leading to a hilarious moment for Mirabel.
    Isabela: A little sisterly advice? If you weren't always trying too hard, you wouldn't be in the way.
    Mirabel: Actually, Isa, this is called helping. And I'm not in the way, you are. [runs into pillar] Oof!
• Poor Agustín frequently getting stung by bees and swelling up as a result. Mirabel and Julieta's respective reactions of disgust and exasperation the first time it happens in the film make it clear that this is a regular occurrence.
  • And it shows no sign of stopping by the end of the movie, as Agustín is swollen once again, commenting that "there were bees... everywhere," while they were searching for Mirabel.^note Fridge: Considering Isabela's flowers, it's not surprising that the encanto has zillions of bees.
• Mirabel running off to help decorate the house saying it wouldn't decorate itself. Cue Casita drooping its banners sadly.
  Mirabel: [backpedaling] Sorry, you could. You look great! [Casita straightens its banners happily]
• When everyone is preparing for the party, you can hear Abuela shouting in the background "Clean your rooms - I don't care how big they are!"
• This is probably the only movie ever made where a huge jaguar charging straight towards a small child is played as a happy and cheerful scene.
• When Mirabel's attempts to warn the family of the cracks and dying magic fall flat, Alma follows up her reassuring that magic is strong with a crack that "So are the drinks", which imply Mirabel may have been having a bit too much to have even for her age. Then she asks for music, leading to Luisa bringing in a piano that Agustín plays, before both smile awkwardly.
• Agustín trying to repeat his wife's words of encouragement to Mirabel. He even mimics her expression when he realizes he looked too proud in contrast.
• Camilo's shape-shifting being used for plenty of laughs in the film.
  • As Antonio is about to get his gift, Camilo impersonates his father, who says he doesn't sound like that. Camilo immediately imitates his dad again, saying "I don't sound like that." Just as they leave, he mimics his dad's "Vamo, vamo, vamo", before an annoyed Félix swoops in and grabs Camilo.
    Camilo: Alright, I'm done!
    • Unlike his other impersonations, Camilo's version of his dad is about a quarter of his actual size and stands eye level with Antonio.
  • He changes into Dolores to try and get second helpings at meal times. When he's outed by his dad, Casita swings a nearby shutter at him as if berating him for his trickery. One can only imagine if Camilo was wondering if Mirabel had gone slightly crazy as he silently stacked up the food on his plate while keeping up his Dolores disguise.
    Félix: Camilo. Stop pretending you're Dolores so you can have seconds!
    Camilo: [shifts back to his normal self, shrugs] Worth a shot.
    • Other details worth mentioning are Mirabel's face when she realises Felix and Doroles are right behind them and the exasperated look when she realises that's Camilo.
  • He pretends to be Mariano and mocks Isabela with a kissy face, who responds by giving him a face full of flowers.
• When Julieta is trying to reassure Mirabel about her being just as special as everyone else, Mirabel points out she had literally just healed her hand with a dish she cooked up.
• A subtle but noticeable one is that at the party, Luisa is acting as a valet with the village's donkeys, complete with taking numbers and putting them on them.
  • Another subtle one from Luisa is when she picks up a guest sitting on a donkey ride, while rolling her eyes as if to say "you know you could have just gotten off yourself, right?".
• When Mirabel prepares to embark on her "quest" to save the miracle, she realizes she doesn't know how to do that. She instead decides to grill Dolores for information at breakfast. You have to wonder if, after that buildup, Mirabel got undressed and went back to bed.
  • Even the Casita doesn't know how to save the miracle as it gives Mirabel a shrug via tiles.
• Pepa is storming in the morning. What fixes it? A cup of coffee, and her clouds immediately vanish and she visibly perks up.
• Antonio's new coati friends seem to be playing with Agustín... before they snag his pocket watch. He yelps in surprise and quickly gives chase.
  • Related to Agustín, blink and you'll miss it. When the family is sitting at the table, he is seen in shock looking at Camilo's plate of food (which is three times bigger than his).
• Mirabel stealing Pepa's spot so she can be next to Luisa, causing her aunt to briefly storm for a moment.
  • Then when she whispers to Luisa she knows that she knows something is wrong with the magic because Dolores told her. Luisa is stuffing her mouth and her eye twitches.
    Mirabel: [slamming the table with her fist] You DO!
• As Alma sits down, she notices Antonio's animal friends sitting in her spot. He cheerfully says he asked them to keep her seat warm. You can tell Alma is trying hard not to look confused over the kind gesture while Félix gives his son a happy thumbs-up.
• Alma asking the Casita to move the family chairs around when Mirabel wasn't paying attention. The whole nonchalance the others have on their face's as they're scooted over to Mirabel's old spot and Félix moving his plate away from Mirabel.
• Alma asks Dolores when Mariano's family wants to set up the proposal. She listens in and her response? "Tonight. He wants five babies." Cue Isabela and her unflappable, poised demeanor melting away into a look of horror with flowers sprouting in her hair.
  • After delivering the news, Dolores steals a quick glance at Isabela's reaction before going right back to her breakfast. One might almost imagine she threw in the line about babies just to mess with her cousin.
• In "Surface Pressure", Luisa's emotional outpouring is undercut by the fact that she's surrounded by dancing donkeys, each with an utterly serious look on its face as it grooves to the beat (and at one point, play classical instruments while on the Madrigal, an obvious allusion to the Titanic). Same with Mirabel, who's stunned and slightly apprehensive at her reticent sister's sudden unburdening.
  • At the start of the song, the donkeys are trading worried looks with Mirabel when it seems Luisa is getting really ticked off. Halfway through the opening verse, they take a cautious step backwards, leaving Mirabel to it… only for her to hiss "Hey, where are you going?!" at them.
  • When Luisa questions if Hercules wanted to avoid fighting Cerberus, it's accompanied by a visualization of Hercules encountering Cerberus and running away while letting out an utterly undignified shriek of terror, leaving Luisa to grab his discarded sword and shield to fight Cerberus herself.
  • When Luisa is talking about "simple pleasures", she is riding… on a floating Donkey-Unicorn in the sky. Mirabel just has a face of "WTH is going on?" This may have come from one of the original concepts for Luisa's room. The art book shows that her room had several environments including a bright playground where she could relax and enjoy herself.
  • When the song ends, Mirabel understands the terrible stress her sister is under and hugs her:
    Mirabel: I think you're carrying way too much ...[Luisa suddenly lifts and hugs Mirabel so tightly that you can hear her back cracking]
• Mirabel's attempt to reach Bruno's room hits an obstacle of a huge cliff-side flight of stairs. She proceeds to climb up them, singing "Family Madrigal"... but as she goes up them, she grows increasingly tired ("There's so many stairs in la casa Madrigal") and the singing gets more and more strained and flat ("You'd think there'd be another way to get so high up 'cause we're magic but no!"), until Mirabel practically growls out this:
  Mirabel: It's magical how many stairs fit in here! Bruno, your room is the WORST!
  • She starts out at the bottom with Pico, Antonio's toucan, and feels a little reassured that she's going on this adventure with a friend - only for him to fly away almost immediately. Her flat glare just says it all.
  • After she makes the chasm jump and accidentally destroys some of the ground she was on, both Mirabel and Pico look down to hear the bits of rock breaking on impact. The toucan even has the audacity to look at Mirabel as if saying, "This is your fault, you know?"
  • As Mirabel starts to enter the cave, she and Pico hear a sound.
    Mirabel: [as Pico flies out of the cave] Quitter!
• When the crumbling Casita causes Mirabel to be trapped in a collapsing room within Bruno's tower, Mirabel is desperately trying to get the vault-like door open. Cut to outside the room she can be heard desperately pounding on the door to no avail... and then the door handle jiggles and she opens the door easily.
• As Mirabel looks at the shattered glass pieces, she asks aloud to herself what Bruno saw. Cue thunder, lighting and a sound effect, as if to cue Bruno's status as a villain or how dire the prophecy is. Nope, it's just Pepa who walked into the nursery and was reacting to hearing "the name we do not speak". Even funnier when she comments that, she covers one of Antonio's stuffed animal's ears.
  • When Mirabel comments on the storm cloud Pepa apologizes for the cloud as she shoos it and then tosses it out of the room. She has to forcefully shut the door with her entire body weight as the cloud tries to get back into the room.
• The sheer Irony of having an entire musical number talking about a guy they allegedly aren't supposed to talk about is also funny.^note After all, they're singing about him, not talking.
  • Pepa starting the song by continuously insisting "We don't talk about Bruno" before she gives a stern "but" as she goes off on how he ruined her wedding day.
  • When Pepa starts the song to shut Félix up about Bruno, his expressions and gesturing as he tries to get a word in are hilarious and prove Pepa is the one wearing the pants in their marriage.
  • As Pepa and Félix recount their wedding day, Mirabel's visualization of their "wedding clothes" are just white versions of their usual attire, with the only other difference being Pepa wearing a veil.
  • During Pepa's recounting of Bruno walking in with a mischievous grin, you might notice his hood is up. So was it really Hernando who messed up the wedding? (Though to be fair, this is before Bruno went into the walls and presumably created Hernando and Jorge).
  • Félix during his and Pepa's verse seemingly found no issues with their wedding day despite Pepa conjuring a hurricane back then, and seems happy to just be in the song at all, effectively turning himself into his wife's hype man by consistently adding things like "What a joyous day, but anyway—" and little jokes like "Abuela, get the umbrellas!" Pepa can even be seen getting increasingly annoyed by his constant interruptions and eventually snaps at him, making him quickly apologize and calming her down just as fast he upset her.
  • Mirabel looks slightly surprised at the stories about Bruno, but is also still dancing along to the song with her relatives while her expression remains perplexed all throughout.
  • As the winds blow during Pepa and Félix's number, some backup dancers holding umbrellas are blown off Mary Poppins-style, while said dancers scream loudly.
  • Camilo, who is the same age as Mirabel and so knows exactly as much about him as she does, describes Bruno as having "a seven-foot frame, rats along his back" and that he "feasts on your screams." It's a hilariously over-the-top description of him, especially juxtaposed with everyone else's relatively normal interactions with him, and especially because it comes right after Dolores giving the film's only sympathetic perspective about him so far.
  • At one point, some of the villagers recount some of Bruno's prophecies screwing them over, such as "my fish would die", "he'd told me I'd grow a gut", and "all my hair would disappear" - except it becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when you learn that Bruno is actually a decent man and moreover needs to perform an elaborate ritual to have a vision, indicating that either Bruno's "prophecies" were just innocent advice and observations (especially when considering the fish's tiny bowl and Ozvaldo's Big Eater habits), or he went through the entire vision ritual just to flatly tell someone that they would go bald or their fish would die (especially since Bruno indirectly confirms that the latter one was a real prophecy, shortly before making the prediction for Mirabel).
    • Even funnier: The woman whose fish died? Her official name is "Señora Pezmuerto." Her name literally translates to "Mrs./Ms. Dead Fish." What was she expecting?!
    • Also note that the Priest's bald head gleams after he takes the wig off... despite the fact that he's standing in shadow.
  • After much doom and gloom about Bruno's predictions of woe, Isabela shows up… to sing about how he said she'd have the life of her dreams and incredible power, while Mirabel fixes her with the most flat, exasperated expression of "really?" You can tell Mirabel is doing everything she can to not just spit out, "Of course your prediction is perfect." She even gives a small but annoyed grunt.
  • In a few of the background shots, Bruno can be seen sneaking around in the background or dancing along to the music. When Dolores is singing about Bruno to Mirabel, look behind them at the upper walkway.
    • Just seeing Bruno in the background, bob his head to the lyric "Do you understand?" This guy is vibing!
    • Word of God confirmed that it is Bruno, not just Camilo in disguise, which makes the above even more hilarious to consider. Even Bruno thinks the song that is villainizing him is catchy as hell!
  • Camilo yelling in a mocking sing-song voice, "Isabela, your boyfriend's here!" as he shapeshifts into Mariano, flexes his arms and pretends to kiss his bicep before laughing. The Japanese version in particular must be heard to be believe.
    • Meanwhile Mariano is arm in arm with his mother and Abuela, matching their strides and sweeping their legs in time to the music.
  • During the final chorus, as Mirabel frantically puts together the vision, she's surrounded by the images of the other Madrigals and townsfolk singing and dancing… including Luisa, who wasn't even in the song, sadly trudging along with the others in a half-hearted approximation of a dance and looking like she's about to collapse in tears at any moment
    • Speaking of the final verse, it is inevitable to laugh a little when you realize some details. To begin with, Señora Pezmuerto notably joins the force to talk about her dead fish even though she is not even from the Madrigal family, and is replaced by Dolores as the group circles around the table. Then Pepa and Félix appear singing happily still in their wedding clothes, while Camilo's dance steps seem to be straight out of Peter Parker or the Joker. And finally, the pure joy of Pepa, Félix and Camilo with the combination of the expressions of anguish of Isabela and Dolores give an unintentionally funny effect to the situation.
• Once Mirabel stares at her fully pictured vision, her dad happens to stumble in, still dancing asking if she got her "party pants on". As he realizes what she's looking at, Mirabel tries to hide it, with even the Casita attempting to scoot the dresser out of sight. He then gets up close and can only silently stare at it in slack-jawed horror.
• Agustín tells Mirabel not to let anybody in the family know that she saw Bruno's vision. Unfortunately for them, Dolores (whose gift is super hearing) overheard, leading to Agustín responding "Miercoles" (which literally means Wednesday but is often used in Spanish as an appropriate substitute for mierda, "shit").
  • The way the scene unraveled is pretty hilarious as well. Agustín and Mirabel, both very tense over Casita and the magic failing, are in front of the nursery's half-open door as he tells her nobody can know. As if on cue (and considering the house is sapient), the door opens and a squeak is heard. Both look aside and see Dolores, who can just whisper "I know" before quickly leaving.
• At the dinner table, Mirabel has a truly desperate look on her face as she stares down Dolores trying to keep her from spreading the news. Every time something blocks her view, like a dish being passed across the table, another member of the family finds out during the brief distraction, with their shocked reactions building up a sense of chaos. Camilo has an unsettling shapeshifting moment when he's stuck between Bruno and Mirabel's forms, and his father tells him to put his normal face back on. Camilo passes the message to his father, who does a hilarious Spit Take all over Mariano and his mother, who are accordingly horrified and disgusted. Félix passes the message to his wife, to which a cloud forms over her head as her eyes and mouth widen in shock.
  • Considering Abuela's proximity to Félix, it stands to reason that she wasn't exactly safe from the Spit Take either, and so she is stuck with a frozen smile on her face due to being in the middle of eating her dinner when it happened, then her eyes quickly dart towards him. There's a brief but palpable sense that she's reeling in the temptation to slap someone for making such a scene.
  • The first time Mirabel's vision is broken it's by Mariano offering her a bowl of avocado. All we see is the bowl and his hand come in from off-screen, which implies he leaned over Isabela to hold a bowl of avocado right in front of her sister's face. There's also the weirdly sensual way he says "avocado?" too.
  • As Abuela sees Dolores and Camilo acting weird, she plasters on a smile as she pours more wine into her wine glass.
  • Mirabel trying to have Mariano speedrun his proposal all while doing everything she can to hide the cracks appearing in the Casita.
  • Isabela's usual beautiful and graceful smile is... strained to say the least as Mariano opens the ring box to propose to her.
  • Dolores' face as she loudly yells the whole family is DOOMED is a very over the top one.
  • After everything goes to hell during the proposal, with Bruno's vision being revealed, everyone's powers going haywire, and the Casita beginning to crack… the doors open, revealing a crowd of the townsfolk gathered outside to shout "Felicidades!" - before Pepa summons a rainstorm to quite literally rain on their parade. Once they see the state of affairs, they react accordingly (the priest does the sign of the cross.)
  • While it's sad to see Luisa have a meltdown, there's something hilarious about hearing her scream "I'm a loser!" as she runs out of the dining room in tears. And before that, she begins comically bawling when struggling to lug over a piano for some music.
• Camilo's shapeshifting abilities go out of control and cause him to sometimes have a regular body but the head of a baby. At one point the baby head sports a luxurious mustache.
• During Mariano's attempted proposal to Isabela, the family's powers go haywire because they learn that Mirabel saw Bruno's vision about her, and Isabela inadvertently grows a flower vine that punches Mariano in the face. He is later seen blubbering on his way out of the Casita.
  • Then when Isabela is becoming truer to herself in "What Else Can I Do", one of her stray succulents once again punches Mariano in the face.
• Mirabel is chasing Bruno and accidentally runs into a wall. On the other side, Camilo is trying to calm down his mother with some tea, but Mirabel's collision startles Pepa into releasing a lightning bolt that hits poor Camilo. He then slams into the dresser behind him before he drops the tea on his foot, all while shapeshifting into various family members while giving a pained but hilarious squeak.
• Bruno catching Mirabel, but instead of asking in concern if his niece was alright, he remarks, "You're very sweaty."
  • Then as Bruno falls himself, Mirabel catches him... only to reflexively let go when she sees one of his rats crawling up his arm. Cue Bruno screaming and falling into the mist as Mirabel stares in horror… and Bruno stands up, revealing that the floor was about a foot under the mist. Bruno even brushes it away with his poncho and seems slightly surprised. After Mirabel helps him back up to where they had fallen from, he stares at her with a stonefaced expression of barely-contained embarrassment, before bluntly saying "Bye", and attempting to speed-walk away.
• All of Bruno's efforts to ward off bad luck, such as his frequent knocking on random wooden objects, including his own head, while muttering, "Knock, knock, knock, knock on wood." He at one point throws salt over his shoulder, which hits Mirabel directly in the face. He also throws sugar for good measure, also into Mirabel's face.
• Mirabel asks Bruno if he was the one who was patching up the cracks. Bruno said he wasn't, and said it was Hernando. He then pulls the hood of his poncho over his face and declares he is Hernando, and he is scared of nothing. He also introduces her to Jorge, putting on a bucket over his head and holding up a masonry trowel. Mirabel's reaction is very understandable.
  Mirabel: [long pause] How long have you been back here?
  • After showing Hernando, Bruno pulls his hood down, nervously giggling that his true gift was "acting".
  • When he lowers the hood, he makes sure to tell Mirabel that Hernando is actually just him.
• Bruno trying to offer some entertainment to Mirabel, in the form of his rats putting their heads through a cardboard cut out of a pseudo-television. He even has channels for sports, variety shows, and of course, telenovelas. One rat scurries away from its side of the portrait while another comes in and happily takes its place.
  Bruno: Their love was never meant to be.
  • When Mirabel says "I don't understand." in regards to why Bruno's been in hiding, Bruno responds by explaining the plot of his telenovelas, about an amnesiac woman who unknowingly falls in love with her nephew.
• Antonio arrives to give Mirabel and Bruno aid after "the rats told him everything." He also quickly reprimands his jaguar against eating his uncle's rats, who just gives a pitiful kitty cat look at being told "no."
  • The rat that Antonio's holding even put its ears back like a guilty dog when he says that the rats told him everything, as if to say "I'm sorry."
• When Mirabel tells him he should leave, she gestures to his rats that are washing themselves with his toothbrushes, and one of them is about to lick the brush it just used to wash another rat's feet. Bruno replies with an "eh" as if he's saying, "It's not so bad".
• Bruno prepares a magic circle to look into the future, but he's stopped by a grumpy capybara that refuses to move, so he's forced to make a little bulge. And during the vision itself, when the humans are troubled by what's happening, the capybara just continues sitting on its spot, stone-faced.
  • As Bruno worries Mirabel wouldn't like his vision he goes through the town's grievances of him and his powers, even calling back to Señora Pezmuerto's specific gripe.
    Bruno: Oh, Bruno makes bad things happen. He's creepy and his vision killed my goldfish!
• Bruno not sure if Mirabel has to fight someone or hug them in the vision.
  Bruno: There's someone with you, and you...
  [The figures in the vision reach for each other]
  Bruno: You fight her!
  Mirabel: [whipping around to look at him in surprise] What?!
  Bruno: Wait, no no, no no. Is that a hug?
  Mirabel: [annoyed] Am I fighting or hugging?!
  • Hilariously, it turns out it was both. Fighting with Isa eventually led to them hugging.
• Once Mirabel and Bruno realize that the former must hug Isabela, her least favorite sibling. Mirabel is outraged, growling and giving a Death Glare to the vision, and Bruno nonchalantly tells her that he told her that his prediction is bad. What sells it is that he throws away the new glass slab like it was nothing.
  Bruno: [sighs] Eeevery time.
  • There's how the musical score goes from dramatic and mysterious to sassy and condescending when the figure Mirabel must hug is revealed to be Isabela, as though vision!Isabela were wordlessly asking "Were you expecting me?"
    • The sheer indignation in Mirabel's voice as she screams "ISABELA?!?!"
  • Bruno is actually laughing when he sees how simple the solution seems to be; "Save the Casita, hug a sister!"
  • Bruno doesn't even look upset or sad when Mirabel is glaring at the slab in his hands. He just gives an unfazed and defeated, "Yeah, I saw that coming." expression as he tosses it away.
• Bruno and Mirabel hide as they stare at Isabela's door, wondering how true the vision was. Cue Camilo below calling for Mirabel and his powers going haywire as he's left with the head (and hands) of a baby, but the body of an adult.
  Camilo: [beat and in a higher pitched voice] Mirabeellll!
  Bruno: Well, I think we're running out of time here.
  • There's Camilo's resigned look, as though already used to his powers messing up like this.
• After Bruno encourages Mirabel to go into Isabela's room with an inspirational speech, he immediately adds "by yourself, after I leave" and tries to skulk away. When Mirabel asks why he isn't coming, he answers about this being her journey… she flat out tells him that she's aware he's just trying to hide from Alma. Which he quickly says is correct and promptly goes back into the walls.
  • His speech is also undercut by the fact that Bruno is trying to stay hidden behind a potted plant, forcing him to awkwardly waddle with the large pot along the floor as he backs up.
  • Then his exit. He repeats his knock on wood routine, crosses his fingers, holds his breath and falls backwards into the empty space behind the portrait, which an earlier shot reveals is sitting above a floor level with the outside. Bruno either lands into an acrobatic backwards roll that no one sees, or lands flat on his back and has to scramble up.
• Mirabel's entire reaction to knowing this will be the hardest part of the vision for her.
  Mirabel: Now you must save the magic... with a hug.
• Mirabel waltzing in and suggesting the two sisters to settle their differences and just "hug it out". Isabela lets her know she's not happy.
  Isabela: "Hug it out"? Luisa can't lift an empanada... [pulls off a flower and crushes it] Mariano's nose looks like a smashed papaya... HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?!
  • Mirabel's brief reaction after her sister's outrage basically reads as, "Yeah, fair point."
• Isabela giving her sister a smug grin as she tells her to apologize for ruining her proposal. Mirabel almost seems like she's in pain as she goes through with it.
  Isabela: [smugly] Go on. Apologize.
  Mirabel: I... am... ssssoh-rry.
  Isabela: [smugly] Hm.
  Mirabel: That your life is soooo great!
  Isabela: [calmly] Out.
  • Cue Mirabel trying desperately to hold onto anything to stop her from being pulled out of the room. Or sometimes running into things.
  • As Mirabel yells at her, she calls her a "selfish entitled princess". The word "selfish" is what sets off Isabela's Berserk Button, though she doesn't deny the "entitled princess".
    • It could have been even funnier, as originally earlier in production instead of simply arguing, Isabela actually did an unflattering mockery of Mirabel before the two sisters had a fullbown slapsticky Wimp Fight.
• While Isabela is ranting at her sister, she smacks her in the face with flowers with each stomp in the ground (and melodramatic tango music playing like its a telenovela) as she gets more heated when... Pop! A little cactus appears in the floor. While Mirabel is taken aback by Isabela's confession, all Isa can do is just stare in surprise by the "imperfect" plant.
• At the beginning of Isabela's song as she discovers her new ability, Mirabel gives an annoyed "good talk, bring it in, bring it in" to try to get through the part she knows she's gonna hate the most. She even desperately tries to hug Isabela who keeps just avoiding her as she's mesmerized by the cactus, leading to Mirabel unceremoniously face-planting.
  • Also, it's a little funny that Isabela has an epiphany about her entire life and sense of self and eventually that the magic was kept from disappearing forever and the family's relations truly healed... because she inadvertently grew a tiny cactus.
  • Also during the song, she mimics topiary copies of herself… with her shredding one to bits with her vines, smirking deviously. Mirabel ends up with its head in her hands, only to throw it away with a look of popeyed terrified shock.
  • Isabela's "hurricane of jacarandas" leaves Mirabel buried under a mound of flowers with only her thorougly unamused face visible.
  • As Mirabel is flung around by a fig tree during Isabela's song, she yells out "Big!" and "This is fine!".
    • During the latter exclamation, Mirabel is hung upside down and her skirt is up to reveal her undergarments for a moment. Her tone of voice makes it very clear she isn't fine with this.
  • As Isabela's spirits lift, garish succulants and flowers start sprouting all over town... including one on a very long stem that pops Mariano right in the face again.
• While it's tear jerking to see the Casita collapse, there's a bit of comedy when Bruno manages to escape his hideout just by ramming through the wall head-first with Jorge's bucket. Makes you wonder either what material that bucket is made out of or if Bruno/Jorge is a lot stronger than they look.
• In Alma's flashback to her life with Pedro, she announces her pregnancy to him using a paper cutout shaped like a baby. When she unfolds it to reveal it's actually shaped like three babies, Pedro looks surprised and then facetiously pretends to faint from the shock.
• Mixes with Heartwarming but, following Alma and Mirabel's reconciliation, Bruno unexpectedly shows up on a horse, then stumbles off it, with his leg catching on the harness, ready to take the blame after the Casita was destroyed. He seems downright shocked when he sees Alma isn't angry or upset anymore as she hugs him.
  Bruno: [while his mother is hugging him, looking around in utter confusion] I feel like I missed something important.
• Camilo throws some cold water on the touching reunion:
  Agustín: We'll be okay.
  Camilo: Uh, not if we don't have a house. [Félix elbows him] What? We don't have a house! I can't say we don't have a house? [gestures to rubble] What is that? Not a house!
• When Bruno rejoins the family during "All of You", Camilo looks confused and tries to start a reprise. "OK, so... we gonna talk about Bruno?"
  • When Bruno is singing "Let it in, let it out, let it rain, let it snow, let it go", there is a very distinct piano harmony under the main melody.
  • Then Dolores says she knew he never left, and Camilo gives her a look screaming "why didn't you say anything?!" What makes it funnier is that Antonio also knew about Bruno thanks to the rats, leaving Camilo the only sibling Locked Out of the Loop.
    • During this, Dolores playfully elbows Camilo. Camilo's face can also be read as him asking "what was that for?".
  • As the Casita is being rebuilt, Mirabel hands Camilo a shovel which he tries to spin to look cool - and he completely drops it. He then looks around as if to make sure no one saw that.
• While the family and the village work together to rebuild the Casita, Jorge is seen helping out as much as he can. Giving someone his trowel and giving a thumbs up.
• Mirabel asks Mariano why he was so sad while they were fixing the Casita, and he tells her that he has "so much love inside". She gives a bit of a cringing expression but then hitches him up with her cousin, Dolores. After they proclaim their emotions, he quickly says "Let's get married", but Dolores pats his arm gently and tells him to slow it down.
  • When Mirabel mentions Dolores' name, she promptly pops up and hip-checks Mirabel off-screen and fully unloads onto Mariano about how she feels. She had a lot to get off her chest.
  • After Dolores and Mariano proclaim their feelings, the camera cuts to Mirabel and Isabela reacting with approval... the thing is, Isabela's "Yes!" is noticeably more excited than Mirabel's. She really didn't want to marry Mariano.
• The Running Gag of Dolores engaging in Offscreen Teleportation anytime she's mentioned.

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