Streaming viewership Vivo was the highest viewed film on
Netflix in the month of August, with 493 million minutes in its first full week, translating to roughly 5.7 million viewings for the week of August 2 to August 9. Netflix announced in its Q3 2021 earnings call that 46 million accounts had sampled the movie.
Critical response On
Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 104 critics have given the film a positive review with an average score of 6.8/10. The films critical consensus reads: "
Vivo offers few surprises, but this attractively animated adventure is enlivened by the catchy songs contributed by star Lin-Manuel Miranda." On
Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Maya Phillips of
The New York Times praised Miranda's singing and said "Miranda's songs incorporate his signature rapid-fire rapping, along with quick tempo changes and genre mash-ups. Gabi's song, "My Own Drum," with its grade-school
Nicki Minaj-esque rap and auto-tune, is the jam I didn't know I needed in my life.
Vivo has cuteness to spare, even if the rest is hit or miss. But, we all know, the beat goes on." Brian Lowry of
CNN also concurred with Phillips and said "Lin-Manuel Miranda brings his stage-honed chops to another animated movie in
Vivo, a sweet if slight love story built around an inordinately resourceful kinkajou. Premiering on Netflix, Miranda's songs elevate a small-boned effort—call it cute, without that being pejorative—with an unabashedly romantic streak." Benjamin Lee of
The Guardian rated the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote, "while
Vivo shares the expensive sheen and general good nature of Sony's last hand-me-down, it falls short on just about everything else, a sweet and colourful musical adventure that isn't quite sweet and colourful enough, coasting on simple pleasures that fade as soon as the music stops." Petrana Radulovic of
Polygon was more critical about the film, and said in her review that while the music was "definitely one of the film's highlights," the musical deviations in the film makes it feel "like an animated version of a
Hamilton outtake." She went on to praise the animation and visual style of the film, stating it "all meshes together in a beautiful symphony," but criticized the story. David Ehrlich of
IndieWire gave the film a C grade and wrote "It's a fun premise for a great adventure, and a valuable lesson for kids who are liable to get blindsided by the realization that 'now' is not 'forever.' The only problem is that
Vivo grows increasingly generic and forgettable as the film goes on, and the closer its furry hero gets to finding a silver lining, the more viewers wish that he never went looking for one at all." Peter Debruge of Variety also gave the film a somewhat positive review, saying "the film boasts the rich, professional look of first-rate computer animation, even if
Vivo plays by a more conventional stylebook than [Sony Pictures Animation's] recent breakthroughs
The Mitchells vs. the Machines and
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The character designs are fine, if not especially inspired."
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