Everyone in the family can. The house serves them all. The difference is that she doesn’t have her own distinct magical gift.
That one Aunt mostly seemed to have the power to rain on herself whenever she was upset.
Her mood affected the weather, the stronger her feelings, the wider an area she affected.
When the family started cracking up, so did the house. Mirabel was the catalyst for healing the family, which is why she was able to restore the magic.
I think there’s no question she’s the future matriarch of the family.
Mirabel didn’t get a gift, but she did get a door. She’s featured prominently on the front door. She’s the glue of the family.
Abuela was traumatized (understandably) by her experiences and is terrified (again understandably) of the prospect of something like that happening again. Doing things for the neighbors, and having her family do things for the neighbors makes her feel more secure, and she has gradually made that the center of her life - at the cost of driving away one son, seeing one granddaughter as nothing but a beast of burden, another granddaughter as only a symbol of perfection (and thus safety), and seeing the third granddaughter as essentially useless. When the house and powers are taken away, she expects nothing from the world but another trauma, but the neighbors genuinely like her and her family, and rebuild the family’s place. In the future, Abuela can love her son (and not drive him away because he might offend the neighbors), and appreciate her granddaughters and their own desires. I agree that Mirabel is the new matriarch, because she genuinely cares about the family for themselves (as presumably Abuela did at the beginning) and can build a healthier new family life.
I’m late to the fiesta, but I finally watched it.
It is wonderful! It’s a perfect metaphor for family-role archetypes. All the characters are sympathetic, but none are flawless. Great interactions among them. Bears repeated watching.
Mine only complaint is in one of the songs I was knocked out of this movie by some phrases/beats that were too much “Hamilton” style. I’m a huge fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda, but it felt sort of a mash-up for bit.
I took it that she used and understood the House more since she didn’t have a Gift to distract her. Luiza’s song was the best IMHO.
Luisa’s song is the most moving, I’ll grant. It’s hit a ton of people right in the childhood.
I watched it yesterday and I enjoyed and was moved by it. I echo the others that think that Mirabel’s power is her familiarity with the house which I think is more than that of the others. You don’t see them calling out to casita in the way she does and it is her that gets it to help the others when it is falling apart.
The ending of the magic being restored is fitting because it goes back to what the Abuela said, the magic of the family is its members and so once the breaks in their relationships are healed, then the magic is restored as well. According to the story, the cracks in the house started to appear after Bruno left/was banned and he started repairing them. Mirabel, and the way she was treated, was the catalyst that final broke it, and also, her recognition as being part of the family, what restored it.
I liked that the vision from Bruno came true in both respects, Mirabel was the one who broke the house by revealing the fissures that were there in the family, and the one who restored it by embracing her grandmother (it looks like her sister, but I think is actually the younger version of the Abuela) and having both of them realize what the other was experiencing.
I enjoyed the music even thought I felt to some extent that some of the songs were a bit shoe-horned in, and I could not tell when they were part of the story or simply exposition. The first song was a great way to introduce the whole family without narration or some long conversation to explain all the characters, but some of the others I felt, even the Luisa song, brought out aspects of the characters, but did not feel like they meshed right into the story.
Having lived in Colombia, I liked how many things depicted were authentic, from the dress, to the architecture, to the animals. Colombia is the 3rd most bio-diverse country in the world so all of the animals depicted are actually native to that country which I appreciated as a nice touch.
Overall, I enjoyed it and will likely watch it again.
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I think since at least “Frozen” (and maybe earlier), songs are part of the story. The song writers have the story outline and script to use as input to their songs. And both songs and scripts have been rewritten to match the other better. How well they do varies and is a matter of opinion, but the intent is they fit together as a whole.
Lin-Manuel was involved from the beginning and was one of the contributors to the story. He was pretty intimately involved with the production:
Hey! We don’t talk about Bruno!
BUT! 
I understand that is the intent, but for me the songs in Encanto did not flow into the story as well as, to take an older example, the original Aladdin worked. The songs, for me, were more tightly integrated in that one, whereas in Encanto, they felt less so for a few of them. Coco is a more recent example where the music was tightly integrated though of course the subject of that film was music.
Anyway, this a subjective impression that has nothing to do with who collaborated on script as it was developed.
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And, so was music performance. If you wanted to include a song, but the lyrics had absolutely nothing to do with the story, it could be put in as one of the musical performances, rather than as a song furthering the plot.
I don’t know about you guys but I couldn’t follow the Family Madrigal song at all until after I’d seen the movie once. It is just absolutely jampacked full of exposition and information.
I love that line (But!), and the way her husband clearly knew they would be discussing Bruno.
We just watched this and enjoyed it a lot. We like the Hamilton-style songs, and even if most of the plot beats were familiar, it’s visually fantastic (and like most Disney expertly-designed to elicit some tears). Good characters and voices as well.
That’s a big damned house to be called ‘Casita’, by the way. Just sayin’.
As I wrote earlier, I had to use subs to even halfway follow the songs.
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