Encanto , IQ Score 153/200
Encanto has an IQ Score of 153/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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What these dimensions mean
- Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
- Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
- Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.
- SEL: social-emotional learning on the CASEL framework, self-awareness, regulation, social awareness, relationships, and decision-making. Does not affect the IQ Score.
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The TVI Take
Lin-Manuel Miranda scores the Madrigals, a Colombian family whose magic blossomed from grief and whose miracle is now cracking from the pressure of perfection. Stephanie Beatriz's Mirabel is the un-gifted one, which the film treats as both her wound and her perceptual advantage, she's the only family member who can see Casita is breaking because she's the only one not being graded.
The Bruno number is the structural pivot; the silence around the family's exiled prophet is what the entire system is built to protect.
People & Production Jared Bush · Walt Disney Pictures · United States 24 connections
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The Trailer
Official trailer, embedded from YouTube.
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Encanto scored 153/200 (Stimulating tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/encanto/
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