characters

“We wanted the designs to have that pre-Columbian quality, but at the same time to look appropriate for what they are: comic book characters,” says Meza-Leon.

On Broadway, all of the characters — even cranky Valentin — crooned numbers the whole way through.

As for the movie, there’s nothing comfortable about it, for either the characters or the viewers.

Readers will likely wonder: Will they come too late for these characters, too?

Mr. Winter is superb as Didi, the marginally more decisive and inquisitive of the two principal characters.