Netflix’s new Chupa movie is a sweet story of getting back to one’s family. It follows a kid named Alex who is sad after losing his father to cancer and is not ready to deal with this grief. Seeing this, Mother tells him to visit his Grandpa in Mexico for some days. When he lands in Mexico, he meets up with his Grandpa and his two cousins, Memo and Luna.
One night, Alex meets a strange creature kid (Chupa) whom people call Chupacabra. The creature is lost from its mother and is all alone. The movie follows Alex, Luna, Memo, and Grandpa as they try to protect and take Chupa back to its family while a scientist is trying to hunt it and its family for its blood, which is said to cure any disease.
While the Chupa movie has a simple concept and story, it also has a simple yet important meaning and message behind it, and we will be talking about it all.
Chupa Movie Plot
This story begins with this cave in Mexico where some researchers are searching for a mysterious creature. Only then they heard the movement of someone there. And when they follow the voice, they find a blue feather there which tells them the secret. The feather was of that creature.
After this, one of the researchers directly came out of the cave and showed his boss Quinn the blue feather. Seeing it, Quinn becomes very happy because now, perhaps his years of hard work were worth it. Quinn, along with his companions, goes back to the cave to find the creature. This is where we see that after some fear and searching, Quinn sees an animal child there, which is the creature of the species he was looking for.
Just as Quinn tries to capture the creature from the darkness, we see that the creature’s mother attacks Quinn and takes its child along with her out of the cave. Quinn and his men start chasing the animal, after which we see that Quinn’s car gets stuck on the way. Due to this, the creature disappears from the eyes of the Quinn.
In the meantime, while going through the road, the Creature collides which a passing car and gets injured even more. But the creature still tries to run off. Since Quinn and his men are still following the creature, it decides to hide its child and gather Quinn’s attention toward itself. And we see that the creature’s child is all alone now.
Alex Flies To His Grandpa In Mexico
After this, the story takes us to Kansas City, a city in America, where we meet Alex, a boy who lives with his mother. He has been very unhappy for some time now because recently he lost his father, who was diagnosed with cancer. His mother tells him that he should visit his grandfather in Mexico for some time. Alex agrees and later leaves for Mexico alone because his mother is busy with some work.
After some time, Alex reaches Mexico, where his grandfather Chava comes to pick him up. Chava tells Alex that once, he was a very famous Lucha Libre wrestler. After a while, Alex reaches home, where he meets his younger brother Memo who doesn’t know to speak English at all and just speaks only in Spanish.
Then Alex meets his older sister, Luna, who is able to speak English very well. All three of the kids watch their grandfather’s wrestling fights. Alex learns that his grandfather was a really great wrestler, but once in such a fight, he got a deep injury on his head and because of this, he had to give up wrestling.
Alex Meets Chupa
On the other hand, we see that Quinn, who is still following this creature, meets up with the Investor of the company that he is working for. The Investor asks Quinn about the creatures and tells him to quickly catch it. Then get to know from the Investor that the creature’s blood contains something that can be used to cure any disease. And this was the reason why the company and Quinn were after the creature. Also, the creature was called Chupacabra.
Then we see Alex, who spends his whole day with his grandfather, and then at night, he sleeps in the house. At night Alex hears some sound that wakes him up from his sleep. As soon as he wakes up, he sees his grandfather going to the store room. Alex follows him out of the house, and just when he is coming back, he hears some strange noise in the bushes.
Alex sees the Chupacabra’s child that we saw at the beginning of the film. But upon seeing the creature, Alex gets very scared and starts shouting loudly. Hearing Alex’s scream, all the people from the house come out to see Alex. Alex tells them they saw a Chupacabra, but no one believes him because most of the people of Mexico do not believe the Chupacabra really exists.
Grandpa Goes Missing
The next day, in the morning, as soon as Alex wakes up from sleep, he sees that the same creature is sitting on him. Alex gets very scared and starts screaming. The creature gets scared by the screaming and runs away from there in fear. Alex talks to his sister Luna, and then Memo comes from behind and tells them that Grandfather has left the house.
All three of them get into the car to find their grandfather. On the way, Luna tells Alex that Grandpa’s memory was affected due to his head injury. His memory has become weak, and he sometimes forgets everything all of a sudden.
On the other hand, we see that Quinn is still searching for Chupacabra. While searching the place where they were chasing Chupacabra, Quinn finds a car number plate. This number plate was of the car that hit the mother, Chupacabra, at the beginning of the movie.
After some searching, Luna finally sees Grandpa walking along a street. They all bring their grandfather back home with them. Once again, Alex tries to tell Luna that he saw a Chupacabra, but she still doesn’t believe him. Feeling sad, Alex goes and sits alone in front of the store room.
Becoming Friends With Chupa
Once again, the same Chupacabra appears and immediately goes close to Alex. Seeing this, Alex understands that the creature is not dangerous at all, so Alex also brings food for it from home. They both play the whole night and fall asleep. The next day, in the morning, while Alex was talking to Chupacabra, Memo walked into the storeroom. Alex introduces Memo to Chupacabra, and the two also become friends.
After some time, Luna also walks into the store room. At first, she is scared of the Chupacabra, but then she also happily becomes its friend. At last, we see grandfather enter; he tells the kids that he brought the Chupacabra home after he accidentally hit its mother at night. Alex then names the Chupacabra “Chupa”.
Chupa Movie Ending Explained
While playing wrestling with his grandchildren, Grandpa falls on his head, gets injured, and rests in his bedroom. At this time, Quinn enters the house and tries to capture Chupa. Alex goes and wakes up Grandpa for help. Grandpa fights Quinn with his wrestling moves, takes the kids and Chupa, and drives off, leaving Quinn behind.
Once they reach a certain location, Chupa tries to run off in a direction, sensing that its home is nearby, and others follow it. This brings it to the dead end, and by looking at it, it seemed as if the hill in front was probably Chupa’s home. Between these two hills, there was a small bridge that was quite old, and its condition was also not good.
Quinn comes in from behind and shoots Chupa with a tranquilizer, and takes it with him. Alex tries to fight, but Quinn threatens to shoot them as well. So Quinn takes Chupa and leaves with his car. While driving, Quinn’s car is surrounded by other Chupacabras, who attack Quinn’s car. Quinn takes Chupa and threatens to kill it. But grandfather comes in from behind attack Quinn, freeing Chupa in the process.
At the end of the movie, Chupa and Alex say their goodbyes, and Chupa leaves with his family. Then after some time, Alex says his goodbyes to Luna, Memo, and his Grandpa. While on the plane, Alex listens to the music that Luna gives, showing that he is now close to his cousins. Then he removes his father’s mask from his bag, showing that he can deal with the grief of the death of his father.
If we try to understand the movie, we see that the overall meaning of the Chupa movie was getting back to one’s family. Chupa got away from his mother, but by the end, he was able to get back to his family. In the same way, at first, Alex was hesitant to get close to his cousins, Grandpa, and the grief of losing his father, but by the end, he was close to them.
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