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Manolo and Joaquin are both in love with Maria.
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La Muerte and Xibalba make a deal over the Land of the Remembered and the Land of the Forgotten.
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Her father sends her away as a child to discipline her.
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Manolo becomes a bullfighter, even though he wants to play the guitar. Joaquin becomes the bravest soldier in their city and is the one protecting it.
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Maria and Joaquin both return in time for Manolo's first public bullfight. However he does not want to "finish" the bull, which impresses Maria.
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Joaquin proposes to Maria, saying that he will stay and protect the city only if she marries him. Manolo and Joauin fight over Maria because they both wish to marry her.
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Chakal and his bandits prepare to fight Joaquin for it.
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Manolo asks Maria to marry him, and it is clear she wants to say yes.
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Xibalba cheats and interferes in their lives. He has his two-headed snake bite Maria.
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Manolo chooses to die in order to be with Maria, and is bitten by both heads of Xibalba's snake.
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Manolo meets his family and searches for Maria. He goes to ask La Muerte for help.
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Manolo discovers that Xibalba now leads the Land of the Remembered. He learns that Maria was only bitten once, so she did not die, and that Maria was going to acceot Joaquin's proposal to save the city.
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Manolo embarks on a journey to find La Muerte and fet her help.
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Manolo passes the tests he is put through and meets the Candlemaker, who takes him to the Land of The Forgotten.
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In order to be resurrected and find Maria, Manolo must fight every bull his ancestors ever fought, all at once.
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Manolo chooses again not to finish the bull, but to sing to it. He manages to defeat it.
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The bandits invade the city during Joaquin and Maria's wedding, and they must fight them. Chakal takes Joaquin's medal and defeats him.
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Because it was Dio de Los Muertos, Manolo and the Sanchez family are resurrected in time to fight of the bandits.
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Manolo and Joaquin both sacrifices themselves for each other, but both wind up saving each other. Together they defeat Chakal and recover Joaquin's medal.
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Manolo's father allows him to play the guitar instead of bull fighting. Joaquin learns to be a soldier without the medal.
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La Muerte forgives Xibalba, and everyone lives happily ever after.