As a black woman, I disagree that diversity is acceptable in all movies about fantasy. I don’t want to see current day Manhattan when I’m watching a fantasy film. I’m not saying people of color should never be added but it should be believable and make sense. Groups just aren’t mixed like this anywhere in the world. I don’t mean in the streets like in NYC, I mean friend groups and who people tend to hang out with. I have mostly white friends but this is not the case for the majority of my black relatives. And that’s not a bad or racist thing…people just tend to hang with those who share the same or similar cultures. People also tend to date or marry people who look like their parents race-wise. If you go to a predominately white school, you’ll know that there is always a “black table.” There will still be many black teens like me sitting among mixed groups but the black table is always there. Not due to segregation or racism but because they choose to hang with one another. This is a thing and I’m sick of pretending that it’s not and that we all live in harmony. I don’t always disagree with diversity when it is used creatively however. For instance, I love House of the Dragon. The show creators made the Valeryons black but they only did this because there are so many silver-haired white characters on the show, and it makes it easier to distinguish between the Valeryons and the Targaryens. It makes the transition from book to screen smoother. I cringe when I watch shows like Rings of Power and The Witcher who just place black people everywhere with no care or thought put into it. It also takes me out of the story because instead of thinking of the plot, I start to wonder how this population came to be and why everyone isn’t mixed if race isn’t a factor in this world. Shouldn’t middle earth look more like the Dominic Republic? It is just so damn distracting! Hollywood, I beg you, PLEASE STOP DOING THIS.
What...? You're telling me a world can have giant spiders, ogres, beasts and literal freaking Magic but black people is what "throws you off" Are you kidding me? You're just acting like Sambo over this. A little too much like him. Especially with your "no don't mix the races" garbage
Agreed, and instead of shoehorning diversity into everything why not encourage people to identify with any character regardless of how they look? As a white kid I loved the comics about Yakari the native American and I had no problem whatsoever identifying with him. Today children are taught they can only identify themselves with characters that looks like themselves which is a terrible lesson. Moreover they learn that stories that don't have a diverse cast, like Yakari, are inherently bad (even though non-diversity is usually okay as long as it's not white). Instead I viewed Yakari as an opportunity to experience something I would never otherwise be able to, the adventures of a native American boy in a time and place far away.
This not Walt's milestone. But, this is completely Robby's milestone. Congratuatlions Robby Iger, my boy! You have encapsulated a film that captures all that is emblematic of YOUR Disney.
So queen is cool with her husband hanging out with a younger girl, and wouldn't the kings child be the succesor for the wish power thing? Why teach some commoner your powers? Sounds like another winner
IWhy would the queen be jealous of the kind working with a younger woman? Wouldn't most women be OK with their husband having female co workers? I would, it's much worse. The queen is fine with Asha trapping the king and leaving him stuck forever. After going along with what he did for many years, she is fine with her husband being out in jail forever without committing any crime.
I think they did the wrong thing by making Magnifico a traditional villain because of one thing; that being that he has a wife. No disney villain has ever been married or had a marriage when the story begins, by giving Magnifico a wife it provides the uncomfortable situation that it means shes going to see the veil lifted, have her heart broken, and witness the death of someone she cared for deeply. This is the worst choice they could have made in regards to a villain, he should either have been husband to a dead wife, or unmarried.
Saying that....yeah, you have a point. In 101 Dalmatians, in the original book Cruella WAS married and her husband was the one who skinned the animals for to keep her happy. In the Disney version, she's single and there's no talk if she's a widower. Evil couples wouldn't be an issue but it's weird I just noticed this pattern.
Apparently the wife was supposed to be a villain along with her husband, but they scrapped that idea. I think having an evil power couple would have been far more interesting.
@@blueflare3848A villainous power couple would have blown the roof off of Twitter. Disney adults would have adored the couple and dressed up as them for Halloween. Couples would be making TikToks of their villain song. Disney dropped the ball seriously on that one.
About 10:00 - The issue here with the diversity in that picture is that it doesn't make sense for what they were attempting to do. The story is supposed to be based on Spain and the Spanish culture in medieval times. You don't have Spanish looking people here including the MC, and not even Mediterranean looking people. It's not Spanish despite the cultural appropriation in this movie. This is an LA modern crowd, not a crowd you would think is Spanish in any way, shape or form. There's also an issue with their various costumes that are all over the place from a period and setting perspective. That's aside from the story and the characters.
Don’t tell me you’re one of those who think of Mexicans when referring to Spanish people… The queen’s accent was that of a Latino country, perhaps Colombia, and I think she was well represented cause I thought of it even before I heard her speak Spanish.
@@AngelicaEstherxosince when Colombia = Spain lol please, as a Mexican and Latin American, don't insult us with such comparisons. Also, yes, I don't like the weird "We totally speak Spanish but won't go the extra mile for Spain" vibe this gives off.
Just watched Klaus, and Alan's comments about framing shots were really exemplified in that animation. The scenes are so creative and dramatic because of those expertise. Very interesting!
Klaus is absolutely wonderful. The fact that it didn’t get the Oscar and Disney got another one by default for the abomination that is Toy Story 4 is a travesty.
The entirety of Oscar's Best Animated Feature Award should be rename to "What crime against Animation will Disney commit this year" Award. Klaus, Kubo and the Two String, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, the list go on. all rightfully deserved winner, all snuffed by that year's Disney movie.
@@ian-flanagan "The first and prime rule of economics is a limited number of resources are being competed for by an infinite number of human desires. The first rule of politics is deceiving people into thinking that the first rule of economics does not exist." - Thomas Sowell
So my only disagreement is he said Disney fell on hard times. Disney has jumped onto hard times and since they started jumping on hard times they have since gotten a pogo stick.
Well, they were once about to call bankruptcy and then in the 80's they were saved by "The little Mermaid". Maybe Disney needs to face more obstacles until they finally get their next breakthrough, or it will simply vanish. Let's see what happens.
In Tomorrowland the villain died by being stationary and the "castle" fell down on him. I say that because I know I'm the only person who stayed until the end of that flick and actually witnessed it.
@@OwenYoung-yv1vc Except within the context of the movie, these people cannot try because the essence of their dreams or wishes is stolen from them. That's the problem. No one should be granting wishes, but no one should be removing the ambition of them, either.
When I was a kid I had Disney Animation Studio for MS-DOS and it came with a book all about traditional animation techniques (onion skin, squash & stretch, etc) and it inspired me so much that almost 40 years later it's part of my job. It was sad to see the end of 2D animation by CGI and it's even sadder to watch the standards keep lowering. 100 years was a good run, but it's just amazing that the company that invented the feature length animation is now shuttering legendary studios originally created by other people.
Wonder Woman 84 manages to at times achieve "so bad it's funny" levels of terrible, and even that movie still understood that not every wish is something that should be granted. _DisnESG's Wish_ was just written by a bunch of commies who think unlimited resources are being withheld from them by a ruling class.
CalArts student here. graduated 2004. Worked for Disney right out of school. I agree with all of this. This film should have been traditionally animated and yikes, I would describe the side characters as NPCs. That being said, I enjoyed Magnifico and Asha’s songs 🤷♀️
"Arcane" and the Spiderverse movies have exciting and innovative visuals. In comparison "Wish" looks dated and bland. And the character animation reminds me of every Disney character I have seen before.
According to the racists in the comments, this movie is woke and political because it has an original POC character in it so by your logic, those also suck
Well artists didn't play any part in it. It is was animated by Chinese labor farms that care as much about art as they do about snapping together circuit boards.
It would have been lovely to have a traditional animation style movie to mark the centenary. Something beautiful and classic like that would have really stood out.
From what I understand from other reviewers is that - The king basically in his right to choose which wishes to grant and which ones to keep after he done so much to build up *his* kingdom and do what it takes to protect it even if it means not everyonr gets their wish granted. For a 'villain' he's actually in the right which means he isn't a true villain at all. He's someone we can relate to knowing that not all wishes are good. Self proclaim 'heroine' wants to free wishes cuz she believes everyone deserves to have their wish granted, but doesn't realize a hidden danger to wish granted. The saying 'Be careful with what you wish for, you may just get it' has truth, but she doesn't learn nor realize that cuz she has no flaws and does not grow as a character. The way I see it, this makes her villain. But we can't have that in a Disney movie. No, no, no. Man bad, women good, agenda they keep pushing on everyone. If they really wanted the king to be the villain, they could have at least have some sort of true motive behind taking people's wishes. Something like... dark magic or whatever.
From what I’m hearing is that there isn’t anything showing how fulfilling all wishes can be a bad thing. I get how the main character would want to grant all wishes, but at the same time they’re not thinking how one wish could be bad and could go wrong or at least shows how one wish went wrong and the main character could be like “oh I understand now. Granting all wishes can be bad” like learning a lesson or something.
So sad. When I read (and sang) for the development sessions on this film a year ago, this was to have been an origin story for the song "When You Wish Upon A Star". The wise old man who extemporized the song (to the accompaniment of a lute, no less) was to have been voiced by Kelsey Grammer. This makes me so sad.
The real-life story of that song and the unlikely-sounding but actual backgrounds of its composer and lyricist are fascinating. A slightly fictionalized account of what actually happened would have been great. Wikipedia articles on the song and the men give a fair amount of detail.
We have here the odd case of a company not only failing to learn from their own history but actively working to make their own product worse by ignoring it.
@@suzygirl1843 The problem is less with the race swaps and more to do with the people doing the race swapped versions of movies being dumb and thinking "lol, we know better than those white people did back in the 90s and 2000s." Not sure when having heroes fail at some of their tasks became "old school" and "problematic" or whatever but evidently modern day writers think failure is "for racists" or something.
I don't think it's an anti-Marxist story; I think it's an anti-religion story. The ruler has the power to do miracles, but he only dispenses it capriciously. He requires his subjects to be docile and obedient, and in return he'll keep them safe. He poses as a benevolent monarch but he's a temperamental dictator who reacts with rage when he's opposed. And just to rub it in, they dress him in a Roman Catholic cope as he stands before an altar-like table.
I believe that the villain falling to his/her death trope was to give them a moment to reflect on their life choices while they careen through the atmosphere and think maybe evil wasn't the way to go. That and the whole allegorical descending into hell to be punished for their sins...
Also the simple fact that, at least for Disney movies, they're targeted at children. Having a villain fall to their death is a convenient way to kill them off without having to show murder or a dead body.
No doubt someone is about to make the case that this being a kids movie means it "wasn't made for you", as if we need to wait for the 10 and under audience to post their reviews online first. Parents. Please, pay them no mind and just raise your kids. (edit) To be clear, there's no such thing as content that is made for kids, especially if you take parenting seriously.
@@suzygirl1843 very well. I'll grant the validity of your argument by suggesting that you petition the audience for whom you say this film was made to go and see it. Let them "vote with their wallets".
@@suzygirl1843 Lot's of Disney movies were made for kids, that adults still enjoy. As a 47 year old man I still enjoy The Great Mouse Detective or The Lion King or Meet the Robinsons. Great entertainment goes beyond "perceived" audience. "Children are too important to be left to shitty media"- The Little Platoon
When I was a kid, Disney films were family friends 'for kids of all ages' even grandma. My first inkling that something was seriously wrong with The House of Mouse was when I saw a 'Saturday Morning' style Disney cartoon on TV and it featured snot and toilet "humor". I've been giving anything Disney a wary eye ever since and glad of it since I haven't accidentally paid for any of the woke crap.
So her end game is for the chaos of everyone getting their wishes and kingdom to be unprotected, sounds like a great heroine *commented before Alan reframed story which I can kinda see but as with most new stuff only works for people who think outside of what their shown
@@Eidolon1andOnly lol I’m just glad my comment made sense. I get it the they’re, their, there mistake is annoying, especially when you’re the one making it. 🤗 I didn’t realize Film Threat comments were corrected
Wow. You just explained the 'heroine' as a Biden Administration handing out goodies to everyone regardless of the consequences while also making sure the borders are wide open.
Special thanks to Larry Fink for decreasing the quality of entertainment, as well as the quality of life and opportunity for many others. Healing the world, one Jim Crow requirement at a time.
@@andreimcallister1365 I mean, if it's not made for me, by a company whose credit score relies on their brand and board of directors to be Cluster B cartoon characters towards a majority of their audience and employees... Unless you're encouraging me to go sail the high seas to find a copy to watch.
@@andreimcallister1365 Fool me once shame on you. Fool me 200 times shame on me, again and again and again. No. We don't need to see these anymore. We figured this out a long time ago.
It's kind of sad that the best tribute to 100 years of animated filmmaking came from Sony and not the company that pioneered the industry in the first place.
From the still shots of the trailer you were showing us, my take away is despite using a good mix of colors in the characters clothing and backgrounds it all looks like a dull filter has been used over everything or it's all taking place in a dimly lit room. It is not vibrant, doesn't pop or stand out.
Completely agree. Watch the trailer if you haven't already. All the colors seem muted or washed out, even in the most colorful scenes. The movements are also very reminiscent of the "Spiderverse" style and seem a bit out of place for a Disney film. My takeaway from the official trailer is that it looks and sounds (musically) like a worse version of Frozen as most of the color pallette being blues and cool colors are the same, and the song sounds like a bad attempt at trying to recapture the lightning in a bottle that was Frozen's "Let it Go."
I’ve written a story, as yet not publishing, where the hero falls in love with a perfect woman. Halfway through writing, I realized that she was the one driving the plot, therefore, she was the hero. And now she could no longer be perfect; she had to have flaws. Now she’s impatient, a perfectionist, lacks empathy, and is a budding alcoholic. She has room for character growth.
Thank you for understanding. Anyone who has written a story that they care about and wants to be memorable has the hero with flaws like real life. Love your example.@@denvan3143
What I really felt was missing was any taste for the ethnicity of the people in Rosas. I was under the impression that this story takes place on the Iberian Peninsula, where people speak various Spanish languages. None of the characters in Wish sound anything other than middle class white folk. Kind of disappointing to not have that depth and color of the people who inhabit this land.
You know it’s funny, the people who never shut up about amplifying “other voices” and “representing other cultures and people” never represent anything that isn’t their urban, college campus esque lives.
Celebrating 100 timeless animated films (give or take a few) with a movie about modern day politics that have been relevant for less than 5 years (and if there's any justice, will be irrelevant in the same amount of time). I'm somehow shocked and not not the least bit surprised at the same time. Also: Robocop, I.J. The Last Crusade, Alien Vs Predator, and Halloween all have endings where the villain falls off something.
@@andreimcallister1365 You're dedicated to shilling the film in the comments endlessly, why don't you give us a rundown of all the "great" things about Wish, both technical and story. Earn your pay, outsourced online PR department.
This feels like me when I was younger and I struggled to draw hands. Anytime I drew a superhero, mortal kombat character, or any person I would position the character in a way that hid their hands because I wasn't good at drawing hands.
Lets take a minute to thank Allen for his service 😢
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Alan:"It just feels bland." Well that is because it is. Bland. Instead of hiding the agenda in the art there is the trading of the agenda with the art. Bean counting traded for box ticking.
you guys are my favorite movie reviewers Critcial Drinker is 2nd Chato is Fun to watch but he dont really review he Just points out things and how they work in the industry Nerdrotic is great too probbably tied with Critical drinker great reviews and your channels make you laugh
I agree with Frank, the first thing that comes to mind when I see her friends is "diverse'. Like they made sure to have one of each ethnicity / race. It looks like a Bennetton ad for kids.
This is what happens after 20 years of people using Disney movies, most of which were nothing more than straightforward children’s tales, as religious ideology. The animated classics were intended to be well-told stories, not political messages or foundations for life.
I somewhat disagree with your last sentence. The Disney classics (up to the 90s) always had a secular moral lesson to be gleaned from them. That's part of what made the stories good and why they were well-told.
@@Eidolon1andOnly Agreed. I believe it's perfectly normal (and even expected) for children's stories to include allegories. These are general life lessons, like follow the golden rule or be humble/kind. Disney's allegories today have made a major shift. They are either politically charged, or espouse a certain belief that shames those who think otherwise. They are less "golden rules" and more "lectures", and I completely understand why that frustrates people.
I want to explore the anti-Marxist claim, and say why I think this might be the most Marxist movie I have heard of. This is all based on the synopsis, as I haven’t seen the movie. Most of us believe we have to sacrifice our wildest dreams for the betterment of society. We can’t all be rockstars and poets. We have to give up our dreams to earn our place in society. If everyone selfishly followed their dreams, society would crumble. Some people get their wildest dreams, but most don’t. Most of us spend most of our day doing things that aren’t our lifelong dream. This is what most of us believe today. This movie is a critique of that thinking. That you have to give up doing what you want most for the good of society. Everyone should get to do their most favorite things, without concern for how it benefits themselves or society. If you have a wish, then you should get to live it. And the world should shape itself to support you while you do your favorite thing, even if it has no value to anyone else. This is the Marxist promise. The lie. The idea that society will let you do whatever you want. It’s the greatest lie ever told. And this movie is extreme propaganda. That’s my initial take.
If everyone gets their dream/wish, what if two wishes collides? Two guys/girls wants the same girl/boy? If someone wish to be insanely rich? How would the economy manage this?
All wish stories are inherently stupid, which is fine so long as your audience doesn't care about consistency and logic. For example, young children aren't going to be bothered by this, just as they aren't bothered by talking animals or elephants that can fly by flapping their ears.
Disney did a better working for your wish story with Princess and the Frog and Puss in Boots the Last Wish did a much better story about wishes and showing gratitude for what you have. Wish doesn’t even feel like a classic Disney movie at all, it oddly enough feels like a movie trying to mimic Disney through the most shallow of means.
So it’s not just me. I saw the trailer the other day and thought the animation really sucked. The animation on those direct-to-video “Land Before Time” and “An American Tail” movies was better than this. Hell, the animation on the “Dragon’s Lair” video game was better than this.
To be fair, those are all Don Bluth productions, which at the time was the only worthwhile alternative to Disney. Don Bluth was trained at Disney and all his movies were passionate Labors of love.
@@ozzyfanatic666 The thing is that Don Bluth wasn't involved with the sequels to any of his own films, with the exception of Bartok The Magnificent. Everything else was done by a different director.
Why, in this movie and in the abyssal Wonder Woman 84, is it assumed that a wish is always a good thing? There must be wishes which are terrible, like the ending of the world or causing another person harm. And, if this king was able to keep his kingdom together in peace for a hundred years with the price tag of one wish per person, how is he a villain? The female protagonist sounds like the villain here, by bringing about the end of a stable existence for everyone.
Trailer didn't sold me on it. Some chick felt it wrong that those who get their wishes granted is chosen. Then she gets given powers, GIVEN, to beat the guy who worked his way to where he's at. And there's nothing wrong afterwards when everyone gets their wish. Nope. None.
In Disney Animation: Evil Queen in Snow White Lockjaw in Fun and Fancy Free Willie the Giant in Fun and Fancy Free Lucifer in Cinderella Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty (after stabbed) Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (survives) The Horned King in Black Cauldron Ratigan - Great Mouse Detective Fidget - Great Mouse Detective Percival McLeach - The Rescuers Down Under Merlock - Duck Tales: The Movie Gaston - Beauty and the Beast Jafar - Aladdin (kinda) Scar - Lion King (survives for a bit) Zira - Lion King II Nuka - Lion King II Frollo - Hunchback Hades - Hercules (kinda) Clayton - Tarzan (kinda) A Carnotaur - Dinosaur Scroop - Treasure Planet Mother Gothel -Tangled
Evil Queen in Snow White (part of triple overkill) Lucifer the cat in Cinderella The bear in Fox and the Hound Ratigan in Great Mouse Detective McLeach in Rescuers Down Under Roscoe and DeSota in Oliver in Company (but not from a height.) Gaston in Beauty & the Beast Clayton in Tarzan (plus hung offscreen shown in shadow) Frollo in Hunchback Muntz in Up
That cooking scene there almost looks straight from Food Networks The Kitchen or related shows. They really should put in more effort, like George Lucas did in the Holiday Special, it was bad but interesting.
People with real sensitivity will enjoy the movie. I have watched it today and its such a jewel made with love... A wonderful work of pure beauty ❤️❤️❤️
I disagree with Alan's assessment of this being an "anti-Marxist" film. It's actually more pro-Marxist than anything else. I doubt he realizes the true endgame of Marxism is that the "state" (central governing authority) through self-governance, where everyone is treated as equals with no class divisions and they all reap the benefits of their labor communally. His definition of sacrificing individual safeties in exchange for government protection isn't really a Marxist ideal, and not even inherently Marxist in nature.
I think the idea that if the government removes the hopes and dreams of its people in exchange for "safety" that's one of the underlying tenants of Marxism.
Mufasa died by falling when Scar tossed him back into the stampede. He was only king through the tyranny of strength, not the will of the governed. That makes him a villain.
"Diversity" means that every society, real or imagined, from any place on Earth at any time period, must be made to look like downtown Los Angeles in 2023.
Great video guys. I finally watched Wish last night. It could’ve been a compelling story about how not all wishes are good, a cautionary tale on “be careful what you wish for”. A moral lesson could’ve been Asha’s growth arc. Instead she doesn’t change at all, we get no real sense of what her relationship is like with her family and her history with her dad. The movie immediately jumps into into her “caring too much”, no flaws, doesn’t lose or sacrifice anything significant, receives help at every turn from others around her, and naively tries to grant everyone’s wishes. It was frustrating to watch. Asha was like a millennial RUclipsr. The diversity was boring and another DEI exercise. There’s no clear depiction of who the people of Rosas are. Just a modern day Sydney or LA on the Mediterranean Sea. Another issue is the rebellion against the villain. Besides being the steward of their wishes, the citizens weren’t living in poverty or shown to be suffering in a major way, making the revolt seem unwarranted. The queen was boring. and of course becomes the new leader because men are greedy and incompetent. Ironically, Magnifico was the best part about the movie and I was rooting for him. I had no connection to any other character. It would’ve been more interesting if the queen befriended Asha and co, betrayed them, and was just as evil as the King. Then she could’ve flipped in the end which would be an interesting twist. Disney needs a serious overhaul. I hope they keep hemorrhaging money until they learn how to respect their audience and the legacy of the studio. Ps. The decline in quality coincided with Jennifer Lee replacing Lasseter.
I watched frozen 1 and 2 with my daughter. They were both fantastic. The songs and characters were instant classics. Bought all the toys. How Disney has fallen
@FilmThreat King Magnifico just seems like a terribly "on the nose" name too. I cringed the first time I heard it. It'd be like naming Hans from Frozen as Prince Goldheart. You know, because as the villain he isn't that.
As a black woman, I disagree that diversity is acceptable in all movies about fantasy. I don’t want to see current day Manhattan when I’m watching a fantasy film. I’m not saying people of color should never be added but it should be believable and make sense. Groups just aren’t mixed like this anywhere in the world. I don’t mean in the streets like in NYC, I mean friend groups and who people tend to hang out with. I have mostly white friends but this is not the case for the majority of my black relatives. And that’s not a bad or racist thing…people just tend to hang with those who share the same or similar cultures. People also tend to date or marry people who look like their parents race-wise. If you go to a predominately white school, you’ll know that there is always a “black table.” There will still be many black teens like me sitting among mixed groups but the black table is always there. Not due to segregation or racism but because they choose to hang with one another. This is a thing and I’m sick of pretending that it’s not and that we all live in harmony. I don’t always disagree with diversity when it is used creatively however. For instance, I love House of the Dragon. The show creators made the Valeryons black but they only did this because there are so many silver-haired white characters on the show, and it makes it easier to distinguish between the Valeryons and the Targaryens. It makes the transition from book to screen smoother. I cringe when I watch shows like Rings of Power and The Witcher who just place black people everywhere with no care or thought put into it. It also takes me out of the story because instead of thinking of the plot, I start to wonder how this population came to be and why everyone isn’t mixed if race isn’t a factor in this world. Shouldn’t middle earth look more like the Dominic Republic? It is just so damn distracting! Hollywood, I beg you, PLEASE STOP DOING THIS.
What...? You're telling me a world can have giant spiders, ogres, beasts and literal freaking Magic but black people is what "throws you off"
Are you kidding me? You're just acting like Sambo over this. A little too much like him.
Especially with your "no don't mix the races" garbage
You dont represent black people
Agreed, and instead of shoehorning diversity into everything why not encourage people to identify with any character regardless of how they look? As a white kid I loved the comics about Yakari the native American and I had no problem whatsoever identifying with him. Today children are taught they can only identify themselves with characters that looks like themselves which is a terrible lesson. Moreover they learn that stories that don't have a diverse cast, like Yakari, are inherently bad (even though non-diversity is usually okay as long as it's not white). Instead I viewed Yakari as an opportunity to experience something I would never otherwise be able to, the adventures of a native American boy in a time and place far away.
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@@itsbeyondme5560 What an excellent, well thought out reply that really illuminates your differing perspective and pushes the discussion forward.
So not a princess, she "bites the hand that feeds her", gets punished, then causes a rebellion for the people so everyone can get wishes?
Reminds you of Satan huh?
@@cometogetherlikevoltron1230But Satan lost that rebellion.
@@SamtheBravesFanyeah the world totally seems run by God.
@@SamtheBravesFanjudging by the lowering box office estimates for Wish Disney's losing this one too
So the proletariat rises up to seize the means of production from the bourgeoisie?
This not Walt's milestone. But, this is completely Robby's milestone. Congratuatlions Robby Iger, my boy! You have encapsulated a film that captures all that is emblematic of YOUR Disney.
😂😂😂 then don’t watch the film
@@hassansulaiman3848 and when it bombs you'll whine "why didn't you toxic white men go see it? You're just racist and sexist" go cry about it
@@hassansulaiman3848I wont watch it, but will support content creators who drag it
@@hassansulaiman3848 I may not watch the film but DIS stock price is terrible. Especially, compared to NFLX.
A lot of people aren’t going to watch this film, keep on laughing. 😄 😂 🤣 🤣 @@hassansulaiman3848
So queen is cool with her husband hanging out with a younger girl, and wouldn't the kings child be the succesor for the wish power thing? Why teach some commoner your powers? Sounds like another winner
I don't think the royal couple has any kids.
Because everything is a mantle to be handed over to diverse charactesr for representations sake?
The Royal couple are probably kind of a Will Smith/Jada Pinkett “marriage.” 😬
IWhy would the queen be jealous of the kind working with a younger woman? Wouldn't most women be OK with their husband having female co workers? I would, it's much worse. The queen is fine with Asha trapping the king and leaving him stuck forever. After going along with what he did for many years, she is fine with her husband being out in jail forever without committing any crime.
Seems like “grooming”. Right up disneys alley.
I think they did the wrong thing by making Magnifico a traditional villain because of one thing; that being that he has a wife.
No disney villain has ever been married or had a marriage when the story begins, by giving Magnifico a wife it provides the uncomfortable situation that it means shes going to see the veil lifted, have her heart broken, and witness the death of someone she cared for deeply.
This is the worst choice they could have made in regards to a villain, he should either have been husband to a dead wife, or unmarried.
Saying that....yeah, you have a point.
In 101 Dalmatians, in the original book Cruella WAS married and her husband was the one who skinned the animals for to keep her happy. In the Disney version, she's single and there's no talk if she's a widower.
Evil couples wouldn't be an issue but it's weird I just noticed this pattern.
Apparently the wife was supposed to be a villain along with her husband, but they scrapped that idea. I think having an evil power couple would have been far more interesting.
@@blueflare3848A villainous power couple would have blown the roof off of Twitter. Disney adults would have adored the couple and dressed up as them for Halloween. Couples would be making TikToks of their villain song. Disney dropped the ball seriously on that one.
Interesting point. And it does make you wonder if losing his wife would have made his descent towards villainy more understandable.
it would have if the movie had been good. It wasn’t good.
About 10:00 - The issue here with the diversity in that picture is that it doesn't make sense for what they were attempting to do. The story is supposed to be based on Spain and the Spanish culture in medieval times. You don't have Spanish looking people here including the MC, and not even Mediterranean looking people. It's not Spanish despite the cultural appropriation in this movie. This is an LA modern crowd, not a crowd you would think is Spanish in any way, shape or form. There's also an issue with their various costumes that are all over the place from a period and setting perspective. That's aside from the story and the characters.
Don’t tell me you’re one of those who think of Mexicans when referring to Spanish people… The queen’s accent was that of a Latino country, perhaps Colombia, and I think she was well represented cause I thought of it even before I heard her speak Spanish.
@@AngelicaEstherxoKeyword here is "Spain". OP is not referring to Latin Americans, but European Spanish people.
@@AngelicaEstherxosince when Colombia = Spain lol please, as a Mexican and Latin American, don't insult us with such comparisons.
Also, yes, I don't like the weird "We totally speak Spanish but won't go the extra mile for Spain" vibe this gives off.
Its not literally Spain you racist.
Wish: The story of a heroic woman of color and her band of diverse friends fighting the capitalist patriarchy. You know, like everything else.
She wants to seize the means of production.
Hey! You missed the fact that the female protagonist is empowered to become the leader she knows she can be and Don’t Need No Man.
That's exactly the same rumored plot of the Snow White live action xP
While also hoping that people pay to see the movie due to capitalism. 🤡
@@joaopereira817it's every plot of Lucasfilm & M she U.
Just watched Klaus, and Alan's comments about framing shots were really exemplified in that animation. The scenes are so creative and dramatic because of those expertise. Very interesting!
I 100% Disney should have learned from Klaus and Arcane and animated Wish in one of those styles
Klaus is absolutely wonderful. The fact that it didn’t get the Oscar and Disney got another one by default for the abomination that is Toy Story 4 is a travesty.
The entirety of Oscar's Best Animated Feature Award should be rename to "What crime against Animation will Disney commit this year" Award.
Klaus, Kubo and the Two String, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, the list go on. all rightfully deserved winner, all snuffed by that year's Disney movie.
I wish that Hollywood would go back to writing better movies! But I'll settle for something more likely, such as winning the lottery!
The whole script was just 'White guy bad, brown girl good...little animals or something...songs like Frozen'
Why does her skin color matter? Aren't you racebaiting? Wouldn't make a difference if they made her white
Don't forget the only blond dude who looks like a tall Dopey only with better hair.
Frozen had good songs, this film doesn't.
@@AntsTheaterCorner2698 No one has seen it yet. Since when is everyone a critic? No Way Home sucked but made a billion
@@suzygirl1843 Agreed. It releases next week but could even be dissed by audiences. We'll see next week.
So is the lesson Wish is trying to give literally "Everyone should get everything they ever want without putting the work in"?..............
That sounds like California and Democratic policy through and through.
Great analysis by Alan. You know they intended to be the usual authoritarian screed of "we'd all live in Utopia - if it wasn't THOSE people!"
OC the villain is a straight white male. Shocker!
What if someone’s wish is for genocide?
What if the world still has finite resources, so every wish is theft?
Bibi please…
What if someone's wish is to end all wishes 😅
Israel are getting paid billions of dollars by America to fullfil their own wish right now.
@@ian-flanagan "The first and prime rule of economics is a limited number of resources are being competed for by an infinite number of human desires. The first rule of politics is deceiving people into thinking that the first rule of economics does not exist." - Thomas Sowell
...so this literally is a Disney movie ordered on Wish?
*_THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT!_* 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
Didn't they already do this in Bruce Almighty?
Yes they did. Saying yes to all prayers caused total chaos
So my only disagreement is he said Disney fell on hard times. Disney has jumped onto hard times and since they started jumping on hard times they have since gotten a pogo stick.
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Well, they were once about to call bankruptcy and then in the 80's they were saved by "The little Mermaid". Maybe Disney needs to face more obstacles until they finally get their next breakthrough, or it will simply vanish. Let's see what happens.
@@fmor2779Not just The Little Mermaid, but the entirety of the 10-year span of what has been deemed the "Disney Renaissance."
In Tomorrowland the villain died by being stationary and the "castle" fell down on him. I say that because I know I'm the only person who stayed until the end of that flick and actually witnessed it.
lololololololol
Still better than modern Disney.
Brad Bird's directing helped that film against the poor script from the guy who ruined Watchmen on HBO.
OMG you’re right! I never finished watching Tomorrowland cause 😴
@@brosmett6127 You are not alone.
Jesus I forgot that movie even exists...
My 7 yr old say trailer and said it doesn’t look interesting. And she absolutely loves princesses!
I wish she'd sing the Stones 'You can't always get what you want'
But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need
@@OwenYoung-yv1vc Except within the context of the movie, these people cannot try because the essence of their dreams or wishes is stolen from them. That's the problem. No one should be granting wishes, but no one should be removing the ambition of them, either.
Disney’s never going to pay for permission to use that…
When I was a kid I had Disney Animation Studio for MS-DOS and it came with a book all about traditional animation techniques (onion skin, squash & stretch, etc) and it inspired me so much that almost 40 years later it's part of my job. It was sad to see the end of 2D animation by CGI and it's even sadder to watch the standards keep lowering. 100 years was a good run, but it's just amazing that the company that invented the feature length animation is now shuttering legendary studios originally created by other people.
I owned that program too.
Reminds me of WW84. What if everyone got their wish?
“I RENOUNCE MY WISH!” 😂😂😂
Wonder Woman 84 manages to at times achieve "so bad it's funny" levels of terrible, and even that movie still understood that not every wish is something that should be granted. _DisnESG's Wish_ was just written by a bunch of commies who think unlimited resources are being withheld from them by a ruling class.
CalArts student here. graduated 2004. Worked for Disney right out of school. I agree with all of this. This film should have been traditionally animated and yikes, I would describe the side characters as NPCs. That being said, I enjoyed Magnifico and Asha’s songs 🤷♀️
"Arcane" and the Spiderverse movies have exciting and innovative visuals. In comparison "Wish" looks dated and bland. And the character animation reminds me of every Disney character I have seen before.
Yes. This is how you evolve the art form. Take risks forward, not backwards.
Puss in Boots as well
According to the racists in the comments, this movie is woke and political because it has an original POC character in it so by your logic, those also suck
@@FilmThreatSo it's ok for Spiderverse to have a black person in it but it's not ok for this to have a black person in it.
As a fellow Disney animation fan and an artist, Alan was fantastic in this clip.
really? LOL 😂😂😂😂
Never understood these people who being EVERYTHING with “As a……” they seem to have a hard on for appeal to authority fallacies….
He was animated so well
Well artists didn't play any part in it. It is was animated by Chinese labor farms that care as much about art as they do about snapping together circuit boards.
Much better than the usual fro
Alan
It would have been lovely to have a traditional animation style movie to mark the centenary. Something beautiful and classic like that would have really stood out.
Yes. The 100th should have been a classically animated love story, as that is the cornerstone of the brand.
That would involve hard work, passion and a creative vision. None of which exist in modern Disney.
Woke is creatively devoid. Time for disney to fall.
From what I understand from other reviewers is that -
The king basically in his right to choose which wishes to grant and which ones to keep after he done so much to build up *his* kingdom and do what it takes to protect it even if it means not everyonr gets their wish granted.
For a 'villain' he's actually in the right which means he isn't a true villain at all. He's someone we can relate to knowing that not all wishes are good.
Self proclaim 'heroine' wants to free wishes cuz she believes everyone deserves to have their wish granted, but doesn't realize a hidden danger to wish granted. The saying 'Be careful with what you wish for, you may just get it' has truth, but she doesn't learn nor realize that cuz she has no flaws and does not grow as a character. The way I see it, this makes her villain.
But we can't have that in a Disney movie. No, no, no. Man bad, women good, agenda they keep pushing on everyone.
If they really wanted the king to be the villain, they could have at least have some sort of true motive behind taking people's wishes. Something like... dark magic or whatever.
Literally, as soon as you said, this movie is about an “activist” my brain just went oh fuck that
The only activists I want to see at Disney are the ones attempting to takeover board seats from current management.
From what I’m hearing is that there isn’t anything showing how fulfilling all wishes can be a bad thing. I get how the main character would want to grant all wishes, but at the same time they’re not thinking how one wish could be bad and could go wrong or at least shows how one wish went wrong and the main character could be like “oh I understand now. Granting all wishes can be bad” like learning a lesson or something.
Tangled. Although to be fair, the fall didn't kill her, she turned to dust before hitting the ground...
Girl went the Last Crusade “he chose poorly” way. It was pretty cool.
When you order a Disney animated movie on 'Wish'
So sad. When I read (and sang) for the development sessions on this film a year ago, this was to have been an origin story for the song "When You Wish Upon A Star". The wise old man who extemporized the song (to the accompaniment of a lute, no less) was to have been voiced by Kelsey Grammer. This makes me so sad.
Don’t get your hopes up for anything Disney does nowadays. They are creatively bankrupt.
Can't have someone like Kelsey Grammer being a hero.
The real-life story of that song and the unlikely-sounding but actual backgrounds of its composer and lyricist are fascinating. A slightly fictionalized account of what actually happened would have been great. Wikipedia articles on the song and the men give a fair amount of detail.
We have here the odd case of a company not only failing to learn from their own history but actively working to make their own product worse by ignoring it.
So a woke version of Bruce Almighty but in this case "God" is the bad guy and the female lead is the hero because reasons?
And there’s no Jim Carrey or Morgan freeman so it’s even worse
Satan vs God
@@idawg7332Well, enjoy raceswapped movies from now on. Clearly original movies aren't doing well
@@suzygirl1843 The problem is less with the race swaps and more to do with the people doing the race swapped versions of movies being dumb and thinking "lol, we know better than those white people did back in the 90s and 2000s." Not sure when having heroes fail at some of their tasks became "old school" and "problematic" or whatever but evidently modern day writers think failure is "for racists" or something.
@@suzygirl1843 original movies aren’t getting the greenlight. _Strange World_ was an animated DEI chart.
I don't think it's an anti-Marxist story; I think it's an anti-religion story. The ruler has the power to do miracles, but he only dispenses it capriciously. He requires his subjects to be docile and obedient, and in return he'll keep them safe. He poses as a benevolent monarch but he's a temperamental dictator who reacts with rage when he's opposed. And just to rub it in, they dress him in a Roman Catholic cope as he stands before an altar-like table.
Makes this failure even more satisfying.
Likely. It does make sense that activist progressives would see the divine as a temperamental capricious figure.
If anything, Wish is pro-Marxist propaganda aimed at children.
Allen, Allen, Allen!
Thank you!
So informative, appreciate all your great observations.
*Alan
I believe that the villain falling to his/her death trope was to give them a moment to reflect on their life choices while they careen through the atmosphere and think maybe evil wasn't the way to go. That and the whole allegorical descending into hell to be punished for their sins...
Fall from grace, or power. Yes.
Also the simple fact that, at least for Disney movies, they're targeted at children. Having a villain fall to their death is a convenient way to kill them off without having to show murder or a dead body.
@@derrickcrowe3888It also can be seen as not the heroes fault if they die. Like in Beauty and the Beast, Tangled, Snow White, ect…
@@derrickcrowe3888 Great point.
@@derrickcrowe3888 I was going to make a similar point. That way the hero doesn’t actually have to kill anyone.
No doubt someone is about to make the case that this being a kids movie means it "wasn't made for you", as if we need to wait for the 10 and under audience to post their reviews online first. Parents. Please, pay them no mind and just raise your kids.
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To be clear, there's no such thing as content that is made for kids, especially if you take parenting seriously.
Well, why would two 50 years old men enjoy this? It IS made for kids
@@suzygirl1843 very well. I'll grant the validity of your argument by suggesting that you petition the audience for whom you say this film was made to go and see it. Let them "vote with their wallets".
Because children don't go to movies by themselves. Children don't pay for movie tickets. Children don't subscribe to streaming services.
@@suzygirl1843 Lot's of Disney movies were made for kids, that adults still enjoy. As a 47 year old man I still enjoy The Great Mouse Detective or The Lion King or Meet the Robinsons. Great entertainment goes beyond "perceived" audience. "Children are too important to be left to shitty media"- The Little Platoon
When I was a kid, Disney films were family friends 'for kids of all ages' even grandma. My first inkling that something was seriously wrong with The House of Mouse was when I saw a 'Saturday Morning' style Disney cartoon on TV and it featured snot and toilet "humor". I've been giving anything Disney a wary eye ever since and glad of it since I haven't accidentally paid for any of the woke crap.
So her end game is for the chaos of everyone getting their wishes and kingdom to be unprotected, sounds like a great heroine
*commented before Alan reframed story which I can kinda see but as with most new stuff only works for people who think outside of what their shown
Of what *they're (not "their") shown. Your assessment of her *endgame (all one word,no spaces) is pretty spot on though.
@@Eidolon1andOnly lol I’m just glad my comment made sense. I get it the they’re, their, there mistake is annoying, especially when you’re the one making it. 🤗 I didn’t realize Film Threat comments were corrected
Wow. You just explained the 'heroine' as a Biden Administration handing out goodies to everyone regardless of the consequences while also making sure the borders are wide open.
Girl gets her wish. Who cares if the next stage is the country being crushed
Special thanks to Larry Fink for decreasing the quality of entertainment, as well as the quality of life and opportunity for many others. Healing the world, one Jim Crow requirement at a time.
At least watch the movie first
@@andreimcallister1365 I mean, if it's not made for me, by a company whose credit score relies on their brand and board of directors to be Cluster B cartoon characters towards a majority of their audience and employees...
Unless you're encouraging me to go sail the high seas to find a copy to watch.
@@andreimcallister1365 Fool me once shame on you. Fool me 200 times shame on me, again and again and again. No. We don't need to see these anymore. We figured this out a long time ago.
At least eat the dog poop pie first? It’s all yours. 😄 @@andreimcallister1365
No one should be rewarding this crap
The hero in Wish is like Satan and the villain is supposed to be God I guess. That’s the message I got
I thought that too. But I can also see how it can be an anti-Marxist message.
And isn't her animal sidekick a goat?
My wish if for Napoleon to outgross this.
They should make a movie where Chris Pine plays a hero, and everyone getting a wish is bad instead of good. And Gal Godot could be in it
Holy shit, I hadn’t noticed that one! Great catch!
Wonder Woman was the only thing missing in this one.
1984!
Ironically from the sound of this review 1984 handled the wish plot better…that’s bad.
Also great catch I hadn’t realized Chris Pine was in both.
gal gadot doesn’t know hot to act and she supports genocide
I haven’t watched any Disney Animation or Pixar for the last 3 years and I don’t expect this to change.
Last I recall seeing were Nemo and Cars. Back when there were still Blockbuster rentals. Haven't put out anything I've cared to see since.
Bob Iger doesn’t make blockbusters, he makes suckbusters.@@veganconservative1109
It's kind of sad that the best tribute to 100 years of animated filmmaking came from Sony and not the company that pioneered the industry in the first place.
This is how Bob Iger’s Disney ends: not with a whimper or a bang but a bout of flatulence.
Spider-verse's story is shit though
@@fillerbunnyninjashark271 Pure memetics... 🤮🤮🤮
It’s Walt taking revenge from beyond the grave. I guarantee if John Lassiter was still in the company, the 100th year movie would be much better.
From the still shots of the trailer you were showing us, my take away is despite using a good mix of colors in the characters clothing and backgrounds it all looks like a dull filter has been used over everything or it's all taking place in a dimly lit room. It is not vibrant, doesn't pop or stand out.
Completely agree. Watch the trailer if you haven't already. All the colors seem muted or washed out, even in the most colorful scenes. The movements are also very reminiscent of the "Spiderverse" style and seem a bit out of place for a Disney film. My takeaway from the official trailer is that it looks and sounds (musically) like a worse version of Frozen as most of the color pallette being blues and cool colors are the same, and the song sounds like a bad attempt at trying to recapture the lightning in a bottle that was Frozen's "Let it Go."
Disney at it again. Perfect female with no flaws that overcomes nothing to defeat a bad man. This time they did it with subpar animation and music.
I know a film with a similar premise...
I’ve written a story, as yet not publishing, where the hero falls in love with a perfect woman. Halfway through writing, I realized that she was the one driving the plot, therefore, she was the hero. And now she could no longer be perfect; she had to have flaws. Now she’s impatient, a perfectionist, lacks empathy, and is a budding alcoholic. She has room for character growth.
Thank you for understanding. Anyone who has written a story that they care about and wants to be memorable has the hero with flaws like real life. Love your example.@@denvan3143
What I really felt was missing was any taste for the ethnicity of the people in Rosas. I was under the impression that this story takes place on the Iberian Peninsula, where people speak various Spanish languages. None of the characters in Wish sound anything other than middle class white folk. Kind of disappointing to not have that depth and color of the people who inhabit this land.
Kind of a hodgepodge of Iberian, Indian, and Arabic, I was thinking. With a big helping of Corporate Globalism.
It’s LA cosplay and for cultural authenticity, 5 minutes of “research” on Wikipedia.
There was the opportunity to real make this diverse by placing the emphasis on a different culture. Sadly they chose to make it California.
You know it’s funny, the people who never shut up about amplifying “other voices” and “representing other cultures and people” never represent anything that isn’t their urban, college campus esque lives.
The King’s wish is to become Queen. She get her wish, then promptly dies by falling
Celebrating 100 timeless animated films (give or take a few) with a movie about modern day politics that have been relevant for less than 5 years (and if there's any justice, will be irrelevant in the same amount of time). I'm somehow shocked and not not the least bit surprised at the same time.
Also:
Robocop, I.J. The Last Crusade, Alien Vs Predator, and Halloween all have endings where the villain falls off something.
Over 90% of Sean Beans on-screen deaths involved falling, either "death from falling" or "death with falling"
Dude just watch the film and see for yourself
Don’t forget the Die Hard fall
@@andreimcallister1365 You're dedicated to shilling the film in the comments endlessly, why don't you give us a rundown of all the "great" things about Wish, both technical and story. Earn your pay, outsourced online PR department.
@@Poopookachew1 i didn’t say it’s great, I’m just saying it’s not as bad as the video says
This feels like me when I was younger and I struggled to draw hands. Anytime I drew a superhero, mortal kombat character, or any person I would position the character in a way that hid their hands because I wasn't good at drawing hands.
Lets take a minute to thank Allen for his service 😢
Alan:"It just feels bland." Well that is because it is. Bland.
Instead of hiding the agenda in the art there is the trading of the agenda with the art.
Bean counting traded for box ticking.
you guys are my favorite movie reviewers Critcial Drinker is 2nd Chato is Fun to watch but he dont really review he Just points out things and how they work in the industry Nerdrotic is great too probbably tied with Critical drinker great reviews and your channels make you laugh
thanks for the review of your favorite reviewers!
Honestly Nerdrotic is just a hack.
I agree with Frank, the first thing that comes to mind when I see her friends is "diverse'. Like they made sure to have one of each ethnicity / race. It looks like a Bennetton ad for kids.
They all look different, but yet similar at the same time.
How is that a bad thing?
@@AngelicaEstherxo it’s patronizing.
Alan is right, in photography class, back in the day, they would say you only center Christ.
I watched this movie's trailer with my Wife and teenage daughter. They both gave a disgusted look and said it seemed "forced."
This is what happens after 20 years of people using Disney movies, most of which were nothing more than straightforward children’s tales, as religious ideology. The animated classics were intended to be well-told stories, not political messages or foundations for life.
Fairy tales were moral tales to teach and warn children. Walt continued that legacy.
In a bizare twist iger is doing the same for evil.
I somewhat disagree with your last sentence. The Disney classics (up to the 90s) always had a secular moral lesson to be gleaned from them. That's part of what made the stories good and why they were well-told.
@@Eidolon1andOnly and timeless.
@@Eidolon1andOnly Agreed. I believe it's perfectly normal (and even expected) for children's stories to include allegories. These are general life lessons, like follow the golden rule or be humble/kind.
Disney's allegories today have made a major shift. They are either politically charged, or espouse a certain belief that shames those who think otherwise. They are less "golden rules" and more "lectures", and I completely understand why that frustrates people.
I want to explore the anti-Marxist claim, and say why I think this might be the most Marxist movie I have heard of. This is all based on the synopsis, as I haven’t seen the movie.
Most of us believe we have to sacrifice our wildest dreams for the betterment of society. We can’t all be rockstars and poets. We have to give up our dreams to earn our place in society. If everyone selfishly followed their dreams, society would crumble. Some people get their wildest dreams, but most don’t. Most of us spend most of our day doing things that aren’t our lifelong dream.
This is what most of us believe today.
This movie is a critique of that thinking. That you have to give up doing what you want most for the good of society. Everyone should get to do their most favorite things, without concern for how it benefits themselves or society. If you have a wish, then you should get to live it. And the world should shape itself to support you while you do your favorite thing, even if it has no value to anyone else.
This is the Marxist promise. The lie. The idea that society will let you do whatever you want. It’s the greatest lie ever told. And this movie is extreme propaganda.
That’s my initial take.
If everyone gets their dream/wish, what if two wishes collides? Two guys/girls wants the same girl/boy? If someone wish to be insanely rich? How would the economy manage this?
Wonder woman 1984 addresses that. Interesting that the bad guy in that film is alot like the good princess in Wish. Hmmm
All wish stories are inherently stupid, which is fine so long as your audience doesn't care about consistency and logic. For example, young children aren't going to be bothered by this, just as they aren't bothered by talking animals or elephants that can fly by flapping their ears.
Disney did a better working for your wish story with Princess and the Frog and Puss in Boots the Last Wish did a much better story about wishes and showing gratitude for what you have. Wish doesn’t even feel like a classic Disney movie at all, it oddly enough feels like a movie trying to mimic Disney through the most shallow of means.
What a scathing and thorough review from Alan, Ill take your word for it brother!
What if my wish is to cause harm to others? Will our "protagonist" make my dreams a reality?
I saw this yesterday and I thought I was crazy for thinking it was anti-marxist. You're 100% right.
This is the curse of Bob Iger's ego getting out of control.
Not just his ego, but the ego of the inexperienced and/or talentless writers, animators and directors
Putting the subject 1/3 of the way to one side is like day 1 photography.
So it’s not just me. I saw the trailer the other day and thought the animation really sucked. The animation on those direct-to-video “Land Before Time” and “An American Tail” movies was better than this. Hell, the animation on the “Dragon’s Lair” video game was better than this.
To be fair, those are all Don Bluth productions, which at the time was the only worthwhile alternative to Disney.
Don Bluth was trained at Disney and all his movies were passionate Labors of love.
@@ozzyfanatic666 The thing is that Don Bluth wasn't involved with the sequels to any of his own films, with the exception of Bartok The Magnificent. Everything else was done by a different director.
Why, in this movie and in the abyssal Wonder Woman 84, is it assumed that a wish is always a good thing? There must be wishes which are terrible, like the ending of the world or causing another person harm. And, if this king was able to keep his kingdom together in peace for a hundred years with the price tag of one wish per person, how is he a villain? The female protagonist sounds like the villain here, by bringing about the end of a stable existence for everyone.
Aladdin is the perfect story to get to get it right with the consequences of wishing.
"But...but.....its diverse and inclusive" Said no one ever when looking for a movie to go see. I don't give my money to people that Hate me either!
This. You can look at Disney's latest box office results to see that the people wanting diversity aren't showing up to support the films.
right?!? where is our Russian culture film
Scar, the witch in the original Snow White, Gaston, the T Rex in the land before time… I generally agree with the observation
A : "will you see wish?"
B : "you wish"
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Trailer didn't sold me on it. Some chick felt it wrong that those who get their wishes granted is chosen. Then she gets given powers, GIVEN, to beat the guy who worked his way to where he's at.
And there's nothing wrong afterwards when everyone gets their wish. Nope. None.
Alan your knowledge of animation is very good , give yourself a gold star
When you name your movie after the retail web platform that sells you sub par garbage, you know it's a special kind of suck.
In Disney Animation:
Evil Queen in Snow White
Lockjaw in Fun and Fancy Free
Willie the Giant in Fun and Fancy Free
Lucifer in Cinderella
Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty (after stabbed)
Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (survives)
The Horned King in Black Cauldron
Ratigan - Great Mouse Detective
Fidget - Great Mouse Detective
Percival McLeach - The Rescuers Down Under
Merlock - Duck Tales: The Movie
Gaston - Beauty and the Beast
Jafar - Aladdin (kinda)
Scar - Lion King (survives for a bit)
Zira - Lion King II
Nuka - Lion King II
Frollo - Hunchback
Hades - Hercules (kinda)
Clayton - Tarzan (kinda)
A Carnotaur - Dinosaur
Scroop - Treasure Planet
Mother Gothel -Tangled
Evil Queen in Snow White (part of triple overkill)
Lucifer the cat in Cinderella
The bear in Fox and the Hound
Ratigan in Great Mouse Detective
McLeach in Rescuers Down Under
Roscoe and DeSota in Oliver in Company (but not from a height.)
Gaston in Beauty & the Beast
Clayton in Tarzan (plus hung offscreen shown in shadow)
Frollo in Hunchback
Muntz in Up
Mother another in tangled. Though she turns to dust before she lands. Also, didn’t Scar fall into the pit of hyenas?
The big Carnotaurus from Dinosaur too.
That cooking scene there almost looks straight from Food Networks The Kitchen or related shows. They really should put in more effort, like George Lucas did in the Holiday Special, it was bad but interesting.
Darth Maul cut in 1/2 & fell into a pit.
Boba Fett fell into mouth of monster.
There are exceptions to prove the rule...Jafar was banished to the lamp.
Thanks for y’all’s review of this movie! I was waiting for it before I would decide whether or not I gave my kid the choice to watch it
Your kids will watch with or without your permission of their friends want to go out and watch it
@@suzygirl1843 lol she is 9 and we live in a rural area so that ain’t happening
By now I'd think it was a given that they watch anything else. Or just DO anything else.
Wow, Alan didn’t like a Disney princess film. You know it must be bad.
I was thinking 3 isn't bad. But he said not out of 5, out of 10.
Oh sh*t!
The activists who wrote this made it accidentally anti Marxist is the funniest thing I’ve heard since this review came out. Brilliant.
The close ups and animation style is all for to save money.
Or they forgot how to animate full body action.
People with real sensitivity will enjoy the movie. I have watched it today and its such a jewel made with love... A wonderful work of pure beauty ❤️❤️❤️
Falling to their end: Head of OmniCorp, Robocop
Asha means hope - there is no Asha for Disney if they persist with their choices
This was like film school. Loved it.
A shame Dinsey's movie is more of a lesson what NOT to do, but hey. 😅
Disney just made Paramount’s wish come true. Michael Burnham is a Disney Princess now!
I’m sure this movie will be a smash in China!
So it's the 2nd season of The Legend of Korra.
We’re in for weeks of Wish shopping/Wish movie comparison memes lol
I've seen better screen direction in Sophia the first. It is sad that disney animated series is out pacing their feature film quality.
"Diversity" is just the intentional exclusion of those you didn't choose to represent.
I disagree with Alan's assessment of this being an "anti-Marxist" film. It's actually more pro-Marxist than anything else. I doubt he realizes the true endgame of Marxism is that the "state" (central governing authority) through self-governance, where everyone is treated as equals with no class divisions and they all reap the benefits of their labor communally. His definition of sacrificing individual safeties in exchange for government protection isn't really a Marxist ideal, and not even inherently Marxist in nature.
I think the idea that if the government removes the hopes and dreams of its people in exchange for "safety" that's one of the underlying tenants of Marxism.
Generic is the first thing I think.. her little crew doesn't even stand out from the crowd.
Was really hoping they'd take a break from the film activism for a movie that is supposed to be a celebration of the history of the company....
Mufasa died by falling when Scar tossed him back into the stampede.
He was only king through the tyranny of strength, not the will of the governed.
That makes him a villain.
A film filled with box ticking. Shocker.
I’m just glad they did Lord of the Rings when they did. It would be made for “modern audiences” today.
"Diversity" means that every society, real or imagined, from any place on Earth at any time period, must be made to look like downtown Los Angeles in 2023.
Great video guys. I finally watched Wish last night. It could’ve been a compelling story about how not all wishes are good, a cautionary tale on “be careful what you wish for”. A moral lesson could’ve been Asha’s growth arc.
Instead she doesn’t change at all, we get no real sense of what her relationship is like with her family and her history with her dad. The movie immediately jumps into into her “caring too much”, no flaws, doesn’t lose or sacrifice anything significant, receives help at every turn from others around her, and naively tries to grant everyone’s wishes. It was frustrating to watch. Asha was like a millennial RUclipsr.
The diversity was boring and another DEI exercise. There’s no clear depiction of who the people of Rosas are. Just a modern day Sydney or LA on the Mediterranean Sea.
Another issue is the rebellion against the villain. Besides being the steward of their wishes, the citizens weren’t living in poverty or shown to be suffering in a major way, making the revolt seem unwarranted. The queen was boring. and of course becomes the new leader because men are greedy and incompetent.
Ironically, Magnifico was the best part about the movie and I was rooting for him. I had no connection to any other character. It would’ve been more interesting if the queen befriended Asha and co, betrayed them, and was just as evil as the King. Then she could’ve flipped in the end which would be an interesting twist.
Disney needs a serious overhaul. I hope they keep hemorrhaging money until they learn how to respect their audience and the legacy of the studio. Ps. The decline in quality coincided with Jennifer Lee replacing Lasseter.
I watched frozen 1 and 2 with my daughter. They were both fantastic. The songs and characters were instant classics. Bought all the toys. How Disney has fallen
I've never heard a film critic say he was being too critical😄 Kudos to Mr. Ag. I trust your judgment.
I cant say if its clever or dumb but 'Aasha' means wish/desire in many Indian languages.
Dumb. It's dumb.
I'm pretty sure this is the origin of her name.
@@FilmThreat its very much on the lines of the name 'Nirmata' which is Sanskrit for 'The Creator'
@FilmThreat King Magnifico just seems like a terribly "on the nose" name too. I cringed the first time I heard it.
It'd be like naming Hans from Frozen as Prince Goldheart.
You know, because as the villain he isn't that.