Fun Fact: When Tangled was being made, the directors didn't realize that Tangled was going to be Disney Animation's 50th film. They didn't focus on the Disney brand name. They just focused on making a good movie. As such, Tangled feels more like a legacy film than Wish.
@@legoking6165 , I only watched Meet the Robinsons in Elementary School whenever I was acting up in class, but I still love that film more than anything Disney made currently.
We could have had a DISNEY VILLAIN POWER COUPLE! Can you imagine how cool that would have been? And we could have had the Starboy! (Insert The Weeknd joke here) He ABSOLUTELY would have been the Jack Frost (from RotG) of Disney. But no, gots to sell them cutesy marketable star toys!
@@samariathemaniac we could've gotten a romantic story between Ahsa and Starboy. Even if it's cliche to have a romantic story, I'd rather take a romantic story any day than what we got
Hell, didn't Final Crisis end with Superman killing Darkseid by singing? Granted that was at least cool, and made sense because Darkseid was an extrauniversal entity who had a different vibrational frequency than the universe, so Superman's singing was a counter-frequency that literally canceled out Darkseid.
It's so weird that DreamWorks released Puss In Boots the Last Wish, a movie that is far more disney-y in every way, and better in every way, just a year before this.
@@HawkknightXC88 Exactly, the contrast in quality between The Last Wish and The Down Syndrome is so large that I’m shocked that the same studio was behind both projects
@@PunishedKrab some people have been saying they made Megamind with a budget of a paperclip because theyre saving their money and time for Shrek 5, which I could believe since they hinted at that at the end of The Last Wish
Which just makes the movie it's attached to all the more of a disappointment. This movie will go down in history as an example of Disney at it's worst.
It makes me think the movie would've been better off containing its "references" to that particular short. The way Wish could stand on its own without having to cram its own references into the movie. For example Asha's friend group is based on the seven dwarves but I think it does the movie a disservice by bloating the character cast.
I don’t even like Once Upon a Studio because it’s just another way for the Disney corporation to jerk itself off. It at least feels like it was written by people. Very narcissistic corporate executive people, but still people.
When Hazbin Hotel is literally doing Disney songs better than Disney itself, then you _know_ you've fucked up. You lost your magic Mickey. It's gone, pack it up
I wish they got more episodes to flesh out their characters, it's hard for some of them to get proper development when you're given like less than 10 Still like it tho
@@BlackCherryLimonadeWe’ll get more of that in season 2, but when it comes to shows they can only work with the number of episodes the studio grants them.
Want to see what good 3d looks like with 2d environments? Watch the cutscenes of the game Little King's Story. Not only does it look far better than anything in Wish, it has this unique style that looks like a living water color animation, but the environments are 2d and the characters themselves are all 3d. Look up a compilation on RUclips, it's got godly animation, unlike this piece of trash movie
As a conservative, I fully agree with you. That term does get overused and so does this culture war nonsense. This movie is bleh simply because it's mediocrity personified.
The only thing remotely "woke" about this movie is that they have a colourblind fairy-tale kingdom (an original one for a change), an arrogant male villain and some pseudo-revolutionary undertones (which - given the cutesy, silly tone of the movie - was actually rather fake-looking to people involved in actual oppression).
@@fermintenava5911 if you think all this stuff is somehow new, you really need to read/watch more fiction😮💨 The Wheel of Time book series written since the 90s had all of this stuff you just described and did it better. Colorblind fantasy settings are not as groundbreaking as you think. You just need to actually read/watch more fiction.
Regardless of how you feel about Pixar’s modern output, but at least they don’t stick with the same character design and utilize different animation styles and designs. Sure, many may have mixed feelings about these animation styles and character designs, but at least they’re EXPERIMENTING and TRYING different things with their animated films compared to Disney.
The second i saw Magnifico he just. Reminded me of other characters. He just seems like a Generic Disney Hot Old Guy and you could go to any newer movie and see parts of him there
I felt that "adorkable problem" line on a personal level. I've seen so many of these characters trying to be quirky and _socially_ _awkward_ that I'm just kind of done with it now.
Tangled worked because the main heroine was cut off from the outside world and acts awkward yet it comes off as genuine same with Anna from Frozen. The main lead of Wish has friends and a good social life so her being adorkably awkward doesn't work.
"Pop Quiz: Why are twist villains in Disney films bad? It's because during the reveal, the villain gets a completely new personality that supplants their old personality." That would explain why I hate the Fiona Fox and Anti Antoine villain reveals in the Archie Sonic Comics.
In the book version of the movie, there's a powerful line from Magnifico. It's when he captures Star and asks something along the lines of ''Where were you when I needed you? What makes the girl so special?''
@@chloenieuwsma4846 That's the plot hole that is still in the movie even without the line. Were people in Magnifico's kingdom not wishing hard enough to not die? I forgot, Disney does not kill it's characters anymore. They just die of sickness called the plot.
Huh? What are you on about? I don't think stars can stop the inevitable. It's like those trees in Centaurworld but nicer/reverse. They can only provide wants. Not needs. Besides this titular star is just a baby. Maybe he's going to grow more powerful as he strengthens his powers
So Asha has Mirabel's personality and looks almost exactly like Isabela. Thanks, Disney, for reminding me that I could've been watching an actually *good* movie of yours instead of this thing!
@@chloenieuwsma4846 It definitely wasn't my intention to diss either Mirabel or Isabela. What I meant was that Asha is like a bare-bones version of Mirabel. They have similar bubbly personalities, but Asha doesn't have any of the things that made Mirabel a good, complex character. As for Isabela, I'm not talking about her as a character, I'm talking about how similar she and Asha *look,* and that was meant as a testament to how lazy Wish is
The sad part is that whn you look at the concept art for Wish, the movie could've been good. Such as the little star being a young boy that was in a relationship with Asha, or Magnifico's wife also being evil. We could've had a genuinely great movie that was worthy of Disney's 100th anniversary.
This movie add so much potential there a reason for why there so much rewrites online about this movie I wish disney did what warner bros did to justice league Snyder cut Give us the original version of wish like add starboy a villain couple and the whole movie hand drawn Pretty much a wish original cut version
See, the plot SHOULD have been her finding out that not all wishes are granted, getting indignent, then deciding to steal the magic staff or whatever and grant them herself, only to find out that granting every wish leads to chaos, and that Magnifico actually WASN'T a villain. Then they work together to fix it, she gets an arc, and at the end she gets offered a wish, and declines it, believing that she should work for what she wants. That plot practically wrote itself from the premise, but instead, we got what we got.
THIS is perfect.. well not perfect, but a well thought out story with a good message and logical thinking... and makes the situation of what was made even worse...
@@fortynights1513 Yes, it shows all the characters even those that did terribly as their drawn forms as in 2d chars are 2d and 3d chars are 3d and all drawn perfectly. And yes, it is a lot better then wish despite the shorter runtime. And what mickey does to walt close to the end is heartfelt. That made it even better.
Ik everyone & their grandparents have said this, but the old concepts of what Wish COULD'VE been was much better than what the actual film turned out to be. 💀💀
I'm honestly okay with Queen Amaya being good for four reasons: 1) If Amaya was evil, _who_ would rule Rosas after their defeat? It'd be anarchy until a new government is established and that's _not_ a happy ending _at all._ 2) We have _plenty_ of evil Disney queens and people were _getting sick_ of it even then, so to have _another_ one after Elsa, Rapunzel's mom, and Anna would've just been _12 steps_ backward. 3) It's redundant and trickier to have _two_ main villains because you have to make _both_ of them engaging and Disney can't even do that with one villain, what makes you think they can do it with two? And 4) That would've just been the _Briarwoods_ again and even then _only Delilah_ was the most interesting villain.
This movie could have been 100x better if the movie acknowledged that Asha was in kinda in the wrong with her toxic positivity. Like Joy in inside out. And she'd get a character arc and everything
@@rogue77231) Asha could easily be rewritten to be their daughter. 2) We haven't had an evil Disney queen in a LONG time. The last female villain we've gotten who wasn't redeemed was Mother Gothel, over a decade ago. Elsa and Anna aren't even close to being evil Disney queens. 3) It can be done. The animatics from the original concept prove that it can be done.
1. Make asha the princess daughter of magifico 2. Make the star more human like in the concept art and build a romance between asha and star 3. Hire Broadway writers not pop music writers 4. Magnifico says "he got these genes from outer space" so have it turn out he's keeping a star he wished on and bleeding it for his magic
The thing I hate about Wish is that it's such a bad movie, literally ANYTHING is probably better. This is a really great idea and probably was at some point similar to the plan for the movie before they screwed it up.
That 4th option reminds me of what happened in Vertigo's Fables. Every character in fairy tales, myths, legends, and folklore are real and are refugees in our world when their world was invaded by a Sauron-like figure known as "The Adversary." Half-way through the series, it's revealed the Adversary is the figurehead for the true big bad, Geppetto. Basically he was disappointed with how Pinocchio turned out and started having aspirations. So one day, he invited the Blue Fairy over for tea, knocked her out with a stone, and keeps her drugged in his closet while a machine extracts her blood for her magic to fuel his empire.
Allow the Broadway writers to be part of the OVERALL writing process, like in the Renaissance Disney as the songs were written AS the movie was written, not after, they worked closely with the scriptwriters and storyboard artists to make the songs a truly integrated part of the story that actually pushed the plot itself forward and weren't just randomly inserted. I mean it shows how closely Lin Emanuel worked with the team when he got to change Oscar's name into Bruno because it worked for the song, and the movie was changed to accommodate the songs. Here? They were so clearly just randomly inserted and could easily be taken out changing nothing of the story.
For a movie that loves to self reference other Disney movies, I wonder if they watched Aladdin. You know, a movie about the negative consequences of misused/poorly worded/vague wishes
Disney needs to stop writing all their movies like they are trying to make the next Shrek. It's that postmodern irreverent cynicial approach to storytelling that Shrek pioneered. Which Disney cannot let go of for the life of them.
This movie could have been 100x better if the movie acknowledged that Asha was in kinda in the wrong with her toxic positivity. Like Joy in inside out. And she’d get a character arc and everything
I think it would've been interesting if, to poke fun at the cliche animal sidekick trope, Valentino actually acted as a villain, starting up musical numbers and spewing surface-level rhetoric and distracting jokes as a ploy to take Asha off-track or push her in the wrong direction with her approach, to inspire her in the wrong way using so many of the basic tropes Disney is known for like the titular concept of just wishing for what you want rather than being proactive in pursuing it. Unfortunately, that would require more than ten minutes in the writing room.
As I keep saying, this film is basically a modern day version of The Lorax 2012, in the sense that both are bad films that were supposed to be good as evidenced by scrapped/altered stuff we got to see from the pre-productions, but they were both ruined by corporate meddling.
@@chloenieuwsma4846 Pretty sure he wouldn't. The guy was *constantly* trying to push the envelope in terms of what stories animation could tell and what it could achieve, constantly experimenting, and above all, he *hated* the idea that his work and studio were thought of as being "just kids' stuff". Walt Disney was many things, certainly not all of them good, but when it came to animation, he was a man of ambition and willing to take risks. He sunk a ridiculous amount of money into Snow White when practically everyone was screaming at him that it wasn't possible to produce a full-length animated movie as opposed to shorts that ran 15 minutes at most. He fought to keep his studio open and producing work of the same high quality as 'Snow White' all through WW2, despite the loss of animators to the draft and the loss of the overseas market which meant films like 'Fantasia', 'Pinocchio' and 'Dumbo' *massively* underperformed. He experimented with different forms of animation and different artstyles in films like 'Fantasia' and 'Sleeping Beauty' and was, by all accounts, crushed when they weren't accepted by the public. Absolutely nothing about 'Wish' displays that level of ambition or commitment. Just the mere fact that everyone who defends this movie at some point inevitably uses the "it's made for kids" argument would probably be enough to have Walt hating it. As would the rejection of the 2D art-style because "it's just too hard and expensive now we've successfully laid off all the traditional animation artists and 'streamlined' our entire animation department".
I hate Warner Bros more than Disney but the Teen Titans Go episode of all things that celebrated their anniversary was surprisingly really fun! I just wish the show had better quality control because I have seen all of their movies which I’ve also enjoyed.
At least Chicken Little wasn’t the 100th year anniversary for Disney, and at least it was MEMORABLE! Also, it had a much more sympathetic main character with a much more sympathetic goal, and the group of friends had more purpose than the group of friends in Wish, from what I’m hearing.
@@foxtoons1999yeah. I like Chicken Little (as a character) and his friends, but the pop references and Buck Cluck are obnoxious. So I don’t really hate it as much, but it’s far from even decent.
At least Chicken Little tried to stand on its own feet. It didn't succeed at it but it tried to be it's own thing. The best comparison I know for Wish is Power Rangers Super Megaforce. It's just saying "Hey you liked this, we remembered you like this. We're not gonna do anything interesting with it but give us money, pig."
Disney's Once Upon a Studio is unironically a better 100 year special than Wish. I would honestly pay money to go see that short turned into a 90 minute movie of the characters interacting with each other.
She basically becomes Bruce Almighty saying yes to all prayers. What they don’t show you is how her kingdom is going to burn down and descend into chaos.
Asha’s character actually seems to have been massively reworked at some point. Back when Star was meant to be more of a character than merchandisable (he was actually a human boy), we have some deleted scenes which show Asha being more serious while Star was the silly character cracking the jokes. When Star got reworked into his current form, they ended up mixing Asha and Star’s personalities into Asha’s new personality. The rapid switching of Asha from quirky to serious in some scenes is what really made this dawn on me.
The most disappointing thing about this movie is the fact so much of the original concept got scrapped because of executive meddling. I actually would’ve loved to see Asha as a timid and more reserved person who’s trying to find her voice, and Starboy is the one who helps break her out of her shell. Also the deleted song Sabino had should’ve been in the movie, giving him an actual personality. Not the first time an amazing song should’ve been in the movie (looking at you If I Never Knew You) and personally, I think the 100th anniversary movie should’ve been a shelved project that was the original sequel idea for the Great Mouse Detective, the Search For Mickey Mouse. It was going to have several characters from previous films coming together in a big movie. Honestly, I believe Once Upon a Studio wasn’t nearly long enough, though its a much better tribute to Walt Disney’s dream and legacy
I barely even remember the great mouse detective. Not saying it's a bad idea but I think it makes more sense that Disney wanted to make another original fairytale
@@chloenieuwsma4846 I’m not saying it had to be a sequel of the Great Mouse Detective. It was simply originally planned as one and it was supposed to be a huge crossover of other Disney characters coming to help the search for Mickey Mouse. Another great crossover movie that sadly got canceled and I wish it’d get made is Princess Academy, it was where non Disney Princesses (aka heroines and animals like Nala and Maid Marian) interacted with the official princesses.
I was thinking the same thing! In MLP, we get to see right away that something is off about Starlight's village, and we see villagers secretly talk about how much they miss their cutie marks before the Mane 6 take any action. Starlight was literally just a better Magnifico too
The fact that Nimona got an Oscar nomination (despite the film not winning it) over wish says a lot about how Disney has been going downhill lately along with Warner Brothers.
As of right now, Encanto is my favorite Disney movie. I have watched it so many times and its messages about family are so good. I also really love Mirabel. I love her bubbly personality, and I always feel so sad for her in the beginning. I loved that in the end, she was excepted by her family.
Disney hit with Encanto and then missed with Strange World and everyone lost their minds over it, calling them woke and broke and forgetting Encanto’s existence. But when DreamWorks hits with Puss in Boots 2, then misses, everyone just shrugs it off as inconsistency
"Throw caution to every warning sign"....... so... shes being extra cautious??? does she mean - throw caution to the wind?, because that would mean let the wind carry away caution and plunge forward carelessly. but throw caution to every warning sign is basically, pay even more attention to warning signs.
I blame Chapek. He rushed creative people into releasing content ASAP instead of letting them do their job in their own pace. The animation studios, Marvel, Star Wars. Good effing riddance. This might’ve been the last movie that was the closest to completion during his tenure.
Nah. Chapek is just a fucking scapegoat if you ask me. Don't care if he's the guy who brought the second Disney Renaissance to an extent, but Iger is equally as culpable for Disney's downfall for me.
The only movie that was even greenlit by Chapek is (no lie) Deadpool and Wolverine. Just about every other movie, and some changes in studio leadership that affected these movies, is stuff decided while Iger was/is CEO.
Not only is this film underwhelming as all hell I find its message to be a dangerous one. *"If you don't get what you want, even if it's for a good reason/cause, RUIN the person who dared to tell you 'No'."* What the f*ck kind of message is that to send to KIDS?
Such amount of potential ideas... Evil king queen duo And a golden reference to the prince and princess esque love story, starboy romance. All to be lost...
Agreed. Magnifico’s One Winged Angel form and a return to 2D animation were also lost. Come on, Disney should bring back actual romance and good villains. The latter would be better than Disney’s twist villains(an already mixed bag), or no villain at all.
I had this idea of rewriting Magnifico. Like, maybe, he came from a long line of wish granters. But a member of his family granted a wish for a person who turned out to be evil, and that granted wish set a chain of events in motion that led to a disaster and his family was blamed for it. And Magnifico wants to create a world without wishes, without desire, a sort of false paradise where everyone feels happy but not understanding why...or something like that
Asha - spoiled, ungrateful young woman who shows what happens when someone says 'no' to her demands. (seriously - Asha is meant to be a symbol of empowerment; but she comes off as a villain in the end). Side note: it's speculated that the songs in this movie was written by AI. And given some of the screwy lyrics - I can believe it.
Yeah,Asha is pretty entitled. Perhaps,if she saw a future where all wishes came true (maybe even ones that contradict each other), she would understand Magnifico better and apologize to him.
The idea of the antagonist having an upbeat pop tune while the protagonist gets a more foreboding song could have been interesting if the story was about looking beyond surface level things or idk be a kind of ironic detail or even just a basic subversion of conventions kinda like how in persona 5 akechi has a white outfit a higher pitched voice, and is viewed as a hero despite being a serial killer, while joker is seen as a dangerous criminal with a dark outfit, a deeper voice typically given to more villainous characters in media, you get what I’m saying a bit of thematic irony is the least this film could have done 🙄
Everyone: "I wish i wish with all my heart, for Disney to make Wish without it falling apart." Unfortunately, our wishes were not granted, and to say that this movie fell apart would be an understatement.
I just can’t get over the fact that the characters look so… artificial, I guess? They don’t seem like they’re fully incorporated into the world, almost like they’re floating above it at all times, as if the characters were in the top layer of whatever program they were using. The depth perception gets fucked a lot and it takes me out of the narrative immediately. This watercolor style that they were trying just doesn’t work that good in a 3D environment, they weren’t clever enough to disguise and fool the eye into the illusion.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 Maybe, but I’m actually not opposed into mixing 2D with 3D if it’s done well. Trigun Stampede managed to hit that happy medium with both and I love it. There IS a way to do it, but there is such a thing as trying to be too clever, which is what the people that made Wish were trying to do. They wanted this film to look like a Disney animated classic, but they didn’t wanna give up on using CGI, so now we have this identity crisis.
@@gothicMCRgirl I think the CGI in Jojo's Bizzare Adventure and Demon Slayer looks really good. Black Clover however I swear gets worse as the series progresses.
@@gothicMCRgirlIt can be done right, agreed. Spider Verse, Bad Guys, and Puss in Boots 2 are prime examples of it done correctly (not to mention they’re really good films too).
"There's a problem when it comes to celebrating Disney's history... and that's because Disney as a company hates its own history... with a flaming passion." Sounds about right.
There’s something really cringe about Disney, one of the biggest and most powerful companies in the world, using “shareholders” as an inspirational term of togetherness. The first thing that pops into their heads of all of us being one is the term ‘shareholders’. It feels very inhuman and soulless. Almost as bad as saying “We’ll all the NFT holders!”.
That and Elemental was a far superior film and IMO should’ve been the celebration movie (was much better received and was more financially successful).
@@7evenseas975 oh I know. I should have been more specific. Encanto is the best example of a villainless Disney movie. I was reminding you of its existence because no one talks about it anymore
I once heard on a podcast someone say enchanted feels like a Disney parody made by people who never seen a Disney movie, this feels like a tribute made by someone who has never seen one.
Wish: The movie where the Bad Guy is actually Sensible and you're actively rooting against the Protag. Seriously, how did Disney not realize the major issues with this story. Wonder Woman 1984 got torn apart for this same concept and even showed WHY granting everyone's wishes is a stupid idea.
This film is the power rangers megaforce of Disney using an anniversary as a crutch by shoving in references to past films without any context or substance Power rangers got lazy with their 20th anniversary And Disney got lazy with their 100th anniversary I’m sure someone on the production cared enough to make this a proper 100th anniversary celebration but the studio probably meddled in the project and just did a paint by numbers Disney movie
Wish is just Sophia the First with like a butt-ton more money (that it didn't need) but NONE of the charm. Who needs Magnifico when you have Cedric the Great?
In fact did you know that the star was supposed to be a shapeshifting boy in the early drafts similar to Peter PAN? But I guess they just decided to go for more simple, cutesy and marketable.
The classic stories and the more modern classics are *based* on something. Mythology, fairy tales, even classic or modern classic literature. Hercules and Moana, Snow White and Tangled, The Lion King and Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Encanto are all examples of the above. What is WISH based on? Nothing but references to other movies, without the reverence towards them that those legacy reference should have had. Once Upon a Studio, a 9 minute short, is a much better tribute to the century of magic Disney created. As for Asha's "adorkable" problem...the reason it doesn't work is because the other characters actually famous for it (Anna, Rapunzel, Mirabel) are either extremely secluded (Anna, Rapunzel) or very young and the family outcast (Mirabel-15 and awkward from isolation, both location and familial.) Asha isn't even a Mary sue, which would at least have been a personality. She's a plot device. The main character shouldn't be a plot device! Magnifico's song is too vapid for a man who singlehandedly learned sorcery and raised a near utopian kingdom from nothing, in the Mediterranean, in the 1200s! It makes him look silly, and weak. If you want him to be evil, *make him evil!* He doesn't even hurt anyone and gets defeated/sidetracked by a cabinet dropping on him and a song. They hamstrung the villain.
Thank you for the comparison with Tangled. It was originally meant to be 2D, but was forced into being 3D because of the rising of 3D animation. It's based on the fairytale of the original Rapunzel, but it also has it's own modern twist and every story point is hit perfectly.
@@hypnospaceoutlaw3376 Nope, it's from Max Keeble. Max's bully has a huge phobia of the Frog character MacGoogles (which partially factors into why he bullies him because his dad wore it for his birthday party once). So Max gets revenge by donning the costume, and terrorizing his bully when he's alone in the gym.
@@NobodyC13 That bully isn't as hateable as Dobbs, the evil lunch money grabbing business boy. Mostly cuz he was rich from being a stock exchange genius, lost his earnings out of bad luck, and is robbing kids blind just to reclaim his millions. Meaning, he might as well grow in a life of crime.
"Magnifico doesn't even care about his cookies!" King Koopa asked his guard chief of the where-abouts of his Dinosaur Pizza.... Even Ysma was okay with Kronk having a cup of coffe before taking Kusco out of town.
2D interacting with 3D does work, Wish just *sucked* at it. Also, the book opening is probably dead now thanks to this movie and I hate it. Hell, if Asha actually was really selfish that would have made this better. Hold it, if Asha didn’t know how to be a heroine because she was too selfish that would have also worked. There, goal. One more thing about the book - either have a book or an irritatingly catchy (if badly done) intro song for exposition, you can’t cram both of them in.
The fact that The Iron Giant, a film from 1999 when 3D animation was still somewhat fresh out of the oven, did a more spectacular job at integrating a 3D model in a (exclusively) 2D environment than Wish is really telling.
I find it funny that BlueSky figured out how to make a 3D CGI film look traditionally 2D animated, yet Disney can’t despite having just acquired and assimilated BlueSky not too long ago when they acquired Fox
This movie is also another minor Wicked-rip-off: An idealistic young woman aims to be the surpreme magic user's apprentice to fulfill her dreams of equality, but then finds out he has dark secrets and selfish intentions, plus, there's a talking goat involved. Okay, maybe it's not a rip-off per sé, but it serves as a reminder how much more Wicked invested in the same basic premise. Wish... has nothing but vague ideas and dialogue that do not connect with each other.
There's so much wrong with Disney these days. Their content is so sanitised, their writing is so simple and plagued with so much obvious minority pandering with no subtlety or effort. Lesson aren't carefully weaved into stories anymore, they're thrown directly into the faces of the audience and hammered in hard like we're all a bunch of fucking idiots. They've been doing this for a while now and it's been shown not to work but they're still doing it anyway!
Take Sofia the First, take out everything amazing about it, make it non-educational, give it a plot that makes no sense, and make it look like it was written and animated by AI. Walla! You got Wish! I hope this description helpful to you? Let me know if it was.
If everybody knows the King's apprentice get their wishes granted... Where are the apprentices that came before Asha? What happened to them? Why is Magnificio even interested in the idea of finding an aprentice, shouldn't he be more concearned with siring a son or daugther?
Nimona which is a CGI movie trying to pay homage to it's web comic roots has far better stylization and cell shading. Hey kids, save your money, don't see Wish.
Basically what everyone thought about “Wish” when it got released, and if you know what I’m referencing, you know: “Boy are you stupid, Disney” “What kind of a movie was that?” “You were supposed to make a GOOD movie for your 100th anniversary! Can’t you even tell a good film from a poor film?!” “I told you they’d screw it up. They’re not the kind of studio you can depend on anymore!” “You’re hopeless, Disney. Completely hopeless!”
5 y/o Matti: I wish I could make cool cartoons and Spider-Man outfits! (17 years later) Matti (Present Day): Wait, what do you mean my wish was granted?
Can I get away with saying Chicken Little looks better animated than Wish? Because at least Chicken Little didn't have 3D characters in a 2D background. That's the main reason I never saw Wish; it looked so bad that I couldn't understand how an early 2000s film (Chicken Little) looked better than a film out right now in 2024 (Wish).
Pixar gave us Elemental Sony animation gave us Spider Man Across the Spiderverse Nickelodeon gave us Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem Netflix and Annapurna Pictures gave us Nimona Illumination and Nintendo gave us the animated Mario movie Disney gave us Wish…. Talk about a severe fall from grace
I think the strangest part of the movie is that the villain has no reason to be evil. Magnifeco had a legit motivation to not just grant wishes willy nilly, because of the typical monkeys paw concept of wishing, and as shown by fairly odd parents and calypso of twisted metal, the way the wish can be handled could be against the wish granters power. Those familiar with fairly oddparents will know about Timmy's sleep wish incident, but in calypso's case, ij twisted metal head-on, if sweet tooth wins, he wishes to take calypso's place as host. And while Calypso refuses to grant the wish, it occurs anyway against his will, showing that there is a higher form of power controlling his powers. I can understand magnifeco's reasoning at the beginning, that a vague wish can have unforseen consequences, but we just have to have a villain in these damn movies, so screw it, lets just make him gaston with magic in the middle of the movie.
Exactly! It would have been so refreshing if they stuck with the first part because the villain would instead be an engaging antagonist. Heck, they could have had Asha overthrow him earlier in the film but then as she starts granting everyone’s wishes the kingdom inevitably starts falling apart and she realises how she messed up and has to make amends with Magnifico and in the end the two work together to save the kingdom while also developing a new and better way of handling the wishes.
The songs he played seemed very poorly written, but the singing and instrumentation seem fine enough. It may not be worth a good review, but it doesn’t sound bad to listen to either in my opinion.
The original plot was going to have Asha be the adoptive daughter of magnifico and his wife. That would’ve made a lot more sense to why she opened up to him and confided him with such personal information and would make the steaks a lot higher for her when she found out he and his wife were evil
That awkward movement when you can hear how awesome Sonic the Hedgehog music sounds in the background in comparison to the shitty ChatGPT songs written by the largest entertainment corporation.
Yeah, and it's not the first time he's put Sonic music in his videos. I heard him put Arid Sands Night in his "D.W.'s Very Bad Mood" review. Do you think he's a Sonic fan? Cuz I wonder.
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Fun Fact: When Tangled was being made, the directors didn't realize that Tangled was going to be Disney Animation's 50th film. They didn't focus on the Disney brand name. They just focused on making a good movie. As such, Tangled feels more like a legacy film than Wish.
In my opinion, a movie like Meet the Robinsons feels like a better legacy film.
@@legoking6165 , I only watched Meet the Robinsons in Elementary School whenever I was acting up in class, but I still love that film more than anything Disney made currently.
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Meet the Robinsons is my personal favorite animated Disney adventure.
@@legoking6165 , my all time favorite animated series from Disney is Tron Uprising.
@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hrThe Tron franchise is criminally underappreciated.
The more I learn about what Wish was supposed to be, the more I hate what we got.
The more I think about Wish and it’s scrapped ideas, the more it actually makes me genuinely angry. >:(
We could have had a DISNEY VILLAIN POWER COUPLE! Can you imagine how cool that would have been? And we could have had the Starboy! (Insert The Weeknd joke here) He ABSOLUTELY would have been the Jack Frost (from RotG) of Disney. But no, gots to sell them cutesy marketable star toys!
@@foxtoons1999 “gotta keep our four year olds happy”
@@samariathemaniac we could've gotten a romantic story between Ahsa and Starboy. Even if it's cliche to have a romantic story, I'd rather take a romantic story any day than what we got
@@Samuel_Loegani’d rather get a romantic story than a Cocomelon story.
"We defeated the bad guy by singing" ... so Magnifico is just the Grinch?
No, the Grinch has good writing. This does not.
Hell, didn't Final Crisis end with Superman killing Darkseid by singing?
Granted that was at least cool, and made sense because Darkseid was an extrauniversal entity who had a different vibrational frequency than the universe, so Superman's singing was a counter-frequency that literally canceled out Darkseid.
Defeated the bad guy by singing. OH MY GOD, THIS IS A MACROSS MOVIE!!!!!
At least in the Grinch it made sense...
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It's so weird that DreamWorks released Puss In Boots the Last Wish, a movie that is far more disney-y in every way, and better in every way, just a year before this.
And even weirder that a year later, they released Megamind 2, which was so bad that it killed my grandma and burned down my neighborhood
@@PunishedKrab Megamind 2 shouldn't even had been made really. Feels like a downgrade compared with the original.
@@PunishedKrab no, the movie was so bad that it destroyed America. I HATE Megadumb and the Frollo wannabes.
@@HawkknightXC88 Exactly, the contrast in quality between The Last Wish and The Down Syndrome is so large that I’m shocked that the same studio was behind both projects
@@PunishedKrab some people have been saying they made Megamind with a budget of a paperclip because theyre saving their money and time for Shrek 5, which I could believe since they hinted at that at the end of The Last Wish
Once upon a studio was definitely the superior 100th anniversary gift.
The “When you wish upon a star” ensemble was better than the entirety of Wish.
Which just makes the movie it's attached to all the more of a disappointment. This movie will go down in history as an example of Disney at it's worst.
I feel like the studio had more faith in OUAS than Wish
It makes me think the movie would've been better off containing its "references" to that particular short.
The way Wish could stand on its own without having to cram its own references into the movie.
For example Asha's friend group is based on the seven dwarves but I think it does the movie a disservice by bloating the character cast.
I don’t even like Once Upon a Studio because it’s just another way for the Disney corporation to jerk itself off. It at least feels like it was written by people. Very narcissistic corporate executive people, but still people.
When Hazbin Hotel is literally doing Disney songs better than Disney itself, then you _know_ you've fucked up. You lost your magic Mickey. It's gone, pack it up
I actually grew to like Charlie as a character in the finale of Hazbin Hotel than Asha, so yes Hazbin Hotel does everything better than Wish.
I wish they got more episodes to flesh out their characters, it's hard for some of them to get proper development when you're given like less than 10
Still like it tho
SMG4 did a better villain song than modern Disney…
@@BlackCherryLimonadeWe’ll get more of that in season 2, but when it comes to shows they can only work with the number of episodes the studio grants them.
Mickey has fallen so hard he was hanging out with randy and smoking weed with him, rip.
Klaus managed to do 2D that looks like 3D
This movie is like the bad attempt at the opposite
Don't forget that Disney literally has 2D and 3D animation blend that they could've used since they used it for the short film Paperman
Want to see what good 3d looks like with 2d environments? Watch the cutscenes of the game Little King's Story.
Not only does it look far better than anything in Wish, it has this unique style that looks like a living water color animation, but the environments are 2d and the characters themselves are all 3d.
Look up a compilation on RUclips, it's got godly animation, unlike this piece of trash movie
thank you for being able to criticize disney without using the term "woke"
Disney has a lot of problems.
The wokeness is just a symptom of a much deadlier disease. They have become too corporate for their own good.
As a conservative, I fully agree with you. That term does get overused and so does this culture war nonsense. This movie is bleh simply because it's mediocrity personified.
Hated that some people called this movie “woke.” It was just a super bland and boring movie.
The only thing remotely "woke" about this movie is that they have a colourblind fairy-tale kingdom (an original one for a change), an arrogant male villain and some pseudo-revolutionary undertones (which - given the cutesy, silly tone of the movie - was actually rather fake-looking to people involved in actual oppression).
@@fermintenava5911 if you think all this stuff is somehow new, you really need to read/watch more fiction😮💨 The Wheel of Time book series written since the 90s had all of this stuff you just described and did it better. Colorblind fantasy settings are not as groundbreaking as you think. You just need to actually read/watch more fiction.
I hate the tagline "A movie a 100 years in the making" when it does not feel like that at all.
It feels like a movie that took less than a day made in ChatGPT
It's really sad they didn't stand back, watch it and say: "it's fine but we've done so much better before"
Exactly you Disney stole that title from: Jurassic Park an adventure 65 million years in the making
Yeah It's More Like 100 Days In The Making 💀
more like 100 hours in the making
What bugs me the most about Wish's animation is the the character models are the exact same artstyle Disney's been reusing since Tangled.
Regardless of how you feel about Pixar’s modern output, but at least they don’t stick with the same character design and utilize different animation styles and designs. Sure, many may have mixed feelings about these animation styles and character designs, but at least they’re EXPERIMENTING and TRYING different things with their animated films compared to Disney.
It’s ultimately a brand image, unfortunately. If they try going for a drastically different art style, they risk alienating their own audience.
Exactly, it looks like their typical CGI stuff just with an instagram filter put over it
@@hunterolaughlin The main girl looks like if Rapunzel was black.
The second i saw Magnifico he just. Reminded me of other characters. He just seems like a Generic Disney Hot Old Guy and you could go to any newer movie and see parts of him there
I felt that "adorkable problem" line on a personal level. I've seen so many of these characters trying to be quirky and _socially_ _awkward_ that I'm just kind of done with it now.
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Mirabel has a lot of things going for her
Like who? Judy Hopps and Moana weren't adorkable, and Mirabel was trying to find her place.
Rapunzel was a great one
Tangled worked because the main heroine was cut off from the outside world and acts awkward yet it comes off as genuine same with Anna from Frozen.
The main lead of Wish has friends and a good social life so her being adorkably awkward doesn't work.
"Pop Quiz: Why are twist villains in Disney films bad? It's because during the reveal, the villain gets a completely new personality that supplants their old personality." That would explain why I hate the Fiona Fox and Anti Antoine villain reveals in the Archie Sonic Comics.
This this is why Ernesto De la Cruz worked so well as a twist villain in Coco since he never changed it's just that we saw him in a new light
I swear, that yellow star thing looks way too much like a luma
It does not.
@@chloenieuwsma4846 Well, it does.
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I've heard that claim a lot.
Where's the fanart of a luma and star interacting?!
This movie is probably what Lumalee fears more than death
In the book version of the movie, there's a powerful line from Magnifico. It's when he captures Star and asks something along the lines of ''Where were you when I needed you? What makes the girl so special?''
Wow 😮. That is a powerful line. But Magnifico. This star was probably born just recently and didn't exist during your time
@@chloenieuwsma4846 That's the plot hole that is still in the movie even without the line. Were people in Magnifico's kingdom not wishing hard enough to not die? I forgot, Disney does not kill it's characters anymore. They just die of sickness called the plot.
Huh? What are you on about? I don't think stars can stop the inevitable. It's like those trees in Centaurworld but nicer/reverse. They can only provide wants. Not needs. Besides this titular star is just a baby. Maybe he's going to grow more powerful as he strengthens his powers
anyone who sees this guy as a villain is so questionable to me
There’s a book?
"Aladdin... Street Rat."
Riff raff, street rat
I don't buy that
If only Enter'd look closer
Would he see a poor boy, no siree
Thanks for bringing up Aladdin, really. (Still love that movie)
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Good point as usual
@@Dora-xi5obi did not know Encanto meant charm before i translated this comment. Also, hi!
Aladdin is a street rat though until Robin Williams returned for the 3rd film, and it was revealed Aladdin was a true royal all along.
So Asha has Mirabel's personality and looks almost exactly like Isabela. Thanks, Disney, for reminding me that I could've been watching an actually *good* movie of yours instead of this thing!
How dare you. also no. Asha is nothing like either of those 2.
this is a disrespect to mirabel because she actually has a well rounded personality
@@chloenieuwsma4846 It definitely wasn't my intention to diss either Mirabel or Isabela. What I meant was that Asha is like a bare-bones version of Mirabel. They have similar bubbly personalities, but Asha doesn't have any of the things that made Mirabel a good, complex character.
As for Isabela, I'm not talking about her as a character, I'm talking about how similar she and Asha *look,* and that was meant as a testament to how lazy Wish is
Leave Mirabel out of this
She does look a lot like Isabela, though
The sad part is that whn you look at the concept art for Wish, the movie could've been good. Such as the little star being a young boy that was in a relationship with Asha, or Magnifico's wife also being evil. We could've had a genuinely great movie that was worthy of Disney's 100th anniversary.
This movie add so much potential there a reason for why there so much rewrites online about this movie
I wish disney did what warner bros did to justice league Snyder cut
Give us the original version of wish like add starboy a villain couple and the whole movie hand drawn
Pretty much a wish original cut version
Yes.
“a young boy that was in a relationship with Asha”
That’s some…interesting phrasing there lol
@@LinktoSonic My bad, I meant young as in a similar age range with Asha.
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See, the plot SHOULD have been her finding out that not all wishes are granted, getting indignent, then deciding to steal the magic staff or whatever and grant them herself, only to find out that granting every wish leads to chaos, and that Magnifico actually WASN'T a villain. Then they work together to fix it, she gets an arc, and at the end she gets offered a wish, and declines it, believing that she should work for what she wants. That plot practically wrote itself from the premise, but instead, we got what we got.
Pretty simple and easy plot to use
Yeah but it wouldnt be a classic.
THIS is perfect.. well not perfect, but a well thought out story with a good message and logical thinking... and makes the situation of what was made even worse...
"Just eat the mushrooms and you'll understand"
WAIT HUH? DISNEY WHAT?!
LITTLE TIMMY IS DOING LSD IN THE CORNER HOW COULD YOU DO THIS?!?!
The Lyric was see. How did you miss that? *face pal,
Google "hard of hearing"
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@@chloenieuwsma4846It's a dumb lyric either way.
Let’s be real, Once upon a studio was the REAL 100th anniversary of Disney, not this.
Was that any good?
@@fortynights1513 Yes I hadn't seen Disney make something that genuinely heartfelt in years.
Or you know. both. but fine believe what you want
Once Upon A Studio felt more genuine than anything they've made in a long time
@@fortynights1513 Yes, it shows all the characters even those that did terribly as their drawn forms as in 2d chars are 2d and 3d chars are 3d and all drawn perfectly. And yes, it is a lot better then wish despite the shorter runtime. And what mickey does to walt close to the end is heartfelt. That made it even better.
You know it's sad when Adam Sandler's Leo (a Netflix movie), got better scores than a Disney movie! 💀
To be honest, I’m not surprised. After Encanto (an amazing movie), Disney has only gone to sh*t.
Adam Sandler can make good stuff.
Leo is hilarious!
@@samariathemaniacencanto was their last animated musical
Why does Gen Z always use the skull emoji so much?
Ik everyone & their grandparents have said this, but the old concepts of what Wish COULD'VE been was much better than what the actual film turned out to be. 💀💀
It still would have been awful even if they had used the better ideas. They would have found another way to ruin it
I'm honestly okay with Queen Amaya being good for four reasons: 1) If Amaya was evil, _who_ would rule Rosas after their defeat? It'd be anarchy until a new government is established and that's _not_ a happy ending _at all._ 2) We have _plenty_ of evil Disney queens and people were _getting sick_ of it even then, so to have _another_ one after Elsa, Rapunzel's mom, and Anna would've just been _12 steps_ backward. 3) It's redundant and trickier to have _two_ main villains because you have to make _both_ of them engaging and Disney can't even do that with one villain, what makes you think they can do it with two? And 4) That would've just been the _Briarwoods_ again and even then _only Delilah_ was the most interesting villain.
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This movie could have been 100x better if the movie acknowledged that Asha was in kinda in the wrong with her toxic positivity. Like Joy in inside out. And she'd get a character arc and everything
@@rogue77231) Asha could easily be rewritten to be their daughter. 2) We haven't had an evil Disney queen in a LONG time. The last female villain we've gotten who wasn't redeemed was Mother Gothel, over a decade ago. Elsa and Anna aren't even close to being evil Disney queens. 3) It can be done. The animatics from the original concept prove that it can be done.
1. Make asha the princess daughter of magifico
2. Make the star more human like in the concept art and build a romance between asha and star
3. Hire Broadway writers not pop music writers
4. Magnifico says "he got these genes from outer space" so have it turn out he's keeping a star he wished on and bleeding it for his magic
The thing I hate about Wish is that it's such a bad movie, literally ANYTHING is probably better. This is a really great idea and probably was at some point similar to the plan for the movie before they screwed it up.
That 4th option reminds me of what happened in Vertigo's Fables. Every character in fairy tales, myths, legends, and folklore are real and are refugees in our world when their world was invaded by a Sauron-like figure known as "The Adversary." Half-way through the series, it's revealed the Adversary is the figurehead for the true big bad, Geppetto. Basically he was disappointed with how Pinocchio turned out and started having aspirations. So one day, he invited the Blue Fairy over for tea, knocked her out with a stone, and keeps her drugged in his closet while a machine extracts her blood for her magic to fuel his empire.
Allow the Broadway writers to be part of the OVERALL writing process, like in the Renaissance Disney as the songs were written AS the movie was written, not after, they worked closely with the scriptwriters and storyboard artists to make the songs a truly integrated part of the story that actually pushed the plot itself forward and weren't just randomly inserted.
I mean it shows how closely Lin Emanuel worked with the team when he got to change Oscar's name into Bruno because it worked for the song, and the movie was changed to accommodate the songs.
Here? They were so clearly just randomly inserted and could easily be taken out changing nothing of the story.
2 makes me think this should be called Star Movie
For 4, it was actually a holdover from a previous draft of the film where it was going to be revealed that Magnifico was a fallen star
For a movie that loves to self reference other Disney movies, I wonder if they watched Aladdin. You know, a movie about the negative consequences of misused/poorly worded/vague wishes
Disney needs to stop writing all their movies like they are trying to make the next Shrek.
It's that postmodern irreverent cynicial approach to storytelling that Shrek pioneered. Which Disney cannot let go of for the life of them.
This movie could have been 100x better if the movie acknowledged that Asha was in kinda in the wrong with her toxic positivity. Like Joy in inside out. And she’d get a character arc and everything
Her personality isn't toxic
@@chloenieuwsma4846I think it's more about her goal with the wishes which on paper sounds like a horrible idea even with context
@@chloenieuwsma4846 her entire character is toxic
@@Alex-mh5muno it isn't
@@chloenieuwsma4846 Deal with it ❤️
I think it would've been interesting if, to poke fun at the cliche animal sidekick trope, Valentino actually acted as a villain, starting up musical numbers and spewing surface-level rhetoric and distracting jokes as a ploy to take Asha off-track or push her in the wrong direction with her approach, to inspire her in the wrong way using so many of the basic tropes Disney is known for like the titular concept of just wishing for what you want rather than being proactive in pursuing it.
Unfortunately, that would require more than ten minutes in the writing room.
That sounds like a rubbish idea.
They did that in encanto
Yeah but brunos rats weren't bad guys. More like unsung heros since they were patching up the cracks. @Dora-xi5ob
But then they couldn’t sell as much merchandise of him!!!!
Holy shit I would've actually wanted to watch that!
As I keep saying, this film is basically a modern day version of The Lorax 2012, in the sense that both are bad films that were supposed to be good as evidenced by scrapped/altered stuff we got to see from the pre-productions, but they were both ruined by corporate meddling.
The Lorax 2012 is not modern?!
At least The Lorax is meme-able
@@amedotuniverse652 like what?
@@dwainsimmons3447 No?! It’s 12 years old!
@@amedotuniverse652 That’s true
The film is a GIANT turd to everything Walt Disney himself had accomplished.🤢🤢🤮🤮
It is not. Pretty sure Walt would find this good.
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@@chloenieuwsma4846How would you know?
@@chloenieuwsma4846 Pretty sure he wouldn't. The guy was *constantly* trying to push the envelope in terms of what stories animation could tell and what it could achieve, constantly experimenting, and above all, he *hated* the idea that his work and studio were thought of as being "just kids' stuff". Walt Disney was many things, certainly not all of them good, but when it came to animation, he was a man of ambition and willing to take risks. He sunk a ridiculous amount of money into Snow White when practically everyone was screaming at him that it wasn't possible to produce a full-length animated movie as opposed to shorts that ran 15 minutes at most. He fought to keep his studio open and producing work of the same high quality as 'Snow White' all through WW2, despite the loss of animators to the draft and the loss of the overseas market which meant films like 'Fantasia', 'Pinocchio' and 'Dumbo' *massively* underperformed. He experimented with different forms of animation and different artstyles in films like 'Fantasia' and 'Sleeping Beauty' and was, by all accounts, crushed when they weren't accepted by the public. Absolutely nothing about 'Wish' displays that level of ambition or commitment.
Just the mere fact that everyone who defends this movie at some point inevitably uses the "it's made for kids" argument would probably be enough to have Walt hating it. As would the rejection of the 2D art-style because "it's just too hard and expensive now we've successfully laid off all the traditional animation artists and 'streamlined' our entire animation department".
Disney should’ve taken notes from Warner Bros on how to celebrate 100 years.
Between you and me, they both had a terrible 100th anniversary
I hate Warner Bros more than Disney but the Teen Titans Go episode of all things that celebrated their anniversary was surprisingly really fun! I just wish the show had better quality control because I have seen all of their movies which I’ve also enjoyed.
@@cesararana261But at least WB released Barbie.
But Disney at least has one thing that outbeat Warner bros anniversary Once upon a Studio
@@cesararana261But Barbie is WB’s biggest film.
“Disney’s worst film”?Wow Wish beat Chicken Little for you.
Edit:Wow I didn’t expect this many likes.
Not defending this movie (haven’t seen it), but I will say that Chicken Little was bad in my opinion.
At least Chicken Little wasn’t the 100th year anniversary for Disney, and at least it was MEMORABLE! Also, it had a much more sympathetic main character with a much more sympathetic goal, and the group of friends had more purpose than the group of friends in Wish, from what I’m hearing.
Chicken Little is objectively the worse film, but the context makes Wish a FAR worse film.
@@foxtoons1999yeah. I like Chicken Little (as a character) and his friends, but the pop references and Buck Cluck are obnoxious. So I don’t really hate it as much, but it’s far from even decent.
At least Chicken Little tried to stand on its own feet. It didn't succeed at it but it tried to be it's own thing.
The best comparison I know for Wish is Power Rangers Super Megaforce. It's just saying "Hey you liked this, we remembered you like this. We're not gonna do anything interesting with it but give us money, pig."
Disney's Once Upon a Studio is unironically a better 100 year special than Wish. I would honestly pay money to go see that short turned into a 90 minute movie of the characters interacting with each other.
Asha: how dare you decide whose wishes get granted!
Asha: Now I get to decide whose wishes are granted!
She basically becomes Bruce Almighty saying yes to all prayers. What they don’t show you is how her kingdom is going to burn down and descend into chaos.
Possum Reviews had a better idea for this movie than Disney did.
HOW DID THEY SCREW UP THIS BADLY?!
That cliffhanger still fucks me up for real.
NOOOO YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME HANGING LIKE THAT GODDAMNIT.
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Hi, I'm a possum and I find garbage. *opens beer can*
This movie failed so hard it's incredibly laughable.
Asha is not a good person and Magnifico deserved better writing.
In a way, they both deserved better writing
I was hoping Asha would learn a lesson but....that just doesn't really happen
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Asha’s character actually seems to have been massively reworked at some point. Back when Star was meant to be more of a character than merchandisable (he was actually a human boy), we have some deleted scenes which show Asha being more serious while Star was the silly character cracking the jokes. When Star got reworked into his current form, they ended up mixing Asha and Star’s personalities into Asha’s new personality. The rapid switching of Asha from quirky to serious in some scenes is what really made this dawn on me.
The most disappointing thing about this movie is the fact so much of the original concept got scrapped because of executive meddling. I actually would’ve loved to see Asha as a timid and more reserved person who’s trying to find her voice, and Starboy is the one who helps break her out of her shell. Also the deleted song Sabino had should’ve been in the movie, giving him an actual personality. Not the first time an amazing song should’ve been in the movie (looking at you If I Never Knew You) and personally, I think the 100th anniversary movie should’ve been a shelved project that was the original sequel idea for the Great Mouse Detective, the Search For Mickey Mouse. It was going to have several characters from previous films coming together in a big movie. Honestly, I believe Once Upon a Studio wasn’t nearly long enough, though its a much better tribute to Walt Disney’s dream and legacy
I will give you sabinos song should have been in it. Star and Asha are fine as they are.
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Who the hell gave executives the right to meddle instead of letting animators and story tellers do their job?
I barely even remember the great mouse detective. Not saying it's a bad idea but I think it makes more sense that Disney wanted to make another original fairytale
@@chloenieuwsma4846 I’m not saying it had to be a sequel of the Great Mouse Detective. It was simply originally planned as one and it was supposed to be a huge crossover of other Disney characters coming to help the search for Mickey Mouse. Another great crossover movie that sadly got canceled and I wish it’d get made is Princess Academy, it was where non Disney Princesses (aka heroines and animals like Nala and Maid Marian) interacted with the official princesses.
I think Doug Walker said best, it kind of makes you miss the time when Disny was experimental with their movies.
The other thing he also said is that Wish is not the worst of all Disney movies but it's much worse. It's nothing!
Oh because obviously this isn't experimental.
@@chloenieuwsma4846 I'm sorry I can't tell if your being sarcastic or not.
Thats my sarcasm osephthejoe9433
@@chloenieuwsma4846 The shading is experimental, the story telling, setting, characters are not
My Little Pony FIM pulled this idea off better when they did it with Starlight Glimmer
I was thinking the same thing! In MLP, we get to see right away that something is off about Starlight's village, and we see villagers secretly talk about how much they miss their cutie marks before the Mane 6 take any action. Starlight was literally just a better Magnifico too
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Agreed
Exactly!
The fact that Nimona got an Oscar nomination (despite the film not winning it) over wish says a lot about how Disney has been going downhill lately along with Warner Brothers.
Yeah. It’s not like Barbie got multiple award nominations. Oh wait.
You mean bought.
Peaches should have won and there needs to be jail time over that.
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Encanto would have made a better 100th anniversary movie than Wish
Haven’t seen that, is it any good?
Agreed
@@fortynights1513YES
As of right now, Encanto is my favorite Disney movie. I have watched it so many times and its messages about family are so good. I also really love Mirabel. I love her bubbly personality, and I always feel so sad for her in the beginning. I loved that in the end, she was excepted by her family.
Disney hit with Encanto and then missed with Strange World and everyone lost their minds over it, calling them woke and broke and forgetting Encanto’s existence. But when DreamWorks hits with Puss in Boots 2, then misses, everyone just shrugs it off as inconsistency
2:52 at least The Peanuts Movie did know how to use 3D animation and still looked in the 2D art style
And Captain Underpants
Everything I know about Wish makes me wonder if it had a troubled production.
Yes, it did.
Nope
I assure you, it did. At least for the people who actually wanted to try and make it good.
"Throw caution to every warning sign"....... so... shes being extra cautious???
does she mean - throw caution to the wind?, because that would mean let the wind carry away caution and plunge forward carelessly. but throw caution to every warning sign is basically, pay even more attention to warning signs.
She yeets every warning signs she sees in the garbage.
I blame Chapek. He rushed creative people into releasing content ASAP instead of letting them do their job in their own pace. The animation studios, Marvel, Star Wars. Good effing riddance. This might’ve been the last movie that was the closest to completion during his tenure.
Nah. Chapek is just a fucking scapegoat if you ask me. Don't care if he's the guy who brought the second Disney Renaissance to an extent, but Iger is equally as culpable for Disney's downfall for me.
The only movie that was even greenlit by Chapek is (no lie) Deadpool and Wolverine. Just about every other movie, and some changes in studio leadership that affected these movies, is stuff decided while Iger was/is CEO.
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@@Dora-xi5ob despacito
@@hertzwave8001 despacito
Not only is this film underwhelming as all hell I find its message to be a dangerous one. *"If you don't get what you want, even if it's for a good reason/cause, RUIN the person who dared to tell you 'No'."* What the f*ck kind of message is that to send to KIDS?
I know, right!? This movie's message is EXACTLY how Harvey Weinstein and every other monster like him has operated.
Yeah, this movie was made for Karens, maybe even by Karens
Such amount of potential ideas...
Evil king queen duo
And a golden reference to the prince and princess esque love story, starboy romance.
All to be lost...
Agreed. Magnifico’s One Winged Angel form and a return to 2D animation were also lost. Come on, Disney should bring back actual romance and good villains. The latter would be better than Disney’s twist villains(an already mixed bag), or no villain at all.
Oh get over it. What we have is enough.
@@chloenieuwsma4846 eh it was just a silly detail no need to get so defensive lol
@@chloenieuwsma4846 Sure, pal.
@@chloenieuwsma4846 You want a simple movie. God you're so weird
I had this idea of rewriting Magnifico. Like, maybe, he came from a long line of wish granters. But a member of his family granted a wish for a person who turned out to be evil, and that granted wish set a chain of events in motion that led to a disaster and his family was blamed for it. And Magnifico wants to create a world without wishes, without desire, a sort of false paradise where everyone feels happy but not understanding why...or something like that
Enchanted is a better love letter to past Disney
Ok as a fan of that, yeah no argument. But Wish is still wonderfull
@@chloenieuwsma4846 wonderfully lackluster
@@JCDenton205 No.
@@chloenieuwsma4846 yes
i don't see how anyone can think that wish is a wonderful movie unless your standards are just low af
@@JCDenton205Exactly! It is just so lazy!
Would “this is the thanks I get” be on the worst Disney songs list if it had come out in 2024
Probably.
Well you could use this for Chapek after he got kicked out
Scuttlebutt: Finally a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary.
@@hussarzwei6223That one was worse.
@@josephtafurTrue
The Family Madrigal and We Don’t Talk About Bruno are the superior versions of Welcome to Rosas and Knowing What We Know Now
Asha - spoiled, ungrateful young woman who shows what happens when someone says 'no' to her demands. (seriously - Asha is meant to be a symbol of empowerment; but she comes off as a villain in the end).
Side note: it's speculated that the songs in this movie was written by AI. And given some of the screwy lyrics - I can believe it.
I'd almost speculate based on what I'm hearing in the scenes shown here, that the entire bloody thing was written by some art theft trash bot. :/
What punishment would you have in mind for Asha, without blood and gore involved?
Yeah,Asha is pretty entitled. Perhaps,if she saw a future where all wishes came true (maybe even ones that contradict each other), she would understand Magnifico better and apologize to him.
@@DragonGoddess18 If only they kept both king and queen as villains.
Asha is not a villian and the script wasn't ai generated sm.
The idea of the antagonist having an upbeat pop tune while the protagonist gets a more foreboding song could have been interesting if the story was about looking beyond surface level things or idk be a kind of ironic detail or even just a basic subversion of conventions kinda like how in persona 5 akechi has a white outfit a higher pitched voice, and is viewed as a hero despite being a serial killer, while joker is seen as a dangerous criminal with a dark outfit, a deeper voice typically given to more villainous characters in media, you get what I’m saying a bit of thematic irony is the least this film could have done 🙄
I used thematic irony in my Wish rewrite. Asha becomes Queen of Rosas and I made her wear black. Magnifico and Amaya are evil in white 😮
It's almost like Disney should've spent more time working on this movie, and not on the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.
They did
@@chloenieuwsma4846 I mean more time than they actually did; not comparing movies.
“Defeat the bad guy by singing” Who let the writer for Swan Princess Christmas into the studio?!
It's more than just singing
@@chloenieuwsma4846 oh yea I forgot. They also defeat him with the power of friendship
✨ Y A Y!! F R I E N D S H I P! ✨
I’m honestly more reminded of The Smurfs Christmas special.
It wasn't friendship either @@quintinbrakebill8875
Everyone: "I wish i wish with all my heart, for Disney to make Wish without it falling apart."
Unfortunately, our wishes were not granted, and to say that this movie fell apart would be an understatement.
Nice Dragon Tales reference. I watched that when I was a kid as well!
@@foxtoons1999 yeaaaaahhhh!
"I wish I wish to use this rhyme, for Disney to stop until it's fine"
The movie didn’t fall on its face. It fell on a tightrope and the tightrope broke.
“I wish I wish for all that’s going to start, for Disney not to fail and fall apart.”
It’s so terrifying to think how this movie is worse than Chicken Little and Pocahontas.
Though, having not seen it, I find it hard to believe that it could be worse than 'Strange World.'
That movie was unadulterated crap.
@@Adamguy2003Strange world is just inoffensively bland. What do you find so bad about it?
They make those films look like The Hunchback of Notre Dame in comparison.
Is it worse than Home on the Range?
@@rjd-kh8etYES.
I just can’t get over the fact that the characters look so… artificial, I guess? They don’t seem like they’re fully incorporated into the world, almost like they’re floating above it at all times, as if the characters were in the top layer of whatever program they were using. The depth perception gets fucked a lot and it takes me out of the narrative immediately. This watercolor style that they were trying just doesn’t work that good in a 3D environment, they weren’t clever enough to disguise and fool the eye into the illusion.
This is what the Anime community thinks of CGI in general, regardless of how much effort was put into it.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 Maybe, but I’m actually not opposed into mixing 2D with 3D if it’s done well. Trigun Stampede managed to hit that happy medium with both and I love it. There IS a way to do it, but there is such a thing as trying to be too clever, which is what the people that made Wish were trying to do. They wanted this film to look like a Disney animated classic, but they didn’t wanna give up on using CGI, so now we have this identity crisis.
@@gothicMCRgirl I think the CGI in Jojo's Bizzare Adventure and Demon Slayer looks really good.
Black Clover however I swear gets worse as the series progresses.
It legitimately looks like an unfinished render
@@gothicMCRgirlIt can be done right, agreed.
Spider Verse, Bad Guys, and Puss in Boots 2 are prime examples of it done correctly (not to mention they’re really good films too).
Once upon a studio is better than wish
Yeah. Once Upon a Studio is amazing. They’ve celebrated their 100th anniversary and that’s enough. They didn’t need to make a terrible movie for that!
And Encanto
"There's a problem when it comes to celebrating Disney's history... and that's because Disney as a company hates its own history... with a flaming passion."
Sounds about right.
There’s something really cringe about Disney, one of the biggest and most powerful companies in the world, using “shareholders” as an inspirational term of togetherness. The first thing that pops into their heads of all of us being one is the term ‘shareholders’. It feels very inhuman and soulless. Almost as bad as saying “We’ll all the NFT holders!”.
Mr. Enter, I think it's rather harsh to call this game a PS2 game.
Those games actually were able to cast shadows in light.
What about the other stuff he said about the movie?
Once Upon a Studio was a better centennial celebration than this movie.
That and Elemental was a far superior film and IMO should’ve been the celebration movie (was much better received and was more financially successful).
The villain was the hero and the hero was the villain who in the end just becomes him but "better"
Yeah, this movie had a "It's only okay when I do it" mentality
Encanto.
@@Dora-xi5ob i thought the villain in that movie was family trauma?
@@7evenseas975 oh I know. I should have been more specific. Encanto is the best example of a villainless Disney movie. I was reminding you of its existence because no one talks about it anymore
@@Dora-xi5ob yeah, it ain't a perfect movie but I won't say it's terrible, so-so is the best I could say about encanto. Ain't that a kick to the head
I once heard on a podcast someone say enchanted feels like a Disney parody made by people who never seen a Disney movie, this feels like a tribute made by someone who has never seen one.
Wish: The movie where the Bad Guy is actually Sensible and you're actively rooting against the Protag. Seriously, how did Disney not realize the major issues with this story. Wonder Woman 1984 got torn apart for this same concept and even showed WHY granting everyone's wishes is a stupid idea.
I WISH Disney execs didn’t meddle with this movie and they used the concept stuff instead
Yup.
Stuff gets thrown out all the time. you can't do anything about it.
Encanto.
Why the hell did executives meddle in what was not their business?
It sucks that they didn't go with the scrapped plot twist that Magnifico was a fallen star himself. That would've been so goated.
Meh. It would have been Frozen level at best. It wouldn’t be A Goofy Movie, Encanto and it wouldn’t be Hercules nor The LionKing 2.
This film is the power rangers megaforce of Disney using an anniversary as a crutch by shoving in references to past films without any context or substance
Power rangers got lazy with their 20th anniversary
And
Disney got lazy with their 100th anniversary
I’m sure someone on the production cared enough to make this a proper 100th anniversary celebration but the studio probably meddled in the project and just did a paint by numbers Disney movie
Wish is just Sophia the First with like a butt-ton more money (that it didn't need) but NONE of the charm.
Who needs Magnifico when you have Cedric the Great?
Yes! Sofia the first is way better than Wish
@@jonelrobinson582 Someone else who's on the Sophia hype train! YES!
In fact did you know that the star was supposed to be a shapeshifting boy in the early drafts similar to Peter PAN? But I guess they just decided to go for more simple, cutesy and marketable.
The classic stories and the more modern classics are *based* on something. Mythology, fairy tales, even classic or modern classic literature. Hercules and Moana, Snow White and Tangled, The Lion King and Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Encanto are all examples of the above. What is WISH based on? Nothing but references to other movies, without the reverence towards them that those legacy reference should have had. Once Upon a Studio, a 9 minute short, is a much better tribute to the century of magic Disney created.
As for Asha's "adorkable" problem...the reason it doesn't work is because the other characters actually famous for it (Anna, Rapunzel, Mirabel) are either extremely secluded (Anna, Rapunzel) or very young and the family outcast (Mirabel-15 and awkward from isolation, both location and familial.) Asha isn't even a Mary sue, which would at least have been a personality. She's a plot device. The main character shouldn't be a plot device!
Magnifico's song is too vapid for a man who singlehandedly learned sorcery and raised a near utopian kingdom from nothing, in the Mediterranean, in the 1200s! It makes him look silly, and weak. If you want him to be evil, *make him evil!* He doesn't even hurt anyone and gets defeated/sidetracked by a cabinet dropping on him and a song. They hamstrung the villain.
Thank you for the comparison with Tangled. It was originally meant to be 2D, but was forced into being 3D because of the rising of 3D animation. It's based on the fairytale of the original Rapunzel, but it also has it's own modern twist and every story point is hit perfectly.
Well all 3D princesses are all repensal
I didn't expect a reference to "Max Keeble's Big Move" in this day and age.
Is that where it's from? I just thought it was one of those obscure British Edutainment Shows.
@@hypnospaceoutlaw3376 Nope, it's from Max Keeble.
Max's bully has a huge phobia of the Frog character MacGoogles (which partially factors into why he bullies him because his dad wore it for his birthday party once). So Max gets revenge by donning the costume, and terrorizing his bully when he's alone in the gym.
It was a nice pallet cleanser after the movie's terrible songs.
Also you should beware the forest mushrooms, not listen to them.
@@NobodyC13
That bully isn't as hateable as Dobbs, the evil lunch money grabbing business boy.
Mostly cuz he was rich from being a stock exchange genius, lost his earnings out of bad luck, and is robbing kids blind just to reclaim his millions. Meaning, he might as well grow in a life of crime.
@@mystery8820 Troy (the bully) was basically Scut Farkus, if you took him out of the 1940s and put him in the 2000s.
"Magnifico doesn't even care about his cookies!" King Koopa asked his guard chief of the where-abouts of his Dinosaur Pizza.... Even Ysma was okay with Kronk having a cup of coffe before taking Kusco out of town.
2D interacting with 3D does work, Wish just *sucked* at it. Also, the book opening is probably dead now thanks to this movie and I hate it.
Hell, if Asha actually was really selfish that would have made this better.
Hold it, if Asha didn’t know how to be a heroine because she was too selfish that would have also worked. There, goal.
One more thing about the book - either have a book or an irritatingly catchy (if badly done) intro song for exposition, you can’t cram both of them in.
The fact that The Iron Giant, a film from 1999 when 3D animation was still somewhat fresh out of the oven, did a more spectacular job at integrating a 3D model in a (exclusively) 2D environment than Wish is really telling.
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 NEW AGE OF HEROES!
Does a MUCH better job at that!!
(And that game came out 24 years ago!!!)
I find it funny that BlueSky figured out how to make a 3D CGI film look traditionally 2D animated, yet Disney can’t despite having just acquired and assimilated BlueSky not too long ago when they acquired Fox
This movie was supposed to be a loving tribute instead it's a fart
The way you ended this review genuinely made me laugh out loud. Fantastic work!
they honestly should made a theatrical mickey mouse film to celebrate their 100th anniversary I'm surprise they haven't done that yet
This movie is also another minor Wicked-rip-off: An idealistic young woman aims to be the surpreme magic user's apprentice to fulfill her dreams of equality, but then finds out he has dark secrets and selfish intentions, plus, there's a talking goat involved.
Okay, maybe it's not a rip-off per sé, but it serves as a reminder how much more Wicked invested in the same basic premise. Wish... has nothing but vague ideas and dialogue that do not connect with each other.
There's so much wrong with Disney these days.
Their content is so sanitised, their writing is so simple and plagued with so much obvious minority pandering with no subtlety or effort.
Lesson aren't carefully weaved into stories anymore, they're thrown directly into the faces of the audience and hammered in hard like we're all a bunch of fucking idiots.
They've been doing this for a while now and it's been shown not to work but they're still doing it anyway!
The animation looks like it’s a Disney Junior show
Take Sofia the First, take out everything amazing about it, make it non-educational, give it a plot that makes no sense, and make it look like it was written and animated by AI. Walla! You got Wish! I hope this description helpful to you? Let me know if it was.
Don't diss disney junior like that man
Rapunzel also has the Chameleon on her shoulder as a friend.
If everybody knows the King's apprentice get their wishes granted... Where are the apprentices that came before Asha? What happened to them? Why is Magnificio even interested in the idea of finding an aprentice, shouldn't he be more concearned with siring a son or daugther?
Nimona which is a CGI movie trying to pay homage to it's web comic roots has far better stylization and cell shading. Hey kids, save your money, don't see Wish.
I hope Enter can to an admirable animation on Nimona. It definitely deserves it.
A good review.
Both this & Nostalgia Critic’s review of Disney’s Wish are spot on.
Basically what everyone thought about “Wish” when it got released, and if you know what I’m referencing, you know:
“Boy are you stupid, Disney”
“What kind of a movie was that?”
“You were supposed to make a GOOD movie for your 100th anniversary! Can’t you even tell a good film from a poor film?!”
“I told you they’d screw it up. They’re not the kind of studio you can depend on anymore!”
“You’re hopeless, Disney. Completely hopeless!”
Hopeless is strong. I dont find this film poor at all.
Nice Charlie Brown Christmas reference.
Disney Executives: Rats!
Encanto
@@newbiegamelover4767You've been dumb before Disney, but this time you really did it
5 y/o Matti: I wish I could make cool cartoons and Spider-Man outfits!
(17 years later)
Matti (Present Day): Wait, what do you mean my wish was granted?
"What if we want to change our wish"
😂😂
Can I get away with saying Chicken Little looks better animated than Wish? Because at least Chicken Little didn't have 3D characters in a 2D background. That's the main reason I never saw Wish; it looked so bad that I couldn't understand how an early 2000s film (Chicken Little) looked better than a film out right now in 2024 (Wish).
Wish landing at a 2.9 score on the audience ratings is quite unfortunate.
Pixar gave us Elemental
Sony animation gave us Spider Man Across the Spiderverse
Nickelodeon gave us Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem
Netflix and Annapurna Pictures gave us Nimona
Illumination and Nintendo gave us the animated Mario movie
Disney gave us Wish…. Talk about a severe fall from grace
When you wish upon a star
Disney needs to get their act together
I think the strangest part of the movie is that the villain has no reason to be evil. Magnifeco had a legit motivation to not just grant wishes willy nilly, because of the typical monkeys paw concept of wishing, and as shown by fairly odd parents and calypso of twisted metal, the way the wish can be handled could be against the wish granters power. Those familiar with fairly oddparents will know about Timmy's sleep wish incident, but in calypso's case, ij twisted metal head-on, if sweet tooth wins, he wishes to take calypso's place as host. And while Calypso refuses to grant the wish, it occurs anyway against his will, showing that there is a higher form of power controlling his powers. I can understand magnifeco's reasoning at the beginning, that a vague wish can have unforseen consequences, but we just have to have a villain in these damn movies, so screw it, lets just make him gaston with magic in the middle of the movie.
Exactly! It would have been so refreshing if they stuck with the first part because the villain would instead be an engaging antagonist. Heck, they could have had Asha overthrow him earlier in the film but then as she starts granting everyone’s wishes the kingdom inevitably starts falling apart and she realises how she messed up and has to make amends with Magnifico and in the end the two work together to save the kingdom while also developing a new and better way of handling the wishes.
Here's a Hot Take: I like "This is the Thanks I Get?!" Song
Me too.
Same. It’s dumb but catchy.
it reminds me of Yahweh
At least it’s Scuddtlebutt.
The songs he played seemed very poorly written, but the singing and instrumentation seem fine enough.
It may not be worth a good review, but it doesn’t sound bad to listen to either in my opinion.
The original plot was going to have Asha be the adoptive daughter of magnifico and his wife. That would’ve made a lot more sense to why she opened up to him and confided him with such personal information and would make the steaks a lot higher for her when she found out he and his wife were evil
Enchanted was a better 100 year celebration then Wish.
And Encanto .
And Once Upon a Studio
Wait... ANOTHER FAIRLY ODD PARENTS REBOOT...
You gotta be fucking we me Nickleodeon🤦♀️
That awkward movement when you can hear how awesome Sonic the Hedgehog music sounds in the background in comparison to the shitty ChatGPT songs written by the largest entertainment corporation.
Yeah, and it's not the first time he's put Sonic music in his videos. I heard him put Arid Sands Night in his "D.W.'s Very Bad Mood" review. Do you think he's a Sonic fan? Cuz I wonder.
The Chicken Little compliment hits hard. What's worse, trying and failing to copy someone else or trying and failing to copy yourself?