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Wish is a great example of how corporate meddling can break a movie until it becomes an empty shell of what it could be. We could have had a shapeshifting wish granter that can talk, a Disney villain power couple, and an actual 2D animated Disney movie after so long. These were all innovative ideas for Wish all thrown off because Disney wanted to stick to their formula without the substance that made it work in the past.

8:25 The movie you're describing was the aborted "The Search For Mickey Mouse". It was supposed to be their 50th feature, before Tangled replaced it. In it, Mickey got "mouse-napped" by an unknown force, and Minnie hired Basil of Baker Street (from The Great Mouse Detective) to help track him down. Along the way, they would encounter characters from every Disney movie, which sounds like an AWESOME premise.

I felt that they missed a great opportunity to make the Queen be half of a Villainous couple with her husband. Her being good didn't seem to be explored enough.

I think the biggest problem with Wish, is that in trying to be the film that celebrates the Disney Centennial (which is certainly going better than poor Warner Brothers' Centennial) it instead celebrates the CORPORATION'S centennial. Not the STUDIO'S centennial. The references are just from the more popular movies, or ones that had an impact, such as Asha's friends being a reference to the Snow White dwarfs. Whereas Once Upon A Studio is a celebration of ALL of Disney's history. The good, AND the bad. And that's what makes it feel much more genuine.

Definitely makes you WISH for a better 100th anniversary film.

The predominant criticism I've seen of this film is that the villain's evil plan....isn't evil. It's actually a very good lesson that kids need to learn: not every wish SHOULD come true, and most wishes are better granted by working hard to earn them. Maybe you could justify it by saying that a single person shouldn't be the judge of who's wishes to grant, but they didn't seem to do that from what I understand: the sorcerer king was actually pretty responsible with the power. There are other criticisms that seem to stem from them basically forgetting basic lessons in animation as well, but I'd 1) need to see the movie, and 2) need to know the first thing about animation to comment on them, so I'll just leave them on the table.

Once Upon A Studio was a better tribute to the 100th anniversary of Disney then the entire movie!🎉

Chris Pine was the most entertaining character in the movie. A throwback to the pure villain characters as opposed to the surprise ones.

I'm glad Disney at least put a real villain in their film again, and Chris Pine does a good job voicing him, but man, I wish he was written better. My main complaint with Magnifico is they wanted to have it both ways-for him to be both a completely irredeemable sinister villain harkening back to classic Disney AND a relatable tragic backstory villain who thinks he’s doing the right thing like with their more modern stories. That’s why his transformation to full villain seems so sudden-because they wrote him to be two completely opposite things and he has to quickly switch over from one to the other before the runtime is up.

I ended up seeing this twice now and every time I get to the dancing chickens scene I go “Big lipped alligator moment”

(6:01 - 6:07) What Doug said there is a theory of what I thought the movie's moral was trying to say: You may not get the wish you wanted the way you want it but do not lose the heart, passion or faith that made that wish - do not lose your own individuality. Sort of similar to how Disney takes someone's good ideas and kind of half-ass them a little bit to a point it looks like they cared so little about the final product.

im 90% sure that they re-wrote the story during development to match the songs. Magnifico for example started off as a "greater good" villain with a tragic backstory and then the second his song starts he becomes prince charming from Shrek then he keeps switching. At least when he became a full big bad their was an explanation that dark magic warps the mind.

They should’ve made a live action movie based on Walt Disney himself, how he built Disney up from the ground and created SnowWhite as well as the other Disney characters like Mickey Mouse. Maybe they could’ve done like a Rodger rabbit kinda thing where Disney imagined mickey talking to him, as if he were seeing the characters come to life in his imagination.

The comments about the spiderverse as dogs and Rameses suddenly doing a flashy musical number were hilarious and totally accurate! That is exactly what it was like! 😂

I'll give the movie this, Chris Pine is solid as the villain. I didn't think he could play a movie villain but this movie proved me wrong.

As typical of Disney animated films nowadays, the concept art and scraped ideas are way more interesting than the finished product. - The King and Queen would've been the main antagonists. - Star was going to be a magical shapeshifter and a love interest for Asha (it was likely scraped because of similarities to a movie Disney threw in the trash (Nimona)).

Alan Tudyk is a true treasure, you can always count on him to voice one animated Disney character per year. Alas, not even he was enough to save this misfire.

This feels like something that was written by studio notes, saying "Guys, people have been complaining about twist villains, so that has to be a no-go for this one. We have to make sure the audience knows from the beginning that he's the bad guy!" And they didn't put any thought into how to make a real interesting villain with an actual motivation for where his anger comes from. And yeah, let's have the same "funny" sidekicks that Disney's been pumping out since Frozen. That's the biggest insult to me, is that ever since Tangled, Disney has been trying to make their fairy tales have the same humor as Shrek. Shrek is now over 20 years old and it's still remembered and quoted because it *wasn't* made by Disney. And Disney thinking they're gonna blow us away and surprise us with this humor that's 20 years old and think that this is gonna be a classic, it really shows me how out of touch they are and how unwilling they want to try something that's really artistically pleasing. And that's why I want to hear more of the animators and artists at Disney Animation because I'm sure they would love to make a 2D film. I'm not saying all of them, I don't want to overgeneralize. But don't you guys agree that the artists and animators that come to Disney want to create something that's timeless and beautiful to look at? I'm really insulted that Jennifer Lee suggests "2D animation limits camera movement." I personally don't think 2D Animation can "limit" anything. I'm finding out more and more that all the classic Disney hand-drawn films from Snow White all through the decades until 2011's Winnie the Pooh are the films that I will always love and hold near-and-dear and will continue to dissect them and recreate my own drawings of all their 2D films for years to come. I know this is a hot take that Pixar fans will hate me for, but I've grown really bitter against Pixar and computer animation in general, because that's what killed 2D and why we're stuck with this bullshit excuse that "2D limits camera movement." There's nothing new that computer animation can add. Once you've broken all the technology records, what else is there to conquer? 2D Animation doesn't need to be innovative in technology to be timeless, it has to be entertaining and original and enjoyable for years. Here's an idea that can really shake things up for Disney to make another great film: Disney really needs to look at the Spider-Verse films and try to make their own kind of Disney-Verse film. And I don't mean that like the Dark Universe or the Once Upon a Studio special, I don't mean have every single individual character. First you need to find a story that could be told even better with a handful of Disney characters that team up and work off each other with their differences but also their similarities. Just an idea, I can further explain if anyone wants to reply.

The star might look like a Mario character because there are Mario characters, Lumas, that are talking stars with little eyes and mouths. There's even one in the Mario Movie!

On the 4th Disneycember, the Critic gave to me: Torn apart by critics We need another season! Victim of the strikes And a cult movie with a fanbase.

NC should do a FanScription for this movie.

On the fourth day of Disneycember. The critic gave to me Four kings to vent to Three Cartoon Epics Two Singing Planets And a plumber from the 90's

The problem with Wish is that instead of being a *family* film it's a *children's* film.

It's a shame a celebration of 100 years turned out to be so generic and forgetable, even with all it had going for it. Cool hybrid animation, bringing back true villains, Ariana DeBose, and they still screwed up. Those songs actually felt AI generated. They need to start taking risks and changing up their formula, or they'll be left in the dust. I know some of us want that, but while I dislike the corporation, I still want the studio to do great things again.

On the 4rd day of disneycember the critic gave for me: 4 Stars of wishes 3 Broken spells 2 Swapping places And a weird videogame movie for me

To the point of the songs, there is one early on where Magnifico and Asha are singing about the wishes and how precious they are and protecting them at all costs. But it is so very clearly a love song. I can't help but think the song was written for an earlier draft where there WAS a romance and they mever bothered to rewrite the song.

The talking animal and/or goofy sidekicks have been done to death in animated movies. If you're going to integrate that into your story, make the character actually matter. One of the reasons why Perrito worked, is because he was important to the plot.

Timmy Turner couldn’t fumble a wish harder than this!

The fact that Trolls 3 is doing better financially than Wish is just crazy!

The twist you were looking for is that the movie implies every other Disney movie is a reuslt of a wish made in this one. So Peter wishing people could fly creates the film Peter Pan and the Goat wishing for a city for animals creates Zootopia. (There is also a scene where Magnifico directly seems to be watching the events of Peter Pan, Marry Poppins, and Little Mermaid in the wish bubbles) So that addresses your complaint, but then critics lambast it for setting up a Disney multiverse and not everything needs to be a multiverse nowadays so the movie loses either way. Also seprate from the above connections, the movie is implied to be a prequel to Snow White with the seven friends being the ancestors to the seven dwarfs and Magnifico becoming the Magic Mirror that will be placed in the dungeon to be used by the Evil Queen.

Should had been a story based from the song When You Wish Upon Star. I like the way Doug reviewed Puss in Boots 2 even if the wish plot is little necessary.

My friend met Ariana DeBose during her first year at college in NYC. Her teacher knows Ariana. When Ariana walked into the room she said hi to my friend and she complemented her outfit and my friend almost cried. This was Ariana post West Side Story. I hope she has a great career moving forward because she’s one of the best talents the entertainment industry has

There was a scene where the townspeople were asking the King about their wishes. Stuff like "what if our wishes change?" or "why do we only get one wish?" Instead of it being a comedic moment, it could have been something the movie explored. What if one of the dwarf stand-ins had multiple wishes, but didn't share because they thought it would have been "selfish?" It's implied that the king didn't share his past with most of his subjects. What if he did, and that discouraged anyone from trying to fulfill their wish themselves? It's nice that they implied at the end that you can't always fulfill your wish by yourself; you might need the help and support of your friends, family, and community to make it happen. But what about when your dreams don't come true? They really could have done something with that "Sleepy" character. There's also a slight undertone that capitalism might be stopping a lot of these people from fulfilling their dreams. Oh, but Disney could never. A Disney property would never go too far into territory like that.

I finally know how to express my feelings on Disney because of this review. Disney is like a gold mine. In the 90's all the way to the mid 2010's it was bustling and busy and you were finding "gold" left and right. But today it's a depleted gold mine. Something happened, I don't know what but something and while you do find some gold every now and then maybe a little chunk, you mostly come back with just stone( bad or mid content). And that's Disney today. It's a gold mine that can't produce gold. Now either we need to wait and keep digging and hopefully we strike a new deposit... Or maybe the cave (Disney) is all out of gold to give.

2020s is like the 2000s all over again with WDAS. Instead of Lio and Stitch we have Encanto

To me Wish is what you get when you make a "classic" disney movie and is doesnt come with a mountain of nostalgia and "well you have to remember when it came out"

The short on Disney Plus was a better celebration

Really wish we got the cut content. Like how the queen would’ve been evil along with Magnifico and would’ve actually had a point.

Better story idea with much better plot twist: Asha wants to release the Wishes so every wish is granted And the Audience is shown how evil the Sorcerer is. But then it's revealed that Asha is the Daughter of the Sorcerer, and it's just in her rebellious phase and the Sorcerer isn't evil at all. 😅 But oh snap, the Wishes are released, and even the bad ones, causing the Kingdom to fall into chaos. And Asha need to use the Master Wishing Star to undo all the Wishes.

I heard somewhere that this was suppose to be a story centering around the song “wish upon a star” and have ties to several Disney characters and origin stories. However it was passed around a lot to new writers and ended up losing the whole message entirely.

There's an exchange in the movie that Magnifico has with Asha after she says she lost her dad. "When I was young, I too suffered great loss." "I didn't know that. I'm sorry." "My entire family. Our lands were destroyed by selfish, greedy thieves." With the way this line is written, I couldn't confidently say one way or the other if it meant his family died or not. Either way, this backstory is then forgotten about, with the rest of the movie having him lean into a narcissist angle. Was there a point where his love for power overtook his fear of tragedy? Was he faking his backstory to appear sympathetic? It doesn't surprise me that he wasn't well-received, despite being the studio's response to people asking for a new character that would fit on the Disney villain roster.

Best part of the movie was the villain song! Chris pine was the Highlight of the whole movie! GO MAGNIFICO🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Imagine if we got a Disney Princess who looked like they would be the heroine, but then we find out they’re actually the bad guy and telling the story from a very twisted perspective and the villain is actually the hero.

We could’ve had a shapeshifting star character…how cool would’ve that of been??!

The fact that the main showstopper of a song, the theme of this film, This Wish, was written by a pop song writer well before anyone even knew what the story was going to be about or before the script was even *written* really speaks volumes about how meddled with this film was. The songwriter probably didn't know what the plot was or who Asha was going to be. but was required to write an "I want" song that sounded grand and epic, hence why we got so many awkward lyrics in "This Wish". The Frozen 2 documentary on Disney+ must've exposed so much more cracks in the current WDAS system than they likely thought when they put that out.

My idea for what they could’ve done for Wish If you’ve seen the movie, you know that it’s filled with references to other Disney movies, most of which not adding anything to the story and is shoved in your face. What I think they should’ve done is instead of outright referencing something, they put it in the background. I.e. their version of A113 or the Luxo ball. They do this ONCE for every single animated movie they produced throughout the film and maybe even do it in chronological order from their release (for example, the start of the movie would have a background reference to Snow White and the end of the movie would have one for Strange World). This way, the references don’t take away from the movie and you could even have fun looking for these easter eggs. It’s a win for everyone: we get a better movie and Disney gets more money since people are more likely to rewatch it due to the fun of finding these references.

I wholeheartedly agree that the core idea here is positively *bursting* with potential, and that Disney just completely pussed out, at least based on everything I've heard. A story about a once-noble king who was slowly corrupted by his ability to pick and choose which magical wishes he granted and the young girl who initially wants to grant everyone's wishes and then has to follow a similar learning arc to the king *without* becoming greedy, cynical, or corrupt could be *amazing.* The suspicious cynic in me wonders if Disney didn't puss out because actually committing to the bit would've risked communicating to the audience that some wishes shouldn't or can't come true (which kind of spits in the face of Disney's vibe) or that the audience should reclaim their wishes by, like, eating Bob Iger.

When I heard the premise, I was really hoping that the twist would be that the villain isn’t really bad because a lot of wishes shouldn’t be granted. That would be her lesson learned and the message of the film.

There's something just a little be off about the way this movie looks. I think it might be that it's 24fps, while a lot of movies emulating 3D animate in lower framerates? Or maybe it's that it sort of has a foot in the door of a new 2D art style and a foot in the door of the old Frozen 3D style

I just saw Wish yesterday, going in with low expectations. To me it’s not as bad as the other online reviewers made it out to be. The fact the songs are giving every note a syllable actually makes the lyrics in the Spanish version (which I saw courtesy of TheaterEars) flow very well. Plus I can understand how guarding everyone’s wishes can make a guy slowly descend into madness, as I’m dealing with mental health myself. Also the animation style is new and I can tell they were experimenting with it. Either they improve it for next time or abandon it altogether, we’ll see.

At least there was a real villain

This film kind of reminds me of the Black Cauldron. A thin plot combined with paper thin characters trying to adhere to the fairy tale formula so hard it reminds you that the studio is not the same it was before. But in this case, every step of the way feels compromised, and all it points that the filmmakers needed more time to make this. More time so it could be true 2d animation, to work out a bit the story details, to add the goat to the narrative and explore the characters. All to have this film as the anniversary extravaganza

On the fourth day of Disneycember Doug send me Four Bad wishes Three great adventures Two Marvel downfalls And a classic review from the past 🎄❤

Even though this movie isn't bad, I'd still like to give it a watch, but I think Disney needs some new ideas rather than rehashing what they've done in the past

I wish they made the movie where Mickey Mouse disappears and Minnie hires Basel of Baker Street to find him and they go throughout the different Disney Worlds.

Chris Pine was probably the best part of this movie.

"My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" did an episode set in a town led by a seemingly benevolent pony who takes away everyone's special talent so they can all be "equal." They do behave in that more subdued manner that Doug describes, like, you can tell something is missing from them. I haven't seen "Wish" yet, but it sounds like that episode might have done the concept better.

Funny thing the original movie was gonna have the king AND queen as a villain power couple and the star wasn't supposed to be a luma. Turns out it was going to have a human appearance and was supposed to be a love interest for asha.

still waiting for: - 101 Dalmatians the series - 101 Dalmatian Street - 102 Dalmatians the movie - 102 Dalmatians the game - The Jungle Book the game (SNES & Genesis) - Toy Story the game (Genesis version ONLY) - Beauty and the Beast (SNES) for Disneycember you should really play the games on twitch, their kind of short and be fast to review the games for it

Get ready for the NC review of this one day people!

The concept art is better than what we got! Like, the star was originally supposed to be a shapeshifting starboy who falls in love with her! And the king and queen were supposed to be evil together! That would’ve been better!

Grumpy: Well, that was fun! 😠 Eeyore: Maybe we can try again in another hundred years.

I feel like this almost had the inverse of the problem you had with owl house. Owl house had interesting characters and a fun creative story and world, while the villain you found boring and derivative. Wish had a boring derivative story and world while the villain was the most entertaing part of the movie.

The idea that the twist would be the wishes were coming from other Disney characters below the clouds sounds like it'd be really cool.

On the fourth day of Disneycember my critic fave to me 4 foul wishes 3 Amity's blushing 2 marvelous failures And mario and luigi

4:53 The point of showing the other Disney characters at the end was clearly missed by almost everyone. SPOILER ALERT!!!! When Asha explains why the star had to leave soon, she says, "You have to go, so you can be there for others to wish upon." Then the star performs fireworks over the kingdom and before waving good bye to the audience, creates the "Mickey Firework" and classic the Disney Logo. So to recap, the Mickey firework, the characters outlined in star's dust and what Asha said, all point to the biggest easter egg of the film. The big wisher himself Walt Disney and the company he and his brother built to grant more wishes and dreams.

I was going to watch this movie over Thanksgiving break but didn’t because of scheduling issues (namely me not wanting to see it on opening day and having to travel back to school on Black Friday) and so the time I would have spent watching Wish was instead spent on playing Bloodborne. Smart move apparently giving the verbal massacres I’ve seen about this one! I’m probably going to check it out when it comes out on Disney+ so I can develop my own opinion but that’s it.

To summarize: Disney has become the "turn your brain off and don't think about it" company. Great legacy Bob.

I am so glad that ya see some good in it. All I see on KZfaq is people absolutely trashing this film for outlandish reasons or outright coming up with lies to slander it. Wish the film was better.

On the 4th day of disneycember, the critic gave to me. 4 wishing stars, 3 palisman, 2 marvelous disappointments And a goomba with a Human body!

But Doug, you missed that the first letter of each of the friends' names is the same as the first letter of their corresponding dwarf. See, now it makes perfect sense. 10/10.

Buster: "Oh boy. Can I wish for a new cat toy?"

I have maintained that this film is a great homage film with all the references. But as a single standalone story. It just isn't good. As the days go on since my last viewing it fades more and more from my mind each day. Encanto was much more memoriable.

Here’s how I would have changed it. 1). Make Asha be a run away orphaned (as a kid) to now being a princess in a kingdom who doesn’t believe in wishing upon a star until the end of the movie. She can come across power from a meteorite from space or a magical crystal that she finds and that convinces King Magnifico to “take care of her”. Boom, powerful princess. 2). Instead of making King Magnifico a sympathetic and cartoony character, let’s make him a full blown Disney villain. I am thinking of him being Judge Frollo if he would to have the power of sorcery. He can be one of the most powerful sorcerers with the limits that he has One of the flashbacks scenes can be Asha being unconscious near the meteorite and was planning to kill her so that there would no survivor, but he didn’t since he sense some magic within her and could led him into greater power. Boom, memorable villain. 3). Instead of having a 100 year old man (GET IT) who wants to wish to become a musician or something, he can be a butler to King Magnifico and he was order to take care of Asha while he studies the meteorite. In present day, Asha can overhear the butler talking to his wife on a wish and ghat he’s afraid to ask so Asha goes and ask her father about it. Boom, better character. 4). Disney canceled the idea of making a villain duo with King Magnifico and Queen Amaya. Let’s use that, but make her as a surprise villain. We can see both the king and queen being madly in love with each (like a Gomez and Morticia Addams) with one loving one for power of sorcery and other for power of rulership. One of the songs can be a duet while the soldiers hunts down Asha for a crime that she didn’t commit (like attempting to murder the queen). Boom, powerful couples. 5). Instead of having 7 friends (DID YOU GET IT), how about reducing to 2. One that Asha befriend in the orphanage and the other (like Dahlia or Simon) in the palace. If they want to make a 7 dwarfs reference (because it’s the 100 anniversary of Disney), you can have Dahlia mentioned that she learned that pacific thing from her 7 siblings. Boom, lesser human characters and more memorable characters. 6&7). The star can stay and the goat is debatable. It’s not a perfect change to the Wish movie but it’s better than the final product.

You know, I wasn't surprised when Disney left out the Black Cauldron left out of the end credits. Its sad really.

Even the people who worked said it wasn’t that good

Surprise to see this so early on the month, I tought it could be at the end or something.

Watch Puss in Boots: The Last Wish instead. It handles the wish based plot so much better in just about every possible.

Also, when even Doug, who often tries to treat products as fairly as he can and has rarely hated anything since the start of the decade, finds it hard to say anything nice about Wish, I'm convinced that Animat is too forgiving towards the movie. Maybe it's because Disney is one of his favorite animation studios, but it speaks a lot that he's one of the only prominant content creators with a very positive opinion on the movie. If any other studio produced it, whether it be Dreamworks, Illumination, or Paramount, he would've probably noticed the flaws more and been annoyed by the safe storytelling and overreliance on easter eggs.

Turns out the protag was the villain

I'm split on this movie and on one hand I like what this movie was trying to be, a celebration of Disney's 100th birthday, and having a movie centered on wishing, and this movie showed that in 2023, Disney is more about money grabbing, franchise-ruining, and creating controversies instead of creative storytelling. I think this movie would have worked a lot better if the songs were written and sung better, the hero was not so quirky and cheery, the villain at first was a breath of fresh air after so many lame twist villains and no villains but a traditional Disney bad guy with a unique agenda. The king also would have not been the only main villain but the queen could have been evil as well, I mean you can still make them evil but at least give them some sympathy like they were trying to do here but go all out. The Billy Goat sucked with Alan Tudyk's voice and yes he's quite a voice actor and has proven to be a great Disney mainstay but I wish they either A: have the goat not talk at all, or B: have a child actor to voice the goat since he is about a few weeks old and not have a deep grown up voice that so does not match the character. The Star I had no problems with since he's the best thing about this, but there were a few characters I wish were more distinct and the seven friends of Asha, the ones based off of the seven dwarfs only they're human and they are a mixed of male and female and all the races and it does remind me of how the dwarfs were gonna look like in the god-awful Snow White remake but they're not the worst things about it they just don't have fleshed out or original personalities. The thing with Asha being this Fairy-Godmother figure and wearing the cloak eerily similar to the Fairy Godmother from Cinderella was picked up by me early on. The call-backs or references are just not plastered well and Once Upon a Studio did them better. The animation at first I was excited it was going to be a 2-D animated film which we didn't have since Winnie the Pooh (2011) or a fairy-tale in 2-D style since The Princess and the Frog. But when they did this CGI animation which has become standard by now and it looks like a bad blend of 2-D animation it looks really rough but I did like the style of watercolor and had it been in 2-D this would have been kick-ass. The star on the other hand is so well done and looks more hand-drawn than CGI. The pacing was one of the worst I seen in a Disney film and I wish they had found a better editor and the songs could have done a little more work in the sound area but I did enjoy the singing demos from Ariana DeBose and Chris Pine among others and they can pull off the acting and singing when they are given the right stuff to work on and I think they did a passable job here, but the songs again are not ones I would sing let alone many other people would sing or hum in their sleep. Also the story was all over the place and I wish they could have made the wish plot be more about the wishes being stored away and when they feel down that their wishes are not granted they seem to be indifferent towards the situation and they seem to forget it slowly over time until the point the only one who understands it and believes it is the main character and have her and her family and friends try to search for the wishes that they were granted but were never given thanks to the greediness of the royal couple. The tone does have trouble finding itself too and sometimes its hard to stay connected because they can have a mood-swing from out of nowhere and completely make a scene either forgettable or just off. I do agree that this movie should have been big for Disney's 100th anniversary and it was going to have at least one character or reference from Snow White up to Encanto or Strange World and this movie sort of became a shell of its original idea thanks to corporate meddling. It seems as if AI took over this movie and I can definitely see it as a strange mess but it does have a few good elements to it they're just shy of being decent. Overall its kind of bad but not horrible as many people say it is. If it was not for the woke era or Hollywood in shambles that led to the SAG-AFTRA strike this movie would have been worthwhile but I and about 90% of people did not see it that way. But I think this movie was worth seeing on the big screen. I give it a 5/10.

It would have been cool is Asha was already Magnifico’s apprentice, and she falls in love with the star boy, and it turns out the king and queen were both evil., like an evil version of Gomez and Morticia.

Incredibly unfocused and underdeveloped. They hint at Magnifico's painful and tragic past that made him who he is today and never fully reveal it.

This movie needs a nostalgia critic treatment.

The main characters are all just Twitter brats who win the day by screeching at their perceived enemy and demanding to get what they want hard enough until an outside force swoops in to give them everything they want. That's all you need to know about the mental processing of this movie.

One of the biggest biggest bombs of the year

I think it was changed last minute. I think Magnifico did a "curse" on each cameo Disney character after being betrayed and Asha corrected it and sent them to their own worlds/timelines. That is why I felt the pacing and storytelling were all over the place.

The main problem with the Wish is that it had the potential to be something really great but the final result is.... okay? At best 🤷‍ For example, Magnifico (Magnificent in Italian? Really?🤦‍♀) had the potential to be like Frollo, Gothel or even Ramesses with his pretty good backstory, but all that potential was wasted when they made him a comedic character. Like how am i supposed to take him seriously when he tells all these flat and stupid narcistic jokes and becomes a villain out of nowhere? Hades from Hercules was a good comic villain, but he was like that from the first till the last second of the movie. Frollo is the same - he was cruel and dramatic from the beginning till the finale. Ramesses on the other hand evolved over the course of the film - good at first, but because of various things and events, became bad. What about Magnifico? At first he was introduced as a good king and it looked like Disney was planning to slowly turn him into a villain. But no! They just suddenly made him bad out of nowhere and said he was always bad! wtf? On top of that, his backstory was supposed to make him some king of dramatic character, instead Disney made him a comic villain who tells stupid jokes and sings that cheesy upbeat villain song... 🤦‍♀ How can a film be called good when it changes a course so many times without any need and/or explanation? And the WHOLE film is like that! Like every single aspect! It's just sad to see how many good ideas were grounded here without any decent development😢

I kept thinking we were going to get an explanation for Magnifico’s actions. Like, what was it that happened so long ago that made him want to take everyone’s wishes away? What was his motivation? I felt like he was a potentially sympathetic villain, like a villain who does something bad from a place where they think what they’re doing is the best thing, even if it’s bad. An explanation was there, but we never got it, because he’s just evil and there’s no coming back now? If we were going to stick with the “just a cold straightforward villain” theme, I would have rather liked for someone to ask why he’s doing this, and for him to say why, and then for them to say it’s wrong, and for him to say, oh yeah, I know it’s wrong, but I don’t care. Something like that maybe? I don’t know. Everyone was so happy to trap him away forever and I was like, “hold on, let’s see what he has to say about why he’s doing what he’s doing because there’s an obvious story there that we never bothered to ask about.” And if we’re going for the deep down evil villain that cannot be redeemed, don’t put a sympathetic experience in there as his motivation.

What's worse is HAVE YOU SEEN THE CONCEPT ART!?

I liked how they tried something different with the animation. Although it didn't work out, I like how they experimented in that aspect.

Wish tried so hard to stick to the “classic Disney formula” (a quirky female protagonist, a funny animal sidekick, an evil villain with a musical number, etc.) that it lacks its own identity. It doesn’t do anything spectacular or daring compared to Disney's other works. It just kinda… exists.

Asha had a cameo in Once Upon a Studio

Remember back in the late 2000s & early 2010s Disney was doing so well that even some of its live-action films were good? Wish we could all go back to that time now.

I wasn't expecting you to do this one so early.

When will Doug realize that the Disney we all grew up with up with is dead & gone.

Remember when Disney had that tired trope of having a twist villain in every movie, because personally I think that this was one of those films that would have benefited from the sorcerer being a twist villain

I thought the concepts of this movie was really cool. It’s a villain who literally steals the dreams & potential of his subjects to control them, critiques their inability to realize their dreams alone as he does it. That’s such a good concept for a fairy tale. The execution is terrible. Also imagine if the twist at the end was that Asha really did become the fairy godmother from Cinderella and we were really watching her origin story the entire time? It would make sense that she became a sorcerer but with the opposite approach as Magnifico (instead of granting wishes, she gives people assistance to ultimately achieve their dreams themselves). So much wasted potential

i got the metaphor: Having your dreams ignored by the big boss is internal commentary on Disney itself; millions of fans asking for things who quickly forget those things the next moment... not knowing what they want. But, ho boy if you still try to compete with them... they will DESTROY you.