I wish we got something better…..

If this movie was celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Disney Studios it should’ve been in 2D.

I’d even go so far to say Anna makes adorkable work (like Rapunzel and Mirabel) since she grew up alone, but Asha? It makes NO SENSE. She would’ve been the perfect opportunity to make a character that is ambitious and hardworking, meeting a moral dilemma when it comes to recovering the wishes or pursuing the career she wants. Idk, there was so much potential for an interesting, complex character but HEY ANNA, RAPUNZEL, AND MIRABEL ARE CUTE, LETS MAKE HER ONE TOO!

If anything, one positive thing Wish did was make me appreciate Tangled even more. Similarly to Wish, Tangled was also a celebration movie. It was Disney’s 50th animated feature film, and conceptually, it was ALSO similar to Wish. It’s a modern day retelling of a classic fairy tale with plenty of references and allusions to older Disney movies. Except Tangled actually delivered with a good story, memorable characters, a FANTASTIC villain, and great musical numbers.

Still unbelievably upset that they also scrapped Star Boy as Asha’s love interest in favor of having a plushie character. This movie would’ve been an absolute hit if they stuck with the original concepts. A villain couple AND a magical star boy ?!! WE WERE ROBBED!!! 😭

There was a missed opportunity for the queen to be evil and part of a villain power couple with her husband, but I'd argue that her being good was also something Disney hadn't explored. We've had evil stepmothers marrying good men, but we've never had a villain's spouse forced to realize that the person they wanted to share their life with is not a good person. Here we have a princess who lived happily ever after with her prince, and decades later, all the good in him fizzled out until she had to go against him after he drew a weapon on her for trying to talk him down. This is heartbreaking, this is dramatic, but the movie barely wants to acknowledge her, so it has no impact. Knowing What I Know Now should have been HER song, not the song of a bunch of teenagers with a queen guest appearance. I don't care how cute your ragtag teens are, give her a moment!

Man the scrap of the wishing star being a “prince” made me wanna throw my phone. Disney’s scraps tend to always look better than the actual product. 😭😭😭

I think Tiana, Jasmine and Rapunzel might be the last serious disney princesses we had. And I add Rapunzel because the whole "quirky, weird cute girl" thing was actually part of her character and Disney basically turned it into a now unsuccessful formula. I'd love to see more princesses like Tiana and Jasmine or even Nani from Lilo. Beautiful girls with not so great circumstances who actually work past them using brains, determination and courage.

I feel so validated hearing you say you agree with magnifico at the beginning 😭 I was so confused why it was supposed to be bad that he didn't grant every single wish. It could genuinely cause so many issues

I think Asha should have started secretly granting villagers wishes regardless of their potential impact, to disastrous consequences. When the king found out someone was granting wishes and undermining his power he should have gone crazy ramoaging while Asha had to deal with the consequences of wish granting, how they damaged the kingdom and left people listless since they didnt have to work to achieve anything. This way Asha learns that you can't just grant wishes, but she still believes the people should be allowed to persue their dreams through other means. Also Asha should have been an assistant as a call back to the magicians assistant

I feel like this is everyone’s critique of this movie but…THIS movie was what they made to celebrate 100 YEARS of animation…imo they should’ve made a third Fantasia. Not the movie everyone would watch but one that everyone would understand being the 100th anniversary.

When I saw the first teaser image and the information that it was the "origin of the Wishing Star", along with describing Asha as a princess, I got the impression that it would end bittersweetly with Asha becoming the wishing star herself and fulfilling her wish to help everyone. It's the way I wrote a better story in my head than this movie ever did

The animation style and character designs are so disappointing. Disney noticed the trend of mixing 3D with more stylistic 2D elements (Spiderverse, Puss: The Last Wish) but instead of going all out, it’s like they were afraid to take risks and only did it half-heartedly, and instead of looking like a beautiful, cinematic film Disney is known for in their animation (both 2D and 3D), it ends up in a weird middle ground and looks more like a decent budget Sofia the First special. Nearly all the 3D Princess films look better, Rapunzel was first way back in 2009 and looks so, so much nicer with brighter colors, beautiful cinematography, iconic character designs, etc. Asha and every other supporting character look so plain and blend into the background looking like default designs, and it doesn’t help that the similar facial features, dark hip-length hair, and purple dress make Asha look like a bad knock off of Isabela from Encanto (who still has a much better design and still stands out from such a big, colorful and unique cast). Asha herself doesn’t stand out either, all of the recent Disney princesses, whether they were well written or not, still had very distinct designs that take inspired from the cultures they’re inspired by (Moana with Polynesian inspired elements, and Raya taking inspiration from Southeast Asia). Asha’s outfit? A purple dress, vaguely resembling old Spanish (?) dresses, I’m not totally sure. No distinct colors as they’re all just close shades of the same purple making the dress not stand out and look plain, and a boring silhouette. I like the locs of her hair, but I’m sure they could’ve done it just a tad less simple? Overall, I think Wish had a lot of potential, but in rushing to do something without truly understanding what could’ve made it special, it falls flat (literally) and is quite a disappointment.

I WISH they stuck with the earlier concepts cause Asha is being wasted character deign wise and it makes me sad as a Black person who would've loved her presence as a kid :(

a better plot would’ve been if Asha goes against magnifico and all the wishes in the kindgom were granted, which causes havoc within the kingdom and Asha has to “redeem” herself and admit her mistakes

Honestly, the fact that she's a tour guide gives the opportunity for Disney to have their cake and eat it too by having the adorkableness be deliberate act, because tour guides can be like that to entertain their customers. It would be really cool to have a character who has a level of emotional intelligence that they can turn on and off certain mannerisms to cultivate specific reactions from whoever she's talking to.

Honestly, Disney needs to get out of its own way and let their creatives actually experiment more. The original ideas and concept art for this movie (2D, Star being a mute shape shifter, an evil queen AND king), and even the ideas she brings up in this video (too many side characters with little to no development, and extra talking animal, the King not being overly evil enough or playing into his backstory enough, Asha not being enough of her own character and how she could have already been working as an apprentice, and a better soundtrack) could have made this a real enjoyable watch. It just reeks of corporate meddling (even more than Frozen 2, Raya, Ralph Breaks the Internet).

Disney truly got a problem with the quirky protagonists trope. Also, i wish the scrapped concept where the star character was about to be made as a "peter-pan" figure and the king and the queen were some sort of an evil power couple seems much interesting that what the movie had.

Agree totally. In my opinion Wish problem is that it's was a boring movie. It was play too safe. Let's not make the woman a villain, let's make the princess the same adorkable princess we have made the last 10 years. Let's not introduce a romantic subplot because it can be problematic for modern audiences (even if Disney gold era have a ton of nice and competent romances.) The villain is pretty tame and even relatable. If the movies tooks some risks it would be awesome, sadly they didn't.

Disney kind of broke their Moral lesson by making Asha a Fairy Godmother, if the lesson is that you shouldn't rely on others to grant your wish, or rely on magic for it, then why make the main character a magical wish granting been at the end?

They did Star so dirty , having to make Star into the marketable plushie character just shows how bad valintino was at being the marketable cute character as well both are such fumbles

I think that Frozen makes the adorkable protagonist work because Anna and Elsa balance each other out, meaning that they work better as a group than individually, but it also helps Elsa stand out

I think if you want to make a character socially inept and awkward you gotta COMMIT to it. Give them all of the social awkwardness. Make them weird in a way that doesn't endear them to everyone else but rather isolates them. I'm autistic and I would be so happy to see a character who commits to the awkwardness and actually ends up like me. Someone who struggles to make friends because they're an outcast due to being socially inept

As a musical theatre lover, one of the reasons I love Disney is the fact that a lot of the movies are musicals. The music in Wish sounds like it was written by AI…

You know what would have been more interesting? If Asha wasn't the prototypical quirky girl but an analytical, hardworking, and emotionally distant person. She could still have some sass, but most of her humor comes from a dry delivery. Asha could also be more about efficiency and not having time for frivolous activities. Then after she meets the star(boy?), it sparks an emotional growth in her.

Personally I would say Asha’s design looks nearly identical to Isabelle Madrigal from Encanto, except with braids. But the braids are so fine, you can barely tell they are braids. So long black hair with a side part and swung to one side, light purple-ish long dress and tan skin 🤷‍♀️ The dress also is indeed nearly identical to Rapunzels. To me, already during the trailers, this gave off an incredibly lazy vibe where the main character seemed to be an amalgamation of previous designs with nothing new or unique. This made me from the start already dis-interested in the movie 🤷‍♀️ Now that the reviews are confirming the meh-ness of the film, I will probably just watch it on Disney+ and definately not pay for a cinema ticket.

For Valentino I wish that he would either just make goat sounds like Jolly;or be voiced by an actual child like Flounder, because the deep manly voice just sounded weird coming out of a young small animal.

As an artist who worked in film, I can confirm a lot of decisions are changed by management who has 0 passion and knowledge in whatever creative department they handle.

The reason why I think the young “adorkable” protagonist is so popular now? Because it’s the most palatable “flaw” to movie-goers (initially) tolerated/liked in a young person/teen character What do I mean by this? Well, I commented something similar on Aldone’s video, but screw it. Whenever you look at irl young people and even past Disney leads, they’ll often exhibit traits such as being temperamental, selfish, gullible, salty, rebellious, and dishonest. But that’s okay because A) We’re not perfect, and our fiction reflects that B) The leads need to have flaws in order to have arcs and dynamics anyways However, while most audience members usually appreciate this sort of character writing, it’s not going to connect with anyone. I’ve seen parents dismiss Disney protags like Ariel, Merida, & Cinderella for being “disobedient” and “a doormat,” complaining about how their kids will apparently emulate these sorts of bad behaviors. Anyone remember that Twitter/X drama where the Mystery Skull creator went on a rant about how Lilo was a horrible brat? Because they found her annoying in their SUBJECTIVE opinion So those flaws are undesirable and potentially make you unlikable. However, as ModernGurlz pointed out in the Adorkable video, the quirky, quipy, dorky female protagonist who doles out that MCU meta-humor, is (or now was) acceptable in the eyes of executives and audience members. Because those flaws of awkwardness and lacking social cues were turned into endearing, positive, traits, despite ostensibly giving the Disney female leads a unique flaw/personality Well that might have worked during the early 2010s, but we live in a post Joss Whedon world where every character has to either be a self-aware snarker or a self-aware adorkable geek, it’s not really “unique” anymore Disney

Magnifico was a king. He set up a kingdom, had an era of peace under him, understood that having such power of being careful who and what could have it, the decades of a king's wisdom. All of this while his people ask him of more than what he already gives them, aka a safe place to live, food, magic, all of that. All he asks is for people to do a little work for what they want and for a little respect. That's all. Really, Asha comes off as entitled by the end of things because she wants something for nothing.

I think it would’ve been interesting not only if Magnifico & Amaya were an evil power couple, but also if Asha was their daughter. She could be adopted, making her initially feel all the more like she should be grateful, making it more satisfying when she rebels. The mother & grandfather honestly kinda felt like non-characters to me, and this way Asha’s rebellion would truly come down to the betterment of her people, while also making for a more powerful internal conflict. And I wouldn’t have them be the classic cruel stepparents, I’d have them start off with genuine high hopes for their daughter carrying on their legacy.

This is *_NOT_* a feature film commemorating 100 years of Disney's contributions to the animated film industry. This is a Disney Jr. holiday special that'll get dumped in the bargain bin at the local dollar tree if it's lucky enough to get a home media release.

Finally someone talked about the king's very cruel fate, his actions are not that bad for him to get such a disturbing end lmao

The scrapped cute starboy character was such a missed opportunity it’s insane

“Feels like a love song.” Because it was supposed to be a love song between Asha and Star. It makes me so sad they got rid of that. 😢

What do you think about the no Disney Prince problem? Where are the princes in Disney? I understand the "needing no man" but I am a sucker for romance! Instead of completely wiping out the Disney Prince, they should have made a better complimentary relationship between the princess and her prince if they don't want the princess to "always be saved".

The artwork in the book looked amazing!! What happened to that??😢 Asha looked beautiful and unique why did they change that?

I just realised that Magnifico never said the line from the trailer "All You Have To Do Is Give Your Wish To me" making me think that there were some major plot changes in the last few months 'cause that line is pretty loaded in motivation that just wasnt in the movie at all

Anna, Rapunzel, and Mirabel makes sense for being more awkward than other princesses because they were all isolated in one way or another and aren't socially active- but Ahsa has the biggest friend group out of all the princesses so if anything she *should* be one of the more well adjusted and mature princesses 😩 I really wanted her to be a more studious princess but instead she's super clumsy until the film needs her to stand up to the king and be the "serious" heroine/ leader

I feel like if Disney made her personality more like Belle or Cinderella's it both would've been a very good change of pace from recent characters And would work as something of a throwback since it Is their 100 year anniversary movie.

I think having a person who is skilled in theater can make all the difference when it comes to telling. Love him or hate him, LMM understood that assignment when he created songs and story progression of Burr from Hamilton. The guy was a very sympathetic individual who because of circumstance, ended up falling into the role of an antagonist over time. It seems like they wanted to do that with Magnifico, but gave up halfway through the film.

Magnifico should’ve gotten a redemption arc, honestly. He didn’t start off evil, and his corruption came from a place of fear. If Asha and his wife were able to pull him out of that, it could’ve been a love conquers all AND a you don’t need to rely on magic for your dreams compounded message. I agree Asha and the side characters needed more development, and with some extra dialogue, it wouldn’t even have to extend the film’s runtime. This is the thanks I get was a banger though. As an overworked parent, I felt that whole ‘I work so hard and I sacrificed so much, and you still won’t eat your dinner’ exasperation 😂

I like that you pointed out that they should have given Asha a different color dress. Orange sounds nice or maybe even Peach? If they’re going to bulk up the Disney princess lineup, they’re going to stand out better if they have different colored gowns. Also, I think I have a crush on Magnifico 😬

It's so sad seeing the concept art and knowing just how hard they fumbled this movie

This movie did not look good from the trailers. I just thought that the trailer was poorly edited but this is honestly disappointing but not surprising

I love how each réaction KZfaqr found a way better story than the movie’s one

Thank you for mentioning that they bullied Simon / sleepy for becoming boring after he gave up his wish. They're the reason he betrays them to get his wish back. Ugh. That grated on me. Seeing asha having drawing as a hobby they could have done something where she drew with star's thread to do magic instead of a wand, but that would be giving up an easter egg and being original with it....

The soundtrack was one of the worst parts. What does "throw caution to every warning sign" even mean????

The slow, painful death of interesting original ideas that people cared about is such a horrible casualty of disney's current state

I feel like it would’ve made more sense if the king decided which wishes were granted based off of which ones positively impacted him directly. Or if he somehow was controlling what the people were wishing for like mind control or something…

Disney is going through a dry spell for good movies, personally i think they are too focused on making the live action remakes and dealing with too many different franchises. Disney is going to keep hurting financially if they keep releasing sub par movies. At some point some change in leadership for the Disney animation side of things is probably what is needed to change direction and get some new ideas in to the mix instead of milking the old ones until we are sick of them.

Sad as it is to say, I'm not surprised in the least. When I watched the trailer, I could already see all the signs of awkward humor and redundant side characters, and that killed any interest I had in seeing it. But even from the trailer I'd thought Asha was already the king's apprentice, because I literally couldn't imagine why else she'd be welcomed into his inner sanctum and told such a huge secret. And can we talk about how depressing it is that even in a magical world with literal wish fulfillment, job interviews still exist? A reminder of corporate capitalism is the last thing I want in my fantastical adventure story, but clearly the execs at Disney don't get that.

12:54 The way you described how you’d rather have Star be a mute shapeshifter, reminded me of Sandman from Rise Of The Guardians! I mean they’re both yellow and can make people’s dreams/wishes come true!

Honestly thank you so much for mentioning the wish math. Between that and the age weirdness with Asha’s mom/grandfather and Eric in the live action little mermaid, I’m starting to seriously worry about the math literacy in disney studios these days

no way amaya didn't know what her husband is doing, she probably waited for him to slip up so she could get the throne

It would have been cool if we had the star be a Peter Pan/Jack Frost character and the king and queen be an evil version of Gomez and Morticia Addams! Also the way the lyrics go felt very odd.

The reason I love Princess and the Frog because Tiana is a hardworking young woman who can still be funny, but also very serious at times.

"At All Cost" was, without question, the best song in the movie and I don't know why the Disney Company kept pushing literally EVERY OTHER song in the movie for the marketing, except for "At All Cost".

I think Wish has a REALLY interesting first act. The lore of the world, Magnifico's complicated relationship with wishes, Asha as someone who looks up to him and has total faith in that system - all of that is a great setup. The fact that Magnifico's fear is grounded in reality need not be a bad thing, it could make for a more nuanced story where the protagonist and antagonist need to find an understanding. And no, that doesn't *have* to be the same as something like the "generational trauma stories" of Encanto or Turning Red. There are many ways to write complex characters and situations. You can even have them fail to find that understanding, and end up as enemies. Maybe in the end, Magnifico is too afraid of change to ever give up power, but he can still be sympathetic, and his fears can be realistic. Just build up their relationship more, then frame that as a tragedy or at least bittersweet rather than a simple triumph. That could work great with your idea of Asha already being the apprentice with a father figure-like relationship to Magnifico.

This star should be exactly like morf from treasure plant. He had so much abilities like shapeshifting and so much emotions and character. When John Silver started yelling at him we could genuinely feel all of it ❤

I have seen so much content that talks about re-doing Wish's attributes (character art, songs, plot lines, etc.) and that by itself should be concerning. It's like the people making it don't even know what they're trying to make, or worse, they had a great idea (which they did) and had to condense it because of Disney execs telling the writers and animators that they need to follow the Disney princess formula because it sells. If I had one to make, my wish would be that those execs get fired and Disney remakes this movie (which had too much potential to be such a miss) with the original scrapped ideas. (Side tangent: What kind of Disney princess has an outfit THAT boring. Unbelievable. Like the whole time I was expecting a fabulous costume change, but was sadly mistaken and disappointed)

I haven't seen the movie, but the trailers alone made me actually root for the "villain". Also, it might be just me, but at this point, I honestly feel like encanto wasn’t made by disney. That movie is actually pretty good, unlike almost every other movie they've released in recent years.

I’m not the hugest fan of the Star design. It kind of feels lacking in genuine character and expression, like someone said in another video, it’s very “toyetic”, just a toy inserted into the movie to appeal to kids. There’s not much that’s memorable other than the fact it’s cute. Disney could’ve used the early shapeshifter design but they scrapped anything unique because capitalism beats out creative innovation when it comes to Wish.

Giving Asha some flaws would have been good because then gabo making comments about would be less annoying Like making her overly ambitious or selfish or thinking that her relationship with the king makes her special Something that gabo notices and it knocks her down a peg as well as making her more interesting

Disney made a second movie starting a black girl lead, one where she doesn’t get turn into an animal, but doesn’t give her a real personality nor good motivation in a movie with that was just made to make references of past Disney films rather than tell it own story. They should had made the star into a shape shifting star boy as depicted in the concept art. So what if it reminds people of genie? That much better than just putting in references. At least I’m seeing people make their own version of wish following the original concept. Especially ones where they ship her with the star boy because you don’t get to see black girls in popular pairings often.

wow if i had a nickel for everytime Chris Pine played a lack luster villain in a movie id have two nickels which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice right?

They should have made Star be the blue fairy and call her Evangeline. That would have been a good call out to 2 Disney movies

Hear me out. I had a theory early on (more what I wanted than what I expected) that Magnifico was either half or whole star. Since they are/were shapeshifters it could work. Then instead do going full camp villain you instead have two forces who are actually on the exact same page but on opposing sides. Star is following Asha because she made a wish that brought him to earth, but that doesn't change the fact that stars can not grant everywish that is offered to them. Magnifico can then be desperatly trying to stop Asha from doing something stupid. Like granting wishes that sound good on paper but functionally not so much. Maybe if they still wanna go crazy evil, he pushes himself past his limits to stop what he thinks could be a disaster and goes nuts. Now armed with a bit of introspection Asha can still face off against a mad king, but this time in an act to make up for her recklessness. Then you have sequel bait where Asha now has to take care of all the magic stuff in Rosas while also looking for a way to fix Magnifico's brain. Magnifico doesn't have to be perfect, he can still be a narcissist who jumps to anger way too quickly but as long as his main goal is to protect his kingdom no matter what, he stays out of the pure evil category. Have his wife established as the one to rein him in, then show her mourning his insanity after everything goes down but refusing to give up on him or the kingdom they built together.

Dang girl I haven’t even seen the movie but how does your rewrite of the movie sound way better than the actual movie?!?! I’d actually watch your version of the movie

We could have had a villain couple?! Why did they not go with that? I cannot even remember if there was ever a disney movie with that kind of villains.

I listened to At All Costs without having seen the movie and I thought it was a love song between the villain and his wife 😅 I was confused when I found out it wasn't.

Imagine for a moment a world in which Asha is the serious and sincere sorcerers daughter who is having a very hard time learning magic - her father and mother evil in ways that she doesnt yet understand (at least at the beginning of the movie) - first of all she'd be the first born a princess black disney princess and secondly making her come to terms with her own parents deception to their people (and likely to her) throughout the movie maybe paralleling her understanding of her ppl and her magic, and making HER the good queen at the end would make for a far more interesting plot. At least to me.

Was really hoping you'd cover this movie. Every BTS thing I've heard make it sound like a good movie but the transition between that time and the product we got cut so much.

"And our heroine who isn't really good at anything" Well, then, why is she the main character? What makes her important to the story? It's story writing 101! Why am I telling this person's story? To be fair, she doesn't have to be amazing at everything, she just has to stand out in some way. You covered my first idea in the video, suggesting that she has a talent for magic. Make the Sorceror's plan for all the unfulfilled wishes feel more like a personal attack against Asha. But, if she has a little magic that she can dive into during the movie, maybe, just maybe, she learns a different way of magic that can incorporate the citizen's wishes and make them feel like they could be fulfilled.

"They were forced to go to 3D since they laid off most of their 2D staff." How oh how could they have fixed that, I wonder???

I made this comment on another video but I love the idea so much I'll say it again! I think they missed a perfect opportunity to make Asha's relationship with Magnifico like Elphaba and the Wizard. You coud've even made him more prposefully villainous rather than being corrupted. I also wish they kept the love interest with the star being a shape shifter boy! It would've been the BEST Disney call back...I miss Disney relationships... And tbh Anna and Kristoff don't do it for me. They don't have that kind of lasting chemistry, especially after the second movie.

When I first saw concept art for Asha’s design about a year ago, I automatically thought to myself “Okay, that’s definitely NOT going to be her final design because she looks waaaay too much like Isabella Madrigal.” …only for that design to make it to the final product. 😐 Pure laziness. Wish was such a wasted opportunity.

Pixar made an amazing short featuring Scrat from Ice Age finally getting his acorn in memory of the studio that is now owned by Disney. It was sad, nostalgic and it got close to our hearts even if it had a bad reason to do so. And yet Disney can't think of a good movie to celebrate 100 years of buying every studio that exists, making 70% of all movies nowadays and making huge amounts of money. Disney is slowly dying and i think it's for good. Let's make room for something new - new studio, new styles, new stories, new artists, and someone else who will make what Walt Disney made but for our time.

Thanks for covering this! I’ve been mildly curious about this film, in part just because I couldn’t even really tell what it was about from the trailer. There didn’t seem to be any actual story, just poorly done “jokes” by the annoying goat. More than happy to skip this film, unfortunately.

It made sense for Rapunzel and Anna to be so quirky and akward, since they've been isolated for almost their entire lives and barley had any interaction with anyone else. (And mabey it made also a bit sense for Mirabelle.) But for Asha and especally Moana, who was trained to be chief for all her life, it made no sense & was kinda weird and out-of-place. EDIT: Ok, you mention that at 5:09.

the goat did not have to talk

I would have loved for the king to not be evil for the sake of evil but just staying on his stand point that he is afraid those wishes would cause evil, not seeing the damage that he does. And by the end of the film redeem himself or at least see that he was wrong. Wait, that would actually make him a better protagonist than Asha.

I enjoyed wish, I thought the Luma was cute, but I would trade it for a movie made up of the ideas from the concept art and the ideas from the reviews in a heartbeat I mean COME ON. How could they skip on a villain couple! It's disappointing for many many reasons. Anyway, I'm going to go rewatch Tangled✌🏾

i def agree about the idea of being passionate enough about it to want it to be better… i find no “joy” in disliking what was meant to be such a meaningful film for a studio i’ve loved since before i could talk, and as a black girl, this is the first protagonist in a disney animated film that has looked almost exactly like me. this film feels like it could’ve been so deeply beautiful and unique but it’s a shame that disney just seemed to lose the plot of their own movie….

My two favorite modern Disney movies are Zootopia and Tangled.

The bronze age and post renaissance era were great and so underrated don't even get me started....much much better than what we are seeing today

Am I the only one that didnt think Asha was adorkable at all? Besides the first scene with the job interview... She was so serious and soft spoken the rest of the movie... Im confused..

Asha isn't Latina, Rosas is Spain, she's Afro-SPANISH. So it makes sense Asha's wearing European clothing.

If they're supposed to be in the Mediterranean, likely near Spain with the small drops of Spanish utilized here and there, Asha wouldn't be Latina, but Hispanic. They need to clarify that again

I can already tell Fozen 3 is going to bomb, too. No matter what Disney does, they just can't win for some reason.

If Asha joins the official Disney Princess lineup, I’m going to be LIVID!!!! She has done literally 0 work to get to where she got by the end of the film, unlike Mulan who LITERALLY SAVED AN ENTIRE COUNTRY, but also because the movie is SO BAD!!

I have yet to watch the movie but I remember when the leaks and trailers for it first came out, I was so excited to see what the storyline was going to about and I remember being just being in love with Asha design although at the time everyone was just calling her an Isabella carbon copy with a different hairstyle. Now that the movie is out and it being all over my feed, I'm so disappointed to have seen nothing but bad reviews for the movie. Every video has been saying the same thing you have summed up in this video which is so sad. You mention that film making is difficult, which I agree but it is so bad when normal people whom haven't been in that field can make a better plot/work with what the movie has given than an entire team of professionals that have been in the game for years. I'm still going to watch the movie but my expectations for it has dropped significantly. I hope Disney listen to what everyone has collective agreed and said about Wish and aim to do better in their future projects

OMG we have to get more Valentino voice acting from Moderngurlz 😂😂

I have watched... an unreasonable amount of reviews for this film out of sheer fascination with it, and honestly yours is my favorite review. You put my thoughts into words the best tbh !

I have so many thoughts about this movie: The music felt like repurposed scrapped projects for other contemporary artists, which gives some story moments really awkward tone due to that music. You nailed it yourself when you mentioned the duet felt more like a love ballad. The biggest music offender in my opinion is Knowing What I Know Now: from afar it looks like an overblown reaction to criticism from someone who's been in the field longer, not as an actual stand against a tyrant. It has "giving opinions too early into your new job" energy Also, this movie could have been such an excellent commentary on goals versus reality: there are a lot of people who can relate to working towards something, but felt frustrated about the reality of what it takes. This is common for people who go to college to pursue one profession, only to end up doing something else. It would have been such a powerful message to say that changing your destination mid-flight doesn't mean you failed: It's okay to pursue a new dream. Asha learning how wishes are handled would have been perfect for setting up this plot point

Yeaa it feels like they couldn’t decide on what Magnifico should be. Like they weren’t sure if he should be a sympathetic character or just evil like Maleficent. They also didn’t seem sure if they wanted him to be controlling since he supposedly only allows himself as the sole person using magic and hoards wishes but then he doesn’t seem to impose strict rules on the people of Rosa (at least nothing we see imposed like in Duloc from Shrek).

Asha isn't a princess. Disney just made a princess movie without a princess. that is stupid beyond reason.

Regarding Asha being Afro-Latina, If you look at Wish's trailer, Disney clarified in the description that the kingdom is set in Andalusia, Spain. This would make Asha Spanish and, more likely, Hispanic than Latina. It's unclear if the kingdom takes inspiration from Latin countries as well (bundling them together would not be the best representation either), but looking at the architecture and style of dress-it's mostly Andalusian. Looking at it through that lens, I think her styling and the world make much more sense. The voice actress is Afro-Puerto Rican, which is where much of the confusion comes from. Spain is a very multicultural country, so I don't doubt that the world in Wish takes inspiration from various cultures, but I think it's important to separate Spain from other Latin American countries. Disney hasn't been great at clarifying this in the media, but it's clear that Wish is set in Spain.

I like the idea of an Orange princess but I think they used purple since it matches the overall nighttime aesthetic.

I wish her personality was more like belle and Tiana. And also maybe she can admit she was wrong in some parts of her argument. It'll be nice to see a main character to admit faults or meet the supposed villain in the middle.