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LOL at Kool-aid Man. That chess piece was a queen, and J-Lo has Beyonce in her pocket. But seriously, you put more thought into your video than the Atlas writers. Keep up the good work!

Forever stuck on the "what could have been" with the Starboy concept... I loved your analysis of the soulmate themes and their implied personalities! Wish truly felt like the most "Movie: the Movie" Disney has made to date...

"Surely you can't be serious." 🙌

Is there anybody out there who would help me support the film and give it a second chance?

3:47 YES that guy served to show the consequences of giving away your wish so well but the rest of the movie treated it so poorly it didn't last edit: 13:14 - i feel like dahlia is one of the better written characters? she's more endearing than asha and more consistent than magnifico

the fact you had me laughing throughout the vid is making me subscribe lol. wish could’ve been great 🥲

Personally I love how Asha just blindly decided Magnifico is talking out of his arse when he says some wishes are dangerous. We have absolutely no idea how the magic works. For all we know Magnifico could literally see a preview of what granting the wishes did and the ones he doesn't grant have potentially terrible outcomes. Maybe the wishes WANT to be granted in a bad way a la Wishmaster or Monkey's Paw and he has to fight to make them turn out well, so some wishes that are really easy to corrupt are just too dangerous to grant because he isn't sure he can wrestle them into a positive outcome. Maybe granting a wish takes something from people. Lifeforce, Karma, what have you and wishes with big potential outcomes take a big chunk out of you, so he's not granting the ones that make you keel over at age 30 from a heartattack. It's never explained how exactly it works. That would be absolutely fine if the central plotline wasn't Asha being mad at Magnifico for not magically wand twirling everyone into their happily ever after, though. It would've been so much better if she had actually accepted the Apprenticeship and had found out that Magnifico was hoarding the dreams out of trauma, paranoia or a sinister purpose before setting out to overthrow the dude who literally invented the magic she thinks he uses wrong and built a kingdom filled with volunteers that came to mooch off that magic on his own. This is the equivalent of me marching into a surgeons office and telling him he ought to be ashamed for only doing 3 major surgeries a month because I watched a video of one and it looked like it took like 6 hours tops. I have no idea what kind of research and preparation goes into the surgery, which parts are important and why or how exactly to go about it in a way that's safe for the patient, just a blind idealistic anger over the fact that the surgeon isn't doing more. It COULD be that the surgeon is lazy or it COULD be that my demand would be absolutely ridiculous and likely to harm patients if the surgeon tried to implement it. The important part here is that I'm fecking clueless.

Alan Tudyk still could have voice Valentino even if he didn't talk, he voiced Hei Hei for goodness sake! It's one of his most iconic roles!

I cannot believe you don't have more subscribers!! Fantastic video essay. Keep it up! I see you going far if you continue with the great content

Also, that wing-cutting scene was probably one of the best allegories for sexual assault we have ever seen on a screen.

I really like your idea about what Disney could have done that would be more of a celebration of the last 100 years, but I'm worried that it would have ended out like Mickey's Philharmagic attraction at DCA. Donald tries to use Mickey's sorcerer hat and it backfires. He goes from movie to movie, like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Coco, etc. One part that drives me crazy is the Just Can't Wait to be King segment. When Simba's floating head sings about brushing up on looking down, they have him literally look down with his head! Disney is so far gone, they can't even understand their own lyrics anymore.

Girl you can sing!

5:03 you mean grindr profile right? ;)

At All Costs was a love song between Asha and Starboy. It definitely doesn't fit in the movie without that love story.

22:57 OH. MY. GOD

I like the cut of your jib!

If you guys want something that is 2D, made with passion and deserves WAY more support then Wish, give Rise of the TMNT a try, even if you're not a TMNT fan. It's really good and it could use more support. OR! Watch Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. A Disney property with some ACTUAL passion put in it that could also use more support. Support GOOD 2D, otherwise we're not gong to see it anymore.

You said you didn't watch the credits...does that mean you didn't hear "A Wish Worth Making?!" That song is ASTOUNDING! Seriously, please go listen to it if you haven't already, it's legitimately *so beautiful!*

Tbh I’m not super exited even as a dune super fan. I’m worried that it’s gonna have a lot of the usual Hollywood bullshit injected in especially with all the liberties Brian and Kevin have taken with the franchise. Hopefully they can tell a good story without injecting their own real world politics into a series with its own very nuanced political ecosystem. But I will continue to watch your coverage of the series and look forward to more content from you. Loving your channel so far! ❤

The real irony of this film is that from the trailers, I thought it would be an adaptation of the Prince Lindworm fairytale, a fairytale that doesn't have a damsel in distress and already could work with a similar setup. Instead of adapting a lesser known fairytale that doesn't have the trope they're ""subverting"" they just made something up to complain about a trope that hasn't been played straight in decades

I honestly wish Magnifico himslef had been a star that was once wished upon but he got disillusioned by humans. But yeah he had to be a villanious villain.

This has absolutely nothing to do with wish but oh my god your voice is so nice to listen to ?? /vpos

17:31 "It's like telling you to hear me out while punching you in the face" So like Batman vs Superman?

Thanks for the honest look at this movie ^^ I really appreciate that you still give it credit for things it did nicely, at the same time as not being at all shy to call it on its nonsense; I enjoy this kind of balanced review a lot, and your whole approach here was really fun to listen to. Look forward to seeing more of your videos in the future! :D

I wish they hired you at Disney before they made this film and had the common sense to listen to you. There that’s my wish.

I actually listen to "At all Cost demo" a lot because its so good and knowing thr og context of it makes it so much better. Its so weird how they tried to change the context of that song by one word

I hope it's good and sticks to the source material and Jason was in Baywatch Hawaii.

If you ask me wish upon a studio should have been a 1 hour and 30 minutes movie to celebrate disney 100th anniversary the original short was good but imaged what would a longer version of the short could have been like maybe more characters interactions between classic forgotten and modern disney characters maybe it could have been divided between 3 short storys taking place in the disney animation studio with multiple characters and endings the same way the short ended that would have been way better celebrations then wish

Other thing about wish which still upset me to this day is that there where scrapped ideas that could have fix the movie like Star was originally going to be a shaped shifting starboy that going to be a fusion between the genie from Aladdin and peter pan and i think was going to be a love interest for asha The queen was originally going to be evil like magnifico which could have been interesting given it would have been disney first evil villain couple And the whole movie was going to be hand drawn animation similar to princess and the frog there where other scrapped ideas but the point is that for some reason the movie change a lot during the production of wish like starboy was replaced by star because cute star merch ( which if you was me was wasted pontinal starboy could have been disney version of jack frost from rise of the guardians ) the whole villains couple was scrapped for some reason because i couldn't find a reason for why and the movie was not in hand drawn 2D animation because 2D animation is hard to make now a days Wish is like a modern day emperor new grove or chicken little because both had a lot of disney behind the scenes meddling that changed the movie so much that it no longer resemble the original movie anymore It makes me wonder what happened during development behind wish and what wish could have been unless in a few years after wish released there could be a swatbox documentary about the troubled development of wish in the future

My biggest issue with "This is the Thanks I Get" is that it sounds _too_ cheerful... There's barely any moments in the song that feel ominous or threatening, so it kinda fails at _being_ a villain song. It would have been great if it was cheerful and upbeat to match how he sees himself as the hero, but it felt more coincidental than intentional, and they didn't include any moments to show his darker side (outside of the lyrics being very narcissistic).

This may seem random... But anybody else notice how _weird_ Asha's hair is? Its ALWAYS draped over her shoulder, regardless of how she moves her head she never has to move it back into place. There are literally scenes of her running with her hair flowing BEHIND her, but when she stops running it magically falls back over her shoulder. Like what???

Also, vegetarians and vegans must be SO happy now that they must feel guilty of eating greens and mushrooms. great job, star!

please keep up the good good work.

I'm not sure if it's just me (and my habit of watching HOURS-long video essays), but the fact that you kept saying a video of only 30 minutes was somehow not short entertained me. I can't say I share a lot of your views on the movie. There are certainly other videos which cover the movie and line up more with my issues with the various songs and plot. (It is possible you didn't research the movie's development, though, which would colour your reaction to what they changed and what could have been.)

What a wonderful review! I can't believe you don't have more views and subscribers. You are so eloquent and have a great sense of humor. I'm definitely going to check out your other videos!

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice," "The Fisherman and His Wife," and "The Pink" would've made phenomenal influences for "Wish." (And LMM or the Anderson-Lopez team should've done the music, though it wasn't all Julia's fault).

If Disney hadn't skipped the BEAUTIFUL love story between Asha and the Starboy, and the evil villain couple, Magnifico and Amaya, then I would have absolutely LOVED "Wish"!!! 😭💔💢

You're a person who knows something we don't know, will you help me support the movie and give it a second chance?

Screw Bob Iger you can tell by his meddling that he did not want the movie to be successful Or the classic Disney villain to return or for CGI animation to evolve

Battle beyond the stars is a better version.

11:36 the best part

Asha is the real villain. Not Magnifico. It’s like Johnny Lawrence is the real Karate Kid.

"when it comes to the universe we're all shareholders" being an actual unironic line in a disney movie proves this is the worst timeline

Nice RE reference lol

underrated

Underrateid yputuber

24:14 so meny people hateid this song (inkludeing me) so the fackt that You found something good, then it makes me surprised( English is not my first language)

You low-key have a nice singing voice.

21:52 😂😂😂😂

Frankly, the lack of creativity and lazy writing...especially in terms of complex villains just being one-dimensional Bond villains...kills it for me and why I'll never watch these...also, the Nazi uniforms alone takes me COMPLETELY out of it...really...just breaks any immersion lol.