Wish is TERRIBLE (Review) Disney's Next Box Office BOMB?
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Disney's Wish comes at the company's 100th anniversary, but does it live up to classics such as Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and more? In this review, we discuss why the film is just the latest disappointment from Disney, and is also looking like a box office bomb... - Zábava
![Why 'This Is The Thanks I Get?!' Will FAIL As A VILLAIN SONG [Wish]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-wjVSoLauBk/mqdefault.jpg)
Can't help but feel a bit puzzled by the 'villain' in Wish. The guy starts from scratch, teaches himself magic, becomes a powerful wizard and decides to use his power to help people, creates a thriving, peaceful kingdom that attracts folks from far and wide, and all he wishes for is a little of the massive respect he's earned. Plus, he's got a no-nonsense policy on granting wishes - only turning down the selfish or harmful ones. Kinda makes you think, doesn’t it?
Then, there’s our typical -annoying- quirky Disney Princess who seems to believe happiness is just a wish away, without any real thought of the consequences of giving everyone what they think they want. In a well-written movie, he'd be the hero, and Asha would learn that doing the right thing sometimes means telling the people you're responsible for 'no.' It's interesting how the writers of Wish frame the narrative - where being denied a wish for the greater good somehow makes you a hero, and the one setting boundaries is the villain. Makes you wonder how they got their roles reversed, but I suspect that like all things Disney lately, it has nothing to do with character and everything to do with skin tone and dangly bits.
That seems like a lesson modern disney needs to learn.
King Magnifico did nothing wrong
Ironic just like Barbie, the best of the movie is the villain, King Magnifico is a great villain, unlike Asha, who isn't even a princess.
The dude became a level 20 sorcerer, built a kingdom that seems to fulfill all his citizens needs. I don't feel like he's morality obligated to give out any free wishes at all. And I feel like even young children could figure out that not everyone gets a wish, like how many people never win a million dollars in the lottery. Plus all evil and dangerous wishes are wisely forgotten.
You're framing it in a pretty biased way too, if he's so awesome with magic/possessive of magic then WHY is there no explanation to how UNMAGICAL his kingdom is?
You need to be upset by corporate meddling, it made there be almost no story.
There is nothing wrong with critiques of older traditions, power structures, ect
My daughter has been hounding me about this movie since the trailer came out, doubly so after she found out it was coming out the week of her birthday. So, we went two days ago, and it was *so bad* that she agreed there’s just no point in going to see Disney movies in the theater anymore because the odds are they won't be good. Eleven years old, and she's already jaded. But at least we're going to save a lot of money on tickets and merchandise.
Wow! So sad, a whole generation had already turned away, now another..
Wow, that is heartbreaking
@@darianstarfrog Actually that's fantastic that she's woken up to the garbage culture being fed to kids.
The fake CG braids are one of the low points in art history.
An eleven year old girl got to the point that it is "It is probably shit" wow. Good job Disney!
Magnifico did nothing wrong. He worked his ass off, built his own kingdom and was a good king. He never forced anyone to join his kingdom and kept everyone safe and mostly happy. His "heel turn" was so forced.
#JusticeForMagnifico
#AshaIsOverParty
So true, it definitely felt forced. That's why I think they are painting a toxic narrative against traditional families and the church if you think about it what they are doing
@@spookykatelyn2161I'm pretty sure this won't even be aired in other highly religious countries like Indonesia or Brunei. Being anti God in general is a turnoff to most... normal people... I'll put it there. 😅
And that heel turn only happened because Asha didn't like how he ran thing and wished upon a start to help her save Rosas from the evil she felt was threatening the kingdom (something that only came to be because she made that wish, ironically!)
@@melodyscorpion6606 I hope so, plus it's best for Christian families to avoid the movie entirely because of that
disney: we need a romantic song. modern audience love, romantic songs.
also disney: we can't have a romance. modern audiences hate romance.
which is it disney?
Cake and eating it too
That’s one thing Disney is still good at that has been a recurring theme throughout their entire history: promoting emotional eating.
“If you’re stressed, it’s fine dining we suggest.“
Also Disney (and woke Hollywood in general): we need romance but we can’t make the couple straight! I think most woke Hollywood writers are just "professional" shipping fanfic writers🙄
We, mostly I don't call the first Disney 'Disney's anymore. I'm calling the old GOAT Disney into Walt Disney. Cuz We all know Walt wouldn't approve of this if he was here.
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish was a far superior film. Each character wanted to read the Wishing Star to get their wish, some for selfish reasons, others for personal good reasons, with sub plots too, with the side characters having their own arcs.
What's more, it had a really good nasty villain, Big Jack Horner, who is funny as well. I watched the film twice and I might watch it again.
Also had Goldilocks as a redeemable secondary antagonist. It’s good complex writing to present someone that opposes the protagonist without being a one dimensional baddie, and it makes the young audience kind of understand the motivations of other characters
@@hornetguy9063 Yes, and they'll go straight once they take over Jack's Pie Enterprise, with the Cricket's help.
Don't forget it also has an mix of 2D and 3D animation, 3 villains, traumas and psychological problems theme and romance and it became a masterpiece in both art and story.
And the interesting thing is that nobody ends up making a wish in the end. As they realize that they have everything they wanted right in front of them.
Oh, I see where Disney got their "Wish" idea
In the past there was always a back and forth with old/young and they would learn from each other. Now Disney has gone with: the young are always right and the old way of thinking is always wrong and/or evil. The young have nothing to learn from the older generations or from life experience.
Don't be a boomer in the room denying the lived experience of a 22 year old activist. That's deemed violence.
Not to say the old ways are always wrong/evil. 'Outdated' is a better description
As Kylo Ren in another Disney property said: "Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to. That's the only way to become what you are meant to be."
@@austinonaustin6870exactly.. It's all the push nowadays
Bingo
It almost sounds like it would have been better if she released all the wishes towards the beginning and had to deal with every wish being granted, including bad ones. They could have had the king look bad at First but have them work together to fix it. The girl could realize that there was a reason the king did what he did, the king could learn to work more for the people and change the way he operated and become more transparent, and it would have made more sense.
I mean this isnt perfect but damn if i could create a coherent story for free then what are they even doing over there?
You are putting way more thought and effort into this than the people at Disney did.
@@williamjameshoffer4405 lmao clearly!
Now that sounds like a much better movie!
@@emom2I've read a fraction of the comments on this video, and I've read several different narratives that would have made much better movies than the one Disney actually released!
This is a great narrative, go apply with them....oh wait, you're not being political enough, or whatever's going on over there. I also thought that it was crazy irresponsible to grant everyone's wish and agreed with Magnifico on that. His psycho music number just made me think he was just angry at how dumb Asha was to even question that, and not that he wasn't being responsible. It was also really off the wall that he just went all evil for really no reason, while Asha/brown Rapunzel had no reason to even be in the movie LOL
Originally, Magnifico was supposed to be brown, he and his wife were supposed to be a villain duo, and Asha was supposed to fall in love with Star, who was supposed to be a boy.
The decision makers at Disney didn't seem to want the villain to be a POC or a woman. They probably also decided that a girl in love was not feminist.
It’s not empowering if it’s still saying “h3t or nothing.”
To be honest a villain duo would be fun and new for disney, think of characters like James and Jessie from pokemon. I can see the king and queen break into a villain duet together. Plus the concept art sounded way better than what we got.
I dislike that they didn't give asha a love interest in this movie, because it's not feminist enough? What the heck, disney was known for their love storytelling, and this movie is supposed to celebrate those years as well telling those stories. Such a waste and disrespect to the romance princess and prince stories.
That actually seems like a cool story.
Dafaq they lost a gem over a garbage?
WHY
I like the original plot better then the Bruce Almighty rip off and the they get corrupted by and evil book plot from The Care Bears movie.
When you use the throwaway script for a Care Bears episode written by an apparatchik as the plot for a mainstream AAA movie.
Sooooo true
I find it funny considering Disney LOST to the Care Bears Movie back in 1985 because of box office bombing of The Black Cauldron.
TASTE THE RAINBOW, MODERN DISNEY LOSERS!
Man, Disney is screwed!
The black cauldron just didn’t cut the snuff.
PARENTS ARE NOT DISNEY'S TURN OFF FAMILY AND FRIENDS, AUDIENCES DISNEY'S ACTIVISTS BRAND,
"Semi-sentient merchandising opportunity" is the most savage thing I have ever heard Lauren say, it killed me 😂
It's not wrong.. 😂
Lol! Can’t unsee it😂
I died of laughter 😂
It looks like the cousin of that star in the Mario Movie 😅
The one I REALLY wanted to stop talking 😨
It's kind of funny to me that Disney had a villain that actually would have made sense being redeemed at the end... and they went full-villain with him. Somebody said, "Magnifico wasn't a villain. It was a guy going through a mid-life crisis", and that made a lot of sense to me. This movie felt like it was for toddlers, anyways. So having everyone make Magnifico realize that he was giving into paranoia and bad thoughts, and that he should trust his people more and find a more happy medium with them would have actually made sense in this scenario.
So many of the decisions that made the final cut feel so stupid. Like, oh, the king can be evil but the queen can't be evil? Can't have an evil woman on screen anymore!
I saw somebody say that it would have made so much more sense for Asha to already be the king's apprentice and then she finds out about the issue with the wishes. Which all could have been a callback to Fantasia.
Like, the fans can literally write a better story than the people in Disney can and it's just pathetic.
"Like, the fans can literally write a better story than the people in Disney can and it's just pathetic." Ooooof. You're not wrong, though.
Literally!!!
Jeah and the funny thing is that both builded up the kingdom. But Woman = good
@@angeloelimelech6346Literally the VERY FIRST main villain of a Disney film is a woman and is one of the cruelest ones out there. And some of Disney's most iconic villains consist of women (Ursula, Cruella Deville, Lady Tremaine, Mother Gothel, MALEFICENT). There's no excuse for this blatant sexism.
It didn't help, The King's wife aka The Queen didn't help at all.
Only one time she helped, after that 😂 she turned to help the wannabe Undeserved Hero, Asha 😂😂
If they give the wishes voluntarily and know they'll forget them, there is no problem. Honestly. If the wish won't come true, They might as well forget about it. They obvs weren't going to work on the wishes themselves, since they gave them to a magician to fulfill with NO effort on their part.
That makes perfect sense
Even more, all people knew that they would forget about their wishes, but chance that even one wish would be granted was too little. They gave their wishes away nonetheless. It's like with Ursula and Ariel's voice - pure and clear agreement, so it was meaningless when Asha started to accuse Magnifico of stealing.
to think, Puss in boots: The Last Wish wore it better.
Also the one time a twist villain would be encouraged especially with the Queen looking just like Maleficent. Also the way she just completely gave up on her husband who she claimed she loved was so rushed and reflected worse on the Queen than the king.
In the early concept for the movie she was supposed to be evil too, and I agree with the lack of twist. This film was primed and ready for at least a waternoose style betrayal! (Monsters inc.)
Yeah, the queen just completely throwing away her husband like that... it hurt... Even during his descent to madness he never turned on his queen. It wasn't until she gave up on him, very quickly mind, and turned on him.
@@ReinTenebres it's even more dumb she never got any backlash from Asha or any of the people because the queen was a bystander only now did she started to act or do anything.
She helped the king once, and stopped after that 😂 she didn't even think to try to destroy the book and return the king to his senses but nah he's just an evil bad dude.
The lyrics stink of 2023, and using modern day words just ruin whatever “magic” this movie might have had
Let me guess...she had to save the world from the evil patriarchy
snow white will also do this for sure, the evil queen's backstory will be about because of patriarchy, she became the ruthless leader...
@@SummerTokyoNeko Weird, weird
Now that I know there’s an “Inside Out” sequel in the works, my money is in Disney introducing a new emotion called “Guilt” and his character’s color will be white. The plot will be about how Riley’s father got the job in San Francisco because his boss passed over a more qualified black guy and now Riley has to come to terms with her privilege, all the while coping with her burgeoning pansexuality.
Bingo, that's what happen, in the original plot, both queen and king were evil, and Asha was their daughter, that explained why they said she was an afro latina princess, this was put on basket later, and she isn't even a princess on the movie, lol
@@LuisSierra42super weird…
the king filtering all wishes so he doesnt give a terrorist super powers or two wishes that nullify each other make sense, a king with wisdom would stop 5 minutes and think about it before saying "yes"
not sure logic is part of disney
This was a strange thought experiment for me. He was concerned with vagueness and consequences when deciding one which wishes to grant, but he goes and grants a particular wish early on that ran contradictory to that. "Your wish was to make the finest dresses in all the land. Granted." This is actually kinda economically catastrophic, and takes away from others. It's not a vague wish, but the power granted by even that wish is catastrophic. No-one else could possibly hope to compete against her in making dresses.
@@ReinTenebres seems to prove AI did not write it but it was the terrible writers from disney
@@ReinTenebres child:i want to be powerfull like a dragon!
king:wish granted!
(1 month later)
guard: Sir, we have a dragon attacking the castle, demanding strawberry ice cream!
king:(clear throat) i cant imagine the source of such evil!
@@ReinTenebres well he didn't grant her the skills, he granted her the tools that she didn't have.
Let this be a lesson: don't hire people to fill diversity quotas, hire people based on their qualifications and abilities.
or they avoid hiring union
It's a wonder. The same people wrote the story for Frozen, Moana, and Zootopia which all did well. I've a suspicion that the creative aspect of this movie was influenced by higher ups.
@@quin2203 Corporate entertainment is rarely ever written in the traditional sense where it can be attributed to one or a few people. I'm sure there was all kinds of input from non-creatives for purposes other than making good entertainment.
@@Masi-sj2de It was reported recently that they've been focusing primarily on diversity in their hiring process over talent and qualifications. This is more about the talent vacuum and dropoff in production quality across their films in general than about specific writers.
@@LDrosophilaav9id hiring union? That's why we don't have living wages. All the unions are gone.
It would have made more sense if he were leaching energy from the wishes or perhaps holding onto the wishes meant the people could never strive for more themselves (keeping them trapped or controllable), it just seems like they didn't put a lot of effort into the why of it.
Agreed! I totally thought that was going to be revealed that that's why the King couldn't grant all the wishes because he needed them to fuel his magic. It would also be good to introduce invaders because the king's power was weekend, and Asha could collect wishes to save the King and kingdom.
The only thing that needed explaining is why he couldn't return the wishes. His reason for not granting most wishes was perfectly sound.
Or just have his magic source be a corrupting book wich over time turns him evil the more spells he uses. Also requiering wishes as sacrafice to fuel it.
Equally so star magic as its "pure" equivalent.
So in the end they destroy the book, free the good King. But with the book gone so is his magic.
Giving them s reason to have Asha succeed him as wish granter whilr the King and Queen keep ruling politically.
Thats a classic plotzline at least bssed on the backstory we were given.
@@ReinTenebres there's lots of why's left unanswered or unexplained.
One of my theories is
Returning the wishes can cause problems cuz peoppe will remember their wishes and if those who failed to reach that goal or wish would suffer depression and sadness. Or disappointment that their wish wasn't granted.
Then there's the darker side
The bad wishes and bad people
Cuz the King hasn't destroyed the wishes before.
So maybe the bad people get their bad wishes back and commits bad stuff or does subtle things to cause problems.
But also the more smarter people whom can trick the system.
For example
"I wanna be skilled using knives and the bow for hunting selling animal hide and meat"
While in reality
"I hate someone and wanna murder them"
You can say it isn't due to wokeness but remember that Disney has prioritized it's hiring based on race/gender/sexuality/etc... as opposed to talent. The people who made this were hired for what they looked like instead of what they could produce. This isn't failing because it's woke. It's failing because hiring based on wokeness leads to failure.
The second song lyrics shows who wrote it, and it's still the same agenda, Be who and what you want, you are all stars (participation trophy) blah, blah.
That's a given.
Please…. Does anyone really believe that -Disney- HOLLYWOOD cares about diversity, minorities, or representing “the world we live in today”? They don’t. What Hollywood cares about is business. And hiring based on race/gender/sexuality, or “any other fancy way”, is a great way to drive up businesses. Because it draws attention and interaction on social media now. But whether that engagement is for better or for worse (to which some would argue the latter…), as long as people continue to talk about a creator’s product, then that’s good enough for both them and the studio.
@@osmanyousif7849 Talking about a product is irrelevant if nobody pays for the product. Everyone talked about Quibi. Everyone talked about My Mother the Car. Neither was able to make money.
Disney, and many other companies, were sold the idea that DEI would result in higher profits. It didn't. It did however result in less talented people being put into positions of influence. The consequence has been that Disney has lost literally a billion dollars on their tentpole movies this year.
@@osmanyousif7849but a lot of movies made money without any of diversity nonsense bruh" are u saying white moves ain't making money for business?
Insiders at Disney say that this movie started out as the story behind the creation of the song " When You Wish Upon Star ". How far the mighty have fallen.
This calls into question the lyrics of that song as well. “If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme…” Really? Not even Hitler wishing to get rid of Jews and homosexuals? Not even Stalin’s similar treatment of anyone who isn’t a social parasite?
And this lyric is repeated at the end of the movie. You remember it because the melody it is attached to is second to none and because of the high notes Cliff Edwards could hit.
Oh, and just for posterity? EVERY story that involves the protagonist saying the following:
"Who are you to decide what [X, Y, Z, etc.] deserves!?"
Is cringe. Y'know why? Because necessarily and automatically, that same protagonist is casting themselves as judge, jury, parole officer, and every other job in court in the antagonist's stead. And NOBODY ever comments on how absurd it is as an aesop.
'That's not for YOU to decide. Who are YOU to decide? That's for the [appropriately diverse] protagonist to do!'
The gritty realism of a teen girl knowing better than a king what is best for his kingdom cannot be overlooked.
The fact that the film ends with Asha able to grant wishes kind of solidifies this.
"Why do YOU get to decide who to share your talent and skills with? That's obviously for ME to decide."
@@drawingdragon
Naomi from The Expanse is another example that sticks out in my brain like a canker sore.
'Youcan'tbejudgejuryandjibberjabber, ONLY I CAN MAKE CALLS LIKE THAT. Whoops, said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.'
It had potential, but the lesson really should have been about the lead realizing not all wishes should come true. Have her try to grant everyone’s wish and get exhausted and realize she can’t make others happy and fulfilled because people pleasing will kill you. Instead learn of being decisive, and having conviction even if it makes some people angry. Heck, you could even still have a villain who needs her to become weak with all of her people pleasing so they can steal her magic.
Sidenote: we’re do for a cute Disney couple. The last one was Kristoph and Anna, kind of Delores and Mariano.
*due for
Sidenote-who????
Imagine if the made it where that's what the kind originally was like, wanting to grant everyone's wish but realized the negative effects of that. Something that she would learn later on in the movie
This is the lesson in bruce almighty
I thought this was the original plot of the movie which seemed kind of interesting. The message being what it is seems off.
The *”100th Anniversary Celebration Movie”* sharing it’s name with the most notorious *”cheap Chinese knockoff”* store/app…just seems like such an appropriate coincidence for this current Disney “entertainment” era. 😂❤
Coincidence? 🤔
No don't do it! There is help out there if you are feeling down!
I loved the lyrics in his song, "I let you live here for free, I don't even charge you rent", and it's like..well, yeah, if they're living there for free then you're obviously not charging them dude lol.
This is right up there with Criswell’s immortal line from *Plan Nine From Outer Space:* “future events such as these will affect you in the future.“
It’s redundant. Just switching the sentences around coulda made it sound better. Sigh
1800s- working on a story took half ur lifetime.
1900s- writers still take their time. 10 plus years for a great piece of work. (Film, book or theatre.)
2023- tik tok generation cant tell a story that takes longer than 30sec to summarize
Margaret Mitchell took TEN YEARS to write Gone With the Wind. As an aspiring writer, I am in the process of writing a sword and sorcery/western short story and it is going through a series of edits and character changes, hoping it comes out great for publication in a short story magazine.
It would be a crime to summarize any of my stuff... A lot of people in TikTok are unable to even talk. It's basically just a word here and there with a person staring.
I am currently working on a dark fantasy novel, which I have just recently started writing
Wrong…
2023 - ChatGTP writes the script.
A shame for the new generations that the quality of art they grow up with is so despairingly poor.
At least we have the works from when we grew up to share with them.
Just a few years ago if you would have told people that the Democrats would be supporting terrorists, pedos, actual Nazis, & the country will be an overpopulated homeless encampment with authority belonging to Dems destroying the country? People would never have believed it. But it's happening. & I think it's beyond repair...
So true. I just rewatched Ponyo from Studio Ghibli yesterday. It was a beautiful mix of hand drawn animation and CGI. The storyline is simple but it is so cute and super pretty to watch. Also as an adult I can’t help but love the ending! It ends so sweetly. I will definitely be having my kids watch it when I have some along with a lot of older movies. They have the best stories. They may be simpler but that’s fine for kids. I mean I also enjoy the simplicity of the older animated movies myself. They have a good story, no plot holes, and are entertaining with a little good lesson. They try to make things so complex for adults to enjoy as well that they forgot that a well written out simpler animated movie will be 100x better than a horrible complex one with bad animation quality because they couldn’t make up their mind on the story telling and changed it/edited it 100 times before it being released that has a bad message for kids in it.
@slicerneons3300, Or perhaps people can stop acting like everything in the 90's and early 2000's was gold and that animation nowadays sucks. I mean come on - you think people won't and haven't shared movies with their kids like Zootopia, Coco, Puss in Boots The Last Wish, the Peanuts Movie, etc? And let's not forget that the same 90's and early 2000's generation that grew up with Hey Arnold, grew up with trash like Mega Babies.
@crfstewarje Don't act like I am dealing in Absolutes, that is not the case here.
Simple.fact, majority of the 90's and 00's were higher quality than the average junk.out now, and it was ALL Woke agenda Free.
There are some really good pieces still being made that do indeed deserve praise and the title.of Art, as your list mentions, But proportionately, it is far too much the outlier instead of the Norm.
@@slicerneons3300 the woke agenda was subtly being pushed in schools over 20 years ago before the word woke has modern meaning. When 9/11 happened, My high school had the first gay club and it was in the news. That was back around the first woke mob I've ever seen ganging up on Eminem holding signs forcing him to stop use slurs against fruitcakes.
I weep for the version we could have gotten. A villain couple, a shapeshifting star, a little romance between the shape shifter and the lead - that all could have been so fun!
In the movie we got... well, I was rooting for Magnifico.
Go ahead, Asha, grant every single wish that comes your way. Just don't come crawling back to Magnifico when that one person wishes for all the gold in the world, crashes the economy of Rosas and now everyone's starving 🙃
I haven’t seen the movie yet. But the sense I’m getting from various reviews is that Wish is not a celebration of 100 years of Disney. It’s a result of what Disney has become 100 years later.
Does that sound accurate?
Wasn't this concept about "all wishes should be granted" already been dealt with and demonstrated in the movie "the almighty Bruce" he literally granted everyone's wish and caused complete chaos.... But then again that was the time when people actually had some common sense and unique thoughts... Now, it seems everyone just wants to go along with "the current thing".
And Wonder Woman 2 *shutter*
@@rhiannon7163 i have no idea what that is... Haven't watched any "multiverses" except for first Avengers... and haven't watched almost any of the solo hero movies except deadpool, Antman, Ironman, Captain A.
Bruce Almighty was the name of the movie.
@@arkasiawinters excellent movie, much better than the sequel.
I think the primary reason Disney is naming its movies things like "Tangled" and "Frozen" is that they are seeking to actively separate their films from the original source material. They're attempting to "claim" the story and characters in the minds of the children who watch them, that way the children will never accept that the stories existed before Disney. It's "priming" in a way.
It's because they didn't want tangled and frozen to be seen as girly princess movies. They wanted to make sure it reached a wider audience than 3 to 9 yr old girls. Those movies were actually a winning formula as far as I'm concerned....
Tangled was originally going to be called 'Rapunzel' but thsy felt it would narrow their target audience, so it was renamed to appeal to both boys and girls
Dumb child, "Everyone deserves to have their wishes granted!"
Me, "Grant my wish."
Dumb kid, "Ok! Here ya go!"
Me: *laughs manically as transforms into Lord Freeza and blows up Earth* >:}
Wow...! I'm used to Poppa Chen being somewhat charitable even when critical but this time... I think Disney finally broke him. Yknow it's bad when that's happened
I like it when Lauren is more animated than usual. 😂
Ha~, I see what you did there. 😄
Disney: we want to be more inclusive!
Also Disney: cast Chris Pine as a Mediterranean sorcerer
Hiring a Mediterranean man to play a Mediterranean """villain""" is reeecist, according to the woke mind flayers, so they hired a white man; they think it's okay to hate white men, for being male and white.
"dIvErSiTy" in leftist means "non/anti-white."
He's the villain so it's OK to cast an evil white man.
When Chris Pratt made a much better movie playing an Italian-American Plumber?
They also have a problem with Black men. Even in *The Princess and Frog,* they are either corpses or villains while the Prince is biracial.
Mediterranean isn’t a race, you can be white and Mediterranean.
I'm so glad that you brought up At All Cost. Most reviewers say that it was their favorite song in the movie but never mention that it was an obvious love song. The demo version even has the lyrics love you but the movie changes it to promise. I'm convinced it was written while Asha and Star boy were still a thing
That definitely what happened
From Disney's recent SEC filing, buried among other risk factors:
"We face risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel and consumer products, which impact demand for our entertainment offerings and products and the profitability of any of our businesses.
Our businesses create entertainment, travel and consumer products whose success depends substantially on consumer tastes and preferences that change in often unpredictable ways."
Yeah, it's very unpredictable that crappy, woke, ESG movies bomb at the box office🤔
hahaha, They can no longer keep quiet about it
I heard they turned buzz lightyear into a fudge packer
I posted those full excerpts on my Twitter. But I don’t have many followers. The point being is that they know exactly what they’re doing and why.
I posted those full excerpts on my Twitter. But I don’t have many followers. The point being is that they know exactly what they’re doing and why.
I posted those full excerpts on my Twitter. But I don’t have many followers. The point being is that they know exactly what they’re doing and why.
Lauren the movie gets worse when you see the concept art; thete was supposed to be an evil couple a romance between Asha and the start that was a magical boy, and the movie was all in 2d
Exactly, but also Asha was a princess, the daughter of King Magnifico, and the queen.
@@LosMSR you serious? She was their kid???? Wow. Just wow. This movie could've been so amazing Walt must be rolling in his grave right now... poor guy.
This film kinda reminds me of those Direct to DVD movies Disney made back in the day.
The thing though was that 90's songs in Disney movies were directly tied to the plot or whatever was actually happening with the character at that point. You can't take them out without also removing who chunks of the story on the way. These songs feel like they were added because the creators just assumed that because it's a Disney movie it needs songs, because older Disney movies had songs.
didn't the writers know why genie's wish granting magic has a rule in the first place? and how ww84 was so bad because of the wish plot device?
No, don't do it! There is help out there if you are feeling down!
13:50 can't believe this is supposed to be a grown ass sorcerer king, my dude sounds like Sharpay Evans with those lyrics
Hey! "Fabulous" is a GREAT song! 😂
At this point he was already corrupted by the greed and power, Magnifico is very similar to Midas. Midas was a good king, until his endless seek of power, turned him in a menace.
So originally the movie was supposed to about the song Wish Upon A Star.
But the people who worked on this movie reported that activists took over and this is what we ended up getting.
really? wow!!!
‘I’m the white guy in the movie, so I am definitely the bad guy’
It’s as repetitive and fear-porny as *Law and Order* by now.
Is that all that you noticed ..duh
Anyone else see the anti God overlay? From the villain song lyrics "I put the "I" in "omnipotent"
I'm passionate, I'm not petulant
Someone praise me for my benevolence", to the not granting every wish. It sounds like an angry atheist wrote the script.
Consumer tastes and preferences often change in unpredictable ways? Cut the B.S. Disney. The customer tastes and preferences haven't changed. YOU HAVE. Customers want wholesome, family friendly entertainment based on good stories with relatable characters. As long as you cast producers, directors, actors, and other contributors based on gender, race, or sexuality as opposed to actual talent and ability, you'll continue to pump out sewage that the paying customers won't spend their hard earned money on.
Do you think Wish would have been good if everyone were straight and white? Bare in mid, it's still written the exact same, the songs are the same, etc, just everyone's straight and white. Badly written stories are just that. I know the difference, I don't need diversity or a lack of it, on order to see that.
@@SevenEllen That's my point! It's a bad movie, but Disney has placed identity politics and Wokeism over story and characters. They didn't bring in people with talent and experience; they were more concerned with checking boxes so they could get a better ESG score. Perfect example of get woke, go broke.
@@SevenEllen I think you should try reading that comment again
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish is the only animated movie about wishes you need.
You forgot to add that the animation team reported a change of plot by activists in the middle of production. That was like WTF Disney moment.
Dang for what?!
Explains why the two 'bad' people in it.. Were white males.. 🤦
I like the original plot better even though it even copy the plot to The Nutcracker.
Dude, i tried to see this in theater but some fourty year old guy came and made me uncomfortable so i had to leave 😂
OK, now I need to know what he do 😂
Was that me? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
I'm on a date. I force my date to go to a Disney princess movie. I'm in a small town so it's an empty theater, just me and my date. 15 minutes in a forty year old guy comes in and sits directly in back of us. No grandfather, no wife. Got the worse feeling over me and I just felt like we should leave. Paranoid maybe but we went to his house and watched the corpse bride which is an amazing movie anyway
*granddaughter
@@brittanycorbo7231 oh I see sorry to hear that then
Time to get Walt Disney out of Cryo Sleep .
They need way more than just 400 million to break even. The reported budgets usually leave out marketing costs, thats just how much it cost to shoot the movie. Reported budgets are also usually under reported by 50-100 million. It always takes like way after the movie came out for us to get the actual budget they spent. It's typically a rule of thumb that movie's marketing budgets are the same as filming budget. So they spent 200m on shooting (probably more) and 200m on marketing, after the box office cut that means they need to gross 800 million just to break even. That's a conservative estimate. Hollywood has a serious problem with spending. They dont know how to make 80 million dollar movies anymore. I honestly have no clue where all the money is even going, it certainly doesnt show in the finished product.
The extra money goes to group of Hollywood execs, like Bob Iger & Kathleen Kennedy. Aside from funding their lavish lifestyles we can never afford, these Hollywood execs do not use the money to properly learn the skills of cinematography & doing a movie right. They think they have too much money & will forever have much money to make bad movies that will take in big bucks nonetheless.
Laundering the sinking ship it seems..
Disney: See? We put a Disney villain again like old times! King Magnifico is the bad guy of the story.
The audience: He's the bad guy?!
Another problem is Asha not getting the apprenticeship because she was criticizing the king during the interview. This is part of the big problem with this current generation. If you don't like a certain policy it doesn't matter. You go along with the status quo until you get in the door and get into a position where you can uphold your ideals and work to change things from within. Rather than try to force your conflicting ideals down the throats of people from the start and still get the outcome your looking for. That just isn't reality but these people literally reject reality and supplant it with their own. I mean I get it, I was like this myself when I was younger but as I got older I learned there are certain ways to do things to still get the results you want by playing along with the system. But that's the hard part because if you wait then it's easy to loose track of the ideals you had in the first place. Part of that is the realization that ideals are usually wonderful in a vacuum but when you see all the different moving parts of policies and how they effect different people it's not so cut and dry.
I thought that, too. Like... who the heck is Asha to come in and start telling the king what he should be doing and how things should be run? You've been there for literally 5 minutes and you just think you know better than him? Made her instantly unlikable to me because it just came off as naïve and arrogant. It really would have been better if the movie started with her already being his apprentice and then finding out about the issue with the wishes. It would have been such an easy change in the writing and would have made her character appear far more reasonable.
"You go along with the status quo until you get in the door and get into a position where you can uphold your ideals and work to change things from within."
Thats why the World never changes, because when you finally get into a position when you are able to change something, the year long a... kissing already changed you into one of them.
But i also can´t say that you are totally wrong, since thats is how the world works.
@@raisti6608 It's still more realistic than showing up at a job and telling a CEO they need to change it up during the interview. 😅
We were robbed. What would’ve worked more was if the king and queen were both evil and Asha was their daughter. Then Asha would’ve grown up thinking that keeping the wishes was the right thing and star boy had to help show her the right way. Also it would add a lot more to Asha’s character by standing against her parents since for all the other Disney princesses with evil parents they’re always stepparents (Lady Tremaine, Evil Queen, and Gothel). So the fact that a princesses actual parents are evil would’ve been so cool.
I get wanting villains that are evil just to be evil back but Magnifico being a sympathetic villain would make more sense. Like due to a traumatic event he is now so obsessed with keeping everyone safe.
Also I wouldn't make Asha quirky I mean she can definitely have somethings but not as much as they did. I would make her more similar to Elsa and Mulan personality rather than Anna and Rapunzel.
I would also change Asha's color palette purple reminds me too much of Rapunzel and Isabella. I wish they stuck with the orange red color palette from the concept art
They should've shown the effects of people forgetting their wishes like have everyone feel miserable and empty in a way
Also it’s funny how they scrapped star boy but kept the obvious love song in the movie. The demo for At All Cost even has the words love you but they changed it to promise in the movie.
Recently rewatched the original animated The Little Mermaid and it's perfectly tuned. Just go back and watch the "Part of your world" scene. The framing, the weighted animation, the color coding, the mult pans, the use of positive and negative space. Facial expressions and subtle physical humor.
It's a film school in a scene. Then look at Wish and see how it follows none of technical standards of competent art direction and that's part of the issue with it.
Can you imagine if everyone had their wish all the time? You know some weirdo will ask for the world to end for some reason, you just can't allow that and the king understood this and so decided not to grant every wish, i mean it's just common sense at this point, and he is presented as the villain? What even is disney anymore.
They kinda touched on this in Bruce Almighty where he simply said YES to everyone's prayers and then the world went into chaos.
The fact that some agree with Thanos corroborate that.
I'm hoping to live long enough to see 100 years of Godzilla
Another 20 years
Disney sticking around for a century is huge, but let's not forget that Nintendo was founded in 1889 and Mitsubishi was founded in 1870
I guess no one of the producers of Wish has watched Bruce Almighty before...
Would have been funny if the grandfather's wish had ended up being something totally evil and as soon as he remembers it, he working towards it.
Or something he already achieved on his own without realizing it, so giving him the 'wish' back was a complete waste of time. Or something that completely contradicts how he lived his life, so now he hates everything he used to love, including his daughter. There were a lot of potential lessons in there, and Disney apparently knows none of them.
The most disturbing immage appeared in my mind. I noticed something: the king is quite similar to walt disney. In fact disney was the one that decided who "wishes" were to be put on a movie and so he factually brought them into reality. Now immagine all the activist that thinks that they are stars and that all of their dreams should be materialized. Immagine that the love song is sang to their political wishes (love over every love). So now disney has to remove a lot of projects, (the wishes forgotten) so they try to enter and take back their wishes..... What a disturbing picture this is.
This is even a more trash movie, by that concept. At least Magnifico is a great villain, and will cosplay easily, Asha in the other half really meh character. Disney said this is full of easter eggs, but the goat didn't say mermaid, when they were swimming back into the island.
Oh true! Ewww!
It would been more interesting if Asha turned 18, made a wish to the king, and her wish is so powerful that doesn't make her forget about it, that way the king will see Asha as a menace for his ruling of the kingdom. Turning Asha into an actual hero of the film that has to go against the king who tries to banish her and therefore (with not magic) she must expose and take down Magnifico. The theme of a strong will in order to get your wish for a better place against a authoritarian villain
Exactly, that's why Magnifico is a great character of the movie, and Asha is meh, because the development of the character is better on the villain this time.
@@LosMSR Yes, the only thing that is missing from Magnifico is a clear motive to be the villain, also it will give the seven lame copies of the dwarfs a reason to work with Asha and give them a sense of loyalty that made them actual important supporting characters instead of just another Disney reference.
I'm confused by the wish mechanic? So people just forget their wish? Does everyone around them forget their wish? Cause it would be messed up if throughout the kingdom's history there are loads of people who remember YOUR wish because they may have told you. After all they live in a city where their wishes can ACTUALLY come true so they'd be speaking them up.
Like the kingdom would be overthrown immediately if there are loads of people seeing in real time that their neighbor, sibling, best friend etc. all of a sudden gave up on their wish...AFTER seeing the magical wish granting king literally take it.
Worse what if the wish is tied intricately to your life. What if the wish is something as a simple as: "I wish to be a healer who helps as many people as I can." like a practical dream. And then you give that wish to Magnifico and poof its gone. Is your desire to be a healer and help as many people still there?
I love Lauren, she's a realist and against woke.
Stop it, this movie isn't work, it's just not Good and had a lot of potential
@@ihatetheheat4524 No I'm talking about woke in general. silly billy!
@@ihatetheheat4524This movie is not God nor is it GOOD indeed
Wait a minute... they have a ceremony once a month when one wish is granted... And MC just now figured out that mostly nobody will have their wish granted? Damn, either there are 100 people in their island, either mathematic is banned there, lol 😂
To have a wish granted is a rare privilege, absolutely not a right. Magnifico didn't have to hand out ANY wishes at all.
This is how magical Disney used to be, I absolutely hate musicals. It irritates me to no end when people sing in movies, but even I used to sing along in Disney movies. I mean come on, The Hunchback has amazing song, but the song of Tarzan is spectacular. It's sad how extremely far Disney has fallen
As a writer, I often feel bad when a lack of ideas becomes apparent and a bad premise is desperately put forth.
I kinda don't feel too bad here though.
I can see how "At All Costs" could be perceived as a romantic love song. When I was watching the movie, to me, it seemed more like something a parent might sing to their child. That makes sense if you think of wishes like children (a la "Into the Woods"), in the sense that both are things we create, nurture, and make sacrifices for. Wishes, like children, can be fragile things that need to be protected. Both can also bring incomparable joy.
Overall, I agree, the music was not on par with what we'd expect from Disney. I personally only enjoyed "This Wish Reprise" and "At All Costs". The rest were meh at best.
Also agree that the plot was ill-defined for most of the movie. For Magnifico's downfall, my understanding was that this occurred because Asha helped everyone realize with her song (I think?) that they were all made of the same stuff as stars (as was explained to Asha in "You're a Star"). Therefore, they all possessed power similar to (but probably in a lesser quantity than) a star. The wishes also seemed to contain some small power themselves, given that Magnifico seemed to grow stronger whenever he absorbed wishes throughout the film. When the citizens all united their power behind a single wish, they were strong enough to defeat Magnifico.
All this seemed to be building toward the idea that we individually have the power to make our own wishes come true, and we should work toward them ourselves, rather than relying on someone else. However, as you said, this idea was undermined by Asha's new role as the Fairy Godmother at the end of the movie.
It's such an ugly mess.. 🤦
The demo version felt a lot more romantic it even had the lyrics love you but changed it to promise in the movie
People who defend the film claim that by not granting the wishes, Magnifico is robbing his people of their ambitions by not returning those wishes; which is what made him evil. (don't see how, as he isn't doing anything to those wishes and has the people who made them forget about them so they're not spending time dwelling on a wish that may not be granted).
I personally question how important those wishes were if the people who made them lacked the ambition to fulfill them on their own from the start.
Also - if a person forgets the wish they made when they make it; how does Asha'a grandfather (or anyone, really) know that his wish wasn't granted?
The $200 million does not include marketing. Marketing can be very expensive ($50 - $125 million). If we use the lowest number ($50 million), Wish needs a box office take of $500 million just to break even! (If marketing = $125 million, the breakeven point = $650 million!)
Disney just loves losing money! Go woke go broke!!
I really enjoy your reviews, and as a geezer, I have to say I value and enjoy your Dad's input. He probably remembers as I do the excitement of another Disney movie coming out. Like me, he's probably puzzled as to HOW Disney could fall so far so fast!
I'm so glad I don't own their stock.
I would take the little ones to see Napoleon lol.
I'm sure they'd enjoy it! Especially if their dad is a history geek who can lecture them for an hour+ on all the nuances of Napoleans life...a memory they'll cherish for their entire lives...er, ok, well, an hour of their little lives!! What FUN!!
It is horrible. The villain isn't a villain, he just needs a bit of therapy to get over this childhood trauma. Pops at he end is always my favorite. I love that you love your dad and it shows.
Wish was originally supposed to be a love story between the girl and the wishing Star. The wishing Star was originally a mute space man, that’s why there was a love song
I listened to the villain song and it doesn’t sound like a villain song. I didn’t see the movie but based on the reviews I’ve heard, there should have been a villain in the movie working to either manipulate the king to take his power or use the female main character to get that power.
They should've re-released Pinocchio. They'd have made mega millions and the kids would've learned some good lessons
I showed that movie to my former students. The donkey scenes freaked them out lol. I told them they better be good kids lol
The old one, I hope!
I wonder what the wish for Disney investors are?
To make me a shitload of money while offering great entertainment. Stocks look weirdly good while everything goes south. Investors are very worried and yet they keep on doing this stuff. I mean they F uped the SW IP. Yes, investors have grey hair by now. It’s like a bad joke.
Great wish, but the "money" would be a form of currency that would be largely unusable.
And entertainment is always subjective. We may still end up with WOKE entertainment.
@@kencioe6811 indeed
Dead cat bounce.
Saw this last night. Very forgettable movie. Nary a wish was even granted..
I really wanna know. What was the grandpa's wish?!
Time to bail on DIS... Can't fix what you won't admit is broken.
They will never admit it just like Gillette's CEO said it was all worth it.
This was supposed to be a celebration of the 100 year birthday of Disney. The star is in there as a reference to the "Make a wish upon a star" song from Pinocchio. But it sounds like they had no idea how to incorporate that into the story and turned Disney himself into the villain via proxy...to be taken down a peg by some kind of activist that couldn't even get the internship. It's pretty obvious who wrote this and who they wrote it for. It would be hilarious if it wasn't also kind of sad at the same time.
From how you described it, the film actually sounds like a rebuke of God. This would not be surprising from current Disney. Kind of like "His Dark Materials".
It's very communist.. This whole movie is their manifesto
I just went to a chatbot and had it give me a Disney Renaissance plot. It happened to be a story about stars too (completely by accident I swear), but it was WAAAAAY more interesting than the plot of Wish. I think I might workshop it into something real, it's a decent writing prompt. I also had it include a romance, which I've been really missing in the newer Disney films. A break from romance once in a while is nice enough I guess, it doesn't work in every story, but I do like a good classic romantic subplot.
Point being, even a soulless computer can make a story with more magic than Disney can right now, and that's just tragic.
Someone should make a sequel (or just a sketch, like SNL except not terrible) where she is now in charge and proudly announces that everyone's "right" to a wish will be upheld - camera pans to people happily queuing up for fulfillment, including Eichmann, Pol Pot, Dahmer, etc.
Sounds like FreedomToons should be on it already.
They said Disney's biggest animated flop was Black Cauldron and Treasure Planet but I'm no longer convinced.
This is what happens when writers go on strike and you let ChatGPT write your movies/songs for you.
I don't see Disney recovering any time soon, because the brain rot goes all the way from the top executives down through to the lowest level employees. Even if the board fired all of the executives tomorrow, there still wouldn't be anyone at the company who knows how to tell a compelling story.
Like a great philosopher once said, you can’t always get what you want. A basic concept we learned as children…
Even the Rolling Stones realize this.
Congratulations on 100,000 for the channel, Lauren! Rooting for your continued success!
We absolutely loved your review. You talk very quickly and get right to your points. Great job! Plus we love your dad!! ❤😊
The original concept for this movie was the origin of the song “when you wish upon a star“ it makes a whole lot more sense in context but of course it got lost through agenda along the way
Exactly, because the star will turn in a boy, and Asha was a rebel princess, daughter of Magnifico and Amaya.
I'm a retired Aerospace Engineer from the defense industry but I now work at Disney World in Security as a hobby job for a couple years until my wife retires. I don't think the public understands how woke the Disney Corporation is. It permeates all business lines and is forefront in all corporate culture decision making. At least that is my read having worked here for about 20 months. It is still a mystery to me how a company whose history and goodwill as the leading family/child entertainment company in the world with Walt Disney and his brother morphed into this woke power of evil, but make no mistake, it is.
Watch the bud light and target analysis from James Lindsay circa may, those keywords plus ESG / DEI will get you there. It connects the dots and shows how much influence the hedge funds have against big companies, even if their boards and management aren't ideologically woke themselves
you know what? noone talks about that : if the Grandfather turned 100 and didnt has his wish come true, how does he know it if he forget his wish? this whole concept and the Plot doesnt make any sense at all
Bloated budgets are one of the main reasons modern films will never break even. "Wish" could have been made for 1 or 2 million dollars with the right mindset and conditions. And without underpaying animators. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and bump it to 5 millions, more than double.
A 35 million dollars revenu over five days would be a huge win, fully paying back the budget and more. But when you decide to spend over 200 millions uselessly (because a LOT of those expenses are actually useless), you end up disappointed in front of a pile of cash large enough to fill a house.
Because you know you've spent enough cash to fill a whole building.
It's the children who are avoiding this movie and recent others. When Frozen came out, there were millions of kids that dragged their parents to the theatres. Mine haven't asked me to bring them in 5 years.
I still do not know why people like that move Elsa should have been evil. It also proves Disney know crap about monarchy work Hans could not be king unless he is distantly related to the girls he would be consort or regent and if he made himself king over a suppose of marriage that no one saw there would be a freaken war over it. The is one of the reason the 100 years war happened over some declaring themself king because they married a Princess even though they were not in line for the throne.
I do NOT see Disney recovering from this stuff for a long, long time. It's going to now become instinctual to ignore Disney productions. I don't even consider going to their movies or parks anymore. I used to be a regular consumer on both fronts. Now, I have zero desire, but frequent other parks and films all the time. I'm not alone.
i totally love your pops being included & his genuine insights supplement the enjoyability factor 👍🏽
Magnifico shows the problem with giving people free stuff (wishes): they will NEVER be satisfied no matter how much they don't need, and will end up resenting you for giving them anything at all... 16:15
I wish this movie never existed.
I love Papa Chen's reviews! If he had his own channel, I'd subscribe.
I'm 37 and I'm SO glad I grew up when I did. Atlantis, Anastasia, Prince of Egypt, Aladdin, Lion King, Pocahontas, the little mermaid, Beauty and the beast. I understand that not all of these were Disney but it was still at the Pinnacle of animation n story telling. Plus I was there for the wonder that was Toy Story and all that was to follow. Really spectacular stuff.
My theory regarding the one-word titles is that it is easier to translate across international markets.