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- It got destroyed by critics but people seem to be split on it. What are Doug's thoughts on Disney's latest animated fairy tale? Let's take a look at Wish.
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Wish is a 2023 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It was directed by Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Allison Moore, based on a story conceived by Lee, Buck, Veerasunthorn, and Moore, and produced by Peter Del Vecho and Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster-Jones, with Lee and Don Hall serving as executive producers. The art style combines computer animation with the look of Disney's historical hand-drawn animation. The film stars the voices of Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Harvey Guillén, Evan Peters, Ramy Youssef, and Jon Rudnitsky.
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What did everyone think of Disney's Wish?
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To me the way they made the characters felt like they didnt finish making them, like their missing detail. Like small scenes that got cut from movies so the animation looks unfinished
Chris pines was the Best part of the movie! Specially his villain song!😊😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hey Doug! I know this comment looks long but this movie feels like something that was written by studio notes, saying "Guys, people have been complaining about twist villains, so that has to be a no-go for this one. We have to make sure the audience knows from the beginning that he's the bad guy!" And they didn't put any thought into how to make a real interesting villain with an actual motivation for where his anger comes from. And yeah, let's have the same "funny" sidekicks that Disney's been pumping out since Frozen. That's the biggest insult to me, is that ever since Tangled, Disney has been trying to make their fairy tales have the same humor as Shrek. Shrek is now over 20 years old and it's still remembered and quoted because it *wasn't* made by Disney. And Disney thinking they're gonna blow us away and surprise us with this humor that's 20 years old and think that this is gonna be a classic, it really shows me how out of touch they are and how unwilling they want to try something that's really artistically pleasing. And that's why I want to hear more of the animators and artists at Disney Animation because I'm sure they would love to make a 2D film. I'm not saying all of them, I don't want to overgeneralize. But don't you guys agree that the artists and animators that come to Disney want to create something that's timeless and beautiful to look at? I'm really insulted that Jennifer Lee suggests "2D animation limits camera movement." I personally don't think 2D Animation can "limit" anything. I'm finding out more and more that all the classic Disney hand-drawn films from Snow White all through the decades until 2011's Winnie the Pooh are the films that I will always love and hold near-and-dear and will continue to dissect them and recreate my own drawings of all their 2D films for years to come. I know this is a hot take that Pixar fans will hate me for, but I've grown really bitter against Pixar and computer animation in general, because that's what killed 2D and why we're stuck with this bullshit excuse that "2D limits camera movement." There's nothing new that computer animation can add. Once you've broken all the technology records, what else is there to conquer? 2D Animation doesn't need to be innovative in technology to be timeless, it has to be entertaining and original and enjoyable for years. Here's an idea that can really shake things up for Disney to make another great film:
Disney really needs to look at the Spider-Verse films and try to make their own kind of Disney-Verse film. And I don't mean that like the Dark Universe or the Once Upon a Studio special, I don't mean have every single individual character. First you need to find a story that could be told even better with a handful of Disney characters that team up and work off each other with their differences but also their similarities. Just an idea, I can further explain if anyone wants to reply.
Yeah, this never managed to grab me in the slightest. In fact, you wanna know what makes this film’s humiliating failure right now even worse?
Happy Madison actually put out a much better-received animated feature with Leo around the same time.
Did you relize that you just made a ryime with the "pacing is a trouses" ?
Wish is a great example of how corporate meddling can break a movie until it becomes an empty shell of what it could be. We could have had a shapeshifting wish granter that can talk, a Disney villain power couple, and an actual 2D animated Disney movie after so long. These were all innovative ideas for Wish all thrown off because Disney wanted to stick to their formula without the substance that made it work in the past.
Wait, I thought the starboy was going to be mute like link. Either way, all the original concept art designs and character/ story dynamics is basically a complete different story, shame such interesting potential was scrapped.
@@viviangarcia5696 I heard he was gonna talk, but then again, that could be just speculation. Either way, we were robbed.
yeah idk where you heard that, it was allegedly about to be the origin of the song “wish upon a star” but also the meddling was from people hired into disney that were in their words “activist”
To be fair the shapeshifting wish granter that can talk has been done before, the Genie from Aladdin. I heard he wasn’t going to talk and his main form would be more Peter Pan-esque in appearance.
@@hashtagcritical8688I prefer him not to talk. I feel like a lot of expressions and what he’s trying to communicate can get across very effectively without a voice. A lot of great silent comedians were able to convey a lot of their respective characters’ personalities and variety of emotions for certain situations very well when they didn’t talk. Why else were Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd successful Hollywood stars from the Silent Era and continue to be enduring?
8:25 The movie you're describing was the aborted "The Search For Mickey Mouse". It was supposed to be their 50th feature, before Tangled replaced it. In it, Mickey got "mouse-napped" by an unknown force, and Minnie hired Basil of Baker Street (from The Great Mouse Detective) to help track him down. Along the way, they would encounter characters from every Disney movie, which sounds like an AWESOME premise.
Holy crap, why couldn't this be the 100th anniversary movie instead?
What! Are you serious? That would have been awesome!
That sounds absolutely wonderful.
Wow, that sounds like a cool idea. Almost like Kingdom Hearts minus all the Final Fantasy/JRPG elements.
Isn't mickey mouse going into public domain soon too? That would be a perfect "kidnapping" story. His copyright runs out, so everyone is going to "steal" him. Good on a meta level commentary, and fun if in the Roger Rabbit kind of story.
I felt that they missed a great opportunity to make the Queen be half of a Villainous couple with her husband. Her being good didn't seem to be explored enough.
it was planned so at first, but they changed their minds for some reason.
They honestly should have done that, even if it was something never done before by Disney
IT could even fix the weird set up where the magic doesn't seem to be hurting anyone but then the sorcerer just starts acting like a straight up villain later- There are plenty of ways to play it too, have them both be sympathetic but flawed in ways that make them the antagonists, like the queen supports the practice of destroying the wishes for the sorcerer to have power, because he uses that power to help out in other ways (maybe the nation has never had a famine or such due to that magic) and the sorcerer is caught up in being beloved by the people so he doubles down on everything because if the wishes weren't forgotten, or he put all his efforts into granting all the wishes, he fears he would fall short or lose the love of the people. You could have one be outright more evil than the other, but they both know the score, instead of the villany being hidden from the queen she goes along with it for the greater good, and provides a opportunity for the sorcerer to have a believable redemption, or vice versa and the queen is using the sorcerer for his power and him decideing to be more ethical with his magic either drives her to further villainy and grabing power herself (via the star?) or also opening her to redemption.
Or you play it to the hilt and they are both evil, which you could have them be different flavors of evil, like the queen is better at quietly managing things and thus becomes a surprise villain because the bombastic sorcerer was grabbing all the attention, or have one of them turn on the other leading to a more complicated climax or even one teaming up with the heroes to stop the other.
I haven't seen the movie, when I first saw previews I thought it would be a sad flop as disney failed to do something interesting, and devolved it to talking animals and pretty animation with no substance, and later got kind of interested, but avoided the bigger trailers because they just spoil too much of the movies nowadays. I am disapointed that my initial feelings fell short and Disney not only failed to live up to their potential, but did so while clearly showing the concept could work, and filling it with half assed references and shoddy musical numbers, apparently.
Disney seems scared nowadays of making any minority a vaillain these days. Since the 2010s I'm having trouble coming up with any Disney animated movie where the villain was anything other than white. Like they might think ppl would criticize them for doing so!
@@riffraff7942The King of Hearts is an accomplice in Disney’s animated version of Alice in Wonderland
I think the biggest problem with Wish, is that in trying to be the film that celebrates the Disney Centennial (which is certainly going better than poor Warner Brothers' Centennial) it instead celebrates the CORPORATION'S centennial. Not the STUDIO'S centennial. The references are just from the more popular movies, or ones that had an impact, such as Asha's friends being a reference to the Snow White dwarfs. Whereas Once Upon A Studio is a celebration of ALL of Disney's history. The good, AND the bad. And that's what makes it feel much more genuine.
Question: Was the movie implying that they would eventually become the Seven Dwarfs? Or was it a nod instead?
@@lancethefilmguy9392 it's just a nod.
@joshuamunn2410 Is that real?
@lancethefilmguy9392 i've heard the rumors they're going to Universal. It's just sad at this point. They were one of the big 5
@@TheRibottoStudiosSic transit gloria mundi.
Definitely makes you WISH for a better 100th anniversary film.
Ba dum bum
Rim shot! 🥁
Never heard that one before 🙄
My god
Agreed
Chris Pine was the most entertaining character in the movie. A throwback to the pure villain characters as opposed to the surprise ones.
Chris Pine is awesome in whatever he’s in.
If you wanna see him voice a better character in a better movie then watch Rise of the Guardians.
@@alijahaskew4644 You are joking with me, right?
@@BellaFalk95 No?
@@alijahaskew4644 Chris Pine voiced Jack Frost. Pitch was voiced by Jude Law.
The predominant criticism I've seen of this film is that the villain's evil plan....isn't evil. It's actually a very good lesson that kids need to learn: not every wish SHOULD come true, and most wishes are better granted by working hard to earn them. Maybe you could justify it by saying that a single person shouldn't be the judge of who's wishes to grant, but they didn't seem to do that from what I understand: the sorcerer king was actually pretty responsible with the power.
There are other criticisms that seem to stem from them basically forgetting basic lessons in animation as well, but I'd 1) need to see the movie, and 2) need to know the first thing about animation to comment on them, so I'll just leave them on the table.
But he kept their wishes and let them forget about it completely not even letting them fight harder for it. Did we see the same movie?
Pretty much this. Should've just made the halfway point the FMC unleashes all the wishes and we see how fucked up the world gets, proving the villain right abd having to reel in those overbloated wishes for the finale.
Well, minor spoiler, but one thing that struck me as weird was that out of nowhere, the Sorcerer King basically blurts out only he is allowed to use magic. Like... ANY magic. And what bothered me is, this is the first and only time we hear of this. Do the people in the kingdom know of this? Is it a law? It's never addressed and honestly it's probably because this sort of thing would probably be a huge red flag if they made it clear from the outset "Come to the kingdom ruled by a wizard who grants wishes, but don't even think of learning any magic (or using magic if you already know it) or into the dungeon you go!"
At what point did Disney think "be careful what you wish for" wasn't as good a story as "nothing bad can possibly happen from wishing"?
This. Absolutely this. Everyone in his kingdom was there voluntarily. He found an island, built a kingdom, and people came to live under his rule.
In fact, if the king had be up front about the idea that not every wish could be granted to his subjects, I'd imagine a lot of them would still be willing to give up a wish for the change of living in a kingdom without the turmoil, strife, and violence Magnifico had to face before he started his own kingdom.
Once Upon A Studio was a better tribute to the 100th anniversary of Disney then the entire movie!🎉
Agreed!
I totally agree, that is a masterpiece, you see the actual work behind it, that little project has heart. This movie has nothing: no real plot, no character developement, no compelling characters, no good lyrics for the songs, no characters with real personalities, no villain with deep motivations nor a bad guy for the sake of being bad, no morale, no lesson learnt... I could go on all day with what Wish has not. The only thing this movie is not short of is references to old Disney movies, that's it.
That was a great short
I haven't watched either thing but I can tell.😂
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I'm glad Disney at least put a real villain in their film again, and Chris Pine does a good job voicing him, but man, I wish he was written better. My main complaint with Magnifico is they wanted to have it both ways-for him to be both a completely irredeemable sinister villain harkening back to classic Disney AND a relatable tragic backstory villain who thinks he’s doing the right thing like with their more modern stories. That’s why his transformation to full villain seems so sudden-because they wrote him to be two completely opposite things and he has to quickly switch over from one to the other before the runtime is up.
You got that right.
You have a point.
I think if both the king AND queen had been evil it might had made things better in that regard; maybe have the wife realize what's happening is bad thus THAT is what drives him further into madness almost harkening back to Anakin and Padme which IS a disney property.
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That's my feelings too. If they had him be like Frollo or Scar from the beginning, or had him be fully tragic, then he might've been a better villain. It really feels like they were going for tragic when somebody kicked down the door and told them all that the people wanted a real evil villain, and they couldn't be arsed to rework what they'd done.
A better idea I had is that they could've had a brother who tried to take control of the wishes. Magnifico keeps power because he think he knows best, while his brother wants the power to be all-powerful. Asha unleashes him because she thinks he'll be on her side, only to have to work with Magnifico to stop the evil brother. It would also serve as a clear message that not all wishes are good.
(6:01 - 6:07) What Doug said there is a theory of what I thought the movie's moral was trying to say: You may not get the wish you wanted the way you want it but do not lose the heart, passion or faith that made that wish - do not lose your own individuality. Sort of similar to how Disney takes someone's good ideas and kind of half-ass them a little bit to a point it looks like they cared so little about the final product.
Yea they should really listen to their own films
Bob tiger recentl blames the recent movies fault for not having enough executive meddling. Truthfully, I dont think they learned their lesson, I guess another disney dark age is coming.
@@charlie8829please tell me you're joking
@@viviangarcia5696 Bob Iger from what I’ve seen is *definitely* taking Disney in a new direction. Probably not a good one.
I ended up seeing this twice now and every time I get to the dancing chickens scene I go “Big lipped alligator moment”
Wow, what a blast from the past 😄 Also reminds me of how I miss Lindsay.
im 90% sure that they re-wrote the story during development to match the songs. Magnifico for example started off as a "greater good" villain with a tragic backstory and then the second his song starts he becomes prince charming from Shrek then he keeps switching. At least when he became a full big bad their was an explanation that dark magic warps the mind.
Do you have any examples of “greater good” villains I could find? Those were always super interesting villains to me.
@@karathewolfsfanficchannel933 I did give you a link to a list but CZcams deleted it, it also comes up as necessary evil but that seems to be the more self aware than for the greater good.
The problem is that the story style will sometimes have them as the hero or frame them as in the right even when others would portray them as the villain so you could argue the Hot Fuzz NWA, Ra's Al Ghul, Magneto, Amanda Waller and Dumbledore all fit into this category despite their wide range in public perception.
They should’ve made a live action movie based on Walt Disney himself, how he built Disney up from the ground and created SnowWhite as well as the other Disney characters like Mickey Mouse. Maybe they could’ve done like a Rodger rabbit kinda thing where Disney imagined mickey talking to him, as if he were seeing the characters come to life in his imagination.
Didn't they do something similar with Saving Mr. Banks 10 years ago in 2013?
@joshuamunn2410YES, like Mickey trying to have everyone get along throughout the whole film to try and honor his ‘dad’ (Walt Disney) and to get the ‘family’ photo
And the conflict could also be from all the villains teaming up, or trying to
Not gonna lie, I’d definitely watch that movie.
But Walt didn't make Mickey. Ub Iwerks did.
Yeah, but they hate Walt now. He and his legacy are "problematic"; which is why they've been making all those stupid remakes of past great films, with all those stupid unnecessary changes that absolutely nobody asked for, all to try and please the insane weirdos who would never support them anyway, due to their inability to ever be satisfied.
The comments about the spiderverse as dogs and Rameses suddenly doing a flashy musical number were hilarious and totally accurate! That is exactly what it was like! 😂
Okay, but I would like a Spiderdog movie, actually.
@@dinosaysrawr The closest we got is the Simpsons Movie where they hired Hans Zimmer to write Spider Pig. Which is a parody of the Spiderman theme.
I’m trying to imagine Rameses singing that song:
🎵Peep the name, I am Rameses! The conqueror of the seven seas!🎵
Lame I know but so is the original so it works. haha
I'll give the movie this, Chris Pine is solid as the villain. I didn't think he could play a movie villain but this movie proved me wrong.
Chris Pine is a 10/10
Chris Pine kills everything he's in. He's awesome.
@@jrt2792 Wonderful actor
Yep, between this movie and Don't Worry Darling, he's proved that he can play creepy, villainous characters.
Chris pine can do no wrong
The star might look like a Mario character because there are Mario characters, Lumas, that are talking stars with little eyes and mouths. There's even one in the Mario Movie!
Alan Tudyk is a true treasure, you can always count on him to voice one animated Disney character per year. Alas, not even he was enough to save this misfire.
What other roles did he voice again, I forgot?
@@cadendicky1855King Candy in Wreck it Ralph, Weselton in Frozen, Krei in Big Hero 6, the Weasel in Zootopia
@@matityaloran9157 oh, now I remember.
@@matityaloran9157Don't forget about all the non-talking animal sidekicks in Moana, Raya, Encanto, and Strange World.
Alan Tudyk would be a good successor to Ed Wynn if Disney would let him voice the Mad Hatter in more projects. I want to see him do more voiceover work with the character than what we got in Once Upon a Studio. It’d be cool if Disney would finally do an adaptation of Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, and have Alan Tudyk voice the Mad Hatter in that one.
As typical of Disney animated films nowadays, the concept art and scraped ideas are way more interesting than the finished product.
- The King and Queen would've been the main antagonists.
- Star was going to be a magical shapeshifter and a love interest for Asha (it was likely scraped because of similarities to a movie Disney threw in the trash (Nimona)).
I don't want to say karma got to them, but karma got to them.
Nimona was never a love interest, and Ballister was gay.
@@rileyduncan3927 I think op is talking about the chaotic shapeshifter version of Star may remind some people Nimona herself.
We’re robbed man
Imagine the duets if they keep these concepts.
@@AllHisEnginesi still ended up getting reminded of Nimona with The Director’s things in her hair.
This feels like something that was written by studio notes, saying "Guys, people have been complaining about twist villains, so that has to be a no-go for this one. We have to make sure the audience knows from the beginning that he's the bad guy!" And they didn't put any thought into how to make a real interesting villain with an actual motivation for where his anger comes from. And yeah, let's have the same "funny" sidekicks that Disney's been pumping out since Frozen. That's the biggest insult to me, is that ever since Tangled, Disney has been trying to make their fairy tales have the same humor as Shrek. Shrek is now over 20 years old and it's still remembered and quoted because it *wasn't* made by Disney. And Disney thinking they're gonna blow us away and surprise us with this humor that's 20 years old and think that this is gonna be a classic, it really shows me how out of touch they are and how unwilling they want to try something that's really artistically pleasing. And that's why I want to hear more of the animators and artists at Disney Animation because I'm sure they would love to make a 2D film. I'm not saying all of them, I don't want to overgeneralize. But don't you guys agree that the artists and animators that come to Disney want to create something that's timeless and beautiful to look at? I'm really insulted that Jennifer Lee suggests "2D animation limits camera movement." I personally don't think 2D Animation can "limit" anything. I'm finding out more and more that all the classic Disney hand-drawn films from Snow White all through the decades until 2011's Winnie the Pooh are the films that I will always love and hold near-and-dear and will continue to dissect them and recreate my own drawings of all their 2D films for years to come. I know this is a hot take that Pixar fans will hate me for, but I've grown really bitter against Pixar and computer animation in general, because that's what killed 2D and why we're stuck with this bullshit excuse that "2D limits camera movement." There's nothing new that computer animation can add. Once you've broken all the technology records, what else is there to conquer? 2D Animation doesn't need to be innovative in technology to be timeless, it has to be entertaining and original and enjoyable for years. Here's an idea that can really shake things up for Disney to make another great film:
Disney really needs to look at the Spider-Verse films and try to make their own kind of Disney-Verse film. And I don't mean that like the Dark Universe or the Once Upon a Studio special, I don't mean have every single individual character. First you need to find a story that could be told even better with a handful of Disney characters that team up and work off each other with their differences but also their similarities. Just an idea, I can further explain if anyone wants to reply.
That's only because Disney upper management changed the script. Almost all the animators have complained about how the project was ruined by those decisions. The movie was originally going to be done early with maybe a few touchups before release. Instead they were made to heavily change most of it which I think is part of the reason to me at least why it looks like the animation isn't finished not to mention all the other things I might have willingly ignored if Disney hadn't been trying to shove them down my throat consistently for the past few years. All the animators wanted to make something amazing and instead they were forced to change it into something they hate and now many or most are being fired.
From what I hear, this movie was literally written by AI.
This helps show why AI are bad when it comes to creating things.
Condensed version. Disney sucks.
That last paragraph really do just kinda sound like "Disney should just literally try adapting Kingdom Hearts into a film".
I’d rather have Kingdom Hearts be a Anime Series on Hulu rather than Disney+. No more Disney+ original series plz
On the fourth day of Disneycember. The critic gave to me
Four kings to vent to
Three Cartoon Epics
Two Singing Planets
And a plumber from the 90's
Can some artist do a google docs mural about this? Like Smash Brothers.
On the 4th Disneycember, the Critic gave to me:
Torn apart by critics
We need another season!
Victim of the strikes
And a cult movie with a fanbase.
Defining The Marvels as purely a victim of the strikes is way too forgiving
Makes you wonder what he’s got in store for the remainder.
I think referring to wish as another movie torn by critics or a movie with wasted potential, would be more accurate lol
I just thought of another thing to call it a forgetful way to celebrate the anniversary
We don’t need another season of that garbage
On the 4rd day of disneycember the critic gave for me:
4 Stars of wishes
3 Broken spells
2 Swapping places
And a weird videogame movie for me
NC should do a FanScription for this movie.
What if Wish was GOOD? Honestly, you could give it a shot and some people would see a good Disney movie. Though if people are looking for a way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Disney, watch the studio short and the best kinds of Disney movies. To me, that’s celebrating a century of Disney Studios.
I’m waiting for him to do a FanScription episode of the 2003 Cat in the Hat, trying to improve that film to be more to the tone and message of the original story while still expanding it to fit into a feature length format. I’d love to see how he’d do his own Cat in the Hat film adaptation since he clearly is a Seuss fanatic and has respect for the source material than the actual studio behind the film.
@@hunterolaughlin That might be a challenge.
@@ethanreynolds3522 I’m sure it’s a challenge he’d be willing to take. After all, he did say in his review he loves to be challenged.
I was thinking this too. Like a “How WISH could have been better” or something. Like if it was a film to tie all the Disney animated films together with more impact but also having its own story. Like I heard Magnifico gets trapped in a mirror (spoiler warning?) and therefore maybe he was the magic mirror in Snow White and so on and so forth. And maybe the fanscription could even use any of the scrapped concepts that didn’t make it in the film; ie the star being a shape shifter and/or love interest for Asha, Magnifico and his wife being both villains, etc. Go all spiderverse and kingdom hearts on us even. Whatever they do, a fanscription for the 100th anniversary film would be an interesting one.
It's a shame a celebration of 100 years turned out to be so generic and forgetable, even with all it had going for it. Cool hybrid animation, bringing back true villains, Ariana DeBose, and they still screwed up. Those songs actually felt AI generated. They need to start taking risks and changing up their formula, or they'll be left in the dust. I know some of us want that, but while I dislike the corporation, I still want the studio to do great things again.
Yeah, they need to evolve.
Agreed. Magnifico was a pretty decent villain though.
@@genjis5155He sure was.
To the point of the songs, there is one early on where Magnifico and Asha are singing about the wishes and how precious they are and protecting them at all costs. But it is so very clearly a love song. I can't help but think the song was written for an earlier draft where there WAS a romance and they mever bothered to rewrite the song.
Star was originally going to be a love interest for Asha, and if Star and Asha were the ones singing it, it would be more powerful and made more sense.
The talking animal and/or goofy sidekicks have been done to death in animated movies. If you're going to integrate that into your story, make the character actually matter. One of the reasons why Perrito worked, is because he was important to the plot.
Encanto on the other hand doesn't need talking animal and/or goofy sidekicks so it avoids them. Yeah there are funny animals but they are just side-gag characters that revolve mostly around Antonio. That was a wise choice.
Timmy Turner couldn’t fumble a wish harder than this!
And even then Farily Oddparents ( even its "films") handling of Wishes was thousand times better than this. Which is saying a lot
@joshuamunn2410WTF are you talking about? FOP belongs to Nickelodeon. Even if Butch Hartmann decided to work with Disney, which he obviously hasn't, he's not taking anything from his shows except artwork.
The problem with Wish is that instead of being a *family* film it's a *children's* film.
💯💯💯💯. Nailed it.
Schafrillas stated that as well
I mean, it's not like pre-renesaince films were anything else
@@bartoszl5082 The pre-renaissance films were better
@@chasehedges6775of course they were.
The fact that Trolls 3 is doing better financially than Wish is just crazy!
Tell me about it
And Puss in Boots 2
To be fair, that movie is part of a pre-existing franchise.
It’s because Trolls 3 was a better movie
The twist you were looking for is that the movie implies every other Disney movie is a reuslt of a wish made in this one. So Peter wishing people could fly creates the film Peter Pan and the Goat wishing for a city for animals creates Zootopia. (There is also a scene where Magnifico directly seems to be watching the events of Peter Pan, Marry Poppins, and Little Mermaid in the wish bubbles) So that addresses your complaint, but then critics lambast it for setting up a Disney multiverse and not everything needs to be a multiverse nowadays so the movie loses either way.
Also seprate from the above connections, the movie is implied to be a prequel to Snow White with the seven friends being the ancestors to the seven dwarfs and Magnifico becoming the Magic Mirror that will be placed in the dungeon to be used by the Evil Queen.
That, combined with the vaguely 2½-D animation style, makes me think that someone at Disney was just like "The Spider-Verse movies are a huge hit! Just do that!"
Which, if it's true, I can't think of a more disappointing way for Disney to celebrate their 100th anniversary than by shamelessly aping a film that beat them for an Oscar. So much for innovation 😑
They already have a Multiverse. It's called Kingdom Hearts 😂
That-s the lamest attempt at Multiverse shit I've ever read, tf, who greenlit these lame Disney stans dumb theory ideas 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Doesn’t make the references not bad tho
They weren’t trying to set up a multiverse.
Should had been a story based from the song When You Wish Upon Star. I like the way Doug reviewed Puss in Boots 2 even if the wish plot is little necessary.
How was the wish plot unnecessary when the Shrek franchise has always revolved around fairy tales
@@Animestar21 The Last Wish did talk about cherishing little things they have and not take too much time to be obsessed in being ambitious. Did Puss used the power of star to grant his wish? Because he already had it from the beginning.
@@artfire28 isn’t that the whole point of the story? Puss starts off as an arrogant hero concerned with his own reputation and immortality, but grows to cherish the one life he has left. Also he didn’t use the wish cause he realized he didn’t need it. That’s called character development
I finally know how to express my feelings on Disney because of this review. Disney is like a gold mine. In the 90's all the way to the mid 2010's it was bustling and busy and you were finding "gold" left and right. But today it's a depleted gold mine. Something happened, I don't know what but something and while you do find some gold every now and then maybe a little chunk, you mostly come back with just stone( bad or mid content). And that's Disney today. It's a gold mine that can't produce gold. Now either we need to wait and keep digging and hopefully we strike a new deposit... Or maybe the cave (Disney) is all out of gold to give.
What if we stopped thinking of everything like a gold mine? We won’t have to keep digging? Or better yet, especially since this movie apparently really was retooled so much, how about we stop trying to repaint and actually notice the gold?
It feels like Encanto was the last decently sized chunk of gold and Once Upon A Studio was a little nugget that was left behind and someone went back in to pick up off the ground.
@@colbystearns5066 unfortunately yes that seems to be the case
There was a scene where the townspeople were asking the King about their wishes. Stuff like "what if our wishes change?" or "why do we only get one wish?" Instead of it being a comedic moment, it could have been something the movie explored. What if one of the dwarf stand-ins had multiple wishes, but didn't share because they thought it would have been "selfish?" It's implied that the king didn't share his past with most of his subjects. What if he did, and that discouraged anyone from trying to fulfill their wish themselves?
It's nice that they implied at the end that you can't always fulfill your wish by yourself; you might need the help and support of your friends, family, and community to make it happen. But what about when your dreams don't come true? They really could have done something with that "Sleepy" character.
There's also a slight undertone that capitalism might be stopping a lot of these people from fulfilling their dreams. Oh, but Disney could never. A Disney property would never go too far into territory like that.
To me Wish is what you get when you make a "classic" disney movie and is doesnt come with a mountain of nostalgia and "well you have to remember when it came out"
Those classic films had love and effort put into them, though. People can watch them even without nostalgia and get something out of them. The only thing you get out of this film is wishing you had your time and money back.
My friend met Ariana DeBose during her first year at college in NYC. Her teacher knows Ariana. When Ariana walked into the room she said hi to my friend and she complemented her outfit and my friend almost cried. This was Ariana post West Side Story.
I hope she has a great career moving forward because she’s one of the best talents the entertainment industry has
The short on Disney Plus was a better celebration
Really wish we got the cut content. Like how the queen would’ve been evil along with Magnifico and would’ve actually had a point.
I heard somewhere that this was suppose to be a story centering around the song “wish upon a star” and have ties to several Disney characters and origin stories. However it was passed around a lot to new writers and ended up losing the whole message entirely.
2020s is like the 2000s all over again with WDAS. Instead of Lio and Stitch we have Encanto
And now I’m concerned the next film is gonna be the 20s’ Home on the Range.
@@KTKomedy2813 Well their next film (I believe) is Zootopia 2. Which people have been requesting
Imagine if we got a Disney Princess who looked like they would be the heroine, but then we find out they’re actually the bad guy and telling the story from a very twisted perspective and the villain is actually the hero.
One Piece Film Red?
That is a very long title. XD Sounds like a fun film. @@hanakosan4404
Best part of the movie was the villain song! Chris pine was the Highlight of the whole movie! GO MAGNIFICO🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
At all costs was a good song.
Better story idea with much better plot twist:
Asha wants to release the Wishes so every wish is granted
And the Audience is shown how evil the Sorcerer is.
But then it's revealed that Asha is the Daughter of the Sorcerer, and it's just in her rebellious phase and the Sorcerer isn't evil at all. 😅
But oh snap, the Wishes are released, and even the bad ones, causing the Kingdom to fall into chaos.
And Asha need to use the Master Wishing Star to undo all the Wishes.
Or better yet magnifico could still be the villian showing that even parents by blood can still be terrible people.
@@charlie8829 I wanted to make the reverse of a twist Villain, where it turns out he wasn't a Villain after all
Like he chooses only sane Wishes to not cause chaos
We could’ve had a shapeshifting star character…how cool would’ve that of been??!
At least he's reviewing Nimona this month 😊
@@stitchlover4381 Oh he is? That’ll be awesome! :)
@@sweetlime3588 maybe. Don't know how he'll view the story
@@stitchlover4381 I bet it's the exact reason why it was scraped, to avoid comparisons to movie Disney threw in the trash.
@@stitchlover4381Wait, he is?
At least there was a real villain
Agreed
My idea for what they could’ve done for Wish
If you’ve seen the movie, you know that it’s filled with references to other Disney movies, most of which not adding anything to the story and is shoved in your face. What I think they should’ve done is instead of outright referencing something, they put it in the background. I.e. their version of A113 or the Luxo ball. They do this ONCE for every single animated movie they produced throughout the film and maybe even do it in chronological order from their release (for example, the start of the movie would have a background reference to Snow White and the end of the movie would have one for Strange World). This way, the references don’t take away from the movie and you could even have fun looking for these easter eggs. It’s a win for everyone: we get a better movie and Disney gets more money since people are more likely to rewatch it due to the fun of finding these references.
That’s… actually not a bad idea. Heck they could get really creative with that. Maybe pictures in the background match the locations of other movies or books based on the fairytales
The fact that the main showstopper of a song, the theme of this film, This Wish, was written by a pop song writer well before anyone even knew what the story was going to be about or before the script was even *written* really speaks volumes about how meddled with this film was. The songwriter probably didn't know what the plot was or who Asha was going to be. but was required to write an "I want" song that sounded grand and epic, hence why we got so many awkward lyrics in "This Wish". The Frozen 2 documentary on Disney+ must've exposed so much more cracks in the current WDAS system than they likely thought when they put that out.
When I heard the premise, I was really hoping that the twist would be that the villain isn’t really bad because a lot of wishes shouldn’t be granted. That would be her lesson learned and the message of the film.
Buster: "Oh boy. Can I wish for a new cat toy?"
There's an exchange in the movie that Magnifico has with Asha after she says she lost her dad. "When I was young, I too suffered great loss." "I didn't know that. I'm sorry." "My entire family. Our lands were destroyed by selfish, greedy thieves." With the way this line is written, I couldn't confidently say one way or the other if it meant his family died or not. Either way, this backstory is then forgotten about, with the rest of the movie having him lean into a narcissist angle. Was there a point where his love for power overtook his fear of tragedy? Was he faking his backstory to appear sympathetic? It doesn't surprise me that he wasn't well-received, despite being the studio's response to people asking for a new character that would fit on the Disney villain roster.
It seems that the writers wanted Magnifico to be like Rameses while the execs wanted him to be more like Jafar. And as a result, those two very distinct villain archetypes were forced into one incohesive character.
Disney wanted to have their cake and eat it too. They wanted the sympathetic but misguided antagonist that modern Disney has given us but also wanted to have him be the cackling madman who gleefully celebrates his evil like Jack Horner but they can’t have him be both at the same time.
There's something just a little be off about the way this movie looks. I think it might be that it's 24fps, while a lot of movies emulating 3D animate in lower framerates? Or maybe it's that it sort of has a foot in the door of a new 2D art style and a foot in the door of the old Frozen 3D style
It's like a drunk dude told them what Puss in Boots 2's art style was and they tried to go for that
It do be kind of like that.
The idea that the twist would be the wishes were coming from other Disney characters below the clouds sounds like it'd be really cool.
Grumpy: Well, that was fun! 😠
Eeyore: Maybe we can try again in another hundred years.
Chris Pine was probably the best part of this movie.
Get ready for the NC review of this one day people!
I wholeheartedly agree that the core idea here is positively *bursting* with potential, and that Disney just completely pussed out, at least based on everything I've heard. A story about a once-noble king who was slowly corrupted by his ability to pick and choose which magical wishes he granted and the young girl who initially wants to grant everyone's wishes and then has to follow a similar learning arc to the king *without* becoming greedy, cynical, or corrupt could be *amazing.*
The suspicious cynic in me wonders if Disney didn't puss out because actually committing to the bit would've risked communicating to the audience that some wishes shouldn't or can't come true (which kind of spits in the face of Disney's vibe) or that the audience should reclaim their wishes by, like, eating Bob Iger.
This film kind of reminds me of the Black Cauldron. A thin plot combined with paper thin characters trying to adhere to the fairy tale formula so hard it reminds you that the studio is not the same it was before. But in this case, every step of the way feels compromised, and all it points that the filmmakers needed more time to make this. More time so it could be true 2d animation, to work out a bit the story details, to add the goat to the narrative and explore the characters. All to have this film as the anniversary extravaganza
For me, I’d take The Black Cauldron, which I feel is severely underrated, over the mediocre Wish any day. The Black Cauldron, in spite of its flaws, at the very least attempted to have a more serious, dark tone, without overindulging into being mean-spirited, had likeable characters, beautiful animation, decent humour, and had one HELL of a nightmare inducing villain, The Horned King! But Wish had bland characters, a storyline that had no tension, surprises or anything challenging, the humour was overly childish, and the villain, who initially could’ve been interesting, they just made him a boring, unfunny “I want to get power over the wishes for unexplained, vague reasons!”
I just saw Wish yesterday, going in with low expectations. To me it’s not as bad as the other online reviewers made it out to be. The fact the songs are giving every note a syllable actually makes the lyrics in the Spanish version (which I saw courtesy of TheaterEars) flow very well. Plus I can understand how guarding everyone’s wishes can make a guy slowly descend into madness, as I’m dealing with mental health myself. Also the animation style is new and I can tell they were experimenting with it. Either they improve it for next time or abandon it altogether, we’ll see.
Do you think Disney Animation might get rid of Jennifer Lee? And Bob Iger because he didn’t fix the company due to Bob Chapek in a year
Even though this movie isn't bad, I'd still like to give it a watch, but I think Disney needs some new ideas rather than rehashing what they've done in the past
Now THAT is a wish that won't be granted anytime soon.
@@thinkertinker8004 one can hope
On the fourth day of Disneycember Doug send me
Four Bad wishes
Three great adventures
Two Marvel downfalls
And a classic review from the past 🎄❤
But Doug, you missed that the first letter of each of the friends' names is the same as the first letter of their corresponding dwarf. See, now it makes perfect sense. 10/10.
They have names?
On the 4th day of disneycember, the critic gave to me.
4 wishing stars,
3 palisman,
2 marvelous disappointments
And a goomba with a Human body!
I wish they made the movie where Mickey Mouse disappears and Minnie hires Basel of Baker Street to find him and they go throughout the different Disney Worlds.
still waiting for:
- 101 Dalmatians the series
- 101 Dalmatian Street
- 102 Dalmatians the movie
- 102 Dalmatians the game
- The Jungle Book the game (SNES & Genesis)
- Toy Story the game (Genesis version ONLY)
- Beauty and the Beast (SNES)
for Disneycember
you should really play the games on twitch, their kind of short and be fast to review the games for it
The concept art is better than what we got! Like, the star was originally supposed to be a shapeshifting starboy who falls in love with her! And the king and queen were supposed to be evil together! That would’ve been better!
On the fourth day of Disneycember my critic fave to me
4 foul wishes
3 Amity's blushing
2 marvelous failures
And mario and luigi
Surprise to see this so early on the month, I tought it could be at the end or something.
To summarize: Disney has become the "turn your brain off and don't think about it" company. Great legacy Bob.
Depressing
Which Bob?
@@Poever The one who fired the other one to take credit for "saving" the company... From his own problems
One of the biggest biggest bombs of the year
Funny thing the original movie was gonna have the king AND queen as a villain power couple and the star wasn't supposed to be a luma. Turns out it was going to have a human appearance and was supposed to be a love interest for asha.
Let me guess, some studio suit butted in and said a woman can't be a villain anymore?
@@louisduarte8763 maybe or poor decision making
I am so glad that ya see some good in it. All I see on CZcams is people absolutely trashing this film for outlandish reasons or outright coming up with lies to slander it.
Wish the film was better.
You know, I wasn't surprised when Disney left out the Black Cauldron left out of the end credits. Its sad really.
Turns out the protag was the villain
I feel like this almost had the inverse of the problem you had with owl house. Owl house had interesting characters and a fun creative story and world, while the villain you found boring and derivative. Wish had a boring derivative story and world while the villain was the most entertaing part of the movie.
"My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" did an episode set in a town led by a seemingly benevolent pony who takes away everyone's special talent so they can all be "equal." They do behave in that more subdued manner that Doug describes, like, you can tell something is missing from them. I haven't seen "Wish" yet, but it sounds like that episode might have done the concept better.
Wasn't that "The Cutie Map" from Season 5?
@@atruebluefriend Yes, that's the one.
@@brentparker7359 For me, Season 5 is where things started to take a turn for me in the quality and my enjoyment of MLPFIM.
YES I rewatched that episode and they did the concept so well. You know things are going down hill when MLP FIM can do what Disney couldn't.
When will Doug realize that the Disney we all grew up with up with is dead & gone.
I was going to watch this movie over Thanksgiving break but didn’t because of scheduling issues (namely me not wanting to see it on opening day and having to travel back to school on Black Friday) and so the time I would have spent watching Wish was instead spent on playing Bloodborne. Smart move apparently giving the verbal massacres I’ve seen about this one! I’m probably going to check it out when it comes out on Disney+ so I can develop my own opinion but that’s it.
I wouldn’t say that. I think people are over thinking and overlooking what it is they truly want and even already have. It is clearly establish why magnifico changes dimes, because he is challenged by Asha, and no one else has ever done that before on account of how he runs things. There’s a first time for everything,I can’t believe that Doug and everybody else seems to be easily overlooking that. Again, the biggest problem is audiences are expecting too much to become conditioned to a certain way to think or even not think toward something that they’re missing something that even though it may not be the best, is still overall as more than good enough for what it is. It’s actually my favourite movie of the year! :-)
I have maintained that this film is a great homage film with all the references. But as a single standalone story. It just isn't good.
As the days go on since my last viewing it fades more and more from my mind each day. Encanto was much more memoriable.
It would have been cool is Asha was already Magnifico’s apprentice, and she falls in love with the star boy, and it turns out the king and queen were both evil., like an evil version of Gomez and Morticia.
Everyone needs to see the original concepts for this movie.
Who else’s wants a fanscription of What if Wish was the Disney Princess of avengers endgame and had it be a giant Disney crossover
I think it was changed last minute. I think Magnifico did a "curse" on each cameo Disney character after being betrayed and Asha corrected it and sent them to their own worlds/timelines. That is why I felt the pacing and storytelling were all over the place.
I wasn't expecting you to do this one so early.
Remember back in the late 2000s & early 2010s Disney was doing so well that even some of its live-action films were good? Wish we could all go back to that time now.
I'm split on this movie and on one hand I like what this movie was trying to be, a celebration of Disney's 100th birthday, and having a movie centered on wishing, and this movie showed that in 2023, Disney is more about money grabbing, franchise-ruining, and creating controversies instead of creative storytelling. I think this movie would have worked a lot better if the songs were written and sung better, the hero was not so quirky and cheery, the villain at first was a breath of fresh air after so many lame twist villains and no villains but a traditional Disney bad guy with a unique agenda. The king also would have not been the only main villain but the queen could have been evil as well, I mean you can still make them evil but at least give them some sympathy like they were trying to do here but go all out. The Billy Goat sucked with Alan Tudyk's voice and yes he's quite a voice actor and has proven to be a great Disney mainstay but I wish they either A: have the goat not talk at all, or B: have a child actor to voice the goat since he is about a few weeks old and not have a deep grown up voice that so does not match the character. The Star I had no problems with since he's the best thing about this, but there were a few characters I wish were more distinct and the seven friends of Asha, the ones based off of the seven dwarfs only they're human and they are a mixed of male and female and all the races and it does remind me of how the dwarfs were gonna look like in the god-awful Snow White remake but they're not the worst things about it they just don't have fleshed out or original personalities. The thing with Asha being this Fairy-Godmother figure and wearing the cloak eerily similar to the Fairy Godmother from Cinderella was picked up by me early on. The call-backs or references are just not plastered well and Once Upon a Studio did them better. The animation at first I was excited it was going to be a 2-D animated film which we didn't have since Winnie the Pooh (2011) or a fairy-tale in 2-D style since The Princess and the Frog. But when they did this CGI animation which has become standard by now and it looks like a bad blend of 2-D animation it looks really rough but I did like the style of watercolor and had it been in 2-D this would have been kick-ass. The star on the other hand is so well done and looks more hand-drawn than CGI. The pacing was one of the worst I seen in a Disney film and I wish they had found a better editor and the songs could have done a little more work in the sound area but I did enjoy the singing demos from Ariana DeBose and Chris Pine among others and they can pull off the acting and singing when they are given the right stuff to work on and I think they did a passable job here, but the songs again are not ones I would sing let alone many other people would sing or hum in their sleep. Also the story was all over the place and I wish they could have made the wish plot be more about the wishes being stored away and when they feel down that their wishes are not granted they seem to be indifferent towards the situation and they seem to forget it slowly over time until the point the only one who understands it and believes it is the main character and have her and her family and friends try to search for the wishes that they were granted but were never given thanks to the greediness of the royal couple. The tone does have trouble finding itself too and sometimes its hard to stay connected because they can have a mood-swing from out of nowhere and completely make a scene either forgettable or just off. I do agree that this movie should have been big for Disney's 100th anniversary and it was going to have at least one character or reference from Snow White up to Encanto or Strange World and this movie sort of became a shell of its original idea thanks to corporate meddling. It seems as if AI took over this movie and I can definitely see it as a strange mess but it does have a few good elements to it they're just shy of being decent. Overall its kind of bad but not horrible as many people say it is. If it was not for the woke era or Hollywood in shambles that led to the SAG-AFTRA strike this movie would have been worthwhile but I and about 90% of people did not see it that way. But I think this movie was worth seeing on the big screen. I give it a 5/10.
The main characters are all just Twitter brats who win the day by screeching at their perceived enemy and demanding to get what they want hard enough until an outside force swoops in to give them everything they want. That's all you need to know about the mental processing of this movie.
Here’s how I would have changed it.
1). Make Asha be a run away orphaned (as a kid) to now being a princess in a kingdom who doesn’t believe in wishing upon a star until the end of the movie. She can come across power from a meteorite from space or a magical crystal that she finds and that convinces King Magnifico to “take care of her”. Boom, powerful princess.
2). Instead of making King Magnifico a sympathetic and cartoony character, let’s make him a full blown Disney villain. I am thinking of him being Judge Frollo if he would to have the power of sorcery. He can be one of the most powerful sorcerers with the limits that he has One of the flashbacks scenes can be Asha being unconscious near the meteorite and was planning to kill her so that there would no survivor, but he didn’t since he sense some magic within her and could led him into greater power. Boom, memorable villain.
3). Instead of having a 100 year old man (GET IT) who wants to wish to become a musician or something, he can be a butler to King Magnifico and he was order to take care of Asha while he studies the meteorite. In present day, Asha can overhear the butler talking to his wife on a wish and ghat he’s afraid to ask so Asha goes and ask her father about it. Boom, better character.
4). Disney canceled the idea of making a villain duo with King Magnifico and Queen Amaya. Let’s use that, but make her as a surprise villain. We can see both the king and queen being madly in love with each (like a Gomez and Morticia Addams) with one loving one for power of sorcery and other for power of rulership. One of the songs can be a duet while the soldiers hunts down Asha for a crime that she didn’t commit (like attempting to murder the queen). Boom, powerful couples.
5). Instead of having 7 friends (DID YOU GET IT), how about reducing to 2. One that Asha befriend in the orphanage and the other (like Dahlia or Simon) in the palace. If they want to make a 7 dwarfs reference (because it’s the 100 anniversary of Disney), you can have Dahlia mentioned that she learned that pacific thing from her 7 siblings. Boom, lesser human characters and more memorable characters.
6&7). The star can stay and the goat is debatable.
It’s not a perfect change to the Wish movie but it’s better than the final product.
4:53 The point of showing the other Disney characters at the end was clearly missed by almost everyone. SPOILER ALERT!!!!
When Asha explains why the star had to leave soon, she says, "You have to go, so you can be there for others to wish upon." Then the star performs fireworks over the kingdom and before waving good bye to the audience, creates the "Mickey Firework" and classic the Disney Logo. So to recap, the Mickey firework, the characters outlined in star's dust and what Asha said, all point to the biggest easter egg of the film. The big wisher himself Walt Disney and the company he and his brother built to grant more wishes and dreams.
Asha had a cameo in Once Upon a Studio
I kept thinking we were going to get an explanation for Magnifico’s actions. Like, what was it that happened so long ago that made him want to take everyone’s wishes away? What was his motivation? I felt like he was a potentially sympathetic villain, like a villain who does something bad from a place where they think what they’re doing is the best thing, even if it’s bad. An explanation was there, but we never got it, because he’s just evil and there’s no coming back now? If we were going to stick with the “just a cold straightforward villain” theme, I would have rather liked for someone to ask why he’s doing this, and for him to say why, and then for them to say it’s wrong, and for him to say, oh yeah, I know it’s wrong, but I don’t care. Something like that maybe? I don’t know. Everyone was so happy to trap him away forever and I was like, “hold on, let’s see what he has to say about why he’s doing what he’s doing because there’s an obvious story there that we never bothered to ask about.” And if we’re going for the deep down evil villain that cannot be redeemed, don’t put a sympathetic experience in there as his motivation.
Incredibly unfocused and underdeveloped. They hint at Magnifico's painful and tragic past that made him who he is today and never fully reveal it.
Remember when Disney had that tired trope of having a twist villain in every movie, because personally I think that this was one of those films that would have benefited from the sorcerer being a twist villain
What are you talking about Magnifico’s not a twist villain he’s a classic Disney villain.
@@rileyduncan3927 still the way he is written made it feel like they just chose to make him evil at random. They should have made him gradually show his evil side. Have him start off by saying how it’s hard for him to carry the weight of the world, judging who’s wishes should or shouldn’t be granted. Then overtime show his true intentions, don’t just make him act like a cartoon villain. Or jut write him like Jafar, We all knew he was a villain through and through, but he didn’t act like some cartoon character from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” He always kept his calm composure, even when caught he still remained with at least some composure allowing him to come up with a counter-plan
@@JCoolPlaysthe artbook called Hans “Disney’s most complex villain”. Yeah, they may have been too busy making out with themselves to actually write a good classic villain.
Also, when even Doug, who often tries to treat products as fairly as he can and has rarely hated anything since the start of the decade, finds it hard to say anything nice about Wish, I'm convinced that Animat is too forgiving towards the movie. Maybe it's because Disney is one of his favorite animation studios, but it speaks a lot that he's one of the only prominant content creators with a very positive opinion on the movie. If any other studio produced it, whether it be Dreamworks, Illumination, or Paramount, he would've probably noticed the flaws more and been annoyed by the safe storytelling and overreliance on easter eggs.
This movie needs a nostalgia critic treatment.
i got the metaphor: Having your dreams ignored by the big boss is internal commentary on Disney itself; millions of fans asking for things who quickly forget those things the next moment... not knowing what they want. But, ho boy if you still try to compete with them... they will DESTROY you.
What's worse is HAVE YOU SEEN THE CONCEPT ART!?
Even the people who worked said it wasn’t that good
Well, that’s definitely not a good sign
Wish tried so hard to stick to the “classic Disney formula” (a quirky female protagonist, a funny animal sidekick, an evil villain with a musical number, etc.) that it lacks its own identity.
It doesn’t do anything spectacular or daring compared to Disney's other works. It just kinda… exists.
Exactly
The art style and plot reminded me of one of those Disney Channel princess shows. No idea where all the money went.
I liked how they tried something different with the animation. Although it didn't work out, I like how they experimented in that aspect.