The original concept work of the movie had; - The star being able to turn Human at will and have a romance with Asha - Asha was originally the King and Queen’s daughter - Both the King and Queen were going to be a Villain duo
Puss in Boots already did the ‘wishing on a star’ theme, pushed boundaries in storytelling, and upgraded the stylistic animation. Dreamworks was clowning on Disney a year in advance 😂
Puss in Boots moral: you don’t always need to wish but appreciate your life and the people around you to the fullest Wishes moral: Just keep wishing NOW GIVE US YOUR FUCKING MONEY
11:42 “I let you live here for free and I don’t even charge you rent,” Is the same as saying, “I let you live here for free and I let you live here for free.”
You know how bad it is when my 10 year old came up with a better verse by saying : “ I welcomed you as my guest, and I don’t even charge you rent “ It really hurts when a professional song writer being upstaged by a 10 year old.
My middle school English teacher always told us to cut out sentences that just repeat the same point. Meaning thirteen year old me could’ve written better lyrics.
How quickly the queen went to not giving a shit about her husband is also... Interesting. Like, no tears no nothing. She just said "put him in the dungeon" so nonchalantly.
Maybe the real villain was the queen all this time? Her wish was to become the only ruler of the kingdom and she granted that wish behind king's back. And since that moment everyone went nuts, because no matter what... the wish must become reality.
@@youtubewontletme It would have been such an interesting turn of the story, tho! At first viewers might be be skeptical, why everyone's IQ suddenly dropped halfway through the story, but in the end, after the reveal it all comes together. A solid story with a valuable lesson: even if your wish is not bad you have to be sure, that achieving it won't harm anyone. Because that's where good intentions transform into bad actions and that's the trickiest part of any wish.
Disney has become way too comfortable with themselves. The reason they thrived in the first place was because they strived to outdo their competitors. Now they simply just “buy” their competition whenever they feel like it. Someone once said *”without criticism or pressure from others, there can be no improvement.”* And that really is true, Disney has become lazy and comfortable with themselves and everyone sees it. They may believe for now that they are invincible, but eventually they will find out they’re not and the cycle will start all over again. This is a season that will eventually pass and believe it or not I want Disney to succeed by making changes.
They had competitors? I'm guessing you mean Pixar then? Cause Disney didn't have competitors in their first era. Snow White The og cartoons with Donald duck and Mickey and them. They had competition in the early 2000's hence Pixar being in it and booming in that era 2000's to mid 2010's. With bangers like Toy story 2-3 Nemo Ratatouille Etc
@@TheSpoicyCaramellitoit was around the 80s and 90s that other studios started to compete with them in animated film industry. Warner Bros., Fox Animation Studios (yes that existed), and even some former team members like Don Bluth who produced Secret of Nimh and The Land Before Time, and Jeffery Katzenburg who founded Dreamworks.
How is the king even evil??? They have no reason for him to be bad out of freaking nowhere. One piece literally did this troupe better: There's a land made of desserts and sweets where equality and harmony is praised, but in order to stay there you have to keep giving the Queen (Big Mom) a part of your soul. That's far more evil than willingly giving a freaking wish!
Yeah. Shortening your lifespan to live in a relatively peaceful kingdom made out of sweets. That was my favorite of the post-time skip arcs. The finale was so emotional.
@@jareththegoblinking3191 Well he did set himself up as king of his own magically habitable island and all these other people showed up and started making demands of him. If they started questioning me in this situation I wouldn't be using the forbidden book I'd be saying "Here's your wishes back now get out, this island is mine and you're not welcome."
King: This guy wished the shopkeeper to love him, but that would take away her free will, plus she already loves someone else Asha: How dare you hold that wish! You are so evil!
King: This guy wished to have a spear, But why? For stabbing others? He doesn't specify for what reason, And- Her: GIVE HIM THE WISH HOW DARE YOU REJECT HIM!? *few seconds later a spear wielding maniac is on the loose*
@@SpillingTheMilk”Hey remember us?! We’re Disney! We’re the guys who made your childhood! Remember how cool we used to be? Remember all the cool 2D animated films that we made that we’ll never make again?! Now give us your money!!”
Ahh yes, Anastasia. The not Disney movie that everyone thought was a Disney movie since they where trying to make their own Disney movie but eventually became a Disney movie that Disney refuses to make a Disney movie. Also yes, it is very good. Dark of the Night and Once Upon a December are engraved deep within me. Heck, it's spinoff movie, Bartok the Magnificent was better than Wish. Granted both of those are made by the legendary Don Bluth, but still!
What your friend actually means is: "it took them 100 years for them to become what they are today, and that film represents that." Because this is who they are and have been from the very beginning. It just took us too long to see that.
@@nevaehhamilton3493i mean yes and no, while Walt indeed wanted to expand and create an empire he actually put heart and soul on the art he was creating, you could see the passion on that man for films while also wanting to grow his company, he had both the mindset of a business man and an artist meanwhile today Disney only has the money in mind but not the care for the artists they hire throwing all innovation out, that’s really the big difference
Oof, I know the feeling First drafts have good ideas but they’re incomplete, and when they get a finished second draft they’re good but some deets from the first draft are missing which really-Sorry, apparently that was a trigger for me
Apparently, the first draft was much better. Asha was supposed to be the King's apprentice, learning magic from him. The star was also supposed to be humanoid and be Asha's love interest. The Queen was also supposed to be evil, so we could have gotten our first evil-power couple from Disney. What a missed opportunity.
This movie went through TONS of rewrites. According to rumors, one draft was going to reveal Magnifico as a fallen star. Another was that a young spoiled Prince Magnifico was going to be the protagonist where he's learning how to grant wishes and becomes humble by the end
And the thing is, the filmmakers didn't INTEND this to be the message! It's supposed to be "Don't put all your trust in someone else to achieve your dreams!" But all that obsession with shout-outs to older movies helped warp it.@@RamdomLolola
Disney has just completely forgotten about the saying *”quality over quantity.”* Did you know that the writers at Disney were once given 6 whole months to write out a story? Why have film companies just completely forgotten about that it doesn’t matter how long it takes to make a film, all that matters is that the film turns out good! If a movie is good, it’s likely that people are gonna watch it! Many people today don’t care as much about deadlines anymore, THEY JUST WANNA SEE A GOOD MOVIE!! Plus it gets people all the more hyped up when the movie does eventually come out! The only way Disney can save themselves now is if they just stop, take a step back, and reevaluate everything and start fresh. Because what they’ve been doing is getting exhausting to watch.
Honestly, though, if the movie came out in 2024, it probably would've actually been good. Sure, it wouldn't have been released on the 100th year, but at that point, I just want the movie to be good
just like the new avatar series being released. They took their time on casting and visual effects and to sum it up they already have the series as a well written script and unlike many remakes of our time they are strictly staying on the main plot. no add ons no subtractions just strictly the main plot and though it has been in the making for quite a while fans are still incredibly hyped for it esp[ecially after thier recently dropped trailer
because disney is a company and their purpose is to increase profits, not make good movies, if they think making good movies will increase profits then they'll do it but they discovered they have a cheat code where regardless of what crap they put out it will still make tons of money
I've seen people say that people complaining about the writing of the movie are silly because it's a movie made for kids anyway, which is ridiculous to me because: (1) are kids not allowed to have well-written movies just because they're kids? (2) historically disney has made pretty compelling stories & songs while marketing them toward kids (3) it's just SO bad you can't excuse it as "it's written like that because it's for children!"
The funniest part of that argument is that Walt Disney himself apparently resented the fact that his films and animations were increasingly pigeonholed as being "children's entertainment" during his lifetime. He was constantly trying to push the envelope in terms of what animation was capable of and the stories it could tell. We tend to think of the Classic Disney movies as being somehow quaint, but if you actually go back and watch them, they're dark as heck. The Evil Queen explicitly commands the Huntsman to cut out Snow White's heart so she can keep it in a box, the donkey transformation scene in Pinocchio is genuinely still one of the most horrifying scenes in animated movie history, Bambi and Fantasia are both basically "dark but some occasional funny", everything about Maleficent is terrifying, the 'Pink Elephants on Parade' sequence has imagery that is downright disturbing. Even with the anthology films from the 1940s you have things like the Headless Horseman chasing Ichabod through the forest, the ending of 'Willie the Operatic Whale', and Donald Duck going berserk from starvation and trying to kill Mickey and Goofy with an axe (with the implication he was planning to eat them afterwards)... Disney being *exclusively* kids' media hasn't been a thing until arguably the direct-to-video sequel plague of the late-90s-to-mid-2000s...which still started less than 30 years ago. And even then I'd argue that this is the first movie since then that, again, was primarily targeted at children rather than the entire family. To try and excuse the film with "it's just for kids" is absolutely an even bigger slap in the face to Disney's legacy than the 100th anniversary movie itself just being bad.
@@overlydramaticpandasomeone commented how far Disney has fallen when they compared the villain song in Wish to Hellfire. Like it legit feels like a totally different company when you think of the likes of Hellfire, Savages, Be Prepared etc. ultimately evolving to "I let them live here rent free 🤪"
@@writerwiles2406 The funny (sad?) thing is that the whole "I let you live here for free and I don't even charge you rent"...thing isn't even close to being the only bad lyric...and the villain song that sounds nothing like a villain song isn't even close to being the worst song in the film. Like...every Disney musical has that one lyric you hear and go "hmm...kay... You were stretching there"; 'Wish' has multiple examples *per song* . I mean the absolute worst offender is "watch out world, here I are" because it's just...so damn easy to fix - like that shouldn't even be a "first draft" line; it's just...ugh - but then you also have things like "throw caution to every warning sign", "eloquent dancers" and the VA trying so desperately to make "can't keep count" sound like it rhymes with "more than himself"... Why they went with a writer of pop songs (with not even that much experience of writing pop songs) over the multiple experienced musical theatre songwriters/composers/lyricists they've previously hired over the years is completely beyond me. Even if this movie *were* just for kids, they still deserve a heck of a lot better than this mess...
I agree that they should've hired someone who does the right style of music rather than a pop musician. Even so, she's not all to blame: apparently they regularly gave her no direction (resulting in the vague, unsubstantial lyrics that are often irrelevant to the story) and asked for more songs really last minute (resulting in lots of the "first draft" feeling lyrics because she had no time to iterate or improve them before the deadline). A LOT of it feels like she was just spitballing ideas, sent off her rough draft expecting feedback, and then was told "approved, thanks." Take the "eloquent dancers" line, for example. As many people have pointed out, "elegant dancers" is a typo-and-autocorrect-mistake away. But instead of Disney sending it back with notes like "wouldn't 'elegant' make more sense?" so she could correct it, they were in such a rush to get it out that they just gave it the stamp of approval and moved on. Or the villain song, which is one of, if not THE song, that could benefit most from a complete rewrite (not just lyrically, but musically too), especially since it references themes/plot points that were later dropped. But they couldn't afford the time it would take to re-write, re-record, and re-animate it (and not that they _couldn't_ afford the money it would take, but potentially they were _unwilling_ to spend it). There's just... SO much that went SO poorly.
The fact that we could have had Spilling the Milk reacting to a Twink Starboy who'll become the target of many teen fangirls and a villainous power couple is something I cannot forgive Disney for depriving us of such joys
The Queen was also originally supposed to be evil when the movie was first in development. A Disney Villain Couple would’ve made this movie so much better tbh.
Title: "Enchanted Echoes" by Chat GPT INT. MAGIC KINGDOM - DAY A majestic castle stands tall amidst a magical kingdom. Princess ARIA, a spirited and curious young royal, looks out from her tower window, dreaming of adventure. ARIA (voiceover) I long for a world beyond these castle walls, where magic and wonders await. EXT. MAGIC KINGDOM - VILLAGE SQUARE - DAY A carnival is in full swing. ARIA sneaks out of the castle, disguised as a commoner, eager to experience the festivities. ARIA (to herself) Just for one day, I want to be part of the enchantment. ARIA joins the lively crowd, where she meets a charming street performer, FINN. FINN Welcome to the carnival, my lady! Care for a dance? ARIA (smiling) A dance? Why not! They twirl and spin, laughter echoing through the square. Suddenly, a mysterious figure, MALIK, appears and casts a spell on ARIA. MALIK (laughing) Enjoy your little adventure, Princess. Soon, you'll be trapped in a world where magic is fading away. ARIA is surrounded by a magical aura, and the carnival transforms into a dark, desolate land. ARIA (panicking) What's happening? FINN (fearful) It's Malik, the dark sorcerer. He's taken away the magic! ARIA and FINN embark on a quest to reverse the spell and restore the kingdom's magic. Along the way, they encounter a quirky magical creature named TWINKLE, who becomes their guide. TWINKLE We must find the three ancient relics scattered across the realm to break Malik's curse. ARIA, FINN, and TWINKLE journey through mystical forests, treacherous mountains, and enchanted caves, facing challenges that test their courage and friendship. INT. CAVE OF ETERNAL WHISPERS - NIGHT In the cave, ARIA discovers a magical mirror that reveals the truth about herself and her kingdom. ARIA (teary-eyed) I have a responsibility to protect the magic within us all. They unlock the first relic, a shimmering crystal, and gain a clue about the next one. EXT. MAGICAL MEADOW - DAY ARIA, FINN, and TWINKLE navigate a meadow filled with talking flowers and playful creatures. They encounter a wise old TREE, the guardian of the second relic. TREE To prove your worth, solve the riddles three, and the relic shall be yours. After overcoming the challenges, they obtain the second relic, a glowing orb that restores a fraction of the lost magic. EXT. DRAGON'S PEAK - SUNSET Facing their biggest challenge yet, the trio confronts a guardian dragon, who holds the final relic. FINN We must convince the dragon that our cause is just. ARIA uses her newfound wisdom to communicate with the dragon and persuade it to join their quest. DRAGON (roaring) Together, we shall defeat Malik and restore the magic to this land. They retrieve the third relic, a magical staff, and return to the desolate kingdom. INT. MAGIC KINGDOM - NIGHT ARIA, FINN, TWINKLE, and the dragon confront MALIK, who is ready to cast a spell to solidify his dark reign. ARIA (holding the relics) You can't extinguish the magic within us. We are bound by the enchantment that unites our hearts. The relics glow with a brilliant light, overpowering MALIK's dark magic. The kingdom is restored to its former glory. MALIK (furious) This isn't over! MALIK disappears into the shadows, defeated but vowing revenge. EXT. MAGIC KINGDOM - DAY The kingdom is alive with magic, joy, and laughter. ARIA, now wiser and more compassionate, addresses her people. ARIA Our journey taught us that true magic lies in friendship, courage, and the love that connects us all. The kingdom celebrates with a grand carnival, where ARIA, FINN, TWINKLE, and the dragon dance together, surrounded by the enchanting echoes of their adventure. FADE OUT.
the final message is horrible. Teaching kids that they just need to wish hard enough and theyll get what they want. No need for them to put in any effort or actually try.
In Princess And The Frog, the whole flipping lesson was "Work hard, and you can make dreams come true." In Wish, the ending is like "Magic makes your dreams come true" which isn't even a useful lesson because in our own lives, we don't have magic. Princess And The Frog had magic, but a lot of it was from the villain, and then there was the magic for Tiana and Prince Naveen to become frogs. Magic was what helped them on their emotional journey, not what solved all of their problems or made their dreams come true.
@@eglol exactly LOL the magic may have indirectly led them to figure OUT how to make their dreams come true, but they didn’t just get to have what they wanted because they really wished for it. Hell there was even a whole song about how what you want and what you need are 2 different things LOL
What sucks is that in the art book, there are story ideas that are way better. Like how the star was going to be a trickster like Peter Pan or Jack Frost and both the king and queen were going to be a villain couple.
honestly, this movie could’ve worked without having to scrap the plot: 1. keep the idea where both the king and queen are evil. people (including me) love a power couple. 2. they could’ve further explored how the king controls Rosas by adding ridiculous rules (exp. allowing no outside contact, they have to strictly follow his laws, he manipulates the wishes to make them beneficial to him, etc.) 3. completely rewrite all the songs. scratch that- have like 3 songs and call it a day. 4. they could’ve scrapped most of the side characters. just keep short guy for sarcastic commentary, Asian girl who bakes for a friend who tries to bring Asha back to reality, maybe the goat just for animal sidekicks and possibly to have a rivalry with Star for Asha’s favorite, and depressed guy and you’re good. 5. they could’ve made it more aware how the subjects become miserable after giving their wish. (exp: Asha’s mother constantly ponders if she has any purpose and forgets what her wish is, her grandpa loses all faith in his wish at the start of the movie, and the depressed guy is falling into deep existential dread. ik it’s dark, but it works.) 6. don’t make all the animals talk. the goat is more than enough. 7. make Asha less “quirky” and have a compelling personality.
Honestly they're too like... Loudly bad for them to be AI. AI would write something safe and generic. Wish songs are safe and generic til they sucker punch you with absolute nonsense
i went to see this movie with two of my cousins (10 and 9 years old). they didnt like the songs, they never laughed, we left the theater sad, and they just realized that bad media exists
Thats actually kinda insane. Ive never heard of a kid not enjoying a cartoon childrens movie before nevermind one being watched AT THE CINEMA and not only didnt enjoy it but was genuinly upset from the time wasted watching it
Ok, but Encanto had a lot of characters and they got character arcs?? That’s a recent movie and yet it’s so much better than this one. Did they fire everyone that worked on that movie or something 😭
16:35 Funny thing. they got the reference Wrong. Mirror Mirror is not how the line goes in Snow it is MAGIC MIRROR. Mirror Mirror is from Sherk it is common Mandela effect.
Really makes you wish that Encanto (which subverts Disney’s storytelling formula), or Tangled (which embodies all of Disney’s best attributes) was their 100th anniversary movie
Honestly like Tangled was robbed, I'm eternally upset that it's so overshadowed by Frozen, it started the era and it's literally the best thing we've had since Disney switched to CG. Encanto is amazing too, but when you look at the movies surrounding it you have to wonder... How the hell did they manage to pull this one off when it's surrounded by trainwrecks? What went right with it that Disney fucked up for everything else?
@@jaceybella1267 Encanto has to be a miracle (get it). It’s so good, but I’m so upset that it’s surrounded by bad movies. People have already forgotten about it because it’s overshadowed by the bad ones
@@jaceybella1267 Encanto feels like a holdover from their Post-Bolt/Pre-Moana Revival period when they were still releasing solid films that got delayed into the current dark age we've been seeing since at least Ralph Breaks The Internet in terms of quality, though COVID and the move to Disney + was when the films stopped making money. It's basically the Lilo and Stitch of this era.
I liked Rapunzel a lot better than Frozen, too. I am a sucker for fairy tales, and while Tangled was updated, it hit all the same story beats very well. Frozen was supposed to Be the Snow Queen, which is a TOUGH story to adapt. And while it is a good film, it doesn’t feel like the Snow Queen to me, just a more original fairy tale
Well, that would have been the case with the Mary Poppins-inspired wish. If the wish wasn’t granted immediately, the kids would eventually grow past the age where they would need a nanny. I mean, yeah, it’s supposed to be a “Mary Poppins” reference, but it’s still presented in the story as a wish that someone gave to him.
I think the most confusing part of the movie is that the King isn't even all that evil, it isn't until Asha messes everything up that he actually shows any sort of villany He lets a bunch of people live rent free on HIS island where they are happy and carefree, oh but he won't grant them literally every single wish they want? Woooow, so terrible...like are you serious??? I think if any of the villagers were portrayed as legitimately suffering in some way, or if the King had a bunch of jackass knights who boss everyone around and force everyone to give him their wishes, Asha's motivations would make a lot more sense
The movie tells us he is deceiving the people but literally everyone knows he only grants one wish a month, so of course the majority of wishes never get granted. They also get to witness what sorts of wishes get granted. People are living comfortably in the kingdom of their own free will. This whole setup is screaming for Asha to grant a bunch of wishes and then everything goes wrong because he was right, some wishes contradict each other, some are dangerous, magic solutions don't exist for every complicated problem. It is begging for her to learn that the king was right, it's begging for there to be a moral about working to accomplish your dreams on your own instead of depending on someone else to grant your wishes. I swear it's begging for any story except for the one they told.
This!!! And the fact that King Magnifico said that they give him their wishes WILLINGLY. Meaning you don't even have to if you don't want to and can continue being happy living for free on HIS island!! I agree with the other replies here saying that if he FORCED them to give up their wishes then that would make more sense. Maybe show the people of Rosas being absolutely depressed after doing so too, showing how miserable the Kingdom really is.
And at 8:35 the fix has so many options: “We are writing our own story” “We choose our own story” And other variants, and even if the fix isnt that good, jt makes more sense than “we are our own origin story”
@@jareththegoblinking3191 While I agree with this to an extent, it's not the fact that the one lyric didn't make grammatical sense, it's that the majority of the song lacks continuity and sense.
@@IdkLmao-vp5ss exactly and these would fit with the original idea of Asha choosing to break a toxic cycle that exists within her royal family. ”we’re more than our origin story” is another There’s so many ways you could tweak this and have it not be a nonsensical anti-riddle that melts your mind 😂
So why didn't Asha just TELL her grandfather and mum what their wishes were after seeing them and the king not granting them? Then they would know what they have forgotten and could aim to fulfill it themselves. There. Problem solved.
This! I kinda have a pet peeve for movies where the problems can be solved in like 5 mins. Like any of these wishes could have became real if these people just applied themselves. Also made me kinda agree with the King as to not grant every wish, because some of them are just people taking the easy route instead of putting effort into their lives.
the people of this Kingdom be like "but that require effort and workiiiiing... i don't wanna to work for my wish! just giv'meeee 😫" like... one of the wish of a girl is to be a violinists. What is stopping her from taking a violon and learn to play like anyone else would do?
Someone at TVTropes got it right - this isn't a movie about wishes, but GOALS. Wishes are generally understood to be reliant on outside help, like Pinocchio becoming animate (and from there EARNING the chance to be human). It's weird because on Reddit, one of the animators was defending the film by saying that it's about making your own wishes come true rather than relying on others, but by making virtually all the "wishes" easily obtainable things, it really does make the characters seem lazy and ungrateful, with very empty lives given that they supposedly are unfulfilled without their one wish. Like, they have no other things they'd like to do? They can't be satisfied with what they have, especially in a place like Rosas?@@RamdomLolola
You guys know what's irksome? Every time Asha and her friends open their mouth, you can TELL their voice actors are reading the script instead of, like, ACTING!
True. It could be that the actors/actresses were doing an initial read-through of the script and Disney just recorded them saying their lines for the first time and called it "good enough". Honestly, I can't imagine any of the cast getting that script and thinking "Wow! This is an AMAZING script!" Such a gifted, talented cast...such a waste of their talents...
they did their best with the literal shit they were given, (their performances were really the only enjoyable part of the movie for me) but yeah. theres only so much you can do with THIS bad of writing.
@@DORAisD34D only because of Lin Manuel Miranda lmao, the last good Disney musical that didn't have him on it was Frozen (insofar as the music being good, the plot is weak imo).
@@jaceybella1267 the songs in Frozen 2 werent as bad received as Wish’s, and Frozen came before Moana (right before Lin came in.). You’re acting like their last good musical was 20 years ago
“I want to inspire people” is actually a rather vague wish. Even adding through music, still leaves a lot for the magic to interpret. A lot of these wishes seem to be things they could workout on there own, and therefore better for themselves since they know what they want. Your songs could inspire people because some deep tragedy happens to you and your able to make an emotional song about it. Maybe someone you love will die in order to inspire your inspirational song. And you can inspire people to do the wrong things, so it’s not an invalid reason to not grant a wish. Particularly when he’s the one that’s freaking doing all the work!
I'm stumped I heard the words 'shareholder' and 'allegory' in a Disney movie, not to mention the SHAMELESSLY bad English in frickin' DISNEY songs. They're killing themselves.
The fact that people actually FORGOT about when this film first came out in threatens really says a lot about Disney’s current state. Especially since it was on their 100th Year Anniversary. And they got one upped by an Adam Sandler movie of all things! 💀💀
@@jasonpeet6198Well Strange World was just forgettable period. Wish is one of those movies people will now just remember for being bad. But when Wish first came out in theaters most people, including myself, genuinely forgot about it’s existence.
No one forgot about it’s existence. This movie was marketed like crazy on Tiktok but people were just not interested and will just wait to watch it on Disney +
8:38 I heard 2 things about how they made the songs. 1. Instead of hiring orchestra players they hired people who work on pop songs. 2. The lyrics are AI generated. I don't know which one is true. EDIT: Thank you for 343 Likes! ☺️
@@DanielKariuki-er5gi But who's to say that said pop song writers didn't want to put forth the effort for a flop and used AI to cut the work down so they could save the A material for later.
@@nicholasholladay-elser7307 I've heard Disney actively sabotaged them by being really vague in describing what this movie was going to be about (obvious especially in the 'I Want' song not actually saying anything at all), changing big elements of the plot from under them (At All Costs was supposed to be Asha and Starboy's love song) and not giving them nearly enough time to polish the songs, on top of the writers being from a pop background and having no idea how to do musical theater effectively. Although even with all of that I don't know how any supposedly professional song writer comes up with as many disaster lyrics as Wish has without AI influence
4:37 "This feels like the rip-off Disney movies that other people were making when Disney was at their peak", then cuts to Anastasia. I resent that edit, Anastasia was a good movie, with its own thing outside of Disney, even if it's not a flawless movie.
"Just keep wishing. Just keep wishing. Just keep wishing, wishing, wishing. What do we do? We wish, wish." When they said just keep wishing at the end of the video, it made me think of Dory's Just Keep Swimming song from Finding Nemo.
I think to sum up the biggest problem with this movie is that the fact that: 1. Disney doesn’t know anymore when a movie needs a villain or not. 2. Disney doesn't know when to make a movie where both character, conflict, and theme fit with it's own narrative. Yet, they don't even realize that there's movies that did what they were trying to do MUCH BETTER. Some good examples can be in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Since the idea of wishing is established as the fact that nobody ever gets a wish because, everyone realizes that they have what they want (Except for Jack Horner….). The Wolf even shows this to Puss, as when he starts to come after him, we see that he only wants to kill him, as the Wolf believes that he doesn’t value life, and he only wants the wish to be immortal. But it’s when Puss realizes that he has everything he needs in life, but he chooses to face death regardless, if this will be his last life, but assures that he will never stop valuing it. There's also Across the Spider-Verse. It would be easy to characterize Miguel O’Hara as a villain, but when you see why he does what he does, you can understand his reasoning. Even though this doesn’t justify him holding Miles from trying to change the future, you can understand why he thinks that he’s doing what is for the good of the universe, as he made the same mistake himself. Therefore, coming to the belief that nobody can always have it all, including Miles. But I think the best example is in a movie, where Disney did this themselves, in Moana. We’re presented with Maui, but we see him as an arrogant god, who is out for power for himself, especially with the way the movie presents him stealing the heart of Te Fiti. But, we soon learn about his past to see that he wasn’t always like this. As once he became a Demi-God, and gave the people everything they wanted (or you can say WISHED…), yet it was never enough, therefore leading him to steal the heart, as he thought it would make them love him more. Therefore, the point of these examples is to show that the conflict isn't just brought about by some evil mad villain, but much more of everyone believing that they must do what's for the good of the world or the individuals they care for. But watching Wish feels as if the people behind this movie gave us the most black-and-white story on the big screen. It doesn't interrogate or take a deep dive into playing God for the citizens of one's society and it doesn't address the hard and murky truths of getting whatever you want in life. It just allows the audience to just say, "We're not in the wrong, HE IS. He's the cause of all the ill in our world, so let's work together to eliminate him, so our kingdom will be a stronger and loving world.", without ever realizing how such an ideology of trying to use such power to either control the future or get what you want, even for good intentions, can have dangerous outcomes for themselves. And that's where the biggest failure of Wish lies.
they do know but I bet they snuff out the voices in the board saying hey maybe we should so something different and they were turned down for want to stick to what they've done in the past (at a superficial) or whats popular
Exactly! The entire theme feels so elementary when other movies have tackled similar themes and done it infinitely better. Like Wreck-It Ralph is so good because it's all about heroes and villains and what makes them, but also how using labels like that can often oversimplify characters. Wish lacks any nuance, and it doesn't dive deeper into its themes at all. Overall, a lackluster and disappointing film. :/
Thank you for this comment! It has given me some ideas about my Antagonist OC I’m designing, might use this to not make him seem like a “villain,” more just mislead.
Twisted managing to satirize this movie despite coming out a decade before it says so much about how amazing Twisted is AND how generic and bad this movie is
@@gdplayer8768Dream a Little harder, the opening number, is basically a response to Wish already. No need to do anything else. Also the Princess's story arc is kinda similar to Aisha but dumber. Even she realises that making everyone a princess (giving them power to accomplish their wishes effortlessly) is extremely dumb and naive. It's much more extreme tbf, but thematically in similar vein.
@@argo9750 **SPOILERS and RANT** Actually, the princess becomes sultan and does, in fact, make everyone in the kingdom a princess (including her slaves, the captain/princess, and monkey). But that's to show how Jafar's teachings really did get through to her. It wasn't to make all the people's delusions come true like Aisha intends to. When everyone's a princess, there are no second or third-class citizens. Everyone is forced to respect one another. The princess is educated but severely lacks wisdom, however her heart's in a good place and that's enough. It actually ends on a powerful lesson that, I think(?), Wish was trying to emulate despite failing miserably at it. Despite her novel ideas, and because they seemed so silly to him, Jafar never trusted that the princess could handle the world until the very end when he realized he was just too old and tired to see she was perfectly capable. Even then, he didn't see the beauty in making everyone a princess until Scheherazade showed it to him. Aisha winning is like watching an alternate ending to Twisted in which Aladdin keeps the lamp.
I remember watching Alex Meyers video on Wish I was thinking that the animation isn’t so bad. But then he cuts to a scene from Tangled and my eyes were blessed from how beautiful the animation from Tangled was compared to Wish.
Tangled was so robbed and deserves so much better than it gets by Disney. One of their few films nowadays that's all around good, and one of an ever smaller group of Disney films with an actual good TV series following it.
the original draft with the king and queen being evil together and the star and asha working together to bring them down was so much more interesting but like of course disney fucked it up by scrapping it andgiving us a boring ass movie
@@hagane0110 Disney created Oswald in 1926 so he's been in the public domain for awhile now. THAT SAID, Disney still has trademarks and secondary copyrights (i.e. later redesigns of Mickey) that will keep its characters protected forever, unless somehow Disney goes under and everything lapses. Til then, good luck facing Disney's lawyers -- Florida managed to beat them but only due to a technicality plus a corrupt court.
I can't stop laughing at the songs it genuinely feels like they went: "Shit! We can't make it make sense so let's just make it rhyme!" So glad I convinced my family not to go and watch it in cinemas.
17:20 Having the grandfather inspire people to rebel against the king like he was afraid of? That almost sounds like, set up and payoff! In other words, it sounds an actual story that wasn’t written by a computer!
My guess is that would imply that you wouldn’t need a wish, therefore making the whole thing pointless but they don’t have enough brain cells to fix that comically large plothole
It’s clear that Disney didn’t try making good music because hired people who make POP MUSIC. Yes Disney, a totally good idea to hire pop music composers for your 100th anniversary film.
not only that, disney didn't even give the songwriters any real context on what the story or characters were about. Disney was practically asking for the songs to turn out shit
If I'm trying to be objective I think the music isn't the problem, at least not compositionally. Those lyrics however are some of the worst I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing.
@@shun9191 Yeah.... It hurt me too when I heard that line. Like..... could they really not think of a good rhyme for 'I am a star'? There are tons of things that could have fit much better! "I'm raising the bar" "Breaking out the jar." "Going so far." "More than a memoir" These are all things I thought up of in less time than it takes to watch this video. But no, we have 'Yes I are."
6:20 This was such a good point, especially if you remember Toy Story 1happened in a single neighborhood but seemed so big because they were able to write it from a toy's perspective. And even Wall E's first half of him on earth felt more bigger than Rosas even if he just stayed in walmart area ish.
The fact that the entire art community has made so many better storyboards and character designs of this movie just goes to show how much of a disappointment this film was. Why not just re make it with the concept of star boy
I saw a guy who works at a retail store post that they had gotten a bunch of Wish merchandise in, and they had such a hard time selling it. It got so bad they had to put the majority of it in storage to be hidden away and forgotten about for all eternity. 💀💀
@@Nanixashi Dang. I mean... even as someone who finds _Wish_ painfully mid, I would have witch-slapped the mum for making that statement. I thought we were supposed to be *past* conformity nowadays?
Make the villain the protagonist + The emperor's new groove character arc = Good movie. Magnifico is literally the guy who is making the wishes, and is the one who is inherintly flawed due to everyone literally only wanting him to grant their wishes- which he has gotten tired of. But to make an actual interesting protagonist would take away from princess sales I guess
From what I've heard, The Emperors New Groove's production was so chaotic that it left very little room for corporate and executive meddling. Some of the original concepts for this movie were interesting and could have elevated this movie from bad to passable.
This isn't a bad idea, TBH. If they wanted to be original, they could've used their OG idea of the King Magnifico/Queen Amaya villain couple and Princess Asha/Starboy. It could've been compelling, Asha would ACTUALLY count as a princess, and everything would make 10× more sense. I honestly WISH this movie was remade, because it's OG and fan concepts deserve a full movie over what we got. 😞
I think it’s funny how the girl works to give everyone’s wish a chance, yet when she gets the opportunity to do so, she just tells everyone to “keep wishing” and never grants their wishes.
But it gives us closure at the same time because we now know just what kind of company Disney truly is. It's their way of unapologetically telling us front and f*cking center: "Yeah. We're evil. And we enjoy it. What the hell are you going to do about it?"
@@dragondrawz8313 that's because I was an idiot. And to an extent, I still am. Children are woefully inept when it comes to handling the world's harsh realities. And our parents tried their best to protect us from it, knowing damn well it'll never be good enough.
@@nevaehhamilton3493 while I understand the flaws with Disney, we should try to encourage the to do, and be better. It's pretty weird that I never really see this much hate with other studios that have done many wrong things- it seems to always be targeted towards Disney specifically
Mr. “THAT WAS HIS MISTAKE” may not be the best villain, and a pretty weak twist villain, but his motivations (kinda) make WAY more sense than Magnifico’s. Also, he was one of the characters that appeared in the credits. Why him instead of baymax?? 💀
I'm now imagining that Disney will be forcing the creatives making Frozen 3 to make it look like Wish's original concepts such as giving Elsa a love interest with magical fire powers and thus scrapping its most interesting concept ideas, just to win back the fans they lost.
No, they can’t do that, remember? Because they gave her a lesbian love interest who didn’t do anything the whole movie except look into her eyes and say she liked the same story as her. 😂
I remember seeing someone say that giving Anna fire powers would be a cool contrast to Elsa's ice, and if they're gonna give someone fire powers, it might as well be Anna. That said, I think the fire spirit salamander already fills that role. I have no clue what Frozen 3 is gonna look like and I'm honestly scared for it... 😅
watching this after visiting my mom in the hospital (the procedure that failed yesterday was successful today btw!!) and this was able to help me feel better, especially since i've been missing having my mom around the house❤
This movie has basically every Disney reference you can find. Then again, this movie was marketed as a celebration of 100 years of Disney, so that checks out.
The sad part is that the Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers movie does the references better too. 😭 The only references I really enjoyed in Wish were in the end credits where they went through their animation character line-up in order of their movie releases, and that's largely irrelevant to the movie plot as a whole. And I heard Once Upon a Studio does the inclusion of past characters thing better also...
So King Magnifico is like a worse version of the Skeksis from Dark Crystal; He claims to be the guardian of some sacred shit when really he's super corrupt and he eventually learns how to extract power from the sacred thing. Except in the Dark Crystal, there was an explicit threat being created by the Skeksis extracting power from the Crystal. King Magnifico is just boring.
Not only boring, but not a villain. He's selfish and a narcissist yeah, but that comes at a cost of being a king. You gotta make decisions that can benefit you but mostly your kingdom.
This is gonna be a weird take but he’s also not too different from Light Yagami in Death Note. Light, at first, has good intentions and claims to want to make a better world, but soon it becomes clear he is corrupt and wants to become a god.
@@Sumopian I think it comes to inclination. Someone who might not be good at drawing yet but has a better understanding at how the basics of illustrations work than most people would be a talented person, and it would improve with time and practice.
5:13 This actually is the only historically accurate part of the movie. The movie takes place around the 1200’s iirc aka 200 years before the printing press Back then musicians not only comprised nearly all entertainment that people had they were also the way news spread. Often they were hired by monarchs and nobles to spread propaganda, but at the same time they were a way to incite revolutions. So the King being concerned that a musician’s wish is to “inspire people” is 100% justified
Wish should've been in a full 2d or in 2.5d like klaus(netflix), paperman or spiderverse. Or disney should've made a crossover(mickey, his friends and all the disney characters) disney movie to celebrate the 100th annivesary.
Klaus actually wasn't a CG hybrid film! They just used frankly insane lighting techniques and special effects to make it look that way, it's a 2D film. The team behind it mentioned that they were trying to predict what 2D films might look like now if 2D never fell out of fashion.
Honestly, a movie adaptation of that Mickey game (where he meets forgotten Disney characters, like Clarabella or even Oswald) would have been a way better movie to celebrate Disney's 100th year.
@@FeligamiAdrizoeSworaDooplivian You know, I read them in the Fairly Oddparents wiki a few hours ago and none of them mentioned anything about erasing from people's memory and/or out of existence a literary, musical, artistic, audiovisual production. So that means, it can be possible.
Or wonderwoman 1984 "I wish you were dead, I wish all the Irish were deported." Which incidentally they still would have been since the person who wished for that was the one who died so they can't take that wish back.
It baffles me they could set out explicit rules for wishmaking in Aladdin and then just ignore the moral quandary of wishes in a film ENTIRELY CENTERED ON IT when the direct actions and consequences of wishes was already illustrated by a film THEY REMADE IN RECENT YEARS USING THE SAME EXACT LOGIC THE ORIGINAL FILM USED. And if they wanna ignore Aladdin, Princess and the Frog also talks about wishes and dreams. Or if they continue pretending their last 2D animated film doesn't exist, there's a pretty good list of films (Moana, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, Tangled, Cars, etc) that have some sort of character conflict of realizing what you WANT versus what you NEED which, y’know, is a pretty big factor in wishes. But nahhhh we'll ignore all the films we reference and their messages for "if you wish hard enough it'll come true!" Thanks Disney!
A gripe I just cant let go is the fact that they named this magical Spanish/Iberian inspired city "Rosas" I mean, I dont think it really ties into what the city is all about. Like, in just two minutes, I thought of "Rosazul" Boom, spanish pun on Roses and blue. Blue roses, something fantastical and not found on our world. It ties into the use of blue tones in the city and wishes, and partly harkens back to the original Blue Fairy from Pinnochio, the film that DEFINED wishing on a star!! How did Disney manage to screw this up!?
Honestly, I don’t really see much Spanish or Iberian influences in this movie. The town looks like it can be any old generic European location, which I know is a part of Europe but they do have their own flair. Puss in Boots incorporated Spanish elements into the character and setting, such as a mariachi sound, a saber and dagger, Spanish language, bright colors, etc. It wouldn't take much to add such things into Rosas and give it an identity like what Tangle and Frozen had for their castles and village.
@@jendoe9436 Its a shame too! It is to my understanding that they were attempting to go for an Iberian Peninsular style region. If I'm not mistaken, Asha is supposed to be mixed, half Berber. An ethnic group originating from North Africa, but have a history and presence in the Iberian Peninsula, similar to the Moors. This is a legitimately unique setting for a call back to the classic, and a few modern, Disney films that explored all the other regions of Europe. But it just feels like "Generic Euro Fantasy" with a Spanish name. They could've made the natural environments and townscapes warmer tones, made the character's outfits a little more loose relaxed for a warm coastal/Mediterranean region, literally anything! The thing is, I actually like the concept of this movie, the protagonist, setting concept, the conflict, it's all wonderful and unique. But "unique" needs to be executed properly. Instead we got hideously written pop songs and an embarrassment to Walt's legacy.
@@jendoe9436 They had a vaguely Spanish-sounding instrumentation for "Welcome to Rosas", but then forgot about that for the rest of the movie, for the rest of the songs.
I don't know about other languages, but fortunately in the Polish dubbing they corrected the entire text and in the part where he says "The dungeon smells really bad" in Polish he says something like "The sun doesn't shine there and I won't be able to take my daily dose of vitamin D" which makes more sense then English dub
Wish 2 better be about the Queen trying to make things right years later, where she tries to free the King from the mirror and stop Asha from granting all the wishes. Asha is the villain who wants to keep him there and keep granting the wishes that make people lazy and doesn't realize that what she's doing is wrong
What if SHE goes dark trying to remove the evil from her husband, either it goes into her or she just learns so much magic that it twists her personality
It could've been interesting if they showed us how she cares too much, what makes her care too much, what she cares too much about, why she cares too much, etc. and how that affects her as a character, maybe we see her learn that it's okay to take care of herself, not spread herself thin and not be a doormat for others to walk all over and take advantage of. But I guess developing their characters is too much to ask of Disney these days.
You know Disney is getting worse when the hazbin hotel songs that ARE (not all) inspired by disney are better than almost every song in a Disney movie (if not all) according to spilling the milk (and me)
Wait, is "just keep wishing" _really_ the moral this movie gives? Shouldn't it be something like "You can't just sit around waiting for your wishes to come true, you have to make them come true yourself" cause that's literally what happened, they gave up pursuing their dreams themselves just hoping Magnifico would do it for them, but by the end of the movie it doesn't seem like they learned anything, they just put all their wishes in Asha's hands instead because they knew she'd grant all their wishes for them
The movie’s really trying to have it both ways, like the woman who wanted to fly starts working on a machine with a guy who looks like Peter Pan, but yeah, Asha gets a wand because…?
The original concept work of the movie had;
- The star being able to turn Human at will and have a romance with Asha
- Asha was originally the King and Queen’s daughter
- Both the King and Queen were going to be a Villain duo
That sounds better than whatever this is
Now I need to see the fanfics based on this concept.
This could have been such an amazing movie
That...probably would've hit harder than ANY Disney movie *and* would've gave Asha a unofficial princess pass
@@Baldwin-iv445 Me who's a Wattpad writer: I gotchu. 😎
Puss in Boots already did the ‘wishing on a star’ theme, pushed boundaries in storytelling, and upgraded the stylistic animation. Dreamworks was clowning on Disney a year in advance 😂
Wish: "He does exactly what I do!"
Puss in Boots 2: "But better."
Puss in Boots moral: you don’t always need to wish but appreciate your life and the people around you to the fullest
Wishes moral: Just keep wishing NOW GIVE US YOUR FUCKING MONEY
@@Mr_bukowski4435 😅😂😭 FR
I wouldn't say it pushed boundaries in storytelling, but it was for sure leagues better at actually having a story.
It also referenced other fairy tales in a better way than Wish did
11:42 “I let you live here for free and I don’t even charge you rent,” Is the same as saying, “I let you live here for free and I let you live here for free.”
LMAO
EXACTLY how did the entire production team not notice that? lol
You know how bad it is when my 10 year old came up with a better verse by saying :
“ I welcomed you as my guest, and I don’t even charge you rent “
It really hurts when a professional song writer being upstaged by a 10 year old.
My middle school English teacher always told us to cut out sentences that just repeat the same point. Meaning thirteen year old me could’ve written better lyrics.
“I let you live here for free and I don’t even make you pay"
How quickly the queen went to not giving a shit about her husband is also... Interesting.
Like, no tears no nothing. She just said "put him in the dungeon" so nonchalantly.
Makes you wonder if she's actually a Gold digger who never really loved her husband.
Maybe the real villain was the queen all this time? Her wish was to become the only ruler of the kingdom and she granted that wish behind king's back.
And since that moment everyone went nuts, because no matter what... the wish must become reality.
@@Baldwin-iv445 Pitch Meeting put it best: "Wait, are we sure SHE'S not evil?" "Dunno!"
@@Jay-bq1dq i think that was the first idea but they scrapped it
@@youtubewontletme It would have been such an interesting turn of the story, tho! At first viewers might be be skeptical, why everyone's IQ suddenly dropped halfway through the story, but in the end, after the reveal it all comes together.
A solid story with a valuable lesson: even if your wish is not bad you have to be sure, that achieving it won't harm anyone. Because that's where good intentions transform into bad actions and that's the trickiest part of any wish.
“Watch out world. Here I are.” You just know it’s written by a four year old. AND IT’S Disney who made this.
They could have just put "here we are" instead. Good lord.
When all the money goes to sequels instead of the song writers
😂😂 An old man more like.
Poor guy must've been missing his reading glasses that day.
@@fabianmanzanatgamer not just the sequels, but the live action remakes
We live in a universe where indie animated shows on TH-cam are better than Disney's 100 year anniversary movie.
even Dragon Ball Evolution is better than this
Even helluva and their mile deep swear jar is better than the house of mouse
And Nimona, a movie that Disney tried to have canceled, got nominated for an Oscar over their 100th anniversary movie.
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Get real
Imagine being the biggest entertainment company for 100 years, and for your big anniversary movie, you get upstaged by a funny Adam Sandler movie.
Adam Sandler: "This is me. This is how I win."
A damn Sandler and Miyazaki really shat all over Disney and I love that for them.
You know Disney has reached it’s lowest point when they’re getting upstaged by an Adam Sandler movie.
@@SnowAnayathatweirdgirl Don't forget Netflix with Nimona. That one came back from the grave Disney tried to bury them in to upstage them.
@@nicholasholladay-elser7307exacly don’t forget NIMONA and the fact that Disney want to éclipse and kill NIMONA who are a better Movie then Wish
Disney has become way too comfortable with themselves. The reason they thrived in the first place was because they strived to outdo their competitors. Now they simply just “buy” their competition whenever they feel like it. Someone once said *”without criticism or pressure from others, there can be no improvement.”* And that really is true, Disney has become lazy and comfortable with themselves and everyone sees it. They may believe for now that they are invincible, but eventually they will find out they’re not and the cycle will start all over again. This is a season that will eventually pass and believe it or not I want Disney to succeed by making changes.
Couldn’t agree more
FACTS
But meh I've grown sick of Disney anyway so I don't really care if they succeed.
Except for wanting Disney to succeed I agree.
They had competitors?
I'm guessing you mean Pixar then?
Cause Disney didn't have competitors in their first era.
Snow White
The og cartoons with Donald duck and Mickey and them.
They had competition in the early 2000's hence Pixar being in it and booming in that era
2000's to mid 2010's.
With bangers like
Toy story 2-3
Nemo
Ratatouille
Etc
@@TheSpoicyCaramellitoit was around the 80s and 90s that other studios started to compete with them in animated film industry. Warner Bros., Fox Animation Studios (yes that existed), and even some former team members like Don Bluth who produced Secret of Nimh and The Land Before Time, and Jeffery Katzenburg who founded Dreamworks.
How is the king even evil??? They have no reason for him to be bad out of freaking nowhere.
One piece literally did this troupe better: There's a land made of desserts and sweets where equality and harmony is praised, but in order to stay there you have to keep giving the Queen (Big Mom) a part of your soul.
That's far more evil than willingly giving a freaking wish!
Especially since an island that size can't have a huge population and he granted fourteen wishes last year.
Yeah. Shortening your lifespan to live in a relatively peaceful kingdom made out of sweets.
That was my favorite of the post-time skip arcs. The finale was so emotional.
He’s basically a morally good dictator, if that’s a thing
@@jareththegoblinking3191 Well he did set himself up as king of his own magically habitable island and all these other people showed up and started making demands of him. If they started questioning me in this situation I wouldn't be using the forbidden book I'd be saying "Here's your wishes back now get out, this island is mine and you're not welcome."
@@jareththegoblinking3191 more like a generous landlord with very selfish tenants lol
King: This guy wished the shopkeeper to love him, but that would take away her free will, plus she already loves someone else
Asha: How dare you hold that wish! You are so evil!
"Screw her free will and consent!"
King: This guy wished to have a spear, But why? For stabbing others? He doesn't specify for what reason, And-
Her: GIVE HIM THE WISH HOW DARE YOU REJECT HIM!?
*few seconds later a spear wielding maniac is on the loose*
“All these side characters have one personality trait.”
*Asha’s friends are meant to represent the 7 Dwarves because Disney thought that’d clever.*
the dwarves and the original snow white have more personality than these characters
Than they realized they had to flesh them out 💀
"REMEMBER THE THING! REMEMBER THE THING! REMEMBER THE THING!" -some exec a disney, presumably
how would anyone know that unless they were told
@@SpillingTheMilk”Hey remember us?! We’re Disney! We’re the guys who made your childhood! Remember how cool we used to be? Remember all the cool 2D animated films that we made that we’ll never make again?! Now give us your money!!”
Comparing Anastasia to this movie. The disrespect to Anastasia.
They need to watch it now that they've brought it up.
Anastasia even has a better take on wishes/life long dreams and how they can change over time and require hard work to actually accomplish 😅
Ahh yes, Anastasia. The not Disney movie that everyone thought was a Disney movie since they where trying to make their own Disney movie but eventually became a Disney movie that Disney refuses to make a Disney movie.
Also yes, it is very good. Dark of the Night and Once Upon a December are engraved deep within me. Heck, it's spinoff movie, Bartok the Magnificent was better than Wish. Granted both of those are made by the legendary Don Bluth, but still!
yes i was appalled seeing that comparison!
Yeah, I probably would have used Quest for Camelot as that example.
... except even that one still had better animation and music than Wish...
Don't care what anyone says, Anastasia was great, and definitely the top non Disney or Pixar animation of the 90s
"Who knew my morals would be this low" is funnier than anything in the movie
Hard agree XD 😂
I KNOW RIGHT
Timestamp?
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@@argo8276 11:28
16:40 "Yes I are🦌🌟"
PLEASE I spit out my beverage lmfao😭💀
I choked on my breskfast💀
"I are star Magnífico! 🌟👑"
I already saw someone who said "this film doesn't represent 100 years of Disney, it represents what Disney is today"
What your friend actually means is: "it took them 100 years for them to become what they are today, and that film represents that." Because this is who they are and have been from the very beginning. It just took us too long to see that.
@@nevaehhamilton3493i mean yes and no, while Walt indeed wanted to expand and create an empire he actually put heart and soul on the art he was creating, you could see the passion on that man for films while also wanting to grow his company, he had both the mindset of a business man and an artist meanwhile today Disney only has the money in mind but not the care for the artists they hire throwing all innovation out, that’s really the big difference
This entire movie feels like a first draft
Maybe that's why so many people are rewriting it
Oof, I know the feeling
First drafts have good ideas but they’re incomplete, and when they get a finished second draft they’re good but some deets from the first draft are missing which really-Sorry, apparently that was a trigger for me
Apparently, the first draft was much better. Asha was supposed to be the King's apprentice, learning magic from him. The star was also supposed to be humanoid and be Asha's love interest. The Queen was also supposed to be evil, so we could have gotten our first evil-power couple from Disney. What a missed opportunity.
This movie went through TONS of rewrites. According to rumors, one draft was going to reveal Magnifico as a fallen star. Another was that a young spoiled Prince Magnifico was going to be the protagonist where he's learning how to grant wishes and becomes humble by the end
* a healthy villain couple
We had the king and queen of hearts already.@@MildlyPerturbed
"Just keep wishing"
Disney translation: "buy more! Consume more! Want more!"
Oh and don’t forget “If someone has what you don’t, they should give you more because they are quote unquote privileged”
i don't like that phrase. It sound like : don't try and just wait and hope your wish come true .
And the thing is, the filmmakers didn't INTEND this to be the message! It's supposed to be "Don't put all your trust in someone else to achieve your dreams!" But all that obsession with shout-outs to older movies helped warp it.@@RamdomLolola
Having a wish a is way to believe, but working hard makes it come true.
I just forced myself to watch this film yesterday and I gotta say that when the trees started singing I gave up.
Disney has just completely forgotten about the saying *”quality over quantity.”* Did you know that the writers at Disney were once given 6 whole months to write out a story? Why have film companies just completely forgotten about that it doesn’t matter how long it takes to make a film, all that matters is that the film turns out good! If a movie is good, it’s likely that people are gonna watch it! Many people today don’t care as much about deadlines anymore, THEY JUST WANNA SEE A GOOD MOVIE!! Plus it gets people all the more hyped up when the movie does eventually come out! The only way Disney can save themselves now is if they just stop, take a step back, and reevaluate everything and start fresh. Because what they’ve been doing is getting exhausting to watch.
Honestly, though, if the movie came out in 2024, it probably would've actually been good. Sure, it wouldn't have been released on the 100th year, but at that point, I just want the movie to be good
just like the new avatar series being released. They took their time on casting and visual effects and to sum it up they already have the series as a well written script and unlike many remakes of our time they are strictly staying on the main plot. no add ons no subtractions just strictly the main plot and though it has been in the making for quite a while fans are still incredibly hyped for it esp[ecially after thier recently dropped trailer
The thing is those professional writers are long gone and Disney outsource and hired writers that close to no experience in film making.
because disney is a company and their purpose is to increase profits, not make good movies, if they think making good movies will increase profits then they'll do it but they discovered they have a cheat code where regardless of what crap they put out it will still make tons of money
I swear I've seen this exact same comment on at least 3 other videos about this movie
I've seen people say that people complaining about the writing of the movie are silly because it's a movie made for kids anyway, which is ridiculous to me because:
(1) are kids not allowed to have well-written movies just because they're kids?
(2) historically disney has made pretty compelling stories & songs while marketing them toward kids
(3) it's just SO bad you can't excuse it as "it's written like that because it's for children!"
Yeah I can’t stand those types of people, they’re the same ones who say Game of Thrones is boring because they talk about politics.
The funniest part of that argument is that Walt Disney himself apparently resented the fact that his films and animations were increasingly pigeonholed as being "children's entertainment" during his lifetime. He was constantly trying to push the envelope in terms of what animation was capable of and the stories it could tell. We tend to think of the Classic Disney movies as being somehow quaint, but if you actually go back and watch them, they're dark as heck. The Evil Queen explicitly commands the Huntsman to cut out Snow White's heart so she can keep it in a box, the donkey transformation scene in Pinocchio is genuinely still one of the most horrifying scenes in animated movie history, Bambi and Fantasia are both basically "dark but some occasional funny", everything about Maleficent is terrifying, the 'Pink Elephants on Parade' sequence has imagery that is downright disturbing. Even with the anthology films from the 1940s you have things like the Headless Horseman chasing Ichabod through the forest, the ending of 'Willie the Operatic Whale', and Donald Duck going berserk from starvation and trying to kill Mickey and Goofy with an axe (with the implication he was planning to eat them afterwards)... Disney being *exclusively* kids' media hasn't been a thing until arguably the direct-to-video sequel plague of the late-90s-to-mid-2000s...which still started less than 30 years ago. And even then I'd argue that this is the first movie since then that, again, was primarily targeted at children rather than the entire family.
To try and excuse the film with "it's just for kids" is absolutely an even bigger slap in the face to Disney's legacy than the 100th anniversary movie itself just being bad.
@@overlydramaticpandasomeone commented how far Disney has fallen when they compared the villain song in Wish to Hellfire. Like it legit feels like a totally different company when you think of the likes of Hellfire, Savages, Be Prepared etc. ultimately evolving to "I let them live here rent free 🤪"
@@writerwiles2406 The funny (sad?) thing is that the whole "I let you live here for free and I don't even charge you rent"...thing isn't even close to being the only bad lyric...and the villain song that sounds nothing like a villain song isn't even close to being the worst song in the film. Like...every Disney musical has that one lyric you hear and go "hmm...kay... You were stretching there"; 'Wish' has multiple examples *per song* . I mean the absolute worst offender is "watch out world, here I are" because it's just...so damn easy to fix - like that shouldn't even be a "first draft" line; it's just...ugh - but then you also have things like "throw caution to every warning sign", "eloquent dancers" and the VA trying so desperately to make "can't keep count" sound like it rhymes with "more than himself"... Why they went with a writer of pop songs (with not even that much experience of writing pop songs) over the multiple experienced musical theatre songwriters/composers/lyricists they've previously hired over the years is completely beyond me. Even if this movie *were* just for kids, they still deserve a heck of a lot better than this mess...
I agree that they should've hired someone who does the right style of music rather than a pop musician.
Even so, she's not all to blame: apparently they regularly gave her no direction (resulting in the vague, unsubstantial lyrics that are often irrelevant to the story) and asked for more songs really last minute (resulting in lots of the "first draft" feeling lyrics because she had no time to iterate or improve them before the deadline).
A LOT of it feels like she was just spitballing ideas, sent off her rough draft expecting feedback, and then was told "approved, thanks." Take the "eloquent dancers" line, for example. As many people have pointed out, "elegant dancers" is a typo-and-autocorrect-mistake away. But instead of Disney sending it back with notes like "wouldn't 'elegant' make more sense?" so she could correct it, they were in such a rush to get it out that they just gave it the stamp of approval and moved on. Or the villain song, which is one of, if not THE song, that could benefit most from a complete rewrite (not just lyrically, but musically too), especially since it references themes/plot points that were later dropped. But they couldn't afford the time it would take to re-write, re-record, and re-animate it (and not that they _couldn't_ afford the money it would take, but potentially they were _unwilling_ to spend it).
There's just... SO much that went SO poorly.
The fact that we could have had Spilling the Milk reacting to a Twink Starboy who'll become the target of many teen fangirls and a villainous power couple is something I cannot forgive Disney for depriving us of such joys
The Queen was also originally supposed to be evil when the movie was first in development. A Disney Villain Couple would’ve made this movie so much better tbh.
Let me guess… Disney thinks that “WoMeN cAn’T bE eViL”
@@Isabelle-qq2yu they they forgot they had the wicked witch, maleficent, and mother gothel
And the star was gonna be the romantic interest but I guess it's wrong to want a man nowadays
@@Hobo-Fushigurodon’t forget Cruella de Vil, Yzma, Ursula, Lady Tremaine, Madam Mim, and Maleficent,
@@conorgarrett5893And then make them live-action to make them sympathetic and not evil
I honestly don't believe that this movie was written by AI because even ChatGPT can write better stories than this.
Title: "Enchanted Echoes" by Chat GPT
INT. MAGIC KINGDOM - DAY
A majestic castle stands tall amidst a magical kingdom. Princess ARIA, a spirited and curious young royal, looks out from her tower window, dreaming of adventure.
ARIA
(voiceover)
I long for a world beyond these castle walls, where magic and wonders await.
EXT. MAGIC KINGDOM - VILLAGE SQUARE - DAY
A carnival is in full swing. ARIA sneaks out of the castle, disguised as a commoner, eager to experience the festivities.
ARIA
(to herself)
Just for one day, I want to be part of the enchantment.
ARIA joins the lively crowd, where she meets a charming street performer, FINN.
FINN
Welcome to the carnival, my lady! Care for a dance?
ARIA
(smiling)
A dance? Why not!
They twirl and spin, laughter echoing through the square. Suddenly, a mysterious figure, MALIK, appears and casts a spell on ARIA.
MALIK
(laughing)
Enjoy your little adventure, Princess. Soon, you'll be trapped in a world where magic is fading away.
ARIA is surrounded by a magical aura, and the carnival transforms into a dark, desolate land.
ARIA
(panicking)
What's happening?
FINN
(fearful)
It's Malik, the dark sorcerer. He's taken away the magic!
ARIA and FINN embark on a quest to reverse the spell and restore the kingdom's magic. Along the way, they encounter a quirky magical creature named TWINKLE, who becomes their guide.
TWINKLE
We must find the three ancient relics scattered across the realm to break Malik's curse.
ARIA, FINN, and TWINKLE journey through mystical forests, treacherous mountains, and enchanted caves, facing challenges that test their courage and friendship.
INT. CAVE OF ETERNAL WHISPERS - NIGHT
In the cave, ARIA discovers a magical mirror that reveals the truth about herself and her kingdom.
ARIA
(teary-eyed)
I have a responsibility to protect the magic within us all.
They unlock the first relic, a shimmering crystal, and gain a clue about the next one.
EXT. MAGICAL MEADOW - DAY
ARIA, FINN, and TWINKLE navigate a meadow filled with talking flowers and playful creatures. They encounter a wise old TREE, the guardian of the second relic.
TREE
To prove your worth, solve the riddles three, and the relic shall be yours.
After overcoming the challenges, they obtain the second relic, a glowing orb that restores a fraction of the lost magic.
EXT. DRAGON'S PEAK - SUNSET
Facing their biggest challenge yet, the trio confronts a guardian dragon, who holds the final relic.
FINN
We must convince the dragon that our cause is just.
ARIA uses her newfound wisdom to communicate with the dragon and persuade it to join their quest.
DRAGON
(roaring)
Together, we shall defeat Malik and restore the magic to this land.
They retrieve the third relic, a magical staff, and return to the desolate kingdom.
INT. MAGIC KINGDOM - NIGHT
ARIA, FINN, TWINKLE, and the dragon confront MALIK, who is ready to cast a spell to solidify his dark reign.
ARIA
(holding the relics)
You can't extinguish the magic within us. We are bound by the enchantment that unites our hearts.
The relics glow with a brilliant light, overpowering MALIK's dark magic. The kingdom is restored to its former glory.
MALIK
(furious)
This isn't over!
MALIK disappears into the shadows, defeated but vowing revenge.
EXT. MAGIC KINGDOM - DAY
The kingdom is alive with magic, joy, and laughter. ARIA, now wiser and more compassionate, addresses her people.
ARIA
Our journey taught us that true magic lies in friendship, courage, and the love that connects us all.
The kingdom celebrates with a grand carnival, where ARIA, FINN, TWINKLE, and the dragon dance together, surrounded by the enchanting echoes of their adventure.
FADE OUT.
True lmao
this isn't even an exaggeration 😭
It genuinely can, since it fundamentally follows proven structures that work!
Unlike this movie which decided to be, something
When bitch said “just keep wishing” at the end that was the nail in the coffin for embracing the AI allegations
the final message is horrible. Teaching kids that they just need to wish hard enough and theyll get what they want. No need for them to put in any effort or actually try.
AGREED 100% this movie's writing is AWFUL
The exact opposite of what Pinocchio and Princess And The Frog, 2 of their best movies imo, teach
In Princess And The Frog, the whole flipping lesson was "Work hard, and you can make dreams come true."
In Wish, the ending is like "Magic makes your dreams come true" which isn't even a useful lesson because in our own lives, we don't have magic. Princess And The Frog had magic, but a lot of it was from the villain, and then there was the magic for Tiana and Prince Naveen to become frogs. Magic was what helped them on their emotional journey, not what solved all of their problems or made their dreams come true.
@@eglol exactly LOL the magic may have indirectly led them to figure OUT how to make their dreams come true, but they didn’t just get to have what they wanted because they really wished for it. Hell there was even a whole song about how what you want and what you need are 2 different things LOL
I'm just thinking aviut how that message in Wish compleatly goes against princess and the frog
What sucks is that in the art book, there are story ideas that are way better. Like how the star was going to be a trickster like Peter Pan or Jack Frost and both the king and queen were going to be a villain couple.
honestly, this movie could’ve worked without having to scrap the plot:
1. keep the idea where both the king and queen are evil. people (including me) love a power couple.
2. they could’ve further explored how the king controls Rosas by adding ridiculous rules (exp. allowing no outside contact, they have to strictly follow his laws, he manipulates the wishes to make them beneficial to him, etc.)
3. completely rewrite all the songs. scratch that- have like 3 songs and call it a day.
4. they could’ve scrapped most of the side characters. just keep short guy for sarcastic commentary, Asian girl who bakes for a friend who tries to bring Asha back to reality, maybe the goat just for animal sidekicks and possibly to have a rivalry with Star for Asha’s favorite, and depressed guy and you’re good.
5. they could’ve made it more aware how the subjects become miserable after giving their wish. (exp: Asha’s mother constantly ponders if she has any purpose and forgets what her wish is, her grandpa loses all faith in his wish at the start of the movie, and the depressed guy is falling into deep existential dread. ik it’s dark, but it works.)
6. don’t make all the animals talk. the goat is more than enough.
7. make Asha less “quirky” and have a compelling personality.
_"bUt iT's nOt mArKeTaBlE aNd dOeSn'T fIt tHe dIsNeY bRaNd!!!"_
- Bob Iger, probably
I'm 14 and this is deep candidate.
Worst movie, Best Reactions.
So true.
Indeed
So real.
for real
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Also shut up if you think of comment policing
After hearing these songs, I understand the "written by AI" accusations now.
Nah Wouldn’t ai write something better
Honestly they're too like... Loudly bad for them to be AI. AI would write something safe and generic.
Wish songs are safe and generic til they sucker punch you with absolute nonsense
Dumdumdumdum YEAH
Not even just the songs, the dialogue is pure garbage too
I would hope A.I would be more grammatically correct 😂
i went to see this movie with two of my cousins (10 and 9 years old). they didnt like the songs, they never laughed, we left the theater sad, and they just realized that bad media exists
Well, they realized at a decent age.?
@@Lazy-Cat197, they did.
Thats actually kinda insane. Ive never heard of a kid not enjoying a cartoon childrens movie before nevermind one being watched AT THE CINEMA and not only didnt enjoy it but was genuinly upset from the time wasted watching it
The movie's shit but some of the songs are good
@@freedomchaser9664 hell no!
Ok, but Encanto had a lot of characters and they got character arcs?? That’s a recent movie and yet it’s so much better than this one. Did they fire everyone that worked on that movie or something 😭
Lin Manuel something didn’t work on this movie. He’s the songwriter I believe
16:35 Funny thing. they got the reference Wrong. Mirror Mirror is not how the line goes in Snow it is MAGIC MIRROR. Mirror Mirror is from Sherk it is common Mandela effect.
I'm pretty sure they also say "Mirror Mirror" in the Snow White and the huntsman films
I will bet a million dollars that gal gadot will say mirror mirror instead of magic mirror in the live action Snow White
@@amandasnider2644that is a Mandela effect it was Shrek
Fairly sure it is "mirror, mirror" in the original (grimm's) snow white.
@@eien1107 We are not referencing the Grimm Snow White are we. We are referencing Disney in a movie that is constantly referencing Disney
Really makes you wish that Encanto (which subverts Disney’s storytelling formula), or Tangled (which embodies all of Disney’s best attributes) was their 100th anniversary movie
Honestly like Tangled was robbed, I'm eternally upset that it's so overshadowed by Frozen, it started the era and it's literally the best thing we've had since Disney switched to CG.
Encanto is amazing too, but when you look at the movies surrounding it you have to wonder... How the hell did they manage to pull this one off when it's surrounded by trainwrecks? What went right with it that Disney fucked up for everything else?
@@jaceybella1267 Encanto has to be a miracle (get it). It’s so good, but I’m so upset that it’s surrounded by bad movies. People have already forgotten about it because it’s overshadowed by the bad ones
@@jaceybella1267 Encanto feels like a holdover from their Post-Bolt/Pre-Moana Revival period when they were still releasing solid films that got delayed into the current dark age we've been seeing since at least Ralph Breaks The Internet in terms of quality, though COVID and the move to Disney + was when the films stopped making money. It's basically the Lilo and Stitch of this era.
I bet Disney wishes they had their _Wonka_ right now.
I liked Rapunzel a lot better than Frozen, too. I am a sucker for fairy tales, and while Tangled was updated, it hit all the same story beats very well. Frozen was supposed to
Be the Snow Queen, which is a TOUGH story to adapt. And while it is a good film, it doesn’t feel like the Snow Queen to me, just a more original fairy tale
What if someone had a wish years ago and it’s too late to be granted?
“I wish my dad was cured from this terminal illness.”
Well, that would have been the case with the Mary Poppins-inspired wish. If the wish wasn’t granted immediately, the kids would eventually grow past the age where they would need a nanny. I mean, yeah, it’s supposed to be a “Mary Poppins” reference, but it’s still presented in the story as a wish that someone gave to him.
I think the most confusing part of the movie is that the King isn't even all that evil, it isn't until Asha messes everything up that he actually shows any sort of villany
He lets a bunch of people live rent free on HIS island where they are happy and carefree, oh but he won't grant them literally every single wish they want? Woooow, so terrible...like are you serious??? I think if any of the villagers were portrayed as legitimately suffering in some way, or if the King had a bunch of jackass knights who boss everyone around and force everyone to give him their wishes, Asha's motivations would make a lot more sense
It really feels like at some point they were like "Shit this guy actually makes sense uhhhhhhh... Evil green magic possession, that'll fix it!!!"
Asha should have been the villain protagonist. That would've been unique for Disney.
The movie tells us he is deceiving the people but literally everyone knows he only grants one wish a month, so of course the majority of wishes never get granted. They also get to witness what sorts of wishes get granted. People are living comfortably in the kingdom of their own free will.
This whole setup is screaming for Asha to grant a bunch of wishes and then everything goes wrong because he was right, some wishes contradict each other, some are dangerous, magic solutions don't exist for every complicated problem. It is begging for her to learn that the king was right, it's begging for there to be a moral about working to accomplish your dreams on your own instead of depending on someone else to grant your wishes.
I swear it's begging for any story except for the one they told.
This!!! And the fact that King Magnifico said that they give him their wishes WILLINGLY. Meaning you don't even have to if you don't want to and can continue being happy living for free on HIS island!! I agree with the other replies here saying that if he FORCED them to give up their wishes then that would make more sense. Maybe show the people of Rosas being absolutely depressed after doing so too, showing how miserable the Kingdom really is.
@@fruitloops2058I know!!! King Magnifico being a twist hero would have been both great and a breath of fresh air!!
The movie literally is ''Ordering a Disney Movie from Wish''
8:50 Literally all they had to say was "watch out world, here we are".
To be fair that’s an animal singing, not every animal in a cartoon has to be great with singing or speaking
And at 8:35 the fix has so many options:
“We are writing our own story”
“We choose our own story”
And other variants, and even if the fix isnt that good, jt makes more sense than “we are our own origin story”
@@jareththegoblinking3191 While I agree with this to an extent, it's not the fact that the one lyric didn't make grammatical sense, it's that the majority of the song lacks continuity and sense.
@@IdkLmao-vp5ss exactly and these would fit with the original idea of Asha choosing to break a toxic cycle that exists within her royal family.
”we’re more than our origin story” is another
There’s so many ways you could tweak this and have it not be a nonsensical anti-riddle that melts your mind 😂
So why didn't Asha just TELL her grandfather and mum what their wishes were after seeing them and the king not granting them? Then they would know what they have forgotten and could aim to fulfill it themselves. There. Problem solved.
This! I kinda have a pet peeve for movies where the problems can be solved in like 5 mins. Like any of these wishes could have became real if these people just applied themselves. Also made me kinda agree with the King as to not grant every wish, because some of them are just people taking the easy route instead of putting effort into their lives.
@unwateredflower5055 well not ALL of them cuz one girl wanted to fly. Of course at the end she meets Peter pan 🫠
As I understand it She tries to but he doesn’t want to be depressed.
the people of this Kingdom be like "but that require effort and workiiiiing... i don't wanna to work for my wish! just giv'meeee 😫"
like... one of the wish of a girl is to be a violinists. What is stopping her from taking a violon and learn to play like anyone else would do?
Someone at TVTropes got it right - this isn't a movie about wishes, but GOALS. Wishes are generally understood to be reliant on outside help, like Pinocchio becoming animate (and from there EARNING the chance to be human). It's weird because on Reddit, one of the animators was defending the film by saying that it's about making your own wishes come true rather than relying on others, but by making virtually all the "wishes" easily obtainable things, it really does make the characters seem lazy and ungrateful, with very empty lives given that they supposedly are unfulfilled without their one wish. Like, they have no other things they'd like to do? They can't be satisfied with what they have, especially in a place like Rosas?@@RamdomLolola
You guys know what's irksome? Every time Asha and her friends open their mouth, you can TELL their voice actors are reading the script instead of, like, ACTING!
nooo why
ok but the script is so awful how could you even act that
True. It could be that the actors/actresses were doing an initial read-through of the script and Disney just recorded them saying their lines for the first time and called it "good enough". Honestly, I can't imagine any of the cast getting that script and thinking "Wow! This is an AMAZING script!" Such a gifted, talented cast...such a waste of their talents...
The best character is literally the villain who has no real evil plan or motivation, because he can act and he does things.
they did their best with the literal shit they were given, (their performances were really the only enjoyable part of the movie for me) but yeah. theres only so much you can do with THIS bad of writing.
It's really amazing how Hazbin Hotel has better Disney music than an actual Disney movie
Encanto was their last animated musical and those went hard, calm down
@@DORAisD34D only because of Lin Manuel Miranda lmao, the last good Disney musical that didn't have him on it was Frozen (insofar as the music being good, the plot is weak imo).
@@jaceybella1267 the songs in Frozen 2 werent as bad received as Wish’s, and Frozen came before Moana (right before Lin came in.). You’re acting like their last good musical was 20 years ago
As someone who isn’t big on Hazbin hotel I completely agree. Respectless is a better villain song than any in this movie can dream of
hell is forever goes ridiculously hard
“I want to inspire people” is actually a rather vague wish. Even adding through music, still leaves a lot for the magic to interpret. A lot of these wishes seem to be things they could workout on there own, and therefore better for themselves since they know what they want. Your songs could inspire people because some deep tragedy happens to you and your able to make an emotional song about it. Maybe someone you love will die in order to inspire your inspirational song. And you can inspire people to do the wrong things, so it’s not an invalid reason to not grant a wish. Particularly when he’s the one that’s freaking doing all the work!
I'm stumped I heard the words 'shareholder' and 'allegory' in a Disney movie, not to mention the SHAMELESSLY bad English in frickin' DISNEY songs. They're killing themselves.
What’s wrong with allegory?
The fact that people actually FORGOT about when this film first came out in threatens really says a lot about Disney’s current state. Especially since it was on their 100th Year Anniversary. And they got one upped by an Adam Sandler movie of all things! 💀💀
Nah strange world was more forgettable it had like no marketing
@@jasonpeet6198Well Strange World was just forgettable period. Wish is one of those movies people will now just remember for being bad. But when Wish first came out in theaters most people, including myself, genuinely forgot about it’s existence.
No one forgot about it’s existence. This movie was marketed like crazy on Tiktok but people were just not interested and will just wait to watch it on Disney +
I feel like I see a comment like this every time someone makes a video on wish
nah Wish was marketed like crazy on Tiktok. People knew about but had no interest in it so they wait for Disney +
8:38 I heard 2 things about how they made the songs.
1. Instead of hiring orchestra players they hired people who work on pop songs.
2. The lyrics are AI generated.
I don't know which one is true.
EDIT: Thank you for 343 Likes! ☺️
It’s the first one, you can see it when you look at the credits
@@cjck1344 OK thanks.
@@DanielKariuki-er5gi But who's to say that said pop song writers didn't want to put forth the effort for a flop and used AI to cut the work down so they could save the A material for later.
@@nicholasholladay-elser7307 I've heard Disney actively sabotaged them by being really vague in describing what this movie was going to be about (obvious especially in the 'I Want' song not actually saying anything at all), changing big elements of the plot from under them (At All Costs was supposed to be Asha and Starboy's love song) and not giving them nearly enough time to polish the songs, on top of the writers being from a pop background and having no idea how to do musical theater effectively.
Although even with all of that I don't know how any supposedly professional song writer comes up with as many disaster lyrics as Wish has without AI influence
@@calmwaveofchaos1878 Honestly, yeah. That makes too much sense.
4:37 "This feels like the rip-off Disney movies that other people were making when Disney was at their peak", then cuts to Anastasia.
I resent that edit, Anastasia was a good movie, with its own thing outside of Disney, even if it's not a flawless movie.
Yup Anatasia was my childhood lol
i love anatasia
ONCE UPON A DECEMBER SONG IS SO GOOD
"Watch out world, here I are..." Awesome.
"Just keep wishing. Just keep wishing. Just keep wishing, wishing, wishing. What do we do? We wish, wish."
When they said just keep wishing at the end of the video, it made me think of Dory's Just Keep Swimming song from Finding Nemo.
I think to sum up the biggest problem with this movie is that the fact that:
1. Disney doesn’t know anymore when a movie needs a villain or not.
2. Disney doesn't know when to make a movie where both character, conflict, and theme fit with it's own narrative. Yet, they don't even realize that there's movies that did what they were trying to do MUCH BETTER.
Some good examples can be in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Since the idea of wishing is established as the fact that nobody ever gets a wish because, everyone realizes that they have what they want (Except for Jack Horner….). The Wolf even shows this to Puss, as when he starts to come after him, we see that he only wants to kill him, as the Wolf believes that he doesn’t value life, and he only wants the wish to be immortal. But it’s when Puss realizes that he has everything he needs in life, but he chooses to face death regardless, if this will be his last life, but assures that he will never stop valuing it.
There's also Across the Spider-Verse. It would be easy to characterize Miguel O’Hara as a villain, but when you see why he does what he does, you can understand his reasoning. Even though this doesn’t justify him holding Miles from trying to change the future, you can understand why he thinks that he’s doing what is for the good of the universe, as he made the same mistake himself. Therefore, coming to the belief that nobody can always have it all, including Miles.
But I think the best example is in a movie, where Disney did this themselves, in Moana. We’re presented with Maui, but we see him as an arrogant god, who is out for power for himself, especially with the way the movie presents him stealing the heart of Te Fiti. But, we soon learn about his past to see that he wasn’t always like this. As once he became a Demi-God, and gave the people everything they wanted (or you can say WISHED…), yet it was never enough, therefore leading him to steal the heart, as he thought it would make them love him more.
Therefore, the point of these examples is to show that the conflict isn't just brought about by some evil mad villain, but much more of everyone believing that they must do what's for the good of the world or the individuals they care for. But watching Wish feels as if the people behind this movie gave us the most black-and-white story on the big screen.
It doesn't interrogate or take a deep dive into playing God for the citizens of one's society and it doesn't address the hard and murky truths of getting whatever you want in life. It just allows the audience to just say, "We're not in the wrong, HE IS. He's the cause of all the ill in our world, so let's work together to eliminate him, so our kingdom will be a stronger and loving world.", without ever realizing how such an ideology of trying to use such power to either control the future or get what you want, even for good intentions, can have dangerous outcomes for themselves. And that's where the biggest failure of Wish lies.
they do know but I bet they snuff out the voices in the board saying hey maybe we should so something different and they were turned down for want to stick to what they've done in the past (at a superficial) or whats popular
Exactly! The entire theme feels so elementary when other movies have tackled similar themes and done it infinitely better. Like Wreck-It Ralph is so good because it's all about heroes and villains and what makes them, but also how using labels like that can often oversimplify characters. Wish lacks any nuance, and it doesn't dive deeper into its themes at all. Overall, a lackluster and disappointing film. :/
Well said, my fellow gentleman.
Thank you for this comment! It has given me some ideas about my Antagonist OC I’m designing, might use this to not make him seem like a “villain,” more just mislead.
Twisted managing to satirize this movie despite coming out a decade before it says so much about how amazing Twisted is AND how generic and bad this movie is
They should watch that, absolute banger of a musical and better than Aladdin.
Starkid should honestly remake Wish. They can easily make this a banger
@@gdplayer8768Dream a Little harder, the opening number, is basically a response to Wish already. No need to do anything else. Also the Princess's story arc is kinda similar to Aisha but dumber. Even she realises that making everyone a princess (giving them power to accomplish their wishes effortlessly) is extremely dumb and naive. It's much more extreme tbf, but thematically in similar vein.
Especially with how evil the sultan (ruler of the magic kingdom) and stupid all the townsfolk are being on par with this movies townsfolk
@@argo9750 **SPOILERS and RANT**
Actually, the princess becomes sultan and does, in fact, make everyone in the kingdom a princess (including her slaves, the captain/princess, and monkey). But that's to show how Jafar's teachings really did get through to her. It wasn't to make all the people's delusions come true like Aisha intends to. When everyone's a princess, there are no second or third-class citizens. Everyone is forced to respect one another.
The princess is educated but severely lacks wisdom, however her heart's in a good place and that's enough. It actually ends on a powerful lesson that, I think(?), Wish was trying to emulate despite failing miserably at it.
Despite her novel ideas, and because they seemed so silly to him, Jafar never trusted that the princess could handle the world until the very end when he realized he was just too old and tired to see she was perfectly capable. Even then, he didn't see the beauty in making everyone a princess until Scheherazade showed it to him.
Aisha winning is like watching an alternate ending to Twisted in which Aladdin keeps the lamp.
I remember watching Alex Meyers video on Wish I was thinking that the animation isn’t so bad. But then he cuts to a scene from Tangled and my eyes were blessed from how beautiful the animation from Tangled was compared to Wish.
Tangled was so robbed and deserves so much better than it gets by Disney. One of their few films nowadays that's all around good, and one of an ever smaller group of Disney films with an actual good TV series following it.
Jack’s reaction to the “duh duh duh duh yeah” was way funnier than it had any right to be.
It's the genuine reactions that are the best.
the original draft with the king and queen being evil together and the star and asha working together to bring them down was so much more interesting but like of course disney fucked it up by scrapping it andgiving us a boring ass movie
You did NOT just call Anastasia a bad Disney rip off. It’s a good Disney rip off thank you very much.
It's my favorite Disney Ripoff. It was so good that Disney bought the rights to it
Mickey Mouse going in the public domain is a better way to celebrate Disney 100th anniversary than this movie
Is Oswald public domain now, too? I'm just asking because he's one year older than Mickey and I didn't hear anything of his status.
@@hagane0110 yes
@@brianpacheco9606 Thank you.
Apparently it’s only Steamboat Willie’s version of Mickey Mouse. The current Mickey Mouse is still copyrighted.
@@hagane0110 Disney created Oswald in 1926 so he's been in the public domain for awhile now.
THAT SAID, Disney still has trademarks and secondary copyrights (i.e. later redesigns of Mickey) that will keep its characters protected forever, unless somehow Disney goes under and everything lapses. Til then, good luck facing Disney's lawyers -- Florida managed to beat them but only due to a technicality plus a corrupt court.
I can't stop laughing at the songs it genuinely feels like they went: "Shit! We can't make it make sense so let's just make it rhyme!" So glad I convinced my family not to go and watch it in cinemas.
“im a star! watch out world here i are!”
8:30 "Here's a little fun allegory, that gets me excited-ory"
omg... these lyrics are abysmal.
17:23 FR! Imagine the grandfather sung her that song while she was younger, and then he starts singing it again and then everyone DOES!!!
17:20 Having the grandfather inspire people to rebel against the king like he was afraid of? That almost sounds like, set up and payoff! In other words, it sounds an actual story that wasn’t written by a computer!
My guess is that would imply that you wouldn’t need a wish, therefore making the whole thing pointless but they don’t have enough brain cells to fix that comically large plothole
It’s clear that Disney didn’t try making good music because hired people who make POP MUSIC. Yes Disney, a totally good idea to hire pop music composers for your 100th anniversary film.
not only that, disney didn't even give the songwriters any real context on what the story or characters were about. Disney was practically asking for the songs to turn out shit
If I'm trying to be objective I think the music isn't the problem, at least not compositionally. Those lyrics however are some of the worst I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing.
Like wtf is "yes I are" supposed to mean? Im not even a native english speaker and even I can tell that this makes no sense
@@shun9191 Yeah.... It hurt me too when I heard that line. Like..... could they really not think of a good rhyme for 'I am a star'? There are tons of things that could have fit much better!
"I'm raising the bar"
"Breaking out the jar."
"Going so far."
"More than a memoir"
These are all things I thought up of in less time than it takes to watch this video. But no, we have 'Yes I are."
@@shun9191it's to be quirky I guess
Just gotta love the grammar in these songs
That's how they beat the AI accusations,
Because Grammarly or something
Here I are!
@@sakethvenkatesh2492Literally just change it to “Watch out World, Here WE Are”! They weren’t even trying.
@@LauraM96829 It's such a simple fix too!
@@LauraM96829THATS WHAT IM SAYING
6:20 This was such a good point, especially if you remember Toy Story 1happened in a single neighborhood but seemed so big because they were able to write it from a toy's perspective. And even Wall E's first half of him on earth felt more bigger than Rosas even if he just stayed in walmart area ish.
The fact that the entire art community has made so many better storyboards and character designs of this movie just goes to show how much of a disappointment this film was. Why not just re make it with the concept of star boy
I saw a guy who works at a retail store post that they had gotten a bunch of Wish merchandise in, and they had such a hard time selling it. It got so bad they had to put the majority of it in storage to be hidden away and forgotten about for all eternity. 💀💀
bro has made like a bazillion comments by now
the people are angry@@theamazingspooderman2697
I want Wish merch, not because of the movie but because of the Asha x Star Boy fanmade animatics.
Haha, i work at a retail location that got wish merch. A small child wanted wish product and mom literally told her, “no, honey, no one likes wish” 😅
@@Nanixashi Dang. I mean... even as someone who finds _Wish_ painfully mid, I would have witch-slapped the mum for making that statement. I thought we were supposed to be *past* conformity nowadays?
The movie where you can tell the references came first and the script second.
Make the villain the protagonist + The emperor's new groove character arc = Good movie.
Magnifico is literally the guy who is making the wishes, and is the one who is inherintly flawed due to everyone literally only wanting him to grant their wishes- which he has gotten tired of. But to make an actual interesting protagonist would take away from princess sales I guess
From what I've heard, The Emperors New Groove's production was so chaotic that it left very little room for corporate and executive meddling.
Some of the original concepts for this movie were interesting and could have elevated this movie from bad to passable.
Or just make that guy a princess instead of a king dude. Ta'da!
Brilliant idea, mate. 👏
This isn't a bad idea, TBH. If they wanted to be original, they could've used their OG idea of the King Magnifico/Queen Amaya villain couple and Princess Asha/Starboy. It could've been compelling, Asha would ACTUALLY count as a princess, and everything would make 10× more sense. I honestly WISH this movie was remade, because it's OG and fan concepts deserve a full movie over what we got. 😞
So a better movie in your eyes... Is just rehashing an old one? I think we've found the personal biases.
8:45 watch out world here I are
I think it’s funny how the girl works to give everyone’s wish a chance, yet when she gets the opportunity to do so, she just tells everyone to “keep wishing” and never grants their wishes.
It's depressing how far Disney has fallen. Especially when it comes to music.
But it gives us closure at the same time because we now know just what kind of company Disney truly is. It's their way of unapologetically telling us front and f*cking center: "Yeah. We're evil. And we enjoy it. What the hell are you going to do about it?"
It Really Says A Lot When Hazbin Hotel Has BETTER Music Than Disney's 100th Anniversary Movie.
@@nevaehhamilton3493I'm pretty sure you've loved their movies before, and never thought of them like that-
@@dragondrawz8313 that's because I was an idiot. And to an extent, I still am. Children are woefully inept when it comes to handling the world's harsh realities. And our parents tried their best to protect us from it, knowing damn well it'll never be good enough.
@@nevaehhamilton3493 while I understand the flaws with Disney, we should try to encourage the to do, and be better. It's pretty weird that I never really see this much hate with other studios that have done many wrong things- it seems to always be targeted towards Disney specifically
The "recipe book for the foul and the savage" felt like a line out of Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash.
A single Peppa Pig episode has more character development than this smh
Dora the explorer as well.
We all remember the whistle episode. Much development
@@lonelyforgy8914Peppa hanging up the phone on Suzy has more emotion than the entirety of this movie.
So does Bluey
😭
10:32 My exact reaction to this scene in the theater.
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Disney spent so long without having any real competition that now it seems like it has forgotten how to make movies to stay relevant
“This is giving Big Hero 6 energy.”
Except that movie had a better story, and a real villain.
Mr. “THAT WAS HIS MISTAKE” may not be the best villain, and a pretty weak twist villain, but his motivations (kinda) make WAY more sense than Magnifico’s.
Also, he was one of the characters that appeared in the credits. Why him instead of baymax?? 💀
ThAt WaS hIs MiStAkE!!!
That's saying something
And Big Hero 6 was a movie that I think the internet liked a lot
That was his steak!
I'm now imagining that Disney will be forcing the creatives making Frozen 3 to make it look like Wish's original concepts such as giving Elsa a love interest with magical fire powers and thus scrapping its most interesting concept ideas, just to win back the fans they lost.
No, they can’t do that, remember? Because they gave her a lesbian love interest who didn’t do anything the whole movie except look into her eyes and say she liked the same story as her. 😂
@@crazygamer_1082LMAOOO this comment! On point.
I remember seeing someone say that giving Anna fire powers would be a cool contrast to Elsa's ice, and if they're gonna give someone fire powers, it might as well be Anna. That said, I think the fire spirit salamander already fills that role. I have no clue what Frozen 3 is gonna look like and I'm honestly scared for it... 😅
watching this after visiting my mom in the hospital (the procedure that failed yesterday was successful today btw!!) and this was able to help me feel better, especially since i've been missing having my mom around the house❤
So happy for ur mama! Hope she heals well, This channel always does make me laugh when I’m feeling down ❤
14:35 did anyone else hear "Lost One's Weeping" playing in the background?
Also, the commentary on this movie is hilarious, really good video 😂👍
YES OMG I thought I was hearing things
" Yes, I are. Yes, I are! I are a star, Magnifico "
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This movie has basically every Disney reference you can find. Then again, this movie was marketed as a celebration of 100 years of Disney, so that checks out.
10:35 Turn it off, bro. Turn it off.
Puss In Boots did it better.
every disney reference except the hallmark emotional musical theatre soundtrack
The sad part is that the Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers movie does the references better too. 😭 The only references I really enjoyed in Wish were in the end credits where they went through their animation character line-up in order of their movie releases, and that's largely irrelevant to the movie plot as a whole. And I heard Once Upon a Studio does the inclusion of past characters thing better also...
14:17 i genuinely thought this would be the one good song, then she said “lie lie lie” and i gave up
I felt the same
that lie lie lie made me wanna barf
i love imagine dragons and confidence serious songs THEY JUST RUINED IT AGHHH
It made me feel like I was listening to a crappy Taylor Swift knockoff, with even less talent.
the fact that i've seen people talk about Wish rewrited (aka. Starboy) instead of the actual movie is funny as hell
15:05 GET IT!? CUZ THERE’S A MOVIE THAT DOES THAT!?
I’m convinced this was a test run to see if they could get away with writing the entire movie with AI
So King Magnifico is like a worse version of the Skeksis from Dark Crystal; He claims to be the guardian of some sacred shit when really he's super corrupt and he eventually learns how to extract power from the sacred thing.
Except in the Dark Crystal, there was an explicit threat being created by the Skeksis extracting power from the Crystal.
King Magnifico is just boring.
Not only boring, but not a villain. He's selfish and a narcissist yeah, but that comes at a cost of being a king. You gotta make decisions that can benefit you but mostly your kingdom.
"Mmmmmmmmmm."
"I hate your whimper!"
@@ggrarl MmmmMMMMmmmm
"MMMmmmmmMmmm!!"
This is gonna be a weird take but he’s also not too different from Light Yagami in Death Note.
Light, at first, has good intentions and claims to want to make a better world, but soon it becomes clear he is corrupt and wants to become a god.
"That is a... _unique_ talent. You call that a talent?" OK but sometimes the voice actors make the lines work, that made me laugh.
Drawing in general isn’t a talent, being great at drawing for the first time, that’s a talent
@@jareththegoblinking3191 I’d actually argue the opposite. You don’t have to be good at something immediately for it to be considered a talent.
@@Sumopian I think it comes to inclination. Someone who might not be good at drawing yet but has a better understanding at how the basics of illustrations work than most people would be a talented person, and it would improve with time and practice.
the amount of s*icide imagery during the songs has me CACKLING
8:54 I think hearing them say ‘here I are’ blew my mind. I couldn’t comprehend this movie after that. ‘Here I are.’ What a line.
5:13 This actually is the only historically accurate part of the movie.
The movie takes place around the 1200’s iirc aka 200 years before the printing press
Back then musicians not only comprised nearly all entertainment that people had they were also the way news spread. Often they were hired by monarchs and nobles to spread propaganda, but at the same time they were a way to incite revolutions.
So the King being concerned that a musician’s wish is to “inspire people” is 100% justified
Yep, it being "vague" Is very accurate
If he only does one wish per month, couldn’t anyone have just figured out that most of the wishes wouldn’t come true?
It's said that when a person gives their wish, they forget about the wish they made
@@hannahguilding1338 They forgot what wish they made, but they remember that they gave up a wish
they all can only form one thought per month too
Wish should've been in a full 2d or in 2.5d like klaus(netflix), paperman or spiderverse. Or disney should've made a crossover(mickey, his friends and all the disney characters) disney movie to celebrate the 100th annivesary.
Klaus actually wasn't a CG hybrid film! They just used frankly insane lighting techniques and special effects to make it look that way, it's a 2D film.
The team behind it mentioned that they were trying to predict what 2D films might look like now if 2D never fell out of fashion.
I personally would've liked something along the lines of breadwinner.
2.5D Might have been really cool for Wish, actually. A nice nod to Disney's older movies but the new era too.
Honestly, a movie adaptation of that Mickey game (where he meets forgotten Disney characters, like Clarabella or even Oswald) would have been a way better movie to celebrate Disney's 100th year.
@@0atmeal__ What game was that?
I feel bad that this is the Disney kids are growing up with
Same
It’s nice they have access to films like Nimona and Wolfwalkers tho.
Why did they even give magnifico a backstory if they were just gonna make him irredeemable because evil magic bad
Because Magnifico is the real hero of the story, and Disney doesn't want us rooting for the heroes that want to actually stop people like Disney.
"This reads like a recipe book for the fowl and the savage" WHAT IS THAT.
I WISH this movie never existed😊
Haha I see what you did there so true!
Same
As long as it’s not against Da rules. I’ll see myself out. 😆😅
@@FeligamiAdrizoeSworaDooplivian
You know, I read them in the Fairly Oddparents wiki a few hours ago and none of them mentioned anything about erasing from people's memory and/or out of existence a literary, musical, artistic, audiovisual production. So that means, it can be possible.
Your wish has been granted 😂
Granting every wish didn’t turn out too well in Bruce Almighty, did the film makers not remember that?
Or wonderwoman 1984 "I wish you were dead, I wish all the Irish were deported." Which incidentally they still would have been since the person who wished for that was the one who died so they can't take that wish back.
It baffles me they could set out explicit rules for wishmaking in Aladdin and then just ignore the moral quandary of wishes in a film ENTIRELY CENTERED ON IT when the direct actions and consequences of wishes was already illustrated by a film THEY REMADE IN RECENT YEARS USING THE SAME EXACT LOGIC THE ORIGINAL FILM USED. And if they wanna ignore Aladdin, Princess and the Frog also talks about wishes and dreams. Or if they continue pretending their last 2D animated film doesn't exist, there's a pretty good list of films (Moana, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, Tangled, Cars, etc) that have some sort of character conflict of realizing what you WANT versus what you NEED which, y’know, is a pretty big factor in wishes. But nahhhh we'll ignore all the films we reference and their messages for "if you wish hard enough it'll come true!" Thanks Disney!
Great movie.
A gripe I just cant let go is the fact that they named this magical Spanish/Iberian inspired city "Rosas"
I mean, I dont think it really ties into what the city is all about. Like, in just two minutes, I thought of "Rosazul" Boom, spanish pun on Roses and blue. Blue roses, something fantastical and not found on our world. It ties into the use of blue tones in the city and wishes, and partly harkens back to the original Blue Fairy from Pinnochio, the film that DEFINED wishing on a star!! How did Disney manage to screw this up!?
Honestly, I don’t really see much Spanish or Iberian influences in this movie. The town looks like it can be any old generic European location, which I know is a part of Europe but they do have their own flair.
Puss in Boots incorporated Spanish elements into the character and setting, such as a mariachi sound, a saber and dagger, Spanish language, bright colors, etc. It wouldn't take much to add such things into Rosas and give it an identity like what Tangle and Frozen had for their castles and village.
@@jendoe9436 Its a shame too! It is to my understanding that they were attempting to go for an Iberian Peninsular style region. If I'm not mistaken, Asha is supposed to be mixed, half Berber. An ethnic group originating from North Africa, but have a history and presence in the Iberian Peninsula, similar to the Moors.
This is a legitimately unique setting for a call back to the classic, and a few modern, Disney films that explored all the other regions of Europe. But it just feels like "Generic Euro Fantasy" with a Spanish name. They could've made the natural environments and townscapes warmer tones, made the character's outfits a little more loose relaxed for a warm coastal/Mediterranean region, literally anything!
The thing is, I actually like the concept of this movie, the protagonist, setting concept, the conflict, it's all wonderful and unique. But "unique" needs to be executed properly. Instead we got hideously written pop songs and an embarrassment to Walt's legacy.
@@jendoe9436 They had a vaguely Spanish-sounding instrumentation for "Welcome to Rosas", but then forgot about that for the rest of the movie, for the rest of the songs.
He’s got that Yoda Language 🔥🔥
“Leave you here- I don’t wannaaaa” 💀 4:05
They somehow had to make it rhyme💀
Apparently someone's never watched a Gilbert & Sullivan opera.
I don't know about other languages, but fortunately in the Polish dubbing they corrected the entire text and in the part where he says "The dungeon smells really bad" in Polish he says something like "The sun doesn't shine there and I won't be able to take my daily dose of vitamin D" which makes more sense then English dub
I don’t know how I feel about the Queen being okay with letting her husband remain trapped in a mirror
Wish 2 better be about the Queen trying to make things right years later, where she tries to free the King from the mirror and stop Asha from granting all the wishes. Asha is the villain who wants to keep him there and keep granting the wishes that make people lazy and doesn't realize that what she's doing is wrong
What if SHE goes dark trying to remove the evil from her husband, either it goes into her or she just learns so much magic that it twists her personality
Because she's a "strong and independent woman™" who ain't need no man. 😂😂
Still pissed it was going to be a villian couple of Magnifico (as a fallen star) and the queen killing the real Magnifico AND WE GOT THIS SHIT INSTEAD
What, she kills him??
@@puncake8945 Ya she WOULD HAVE helped the evil star Magnifico kill the real (benevolent) king and have the fallen star take his place
"You care too much" lmao 🤣
Job interviews be like
@@chocodoeeyes lmao🤣
@@chocodoeeyes he's not wrong
It could've been interesting if they showed us how she cares too much, what makes her care too much, what she cares too much about, why she cares too much, etc. and how that affects her as a character, maybe we see her learn that it's okay to take care of herself, not spread herself thin and not be a doormat for others to walk all over and take advantage of. But I guess developing their characters is too much to ask of Disney these days.
You know Disney is getting worse when the hazbin hotel songs that ARE (not all) inspired by disney are better than almost every song in a Disney movie (if not all) according to spilling the milk (and me)
Specially when they have to force 2 songs per episode of varying quality, and still make them feel magnitudes better.
Thank you for the parenthese so my schizophrenia could also have parts to read (I can't read)
“Happy Day In Hell” gives me “Life In Equestrian” vibes from MLP FiM
Wait, is "just keep wishing" _really_ the moral this movie gives? Shouldn't it be something like "You can't just sit around waiting for your wishes to come true, you have to make them come true yourself" cause that's literally what happened, they gave up pursuing their dreams themselves just hoping Magnifico would do it for them, but by the end of the movie it doesn't seem like they learned anything, they just put all their wishes in Asha's hands instead because they knew she'd grant all their wishes for them
The movie’s really trying to have it both ways, like the woman who wanted to fly starts working on a machine with a guy who looks like Peter Pan, but yeah, Asha gets a wand because…?