Disney's Wish is kinda dumb... 

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Tangled got it right when they gave us two animal sidekicks and they never said a word

And the winner for the best movie... that is animated... about a wishing star... set somewhere vaguely in Spain... goes to: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

I like the villain's character growth from "questionable" to "comically evil" in the span of one scene

"Here, grandfather. I got you're wish. What did you wish?" "I wish your where never born."

Oddly, this movie seems to ironically showcase how Disney has changed over 100 years from a cutting-edge studio into a corporate sweat-shop, milking its legacy and image for $$.

Imagine being the biggest entertainment company for 100 years, and for your big anniversary movie, you get upstaged by a funny Adam Sandler movie.

I like to think that Asha becomes so fed up with people's wishes and as she becomes older she becomes the grumpy godmother from Shrek that we know 😂

This movie could have been better if, instead of having a normal “mc is always right and villain is always wrong”, they could have made it a learning experience. Granting everyones wishes isn’t the best solution, and it probably won’t ever be. The story should have been that Asha wanted to grant everyones wishes, but doesn’t understand when Magnifico says no. He let’s her see what sort of chaos insues, and in the end he or Asha uses their wish to fix it all. She learns the importance of limits, and Magnifico is able to step down.

Fun fact: this movie was supposed to have a love story with the little star. The star was supposed to be able to turn into a person and they would’ve had such a cute story. Asha was also supposed to be a princess and her parents were supposed to be evil. In other words, this movie could’ve actually been good.

Disney once again making their "villain" somebody who isn't even that bad and is the most level headed person in the room at all times.

The 100 year movie. Where the villain is actually mature ans thinks about his kingdom and the female lead just thinks about her grandfather and turned a good king into a villain. Great movie

The king was the most real and logical person in the movie, who preferred security and stability over ambition, then 180s midway through the movie and becomes super ambitious because… why? He can already grant literal wishes, what does having more power do?

Asha: One person shouldn't control whose wishes come true or not. Also Asha: Becomes the fairy godmother.

The weird part is it is never addressed that some dreams could be potentially harmful. The king granting a wish that ended up having catastrophic consequences would have led to a great motivation for him and a foil for the protagonist to overcome

If King Magnifico actually had done something with the wishes, like use them in magic spells or potions as an energy source before the mom thing, thus making it impossible for people to ever dream again, and Asha had decided to rebel and free the wishes BECAUSE of this... Then he might have been an actually cool villain.

I think the problem was that instead of writing the story and then adding Easter eggs, they built the story around the Easter eggs.

What really blows about this movie is that the potential to be good was right there, but it’s completely overshadowed by how blatantly corporate the whole thing feels

If Disney just made a massive movie crossover with every character ever and called it "Disney" i would have watched that

Mushu from Mulan was one of the only talking animal sidekicks done right

6:46 THIS. From someone who has not only dealt with a multitude of losses, but who has also faced most of them before I was even a teenager....I wish more movies would touch on grief in a real way. Not just sweeping it under the rug or slapping the Five Stages of Grief on it (don't even get me started on how inaccurate the stages are btw), but a story that isn't afraid to talk about loss and face it in a real way to help kids cope. It seems like Wish had a lot of missed potential.

The king is actually a wise king, not everyone’s wishes should be granted.

The premise of the story should've been; "What are the consequences of your wishes coming true?" Now that would've been not only a great life lesson but a real good movie.

11:01 This is the prime example…of why you SHOW not TELL! He is literally telling the audience it feels good to crush the wish! Use facial expressions! Use body language! 😭

Imagine if Asha got the job to be the aprentice off the King, and slowly realizes how bad he is, so she brings the star to free the wishes with what she learned of magic. And since she would be staying in the castle, where her friends works, the characters and their stories could be more explored. Just that would change a bit the movie and make it so much better.

My problem is that no one seemed to have anything driving them before the conflict hit. Mulan wanted to be a good daughter, tiana wanted her restaurant, and Rapunzel wanted to see the lights. They all had a dream before the conflict. I have NO CLUE what asha wanted.

And you know what's the worst part? The entire movie was him looking for an apprentice that would take care of the Kingdom of Rosas. Because everyone was so focused on their own happiness, no one was willing to take on his role. He knew someone self-centered could abuse this power and start granting wishes carelessly for themselves or others, causing chaos. That's why he was disappointed over and over again when his apprentices only wanted to get close to him to get personal favors. They didn't care about the common good, only about themselves. Asha was the most shameless one, doing it on day one. He could've used his powers for ANYTHING, yet his only focus was to keep peace in Rosas, so no one had to suffer like he did. And of course, he went crazy when some kid started trampling over his life's work as a temper tantrum, thinking they knew better. Because their grandpa (WHO WAS OLDER THAN THE KING AND PROBABLY CHOOSE TO MOVE IN) couldn't learn how to play the guitar. Scratch that, he wanted people to like what he played and feel inspired by what he played. Imagine having that power over people, that's actually really dangerous.

I think Disney just needs some new perspectives… a LOT of Disney artists are taught to draw a very very specific way, animate a specific way… story tell a specific way. A lot go to the exact same schools. This movie to me feels like the ultimate culmination of that idea. Most people talk about the music being lame, or how the main character is sooo goofy silly girl like Rapunzel… but what stands out most to me is how it’s animated. Not necessarily visually in design but more so how the characters actually MOVE and their facial expressions. You start to get a sense that there’s maybe 5 people at Disney in charge of actually coming up with mannerisms and expressions… so inevitably it feels like 5 actors are playing every character in the movie, in all of the movies. Like there are mannerisms this protag does that I’ve seen done very similarly in recent movies and I’m like “oh so so and so was in charge of how this character moves AND Mirabel from Encanto” In my opinion it leads all of the characters to feel samey in more than just personality but physicality.

The wish movie looks like a last minute school project completed the night before.

In my personal opinion, the reason Asha lacks a character arc is because the team originally wrote Wish as a love story. The wishing star is supposed to be a star boy, and Asha's love interest. Asha and the star boy are soul mates; it was mentioned that they had an emotional journey. The star boy was said to be inspired by Peter Pan with a Mickey Mouse charm. I heard that the main conflict that Asha is supposed to face is something related to the Star Boy sacrifice or something, and King Magnifico's wife is supposed to be a villain too; they're supposed to be a villain power couple.

As someone who works in retail selling Disney merchandise, there was a huge lack of interest in Wish from consumers. We received an extensive shipment of products from the movie since it came out in theaters and sales were so terrible that we had to relocate some into the discount aisle. They really missed the mark on their 100th anniversary.

If people think Asha is a heroine, then this world has a serious problem. She is clearly a crazy, selfish and ingorent young woman, a wicked villain... It's ridiculous to have made the king, the most decent, realistic of all, a villain... We don't realize people's wishes like that... you imagine chaos, hell on earth.

I know every generation says it but I honestly think that being a kid in late 90s/early 00s was the best time... Peak Disney films and shows / still playing outside but having internet and acknowledgment of MH when we were teens...

Why was Grandpa upset about not getting his wish if he couldn't remember or care about it?

Hear me out. Story where asha made a wish to get her father back and it doesn’t get granted and then she pursues it for the whole movie but the climax makes her come to terms with accepting the loss of a family member, and that not everything we want can come to us but it’s still good to try to work for things and make our lives better with what we have.

"Wishes are stored in the balls"

Couldn't they just write their wish down or tell somebody their wish before giving it up so they wouldnt forget? Like I find that kind of hard to believe.

The concept art of her falling in love with a magical boy that can shape shift into the ⭐️ and they have to fight the King and his Queen (a villain couple) sounded like a missed opportunity. Oh wow another 1k liked comment 😂

Asha feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy. The way she painted King Magnifico as evil leads me to believe he became a villain through her influence.

5:14 Sidenote: Let me guess: your editor is using Clarity to remove the music and non-dialogue. I don't know if you'll ever see this, Alex, but if you do, if you have the 5.1 Blu-Ray version of a movie, the center channel is often with very little to no music. Import the audio to Adobe Audition or other waveform editing software and delete all other channels safe for center, then apply Clarity to that.

12:34 "It's not about friendship. It's not really about her family THAT much. It's about.... ERHHHH???" sums the movie up pretty well

Would've been better if the Star had turned out to be the real villain all along and was manipulating Asha, with the King learning that Asha was right about giving the wishes back to people and decides to sacrifice himself to save her.

It might have been better had they had the Queen be evil alongside her husband, as was the initial concept. A villainous couple would have been engaging, plus her being good wasn't explored much.

13:04 the sound she makes while rolling on the floor 💀

Fun fact: The star was actually gonna be a shape shifter who becomes Asha's love interest. That's why it feels like there's something missing plot-wise. On top of that, Magnifico and Amaya were BOTH gonna be evil, which I think would've been Disney's first evil couple. There were lots of interesting concepts that were tossed aside, which is a real shame. I think the concepts themselves sound more interesting than the final product.

The werdiest thing to me about this movie is that they did not hire any of the broadway musical writers for the 100th disney film? You know broadway the thing that carried the Disney renissance

This movie seemed very rushed and no thought was put into it. 14:22 ALSO WHY DID SHE HAVE THE SAME CRUSTY DRESS ON WHEN THE STAR MADE HER THE FAIRY GODMOTHER!?

9:30 holy crap. I didn’t think this movie could get any more on the nose as a Biblical allegory after I watched the trailer. And now the “super cute and adorable” fallen star literally hands the girls a round red yarn (totally not an apple or forbidden item) in a tree. Come on.

Wish is a representation of Disney today: Magnifico is all the higher ups who keep on promising us (the citizens of Rosas) something good, so every time he comes out with a new wish ceremony (a new movie) we all gather to watch hoping that maybe this time it will be our wish (it will be something good) and Asha and the seven meaningless friends are all the animators and writers who genuinely have some interesting and beautiful ideas, but are unable to make them come true becuase Magnifico (cooperate Disney) just keeps on crushing them out of fear of loosing power and money.

Why was like all of the dialogue so expository???? "I have my interview today" "What interview?" "You know! The one with the prince!" "Oh yes, the hot prince!" Like...just show the audience the plot with the story. You don't need to go, "Oh wow, I just crushed this wish and now I feel so powerful!" Like...we can see that you felt powerful. Do you know how effective it would've been for him to crush it, and have power so obviously course through him, and then his face shift ever so subtly?? Disney used to be able to do that. Why is it so dumbed down now?

This is such a weird series of events. The king is managing everyone's dreams to keep people happy and cooperative. Then he sees the star fall and feels the power behind and reasonably thinks someone is attacking his kingdom with terrifying power. His fall to straight up villany starts with him trying to be a good king. It honestly felt like this was the start of his hero arc. Where he learns how poorly he was running things despite his intentions and he has to go on a journey to learn and sing and cry.

I think the funniest part is Magnifico had a legitimate reason not granting her grandfather's wish and they still tried to play it off as him being evil XD

Honestly, I feel like Encanto would’ve been a perfect 100th anniversary movie instead. I know it didn’t feature an actual villain, but it had some great songs, was all about magic and getting a gift, and the whole movie was honestly a great gift from Disney!

King magnifico could've been a great new Disney villain but the writers ruined his potential. The writers keep trying to have it both ways, they want him to be a classically evil Disney villain but they also want him to be sympathetic and complex. They couldn't decide what they wanted him to be and they ruined him.

This movie is like when you have to write an essay to argue about a point which you dont support cause its blatantly wrong and stupid so you just yap to pad out time

Alex's animating is way better than the movies 😂

Encanto was a amazing movie. It show cases toxic family dynamics and the deal seated expectations that people are pushed into. But Wish was absolutely terrible, it had no story line, and a badly written villain.

I haven't seen Wish and when Asha opens the door to reveal the signing chickens I legitimately thought it was a bit you were doing. The fact that that is in a DISNEY movie is insane

9:59 the sound quality 😂

the main character of wish appeared in Shrek 2 and showed her real colors how evil and bad she is. I think this disnay movie should be considered as Shreks prequel lol😂😂😂😂

I’m surprised Alex didn’t talk about how King Magnifico’s “villain song” didn’t sound anything like it. I’ve seen people talk about how it resembles a pop song, which it kinda does. Someone in the comments made a good point by saying that when they had the Lion King soundtrack playing, their sibling asked to skip Scar’s song “Be Prepared” because it always scared him. That’s what a villain song should do. Even Scar’s design is creepy. You have Poor Unfortunate Souls, Mother Knows Best, Hellfire, Friends on the Other Side. And apparently Asha was supposed to have a love interest named Starboy. It would’ve been nice to have a love story like the original Disney movies.

I think this move completely misunderstood the power hungry leader archetype. The make it seem like he’s a tyrant purely because he wants to hang on to his power. Like, no shit? He’s the leader of a kingdom. No competent leader would put himself in positions where he can lose his power. Imagine if the president of a country was constantly doing stupid things to get himself impeached. They wanted Magnifico to be a villain so bad but they didn’t show him doing anything villainous, until he literally got corrupted by Evil Plot Device tm.

Why does she look so like isabella from Encanto, the whole scenery is so.. uncanny valley - similar

5:06 am I the only one who noticed the descendants poster in the background?

When I saw a trailer for it in the theater when Magnifico said most wishes wouldn’t be granted I thought “the movie makes it seem like it’s a bad thing, but there are wishes out there that shouldn’t be granted.” Also when I saw destroyed wishes give you power, what if you just destroyed the bad wishes and granted the good ones? Unless that will make you turn evil, which would be an interesting backstory for why Magnifico became a villain.

We are in the death of creativity era it seems. I watched toy story and cars recently and man, the regression is pitiful. For example, even though cars is a kids' movie the dialogue is natural and anyone of any age can appreciate the story. I miss animated movies like that

I think it’s so stupid how the only way the writers could describe the wish orbs was by Asha saying “ball like bubbly things, that are very pretty, but very locked up”. 🙄I just can’t with this movie

I will never understand why the king was made the villain. The guy has to deal with hundreds, maybe thousands of people with conflicting ideas and desires. It would be insanely irresponsible to grant everyone's wishes. They could have gone for a "this is my responsibility" etc and how Asha learns from it and grows as a person. They could have gone another way, like "you don't have to hold on to your past and one single wish/idea/desire", and learning to have different wishes and desires as they live and grow older. But nope.

Finally, an AI-generated Disney movie! Exactly what we've all been itching for!

What’s really sad is if you look up the original concept of the movie. It had a really good plot, interesting characters and overall was just better visually. And then they made this

With how Disney’s animated movies have been I do wonder. How do all the animators and people behind the scenes feel about all of this? Animation is not easy at all, wonder how they all feel knowing all their work was for nothing.

Thanks for the explanation, I thought I was dumb for not understanding the story, but it turns out the story was kind of there, it just went really fast 😅

I've never even been a huge Disney fan, but in my wildest dreams, I would have expected something like Fantasia for a 100th-anniversary film. How depressing.

I remember watching a short on this & the person summed it up pretty well. It was how in almost all Disney movies it's "wants" versus "needs" How a character wants something in the beginning & throughout the story they get what they needed, not what they wanted. In this movie she just legit gets what she's wants. There's nothing more to it. There's no real journey. And that's where it falls very flat.

The fact that the last disney romance based movie was TANGLED wich is 14 YEARS OLD😭

You know, Disney could have done the "too nice" trope, where the king is so kind that it is harming the city of Rosas. He fulfills EVERY wish and feels underappreciated. Asha could have been the voice of pragmatism while all the city is in chaos due to their wishes being fulfilled one after the other. This song matchs the vibe. Also, the line 'be careful what you wish for', on the movie's poster would be matching the theme, this way.

Anyone noticed that the king guy wasn't even evil, then the moment he crushes that first wish he just does a complete 180? As others said, this movie had insane potential and it was just done horribly.

I can’t believe Disney fumbled this hard with this movie. Meanwhile nearly every other studio released much better films. I hope he covers Once Upon a Studio

I actually heard that this was going to be a love story where the star was actually a prince of the stars and not an adorable star creature. I saw the concept art on Pinterest and the comments on it where just like "Man. We could've gotten this and they decided to go with the other plot?!" Like, so many of us romantics would've liked the romance story. If Disney's message was just about wishes: I wish we got the plot with the romance in it.

The more I hear about this movie, it makes me think of cardboard if cardboard had a personality

Asha was 100% the villain. Obviously the king originally had good intentions but lost himself along the way, but we don't actually see him be evil until he crushes the wish which clearly corrupts him.

I remember when Velma came out, and basically the entire Scooby Doo fandom came together and- well they mostly talked about how bad it was, but I saw a couple of fan projects spawn from it, all of which were better than the entire show, despite some of them only being 5 minutes long. And there's thousands of animators, musicians, voice actors, writers and so many more people here on RU-vid... we could easily remake Wish. Just sayin'

10:29 my guy cringed too much

I don't know why but seeing that silhouette constellation of Ichabod Crane at 14:37 has made me sad for some weird... I don't know why... Makes me want to watch The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, and those shorts that were made in that same artstyle like Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, and Pecos Bill... I'm just feeling so sad right now...

At this point Disney has really lost all their passion and love that they originally had. Some random movies they have made in the last decade have been good. But man.... they are going downhill fast

I WISH they used the older animation style to celebrate Disney or they could've used the original concept story of this movie

I was so entertained just by this guys animation style wtf X'D i loved it!!

This is my first time watching one of your vids, and... damn, this is the most animated persona I've seen for a reviewer. My heckin' respect to ya, m'dude.

I haven't watched the movie myself, and quite frankly after Alex talking about it, I don't see any reason to either. Which... that's kind of a depressing mindset to have when Disney was a part of your childhood. 100 years anniversary? It has ALL the potential to bring those older generations back together in one-sitting. If just they had done something memorable. I totally agree that the premise actually could've been really interesting. I can just imagine it: A kingdom is built on wishes; the wishes are taken from the people as a metaphor for them growing up. A film premise that COULD reflect how those generations in the real world(the viewers) have grown up over the past 100 years. But as the movie progresses, the characters learn to reunite with their wishes, learning the valuable lesson that. a) wishes can't be taken from us. Our wishes(the viewers' childhood dreams) remain valid as grownups. It's alright to be a kid. or b) wishes don't need to be fulfilled by a fairy, going to Neverland... or having a king fulfill them. As a grownup, you can still live your dreams or try to, at least. Because grownups aren't hallow baby machines. They're still people, but people who have to adjust because they no longer have the freedom that children have. And, rather than portraying the king as a stereotypical antagonist driven by cliché motives of world domination and power, the film could introduce a nuanced perspective. He had a wish, too, which was to make the world a better place. He could be an example of an adult who tries to fulfill their genuine dream but fails because... Again, it's a dream. Wistful and innocent thinking doesn't make the dream less valid. It's a bittersweet reality that while dreams may not materialize in their entirety, the journey toward them holds intrinsic value, encouraging individuals to persist in their pursuit in their dreams, regardless of the final end result. That's how I wish Disney had made their 100th anniversary movie. Something with meaning.

"NO NO NO NO THIS ANIMAL BETTER NOT SAY A SINGLE WORD!!" That's when I knew the animal was going to start talking.

“Kinda” dumb? 😭 its not even comparable to teenager fanfics because at least their fanfic they can write the characters who sticks to their personality, wish is just… what the fuck

The thing that bothered me the most about this whole animation was: The protagonist's hair being 100% glued to her right shoulder. It jiggles a little bit here and there to... simulate an animation I guess... but it hanging on her right shoulder for almost the entirety of the movie (oh dang, except here 8:44 I guess animators remembered that her hair could move), really, really, really, reeeeaaally bothered me. I imagined her being a girl with a very stiff neck, as that would be the only way for her hair to be always perfectly hanging 100% on her right shoulder, not mattering her movements or the position of her body.

11:09 Wow. That sounded even worse without music.

Wish is the perfect example of targeting only one type of audience. As a wise man once said, “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” -C.S. Lewis

The whole point of people giving their wish to magnifeco was that they could not achieve it themselves. He didn't take their wishes they voluntarily gave it to him.

Gonna be honest just seeing the extreme faces in the intro put a smile on my face so I thank you

I was actually very excited when the trailer came out, like the girl's name Asha was literally an Indian name meaning wish. But then the movie crushed my dreams and expectations. They could have made the movie 100 times better if they had a solid theme like romance or friendship. The original idea of having a star boy, who falls in love with her was a good plot too. But apparently, Disney had decided no more love stories Edit: The name meaning was like a little fun fact for me that's why I shared. It's the same thing as seeing a character of your culture in the mainstream media. There is a big chance they would completely butcher the character with stereotypes and whatnot but before you are disappointed you have the right to feel excited.

11:18 Wait but the face though-

Here’s a list of things you should also review: - Thomas & the Magic Railroad - some of the Bob the Builder specials - The FRED Figglehorn trilogy

4:04 I had to read that book for my 7th Grade Honors ELA summer packet lol