I am so confused. She lives in a kingdom with an omnipotent king who can grant unlimited wishes at no cost. He does screen the wishes so that he only grants wishes that are good for the whole kingdom. I.e. this kingdom is a flipping utopia. But she is upset because the king isn't recklessly granting every single wish? She must be the most spoiled Disney hero of all time.
If you paid attention. You’d realize our main character did not want every wish to be granted. Let me explain. Asha asked if some of the wishes will never be granted. King Magnifico replied that most of them will never be granted. People who had the privilege to watch part of the movie found that the King only grants the wishes that benefit him. Doesn’t matter how harmless the wish is. If it doesn’t benefit him, it won’t be granted. Or if it does harm. If it benefits him it’s granted. We don’t know what he thinks is good for Rosas or what everyone deserves. He is the flipping villain. Only then did Asha get more defensive, saying how the people or Rosas deserved more than what was being given. Not all of it.
@@bravestraven4650 So, basically what you're saying is that the film is overtly predictable if you watch the first half of it... you know what would make it actually unique and groundbreaking? If the plot twist at the end was that the protagonist was the evil one and the King was actually good! I'll give Disney credit where credit is due: at least in Frozen, they had sisterly love be the "true love" to break an evil spell, and audiences weren't expecting this so it was interesting and memorable at the time. Wish is so predictable that it makes watching my obese dad mow the lawn sound more fun to watch.
@@JarethTheGoblinKingForever It’s kinda funny how you praise Frozen? All of Frozen was mediocre at best. (What I mean by mediocre was that it was just ok since that’s what mediocre means. Just that it has negative associations Frozen to me didn’t work) The sisterly love thing it was good sure. But it didn’t really pay off because of the messy plot. And don’t give me the excuse it’s just for kids. But oh well, that’s just my opinion of Frozen. But you don’t give Wish a pass do you? All I tried to point out is the misunderstanding in that scene with Asha and King Magnifico. I don’t think it makes it less interesting. I think that it’s a way to understand these characters better. There will definitely (hopefully) be other interesting things like Asha’s multi-ethnic family. Her unusually large friend group of seven people. How she will solve the problem to give Rosas a better future. It’s funny how lots of people like simple stories like Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. Now we want Disney to not go back to their roots? Just because it’s a simple story doesn’t necessarily mean it can’t be entertaining. Simple stories don’t have to be predictable. If it’s a story you’ve never seen or heard of before. It will never truly be predictable regardless of how simple it is. The only thing simple we know now is the premise. Doesn’t mean we know all the details yet. I’m not saying you should be forced to like the movie. I just think that just there’s a beauty to a seemingly simple story with great aspects sprinkled all over like old Disney. If you don’t like that type. It’s ok. But who knows? Maybe there will be a way Asha resolves the conflict of the whole wishes thing. Maybe she’ll solve it in a way that works, but nobody really expected? But we will have to see.
@@bravestraven4650 Um... dude, you just wrote an essay there! You're presumably a grown-ass man, and FYI, calling something "simple" doesn't make it any better or less predictable. By the way, this IS "just for kids". Nobody really needs your opinion on this thing unless you're a parent. Otherwise, you're just a grown nerd with WAY too much time on your hands who apparently never got jaded past this bullshit. I'm not saying that animated movies are by default childish - there are plenty of amazing animated movies made for adults and for older children, too. But this is literally a movie targeted towards little little kids. It's not even like Coraline or The Last Unicorn where there's a distinct appeal to adults. You're like an adult man getting into a hissy-fit over the philosophy of Peppa Pig or something.
"Wow. A king trying to prevent people from abusing his power and throwing his kingdom (possibly the entire world) into chaos? What a monster!" -A Disney executive
I think this speaks volumes about what these peoples ideologies and world views are, they are hedonistic narcissists who want the youth to follow in their footsteps
I saw the long version of the trailer and had to laugh about the 'villain.' I like that the "evil villain" is someone who is evil because he doesn't give everyone everything that they want. I think we saw the opposite side of this in Bruce Almighty, where he DID give everyone everything they wanted/prayed for. What happened? Chaos, rioting, and looting galore. *SIGH* So frustrating that Disney lost sight of why morals actually matter.
Exactly, the race of the characters isn't even a problem in this instance, Caucasian dudes been playing bad guys forever, this is actually sticking to tradition, the problem is the overall message the film sends or tries to teach, like with most modern movies they lack any value in a higher since. Movies like Rocky are classics for reasons exactly to this point.
But do we know the ending yet? The descriptions for the movie I've read include Asha having her wish granted that allows all the other wishes to be granted, and chaos ensues. It could very well be the very moral you all are talking about is the whole point of the movie - that it turns out the "bad guy" wasn't a bad guy at all, and was choosing wishes because we can't all get what we want. Anyway, just saying, until we know the ending, we can't really assume...
As someone who grew up as a passionate Disney lover and devotee, I've already got used to the fact that this company is gone. It is no longer there and I just thank it for the great films and memories, which are now left in the past with their real, gunuine, well-thought and non-feminist/woke masterpieces. RIP Disney
I hope you guys see the hypocricy behind getting triggered by a white guy being a villain while being the same people who think your a snowflake if you get offended by how minorities are represented
This would be a good start of a movie, but to make it great, she should grant everyone's wishes early on in the movie thereby causing nothing but chaos. Then, the King steps in and helps her put everything back in order whereby she learns a valuable lesson.
She will make sure to grant all the wishes? Even the ones contradicting one another and the ones wishing harm to other people? I hope Disney realizes what mayhem that would cause.
Exactly my thoughts. You only have to ponder the premise for a few seconds to realize how naive and dumb it is. People have conflicting interests, so it's not possible to grant everybody's wishes. And even if you could, that's just an incentive for people to be lazy and not put any effort into realizing their dreams.
@@Angel_Investor_Musicclassic leftist trope, make all the sensible things come out of the bad guys mouth, and all their desires come from the protagonist
Exactly. When you give people unconditional access to a power like that, you're just asking for that power to be abused. Of course, Disney's moral compass has been broken for years now so of course they would portray a king trying to keep people from abusing his power as being inherently evil.
Not all villians are white... Dr. Facilier was black. Not all heroines are brown, Rapunzel, Brave, etc... all white. Please stop causing more division; its getting old.
Disney (Dismay) is deliberately self sabotaging, to get bought out by Blackr0ck more, and the cvltists around the E$G (Epste¡n, $0R0$, G@tes). G@tes swooped in and gobbled up Bvd Light stocks after the Dull-Ann Mvlvaney Fiasco. They’re knee capping corporations and franchises, to swallow them up, and further embed themselves into our failing society as the (p)arasitic ticks and leeches that They are.
Says a person who does not understand the markets whatsoever. Within the last year disney's stock was at its alltime high. You have to expand the chart to the beginning of the stock in order to determine where the breakout points even are. And then you have to understand what a breakout is.. and I bet you don't. Go learn something today, watch some of Tim Sykes free videos.
I’m not because I remember when Disney made good movies and characters everyone loved. This progression of hating against men especially white men ruined that.
I know what he wants. Something to complain about. The amount of mental gymnastics he's willing to go through to justify the villains in classic Disney movies is crazy.
This premise shows the narrative quite cleary. That white people are powerful enough to solve the world’s problems but choose not to out of vague yet purposeful malice.
I remember reading about the way Sidney Poitier was attacked for selling out "to the white man", just for appearing in films with them 😱😱 Damned if you do, damned if you don't, it seems
I'm 39, and they were pushing it when I was in school. It wasn't nearly as aggressive and obvious as it is today, but the history textbooks and course I took in high school always had a "white man bad" spin, they hyper focused on all the violence from European settlers towards native Americans, but hardly if ever mentioned the violence they returned to us, or the violence they inflicted on each other.
I would say Disney could win this if the girl defeats him and then grants all the wishes, only to discover the horror of what she has unleashed. She then needs the king's help to put everything right, learning a valuable lessons along the way.
You wish (no pun intended)...don't you know women in movies nowadays don't need to learn anything...they are perfect. Look at the new Mulan and Rey from Star Wars.
This would actually be really good for a plot... and if she and the King became platonic friends instead of lovers, Disney could still have its "girl power" message if it really wanted. It would strangely be much more groundbreaking to have a white man and a non-white woman team up as allies for something bigger than themselves, finding along the way that they valued each other as friends and that skin colour didn't change their friendship... but nope, I guess that's just beneath an animation company most recently noted for using a red panda as a metaphor for Aunt Flo being in town.
@@frostmakers Because feminists may hate men, but they also want to BE men. You think they hate masculinity, but they actually admire it. They’re just jealous that men have it. What they really hate is their own femininity.
@@Link-ym3hm Kids movies have moral messages. The moral message in this one seems to be that the protagonist, the character kids are supposed to identify with, is rebelling against authority because the antagonist isn't granting everyone every wish they desire.
Remake a Disney film with a character of a new race=CREATE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS OF COLOR. Create an original character of color= IT IS TOO WOKE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A BROWN HERO AND A WHITE VILLIAN. You're starting to sound like the woke mob you deem to better than with all this dissatisfaction.
@@Cimmerian415 its not like we hate you, its that the actual nazis discredit the shit out of us due to small insignificant stuff. We like to deny them fodder. Its fun and cogent for the middle.
Really? Go woke go broke? Barbie has made over $1.4 BILLION so far. never underestimate how evil people really are and how extensive hypocrisy is in America.
Absolutely nothing about this movie is woke. It’s just a bunch of hate from either jaded Disney fans. Or fanatic conservatives. I’m a conservative myself, but I am not a fanatic. I am willing to have a real conversation about this topic, instead of just leaving saying I’m right and everyone else is wrong to understand what this movie really is.
When the writers went on strike, they should have left them on the street as punishment, for the last ten years of garbage that they have foisted on the public.
So are you saying these people are writing this crap against their will? sorry, all those writers seem to embrace the woke ideas that are sending these companies broke. face it, a good chef will refuse to use second rate ingredients, to make a second rate meal! their choice. @@taki7546
In our current time, if everyone's wishes were granted, the human race would cease to exist. The result would be an outcome that would be worse than any Terminator movie ever created.
The thing is that won't even be possible, because if every got what they wish there will be a lot of paradoxes, because how can the the wish be guaranteed to someone who wish for world peace and every one to live happily ever after and another psycho who wish for the world to be burned to ash ?
YES!!! as an aspiring animator, I've literally been telling people that traditional animation looks better than 3d animation because we literally grew up with hand drawn tv shows and movies
Same here. I've never been a big crazy fan of CGI animation, not even when the fist Toy Story movie came out. It feels and moves stiffly and soulless. In comparison the old hand drawn movies were more livelier and full of personality, and you could perform all sorts of crazy stuff that would be hard to do in CG or live action.
CGI can look amazing when done right. But it's not a replacement voor hand drawn animation. Both have their place. Sadly Disney does not understand that.
"traditional animation looks better than 3d Animation because we literally grew up with hand drawn animation" Sounds like an emotional and subjective statement. Your love of traditional animation as a medium should expand more than just based on the idea of hand drawn being better than 3d. Every form of animation has its value. This is coming from someone who personally enjoys 2d as well. Just my thoughts as far as creativity goes.
I respectfully disagree. CG animation has been the best thing to happen to animation as a medium, but I entirely agree that need to have more 2D fillms. It's a lost art and a beautiful one and I hope to see more 2D films in the future.
All the live action “reimagined classics” pale in comparison to the originals we loved. They’ve lost billions sticking to the inclusive woke mind set. Go Woke Go Broke Disney!
I agree about this movie. If everyone’s wish was granted, it would cause chaos. Someone may wish that someone else would just drop dead, someone else may wish they had everything their neighbor has. Someone may wish a person was in love with them instead of the person with which they are actually in love.
I WISH Disney would go back to being the family-friendly company I grew up with. I wanted to take my kids there. Now I have 2 little boys. I’ll never take them to WDW or show them any of these terrible new movies. I’m heartbroken for Walt’s Disney.
@@Binzob the “lesson” it teaches kids is that they deserve to get everything they want, and any responsible adults (like their parents) that get in their way are being bad people and should be disobeyed.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the satanic aspect of such a plot. The white guy could also be God, who would be such a bad god for not giving everybody what they want. And the "other protagonist" is ready to give you that... which sounds like a big fat trap.
@@129jasper1 Or just the idea that God might have good reason not to answer a prayer. Which is a tough pill to swallow, but might make sense in the long run. But indeed, we might not know what to ask to begin with, which would explain the lack of answer. I suppose...
It is Satan’s temptation that rocks should be turned to bread if you’re hungry and you should be saved from every danger you put yourself into. The temptation that Satan can get you the whole Earth and it’s kingdoms sounds attractive but Jesus had the wisdom to refuse and face the struggle of life so everyone can be responsible, face challenge, and grow in the confidence of faith.
If we've all only seen the trailer(and I haven't even seen it except in this video) then It's hard to say anyone "doesn't get it" yet. There will be different ways to count the evils of Disney propaganda.@@segsb7085
The point is that children can not decipher that message. Therefore, they will be changed by the movie. Like many movies and almost every Disney movie made it always has underlying messaging. What parents need to do is understand these messages and NEVER allow their children to see them. No matter the pressure to go and watch them. Disney is not an ally to your family, and never was.
When I was young (below ten) I used to discuss this wish thing with my younger brother and friends, and we all agreed that if everyone had the opportunity to have all their wishes granted, one crazy person would definitely wish everyone away. Evil things like global legal slavery like in the old days would never sieze etc all kinds of horrible possibilities. I don't think I'm the only one who had a wild imagination as a kid. Even kids can call this crap.
Okay but why does it matter if the villain is a white guy, you just seem a bit pressed about that lol. A villain can be anyone. Even if it's a giant shiny crab
Next they'll make a film with such nuanced morals as "Eat Your Vegetables", "Don't Pee the Bed", and "Don't Bite Your Little Brother, Jane! Biting Is Bad."
Wait. Its also a title from a fantasy novels about mundane modern kids who meet and ask wish toward villain character from Disney works, only to find out if the wish backfire them very painfully
This movie seems to take the opposite approach of "Bruce Almighty". Instead of giving everyone their wish and then realizing it's a bad idea, Wish starts with only granting some wishes and then the "hero" thinks that granting all wishes is somehow better.
But the villain doesn’t even grant most of the wishes? He keeps most of them away from the people of Rosas. We don’t know what he thinks is good for Rosas. Or what everyone deserves. He is a villain. And I already made a long comment explained why Matt’s take wasn’t a good one. Our main character only said they deserved more than what was being given. (And by they I mean more than one person) Not all of it.
@@knghtcmdr Not always? Well maybe we will see how this movie justifies wanting more for the people around you? I’d say it’s actually really selfless to want more for your community than is actually being given. What I meant by they was the people of Rosas. Not Asha herself. Watching the trailer I felt like I was missing something. But I never came up with any of the ridiculously wild conclusions so many people made. Cause there is nothing to support it. I actually took the time and effort to look up more about the movie beyond marketing. We aren’t kids. We have the ability to look for more information about certain movies. I found in an article about Asha and Magnifico’s hero and villain dynamic that is very interesting. Both of them believe in the power of a wish. And that it should be protected. But Asha ends up believing that wishes are not simply ideas. But also come from our hearts. She believes by taking away a wish. It takes away an important part of someone. And prevents them the ability to make their wish come true through their own efforts. While Magnifico believe wishes to simply be ideas. Because of that he only grants the wishes that will only benefit him. And keeps most of the wishes to himself. He justifies this by the belief by the idea that he is sparing them the pain of not reaching their goals. Kinda ironic since he gives false hope to everyone. Which is how he stays in power. Asha and Magnifico are two sides of the same coin if you really think about it. It’s not materialistic to think that wishes should not be taken, and to help people make their own wish come true like Asha believes. Kind of like guiding people you know? And Magnifico thinking wishes are simply ideas shows he doesn’t fully understand what a wish is. Not to mention I’ve heard from others who got to watch a preview of Wish that he doesn’t care what wishes are good and bad. As long as they benefit him they are granted. And someone who got to see the preview even described that when he said he grants the wishes he’s sure are good for Rosas. It’s like saying what’s good for him. As in he thinks he is Rosas.
They know, they just don't care. They're getting more money from China, to subvert our culture, than they could ever dream of making from ticket sales.
They can't realize it. Even if employees at the higher level know it's actually impossible at this point to go a different route. Disney is sinking ship and the upper management rubs shoulders and is friends with the woke agenda class. They will ride it down with the ship now or lose all social standing with their way of life.
Lol the villain actually sounds like he's wise and not naive to think every wish is a good wish. That just shows he demonstrates discernment where the hero just wants a utopia. And we all know where that can go wrong.
Have you actually read the plot synopsis? He already HAS the wishes, and is entrusted with them by the people so they might come true, except he’s using them to instill a sense of false by selectively granting them and keeping his subjects loyal to him to get their wishes granted He’s not keeping them from the people for their own good, he’s hoarding them to control the people. Y’all go ahead and agree and agree with this guy lmao
@@SandwitchZebra Even so, this makes even less sense and makes him a terrible "villain". If he wanted to manipulate everyone and make them truly dependent on his magical powers, he would grant everyone's wishes without hesitation, that literally would give him the best opportunity to take advantage of people's lives, since now they would just have to go to him to grant whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. This is the perfect formula for manipulation and to cause chaos among the people, because, let's be real, you can't expect everyone to be a saint and have wishes with good intentions, there are always going to be many bad apples among the people with malevolent and selfish desires, some of which could ruin other people's lives or oppose someone else's wish, and you wanna hear something funny? Some previous Disney Villains have done this exact same thing to try and manipulate their victims (most often the protagonists), into giving into their biggest desires so the villains could take advantage of them (Ursula doing it to Ariel, Jafar doing it to Alladin, Hades doing it to Megara and Hercules). By making the villain, someone who won't grant all the wishes because he's "selfish", makes absolutely no sense, because, couldn't just the people riot and force him to grant their wishes? This is why this idea for the "villain" doesn't work.
The Wise KIng: Wishes will be granted if they are fixing potholes, improving traffic flow, anything for the good of thy Kingdom. (Evil laugh.) Heroic Brown Girl: BUt that's, that's, that's RAYCISS!!
Because that disproportionately helps the whites as they are more likely to own cars that drive on those roads. Jeez. I meant that as sarcasm but the thought just popped into my head like some kind of woke mindworm. Scary.
At this point, these movies are SO ridiculously awful I actually think they have to be using AI generated scripts. How could and sane rational human thinking a story where EVERYONES wishes are granted be a good idea.
The idea is the starting point it's the execution that matters. Plenty you could do with that. Just hire people who can actually write and not agenda driven soyboys.
She never said all the wishes should be granted though. Pay attention to the actual dialogue and do your research. If your not willing to do that. Let’s have a debate. Unless you can’t do that too?
It takes about 3 years to conceive, prep, execute and release an animated feature film. So this is not Disney "getting back on track," this is peak WOKE Disney. In 2-3 years we may see some "back on track" films from the studio.
But due to Disney's incompetence and ego, and going WOKE, I'm afraid it might be a little too late for them to get back on track. Unless Bob Iger is fired from his CEO position and replaced by a CEO that actually cares about quality, and every WOKE activist at Disney is fired and Blacklisted, nothing is going to change.
It’s a bit hypocritical that Matt will complain about the little mermaid race swapping but will also complain when Disney makes a new story with a white villain and brown protagonist. Also this is a kids movie. Most parents don’t take their kids to see a movie simply because they (the parents) will enjoy the story line or animation.
It sounds like the case where she gets what she wants, grants every single wish, society then falls into chaos, and then they see that the king wasn’t such a bad guy
That is actually will be a very good movie with a very nice lesson , but they will never do that They will make her at the right by any means no matter how stupid it is , and the king at wrong, Probably they'll make him apologize at the end too
Honestly the only thing I can think of that would make this movie good is if the plot twist of the film is that the girl finds out that granting all wishes backfires- the lesson is to be careful what you wish for and not everything that you “want” is necessarily good.
I don’t see the point in pointing out that the villain is a white guy? In all classic Disney films the villains were white as well? Everything is always about color with Americans.
This reminds me of that scene in Bruce Almighty where he says yes to everyone's prayers, and it not only fails to make everyone happy, but it also causes utter chaos.
There was a time even pretty recently, when animated family movies were some of the most well written in all of Hollywood. That went downhill real fast. Oh well. There's still some good lesser known action and horror films out there, the last remaining genres that haven't been killed by wokeism.
Sher Kahn could quite possibly be the villain who was the most right out of all of Disney's villains. He respected the balance and equilibrium of the forest, and never took more than what he needed. He warned all the animals that man would bring the red flower and burn down the forest. .... and that's exactly what Mowgli did, and Kahn died for it as well. That tiger is a friggin martyr.
@SandwitchZebra Kahn is motivated by the same thing in both versions, but he only lost an eye in the live action. Either way, it's Kahn that fears Mowgli. Not the other way around.
@allananderson6343 I never read the original tale, but from what I do know, I believe Kahn is more menacing in that version and more deserving of the title "Man Eater." In the animated version, he's more whimsical than menacing. He's definitely more in line with a cartoonish villain. I love his live action version, and that's the one I'm referring to mostly. He's far more relatable, powerful, and intimidating.
Wishful thinking is what much of what woke culture is about, where facts and reality are bent to placate people's feelings. So a movie called WISH, where the "hero" endeavors to grant everyone's wishes, without considering the consequences or the conflict between wishes, is quite apropos for the culture
Matt’s point is that if the villain was a colored person, the Left would go into spasms of rage. They would literally riot and start killing people, and burn entire cities down, while Al Sharpton rappels down from a helicopter and holds a press conference denouncing Disney.
Okay so I want to play devil's advocate here as I think it is needed. We complain when they change characters race and now we're mad they're doing a new original movie with a person of colour as the main hero ? Seem like we're blowing from both side here, there's nothing wrong with them wanting a person of colour to be the hero of a movie, I do agree that making the villain a white male is kind of overdone at this point but whatever ... Just give it a chance ... Like I said I'm much more pissed that they make snow white and Ariel black that the fact that they're trying to make new original movie with people of colour... for me that doesn't remove anything
I think it really might just be the villain being white. I frankly don't remember complaints with Encanto in this regard. (And I'm tempted to say that Raya doesn't even count as having a POC main character because OH MY GOSH that girl was the whitest girl I've ever heard deliver lines in a movie, haha.) Edit: By which I mean her voice direction is very SoCal, not that the VA is white or something.
Yeah and the villain being whilte is also fine ... I think we're over thinking it ... maybe at this point they should just make the villain an alien or something lol @@purplefern6010
same with the animation, it’s almost like here Disney is trying to go for the comic book style animation that Puss In Boots did, but they fail to understand how puss in boots made it work
@@TakaVasAshlar No they don't. They are a separate company. I believe at one point the creators of dreamworks did work for Disney, but they built their own company. Disney does own Pixar though
@@SelenaSea There’s a song too, sung to the tune of Frozen’s “Let it Go”: 🎵”I’m a guy, I’m a guy! Even though I’m not quite sure why!”🎵….Etc. It’s very trendy. Little girls everywhere will be singing it.
Disney didn't put anything new, not even with the original cartoons from the 90s, these are all old European folk tales, but softened and dumbed down. Nothing is from America in these stories, besides Pocahontas.
Imagine changing all good white characters to black/whatever and then even make the bad guys in new movies WHITE and the good "hero" black/whatever I hate Disney.
But apart from that, I’d like to say that Matt’s take was actually extremely flawed. With the only redeeming quality being the seemingly tacky animation. Which is actually really stunning in a better resolution like 4k ultra hd. Found in Trailer Spot’s channel. Disney is really irresponsible about the compression in sites like RU-vid. Even on Disney+
You have to curate, and take responsibility as a parent. They are your kids, act like it. If your public school is woke, get them out of there. Don't take them to see woke films, and don't let them support such films with their friends. Don't be a tyrant, but talk to them about why you feel the way you feel. A lot of kids are smarter than most people give them credit for.
I agree that kids shouldn’t be indoctrinated by wokeness. At least the modern definition of it. It was a lot better when it was actually needed. But kids should also not be indoctrinated to anything political. Not even if it’s something you agree with. Let them make they’re own choices, while guiding them safely. But Wish is far from a woke movie. It’s about someone who senses a darkness no one else sees in their leader. It’s about her wanting more for her community than what is being given. If you want to debate about this. Your more than free too. But if you somehow find my long comment. Read that one.
@@thedifferenceincolour7341 The prince being 30 is a common misconception. He’s actually also said to be 18. More likely for the time. Since he looks to young to be 30.
@@thedifferenceincolour7341 Where did you hear that? I'd like to know your source. Regardless, even if true, and I doubt it, that was a fairly common and accepted practice for the time. Marriage back then was more about stability then it was about love, and to be fair, it's not often about love in these days either.
So…this movie is based on the false premise that everybody is basically good, and so therefore everything that everyone wishes will be good, and this “bad” king is preventing people from getting good things. That’s not reality. That’s an airy fairy view of humanity and is not helpful to kids, who need mature and principled adults and moral guidance to teach them to curb their naturally selfish and bad natures.
Matt, as much as I liked your documentary, you are overreacting now. You haven't seen the movie yet and you can't make assumptions based on the trailer. From what I heard from some sources, the villain only allows wishes that benefits him directly. Therefore, he's not as purist as you think he his. I'm sure the movie is about learning that you can't have everything you want, and that's something the protagonist will learn the hard way.
You've a point here. It doesn't look like a wonderful blockbuster of a movie, but doesn't seem that bad either. Although we've been swamped with woke movies of late it's all right to have a bad white guy once in a while. Bill Cosby once remarked concerning his movie role as the devil that it was an advance that a black guy could be allowed to be the bad guy. Maybe the current collapse of watchable movies has made us a little oversensitive.
That movie was dumpster trash and I'm glad Disney at least had the sense to take away Rogue Squadron from Patty Jenkins after it. Even after making a big deal about announcing it too.
Ha ha! Well-observed. They probably fed images of every Disney Princess so far into an AI image generator, and this is what it spewed out. A homogenised character that's the average of everything that went before. Yeah, that's appealing. 😑
My biggest issue with this film is the animation style they chose. It looks like a TV budget production rather than a full fledged film budget production. Encanto had a distinct Disney style and also had an extraordinary level of detail in the hair, clothes, environment, etc. This movie has the Disney style but looks lifeless. It seems they’re trying to go for a “storybook” look but it’s lifeless. The recent Puss in Boots movie went with a storybook style and, despite it’s dark undertones, looked bright, lively, and fun.
I think the animation style looks like a storybook, and the creators of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish chose a similar style - it worked great, imho. This Disney animation will be bad mostly because of the plot.
@@weed...5692 Personally, I’ll hold my criticism on the plot till the movie’s release but if we’re going off of Disney’s track record the past few years then it’ll most likely suck. Raya and the Last Dragon had potential but was underwhelming in terms of story. The animation on the other was fantastic. This is a long shot but maybe this movie will be the opposite. Look like crap but actually have a decent story LOL.
@@LilFrankieT I can already tell the story will be awful, just by the fact that Asha doesn't agree about only a couple of wished being granted, because every wish must be granted, like WHAT?! Do you have any idea what would happen if everyone's wishes was granted, it would be chaos. Because, from what I observed from the words of the "villain" he only grants the wishes that are the most benecial for his kingdoms happiness and prosperity, so if only a couple of wishes are to be granted based on what he said, makes me thing that the majority of wishes, are either: 1. Stupid and not worth granting, 2. Opposing to someone else's wish, 3. have malicious/malevolent intentions or 4. All of the above. And he seems like a wise man and it's absolutely right to be cautious in which wishes are the ones worth granting. But i bet that (because this is Modern WOKE Disney), Asha will be rewarded for granting everyone's wishes with no consequences, because "our diverse strong female protagonist can never be wrong". Such bullshit...
The movie message is about equity, again...which is the ultimate progressive "wish"...and why people with common sense will reject it, again. Gonna watch Ren and Stimpy, an all-time classic, way before it's time.
Three puppies are stranded in the forest and it starts to snow. Then suddenly the spirit of the forest appears in front of them. It tells them that they were good so they each get 1 wish. The first puppy: -I'm so cold, I'm so lonely. I wish I was home. So he gets teleported home. The second puppy: --I'm so cold, I'm so lonely. I wish I was home. So he also gets teleported home. The spirit asks the third puppy what his wish is and the puppy say: -I'm so cold, I'm so lonely, I wish my bothers were here. So the two puppies get teleported back into the forest... Moral of the story?
No one's talking about how similar this movie also is to Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, made by Dreamworks... 1. Similar animation style 2. The story revolves around the protagonist wishing upon a star 3. The villain is an arrogant antagonist who wants wishes all to himself 4. Both have Harvey Guillén in the cast...
At least Jack Horner was the fun sort of villain where everyone can agree “yeah dude, your wish is terrible and you relish in having 0 redeeming qualities.” That’s a good classic villain. And the Wishing Star only has One wish to grant and tries its hardest to keep beings from getting to it via the Dark Forest and the map. From the Wish trailer, they’re trying to go for the King as the villain, but what’s the problem exactly? He can grant wishes but doesn’t grant everyones. Okay, so? Are those discarded wishes used to nefarious purposes? Do the people lose their life force or something? Can they only make ONE wish ever? Like, seriously, it seems the King is being selective out of prudence, not malice. Also, sometimes wishes come true on their own and don’t require any special action. Like someone wishing to find love. They make the wish, the King goes “naw, not feeling this one,” the person doesn’t know the wish has been discarded. A few days later, they bump into someone and hit it off, and their wish is “granted” with no input from anyone or anything beyond natural chance. Seriously, what is the bad point of the villain? If anything, the King could be an antagonist at the basic level of being set against the protagonist, but that’s all I got so far.
Harvey Guillen was just at our fan convention in Salt Lake City a week or so ago and apparently he was just up there pushing his homosexuality up on the panel stage. I guess he was a nice guy but after hearing that I stayed far away from him. Not that there's anything he's been in that I'm really into making me want to meet him. I did catch a glimpse of him at his table but that's it.
I don’t believe you understand how movie development works You can’t just cook up a theatrical animated release in 10 months. That isn’t how anything works, you can’t even rush a movie that fast.
I'm glad Walt isn't here to witness this. In fact, if he was this wouldn't even be thought of. Walt wanted to make something out of himself like others having a career and money, but most of all being an artist.
@@RedSaldana I mean, I don't think it's that unreasonable or weird to like something made for kids as an adult. But what is weird is being so offended by it that you make a 14 minute video complaining about how woke the movie is before it even comes out
@@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769 exactly that! I like animated and kids movies still myself don't get me wrong. But obsessing over it and spending a whole day making a video about how HoRrIbLe iT iS is another level
I have no issue with that movie. It’s finally an original idea. It isn’t a remake. This looks like a regular Disney movie, without crazy re imagining garbage, and I don’t care about their skin color. I’ll watch it and see if it’s any good.
As a white person, I spend my every waking hour working tirelessly to think of ways to oppress "marginalized" people. not an easy job as oppressing people is not as easy as it seems. Someday Ill get the hang of it.
To me Im not neccesarily mad that they FINALLY decided to create an original brown character instead of being literally racist and change every white character. Im mad because the movie is more than likely going to be a woke POS they just cant help themselves like a meth addict!
You hit the nail on the head, Matt. This studio is responsible for some of the greatest CLASSICS of all time. Unfortunately, these classics rub the mindset of the current generation(s) the wrong way. Generations that have no merits of their own to speak of so they are constantly looking for any perceived Ills with their predecessors. Seriously. Who in the right mind considers the Prince in Snow White a stalker? Or thinks that it is fine with telling little girls that it is bad if they want to be a princess, but if their brother wants to play Elsa... that's okay. #ClownWorld
I do agree with Matt when he has an his good takes. But in the case where he really unfairly criticizes Wish. He doesn’t do anything objective at all. It’s just his opinion that clouds his judgement of what the movie truly is going to be from the trailer. Trailers don’t usually do the movie justice. But this does actually seem like a good trailer for Disney standard. I already explained why in a long comment. If you want to read it, try scrolling until you find it. If you can’t find it, I’m willing to have a debate on it here.
@@bravestraven4650Matt Walsh does this all the time. Makes blanket assessments before actually seeing anything which he never does. As much as I hated that Barbie review and thought Ben Shapiro horribly misrepresented that movie, at least he actually sat through it. Matt Walsh is a scared helicopter parent that never gives anything a chance before he begins crapping on it. I watch something. I may like it and I may not.
Since when was Gaston right?? Lol he was the bad guy cause was a narcissist, who belittled Belle and her father, and even tried to blackmail Belle into marrying him. Sorry, I really love the movie, and that analysis annoys me. 😅
I don't have anything to do with Disney at all. My family and friends know when I'm done with you, I'm done. I haven't watched an NBA game since 1982 or an NFL game since 2010.
This is another part of Disney's recent meta-commentary trend, where a lot of their new projects are comments on their old image (the live action movies often make this explicit, Dumbo is pretty on the nose where the original circus is replaced with a Disney style amusement park). So this movie is a giant middle finger to Walt Disney. The king represents Walt himself. His kingdom represents the Disney media empire. The wishes represent Disney's product of childhood fantasies come to life. The selective granting of wishes is a commentary on the Eurocentric (i.e. "white") character of 20th century Disney. The little girl who grants everybody's wishes represents inclusion and equity. The realization of all of the wishes is a comment on media representation. The kingdom granting everybody's wish is thus the media empire representing every possible racialized childhood imagination.
Well said my friend. Modern Disney is a mockery to Walt Disney's legacy, and i'm sure if he was somehow still alive today to see his company utterly destroyed and corrupted... he would be extremely dissapointed and pissed.
I'm not with Matt Wash on this one. I wish all the people in the comments actually saw the movie. Hands down one of my favorite movies ever! It was everything and more. My husband, myself along with our two children loved it so much. I haven't felt that Disney joy rush in a long time. A+++
@@Peacebewithu34Your comment aged like milk 😂 Enjoy box office flop and nega reviews galore. Also, he’s got the right to comment on the film knowing he has small children.
Warning!!!!!! Spoilers for the movie! If you haven’t seen it and don’t want spoilers, do not continue reading! The “villain” is a sorcerer king capable of literally granting any wish for his citizens. After a horrible tragedy occurred in his past destroying everything he loved, he created an actual utopia where everybody lives for free on his island, living prosperously under him. HE EVEN GRANTS ONE OF THEIR WISHES ONCE A MONTH! But! Oh no, some wishes he deems are too dangerous to grant because they’re too vague and could endanger the kingdom. Girl is sad because her grandfather will never have his wish granted and makes a wish upon a star which comes down to visit her with genie like powers, but more chaotic and less intentional. So, this girl really wants her grandfather to have his wish so she steals it from the king using the help of the star. The king, after the star comes down to earth, believes that this fantastical light is a threat from another magic user and starts getting anxious. After the girl steals the wish from the king, he turns to a book of forbidden magic in hopes of stopping her from presumably stealing more. The magic takes control, turning him into an evil, power hungry tyrant who couldn’t care less about the peace and prosperity of his kingdom’s people. At that point, his choices are no longer actually his. He is defeated by plot convenience. At the end of the movie, he gets trapped in the gem of his staff, still taken over by the dark magic and his WIFE, THE QUEEN, knowing full well that he was taken control of by evil magic decides to just hang his tiny jewel cage in the dungeons instead of trying to, I don’t know, LOOK FOR A CURE! They’ve been married for over a hundred years! They’re almost definitely immortal too thanks to him. Edit: detail I forgot. His patience gets thinner and thinner because he feels no one respects him and he doesn’t get anything out of granting wishes and ensuring prosperity for everyone. That’s also a driving force that leads him to open the book of forbidden magic that ensnares him.
It also sounds like a swipe at God🤦🏽♀️ He’s the King with the power to answer prayer. The undertones of all these Disney movies are ultimately imho anti-Christian
