Wish Dragon: No One Bothered to Market This Review 

Same, Especially as someone with a childhood best friend who’s a guy. I physically get sick when people imply we like each other, is it so hard to believe a girl and a boy can JUST BE FRIENDS. I’m also dating someone else now so finally people have kinda stopped.

@@monkeychief1904 it so annoying, there this one time I was thinking if I should stop being friends to him because our neighbors keeps shipping us and telling us to kiss each other on the cheeks.

@@zestytriss5282 wow that sucks. Nobody said anything that crazy about my friend and I, luckily. A lot of people thought we were siblings or dating, there was no in between, it was hella frustrating

@lets get *burbs* funky I would say more people are cancer then shipping itself. Most ships and shippers just want to have fun and know most likely their ships won’t be canon. Every fandom has a ratio and the bad parts are the minority (but most toxic people reside on Twitter.) Usually it’s innocent and just fun and they hate it when people take it seriously. You can’t say that a small minority of a fandom/shippers are toxic and then say it’s what the entire community is like or represents them the fandom as a whole. (I’m not saying you are like that and you were probably just joking, but I’m just saying.) However I will agree having the main characters having a platonic relationship is intriguing and much better. It’s a breath of fresh to not have the two male and female leads somehow start a relationship at the end no matter how little chemistry they have or how little time it took.

Okay I did not intend it to be that long and I apologize

Nice

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Hi man!

Great work on the voice.

Yes, I'm so happy that lots of people got to see it! I loved the movie and hope more people continue to discover it. You did a wonderful job with Din's voice!

Really, that's the only reason to watch this film.

@@JohnAdams-pp7vi only reason?

@@papasscooperiaworker3649 yeah, pretty much. Wish Dragon is your steryotypical feel-good family friendly saccrine animated film. Nothing except the platonic friendship between the two main humans is worthy of note

@@JohnAdams-pp7vi it was a fun kids movie. Definitely worth watching once, not everything has to be some out or this world masterpiece.

@@Storiaron never said otherwise

yeah me too! i liked that it wasnt a romance, and the animation was very fluid and cartoony.

@@papr1kaboo it's pretty good!!

@@papr1kaboo no it was good! nothing negative i can say. It isn't that much of a game changer in the movie industry. just a smaller story. all i can really say is that its a film more for children, but its very enjoyable for older people

i can say i went in expecting mediocrity and annoying characters, and was pleasantly surprised at the end of it.

Same I thought it was going to be a complete fail when I first saw it,then my family forced me to watch it, I wasn’t disappointed

One of the many many topics that seem to make your average writer stare blankly, then suddenly fizzling sounds and smoke comin' out of their head as they collapse, failing to compute somethin' outside of their capacity.

@Don't Miss the Sale, Shop Now speaking facts

meanwhile platonic male and male relationships must always be considered romantic

@@vincentdreemurr well they're cute so I'm in . But ya what u r saying is also considerable

yep

Found that so funny, cuz he knows no one but din can hear and see him so he was just ranting lol

it was also my favorite part, I was laughing for 20 minutes and almost passed out. This movie was amazing! I’m glad I watched it

My favorite was the “tongue” kissing part with the dragons. I almost peed myself it was so spontaneous

@@eming376 That was so out of nowhere but so dang funny! I had to go back a couple times just to appreciate it fully.

@@whysosadlol99r76 hey we're just comedy deprived ok. the fact tht a simple gag makes us laugh this much says smth on how they landed it. the build up to it is amazing. cos ik i wouldnt be laugh as much without all tht

That's why we, the people, must get the news out.

They didn't because Americans still believe cartoons are kid stuff. It is true, but we are all children. We just got bigger. I use to work in retail. I know what I am talking about.

I actually did see an ad about it

@@undeadblizzard or maybe ppl grew out of cartoons 🙂. Not saying its bad to still like cartoons as an adult but ppl taste in entertainment changes as their mind matures

@@blueaddiction6954 I have no response to that is true. I feel the need to feel "Mature" is silly.

Grandpa will be like: ''Who said that''

That's what I thought

Because his personality and backstory are really good. Disney never gave the genie a backstory.

I saw you say the same thing on a different video

He should have been mushu from mulan

No it isn't. It only serves to fund and grab your wants and desires. If you're that worried about money you're never going to find a balance in your life.

@@BrokensoulRider If your broke, money is the only thing you can AFFORD to care about. You have to constantly think about money if your struggling to survive, it not a choice and if your not that deep in the gutter you have to think about money when deciding most of your decisions in life. Having the choice to not think about money is a leisure, so it is hypocritical when rich people tell you that.

@@lyonsin2535 Considering that I, myself, had to go to churches that did food donations, I can safely and knowledgably still say you're flat out wrong. Just because you're poor does not mean money is the only thing that matters. What matters is a roof over your head, food, a place to sleep, something to wear. You do not need an expensive phone, you do not really need a car if you're inner city. You do not need a television or cable, or high speed internet. You do not need streaming subscriptions. You do not need gaming consoles, or a computer more than 300$. These are all wants and desires. Living below your means, not above, will have a better impact on everything. Quite frankly, you don't even need to live on your own if you're single. You can live with your parents (unless they're unstable) and save that way. No one needs to be poor now a days. The reason the rich are rich is literally because they knew how to spend their money wisely and make it grow instead of sap it all up immediately. So yes, they can say that.

@@BrokensoulRider You need money to get even basic needs like food, a house, clothes, medical assistance, etc. Also, how is high-speed internet a luxury when most well-paying jobs require it for anyone working at home? Or when the pandemic shut down schools and kids had to do schoolwork from home? Also, maybe that whole condescending message about "wants and desires" should go towards rich people who will whine and cry about tax cuts because then they will afford to buy six yachts instead of seven.

@@BrokensoulRider I don't like bragging about being homeless with my family for 2 years with people on RU-vid comments but without that experience I think ANYBODY can tell you how wrong you are and no it doesn't involve a streaming service or a car. Because right in your own comment you, yes you said that you need to worry about the roof over your head, how? With money. Food water, clothes, electricity. Money money money. If your growing up and decide on a career you want to pursue, what is the first think you are thinking about? Can this career actually sustain you money wise and how much money is it gonna take to get there and can I afford it? Do you know why every broke parent wants to their kids to be doctors and engineers? So that they wouldn't have to worry about money like them because they would already have it. If you dare to have the ambition to be anything other then that like a musician your gonna get scolded, Why? Because it extremely hard to be a successful musician that can actually make a living for themselves financially. What if you wanted a kid? Can you guess what you have to worry about? Just having a baby born is extremely expensive and everything else that comes with it, you gonna have a handful. I pray to single mothers everyday. I don't know how you miss this but money is a thing you gotta worry about unfortunately, the people that don't ARE rich and don't have to base their life choices on whether they can afford it or not, they can be a musician and fail for years because they don't have to worry about money. And thank you for advice about how people don't have to be poor anymore, I'll be sure to tell all the homeless people I see down the street that they don't have to be homeless anymore 👍

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I saw my sister watching this and my first reaction was "Knockoff Mushu?"

(TOTALLY OFF TOPIC) opinion on the show the dragon prince WATCH ITS A GOOD WORTH OF YOUR TIME but theres just alot of things to remember plot driven and you need brain power

Same

which of ur friends found a wish dragon

@@crab5482 Ssssss aight maybe not... every part of the movie. Only the parts that definitely aren't fiction!

@@crab5482 you really think they don't know better than just spilling secrets like that 🤨

@@Xan_7082 u right u right

The movie brings back a lot of memories when I was young, living with my grandparents in China. For most of my life I lived in America but can still relate to this.

They’re eating the same chicken that they’re mourning over 😅

Also that scene w/ the dragon fight was so funny

same 😭 I just watched it after seeing that scene

same skldksjsb

Btw I don't like the chinese dub the English dub is actually way better it matches their mouths movements than the Chinese one

It was 10 000 years, just a reminder

Don’t forget that while the genie wants to be freed, long knows he will be freed at the end of it so no using third wish for him

@@sandywolfr26 yeah! Genie was freed in the end, but the wish dragon/long, chose to be a wish dragon again

It's interesting to note that the original tale of Aladdin, as told in 1001 Nights, took place in China.

I loved number 3. The fact that the wish dragon had an entire backstory and lore behind him just made it feel al the more real and tangible. It honestly made me wish that Aladdin had that too to some degree.

GOD yeah I’m excited to see what else they’ll make. Also HI I LOVE YR PFP :)

@@Inochikaragara OMG JKHKGDF I LOVE URS TOO

@StarGazelle 906 letz start a club

Infinity Trains pfps in the comment sections what will we do

It’s all just an apology for the emogi movie

Right?? And the way he kinda glows at night was so cool!! I want a dragon best friend please 🤩🐉

din looks like my slightly more asian classmate lmao

I would like Long to become a marketable plushie

Uh oh HERE IT cOMES!

I thought everything with the dragon was done spectacularly. You can even see a soft pink glow from him in a lot of scenes, very cool.

@lets get *burbs* funky But why is it so hard for tv shows to keep a male and female as just *friends*

@lets get *burbs* funky Huh? Tf

@lets get *burbs* funky ''Kids are monsters, and we need kids to keep our species alive so we need to distract them. '' are you baiting lmao

@@ythunderboy8694 their def baiting

@lets get *burbs* funky Hey my guy could you try making your baiting a bit less obvious? Please and thank you

Arent dates just hangouts? That's why theres play dates or dates with dad or mom.

Yeah, the Pearl Tower date scene was def the low point of the movie. But luckily they get out of there and the reveal happens quickly, and Li Na takes it well. It was a lovely subversion of a trope I hate, quickly getting back into their friendship and the Point.

That’s literally the only scene in the entire movie I cringed at, I was screaming like *YOU’RE GONNA RUIN THAAAAT!*

THAT'S WHY IT WAS CALLED AMERICAN DRAGON JAKE LONG Jake is an american name, and Long is dragon in Chinese OH MY GOSH

Yep! 龙

I was so excited when I realized that halfway thru the movie!!

Long can mean many things, but in the movie, the ideogram is of dragon

ok dont judge me but WHY DO I LIKE DIN- HIS FACE FEATURES IS SO LIKEABLE ODBDJDJSJSSOEA

I... think you mean *chef's kiss*

Pffff. Best typo ever.

It's the french kiss [sic] for me💀💀

oui oui. tellement bon!

its funny because someone actually morbidly dies in the movie 👁 👄 👁

same XD really love the development of long as he realises tht. he just disappeared into the bg and we see him so quiet for the first time as hes surrounded by family vibe. the development wasnt centered on him but we see it happening simultaneously in contrast to the happy reunion of din and lina

@@rynne1104 yes the way they paced his development was really good

I can relate to that. I had a friend in 4th grade who I hung out constantly with and then they moved and kind of dropped off the face of the earth... wonder how she’s doing

@@TheScaredLittleScholar sad to see I’m not alone

@@szeth5287 Ah, i remember a friend I had in first grade who I considered my best friend- she moved schools during christmas break and i never saw her again. I think i remember her name, but I'm not really sure, all i really have is a group picture with her face but there's no names attached aside from the teachers so I don't know what her name is exactly.

Their name could be in the schools' student records

@@gamesgames8798 I can’t even find a yearbook, let alone find student records. The school has since Changed management four times, as it was run by college students

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I STRONGLY disagree, there was way too much time dedicated to TRAFFIC and toilet jokes, and it had a LOT of chiche’s. This movie was a chore to get to for me

The biggest thing going for Wish Dragon is that it feels like a well-paced one off story... Meanwhile "Raya and the Last Dragon" pacing is all over the place and feels like multi season recap episode for a long running series was remade in a movie form... Like they decided to slam 5 story arcs (Prologue - "Downfall and Search for Dragon" - "Desert quest" - "Swamp Village" - "Mountain Tribe" - "Island Fortress") - spanning multiple episodes each into one recap movie and see if it works. Seriously "Raya and the Last Dragon" is essentially "I bet we can make our own "Avatar The Last Airbender" and condense it into a 2 hour movie!".

yeah especially in terms of the message both movies want to give, while Wish Dragon gives the usual "money won´t make you happy" message but it doesn´t come of as badly as it´s done in other movies/shows, meanwhile Raya and the last dragon´s message is "always forgive" but it does it in the worst way that I think has been shown, that Raya gets guilt tripped throughout the entire movie for not trusting in strangers despite the fact that it was a stranger that literally took away everything she had, and doomed the world, but Raya is portrayed as the bad guy for not forgiving someone that has shown that they cannot be trusted.

@@Alyssa-ii3vy Cliches aren't a bad thing, and the traffic and toilet jokes were few and far between, and never over-stayed their welcome. If we're gonna bash cliches, then Raya isn't much better.

that'll be a real shame

@@alexandergazmen3126 but people watching this video may encourage them to watch the movie in Netflix

@@glitchex9121 people who has their free trial finished and doesn’t have enough money to pay it: *sad noises*

@@opposite2715 well I do so idk

@@opposite2715 I pay for Netflix

Its the "Money can't buy happiness"

Strangely specific but understandable

@@zestytriss5282 The biggest lie since Santa

@@falconeshield Money doesn't buy happiness, but it's fucking hard to be happy without any money

LMAO imagine thinking this is the message the evil showwriter actually wanted to communicate to their audience. You are the new lord of overthinking it. So: A) the movie ends up with them starting a successfull restaurant. How does this fit with your "stick with your social class"? Because even in china, starting a restaurant makes you middle class. B) In case you didnt notice, the movie is being extremely critical at the rich upper class. All the antagonist in this movie are rich people, and the biggest antagonist/ temptator, a.k.a the wish dragon was a former emperor obsessed with wealth. C)I dont know if you were asleep during your history classes, but right now the confucean order is finished in china, and the communist party rule. And even though they are not really communist anymore, they are still putting kind of an emphasis on the importance of equality. Stop assuming china=confucianism, it's a whole country of 1 billion people, and you can't simply sum them up to chinese= over the top classism. D)The message is "greed doesnt bring hapiness, and neither does social status". That's it. It's actually a fairly common message to hear if you dont live in the one country that has turned greed into a virtue, and turned the message of jesus from "the poor will be rewarded in heaven" to "get money, get fat, get bitches, destroy everything that stands in our way", a.k.a the USA

Agreed 👍

I don't see why you have to compare this movie with MvM and Spider verse l sure it didn't have that much money put into it because it doesn't need it Wish Dragon has a nice little charm to it :)

@@SunnyyDayzz That’s what happens when you become a successful studio, just look at Pixar, any average to good films they make are considering bad. Looks like the same thing is happening to Sony where if the movie is a masterpiece, it’s bad.

@@SunnyyDayzz yea, but even without the resources an animated movie with good history, writting could be enough to make it good by is own way, this movie aint rlly an spectacular in his trama or dialogues, but still being enjoyable and fun in my opinion 👍

I mean Mitchell’s was good, but I actually liked this more tbh.

My aroace heart yearns to see more platonic relationships in kids’ movies!

@@ameliapaine same!

Sameee

I may or may not be but I agree, though I didn't really watch this movie and I didn't see out how it ended. We need more platonic friendships and better sibling relationships where the siblings are nice to each other.

@@istolethispfpsorry485 IKR! I just watched the movie yesterday and it was amazing. REALLY amazing. the developement, the portraying of platonic friendship- i loved it, LONG Was amazin-

It was honestly kinda bad

I actually liked it,even if the plot is simple i still enjoyed it

Let's remember that the movie wasnt made for us but for children so if it was decent enough for a teenager/young adult to watch it then it must have been mindblowing for little children. My 6 year old sister absolutely loved it.

It's not bad, not my thing but not bad.

@@angiewinchester3384 "ItS mAdE fOr ThE cHiLdReN!" this is 2021, we DO NOT accept that excuse anymore. People have to judge it in their own right regardless of age so Giant Mega Corporations won't lower their quality in production due to low expectations, people WANT another Spiderverse and that is VERY normal. That being said, I like that film, I just KNOW it can do a lot better. YOU know it could do a lot better. Everyone who like or love the film KNOWS it can do a lot better. If we like something, we just want to see MORE of that potential.

Mhm

I loved that too. I think it made me cry

What french show?

@@romualdcaffeserre6230 miraculous ladybug

Mmhm! MIRACULOOOUU-

When i read "like a certain french show" and then the points, i gagged because I immediately knew what you're talking about lmao

@@zaqareemalcolm Same.

Johnny test has a new season out WHY!?

YES FINALLY

HOLD ON GOTTA MESSAGE JOHNNYTESTSUPERFAN45 ON DEVIANTART ABOUT THIS ONE

Ouch!

@@isaiahsimmons5776 it's bad, johnny test fan saying its bad

I thought it's gonna come out later...

Actually I was waiting for this film since seeing the trailer months ago :3

But I did get ads for this movie, and when it came out it was the first thing that appeared on my Netflix screen. When I first saw it I just thought hmmm that looks boring. I think one of the things that really turned me off was the hot pink color of the dragon and the letters. Its so damn bright ! The color hot pink is so annoying to look at I wish they had picked another one.

Bro, that (Cuties) was a long time ago. MOVE ON and focus on their more better movies/shows and just don’t watch it or look for it!

@@silashurd3597 That was 7 months ago I already moved onto hating other things like NFTs and Tara Strong

@@Dr.Awesome126 ooookkkkk… Well, it’s good that you moved on at least.

I don't think "money doesn't matter" is the message of the story. I think it's "money isn't forever", as in money can help families like Din's but at the end of the day u can't bring money to your grave and money can't buy everything like a caring community or a father's love

@@wigglestoescutely This would only matter if you life your entire life just for your deathbed tho

I interpreted it as, Don't sacrifice your family, relationships for money. Meaning Money is important, but don't lose sight of the more important things.

@@qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm3093 He didn't have to do that tho, he has magic

@@xadielplasencia3674 What do you mean?

Yeah, but only because Lina treated him as sloppy seconds basically.

@@Peashamelaborate?

I hope your father is okay! I also cried when long and the dad moment happened and I agree that long design is adorable and appealing to adults and kids

That was curse lol

My siblings and i just started t-posing in that scene to pay respects

@@SmoLollipop F in the chat

Oh. Oh no.

Whoops

But are they wrong?/hj

I mean, we should've expected that.

- Cute - Cynical in a funny way - Daddy - Literally flexes once yeah it checks out

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Draco indicated it eloquently in DragonHeart, regarding calling a dragon's name in another tongue. ;-)

well i mean they kinda did the same thing with the kung fu panda characters. the entire furious five was just named after whatever animal they were

Didnt they actually make a Mulan 3?

@wanka wanka No, but i just checked and i was wrong.

I wish (lol) that he gained something from the adventure, like a decent income from the rich wish, otherwise aside from his childhood friend drifting off again he stayed the same

I mean the movie was pretty good but what else could be done? It's already perfect