WISH Review: Yeah, it's bad 

"I granted 14 wishes last year!" *HOW DO YOU GRANT 14 WISHES IN 1 YEAR, IF YOU GRANT 1 WISH PER MONTH????*

1. Make asha the princess daughter of magifico 2. Make the star more human like in the concept art and build a romance between asha and star 3. Hire Broadway writers not pop music writers 4. Magnifico says "he got these genes from outer space" so have it turn out he's keeping a star he wished on and bleeding it for his magic

literally from the day the first trailer dropped, I've been saying "Why is disney making a movie critiquing capitalism" but i think the movie's metaphor flew over most peoples heads simply due to how poorly executed it was. King Magnifico is literally just a stand in for the concept og 'The American Dream'. If you stay in the system for long enough, you may end up getting rich... or in this case, getting your wish fulfilled.

How can a wish be vague anyway? Wouldn’t the wish expose what the person wouldn’t tell the king upfront? If the old man truly wished to cause a rebellion, wouldn’t the wish itself be him leading said rebellion?

They should make either a full movie or at least a longer special of Once Upon A Studio- I’d watch all the different characters interact and work together for HOURS

Honestly I think the King not granting every wish and Asha giving him shit for it could work but in a way that would make sense like maybe have it were the king doesn't tell Asha why because she's still young and doesn't want her mind to be corrupted and then have a scene were Asha sees one of the wishes that isn't granted and sees how messed up and disturbing it is then she sees why the king doesn't grant every wish because not every wish is good then the two can come to agreement on how to fix the mess and trouble that Asha caused. Something way more interesting than what the actual movie gave us.

The vids going over the problems with this movie are 100x more entertaining than the movie.

They should have made the boy/star the long lost son of Magnifico. Magnifico could have wished for an "heir with magic that surpasses his own". After his wife fails to have a child, he thinks something went wrong which then makes him extra cautious on wishes. However unbeknownst to him, his wish created the star who can shape shift. The climax could be Asha and Magnifico teaming up to defeat some threat (maybe a wish gone awry or Star get corrupted). Magnifico would learn that he needs help running the kingdom and Asha could learn to better listen to the guidance of her elders. The final scene would be her taking on the apprentice role

I think this goes into today modern media problems of how much self awareness should creative media make before all care is lost. Like should we be looking for more immersive story telling. Like the stories do the tropes but instead of be aware of them should they continue like they haven’t been on the internet.

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I watched it and I actually felt empty

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Respect girl, however, if it were me I would have made Asha an orphan who would get adopted by the queen and king and loves and respects her "parents" dearly, only for her to discover the truth when she is finally coming of age and finds herself torn between keeping her silence or exposing the only people who had ever showed her any sympathy in her life (besides her friends). Like you said the king not granting wishes is not really doing anyone any harm, so why not make Asha think this in her own mind. And yes, "So I Make This Wish" would be sung, but as a lullaby as she recounts the kids in the orphanage and how they would sing this song every night before drifting off to sleep. Similar to Aladdin's character a real "diamond in the rough." She finds herself on old sacred grounds and unknowingly makes a "wish" hoping to find guidance as she once did as a child... This would be shown as either a flashback or our introduction to the film. Thus showing us a wonderous, yet caring and hopeful side to Asha, which she would keep with her even after she was accepted into the Royal family. But plot twist, it would turn out that the same place where she made her wish as a child is the Star boy's home grounds, where he had been keeping an eye on Asha from afar as her real mother and father were the ones who saved his life, but lost their own lives in the process. He tells Asha how her own parents gave up their lives to save their people, by ridding themselves of their magic to thwart the first king of Rosoa. Following this up by saying, "their last request, was for me to take you to your great-grandfather so, he could raise you as one of his own. But when I got there... he had fled from his home. I was just a kid, how would I know how to raise a child, but I knew I could not leave you alone. And then I saw it, a place where you could call home." This would also be a flashback. Yes, I am being inspired by Meet the Robinsons. The rest of the story would play out the same way but with a few more twists added in. Like, Asha finding out that the first king was Magnico's father and her "grandfather," Asha realizing that the spell book is what gives her "father" his power, and Star boy asking Asha for her help to save their people as the king and queen have been harnessing the wishes and that magic comes from their land. Yes, Asha like her parents is a star and has powers, but realizes that she can only unleash this force through the power of love... the same type of love that her parents had for her and their homeland. Also, Asha would learn how to channel this magic through her great-grandfather who would be 100 years old at this point... due to the magic flowing through him. This scene would play out similarly to Hercules meeting Phil for the first time, only with Kung Fu Panda 2 vibes. Anyways, great video Hez.🥰🎶🌠

10:56 is this actually meant to be snow white? or are you joking cause if you are not... why? like even if you make an au version of a character so they aint a princess no more. why is her skin color like this? cause if the setting is meant to be a melting pot there is no reason to have your snow white stand in not be actually white. and im not trying to be racist, and i hate that i have to say that in 2024 when im just talking about fictional characters, but disney has all the rights if you wanna make au snow white you can make her look so similar that people actually recognize her. fucking cosplayers can do this better. heck fan artists do this better too.

The Short, "Once Upon A Studio"! Was so much better then the entire movie and a better celebration of Disney 100 years ago!

I'm so annoyed that they changed Starboy to a literal star, cause "Oh no, what makes him different from Genie?", when you consider the fact that: Magical female characters in Disney: Fairy godmother from Cinderella, the 3 faries and Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, the one from Pinocchio, Madam Mim from The Sword in the Stone, The Evil Queen from Snow White, Mary Poppins, Ursula from The little Mermaid, the one from Beauty and the Beast. Was never a problem having 11! characters with the same abilities and gender throughout a span of 54 years (never mind 4! in the same movie!). Heck! , Asha even becomes another! fairy godmother figure without that! being an issue! But Starboy and Genie, the only other male, magical character I can think of, being similar when they were created 31 years apart from eachother, that's two too similar characters too many?! We were robbed.

What's weird is an apprentice would mean he doesn't demand no one ever learn magic, just go through the proper program, aka learn from him. Asha could have gained all of his powers for herself if she didn't blow the interview by demanding her grandfather's wish is granted.

This felt less like a celebration of Disney's legacy and more like the peak of "this is what Disney is now". A boring monopoly that banks on bad nostalgia with the main forces leading every bad decision being big wig execs. This place feels like somewhere genuine creativity decays instead of thrives. If that's what Wish was going for (it's not but let me cope) it succeeded with flying colors.

It's a shame they scrapped the plot twist that revealed that Magnifico is a fallen star. That would've been so goated.

What's worse they is that they could've given the reason a wish doesn't get granted despite how innocent it is because it can snowball to chaos. Or that's what caused the Magnifico's home to be destroyed because an innocent wish went awol.

Everything about this movie just… isn’t enough. Asha doesn’t have enough personality, the friends don’t have enough screen time to establish them, especially the happy one, magnificent didn’t have enough time to show a difference between him being his normal control freak nature vs his under control nature, the queen didn’t get enough of anything, I would’ve loved to see her start as a somewhat villainous character but only because she’s doing what she thinks is best for the kingdom, similar to magnifico, only to realize shit hit the fan once she realized he’s possessed,speaking of which, the forbidden magic didn’t get enough time to establish itself, none of the visuals had enough color or style, the songs don’t have enough to make them unique, they end up sounding like ai generated Lin Manuel songs, and none of the visuals of said songs have enough going on despite having interesting visual ideas like mirrors, stars, light, and magic surges. It’s just so disappointing. The epitome of it has to be magnificos villain song. I like that it’s strangely chipped to reinforce that he sees himself as the hero, but it doesn’t change enough at the end or do enough visuallyc lyrically, or vocally to show his descent into true evil. Wish is just… diss

Another major problem I have is that Asha’s quest has no urgency to it. Literally everyone in the kingdom is shown to be overwhelmingly happy and energetic even without their wishes. An easy way to fix this would be to show everyone miserable or drain of all hope and light without their wishes, just going through their regular 9-5 jobs with little to no enthusiasm in life. I think it would have been better to make the king and queen pure evil from the start, and have them harvest wishes to make the population easier to control, and they only grant the wishes of people who are the most loyal to them. It’s similar to the villain from Kelly Barnhill’s Girl who Drank the Moon, where the town elders convince the people that the there is a vengeful witch who will destroy their town if they don’t sacrifice a baby to her every year. When in reality the witch is a perfectly kind old women who has been delivering the abandoned children to loving homes while their birth parents spend the rest of their lives grieving, allowing the villains to maintain a tighter grip on the town. What if that tragic backstory Magnifico tells Asha is revealed halfway through the movie to have been a lie, and he uses that story of greedy bandits destroying his family to make the people think that wishes are dangerous. That everyone is selfish and evil at their core and the only way to live in harmony is to have all desire taken away. And when Asha sees the wishes for herself, she sees how beautiful they truly are, and while some of them are selfish desires, a lot of them are either harmless or even selfless desires to help people. She realizes that the things she’s been taught are lies and that not all people are as selfish and evil as the king has said. Maybe you even have it so the magic makes it impossible for them to remember or be reminded their wish once they’ve given it to the king. Imagine a scene where the women who wants to make dresses is window shopping with some friends and sees a beautiful ballroom gown in the window of a shop. She starts imagining what it would be like to design something so beautiful, and Asha sees that hope start to return to her eyes. And just as she’s about to declare her wish, she immediately forgets it and becomes depressed again. The animation could even take a page out of Cats Don’t Dance, by showing the characters literally becoming more colorful as they start thinking about their wishes, and then gray again when they forget.

All this story don't start because he doesn't grant enough wishes... but because he didn't chose HER grandfather wish! That's the only reason this story started, because she was... egoist and thinking only about her family lol she literally pushed away everyone else wishes and only saw that one but when HE pushed it away she was just like "GASP! YOU EVIL!". She had the mindset of the villain from the start😂

Now that I think about it, the ability to grant an 18 year old’s wish is terrifying. Like what about forcing someone to fall in love, killing someone, or reviving the dead? Say a family member dies a day before the ceremony. Can Magcifico revive them with zero consequences to himself or the deceased? Even the Genie from Aladdin explains that he can’t (or won’t since he implies he doesn’t *like* reviving people) grant certain wishes. Even the Fairly Odd Parents have a rule book! They can grant literally any wish, but don’t because they’ll get in trouble.

Me on my way to watch every Wish critique I can find so that I can learn what mistakes to NOT make in my own storytelling:

I really feel this movie was supposed to be an origin story for the evil queen and her magic mirror, hence why the queen was so ambivalent towards her husband being trapped within it; she got her wish, to be the sole ruler of the kingdom. Like, I can see her manipulating magnifico into doing all these evil deeds just so she can get what she wanted. This is why there's so many references to Snow White in particular, because this was supposed to explain whwre the evil queen came from and the source of her magic.

I think you made me realize a new problem I have with the movie, the magic. Apparently, I have more whimsy in my left pinky toe than the entirety of this kingdom. The power to bend reality and the people use the one time taste to jumpstart a career!? We could do the impossible and the magic in this movie feels like it's working off a TV budget. Also, never forgiving this movie for stripping me of my cool villain couple. Such a travesty.

Never saw the movie, but I heard it was bad. From what I'm hearing from the plot, it honestly would be better if Asha would be responsible for corrupting the King, or maybe the amount of wishes made by the people and the stress made the King evil, thus they try to save him. Idk, Disney hasn't been doing that well with the movies...

I strongly agree with you on the boring design of Rosas. Corona and other Disney towns that I’ve seen were much more colorful, vibrant, and overall visually appealing to look at; Rosas just looks like it was just grayed over with hardly any color or just muted colors. How Disney messed up this bad on background visuals still befuddles me (even though I think I know the reason by now).

Raya is worse than Wish objectively, but i respect Raya for at least taking risks. Yeah Raya sucked ass, but damn Wish is so nothing, just empty space.

3:08 its like they thought of the worst way to write a villian possible. "Well ok so people like it when villains are legitimately crewel of their own volution, right... So have him get corrupted by dark magic. But they also like a tragic backstory, so make sure it is literally just some dark magic and there's nothing going on behind that."

The concept of wishes would work in my opinion if they didn't treat it as a joke. Imagine if Asha's grandfather wish was to for example see love of his life one last time and after Asha asks Magnifico for it she discovers most wishes are very personal and sensitive: someone wants their deadly illness to be cured, other person wants to have family, someone else wants to find their lost kid etc. all completely safe and reasonable to grand but Magnifico keeps choosing insignificant silly ones almost like he wants to make problems disappear by ignoring them. I don't care that grandpa didn't bother to learn guitar his whole life and excepted Magnifico to magically give him this ability, Asha rebelling the entire city for it is not a strong motivation just buy him a guitar lessons learning that skill at age of 100 is arguably more inspirational than the wish itself. This movie lacks emotional core because everything is a joke, everything is painfully safe and the only stakes is that random old man you don't care about might not learn how to play music.

Plus where are the bad wishes? Why didn’t Asha see one of those wishes for something terrible to happen and realize “Ohhhhh! The king has a valid reason not to grant some wishes.”

That weird tidbit about the island being in the Mediterranean (despite the costuming, flora and fauna giving Brother’s Grimm fairytale) makes me want to tear my hair out because it was basically them turning to the camera and saying “and *that’s* why there can be brown and black people 🥰” because apparently there has to be some contrived justification for non-white people to be in the fairytale. Instead of, and I don’t know I’m just spitballing here, IT’S A MAGICAL FAIRYTALE LAND?? We don’t need the melting pot explanation, the people should just be people, and that should be enough?? And Rosas is just an unserious name. I don’t even remember there being rose motifs. Why that name? What’s its significance? Why not just go full meta and call it the Magic Kingdom? And actually have magical stuff happening in the streets?? They’re never beating the AI allegations.

Yess!! I'm not the only one who thinks Elsa should have been a villain.

Not only is this film underwhelming as all hell I find its message to be a dangerous one. *"If you don't get what you want, even if it's for a good reason/cause, RUIN the person who dared to tell you 'No'."* What the f*ck kind of message is that to send to kids?

I wouldn’t call Magnifico narcissistic, traumatized, yes, but not narcissistic. The scene where he said that he blows up at Aisha is what I think people think he’s narcissistic.

Something small but emblematic of what my problem with the whole movie is: after Magnifico is defeated and everybody is celebrating the wishes being free there's a moment star goes to Asha and covers her with stardust and it makes her dress all glittery, at that moment I was expecting a magical dress transformation, like the one from Cinderella or Princess and The Frog when Tiana gets her dress after becoming human again, but instead all we get is a slightly more shiny dress, it's. so. boring. just like the rest of the movie, it feels half-assed, lazy and incomplete.

The Kingdom of Rosas isn't just any "melting pot fantasy kingdom" It's based off of Moorish Spain. Which makes me so mad because Moorish Spain is GORGEOUS! Take a second to google image what it looks like and be prepared to be blown away. It is a fascinating combination of north African, West European, and Bohemian Romani culture, and Disney wasted the opportunity to bring that spectacular region of the world to life and instead made everything gray and uninspired.

2:05 Augh, still hurts. I love that design so much. Imagine actually going full force with adapting The Snow Queen. Going harder into its themes and aesthetic, and more into Norwegian culture. Would've been so cool. And you still could've had the sister dynamic. Just make the protagonists two sisters, maybe one is "cursed" by the snow queen to have powers. Then she has to accept herself. Maybe we find out the snow queen isn't truly bad after all so we don't have another evil mistress. Ah well, I'm just glad they even show use these concepts, willingly or not. I feel like Disney has great ideas, then they slap them down last second to make something generic. Frozen, Wish, Zootopia, etc. (I also adore some of the animators doing 2D practice of the characters, they look miles better and more interesting.)

I was so confused where it took place. It looked like some generic European city. But it's the Mediterranean? Huh!? The architecture, clothing, animals and even the lighting does not signal this. Poor Mediterraneans who wanted a Disney movie based off their culture, sorry this was your one shot.

Genuine question: what is Asha’s ethnicity supposed to be? I legit thought she was supposed to be Afro Latina but I’ve seen people say other things

12:52 there is just one problem with any potential disney crossover, and we have seen it manifest in Kingdom Hearts 3 DISNEY IS WAY TOO SCARED FOR THIS. so to anyone that played KH3 it is very obvious that outside of olympus collosium sora and gang were so far removed from the world plot of the actual disney worlds that we have full scenes of sora just standing in the background and watching the movie happen. heck apparently frozen world had a draft involving elsas darkness, which given she had to hide her powers for years and now is scared as fuck once the eternal freeze starts is ALOT of natural potential for darkness to form in the kh universe. but disney was like "noooooo she a princess you cant even imply there is bad shit" which is why you fight a manifestation of Hans darkness instead, a character that, in the kh3 world, LITERALLY HAD ONLY TWO SCENES and only one scene where a non movie watcher would even have an INKLING that hes a bad guy. so for modern disney to do a crossover and for it to work we either have to enter a completely peaceful / only prankster level setting, like house of mouse was or they need to stop being scared of letting characters be ACTUALLY EVIL FOR THE SAKE OF IT again. there is so much potential in an actual disney crossover. heck just take maleficents villian group from kh1. there is your base you could run so wild with that even fi you exclude ursula due to it being land based. but no modern disney is too scared to have a villian. heck even Wish needed to make up a BULLSHIT DARK MAGIC CORRUPTION book to get manifico to a villain status IN ITS OWN MOVIE. and even then the setting isnt good enough to sell him as a villain. now that i think about it. FUCKING GENSHIN IMPACT DID THIS BETTER no im actually serious. fucking genshin did this better. In Genshin people with strong ambition / aspiration or other strong characteristics of that sort are granted a vision, a thing that gives em elemental powers. take it away and the person also seems to lose these characteristics and becomes very depressed. this is seen in the 2.0 story quests. according to everything i know about wish people dont get depressed or are even affected much by their wish not being granted yet. how in the fuck did you mess that up? the kingdom should be full of very depressed people with how many ungranted wishes there are to even attempt to sell the dude in charge of them being an antagonist. and by giving him this motivation of being like "my old place got fucked so im not allowing dangerous wishes" actually makes perfect sense. magic is a really busted tool if not restricted in writing so not giving dangerous powers makes sense. im sorry that this comment on disney crossover now ended in me also ranting about the movie but roh my god disney needs to start writing better stuff again. and not just pander to some sjw people or china

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5:45 In defense of Magnifico, that wish was vague as hfil. I think if the wish wasn't as vague, he would have granted it.

Oh, yeah, the movie's terrible! I WISH they would've kept the star-boy concept! It sounds cute! I've seen a lot of people making animatics of the star-boy concept and it's honestly SOOO much better. Also, I like your analysis of what it is at the end. Honestly, I love and am all for family-friendly content, but I'll watch Murder Drones over Wish any day of the week.

I saw an artist on insta that made the most amazing starboy design. I think they also designed a magical dress for Asha. You guys should check their account. I think it's lamp something

Disney really is in their flop era

Honestly, just watch "Once Upon A Studio" if you wanna see an actual good version of them celebrating 100 years of animation. I'm not touching this damn movie with a 10ft pole

This movie is so bad that I've made an unhealthy habit to hear people talk shit about it.

Wish: The only Disney movie where the villain defeats the hero.

are we just going to ignore the fact that the villains defeated the hero in this movie

Something no one talks about that I feel as if not one notices is that the art style is literally the same style as NIMONA! Disney threw out Nimona, it blew up on Neflix and Disney just assumes that if the art is the same it's gonna make people watch it!

"Can't The Wish star grant wishes?" Actually no. In the movie where Asha talks to him, it's said that he doesn't grant wishes. Which is still nonsensical since he can mostly do stuff on his own without limits without anyone's requests.

Actually, Dahlia (the baker) is based off of Doc (the leader of the dwarves)

An Unexpected Comeback But a Welcomed One😌 Welcome Back

8:11 "I'M TELLING YOU-" THAT MF BACK THERE IS NOT REAL

When I saw this film, I thought the king was lying about his backstory. I can't be the only one that made this incorrect assumption. Also I don't really like this film and I wonder if Disney even made Encanto.

This movie felt like they were just getting started with rough drafting the script and Disney decide to just go with what they had.

I'd be really funny if it was revealed that the reason magnifico didn't want to grant people's wishes is because most of the wishes are about over throwing the king and having the people control the kingdom

I 100% think that Magnifico's "villain song" is just a "Hero at the start of his journey" song. You know the kind of hero that has yet to actually grasp the point, and is still seeing himself as gods gift to earth? And the plot of the story is him learning to be humble? That is exactly what Magnifico's song is about.

Im gonna say this in a very veyr nice way possible,wish is a wasted potential of a story. Thats it.

Wish also forgot genie's rules for wishes.

It really says something that the Adam Sandler reptile movie and a Spanish animated movie about mummies getting lost in London that I watched on a flight were both infinitely more entertaining than Wish.

I wonder if Hezu will do a review video on Knuckles at some point? I thought the mini series was pretty okay. A bit misleading, but okay.

The bacon guy compared Asha to the snake from adam and eve.

Disney is really fucking up

I'm glad to see how most of us can just see how we could have had a significantly better movie than the end-result if modern Disney were not so greedy yet no longer so rich in creativity as usual but alas. Let's prepare for Moana 2 to inevitably fail too.

LETS GO! I've loved your videos since finding your Tangled ones.

12:15 Can we agree that at least the first Maleficent movie and the Cinderella adaptation were to two best adaptations?

The real 100 years celebration is '' Once upon a studio! '' There's more emotions, passion, creativity and respect for animation in this 8 minutes short than Wish. God the lyrics in thoses songs are horrible! I can't believe professional song writers thinked that '' Check that in your system, solar! '' and '' Here i are. '' makes sense or sounds good 😐Thoses phrases are more cringe than anything else.

I can forgive us not getting Evil!Queen Elsa (Disney's Snow Queen was on the shelf for like 70 years with diff attempts/concepts I'll let it slide, at least I got yeaaaaars worth of concept art to look at). I can't forgive them not giving us an evil king AND queen duo. TT0TT C'mon that would've been so NEW AND COOL!

maybe disney has become the evil king and so therefore doesn't know how to write them anymore

Hezu is back 😊 hope your vacation was well

something i find funny is that the entire time disney was doing it's "100 year anniversary" stuff, kingdom hearts was doing basically nothing, despite it being a celebration of disney's history, and has only just now broken its hiatus, after people stopped caring about wish and the anniversary in general.

I just read the lyrics to "This is the thanks I get" and read it in a tune based off the tone of proper villain songs and it immediately becomes much better. (the lyrics need some tweaking) Regardless, it's not hard. Also, Magnifico is supposed to be older correct? Where are his wrinkles? His definition? Come on, commit to the silver fox look.

Even the trailers made me say no 😑

LOL at the fighting MIi toy remark!

Seeing Disney fail warms my heart

it's even funnier when you think about how it takes no squinting or being high on drugs to watch the movie as an allegory for fucking adam and eve but asha is the snake.... im dying

When you consider that the king as a child went through great trauma and misery with his town destroyed and family killed, it was likely he escaped and wished, even begged, to the stars for some kind of reprieve to this suffering. He got no response from the heavens, and thus he learned magic and founded his own kingdom where he vows to never let something like that to happen again. He says no _once_ to some girl who is coming off as entitled, and she wishes to the heavens vaguely, and the heavens answers her call and comes to her aid. What? If I were the king, I would think the universe is out to get me, with how my call was ignored but this entitled girl with no real issues gets the stars to answer? Apparently, there was going to be an emotional scene between the king and the little star thing, where when he had it captured, he merely looked at it and poignantly asks, "What makes the girl [Asha] so special? Where were you when I needed you?" I can see why they deleted this scene, since it just destroys the entire premise of the movie and makes the king 100% right.

i genuinely think this was just a ploy to get people to watch the old disney movies again. they cant be assed to write up a new concept so they make something so terrible you return to the older ones to see what couldve been

Im not gonna lie Hezu, I think you’re my favorite RU-vidr atm. Because you remind me of classic RU-vid.

Whenever I see Disney Villain line up and I don't see my boi Professor Ratigan in it I get crestfallen.

You’re doing great on your character’s animation.

I feel that "terrible" isn't a strong enough word to describe this movie. I completely understand why people tore this movie apart because...we were basically lied to about what this movie was going to be. And worst of all, it's the movie that Disney used to celebrate its one-hundredth year anniversary - that's the absolute worst part - ending things on a very low note. This might actually be Disney's worst animated movie. The story is predictable and confusing. The characters are boring and unrelatable. The humor wasn't funny. The music, which is often one of the best things in a Disney movie, also isn't very good. We see the potential the movie has, but it was completely ignored. There was nothing redeemable about this movie at all. I mean, how did Magnifico's old kingdom perish; why do you forget about your wish when you give it away; how are people aware if their wishes are granted or not; why did Magnifico use the black magic book before Star became a real threat; how does magic work in this land; how did the Star come down to Earth; why have the whole movie be filled with references; etc. Why was Magnifico even a villain in the movie? From the very start of the movie, it is explained that he did whatever he could to make a peaceful and welcoming kingdom. He grants the wishes of his people, and desires to protect. He even refuses to grant wishes that are too vague out of fear that it might bring ruin to the kingdom. Because of this, the kingdom is thriving, and all the people love and respect him. I'm sorry, but that's not at all what a villain is. And suddenly he's the bad guys simply because...to be the bad guy? Having him use a book full of dark magic, despite being fully aware that he will become completely possessed by it? Forcing someone into the villain role is downright annoying. Asha is very awkward and quirky when she really doesn't have to be. Plus, she doesn't really do anything, nor does she learn a valuable lesson, or grow as a character. Asha, honestly, doesn't deserve to be the next wish granter because she hasn't really accomplish anything - whereas Magnifico actually worked hard and went through hardships to gain his power. So in a way, Asha is the real villain; because all she did was complain and imprisoned a man who brought peace and unity to his kingdom. Star was pointless, because all it did was make animals talk, bring plants to life, and was there to be cute. Valentino was also quite useless, because he didn't bring anything. Even Asha's seven are basically irrelevant. Why not have Asha be part of the natives from Rosa, who are also naturally gifted in "healing magic". Asha, having the most potential out of all her people, becomes Magnifico's first and only apprentice. She finds out that Magnifico only grants wishes that are harmless to his position in power, and the rest are left in the vault - but in reality, he absorbs those wishes to further fuel his already powerful magic…and maybe he was the real reason for his old kingdom's downfall. Asha uses her magic to unintentionally cause a star to land on Earth. As Magnifico is aware that the star's power actually eclipses his own, and uses the dark book to become powerful enough to steal Star's magic. Asha, remembering her grandfather's and late father's words about wishes, is able to encourage everyone to take back their wishes as they have the power make them real. Star escapes the staff's mirror and imprisons Magnifico in his place. While the kingdom of Rosas repairs itself, Amaya is revealed to be the true mastermind behind all of Magnifico's evil deeds; and vows to one day free her beloved husband. Or why not have Asha be Magnifico and Amaya's adopted or biological daughter - imagine having to battle your own parents in order to save your home. Another version is Asha doesn't know what she really wants - as she has all she needs, plus is very helpful and reliable in Rosas. Magnifico still refuses to grant Sabino's vague wish, and explains that his old kingdom was destroyed because a being from the stars granted everyone's wish and caused mayhem to spread. The being than abandoned everyone as the kingdom tore itself apart (Magnifico and Amaya being the only survivors). Asha wishes upon a star and Star appears, and the two grant most of the wishes - however, Star, still not in full control of his powers, unintentionally causes mayhem and disorder. Magnifico, aware he is not powerful enough to stop all the chaotic magic hesitantly uses the dark book. Sabino suffers a heart attack during a scuffle, and regrets not being able to inspire people with his music - but Asha reveals that his music made people happy and inspired them to help others - Sabino dies peacefully in his sleep. Magnifico steals Star's magic, but Asha is able to realize the magic that all people have and their connection to the stars. Magnifico is defeated and imprisoned. Leaving his kind wife to replace him as ruler. Amaya and Asha promise to find a way to free and cure Magnifico. Asha learns that Magnifico had a system to keep everyone safe from themselves, and that not every wish should be granted. Star, aware he's not meant to live in this world, gives Asha a wand made of his magic - they share a kiss before he returns among the other stars.

Today was a filler episode luckily hezu uploaded🙏🏼🙏🏼

I have to say this is perhaps the most Boring Disney Movie to Date, like Baldur in GOW I legit felt Nothing and it felt more of a Insult to 100th Years of One of the most Inspiring Companies that have become a Broken Image of Itself with the Magic being twisted into a Confusing Mess, I didn’t even care if it was the 100th Anniversary Special as we got one in a Form of a Short and I just wanted a Good Disney Movie for Once, but sadly it seems like it would take a few more years for Disney to get back in Shape, Real Talk here Magnifico should have been the Main Character and Asha as the Main Threat, or show that some of those Wishes are Truly Dangerous full of dark Desires, or make the King and Queen as the First Disney Villain Couple, or Show Magnifico’s Backstory and Motivation, or show that sometimes it’s better that we don’t get our wishes as it’s could be one of those things we should be careful, but instead it’s too Safe and I’m glad I watch Thanksgiving on my Birthday in Theaters than This.

I discovered your via the archie sonic comics and video I was wondering when are you going to cover Fleetway Sonic The Comic these comics isn't that popular around the world and it was exclusive to the UK...kinda

wish is so confusingly bad that people can argue which way they should even fix it, should it have a more tragic magnifico or should it have a pure evil magnifico with an evil wife? should the goat be funny or should there be no goat? should there be an explanation why star isn't powerful or should they make star powerful? should the grandpa die or even be in the movie? the wishes are so messy that they can go in a lot of directions, the movie doesn't want to be too dark but the wishes are way too complicated for small kids to get since most adults can't square the hole anyway or however that saying goes, it also could turn out that if wish had more development time it could turn into a whole other movie like how zootopia was originally a much grimmer concept and lots of other examples of movies that went a whole other direction from where they started. sometimes inspiration just strikes unexpectedly and takes your writing in a direction you never thought it would, i think that's why wish feels so empty, you don't believe the writer knows what it's like to lose something important to them and is able to channel it properly the way rennaisance disney movies can, mother knows best was inspired by things people saw in real life and that's why it's so beautifully scary while not overwhelming, it's also why magnifico isn't that fun to watch, you can imagine writers joking with each other about being the disney villain and what they'd say, cruella de vil's inspiration in the original book came from a lighthearted joke about a dog being pretty, anyway point is that you can imagine cosplayers or the original writers nerding out about what characters would do and what they would think, but magnifico lacks that, it's as if they think he's malefiscent but malefiscent was never as destructive to take over a kingdom and block out the very stars so people can't wish on them, it would make more sense if he was still being overprotective but then we get back where we started, who knows what wish could become on rewrites, it'll never be official, just a popular fanfic category

Your friend is completely right and that's the only way I'm gonna interpret this movie from now on.

5:35 maybe this world runs on D&D logic he's worried that Asha's Saba will become a bard and overthrow him with vicious mockery. I've had this idea for a while that Wish isn't a movie, it's a template for a D&D campaign.

I love your little character lol

Disney is so incredibly funny based on the fact thet literally every else in the animation industry is blowing it out the park when it comes to pushing forward the medium of animation while they continue to fumble for crying out load blue skies last hurrah which was Nimona felt more impactful than the entirety of wish

movie as it is: 3/10 movie as a jab at the company: 9/10

Welcome back; hey, better late than never! Always good to hear your thoughts and input, Hezu!

There's a lot of rewrites that include the star as the love interest(yes they were meant to be a love interest but Disney was cowardly to do it)and villain couple heck the rewrites i seen made asha a Better main character.

Her grandfathers wish was within his own power to grant. Magnifico didn't grant it because granting it would have robbed the young man of the chance to actualize it himself.

12:44 no the movie is still a piece of shit, it doesn’t matter what angle you look at it a piece of shit is still a piece of shit.

The film was stinky poo-poo garbage fr