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Literally the whole plot of the movie could've been resolved if Magnificeco had a sit down with a good therapist

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Came from the hazbin comments and hell yes to this entire video. Thanks for the response mightve never checked this out otherwise

Singings decent, i would either skip the voice acting bits or leave the og in sorry. That threw it off for me hardcore

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Very good, high quality, professional work. Keep up the good work.

Congratulations Asha. You usurped Mr Beast.

Wow, great work! Haha

Thank you for talking about how Amaya is basically a psychopath. You're telling me that with the years that she has known him, the fact that the movie even IMPLIES that the book Magnifico used to get a grip on the kingdom is the very reason he lost his mind and she DOESN'T EVEN FEEL THE SLIGHTEST BIT OF EMPATHY FOR HIM? Asha may be incredibly selfish and stupid, but what Amaya did is straight-up inhuman.

Disney messed up the production of this movie. Enough said.

Everything in the kingdom was fine until Asha showed up. 😤😡

when me and my parents decided to watch this trainwreck of a movie, we all agreed that he definetely needed a therapist

My favorite part of Macifico is that, out of all the many references to other Disney works, he's a reference to the sorcerer Mickey trains under in Sorcerer's Apprentice, called Yen Sid. Yen Sid spelled backwards is Disney. The movie makers literally hid in the movie that Disney is the villain of a movie of a flourishing kingdom where Disney cherry picks wishes to grant while draining everyone else.

I feel so bad for Magnifico. Aside from resorting to forbidden magics (and even the reason for that is kinda understandable), he really didn't do anything wrong. He didn't even steal any wishes even though people like to pretend as if he does. They gave their wishes away WILLINGLY. He didn't force anyone and it wasn't even a deceitful type of deal. The people are fully aware they'll lose the memory of their wish (that was kinda the point of the deal: that he'll keep your wish safe, perhaps even make it come true, but never will you have to experience your dreams being shattered). If someone claims otherwise then they are either stupid or lying. This system has been going on for decades, it'd be impossible to hide even if Magnifico wished to do so. Also, prior to being corrupted by the book, Magnifico didn't even know he could get power out of these wishes: "All this time I've protected the wishes not knowing... the power they yield!" (btw, note how he uses the word 'protect'). He was not "hoarding" them for some grand evil plan of his but out of legit care for his kingdom. It's not like he has been doing a bad job either. His kingdom is extremely prosperous, its' people well cared for. Yes, Magnifico might have been overly paranoid and kind of a control-freak and there's underlying issues with the system he has created (more on that later) but that doesn't make him evil. It just means he's flawed. The man has PTSD from his previous home being destroyed ffs. Is it any wonder he tries his hardest to prevent this from happening again or that he reacts poorly when something reminds him of it? Ironically, his need to maintain safety/control is partly to blame for why the people of his kingdom act so entitled and obsessive about wishes, thus he inadvertently ends up giving himself more stress. There's moments in which he expresses very clear frustration. When Asha, ignoring him while he was opening up about his hopes btw, asks for a favor as soon as she secures a good position with him ("Well, that was fast. Most people wait a few months or even a year to start asking me for favors.") and when he, probably for the first time ever, asks his people to HELP HIM to keep the kingdom safe and instead they be like: "Nah, we only care of what you can do for us so gimme wish granting ceremony plz!" He snaps with: "Is that all you can think about??!". Like, I feel you man I really do, but you kinda unwittingly enabled this behavior by spoiling them. Not that the responsibility lies solely on him but you know what I mean. He basically encouraged people to depend on him and now they are glad to treat him like their personal wish machine who always needs to give more. They don't *truly* respect him as a leader. It's tragic really. The movie would have been WAY better if all these nuances were actually explored instead of them suddenly trying to make him an irredeemable villain. It just doesn't work at all. Magnifico simply doesn't have the traits to be a classic eeeevil Disney villain and the fact they try to frame him as such is just sad on so many levels. It would have been a stronger message if Asha helped Magnifico realize that he didn’t have to control everything to make his people prosper and that being a happiness pump wasn’t healthy for him or the kingdom. In turn Asha could have learned important lessons from him and curbed some of that naivety. The people also should have had a moment in which they reflect on their entitlement. That they are ashamed their King couldn't rely on them after everything he has done to build them a good place to live. That would have given justice to Magnifico, that would have actually helped him with his flaws and mistakes, and it also would have made Asha (and the people of Rosas) way more likable.

I enjoyed it but I’m just confused who is the good guy. This how I saw the movie, a man who came from tragedy builds a kingdom to keep people happy and safe. He grants his people’s wishes to the point they are asking him for their wishes to be granted. They took over his kindness to the fact he been doing this for years. They want to keep taking and taking. The main protagonists was want was to get her grandfather wish granted but refuses to great it because he believe that the grandpa might inspire people to start a rebellion. He kinda at fault too because those dreams are part of who they are. It kinda sucks that he got punished for using forbidden magic. But he did made that choice so I don’t feel bad for him. He was given warnings from the queen. Even if he was possessed too, he still did those horrible things. But I can’t really wrap my head around it

One thing you're not taking into consideration is the scene where Queen Amaya and Dalia, one of Asha's friends, are looking through King Magnifico's dark magic book, and Amaya begs Dalia to look for anything that could break his staff, bind his magic, or bring him back from the dark path he's on. But Amaya and Dalia learn that there's no way to either stop him or to redeem him. Dalia even read from the book this quote: "If you commit to dark magic just once, you commit to it for all eternity." This meant that Magnifico went past the point of no return as soon as he took up the dark magic book again and embraced its evil magic.

Magnifico was absolutely my favourite part of the movie, and was completely wasted on a mediocre if not downright terrible movie

Oh wait what if the sequal turned out to be a consequence of the first with wishes going out of control and them going back to him for help where hes either redeemed or becomes and actual villian

I think your forgetting a core aspect of his character, i dont think people were wanting the wishes granted immediately it was more a "hey its been a while and you haven't even considered looking at 99% of them". Magnifico is inherently selfish while his actions maybe convay benevolence his actual wording and perspesful desplays of magic are all selfish qnd self agrandizing. Asha meanwhile i dont see being selfish at all, sure she had a personal want that she was single minded in but thats for someone else to get their wish granted which given that hes 100 makes sende on the urgency. She wanted the job to help people but on day one had a single target in mind, after that ahe probably would have been doing the job she signed up for without a hitch. Its not like she even did anything wrong a 17 year old asking reasonable questions and getting yelled at is not a crime, and if anything make him the bad guy for ladhing out. Even later asha just wants everyone to have their wish back thats all, being preoccupied with 1 or 2 people who she calls familys wishes isnt a bad thing and if anything makes her supremely selfess because ahes risking her life for other people she inspires people to live their dreams and go off and do it themselves. Magnifico didnt want any of that he just wanted everyone to praise him without questioning his motives thats about it

This movie would have been better if He was a twist hero and Aisha was the villian

Something people overlook, is that if Magnifico was truly a bad person, he would have shoved Asha off the building when she’s literally standing in the edge there destroying his plans

Nah, really, the way Amaya just threw him away at the end really rubbed me the wrong way

Agreed. Disney really fumbled so many things about this movie, but King Magnifico is by far the most compelling character in it. ^u^

How this man went 20-30 years without breaking before this surprises me. It’s too bad asha just had to push the final button. He was such a great character

Imagine if this had happened in Frozen. "Oh no, Elsa went insane and almost kills her sister, welp there's clearly no way she'll ever reflect, the only thing we can do is lock her up forever without giving her a chance of redemption." And do mind this is Disney, the company that the past few years has been going "Remember Maleficent? Remember Cruella de Vil? They deserve to be vindicated." But apparently one of the few rulers in the entire franchise who is not a complete disaster doesn't. It's unfair.

This video is a great example of why "Death of the Author" interpretations are a great tool for critiquing flawed plots and characterizations. Your sympathetic interpretation of a character the writers try to force into the "villain" box provides a more consistent explanation for his behavior than the movie provides, and elucidates how the more "evil" actions he takes are clearly contrivances the writers had to make to delegitimize Magnifico's solid points. Great job! I'd like to make 2 observations of my own. First, I think another point against Asha is that the movie fails to provide evidence that her actions were necessary to save the kingdom. Sure, one can critique Magnifico's methods of maintaining his rule, but if you remove Asha from the story, Rosas likely would have continued as before, and Magnifico would never have had a reason to start crushing wishes. Second, and this one may be a stretch, but I wonder if Wish is in fact not a tribute to Walt Disney, but rather a rebuke of him. Sounds crazy, I know, but isn't it a little odd to make a movie celebrating 100 years of Disney, and then make the villain a man who built his magic kingdom upon wishes?

Character was fumbled on so many levels. This had so much potential to go in so many ways. This could've been a Nineteen Eighty-Four situation where Magnifico and his evil wife used his sorcery to oppress his citizens in sinister, insidious ways or a twist villain in Asha where Magnifico was actually right but she refused to accept his wisdom, overthrowing him only find out that, once in his position, granting or returning every wish is not so easy as she had thought from an outsiders perspective. It's literally built into the marketing material: one of the posters straight up says "Be careful what you wish for", opening the door wide for a Wishmaster situation or a twist where Asha gets what she wants (the power to decide which wish gets granted that she was sure Magnifico was mishandling with none of his experience or knowledge of Wish magic) and learns that maybe she isn't so much more clever than him after all. Instead we get a villain whose only villainous attributes seemed to be a smidge of arrogance (understandable from someone who literally developed magic to GRANT WISHES and built a kingdom from nothing, I'd argue) and past trauma that caused him to overreact when a naive and ignorant young woman decided to threaten everything he built. He fails as a villain, especially after the promise of a "return to form" of the classiv malevolent villain. As it is, he's a tragic victim of his own traumatic past more than anything. Villain of that movie is either Asha (who basically overthrew the king only to take his place) or the evil magic Magnifico turned to when he felt like his kingdom was in danger.

Look at that. Disney didn't learn from Rumpelstiltskin. (OUAT) He had the SAME issue, and lack of conviction with the writers.

I like how bro kept the wishes that could be deadly and could overthrow his kingdom in a safe place where he can protect them. Oh no not to harness there power ir anything to PROTECT THEM. And yet we are supposed to hate him for it? You know the story is bad when you start cheering for the villain to win instead of the hero

This sounds like what would happen if a hero had to fight alone.

If you research the idea of Mind uploading then there is an existentially horrible conclusion. When the headgear was put on it could have uploaded the mind of the person, making a digital copy of their personality. The cast of "people" are as human as any of the NPC's. Caine doesn't want NPC's staying with the 'people' since it is hard to tell them apart. Caine doesn't know what to put after the "exit" doors since there is nothing for Pomni and the others to go back to even if they remember the world. If you figured out that you were not real then abstraction seems like a plausible result.

You know when I younger I always wanted to see a movie where we got to see the villain's point of view, But they still failed with the horrible writing of the movie

I think the biggest problem with the story is that the writers never bothered to explain why he needed to hold their wishes in the first place. Its not like people only have one wish. Most people have an endless number of wishes. So him holding a single wish from each person didnt seem to have any clear narrative reason other than making him appear nefarious somehow. Even though at the beginning, he is written in such a way that he claims to hold the wishes for good intentions, there's no obvious threat against the wishes other than "well maybe they wont come true." But again, people have countless wishes that wont come true so him protecting one from each person doesnt really do anything. If there was some evil entity out there that could harm a person if it knew what their number 1 wish was, and Magnifico said "ok, to protect all my people from Entity X, i will hold their number 1 wish safe in my castle" then this would start to make sense. Then they could have had Entity X play both Asha and Magnifico against each other in a scheme to corrupt Magnifico and tempt him with the dark power using the wishes. Then the Entity X could possess him or something once he is corrupted enough and you could have similar things play out. This way Asha's selfishness would actually justify Magnifico's fears, because he is actually legitimately protecting the number one wish from the evil entity, possibly at great cost to his own mental health, and Asha blindly destroying that system could result in his frustrations boiling over and causing the mental break that allows him to be fully corrupted by the entity. This way Asha's actions can be more gray, not black and white. She doesnt understand the delicate balance Magnifico is barely keeping under control, and she ruins it although believes she is returning everyone's wishes. That would allow growth for her while still letting Magnifico's descent into villainy be tragic. Im sure there are other ways to fix this but thats just one idea 😀

Magnifico lost his home to magic. He used magic to give people what they wanted and sometimes couldn't give EVERYONE what they wanted(which is honestly very fair. I mean, one person might want one thing, another person might want the opposite)but then Amaya comes in questioning his whole system and judging him and then we're supposed to think "What a jerk, he won't let her old grandfather become a musician? The scoundrel!" Magnifico should have been redeemed and cured of the corruption. They could have had it revealed that another Star had dropped in Magnifico's kingdom and someone used the wish to do something REALLY bad that destroyed it(created an evil army, etc;). The wish popping should have been Asha's fault. His wife could have been the actual villain and manipulating Asha so Asha would help her take power(and given it was the hundredth movie and the first Disney movie villain was the Evil Queen, it would have been a good parallel, but nnoooOOOOooo.)

I remember hearing his arguments and thinking: ”Wait…he right tho!”

Thank you for this video!!

You're point of view on Magnifico is exactly why I couldn't like Magnifico. Magnifico at no point in the story is a villain, yet Disney wants us to believe he is. They screwed up so much that they don't even understand their own characters. The only villain in the story is the black magic book. We can't even see the mental breakdown of magnifico aside from his "villain" song, which doesn't represent much. He's simply afraid that he'll lose everything he's built and the lives of everyone he sword to protect and in order to do that, he feels the need to tap into black magic. The book takes a hold of him and he's literally not the same character. He is either corrupted or mind controlled by the book, which pretty much makes him a victim of Asha's actions.

The two villains could explain a lot. The old wise king who cares too much and has a lot of trauma. And the vane queen. You can't have both to be the SAME person, Disney!

5:50 he was POSSESSED by the evil magic book of evil. That's not Magnifico!

And yes they say grandfather not great-grandfather. He and his 100 years meat had one of Asha's parent.

Like. "I wish to be te best football player ever." But in over 60 years I never kicked a ball. "I wish to be the best animator ever." But i never touched a pencil. Excuse me but YOU'RE JUST BRUTE-FORCING with magic. You don't deserve your wish granted.

Magnifico is a morally grey character with a bit of an ego but that has kept the kingdom safe for decades. He also has a temper and doesn't like to be disputed, he also can have a bit of spite with those who don't behave. He's a way more interesting character... Because HE'S FLAWED. We know more about his backstory than from asha's.

The movie literally says about Asha "You care too much" that's her FLAW. That's not a flaw that's a MARY SUE RED FLAG.