Wish - Nostalgia Critic

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Disney's 100 year anniversary turned out to be one of their biggest blunders in a year of big blunders. What was it about the film that didn't connect with so many? Nostalgia Critic takes a look at Wish.
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Wish is a 2023 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It was directed by Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Allison Moore. The art style combines computer animation with the look of traditional animation. The film stars the voices of Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Harvey Guillén, Evan Peters, Ramy Youssef, and Jon Rudnitsky. The story focuses on a 17-year-old girl named Asha (DeBose) in the Kingdom of Rosas, who makes a passionate plea to the stars in a moment of need, leading her to meet a living, magic star which has fallen from the sky, and together they face up to the kingdom's dubious ruler, Magnifico (Pine).
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[@ChannelAwesome]

This was your 100 year anniversary movie, Disney? What did you think of Wish?

[@AnimatedTerror]

I honestly think it’s hilarious that the animated short “once upon a studio” serves as a better love letter to Disney over the last 100 years than the multi billion dollar animated film that was made for theaters.

[@ThisAdamGuy]

Between Asha overthrowing a king for not giving away more free stuff than he already did, and Ant Man being shamed by his daughter for retiring after he helped take down Thanos and save the freaking world, Disney has been advocating some really weird morals lately, haven't they?

[@Omar-wq9dz]

An underwhelming film to celebrate 100 years of Disney

[@theadaptationstationmaster]

This review doesn't actually make fun of the movie's silliest plot point. Early on, the queen warns the king never to touch the evil book lest it turn him evil. Then later when the good guys need to read it, she whips out some magical hand cream that allows them to safely touch the thing. You could have mentioned that to your husband! LOL

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

The saddest part is, this is going to be Disney’s last foreseeable original animated film for the time being. All the movies they have lined up for later on are all sequels to existing films. It’s almost like they’ve given up.

[@DanGamingFan2846]

The most generic, underwhelming way to celebrate 100 years of Disney. The worst part is, they cut out so many great ideas from the final version.(the star being humanoid and Asha's love interest, "At All Costs" being a love song between the two, Magnifico and the Queen being an evil couple, etc.) This could've been so much better.

[@karelsmith-sx4qn]

You know you screwed up bad with your magic wishing star movie when your biggest competitor does basically the same thing but with a spanish cat being chased by a sadistic baker and an emo wolf, and completely steamrolls you with infinitely better creativity, charm, and music.

[@gamebawesome]

I am so angry that professional writers wrote "Watch out world, here I are" and were like, okay

[@Jman92854]

What gets me is that when they look through Magnifico's magic book, they try to see if there's a way to "save him" from the dark magic, they specifically say that once it's unleashed, he can't be saved from it. This implies that his wife still thinks he's a good person deep down and wants to help him, but then at the end when he's trapped in the mirror, she acts like he was always evil and decides he must be punished. So, which is it, is he supposed to be a classic Disney Villain who is just evil and loves it, or is he a tragic character who was corrupted? Either this was written by AI or two different people wrote the first and last halves of the film.

[@katthy092]

The fact that the fandom consists of everybody just rewriting the movie is crazy to me.

[@1805movie]

Asha:

[@hamiltonfan3252]

“I’m a star!”

[@kingagrabowska9366]

In the book version of the movie, there's a powerful line from Magnifico. It's when he captures Star and asks something along the lines of ''Where were you when I needed you? What makes the girl so special?''

[@animefbi5460]

My biggest problem with the Film is that the "Villain" isn't really that bad.

[@jersydvl]

It is very strange to see a Disney movie where the "bad guy" is obviously not a bad guy and the "good guy" is actually the bad guy.

[@GamieCorporation]

If you think about it, the first Kingdom Hearts is a better celebration of Disney than the movie Disney themselves made. The main character is legitimately a good combo of several iconic Disney protagonists, the worlds are from iconic films, and even the villain is more like an actual Disney villain, even with all his anime mumbojumbo.

[@geardog24]

Disney: We promise to give you an old school villain, just like the ones you used to love.

[@phantomstrider]

I really liked the idea you had of the king becoming the villain then having a redemption arc. Villains who turn good is one of my favourite tropes of all time as it adds a complexity to the morality of the character and shows them considering multiple sides.

[@thetwelfth9987]

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