Everything Wrong With Wish In 19 Minutes Or Less

Disney's Wish was meant to be a celebration of the studio's history of animated films. They should have just made it good.

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[mayredfern]

The fact there was NO SIN for the disaster of a line that is "I'm a star, look out world here I are." is a crime against humanity

[garf]

This movie should have ended with the queen sitting on the throne as she says "Now my wish has come true" then turning to the mirror before asking "tell me darling, who is the fairest of them all?"

[grfrjiglstan]

I love that Magnifico is treated as unreasonable for saying that the granddad's wish of wanting to write songs could be dangerous
Then at the end, he's defeated by a song, proving he was 100% right.

[BurgundyMermaid]

This movie deserves an extra 5, 000 sins just for Asha’s magic wand. After preaching the whole movie that people should make their dreams come true themselves, and that the king was evil for deciding which wishes would get granted, she has the gall to accept a magic wand and take on the role of the kingdom’s fairy godmother. Basically, it’s evil if Magnifico is doing it, but it’s totally fine if she herself is doing it. Asha is a lying piece of ****.

[javierayala]

Something recent Disney has forgotten, accountability. Aladdin realizing his mistakes and chooses to correct said mistakes by confronting Jafar. Mulan disobeyed her father, almost getting herself killed and or executed, chooses to acknowledge mistakes and continues to fight as herself. Asha doesn’t have to overcome difficulties.

[zacharymccoy]

Imagine being the biggest entertainment company for 100 years, and for your big anniversary movie, you get upstaged by a funny Adam Sandler movie.

[avalna]

The worst part about this movie is that the concept art tells the story of what could have been a MUCH better movie

[MicahDarkFantasy]

“ChatGPT, write me a Disney movie.”

This whole movie is exactly what you get.

[Bobsheaux]

5:32 - I love how everybody.... EVERYBODY... immediately thought of this as soon as they saw the first trailer. "But... not everyone CAN have their wish granted, if only because of simple wish economics." NOBODY thought it was fair to label Magnifico the villain for just being practical with his wish-granting. lol

[santiagohunson]

"Wish" is one of those rare Disney films where the Villain wins instead of the Hero.
When you think about it, Asha is the TRUE villain of this film, because King Magnifico has a really good point about how it's dangerous when everyone's wishes are granted.

[theautisticever]

the movie that said “what if every single character had no development at all”

[yakunohayashi]

A missed sin in the villain song was the line "I let you live here for free and I don't even charge you rent". Bro, is literally the same thing

[DORAisDD]

Take Mother Gothel. She is initially deceitful but not outright evil until the end of the movie. But her transition from mean to murderer is believable because she had BEEN evil (kidnapping Rapunzel). But Magnífico never showed any signs of evilness so his transition feels forced

[mr.mediocregamer]

This literally could have been a retelling of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and the girl could have released all the wishes because she thought she knew what was best on her first day on the job. Then she and her wacky sidekicks would have to go out and clean up the chaos she caused, so that she can learn to take responsibility and the powerful message that sometimes, the people in charge actually know what they're doing.
It would be visually pleasing seeing all the wishes, but it would also really lean into the history of Disney because the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" was one of their earliest and very recognizable works.

[ArwenUndomiel]

Only 19 minutes? Dude the entire movie's a sin. But thanks for calling out the fact that the King literally has a point by not granting everyone their wish!

[realfitzmarker]

If only the Disney executives just simply leave the filmmakers alone, we would've gotten Starboy and Disney's first (feature animated) villain couple.

[Galliao]

Villager 1: I wish Villager 2's wish not to be granted.
Villager 2: I wish Villager 1's wish to be granted.

Deal with that, Asha.

[ameliawalker]

I think the worst part for me was how Asha being the main character was the one to get everyone chanting in hailing the queen when the queen herself basically sat on her butt for most of the movie except for complaining about her husband...

[lilyaka]

If you don’t mind me idea dumping:
-Asha’s wish is to bring her father back, and Magnifico doesn’t grant it because he doesn’t want to upset the balance of the universe
-Instead of bees, the book is guarded by a spell that manifests a character’s trauma
-It shows Asha a vision of her father, which flows into her and Magnifico’s conversation about him, and later Magnifico his village when he goes to retrieve it
-Amaya makes a wish for Magnifico to be saved from the book’s influence

[DragonGoddess]

Also, 5:45 This is exactly why I thought Asha's plan wouldn't work: plenty of people would be upset that their wish wouldn't be granted and that resentment would build after seeing certain wishes be granted instead of theirs. Therefore a rebellion would happen, possibly destroying Rosas

Ya can dislike or disagree with King Magnifico all you want, but his methods have worked for years, if not decades.