Disney's Wish | The 6 Kid Review

Disney's Wish is out this week. Should you take your family?

[harbinger]

It's kind of hilarious when you talk about Asha's afro-latino, non-cultural thing. Because she purposely has "woke" skin tone, but her character is essentially what the woke criticize as the blended white culture. It sounds like the main human character from the Emoji movie who is engineered to be as generic as possible to "appeal" to everyone and no one at the same time.

[BingBangPoe]

I think what you said about Disney being "too careful" to design their female characters defines current Hollywood. They're so scared to offend ANYONE that all characters are generic, blank slates. There is no drama, nothing to tickle your brains, to make you feel anything. The static character arc is usually very boring, but there are many ways to handle it well; this is definitely not one of those cases.

[Bombonribon]

Basically they wanted to do a movie with every Disney easter egg and checklist of what to do; but forgot to do an actual movie with original plot and ideas... Sad.

[mattcbw]

Greg, I appreciate your reviews and overall optimism; however, Disney has fooled me too many times. I think at this point people are just content that Disney isn’t putting out horrible stuff.

I am sick of DEI messaging.

[olianims]

Wait so the citizens willingly joined the kingdom for a price and then rebelled when they didn't want to pay the price anymore?

[spinlok]

Wow this has been by far one of the nicer reviews of this movie. lol

[Whookieee]

Sorry, my Disney boycott still stands. Will perhaps reconsider if they do a full remival of the entire current C suite, including Marvel and Lucasfilm. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! ❤

[matityaloran]

I haven’t started this video yet so I’m just going to say what I think up front. I liked the idea of Disney finally having a straightforward villain again but they didn’t deliver since in the first half of the movie, he’s not evil just misguided and in the second he’s enslaved by a magic book. I like the message of actively seeking out what you want instead of just wishing but I honestly think that it’s muddled by the ending where Asha becomes the new Fairy Godmother. (I also think that the same message was better done by Aladdin and for that matter by Puss in Boots 2). And I think Encanto had much better songs. I do like the Easter Eggs to older Disney movies and I wouldn’t call this movie bad. I think that it’s average more than anything else.

[MrRobot-]

Honestly it think the thing that hurt this movie the most is that they had to hit the villain with the crazy stick otherwise he would be the hero.

For me, having a hero be the hero just because you forced insanity unther the designited wrong person is a admition the desinated wrong person was right.

[deganhardt]

Magnifico is the best character and you actually start rooting for him lmfao.

[janette]

Encanto did a 'good woman' well. Even if she was a little annoying she was believable.

[alexisschiffer]

Popstars writing the songs explains everything. I also disagree; Asha's "culture" (a fictional island in the Mediterranean sea with New York diversity that's somehow "Latinx") is the culmination of Disney's inoffensive homogeneity that they've been doing since at least the 90s.

Jasmine's supposed to be Arabian, but her film had India/South Asian references (cause they all brown, get it?). Mulan was Chinese, but was pan-East Asian. Elsa is pan-Scandinavian/Northern European. Moana had criticism for being ambiguously pan-Polynesian, and Raya was pan-Southeast Asian with a mostly East Asian VA.

[SkyAllStars]

I just can't get over how bad the writing is to see this. Magnifico likes control, so he wants to hire an apprentice and then shows the candidates how the wishes work? That makes zero sense. How the hell can't people figure out mathematically not all wishes would be granted (since he only does one a month) - can't they do a basic fucking calculation and see the odds? When they give up their wishes, do they also forget why they came to Rosas in the first place AND forget that Magnifico can grant wishes? Why should Magnifico be forced to use his powers for others? He went and founded the island, so clearly there are other places in the world. Leave and go work hard yourself to grant wishes if it's a big deal. Or Asha could've just played the long game and learn how to grant wishes and then rebel!

And that's just a fraction of the issues. They didn't remotely think this thing through. What a let down for the 100 year anniversary movie.

(For the math, let's say there are 5000 people and no one is born, moves in or dies. He grants 12 wishes a year (and people SHOULD recall that happening). That's almost 417 YEARS before he hits everyone. Why would anyone be shocked that their wish won't be granted?)

[robertdagge]

You don't think the ending a bit odd for kids? The queen helps imprison her husband in a device, shows no remorse about his fate and takes over his position as leader. A very good example for kids - husbands suck and coups are the way forward.

[kenttate]

Am I understanding you to say that the villain built a village and invited people to live there under his rule but then they didn’t like his way of ruling and instead of leaving they killed him. 😂😂

[matityaloran]

6:28, though the old Renaissance formula also says give the hero a romantic love interest and they didn’t do that here.

[KekuTheLaughing]

Weirdly, I agree with the king. If you give everyone their wish, that totally wouldn't ruin society. Plus, they knowingly move there and give up their wish. WILLINGLY. This movie is actually stupid.

[EK]

Something tells me DIsney didn't mean to have a tale against central planning and fumbled the God metaphor.

[matityaloran]

1:31, that was actually a clever bit of foreshadowing given that later on Asha (inspired by her Grandfather) inspired the people with song to form a mob to overthrow Magnifico just like Magnifico said

[MarklovesAngels]

Thanks for the review, Greg! Great balance. At the holiday table yesterday, this movie came up and the parents said it looked cute and they'd catch it with their kids on Disney+. BUT - that's a MAJOR problem for Disney. They don't gain anything EXTRA for that. If they hadn't left streamers like Netflix, they'd be gaining third party revenue in the millions. Now with D+, Disney is just transferring money from the right to left pocket and not gaining revenue. They put all their eggs in one theatrical basket.