i watched wish so you don't have to ⭐️🌳🐐 (disney wish review)

I wish we got something better…..

If this movie was celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Disney Studios it should’ve been in 2D.

Still unbelievably upset that they also scrapped Star Boy as Asha’s love interest in favor of having a plushie character. This movie would’ve been an absolute hit if they stuck with the original concepts. A villain couple AND a magical star boy ?!! WE WERE ROBBED!!! 😭

There was a missed opportunity for the queen to be evil and part of a villain power couple with her husband, but I'd argue that her being good was also something Disney hadn't explored. We've had evil stepmothers marrying good men, but we've never had a villain's spouse forced to realize that the person they wanted to share their life with is not a good person. Here we have a princess who lived happily ever after with her prince, and decades later, all the good in him fizzled out until she had to go against him after he drew a weapon on her for trying to talk him down. This is heartbreaking, this is dramatic, but the movie barely wants to acknowledge her, so it has no impact. Knowing What I Know Now should have been HER song, not the song of a bunch of teenagers with a queen guest appearance. I don't care how cute your ragtag teens are, give her a moment!

I’d even go so far to say Anna makes adorkable work (like Rapunzel and Mirabel) since she grew up alone, but Asha? It makes NO SENSE. She would’ve been the perfect opportunity to make a character that is ambitious and hardworking, meeting a moral dilemma when it comes to recovering the wishes or pursuing the career she wants. Idk, there was so much potential for an interesting, complex character but HEY ANNA, RAPUNZEL, AND MIRABEL ARE CUTE, LETS MAKE HER ONE TOO!

If anything, one positive thing Wish did was make me appreciate Tangled even more. Similarly to Wish, Tangled was also a celebration movie. It was Disney’s 50th animated feature film, and conceptually, it was ALSO similar to Wish. It’s a modern day retelling of a classic fairy tale with plenty of references and allusions to older Disney movies. Except Tangled actually delivered with a good story, memorable characters, a FANTASTIC villain, and great musical numbers.

Man the scrap of the wishing star being a “prince” made me wanna throw my phone. Disney’s scraps tend to always look better than the actual product. 😭😭😭

I feel so validated hearing you say you agree with magnifico at the beginning 😭 I was so confused why it was supposed to be bad that he didn't grant every single wish. It could genuinely cause so many issues

Honestly, the fact that she's a tour guide gives the opportunity for Disney to have their cake and eat it too by having the adorkableness be deliberate act, because tour guides can be like that to entertain their customers. It would be really cool to have a character who has a level of emotional intelligence that they can turn on and off certain mannerisms to cultivate specific reactions from whoever she's talking to.

I think Tiana, Jasmine and Rapunzel might be the last serious disney princesses we had. And I add Rapunzel because the whole "quirky, weird cute girl" thing was actually part of her character and Disney basically turned it into a now unsuccessful formula. I'd love to see more princesses like Tiana and Jasmine or even Nani from Lilo. Beautiful girls with not so great circumstances who actually work past them using brains, determination and courage.

When I saw the first teaser image and the information that it was the "origin of the Wishing Star", along with describing Asha as a princess, I got the impression that it would end bittersweetly with Asha becoming the wishing star herself and fulfilling her wish to help everyone. It's the way I wrote a better story in my head than this movie ever did

The animation style and character designs are so disappointing. Disney noticed the trend of mixing 3D with more stylistic 2D elements (Spiderverse, Puss: The Last Wish) but instead of going all out, it’s like they were afraid to take risks and only did it half-heartedly, and instead of looking like a beautiful, cinematic film Disney is known for in their animation (both 2D and 3D), it ends up in a weird middle ground and looks more like a decent budget Sofia the First special. Nearly all the 3D Princess films look better, Rapunzel was first way back in 2009 and looks so, so much nicer with brighter colors, beautiful cinematography, iconic character designs, etc. Asha and every other supporting character look so plain and blend into the background looking like default designs, and it doesn’t help that the similar facial features, dark hip-length hair, and purple dress make Asha look like a bad knock off of Isabela from Encanto (who still has a much better design and still stands out from such a big, colorful and unique cast). Asha herself doesn’t stand out either, all of the recent Disney princesses, whether they were well written or not, still had very distinct designs that take inspired from the cultures they’re inspired by (Moana with Polynesian inspired elements, and Raya taking inspiration from Southeast Asia). Asha’s outfit? A purple dress, vaguely resembling old Spanish (?) dresses, I’m not totally sure. No distinct colors as they’re all just close shades of the same purple making the dress not stand out and look plain, and a boring silhouette. I like the locs of her hair, but I’m sure they could’ve done it just a tad less simple? Overall, I think Wish had a lot of potential, but in rushing to do something without truly understanding what could’ve made it special, it falls flat (literally) and is quite a disappointment.

Disney truly got a problem with the quirky protagonists trope. Also, i wish the scrapped concept where the star character was about to be made as a "peter-pan" figure and the king and the queen were some sort of an evil power couple seems much interesting that what the movie had.

a better plot would’ve been if Asha goes against magnifico and all the wishes in the kindgom were granted, which causes havoc within the kingdom and Asha has to “redeem” herself and admit her mistakes

I think Asha should have started secretly granting villagers wishes regardless of their potential impact, to disastrous consequences. When the king found out someone was granting wishes and undermining his power he should have gone crazy ramoaging while Asha had to deal with the consequences of wish granting, how they damaged the kingdom and left people listless since they didnt have to work to achieve anything. This way Asha learns that you can't just grant wishes, but she still believes the people should be allowed to persue their dreams through other means. Also Asha should have been an assistant as a call back to the magicians assistant

Disney kind of broke their Moral lesson by making Asha a Fairy Godmother, if the lesson is that you shouldn't rely on others to grant your wish, or rely on magic for it, then why make the main character a magical wish granting been at the end?

Honestly, Disney needs to get out of its own way and let their creatives actually experiment more. The original ideas and concept art for this movie (2D, Star being a mute shape shifter, an evil queen AND king), and even the ideas she brings up in this video (too many side characters with little to no development, and extra talking animal, the King not being overly evil enough or playing into his backstory enough, Asha not being enough of her own character and how she could have already been working as an apprentice, and a better soundtrack) could have made this a real enjoyable watch. It just reeks of corporate meddling (even more than Frozen 2, Raya, Ralph Breaks the Internet).

I feel like this is everyone’s critique of this movie but…THIS movie was what they made to celebrate 100 YEARS of animation…imo they should’ve made a third Fantasia. Not the movie everyone would watch but one that everyone would understand being the 100th anniversary.

I WISH they stuck with the earlier concepts cause Asha is being wasted character deign wise and it makes me sad as a Black person who would've loved her presence as a kid :(

I think that Frozen makes the adorkable protagonist work because Anna and Elsa balance each other out, meaning that they work better as a group than individually, but it also helps Elsa stand out