Wish - Nostalgia Critic

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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.

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?

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.

Asha: "You have to grant everyone's wish!" Magnifico: "Okay...What if someone wished for the end of the World?" Asha: "W...Why would someone wish for that?" Magnifico: "Oh, you sweet, summer child."

My biggest problem with the Film is that the "Villain" isn't really that bad. He says some Wishes are to vague to be granted, and some aren't meant to be granted. And he's right. He creates a Utopia where everyone seems to live without worry of food or clothing or anything.

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.

My idea for a simple fix for the Magnifico arc: Make his wish-granting magic come from another wishing star that he absorbed. It was indiscriminately granting wishes and was thus the source of the kingdom's past calamity that he stopped. Other changes follow sensibly from that: The calamity is why he's so careful about which wishes he grants: he's seen what can happen otherwise (have the absorbed star give him no direct control over how a wish truly manifests once granted). He keeps the wishes instead of returning them (he still sees the value people place in them, so he does still protect them) in order to stop people from wishing on stars and potentially summoning another one to earth. He used the dark magic book to absorb the star the first time. He resisted its corrupting influence because his motives were pure and his mind was clear. This time, fear and paranoia about a new star, and his anger at his citizens' entitlement gave the corruption an inroad, turning him dark (a villain that needs saving, not just defeating). I think that would have really helped the worldbuilding, added depth to the character, and tuned up the message to be about not relying on magic or miraculous wishes to achieve your dreams (not a fan of the "just keep wishing" message of the actual movie).

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?''

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

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

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.

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.

Disney: We promise to give you an old school villain, just like the ones you used to love. Also Disney: Gives “villain” reasonable backstory, logical reason to run the kingdom, and then force him to be evil when the protagonist acts more selfish than he does. Classic Disney 😒

An underwhelming film to celebrate 100 years of Disney

The fact they thought the seven dwarves were a diverse group of normal height people pretty much says what went wrong right there

3:43 How can a DreamWorks sequel 11 years in the making, based on a Shrek spinoff character, have a better Wish movie than Disney's 100-year anniversary?

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

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.

7:26 either Magnifico granted extra wishes thus breaking his own concept of monthly ceremony and lowering the whole movie’s stakes altogether, because he can grant as many wishes as he likes that day of the month- or Rosas is such a magical place, a year there lasts 425 days. The math ain’t mathing