Disney's Wish is kinda dumb...

Summary

The video reviews the 2022 Disney animated film Wish. It provides background on the magical wish-based world where the story takes place. The main character Asha learns the kingdom she lives in is not what it seems, as the king crushes people's wishes for power instead of granting them. Asha and her friends try to steal back her grandfather's wish. The review critiques the film for having underdeveloped characters and plot holes, but praises some of the visuals and premise. It sees Wish as a nostalgic Disney film trying to recapture the magic of the past hits through Easter eggs and references.

Takeaways

• 😮 The movie is set in a magical kingdom where people give up their dreams and wishes to the king when they turn 18
• 😑 The main character realizes the king doesn't actually grant most wishes, he just takes the power
• 🎭 There are references and easter eggs to lots of classic Disney animated movies
• 😒 None of the characters have any depth or meaningful development
• 👸 The king ends up absorbing the power from crushed wishes to make himself more powerful
• 🌟 A magical star that grants wishes appears and helps the main character
• 🐐 An annoying talking baby goat is used for bad comic relief
• 🎶 There are random sing-along songs throughout the movie
• 😣 The ending tries to remind viewers of classic hand-drawn Disney movies
• 😕 Overall the movie seems poorly written and not very good

Q & A

What is the premise and setting of the movie Wish?

The movie is set in a magical kingdom where people's dreams and wishes come true, in exchange for their loyalty and servitude to the King. When people turn 18, they have to relinquish their most precious wish to the King.

Who is the main character and what is her wish?

The main character is Asha, a 17 year old girl who wants to become the King's magician's apprentice. That is her wish.

How does Asha realize the King is not actually granting people's wishes?

During her interview with the King, he reveals that he only grants wishes he deems to be good enough. Asha realizes most people's wishes never get granted and the King just makes people forget about their wishes.

What motivates Asha to try and get back her grandfather's wish?

When Asha sees a star come down from the sky and bring animals to life, it inspires her to try to regain her grandfather's long held wish, since the King was never going to grant it anyway.

What is the role of Asha's friends in her plan?

Asha's friends help create distractions and assist her in sneaking into the castle to try to steal back her grandfather's captured wish.

How does the King become more powerful?

The King starts crushing people's wish balls and absorbing their power for himself, making him stronger.

What is the message or moral of the movie?

The message seems to be that magic and wishes come from within us and our imaginations. Rather than relinquish hopes and dreams, people should pursue them.

What are some problems with the movie and story?

There is little character development. Supporting characters are one-dimensional. The plot moves too quickly in some parts and too slow in others. There are jokes that don't land.

How does the animation style compare to typical Disney films?

The animation has a unique watercolor look but the characters are constantly moving and making exaggerated facial expressions much more like a DreamWorks film.

What happens at the end of the movie?

Everyone joins hands and uses the power of wishes to defeat the King. Asha becomes the Fairy Godmother and the King is trapped as the Magic Mirror.

Outlines

00:00

😀 Intro to the magical wish kingdom and main character Asha

The paragraph introduces the magical wish kingdom where people give their wishes to the King. It also introduces the main character Asha, a 17 year old girl whose grandfather's 100th birthday wish ceremony is coming up.

05:01

😒 Loads of random filler characters

The paragraph talks about various random filler characters that serve no real purpose. Everyone makes exaggerated DreamWorks faces constantly.

10:03

😠 The king crushes wishes for more power

Asha realizes the King doesn't actually grant most wishes. She tries to steal her grandfather's wish back so he can pursue it himself. But the King shows up and crushes Asha's mom's wish to gain more power.

15:04

😞 Disney nostalgia bait ending

The movie ends with the King defeated and Disney movie easter eggs everywhere. It reminds viewers of classic Disney films, but in a depressing nostalgia-baiting way.

Keywords

💡wish

A wish is a hope, dream or desire. The main premise of the film is about a magical kingdom where people give up their deepest wishes and dreams to the King when they turn 18. Asha wants to get her grandfather's wish back so he can pursue it himself. Wishes symbolize hopes, dreams and childhood wonder.

💡kingdom

The kingdom is the magical, utopian city-state where the film is set. People move there for the King to grant their wishes, but they must relinquish their wishes and hopes to him in return. The kingdom represents how society pressures people to conform and give up their dreams.

💡magic

Magic enables wishes to come true in the film. The King uses magic absorbed from people's wishes to maintain control and power. But Asha and her friends realize the magic actually comes from within themselves - their wishes, hopes and childhood wonder.

💡control

The King maintains control in the kingdom by taking people's wishes and making them forget their hopes and dreams. This represents societal pressure to conform. Asha rebels to take back control over her own dreams and future.

💡rebellion

Asha and her friends rebel against the King's wishes system by trying to take her grandfather's wish back. This represents fighting back against societal conditioning to give up your dreams and conform.

💡conformity

People in the kingdom conform by giving up their wishes and hopes to the King when they come of age. This represents how society pressures people to conform to norms and give up childhood dreams.

💡capitalism

The film allegorically critiques capitalism - the King exploits people's hopes and dreams for his own gain like corporations do for profit, while the people get nothing.

💡nostalgia

The end credits sequence nostalgically celebrates classic Disney films, reminding viewers of lost childhood innocence and joy, like the lost dreams and wishes in the film.

💡coming of age

A key motif is the transition from childhood to adulthood when magic and dreams end. Asha fights the conformity and control to regain her wishes on the cusp of adulthood.

💡individuality

Asha seeking her own wish against conformity represents fighting for individuality - to retain hopes and dreams that make you who you are against societal conditioning.

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Transcripts

you know I remember there being a whole

lot of H blue going on about this movie

when it came out when we got the first

trailers and screenshots everyone was

saying how it looked like the trailers

weren't even finished rendering yet but

wish was supposed to be Disney's Big

hundred-year anniversary movie okay oh

boy this is going to be fantastic

there's no way it could

suck yeah the movie came out and

everyone was just

like but now that it's finally out like

streaming and stuff I wanted to finally

give it a watch and see what everyone's

talking about you know I mean come on

Modern Disney movies aren't great but

they're not that horrible right you know

everyone liked Encanto and

uh Tangled so come along fellow people

who just have to accept that we will

never not be tired anymore let's take a

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first thing we get a little backstory

about the whole world of this movie Once

upon a time there was a young man who

believed there was nothing more

important than a wish except whichever

one of you keeps wishing for low rice

skinny jeans to come back every couple

years you want to knock that off the one

that drives your heart the one that

makes you who you are but he also

understood just how impossible it can be

to make make that wish come true how

easily dreams can be

destroyed okay Disney why you got to be

so real all of a sudden but okay so

because this dude's obsession with

wishes he studies magic somehow whatever

that means and uses this magic to make

his own country where he makes people's

dreams and wishes come true in exchange

for their unquestioning loyalty and

servitude and this is where we meet our

main character my

grandfather a most loving and

handsome man who turns years old today

Valentino's never done talking if only

we could understand you no no no no this

animal better not say a single word

Disney okay so this is Asha just your

typical everyday 17 almost 18-year-old

girl who lives in this magical wish

Kingdom now today is her grandfather's

100th birthday but here's the thing His

Wish has not been granted yet and he's

been waiting a long time I mean he's not

older than dir but they definitely went

to school together King is called a wish

ceremony today oh oh oh this is it no it

can't be a coincidence the king is

calling a wish ceremony on your birthday

a knock on wood tonight's your night

sabba I can feel it so let me explain

this world a little bit as we learned in

the very first song of this movie this

place is like a magical Utopian city

state where life is so perfect and

wonderful but if you move here or when

you turn 18 you have to tell the king

your wish and then he removes it from

your heart which then adds it to this

like big giant list of wishes that he

eventually might Grant maybe but also it

removes all the hope and ambition that

came along with it so you forget

whatever was that was driving you

emotionally

wish and feel every wish he Aces and mon

he Grant someone's greatest does it hurt

do you cry oh no and you won't even miss

it when you say goodbye now is this

perhaps a very heavy-handed allegory for

capitalism Andor modern society yeah

probably but I mean the premise of the

movie itself I think is kind of cool

like it feels like a stopan ya novel or

something actually now I think about it

it's basically just The Giver really but

this idea of like when you become an

adult you have to give up on your

childlike wonder and dreams and wishes

so you can live and what you have been

told is the is the bestest most

perfectest place in the world I'll give

my wish you don't really forget your

wish once you give it you forget without

regret I want to meet the king you're in

luck there's a wish ceremony tonight you

know people were saying this movie look

bad but like I think it actually kind of

looks cool with the watercolor cell

shaded look going on like I mean at

least it's different you know I mean

sure it kind of just looks like a higher

budget version of every 2000's Barbie

movie but maybe that's what the world

needs right now okay anyway so Asha over

here wants to become the king Magician's

Apprentice which is a thing young people

can do I guess my interview is in 1 hour

and I'm so nervous I think I'm going to

explode interview what interview doia

you mean the interview with our velvety

sweet buttercream of a king what now

here we get to meet some of the other

young people in this Kingdom who have

not yet given up their wishes to the

king and become those empty shells of

adults who spend all our time thinking

about how we'll just have to do laundry

forever I guess but don't worry guys

okay if you thought we were going to

have to sit through a bunch of dumb

boring character development and learn

about kids motivations and Back stories

and stuff rest assured that we learned

literally nothing about any character in

this movie I mean yeah they are

literally just the Seven Dwarf so

that'll have to be enough I

suppose cookies cookies like

cookies cookies give me the

cookies move over cookies okay sop they

lemon oh no yes this movie has like so

many random characters that are just

like the most one-dimensional time

fillers I think I've ever seen like Asha

talks to and interacts with so many

people who say and do nothing important

also everyone makes the DreamWorks face

constantly in this movie it's an

epidemic I tell you what now there is

this one guy who's 18 and therefore the

spark of life has been removed from him

which could have been explored in an

interesting kind of way but just like

with every other character he just kind

of is but whatever anyway So eventually

Asha goes to her interview with this

super hot Butter King guy what' you say

again our velvety sweet buttercream of a

king yeah it's definitely not less weird

the second time so she goes in for the

interview and immediately starts getting

into her tragic backstory about her dad

who died a few years ago I think I

remember your father oh he's talking

about the Stars we used to climb that

tree on the High Ridge no he'd say the

stars are there to guide us to remind us

to believe

impossibility well even when he was sick

he'd take me out at night to dream and

this is pretty much the only little bit

of information we get about her and her

dad their relationship anything at all

which is still somehow more than we get

about Asha and her mom and grandfather

cuz like they hardly ever talk in this

movie how is the mom dealing with her

husband dying how does the grandfather

feel about his son dying how do kids and

adults deal with death in a world

specifically made of hopes and wishes

who cares am I right but this part here

with the king I think clearly

illustrates something that to me is kind

of weird about this movie which is how

it's animated it doesn't really feel

like a Disney movie really it almost

kind of feels more like DreamWorks or

minions or something I mean everyone

just moves so much and every half second

they're making a quirky face and Sassy

hips and shoulder shrugs and head tilts

constantly all the time now to be fair

in this scene in particular she's very

nervous and fidgety or whatever but like

the whole movie is just kind of like

this but whatever anyway after singing a

song about wishes if you can believe

that Asha starts to realize something a

little weird about how the King goes

about granting these wishes whereas it

is my responsibility to only Grant the

wishes I am sure are good fosis most of

these wishes will never be granted you

could just give them back then I don't

know the people can try to pursue them

themselves they give their wishes to me

and I make it so they forget their

worries so learning this kind of

disillusions Asha a little bit because

she now realizes that the world she grew

up in and everything she's ever been

told about doesn't actually exist it's

all one big lie to take away people's

dreams so they can easily be manipulated

and controlled you know like when an

artist or animator person finally gets

their dream job at Disney only to

realize that they only care about

overworking and underpaying everyone as

much as possible and all they're

concerned with is hitting their next

shareholder quotas but you can't

complain about it because do you have

any idea how many people wish they were

in your position right now wasn't this

your dream job everything you ever

wanted and so Asha goes home and sings a

song to The Stars like she and her dad

always used to do and you'll never guess

what

[Music]

happens whoa

uh

okay I will say regardless of anything

else in this movie this little star guy

is freaking cute as heck all right but

then of course what do you know the star

dude makes animals talk which quickly

becomes the worst part of the movie like

remember that cute little non-talking

baby goat from

earlier it didn't work when does the

magic happen oh Something's Happened I'm

talking I am talking who knew my voice

would be this low

oh oh he's talking now

and he's making Wise

Cracks

yippe anyway so this star guy appearing

and the Goat talking about how funny it

is that his voice is so deep ha this

inspires Asha to go and steal back her

grandfather's wish from the king's wish

shed or whatever this is because like if

his dream is never going to be granted

by the king anyway at least your

grandfather could have it back in his

heart so he could maybe you know try to

do it himself look see King magnifico

has their wishes in the castle they're

captured in these ball like bubbly

things that are very beautiful but very

locked up and he'll never give them back

you mean we take them back

ourselves except this dude is literally

100 years old like if I ever make it

that far in life my only wish is going

to be like put me back in the Dexter's

mom smash Atron 5,000 so Asha carouse

her friends together to help her out

after they see this for some reason last

night after everything happened I made a

wish on a star what are you five and the

star answered

SI ladies your wings can't fire what

your voice

is anyway so moving on asha's friends

distract the king while she sneaks into

His Wish room place to get her grandpa's

wish back with unsanded

mahogany oh good find Valentino my butt

found it he sees the baby goat with a

low voice but he said but hello

[Music]

Sab I'm going back for your wish Next

Mama that's right Asha but right then

what do you know the king himself shows

up at their house and he already has

asha's mom's wish ball thing oh my

goodness where's this going to go maybe

he's had a change of heart my wish we

all know what happens to wishes out in

this real world they get Crush

mama what is this all this time I've

protected the wishes not knowing the

power the yield I feel as if I can do

anythingit

wa I'm sorry so he crushes the wish and

absorbs the power and then he's like I

crushed this wish and absorbed the power

and now I am more

powerful is he a Dragon Ball Z villain

this movie speeds along so fast because

of this it's like very underwritten most

of the time like I said we never learn

anything about any character but other

times it's so overwritten and just right

in your face like because this is for

the 100th year anniversary of Disney

this movie is full of Easter eggs you

know some of them are kind of cool like

this nod to the fairy godmothers and

Sleeping Beauty and making a dress you

know but then other times it's just it's

like this oh Fantasy Land in the sky huh

how about the ne land

yes how about Neverland anyway so Asha

then realizes that the king is just

going to crush all the wishes and take

the power for himself so she and her

friends decide it's time to sing a song

now obviously I'm not going to play the

song for you but they sing this big

emotional fight song about how like

they're not going to take it anymore

gosh darn it except like we don't know

anything about them at all so like good

for you I guess okay so slight tangent

here but like in typical Disney movies

there's like a love story right and we

learn a lot about these characters as

they go through all their romance stuff

like it's kind of weird how like this

movie has no love story but also it has

no other like inter character story at

all anyway like it's not about

friendship it's not really about her

family that much it's

about even Asha herself has like no

character Arc whatsoever like her Heroes

journey is a three-step process in which

she learns no lesson stuff just kind of

happens in this movie like Asha wishes

on a star who then comes down and just

like Dex maos the entire rest of the

movie now speaking of weird story

choices there's this part later on where

Asha distracts the king so her friends

can like open the wish Tower sunroof but

then there's a crazy block twist when

she gets

caught it doesn't matter you're too

late Asha magnifical Never Too Late

Simon oh my goodness it was a recently

adulted adult guy from earlier yeah he

was a decoy so the king could remain

back at the castle and do nothing the

king's Sinister master plan was to hang

out and watch the kids try to open the

room

surprise haha surprise I've been

standing here watching you all for 45

minutes now so I could capture all the

wishes which I could have already done

at any point anyway yes I am very clever

now at the very end of the movie The

King's up in his cool Tower thing just

sucking all that Capri on juice magic

out of those wishes so he can do some

kind of bad guy stuff to everyone in the

Kingdom then everyone holds hands and

sings a song about what I assume is the

whole point which is that magic comes

from wishes and wishes come from stars

and everyone one is made of Stardust so

therefore the real magic was inside of

us the whole time and so everyone holds

hands and uses their cool wishing powers

and the movie ends with the King being

trapped in his scepter and becoming the

magic mirror on the wall thing from Snow

White and then Asha becomes the Fairy

Godmother from Cinderella I think and

really the whole ending is just like one

big Easter egg hunt do you see what

they've done to me H well you do love

mirrors that is not

funny thank

you sorry

Clara and you wonder why I'm grumpy and

then we have the ending credits where

they have these like Star constellation

versions of pretty much every Disney

animated movie which is kind of

depressing in a way you know cuz it's

like hey hey hey do you remember do you

remember when Disney was good you

remember those days yeah remember when

we did amazing 2D animation and then we

never did it again remember how all the

happiness from your childhood would

never come back give us all your money

and that's pretty much what the movie

ends so yeah the heck was this garbage

like I said earlier I think the main

premise and setting could have been

pretty all right using the power of

wishes and talking about how childhood

Whimsy has to be crushed in order for

you to become a member of society and

you're told this is how it has to be or

whatever going on a quest to recapture

the hopes and dreams you thought you'd

given up on like the foundation of this

movie is pretty solid I mean take hook

for example an incredible movie about

trying to find the childhood wishes and

wonder you left behind you know it's

just like the road they decided to take

to tell this story is just I mean how is

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