I saw spoilers for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Disney’s 100th anniversary film Wish before I saw the movie itself last weekend. Spoilers don’t usually bother me too much, but they did have an impact on my viewing experience this time around. These weren’t regular spoilers that were being shared. They were being shared with active disdain at how stupid they were. Here’s th📖e problem - I thought they sounded great. Here’s the second problem - t꧅hey were wrong.
Spoilers follow for Wish. Both real and fake.
There’s a spoiler warning above, but these first spoilers don’t happen. What I’d heard was that Asha (the protagonist) becomes the Fairy Godmother from Cinderella, that Magnifico (the antagonist) becomes the Magic Mirror, that the star (the narrative catalyst) becomes the star in Pinocchio, and that Valentino (the animal sidekick) founds Zootopia. That’s three solid gold classics and one okay modern movie mostly enjoyed for reasons other than childlike wonder, but it seeme🌟d intriguing. Disney movies have never really been linked aside from some occasional references or headcanons. How did Disney pull this off? As you’ll have guessed from that second problem, it doesn’t.
Instead, Asha gets a wand and is called a Fairy Godmother for no reason other than the cheap reference, Magnifico is trapped in any old mirror, the star just goes away, and Valentino mentions a city for animals. It’s nonsense. I thought that Wish would t𝕴ie together Disney’s catalogue with some wild narrative swing, but instead it just remembers that other movies happened and then it ends. It’ওs slightly redeemed by its main song So I Make This Wish, its watercolour art style, and Chris Pine as Magnifico, but overall it’s pretty bad. And so much worse: it’s boring.
Wish was supposed to celebrate Disney’s 100th anniversary, and that may have been its downfall. The movie feels unfinished, with parts that don’t connect. I imagine there is a much more ambitious draft of this film somewhere, one with a more divisive script that rea♛ches for the stars. In the end, Wish is bland enough that nobody will care about it, a testament to the safety first attitude of executives overstepping into the lair of the creative.
The common criticism is that Wish is the latest example of capitalist art holding up IP to the screen, but Wish plays very differently to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Flash’s ghoulish⛎ CGI resurrections or168澳洲幸运5𒐪开奖网: Dave Filoni’♛s MCUification of Star Wars. It seems less like a bunch of references shoved in like action figures from a toy box and more like the decaying remains of a story that was killed off. Even if you get giddy at a hid🐎den Mickey, I can’t imagine you enjoying this.
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When Asha first meets Magnifico, she shows him her notebook, in which she doodles Valentino. By drawing him on different pages in different poses, she can make him move. Magnifico is confused by this - he has never seen anything like it. He’s unimpre♏ssed, and the scene moves on. But what that means is Asha has essentially invented animation, having been inspired by her father, whom we never see on screen. Being inspired by a kindly father figure who encouraged you to wish upon a star to make cartoons seems like an important plot detail for a movie that celebrates Disney’s centenary, but it’s never touched on again.
Neither is the fact Asha has seveꦑn friends, whose names and personalities all resemble the Seven Dwarves. Even this is messy though - Dahlia, the Doc of the group, clearly looks like Snow White. An earlier draft of the script may have pointed to Asha being inspired to create the very idea of Disney by her friends and the vario💯us other Easter Eggs around her, instead of nothing being connected in any meaningful way and Magnifico somehow being defeated by a song.
I’m unsure if Dahlia being both Snow White and Doc is bad writing, rushed cutting, or simply too many Easter Eggs crashing into🍸 each other.
Director Chris Buck’s official line goes against my ‘this script must have been changed theory’, , “Once we had [the story], and we started going into production, we could start layering in all the nods.” I don’t think this makes much sense. The third act relies heavily on a chase scene through the woods that is built upon Disney references. ꦍAsha is saved by Little John the Bear - was this originally just a random bear?
I generally detest IP soup. I confess to being a Disney Adult, but prior to the leaks, all I had wanted was for Wish to be a good movie. It wasn’t until I saw all of the attempted links to other Disney films that I thought there could be more to it. I still would have been disappointed by how boring and disjointed Wish is, b▨ut the complaints about the leaks got my hopes up. Not because I wanted generic Disney IP links, but because I thought they might connect to the story, or at least attempt to.
In the end, Wish is the story of a budding animator🌊 who wishes upon a star thanks to the guidance of her father, and then… nothing happens. Despite the movie’s name, Asha has no real wish and her mother, whose wish Asha rescues in the movie’s major slice of narrative through the shrubbery of references, never reveals hers. There’s too much missing for it to be an oversight, and it will always annoy me to not know what Wish could have been.
Everyone is dunking on Wish&rsq💞uo;s spoilers, but they aren’t even correct. The ending people are laughing at would at least be a true ending, and would give the movie a narrative throughline. The actual ending just reminds us of better Disney films we could have spent the time watching instead. Disney has ruined its own 100th birthday party by bragging about the better parties it had decades ago. I wish it hadn’t.
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