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30. Wish

Red: 24
Ermine: 25
Johnbobb: 26
Inviso: 26
Suprak: 27
Karo: 28
Lightning: 29
Evillord: 29
Paul: 29
Mythiot: 30

Total: 273

Red: This was supposed to be Disney's big movie for their 100th anniversary celebration. To no coincidence, a character in fact is celebrating their 100th birthday, which I guess means characters in this universe live quite long as he doesn't look human-100, but this isn't explained. Instead this is a mostly shallow movie that does nothing but showcase how recent Disney is often creatively bankrupt and incapable of doing much beyond playing everything as safe as possible. The songs here are often not terrible but they never feel particularly inspiring either. Also don't think about the villain's motivations or his song at all because they really don't make much sense in any concept. He just jumps around in personality for the sake of the plot rather than in service to it.

Ermine: 100 Years of Disney huh? Wooooof
Yeah, this movie was kind of a stinker. It wasnt AS bad as I thought it was going to be but it really is kind of depressing how far Disney has fallen in the last 10 or so years. You still have a few shining stars but more often than not these days, they are just completely uninspired slop, and Wish falls right into that description. Asha is one of the least likable Disney Princesses heck one of the least likable Disney characters period. They tried so hard to make her quirky and relatable that she came off as completely unrealistic and (I hate to use this word) cringey.
Then we have discount Djali. Ill just leave it at that.
THEN we have Magnifico himself. I dunno, I feel like he could have been the best character in the film but everything is thrown out when he sees a shining light and his wishes go jingle jingle. He feels the need to tell the audience (because they are clearly too stupid to see for themselves) that he is THREATENED! So he goes and does dark magic and goes from what could have been an interesting character into one of the most uninteresting and flat villains to date.
Theres other characters. Well. If you can call them that. Asha has friends. They all have one personality trait. OK.
And now we get to the music. Man, what a let down. In most Disney movies, this is the part you can feel they are probably going to nail, despite if the movie itself still kind of sucks. I personally dont care for Encanto in the slightest, but man did it have some banger songs.
The music in Wish is just I dunno, awful? Uninspired? The lyrics for a bunch of them are just gutter trash. I dont need to tell you that, Im sure other write ups will cover that. And Im all for talking animals, but good lord I wanted them all to shut up in that stupid Youre a Star song.
Best part of the movie for me was the credits because one, it meant the movie was over, and two it gave us little cute images of all the main characters from past Disney movies that were actually good! It made me want to watch a good movie! So maybe Ill go and do just that.

Johnbobb: Ariana DeBose is a great singer, and I really dug Knowing What I Know Now. But every other song in this was so boring and forgettable that I ultimately just would've rather been watching Wish Upon.
"Magnifico is, like... serious hot sauce. Like, Sriracha hot."

Favorite 1/2 star Letterboxd review:
If you really think about it Magnifico is kind of like Julius from Fire Emblem 4, I'm not going to elaborate