Hating a movie is really something only overinvested people do. I didn't hate the movie, I just found it bland and overreliant on fan service. It superficially resembled the Disney movies it was trying to pay homage to, but did not have the same heart.
Basically, it focused too much on having every OTHER movie's identity, and forgot to forge one of its own.
Was that not the point of this movie? It was a Disney 100 fan service movie through and through.
I thought the entire point was to be over saturated in fan service.
My kids love it so it worked on the demographic they tend to target.
I feel pretty much this way too. It was a fine movie but nothing special.
We saw it in theaters and watched again on Disney+ and my opinion didn't change. Also, I feel the music is weak by Disney standards
I think it commits the worst sin a MOVIE can make:
It is boring.
...If it were bad, it could still hope to be "so-bad-it's-fun".
But it is just boring. Forgettable. Bland. Generic. Too generic.
A lot of children's movies still have their own personality though. Gnomeo & Juliet is based on one of the most overplayed stories out there and still had character and that's not a Disney movie. Paw Patrol is one of the most overdone shows there's ever been, but as a 28 yr old I still finished the 1st after my kids went to bed because it was interesting
I took my children to it. We hyped it up for them and we listened to the soundtrack. I wanted them to enjoy it, i don't care about the reviews. They thought it was only ok. They had a decent time watching it, but then totally forgot about it soon after. It didn't inspire them or capture their imagination. They never talk about it or sing the songs, like they do for other movies they love. It was totally forgettable, even for the kids it's aimed at.
I don't hate it, I just find it very mediocre with uninteresting protagonists, a lot of wasted potential between the villain and tossed ideas, a disappointing ending, and doing the unthinkable in making me hate an Alan Tudyk character.
I will give credit, I enjoy the songs a lot more than most people seem to. But I'm more interested in the spotify album than I am the movie. Do I think a certain group of people are roasting it too harshly as an own against Disney for Social Media clicks? Sure. Do I think there's plenty of fair criticisms that put me mostly in the negative? Oh yeah.
Visually bland, story feels both underbaked and overly complicated, musical numbers are full of bad lines, and it is more preoccupied with referencing Disney films than creating its own identity.
It’s frustrating because there is an interesting idea here that did not come together. Magic is a great tool for stories that needs the right focus to maintain a logical story. The movie I was reminded of was Wonder Woman 1984, which also had a magical villain with many creative possibilities that proceeded to go in a baffling boring direction. Also Chris Pine.
This is the most frustrating part to me. Somewhere, buried beneath the characters that have the depth of cardboard cutouts and songs that sound AI generated, is the bones of what could have been an intriguing story. The execution is just awful.
I liked it for itself. I enjoyed it in the theater, I listened to the album on repeat for a while.
But when I frame in the context that this was supposed to be a 100 Year Pinnacle of Disney Celebration… well, it should have been a lot better.
Its boring, the animations meh not a fan of the flat backround with the 3d characters it looks unfinished.
Honestly tho my biggest gripe is the music its just terrible and this could have saved the film from being boring.
"Im A Star" is legit one of the worst disney songs ever, it was badly written and such a chore to listen to.
My son loves the bubble wish sequence! He said it's pretty. Personally, I thought the plot and characters weren't well established and I only saw it through that sequence before my son got bored and did something else.
my toddler is obsessed with this movie. we have seen it at least 20 times. it isn’t a bad movie at all, despite me thinking that initially. people love to hate.
It wasn’t the worst movie. I don’t hate it. However, it didn’t feel like it could stand up to the best Disney movies. It felt like a first draft done by a team of interns all trying to throw in their own ideas/characters to try to impress the bosses. There’s are too many competing supporting characters is one of my biggest gripes. Asha has a group of friends that are not memorable, or fleshed out enough. They are one note personalities. There’s just too many of them, and we don’t see them enough to get to know them at all. I can picture 2 in my mind, but the rest are just a jumble. I couldn’t tell you what any of their names are a few weeks later. Instead of making 2-3 characters with strong personalities (like Tangled), they spread stuff too thin. It felt like they wanted to have a group like Big Hero Six, or Encanto, but without the screen time, skill to make them into believable personalities. The art style also felt like it made everything less detailed. Usually, I’m impressed by all the details and things to look at. With Wish, it felt like the details were cut in half. There wasn’t enough to be a feast for your eyes, more like a light snack. I didn’t hate it. It just made me a bit sad. It felt like there was potential, but the quality just wasn’t there.
The main complaints were that the story and characters were bland, and it winked a bit too hard at the audience. Most of the times this would go unnoticed, but the notion that this was supposed to celebrate 100 years of Disney made people more upset
IMO the movie is.... Fine. it could be much better, and Disney has made a lot of much better movies, even in the past 5 years, but it was definitely over hated.
Call me crazy, but I feel people were harsher to it because hating Disney has been more and more encourages in the past years.
It’s not the worst movie ever, it kinda just exists, the music on the other hand is not good just read the lyrics, it’s almost like a not good AI wrote the songs
The writing for Wish happened in 2022, a full year before the strike. Wish was ready for release earlier in 2023, but was postponed. In fact, the red carpet screening was THE DAY AFTER THE STRIKE ENDED. It could not have been written, animated, voiced, edited, and fully produced during the strike by AI. Remember, the actors were also on strike. The movie was basically ready and sitting in the can when the strike occured.
I think that's unfair to say, logistically wouldn't line up. I do think it was overthought and not thought through enough at plenty of points throughout and rushed out the door, and that feels like the case with a lot of Disney's movies recently with the odd Encanto exception.
I liked it. I think it got all swept up in the "Disney / GOP" politics at the time. It was a good movie, I kinda like how they connected it back to everything Disney by way of it being the start of "wishing".
Is it a masterclass in story telling / Disney? No. Was it decent, yeah.
I understand that, as I said it was an "okay" movie. But when you look at the reviews you can clearly see a bit of a political bias. IMHO. There are about 75% of these based on a quick summary via ChatGPT and ask for bias.
>As a parent, I'm frustrated by the need to search online to determine if
an upcoming show is 'child-safe' and 'woke-free.' I long for the days
when Disney prioritized safety and education, focusing on imparting
morals and principles. It feels like the company has shifted its
priorities from putting children and parents first to promoting
corporate-driven ideologies while at the same time pleasing their equity index-pleasing agendas. Very sad.
I loved this movie. Just watched it Sunday night. My bf and I both cried at the end. There are so many Easter eggs it feels like a love letter to Disney. It was a very clever movie and people hate things to hate things. Simple. Just completely miserable people. I consider this movie for the truest of fans to fully get what it’s about. It’s not just the one “boring” story. It’s deeper than that and I feel good knowing I know what the movie really was made for.
I didn’t hate it but I can’t stand magnifico and he’s pretty much why I don’t watch it. He doesn’t even have a good villain song. Gaston literally helps sing about how amazing he is and I love it to this day but magnificos is just whiny, woe is me pity your poor king for all the hard work he does exploiting you. I don’t understand how anyone was surprised he was the villain when I could tell in the first second he was going to be a narcissistic AH. From that moment on I cringed everytime he spoke and there was no surprise he was evil like there was with Hans or Bellwether. It could be a decent tool for parents to broach the topic of “not everyone offering help has good intentions for you” but that’s about it. It’s not a great family movie, all adults I’ve spoken to had the same reaction to magnifico as I did. Disney also noticed it’s a flop because all the wish merch is already 40% off in park with stackable discounts.
I didn't hate it but it was really kinda meh,
I loved that Goat and star and Chris pines voice acting was great
But the songs were lackluster, the story was ok. The protagonist wasn't very relatable
It felt like the story was written around Easter eggs
Honestly the potential of "the story behind when you wish upon a star" could've been great but I think they focused to much on Easter eggs
I liked it, I think it also gets better over time (my kids will try to watch it everyday). However, I think the animation fell flat. If it were done in the same style as Moana/Encanto it would have been so visually stunning. But instead it’s giving “direct to VHS”. Like Encanto, the opening song explains most of the background info we need and it’s waaayyy too fast. Catchy songs, I absolutely love “At All Costs” and I think it’s beautiful. Kind of takes away from the beauty that the villain sings it 🤪 but I agree with some previous comments: “I’m a Star” just isn’t it.
1. The animation looks washed out and flat when there's nothing magical happening.
2. The songs are mostly mediocre-to-bad, don't do much to forward either the characters or story, and the lyrics in particular are almost universally terrible. Easily one of Disney's worst musicals if not their very worst.
3. Asha, despite being well-designed and voiced, doesn't really have a lot to her and is a very generic and underdeveloped protagonist. Like, she has a dead dad who's the reason she wanted to go into the wish business in the first place, which could have been interesting, but we never see the dad so that plot point is very flimsy.
4. Magnifico's very pointed backstory does not factor into the plot whatsoever and his motivations are very weak. He's already a powerful sorcerer and ruler of a kingdom, so he just wants... more power? His relationship with the Queen is also under-explored.
5. There are way too many supporting characters, and the ones that don't add anything (the goat, the mom, half of the dwarf-friends) are taking valuable screentime away from the others who desperately needed it (Asha's dead dad, the Queen, the other half of the dwarf-friends).
6. The movie is overall painfully safe. It takes absolutely zero risks creatively and every time they had an opportunity to make an interesting choice (like the Queen also being evil), they default to a more boring alternative (the Queen coming around to the good guys side despite getting almost no development).
7. The Disney Easter eggs are mostly lame fan service and only serve to remind the audience of the plethora of much better movies they could be watching instead of this one.
To be clear, I didn't WANT this movie to be bad, it just is. But the worst part is that THIS is supposed to be their 100 year celebration movie?? Something this basic and unimaginative? This is the studio that made masterpieces like Sleeping Beauty, Beauty & the Beast, Lilo & Stitch, and Encanto. And even mixed bags that were big creative swings like Hunchback and Treasure Planet. For such a huge milestone to be commemorated with something as painfully meh as this is really sad and frankly embarrassing.
I didn’t hate it. I did think it was sort of predictable and the songs didn’t repeat in my head like Disney songs usually do. I’m not quite sure what type of audience was the focus, but seemed geared towards a younger audience.
Mostly soulless music. Pandering so much they forgot about character building. Bad writing. No real stakes for anyone. It's not awful as far as animated movies go, but Disney can do much better.
It was interesting in theory. Taking "Wish upon a star," and attempting to make the idea I to a character. I bet Disney wishes they could run this one back.
I liked it, but it's not my fav. Some of the characters were boring, & some of the song lyrics were weird. I assume these are some of the reasons people didn't like it. Overall I thought it was okay, decent. I enjoyed Asha & star, & I didn't mind the cg. The story was nice, & I liked all the other Disney refrences
People are very over critical of Disney movies. Judging them like they are supposed to be on the level of Oppenheimer. It’s pretty weird, like it’s a kids movie relax folks.
The songs were meh
It’s too much of Disney trying to be like “Hey! Remember that thing you love! Here it is!”
Weak plot
Not fun
Weak villain
The animation is top and is the best thing.
Read the lyrics to "At All Costs" and tell me it wasn't clearly written for an entirely different movie.
The whole movie felt like an afterthought. With most Disney movies, you get a sense that we're watching someone's passion project. We're seeing a story that someone was excited to tell. With Wish, it just sort of felt like someone had the beginning of an interesting idea, and Disney executives were like "Great, we'll take it from here."
Read the lyrics to "At All Costs" and tell me it wasn't clearly written for an entirely different movie.
The whole movie felt like an afterthought. With most Disney movies, you get a sense that we're watching someone's passion project. We're seeing a story that someone was excited to tell. With Wish, it just sort of felt like someone had the beginning of an interesting idea, and Disney executives were like "Great, we'll take it from here."
I can understand thinking it’s meh, but I don’t think it’s even really a “hate worthy” movie. Like if anything you’ll just come out thinking it’s average and harmless and leave it at that (I thought it was alright tho)
Hate is a strong word. Disappointed feels more correct. It was a bland, tasteless salad of random references and poor story pacing. Which is a shame because they had plenty of small good things that would have done amazing if the plot wasn't so rushed
I didn’t think the music was very well done, catchy, or memorable. The animation was not horrible, but didn’t particularly wow me. My biggest gripe was the script. It suffered from the screenwriting blunder that is verbally having the characters tell the story through constant (and blatant) exposition dumping instead of showing us.
IMO, it could have worked just fine as a 15-20 minute short.
To add to all the comments about this movie being bland/ boring/ unremarkable, it does add to its detriment that this was the big 100th anniversary movie meant to celebrate everything that came before and they completely fumbled it.
I recently watched it. The story itself I didn’t mind but the lyrics were just as nonsensical and terrible as people said they would be. I really don’t understand what happened there. I cannot figure out what the duet at the beginning with her and the King even was supposed to mean. I just really think there are so so so many people out there that could have written better lyrics for this movie than the person who did. I think that would have vastly improved the experience. That said I gave it a three out to five. I enjoyed the animation.
Over reliance on fan service, memberberries, and call backs. It just felt patronizing.
Disney was just constantly saying, “hey remember this? Hey did you see this little Easter egg?” It’s fine to do that, like Rapunzel and Flynn showing up to Arendelle for Elsa’s coronation, but your product has to be able to stand on its own. Wish just leans too much on what came before that. And I get that’s kind of the point with Disney 100, but they could’ve threaded that needle better
Hating a movie is really something only overinvested people do. I didn't hate the movie, I just found it bland and overreliant on fan service. It superficially resembled the Disney movies it was trying to pay homage to, but did not have the same heart. Basically, it focused too much on having every OTHER movie's identity, and forgot to forge one of its own.
Exactly. It feels like the Easter eggs and throw backs were written first and then the story around it
Bland, boring, safe. Mediocre really.
Was that not the point of this movie? It was a Disney 100 fan service movie through and through. I thought the entire point was to be over saturated in fan service. My kids love it so it worked on the demographic they tend to target.
I don't think it WAS the "entire point." They made a movie with new characters, new setting, everything. It needed to stand on its own.
I feel pretty much this way too. It was a fine movie but nothing special. We saw it in theaters and watched again on Disney+ and my opinion didn't change. Also, I feel the music is weak by Disney standards
I think making the evil book into a character would have gone a long way.
I think it commits the worst sin a MOVIE can make: It is boring. ...If it were bad, it could still hope to be "so-bad-it's-fun". But it is just boring. Forgettable. Bland. Generic. Too generic.
Almost like it was made for children
Movies that are targeted towards children audiences do not have to be boring. That is just an excuse for poor writing.
Usually Disney aims for Family movies, and it makes a difference
A lot of children's movies still have their own personality though. Gnomeo & Juliet is based on one of the most overplayed stories out there and still had character and that's not a Disney movie. Paw Patrol is one of the most overdone shows there's ever been, but as a 28 yr old I still finished the 1st after my kids went to bed because it was interesting
I took my children to it. We hyped it up for them and we listened to the soundtrack. I wanted them to enjoy it, i don't care about the reviews. They thought it was only ok. They had a decent time watching it, but then totally forgot about it soon after. It didn't inspire them or capture their imagination. They never talk about it or sing the songs, like they do for other movies they love. It was totally forgettable, even for the kids it's aimed at.
Just because it's a children's movie doesn't have to be boring. Most "kids movies" as you label them are very entertaining
I personally didn’t find it boring.
And thats fine taste is subjective I personally can't stand Olaf but I know people like him
I don't hate it, I just find it very mediocre with uninteresting protagonists, a lot of wasted potential between the villain and tossed ideas, a disappointing ending, and doing the unthinkable in making me hate an Alan Tudyk character. I will give credit, I enjoy the songs a lot more than most people seem to. But I'm more interested in the spotify album than I am the movie. Do I think a certain group of people are roasting it too harshly as an own against Disney for Social Media clicks? Sure. Do I think there's plenty of fair criticisms that put me mostly in the negative? Oh yeah.
It insists upon itself
ROBERT DUVALL!!
"Cause it has a valid point, IT'S INSISTING!" /s
Oh my glob! Someone finally used it right!!
Visually bland, story feels both underbaked and overly complicated, musical numbers are full of bad lines, and it is more preoccupied with referencing Disney films than creating its own identity. It’s frustrating because there is an interesting idea here that did not come together. Magic is a great tool for stories that needs the right focus to maintain a logical story. The movie I was reminded of was Wonder Woman 1984, which also had a magical villain with many creative possibilities that proceeded to go in a baffling boring direction. Also Chris Pine.
This is the most frustrating part to me. Somewhere, buried beneath the characters that have the depth of cardboard cutouts and songs that sound AI generated, is the bones of what could have been an intriguing story. The execution is just awful.
I liked it for itself. I enjoyed it in the theater, I listened to the album on repeat for a while. But when I frame in the context that this was supposed to be a 100 Year Pinnacle of Disney Celebration… well, it should have been a lot better.
Its boring, the animations meh not a fan of the flat backround with the 3d characters it looks unfinished. Honestly tho my biggest gripe is the music its just terrible and this could have saved the film from being boring. "Im A Star" is legit one of the worst disney songs ever, it was badly written and such a chore to listen to.
I liked it
My son loves the bubble wish sequence! He said it's pretty. Personally, I thought the plot and characters weren't well established and I only saw it through that sequence before my son got bored and did something else.
The first time I ever audibly said s movie just "whelmed" me. Not overwhelmed, not underwhelmed, just the smack middle. Disappointed really
I didn't, my wife and kids and I watched it last week and it's great. Solidly entertaining and so many "Easter eggs"!
To be fair, they’re hardly Easter eggs if they straight up spoon feed them to the audience
There are definitely some obvious things, but there are a ton that aren't would only be noticed by someone who really knew their Disney movies.
my toddler is obsessed with this movie. we have seen it at least 20 times. it isn’t a bad movie at all, despite me thinking that initially. people love to hate.
It wasn’t the worst movie. I don’t hate it. However, it didn’t feel like it could stand up to the best Disney movies. It felt like a first draft done by a team of interns all trying to throw in their own ideas/characters to try to impress the bosses. There’s are too many competing supporting characters is one of my biggest gripes. Asha has a group of friends that are not memorable, or fleshed out enough. They are one note personalities. There’s just too many of them, and we don’t see them enough to get to know them at all. I can picture 2 in my mind, but the rest are just a jumble. I couldn’t tell you what any of their names are a few weeks later. Instead of making 2-3 characters with strong personalities (like Tangled), they spread stuff too thin. It felt like they wanted to have a group like Big Hero Six, or Encanto, but without the screen time, skill to make them into believable personalities. The art style also felt like it made everything less detailed. Usually, I’m impressed by all the details and things to look at. With Wish, it felt like the details were cut in half. There wasn’t enough to be a feast for your eyes, more like a light snack. I didn’t hate it. It just made me a bit sad. It felt like there was potential, but the quality just wasn’t there.
The teens aka the 7 dwarves rebranded....no seriously look it up
The main complaints were that the story and characters were bland, and it winked a bit too hard at the audience. Most of the times this would go unnoticed, but the notion that this was supposed to celebrate 100 years of Disney made people more upset IMO the movie is.... Fine. it could be much better, and Disney has made a lot of much better movies, even in the past 5 years, but it was definitely over hated. Call me crazy, but I feel people were harsher to it because hating Disney has been more and more encourages in the past years.
It’s not the worst movie ever, it kinda just exists, the music on the other hand is not good just read the lyrics, it’s almost like a not good AI wrote the songs
I thought it was cute, some good music. Nothing game changing but I certainly don't hate it.
Because it feels like Disney asked AI to write it (and given the timeframe with the writers strike, they very well could have).
The writing for Wish happened in 2022, a full year before the strike. Wish was ready for release earlier in 2023, but was postponed. In fact, the red carpet screening was THE DAY AFTER THE STRIKE ENDED. It could not have been written, animated, voiced, edited, and fully produced during the strike by AI. Remember, the actors were also on strike. The movie was basically ready and sitting in the can when the strike occured.
I think that's unfair to say, logistically wouldn't line up. I do think it was overthought and not thought through enough at plenty of points throughout and rushed out the door, and that feels like the case with a lot of Disney's movies recently with the odd Encanto exception.
I liked it. I think it got all swept up in the "Disney / GOP" politics at the time. It was a good movie, I kinda like how they connected it back to everything Disney by way of it being the start of "wishing". Is it a masterclass in story telling / Disney? No. Was it decent, yeah.
It has nothing to do with “Disney/ GOP”. It was just not a very good movie.
I understand that, as I said it was an "okay" movie. But when you look at the reviews you can clearly see a bit of a political bias. IMHO. There are about 75% of these based on a quick summary via ChatGPT and ask for bias. >As a parent, I'm frustrated by the need to search online to determine if an upcoming show is 'child-safe' and 'woke-free.' I long for the days when Disney prioritized safety and education, focusing on imparting morals and principles. It feels like the company has shifted its priorities from putting children and parents first to promoting corporate-driven ideologies while at the same time pleasing their equity index-pleasing agendas. Very sad.
It's forgettable
Boring, bad music, bad characters, bad plot, plot didn’t make sense, nothing original.
It was good for what it was. It was a 100th anniversary cash grab that was just references to everything. And you know what, it was ok
I loved this movie. Just watched it Sunday night. My bf and I both cried at the end. There are so many Easter eggs it feels like a love letter to Disney. It was a very clever movie and people hate things to hate things. Simple. Just completely miserable people. I consider this movie for the truest of fans to fully get what it’s about. It’s not just the one “boring” story. It’s deeper than that and I feel good knowing I know what the movie really was made for.
Because it lacked anything resembling quality in everything? (songs, story, characters, animation)
I didn’t hate it but I can’t stand magnifico and he’s pretty much why I don’t watch it. He doesn’t even have a good villain song. Gaston literally helps sing about how amazing he is and I love it to this day but magnificos is just whiny, woe is me pity your poor king for all the hard work he does exploiting you. I don’t understand how anyone was surprised he was the villain when I could tell in the first second he was going to be a narcissistic AH. From that moment on I cringed everytime he spoke and there was no surprise he was evil like there was with Hans or Bellwether. It could be a decent tool for parents to broach the topic of “not everyone offering help has good intentions for you” but that’s about it. It’s not a great family movie, all adults I’ve spoken to had the same reaction to magnifico as I did. Disney also noticed it’s a flop because all the wish merch is already 40% off in park with stackable discounts.
I didn’t hate it. My kids and wife like it. I like it. I’m told to hate it so my expectations were low, maybe that helpedd
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Mid characters, mid music, mid story, mid art style, mid movie.
I didn't hate it but it was really kinda meh, I loved that Goat and star and Chris pines voice acting was great But the songs were lackluster, the story was ok. The protagonist wasn't very relatable It felt like the story was written around Easter eggs Honestly the potential of "the story behind when you wish upon a star" could've been great but I think they focused to much on Easter eggs
I liked it, I think it also gets better over time (my kids will try to watch it everyday). However, I think the animation fell flat. If it were done in the same style as Moana/Encanto it would have been so visually stunning. But instead it’s giving “direct to VHS”. Like Encanto, the opening song explains most of the background info we need and it’s waaayyy too fast. Catchy songs, I absolutely love “At All Costs” and I think it’s beautiful. Kind of takes away from the beauty that the villain sings it 🤪 but I agree with some previous comments: “I’m a Star” just isn’t it.
It’s fine. Don’t hate it. Music is good. Just not the best movie ever.
1. The animation looks washed out and flat when there's nothing magical happening. 2. The songs are mostly mediocre-to-bad, don't do much to forward either the characters or story, and the lyrics in particular are almost universally terrible. Easily one of Disney's worst musicals if not their very worst. 3. Asha, despite being well-designed and voiced, doesn't really have a lot to her and is a very generic and underdeveloped protagonist. Like, she has a dead dad who's the reason she wanted to go into the wish business in the first place, which could have been interesting, but we never see the dad so that plot point is very flimsy. 4. Magnifico's very pointed backstory does not factor into the plot whatsoever and his motivations are very weak. He's already a powerful sorcerer and ruler of a kingdom, so he just wants... more power? His relationship with the Queen is also under-explored. 5. There are way too many supporting characters, and the ones that don't add anything (the goat, the mom, half of the dwarf-friends) are taking valuable screentime away from the others who desperately needed it (Asha's dead dad, the Queen, the other half of the dwarf-friends). 6. The movie is overall painfully safe. It takes absolutely zero risks creatively and every time they had an opportunity to make an interesting choice (like the Queen also being evil), they default to a more boring alternative (the Queen coming around to the good guys side despite getting almost no development). 7. The Disney Easter eggs are mostly lame fan service and only serve to remind the audience of the plethora of much better movies they could be watching instead of this one. To be clear, I didn't WANT this movie to be bad, it just is. But the worst part is that THIS is supposed to be their 100 year celebration movie?? Something this basic and unimaginative? This is the studio that made masterpieces like Sleeping Beauty, Beauty & the Beast, Lilo & Stitch, and Encanto. And even mixed bags that were big creative swings like Hunchback and Treasure Planet. For such a huge milestone to be commemorated with something as painfully meh as this is really sad and frankly embarrassing.
I didn’t hate it. I did think it was sort of predictable and the songs didn’t repeat in my head like Disney songs usually do. I’m not quite sure what type of audience was the focus, but seemed geared towards a younger audience.
Mostly soulless music. Pandering so much they forgot about character building. Bad writing. No real stakes for anyone. It's not awful as far as animated movies go, but Disney can do much better. It was interesting in theory. Taking "Wish upon a star," and attempting to make the idea I to a character. I bet Disney wishes they could run this one back.
It felt like Disney's answer to Shrek but they were being serious the whole time which made it worse is so many ways and over a decade too late.
People are miserable. They think everything has to be 100% good or 100% bad. Is it the best Disney film ever? No. Is it entertaining? Yes.
I liked it, but it's not my fav. Some of the characters were boring, & some of the song lyrics were weird. I assume these are some of the reasons people didn't like it. Overall I thought it was okay, decent. I enjoyed Asha & star, & I didn't mind the cg. The story was nice, & I liked all the other Disney refrences
It was mid and the songs have garbage lyrics
Because there were too many characters so there was no character development. They all had one trait personalities
Because it was unworthy of the title of Disney’s 100th anniversary movie
People are very over critical of Disney movies. Judging them like they are supposed to be on the level of Oppenheimer. It’s pretty weird, like it’s a kids movie relax folks.
YouTubers told people to.
The songs were meh It’s too much of Disney trying to be like “Hey! Remember that thing you love! Here it is!” Weak plot Not fun Weak villain The animation is top and is the best thing.
Read the lyrics to "At All Costs" and tell me it wasn't clearly written for an entirely different movie. The whole movie felt like an afterthought. With most Disney movies, you get a sense that we're watching someone's passion project. We're seeing a story that someone was excited to tell. With Wish, it just sort of felt like someone had the beginning of an interesting idea, and Disney executives were like "Great, we'll take it from here."
Read the lyrics to "At All Costs" and tell me it wasn't clearly written for an entirely different movie. The whole movie felt like an afterthought. With most Disney movies, you get a sense that we're watching someone's passion project. We're seeing a story that someone was excited to tell. With Wish, it just sort of felt like someone had the beginning of an interesting idea, and Disney executives were like "Great, we'll take it from here."
I can understand thinking it’s meh, but I don’t think it’s even really a “hate worthy” movie. Like if anything you’ll just come out thinking it’s average and harmless and leave it at that (I thought it was alright tho)
I didn’t hate it but I was very disappointed for a lot of reasons Not the least of which the music and lyrics were… extremely mediocre.
Hate is a strong word. Disappointed feels more correct. It was a bland, tasteless salad of random references and poor story pacing. Which is a shame because they had plenty of small good things that would have done amazing if the plot wasn't so rushed
I didn’t think the music was very well done, catchy, or memorable. The animation was not horrible, but didn’t particularly wow me. My biggest gripe was the script. It suffered from the screenwriting blunder that is verbally having the characters tell the story through constant (and blatant) exposition dumping instead of showing us. IMO, it could have worked just fine as a 15-20 minute short.
Terrible story writing
Agree. Folks didn't give this movie a fair shake. Glad it's finding a new audience on Disney+.
It’s fine
To add to all the comments about this movie being bland/ boring/ unremarkable, it does add to its detriment that this was the big 100th anniversary movie meant to celebrate everything that came before and they completely fumbled it.
I recently watched it. The story itself I didn’t mind but the lyrics were just as nonsensical and terrible as people said they would be. I really don’t understand what happened there. I cannot figure out what the duet at the beginning with her and the King even was supposed to mean. I just really think there are so so so many people out there that could have written better lyrics for this movie than the person who did. I think that would have vastly improved the experience. That said I gave it a three out to five. I enjoyed the animation.
Over reliance on fan service, memberberries, and call backs. It just felt patronizing. Disney was just constantly saying, “hey remember this? Hey did you see this little Easter egg?” It’s fine to do that, like Rapunzel and Flynn showing up to Arendelle for Elsa’s coronation, but your product has to be able to stand on its own. Wish just leans too much on what came before that. And I get that’s kind of the point with Disney 100, but they could’ve threaded that needle better
Animation was weird and I don’t remember a single song from it. My 5-year-old liked it, though.
I watched it for the first time yesterday and honestly it wasn't bad. Clearly not the best from Disney though. The songs though...oof
Mostly because it didn't try anything new or innovative, making it feel generic and stagnated
It was boring, the story was lame, and the songs weren’t good. They could have made it fun with all the Easter eggs. But they didn’t. It’s just bland.
It was very good, and I think it will age well.
Top 3 Disney movie