Wish (2023)

Rated PG for thematic elements and mild action

Runtime: 1 hour and 35 minutes

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Musical, Comedy and Drama

Director: Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn

Writer: Jennifer Lee and Allison Moore

Actors: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Harvey Guillén, Evan Peters, Ramy Youssef and Jon Rudnitsky

Budget: $200,000,000

Box Office: $108,501,559

Feedback: It's an average disney film, but it doesn't seem to be holding up much. It seems that this film didn't have much potential and honesty, yet enough time to make. It doesn't seem an exciting film to make.

The story is a neat idea, but not much advance to what disney to trying to convey. I'm not sure that I could care much about it because they are either rushing too much or not much time left to explain why these wishes are important to the film. That takes the pacing away, which becomes very poor quality to have put into.

The characters might not have enough motivation, except for Asha. She does have good character about her family and friends to save their wishes. King Magnifico look cartoony and doesn't have a reason to be the villain in this movie. I can see that disney villains do have a reason to make their own world and see what is best for these people. For this one, It comes out of nowhere and don't really explain about how he got all of those wishes. The sides characters do get annoying and make jokes that are not that funny.

The animation is not the best quality to look at. I can see that this is a disney film and looks pretty at times, but the colors palette doesn't seem to be appealing to look at. I can see that it does take place in the Mediterranean Sea off the Iberian Peninsula because it probably affects the people who live there. But it does get lost and I don't really have much taste of the art style that they are trying to make it good.

The songs does have decent melodies and harmonies, I can possily listen to these songs all day. However, they don't advance the plot because they come out of nowhere and didn't explain much that they are singing from one song to the next. Why are they important? Why should they be put into place? It gets lost and confusing at times. Even though, the audio compression and music background does raise up the film a bit. It sounds clean and better to hear. The only songs that were fine are At All Cost, The Wish, I'm A Star, This Is The Things I Get?! and The Wish Reprise. The others are recycled.

As a whole, I'm not sure that I found this film appealing to critics and die hard disney fans, but it could be fine for younger audiences. If you really want to be more advance, skip this film if you want to.

Overall Verdict:

Story 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (5)

Character/Dialogue 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (5)

Animation/Colors 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (5)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (1.5)

Background/Sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 (2.5)

Music/Audio 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3)

Camera/Editing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3)

26.5/50 5.0/10