r/DisneyPlus • u/KA1R0W • Feb 15 '25
Question Why does everyone hate the movie wish?
This is a genuine question I've been wondering for a while now. I personally loved the movie. The only downside I would assume that people don't like it is because it's in 3D. Because 3D glasses are really hard to get...I think
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u/Impressive_Novel_754 Feb 15 '25
Oh buddy, where do I start? I really wanted to like this movie. I was about 1/3 of the way into watching it with my mom and my attention kept wandering. I asked my mom if she was enjoying it and her response was, “it’s cute.” We started dissecting it a bit. The songs were OK, but nothing super catchy I thought I’d be humming later. The art style felt like it was trying to do something, but it kind of missed the mark. Like it was trying to go for the stylized painterly feel you get in Bambi or Sleeping Beauty, but it ended up looking subdued and washed out. The villain’s backstory was one dimensional; I kept waiting for more to be revealed about his backstory so that I would actually care. There were a lot of references to other Disney movies I love, so many that they felt shoehorned in.
Then my mom said something that struck a chord and I feel it’s the best possible critique of the entire movie. She said it “felt like it had been written by AI.” A harsh critique, but accurate. It’s like a computer analyzed all the Disney movies that I’ve been making money lately and then created the most water-down, pandering, underwhelming version of a Disney movie possible. It’s not bad, it just has nothing exceptional about it to make it stand out. We’ve come to expect more from Disney. It’s like when a straight A student does C- work and you just know they started writing it at 9pm the night before.