Wish (2023)

Top comments

1. 

   ruesailmana

   I really want to like it more than I did. It has the potential to be great and it has a good message, but it felt uninspired and empty. Flat. Like it was the presentation of an idea for a movie that still needed to be fleshed out, instead of a complete and finished movie. 1 week ago
2. 

   crazy_bitch

   The only thing I like is the idea to have

   the normal heroine story arc develop together at the same time with the bad guy origin story

   , but overall terribile and bland movie, and quite an ugly animation style, with very static, painted backgrounds that are a harsh contrast to the 3D characters. To get any joy from that wasted time my wife and I developed the theory that

   the queen orchestrated the whole thing as a power play to ursurp the throne - she seems to be the one to set the protagonist (can't even remember her name) up for the meeting with the king, setting the crucial events at the start in motion, she could easily make the king feel threatened and tempted by the book of 'forbidden magic' (while openly seemingly advising against its use), she joins the rebellion super fast (and more likely made sure those kids would be together to start it), she is the one who brings the one working in the castle's bakery (the second rebellion leader) to the dungeon to study the book (which she seems to know well, using the oil that protects the two of its influence, while still reading the whole of it and learning everything inside), and she's the one to force the conclusion at that time, that the king can't be saved, but is lost to the book's influence forever (they only check the book itself, not any other from the magic library) and the queen embraces the idea of effectively having to kill the king immediately. During the boss fight, she's next to the girl from the bakery in the crowd and protects her, to save her witness/puppet, when the king (a day ago her beloved and admired husband, by the queens words) is imprisoned in the staff's crystal, she is quick to cruelly joke about it, taunt him and order him to be brought to the dungeon, to be out of sight, forgotten and imprisoned for eternity. Then, everyone instantly shouts "Long live the Queen!" and she embraces her role as new sole ruler happily.

   Did that theory make watching the film worthwhile? No, but we had some brief fun mentality 'rewriting history' in order to make this mess make any sense to us. 2 months 2 weeks ago
3. 

   BadFluffy

   How did this even get greenlit? It's so poor on every level. Even the animation was lousy. The script was worse than Frozen 2 and that's saying a lot.
   Inclusion and diversity are long overdue but they cannot be substituted to good writing, art and craft. This is just a lazy lazy cash grab without a soul. 1 month ago

Friends