Wish

MOVIE #1,332 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 01.30.24 Of the eight-pack of kids movies coming at ya today and tomorrow, six of them I saw in the theater. Welcome to the parenting experience: where once I would see upwards of five or six adult pictures a month, now 80+% of my limited cinema-going experience is childrens stuff. But I digress… By far the most pleasant surprise in 2023 was Wish, though. A throwback of sorts to the classic Disney animated era/style (it’s digital but made to look this way, which… whatever), this one was slow to get going but really hooked me in by the start of the second act. A fairytale musical by the Frozen team, this ended up as pretty much a critical and financial dud (reviews were mixed and it barely made back its budget). But there are some catchy tunes and Chris Pine as the villain is an excellent character/voice performance. The details largely escape me at the moment but I feel like this one will have legs when it hits Disney+. 8/10

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Wish is a 2023 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It was directed by Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Allison Moore, based on a story conceived by Lee, Buck, Veerasunthorn, and Moore, and produced by Peter Del Vecho and Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster-Jones, with Lee and Don Hall serving as executive producers. The art style combines computer animation with the look of traditional animation. The film stars the voices of Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Harvey Guillén, Evan Peters, Ramy Youssef, and Jon Rudnitsky. The story focuses on a 17-year-old girl named Asha (DeBose) in the Kingdom of Rosas, who makes a passionate plea to the stars in a moment of need, leading her to meet a living, magic star which has fallen from the sky, and together they face up to Rosas' evil ruler Magnifico (Pine). It was released on November 8, 2023.