It seems kind of insane that it's Disney's 100th year, and they didn't celebrate with a big budget Mickey Mouse movie.

@filipzoric6881

7 ай бұрын

The new Mickey Mouse shorts are an excellent template they could have adapted to the big screen. Baffling decision not to do something with Mickey.

@johnnyskinwalker4095

7 ай бұрын

Disney is simply not Disney anymore. They don't care about their history.

@Ductos

7 ай бұрын

Especially since the first version of the character drops into Public Domain next month.

@SunGodNika-bi2jr

6 ай бұрын

Hopefully we get one in 2028

That box office catch-up video is gonna hit like cocaine

@garrettcarter5622

7 ай бұрын

The Marvels' massive drop, Hunger Games's surprising legs, Wish opening like Black Cauldron, Godzilla: Minus Zero's triumphant roar.

@TheEliFamily

7 ай бұрын

@@garrettcarter5622- Godzilla is the standout at $15 million to make…

@Nicholasmcmath-cr1xl

7 ай бұрын

Same

@christianstenger7280

7 ай бұрын

I can't wait too

@aiwash2766

7 ай бұрын

Brother I’m getting my popcorn ready, it’s gonna be like an hour and a half

Your pitches reminded me of Pixar’s history in a nutshell: “What is toys had feelings?” “What if bugs had feelings?” “What if fish had feelings?” “What if cars had feelings?” “What if feelings had feelings?”

@pattheplanter

7 ай бұрын

Their best one was “What if old people had feelings?”

@choreomaniac

7 ай бұрын

@@pattheplanter also, “Can Pixar make you weep uncontrollable tears in the fist 10 minutes of a movie with mostly music and no dialogue?” Yes. Damn you, Up! Always onion-cutting happening at the start of that movie.

@Bjork4s

7 ай бұрын

And yet there was an R Rated animated movie that's basically parodying Disney and Pixar called "Sausage Party" from Seth Rogen and his friends with the concept is "What if foods and drinks had feelings?" 😂

I feel like this movie had so much more potential that the writers didn't even know it had

@jfess1911

7 ай бұрын

Maybe so, but I don't see how the concept of "losing lifelong dreams" will resonate with children who have not yet gotten to that point in their lives. That pretty much comes under the heading of "grownup stuff".

@carter_lovejoy

7 ай бұрын

Once Upon a Studio (the short film that first aired on Disney+ and ABC and then later shown in theaters with this film) did a much better commemorative celebration of the studio’s 100th anniversary in just 9 minutes than what this movie did in 95 minutes. It was simple and sweet, that’s all they should’ve done and saved the budget for this film on better material/projects.

@leftjab6145

7 ай бұрын

@@Abraham-xi9ephow do you know that lol it could be the writers or both

@ta21l

7 ай бұрын

@@jfess1911Yeah but children don’t experience romance or dating but enjoyed all those Disney princess movies and Elemental. Same for Puss In Boots with the wish dilemma. During my screening, kids in the theater enjoyed Wish. I didn’t care for the movie but a lot of kids were in aww of it. So I guess there was something there but the creatives didn’t know how to utilize it.

The fact that people actually FORGOT this film was even out really says a lot about Disney’s current state.

@citizenstile

7 ай бұрын

Memory-manipulating magic tyrants hate this movie!

Wish is the perfect example of targeting only one type of audience. As a wise man once said, “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” -C.S. Lewis

@selinapersaud7629

7 ай бұрын

I know of another author who had that mentality.

I think Disney needs to take a year off with everything. People are so overwhelmed by the amount of mediocre content thats been coming out that they really need to take a step back and reassess. I feel like ive been going through Disney fatigue for a few years now and this year didn't help. People are more conscious of their money and don't want to waste time or money on sub-par content.

@hassansulaiman3848

7 ай бұрын

Yeah they really do need a break

@MasticinaAkicta

7 ай бұрын

Fun you say that, their list up coming movies is rather dry. Expect less Disney movies to come out, or marvel movies, at least for a while.

Disney should have done a Roger Rabbit. You can have all animated and real life movies smashed together in a magic kingdom and have a good and fun story that stands on it's own.

Dan, you're popular enough now to attract the crypto bots simulating conversations instead of just spamming telegram phishing links. You've hit the big leagues, dude.

Jennifer Lee's poor scriptwriting strikes again. But this time, she doesn't have a billion dollars to back it up.

The recent Disney movies seem lacking something authentic. Sort of paint by numbers scripts that check boxes, designed by committee. Over reliance on subverting expectations. Turning left instead of right is not an original story.

The idea of making the king thinking is a good person because he is protecting the realm from dangerous wishes but in reality he has become a dictator could have been great. But it's modern Disney: let's avoid to challenge too much the audience.

@mgormley7530

7 ай бұрын

there was room there for them to say that just granting EVERY wish wasn't a good idea. it would be chaos. or what people thought they wanted didn't make them happy. but nope.

@valerierae76

4 ай бұрын

@@mgormley7530plus the ending didn’t include a good message. “Just keep wishing” with how the conflict got resolved just sounds like them saying “just keep making promises and ideas of what you want but don’t put any of the work into it to make it come true.”

The only things for disney's 100th anniversary I genuinely loved are Steamboat Silly and Once Upon A Studio, at least the shorts department is doing good creative-wise this year

The fact Trolls Band together came out 1 week before Wish, but still made more this weekend, as well as costing $100m less to make shows how bad Wish is doing at the box office. Trolls could end up with a box office total double of Wish when it is all said and done

I agree the 100th year movie should have been a movie starring all the Princesses from Ralph 2 or BETTER yet give us a Mickey Mouse movie

Disney has just completely forgotten about the saying *”quality over quantity.”* Did you know that the writers at Disney were once given 6 whole months to write out a story? Why have film companies just completely forgotten about that it doesn’t matter how long it takes to make film, all that matters is that the film turns out good! If a movie is good, it’s likely that people are gonna watch it! Many people today don’t care as much anymore about deadlines, THEY JUST WANNA SEE A GOOD MOVIE!! Plus it gets people all the more hyped up when the movie does eventually come out! The only way Disney can save themselves now is if they just stop, take a step back, and reevaluate everything and start fresh. Because what they’ve been doing is getting exhausting to watch.

Another excellent review, Dan. It's too bad Disney couldn't pull this one off. I thought it had some promise when I first heard about it, but the gap between idea and execution seems to have been too vast.

The most useless protagonist in a while. Also, every disney animated lead lady has had the same personality since Tangled.

Reality is without Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar - Disney would've been in trouble a while ago. I wish they would go back to basics - 2D animation and good stories like their last renaissance in the late 80s/early 90s.

@nancykerrigan

7 ай бұрын

I'm cool with either type of animation. Just care about engaging story and music.

@aliali-ce3yf

7 ай бұрын

@@nancykerriganit would've been a nice touch for their 100th birthday to go back to 2D animation

@ieatgremlins

7 ай бұрын

I keep hearing they're in trouble but they had a huge hit in 2021 with Encanto, a movie I despised.

A princess film where all of them team up to stop their villains and save their princes, while singing some of their iconic songs. How do they meet up when they are from different time periods? I honestly don’t know yet.

It’s disappointing that this is supposed to be the big 100th anniversary celebration of Disney.

It’s so frustrating that Disney refuses any chance to be creative. They own so many IPs, with access to infinite possibilities, and the means to produce them , yet they think the audience memebers are all dummies who want to eat the same slop again and again.

they should've done a Fantasia 3, cool animated cuts

Everything about this movie just felt so stock. Characters, story, songs, etc. Nothing new or different. Just the same beats and tropes we’ve seen a million times already. It’s like they were told to make a fairy tale film, this was the first draft, and it never got refined or had the kinks worked out later.

@jacklewis5308

7 ай бұрын

That’s been Disney for the past couple of years.

@robpagenkopf5829

7 ай бұрын

I simply don’t agree with that. I thought Encanto did a great job taking your basic Disney character types and giving them a fresh spin and new depth. I’m also a fan of Raya, which has your typical, “Main character learns to trusts people again,” trope and still tell a story I found compelling. But, to each their own.

@carter_lovejoy

7 ай бұрын

The combination of Disney’s classic traditional animation and their modern CG animation just doesn’t look good and looks VERY half baked. I guess they wanted to do what Spider-Verse 1&2 and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish did with their animations but it doesn’t have the charm and artistic appeal as what those movies had. Plus, the budgets for those films were lower than what this movie had and having big budgets doesn’t always mean it’ll look better than films that cost less or even have little to no budget for that matter.

@motherplayer

7 ай бұрын

@@carter_lovejoy Feels like they wanted to, yet didn't make the push to actually make it stand out for the sake of safeness, which Disney has been too concerned with as of late. It's hurting their products from really standing out and even owning so much is not helping them.

I think you really nailed down what is wrong with current Disney. They used to take really "simple" ideas/issues and dig in and show the complexity behind them and the social messaging would reflect that. Now they take really complex issues and simplify the social messaging as this bad, that good, you wrong, they right.

Glad you did this one, I was curious to hear your perspective. Waiting for Disney to return to good storytelling glory which seems still to be far away

I will say, the song “Knowing What We Know Now” was definitely the stand out from the movie. The rest were kind of forgettable.

The ultimate symbol of this movie is when the Villian toward says "mirror mirror on the wall who is the most handsome of all". Which is a Sherk reference not a Snow White. Because The line in Snow White is "Magic Mirror on the wall." Mirror Mirror comes from Sherk making fun of Disney, it is a whole Mandela effect Sherk was popular in the 2000s and Snow white was not .But the main reason I bring it up is this Displays the lack of care put into this movie. Ashia and her Friends are underdeveloped, and The villains ping pong between Complex and sympathetic and one-note and cruel, The songs are paced terribly in the movie and they do not really work as Musical numbers they are fine songs but they are really weak at telling the story. Lastly the art style looks wrong in motion.

They didn't just focus on movies for their 100th anniversary. They also focused on a lot of merchandise! I think they released their card game, they had a rerelease of a bunch of Hot Wheels cars with the Disney 100 branding, a bunch of LEGO sets with the branding, dolls, ...tons of stuff. I don't know how well that stuff is selling. But the card game was sold out the last I checked.

@ricktr6861

7 ай бұрын

Star= Over-priced plush and McDonald's Happy Meal toy.

Congratulations on getting married!

Hmm, maybe Magnifiko is evil and steals wishes from the towns people, but grants only the worst ones to control them and stop them from pursuing their dreams. Asha is a wish that escapes and is granted by a shooting star. As the movie goes, Asha realizes she’s a wish and will disappear once she sets things right. She does and poof, goes away, but returns as “ inspiration” a force that pushes every person to grant their own wishes. She ascends to we’re the shooting star came from and is a Queen with a castle and a beautiful gown.

What's genuinely striking to me is the SHEER BLANDNESS and obvious derivative-ness of character design, and the unexciting color palette. The 2 leads just feel to me like Bland, Boring, Uninteresting Moana and Aladdin's Dad. From the first time I saw the trailer, the whole thing reeked like it's the Pink Slime of disney movies.

@helvete_ingres4717

7 ай бұрын

the one thing that made me want to see it was the moorish/spanish aesthetic

I can't wait for charts 😭

@choreomaniac

7 ай бұрын

Yes. He was absent for not one but two Disney bombs.

I went in really wanting to love the movie, and while it certainly had redeeming quality the songs and story were really the most generic I’ve seen in a while

Thank you! You really hit the nail on the head of exactly what I was thinking the main issue was, but haven't seen much discussion about. This film has no identity. The core issue isn't too much "adorkable" girls, bad music or bad animation, it's that Asha has no real unique trait to herself. Even bad music or animation can at least generate interest if there's a clear identity and goal behind it, but this film had...nothing. No elevator pitch, no real identity to grab you. Edit: Heck, the story is so confused, everybody got the complete wrong idea about what the plot was going to be from the trailer - even a full darn trailer couldn't summarize what the story of the movie was. That's...REALLY sad.

Disney needs people who want to make great stories (like Puss in Buts 2, speaking of wishes) and not products, like they are making lately

Disney's efforts to try to have their cake and eat it too is hurting a lot of their creativity. They want to have the marketable princesses and song numbers and safe designs and ideas but they don't really want to push out too far. Getting cold feet on ideas like a villainous couple instead of a king or the star becoming a humanoid and starting a romance is quite sad to know they didn't go all out on their reputation.

@ricktr6861

7 ай бұрын

Diversity hires= bad output

Damn the way you're telling it, it seems like a sequel to Wonder Woman 1984 with the same amount of messy confusion.

Soul was such a deep movie i saw it with my nieces and nephews ...they were enjoying the animation i was moved by the deep message

Dan Murrell. When you get around to covering the past couple weeks of Box Office, I hope you address that Disney publicly stated today that they are no longer reporting daily grosses for The Marvels after it fell out of the Top 10. So, The Marvels' box office gross worldwide will finish officially then at just under $200M worldwide, and just over $80M domestically. I look forward to your take on this, Dan.

So weird that it’s doesn’t have the modern cliches of family trama and plot twist good/bad guy...which this movie needed? I thought we’d hear about how they lost a child, or how Asha was Magnifco’s daughter or that the Queen was secretly evil. The Disney Easter Eggs were full blown Rabbits - no attempt at subtlety. The ending was a completely miss for me.

Took me 4 and 8 year old to see it. Both really enjoyed it and like the soundtrack after the movie, so your mileage will vary. I also really enjoyed this movie and the references in it

Jennifer Lee and Alfred Molina are my current favorite "Really? Sure, why not!" entertainment couple.

First song is trying so hard to be The Family Madrigal and the rest sound like they’re from My Little Pony. None of them are bad, but they are pretty forgettable.

Hey Dan, what are your thoughts on your alma mater, Florida State, getting left out of the College Football Playoff despite going undefeated? I demand a Dan Rant on the CFP Selection Committee and their pro-SEC bias!

@DanMurrellMovies

7 ай бұрын

Don't get me started. It makes me want to start a sports channel just to talk about it.

@benabramowitz18

7 ай бұрын

@@DanMurrellMovies You definitely should!

@bwhopper4229

7 ай бұрын

@@DanMurrellMovies please do it 😂 I’ve always loved that your content is just “whatever I want”

Boring, complicated premise and a clumsy execution. What happened Disney?

Keep the videos coming Dan! We are HUNGRY for them! :)

I can't wait for the next charts Dan, more than ever!

I took my daughter to see it last week and felt exactly the same. Bland, forgettable songs, poor character development (particularly with the supporting characters). There's a disappointing lack of Disney magic here for sure.

Ha ha! I thought the terrible box offices of the marvels and wish had finally broken you, lol. I kept checking for charts with Dan, but nothing.... congrats on getting married!

Just watch The Holdovers already Dan!

I love that I can look at the thumbnail and know that I’m in for a TIME with your reviews LOL

The songs in this movie are a mess. They show all of Julia Michaels' worst tendencies, namely, over-complicating simple rhythms, and jamming too many lyrics in one line. The main song is the worst offender. It's nearly impossible to sing along with. It makes the end of the movie seem bonkers when everyone is singing this weird, clunky song in unison. The fact that these songs were greenlit is the biggest problem. Why did Disney hire Michaels and Rice for this? They need musical writers. Why did they not reach out to Pasek and Paul, or Anaïs Mitchell?

Disney animation has been so hit and miss these last 5 years or so. I think Pixar has done better than people give them credit for. Soul was a masterpiece imo and Luca was great. Elemental was good as well.

The biggest issue with Wish was the terrible Art Style. Nobody wanted to see a movie that looks worse than most noble game ads

The music probably appeals to fans if contemporary pop who don’t pay attention to lyrics. But for the rest of us it’s mostly garbage. Far too many lines stressed in the wrong syllable. Too many words jammed into a line. Sequences that serve little function in the film.

I think one of the big causes for Disney's current woes, aside from the insane budgets, comes down to complacency. They were on beating everyone one of their competitors pants off in all departments a few years ago, and it went to their head. They just assumed they could keep doing the same thing a people would just continue to throw money at them. We see the same thing happen a lot in the video game industry, where one console will dominate a console cycle, so they think that they can just do whatever they want and people will have to swallow it cuz they are #1. Like what are you gonna do, not buy their new product? And then when it turns out the answer is yes, they end up scrambling to try salvage something. Happed to Nintendo in the Wii U gen, And Sony w/ PS3, and Microsoft w/ the XBOne. And I think something similar is happening to Disney right now.

I''m starting to experience withdrawals in the absence of Charts with Dan. A great wave of relief swept over me when you mentioned when it was coming.

Please don't burn yourself out, Dan. We'll wait for your content.

@thomasstump2485

7 ай бұрын

Thanks mom

@DanMurrellMovies

7 ай бұрын

Appreciate the concern but I know my limits and I also have to maintain a living, especially after being gone for a while.

@jfess1911

7 ай бұрын

@@thomasstump2485 Just know that you are replying someone who has been disabled since 2005 for pushing just a little too hard one day.

@thomasstump2485

7 ай бұрын

@@jfess1911 virtue signaling at it's finest. Guilt tripping on disabilities. America has become such a sad place.

@jfess1911

7 ай бұрын

​@@thomasstump2485 Simply explaining that there is a reason I worry about others pushing too hard. I had an unfortunate experience. I do not consider concern for others to be a bad thing. Good luck to you, though. Seriously.

Is that the same plot as Wonder Woman 1984?

Thanks for the video Dan!

Im sorry Dan but i disagree. Wish is easy to unserstand becausw Wish us Disney lmao 🤣 They collect the movies we want and only gives out movies and shows they want to give knowing we wont get our wish. It perfectlt described Disney lol 😆 jk

The idea that everyone has a "greatest wish" and no other worries is the kind of bogus Disney schmaltz that might work for young kids but not (unlike many of their classic films) for adults. Add in the complications and you have a story centred on a rulebook of abstractions that has no relationship to the audience's reality.

I’m hoping it will be an adult classic like Robin Hood or The Sword and the Stone. I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s giving that vibe .

I truly agree with you. Asking my daughter her rating and it was 2 out of 10. It wasn’t all that great.

While I agree _in general_ with the idea of the best movies having the simplest pitches, I will throw a few objections to that: "A greedy egotistical prince is magically turned into a llama by his evil advisor and carted off to a rural peasant village. Through his journey back to the castle to restore his literal humanity ends up finding his figurative humanity." "A young maiden is harassed by her stepmother and stepsisters. Against their wishes, she attends a ball where she meets the prince and falls in love, but is forced to leave early due to the limitations of her fairy godmother's magic. The prince uses the glass slipper that she dropped while running away to find her among all the maidens in the land." "A circus elephant has a birth defect that causes his ears to be abnormally large. Nobody except a cunning mouse believes in him until he is miraculously able to fly by using those large ears as wings." I can summarize Wish in about the same length: "A king has the magic power to collect and grant wishes, and believes he alone should choose whose wishes gets granted and whose wishes should be locked away. Our heroine believes wishes should be free to be pursued."

I gotta say, this is the first disney (as in walt disney animation studio) movie in a while i both heard of before release and didn’t already think it was gonna be awful

This soulless, unimaginative garbage is the perfect movie to “celebrate “ Disney’s 100 years and how creatively bankrupt they have become.

Honeymoon wow , Congratulations! And wonderful review

Listening you break down movies into elevator pitches and themes is the stuff I, an aspiring writer, wish I could just casually and coherently do.

Disney are all about diversity and representation today. Why haven't they done an adaption of an African tale for their 100th anniversary? The continent has such a rich tradition of folklore of so many cultures. I would assume that there are good stories to adapt for animation.

@strawberrylime33

7 ай бұрын

It's not genuine

I can't believe that this Valentino quote sums up this movie Valentino: "It didn't work... When does ithe magic happen?" Me: it never did

I've cleared my (viewing) schedule for tomorrow - can't wait for Charts!

I honestly loved this movie, but I knew a percentage wouldn’t love how familiar it is to what’s come before.

7:21 Technically, that animated crossover was that six minute short they released on Disney+

The plot of the first Mission Impossible sounds like a children's cartoon in comparison to this one's plot.

I see Dan's point on less is more. To quote Leonardo da Vinci, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

My son is old enough now to see trailers for movies and beg us to take him. He was really excited about a few movies this year, and Wish was one of them. I dutifully took my son to watch Paw Patrol earlier so my husband took him to see Wish. What I find hilarious is that it's likely that Paw Patrol will make more money domestically than Wish!

Wish was kinda meh, I feel the same way about it that I do with the first Frozen, it could have been a 30-45 minute special.

I personally really liked it. But I also had the driving enthusiasm of my 5yro daughter who hasn't stop gushing about it for the last week and a half (as well as making us play the soundtrack every day on Alexa). I found the movie cute, simple, streamlined, with just enough to keep me entertained. It didn't change my life, but I definitely liked it. The music was mostly great. What I Know Now and Welcome to Rosas are both BANGERS for me, and the This Wish marquee song seems to stick REALLY well. I'm a Star was just OK; felt very broadway-ey. I wasn't a big fan, but my daughter LOVED it. This is the Thanks I Get was also just OK. Sounds over-processed, and would have rather had a more foreboding theme (though, I like the juxtaposition of this upbeat cheery villain song and the darker What I Know Now). At All Cost was beautiful to listen to, but not something I'd actively seek out to listen to otherwise. Story seemed fine. Nothing groundbreaking, nothing overtly moving, but competent enough to understand Asha's motivations, have a few age-appropriate twists and turns, and follow a classic Disney Villain trope. Without getting into spoilers, I did like how they dealt with the idea of wishes and the freedom vs safety argument, as well as the empathy driving Asha plans to undermine the King. Would I care about this movie if I didn't have kids? Honestly, probably not. But having seen it, and been able to experience through the eyes of a child, I look for things which can bring me joy, rather than look for things that upset or frustrate me. And a lot of this movie brought joy. If you have a little girl, she's probably going to love this movie. And her joy will help you see the things she loves as something you end up loving too.

@nallainductions

7 ай бұрын

Your daughter talking about the movie and playing the songs on loop is one of the reasons why I think kids will really like this. This is an original movie that they can make a classic. If I had a kid from 4-6 I would want to take them to this movie because it's movie for them and not a sequel to a franchise that started before they were even born.

A family I waited on tonight had just saw this movie. I asked how it was. The young kid goes "I *wish* I hadn't gone."

Saw this in theaters opening weekend with my 6 year old son. Easily one of the worst Disney animated films I can ever remember seeing.

@josephserenson166

7 ай бұрын

How did your son enjoy it? My 7 year old daughter is really hyped to see this and I been dragging my feet becuase of the bad reviews I have been seeing about this and don't want to take her and torture myself if she going to end up not liking it lol

@lexielynn03

7 ай бұрын

I found it to be boring, but my kid loved it. So, yours probably will too

@ta21l

7 ай бұрын

Strange World was bad. I didn’t like Wish but it wasn’t as bad as Strange World.

@SnapquesterMage

7 ай бұрын

I genuinely can't even begin to imagine actually thinking this. Maybe it's because you have a son and not a daughter, and it's more of a "girly" movie? My 5 year old daughter couldn't get enough and is now obsessed with Wish.

@pesky716

7 ай бұрын

@@SnapquesterMage this has nothing to do with the gender of the target audience. I’m 41, and seen every era of Disney animation from the past to the present. This is unquestionably one of the worst animated films Disney has ever produced.

They really need to get rid of most of the Disney writers imo

The issue with Elementals is that if it's a success on streaming, it gives them zero money.

@johnnyskinwalker4095

7 ай бұрын

@@ChienaAvtzon Yea but these guys are in the business of making a LOT of money, not making no money. Imagine spending hundreds of million to break even. Might as well close shop. It's like when they said that Eternals and Shang Chi were successes but they made as much as they spent! Disney has been mismanaged for such a long time.

With Box Office Dan is going to be like the kid who does all their homework on the last day of vacation

No sympathy for Disney at all, since they pulled physical media releases in Australia, and then almost immediately announced the line-up of Disney+ releases on physical media in the northern hemisphere

Maybe it was only ever meant to last 100 years.

@johnr9528

7 ай бұрын

Don't say it; my sister will be in recovery for years if Disney goes away.

I really tried to like Elemental, but it was just so uninspired and derivative of Zootopia. I actually did like Strange World, but definitely understand why folks didn't. Many of the most recent Pixar/Disney films feel super preachy and convoluted.

@thegamesninja3119

7 ай бұрын

I wish they combined Lightyear with Strange World and produced a stronger combined film.

@rileymcphee9429

7 ай бұрын

@thegamesninja3119 I disagree with that. I really think Lightyear will be seen as a masterpiece in the future.

@thegamesninja3119

7 ай бұрын

@rileymcphee9429 I disagree over reconning thst was done. For one thing Andy would have had Sox. I personally think this entire Disney era is going to be blurred together as forgettable. Lightyear may be seen as underrated but I seriously doubt it will develop a cult following, let along universally seen as a classic or Masterpiece. It is not the movie Andy saw for one thing.

Wish was like when you write an essay the night that its due and you just bs it

Film Threat discusses info from people who worked on and around Wish and apparently it is a sad parody of the original idea. When will Disney just get back to telling good stories. 😢

Disney should have made a film version of Kingdom Hearts for their 100th birthday celebration. Think of all the crossovers...

Well, that puts a damper on my hopes for the movie. The trailer seemed so inviting. I will watch it and hope, Dan, that contrary to all my experience with your reviews, that you are wrong... Thanks as always #DanMovieReview!

Disney going "meta" just can't work for an entire movie! A Princess team up movie would be great!

I thought it was fine, I've called it easter egg: the movie and I feel like it was geared more towards Disney adults than actual children and I have issues with some character development. Fun, but certainly not a home run.

Congrats on the Honeymoon!

Budget is one problem that doesn't matter if they actually create quality product that people will therefore pay to see. They're making absolute garbage.

Not that I am on everyone's notification list, but I did not know about this movie until a few days before its release. Why so many Disney failures? Hypothesis: unrealistic profit margins (due to huge film budgets) and forgetting that its primary product is creativity. Someone chose this film's title, "Wish". Corporate irony or a desire? Maybe Disney's next film should be called, "Wake Up" or perhaps "Read The Room". I hope Disney course corrects more than raising their streaming, park and merch prices to make up for their deficit...that is MY wish.

Hey, are you reviewing Beyoncé's Renaissance film? I've been so curious about your thoughts on this film since I saw how much you liked the Eras Tour movie

I was excited to take my son since there are not many options right now, but everything that you said was echoed by several friends of mine with kids. What a bummer:(

Outside of doing a documentary focused on 100 years of Disney, even if it is meta, how can put out anything beyond serviceable under a mandate from management? Make a prototypical Disney film will produce something bland and prototypical, combined with too high expectations due to the anniversary.