#wish animated movie

[artist-issues]

okay while I’m on the subject of “Wish” the only thing that really interests me in this movie is the Wishing Star. There’s a literal little Star character in this movie.

The problem is, this looks too familiar, and all the promotional material and pop culture reporters are saying that Wish tells the origin stories of The Wishing Star. As in, “When You Wish Upon A.”

And they’re telling me it looks like THIS:

No. I do not accept that. This little critter is cute but the Wishing Star already has a beautiful personification, who comes down and grants the wishes of innocent hearts. You know who I’m talking about:

i’m kidding

I meant the Blue Fairy.

Or Evangeline, if you love The Princess and the Frog and want to believe. I’m not actually mad about this, really. Because it doesn’t mean that this little Star character in Wish is the wishing Star, the Blue Fairy, Evangeline, from the other Disney movies. It looks like from the trailers that there are lots of wishes—and obviously, lots of stars in the night sky. This little yellow thing could be one of many. He actually looks a lot like this Snow White concept art:

Where the stars are like little cupids or cherubs. So maybe he’s like… the Naughty One. And sure, that’s cliche or boring or typical or whatever, and sure, I wish Disney would go back to taking their stories seriously for the right reasons…but at least I don’t have to worry that the little Luma-lookalike is supposed to be The Blue Fairy or Evangeline as a baby, or something. I can…scratch that off my list of disappointments, probably.

[samsdisneydiary]

’Wish’ Shines Bright Across Disney Parks and Beyond with New Experiences, Merch

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Wish” is an all-new musical-comedy now playing in theaters and today we’re sharing a special look at the many experiences and must-have items at our parks and beyond! If you haven’t heard, “Wish” welcomes you to the magical kingdom of Rosas, where Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of…

[rosered-schneeweisschens-sis]

i never knew there were men in the room for this, “that was tough” oh man they were not prepared XD

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Early visual development for Wish (2023) by Griselda Sastrawinata-Lemay and Brittney Lee.

An earlier version of the film saw Star take on a human form as a magical, glowing character inspired by Peter Pan. Ultimately, the creative team reconceptualized Star as an ethereal, playful entity resembling Mickey Mouse. "Now Star and Asha have an emotional journey. They are soulmates." -Allison Moore.

[animentality]

[valentimmy]

💀

[laurenillustrated]

I love this movie so much

[notes28]

The fearless hero + 💀

[nevermelting]

Fellas, if something is truly inspiring, it is:

Hayao Miyazaki made an uncompromisingly personal, artsy movie that no one was supposed to get because it's too personal, too dark, too 'exotic' or whatever. And it actually became immensely successful and popular despite it (because of it???) And Disney made the safest, most backbone-less, most non-combative and soy and politically correct and soft and crowd-pleasing 'Wish' and it failed!!! It fucking failed, my friends! A historical moment! Should we finally throw away all those Hollywood seminars and workshops that try to sell us 'how to make the universally loved stories Disney style'???

There is nothing universal about any movie.

And the world is finally hungry for something different.

[lilybug-02]

Dewi has made a new bug friend! What will he do next?! Who knows!

Bug Fact: Surprisingly, scorpions can actually break glass if they put enough force behind their strikes.

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[cherushiina]

morning jam sesh

[spellbird]

"Illumination Legend of Zelda isn't real, it can't hurt you!"

Illumination Link:

[gebo4482]

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Artist: Joseph Feinsilver / Luca Pisanu / Naveen Selvanathan

[spiderman-into-the-sapphiverse]

I find it so refreshing that we are in this rare stage in western animation where disney is actually not monopolizing all the attention. If anything, 2022 has been one of their worse years yet in the animation department. Everything they have done has been completely eclipsed by other studios for once. Their Pinocchio "movie" was just obliterated by Guillermo del Toro's version. Strange World was completely forgotten because of poor marketing choices, allowing Dreamworks to come back with the Bad Guys and Puss in Boots, the first being very good and the second absolutely excellent (I'm being serious, this movie is SO MUCH MORE than a simple Shrek spin-off).

TMNT even got its time to shine with probably the best 2D animated film this year (in a technical aspect at least), rekindling an interest for the entire franchise (with another TMNT movie by Seth Rogen in production!!)

The Sea Beast was amazing. Wendell & Wild was a masterclass. 2022 has just been excellent throughout, and it's Disney that happens to be the weakest at the moment. Even the Minions 2 got more attention than most things that came out on Disney + Animation this year (not saying that the movie was great or anything, but it's saying a lot)

And when we look at the next Pixar movie coming out next year, the hype pales in comparison to the Mario movie, and let's not even TALK about Across the Spiderverse......everybody knows it's going to snatch everyone's wig, and all the awards under the sun to match it.

So yeah, western animation gets to breathe a little, and it feels amazing.

[cupidsatdawn]

Behold the revival of good animation movies