The Song in Wish No One's Talking About

Could you imagine if the characters all sang the full version of this song during the final battle instead of a reprise of This Wish? Having Sabino finally play the song and inspiring everyone to collectively join in and fight back against Magnifico. That would've been such an amazing payoff.

You know it's sad when the unfinished animation of a deleted scene is better than 99.9% of shots in the actual film.

So basically this song is like Biggering; a song that wouldn't have fixed everything but would have helped the story

The stupid reasons: The song is too sad, the kids will cry The movie is too long, the kids will get bored The grandfather is a secondary character so he can only sing one song and he's already going to sing: "When You Wish Upon a Star", so scrap this one

from the cutting of this scene, to all the scrapped concepts, it makes the final product all the more disappointing and empty when compared to all we could've had for what was supposed to be a film celebrating 100 years of disney animation.. with films like encanto and even once upon a studio, i still have hope that the creativity that made disney animation so magical and cemented it's legacy is there somewhere and not completely lost, even if executives, ceos & all those soulless corporate assholes make us believe otherwise.

Gramps looks pretty good for a 100 year old, I thought he'd have much more wrinkles.

3:49 Since Sabino was 100 when Asha was 17, he already would've been elderly when she was born, at about 83 years old - so it makes sense he would've been old when giving his wish away. But it could've taken Magnifico a while to collect all the adults wishes, so its plausible that Sabino might not have given his wish to Magnifico right after he became king, cos Magnifico looks at least 50.

Imagine if this movie was about the three wishes the genie can’t grant. Making someone fall in love with you, wishing for someone to come back from the dead ( cough cough Aisha’s father) or to even kill someone. Aisha would wish her dad back not knowing the consequences, and magnifico could’ve used his power to make the Queen fall in love with him, with the latter being either Magnifico wishing Aisha dead or her dad 🧑 if she succeeded.

The suits made them cut it, eh? I was part of a focus group who watched the movie a year before it came out and you’re correct where it is placed in the movie . We told the moderator that we were confused if he was already able to play guitar (or lute) before he gave up his wish 80 years ago or it also seemed like he was magically granted his wish to play once he got his wish back. It wasn't very clear and I assumed that's why they cut it.

It says a lot that this is the song the songwriter chose to cover, herself. It must’ve been her favorite too.

The more I learn about all of the great ideas like this that were cut from the film the more disappointed I get in how it ultimately turned out. It's like the corporation went out of its way to make the movie as bland and lifeless as possible, removing anything that could've provided audiences with even a shred of genuine emotion or feeling. Quite the way to celebrate your centennial, hope you're proud Disney.

6:34 Yeah, I was confused why there wasn’t some scribe writing down all the fulfilled wishes and seeing some kind of pattern besides “good for the kingdom”.

The way this song was cut kinda reminds me of Pocahontas' "If I Never Knew You", another slower song that was cut after being animated, that was solidifying the theme of the movie (In Pocahontas' case, it's that it's a love story that couldn't work, but both have no regrets when they have to say goodbye), but was cut because focus group kids got bored (At least I'm assuming that's why it was cut from Wish. Maybe Disney just saw the movie as a sinking ship and threw overboard whatever wasn't attached to the walls.), with the deleted song finding its way into the credits. Pocahontas' song got completed animation for the 2005 DVD release, where you'd be able to choose to watch the movie in its entirety with or without the added song, but I don't know if there would be a point for Disney to animate songs back into the movie in the age of streaming and YouTube uploads.

I paused your video and followed the link to watch the deleted song, and... I'm just even more gobsmacked. Just like you said, it wouldn't have fixed the movie, but it has far more heart than any of the tracks that made it to the finished cut. The studio leadership should be ashamed of themselves for tampering with their artists so flagrantly.

For me, it was the most heartwarming and meaning song of Wish, and because it was almost finished, it was worth including it, so it could have helped to the story of Wish for better, It felt like different and heartwarming to hear it in Sabino's voice.. I feel like when he recovered his wish, inside he also recovered his faith and confidence, and maybe he had that song all the time inside himself, he just needed that..THE SONG COULD HAVE BEEN KEPT FOR BOTH THIS SCENE AND THE CREDITS

I really love Wish, I don’t care what anyone says. It’s not great but it’s DEFINITELY overhated. But I definitely believe this song shoulve been a musical number bc it’s already a beautiful credits song and having it as a soft, beautiful, intimate song would’ve been AMAZING.

But why would they sabotage the film by removing this crucial scene?? There was nothing controversial or shocking in this song... Did they want to lose money? I wish to watch the version of this film the artists who worked on it truly wanted to create. Even as a fanfic.

It is genuinely insane to me that this song is not only unmentioned by people discussing the songs about Wish, but also the fact that this scene was cut from the final product. While I can't say for certain whether this scene alone would have saved the film, I can confidently say that, had it remained in Wish, then it would have made the whole experience infinity more enjoyable.

It should have been kept, it would have help the movie so much better

As someone who loved a wish worth making I loved it in the end credits and I wondered why no one in the film sang it now I’m not negative on the film I’m very neutral on my opinion but when I found out this song and this scene was supposed to be in the film my heart sank because you had a good song if not the best song and you took it out.