Wish & Disney's Worst Year Ever: A Complete Mess

Imagine what this movie could have been if there weren't mass layoffs during its production as well as corporation interference

Ironically Nimona, a movie which it and its studio were cancelled by disney, wiped the floor with both of disneys movies this year

9 year old me wouldn't ever expect that a Barbie and a Mario movie would do better than a Disney original. Now 14 yrs later and look what Disney has become: a thing that cant innovate or lacks creative freedom

At least Mirabel being awkward and goofy makes sense...15 year olds are just...like that and shes been left to drift for years so...ignored child becomes the comic relief trope.

There was no reason Haunted Mansion had to come out in July. No one wants to see a spooky movie in July. This would have been better if released around Halloween, like August the earliest.

Imagine if Disney didn’t remake their old movies into live action, but into stop motion? That’d be sick

I’m still baffled that they released the Haunted Mansion in *JULY* instead of late September/October

It’s funny, 2023 is like a repeat of 2017 for Disney, while for Illumination this is probably their best year since the early 2010s

You know, even if this year wasn't their 100° Anniversary it would still have been a disastrous year, but the fact that it was their centennial makes everything that happened to Disney even a bigger failure

Guardians 3 and Once Upon A Studio were the only good/amazing things made by Disney this year. The rest were whatever, mediocre, and bad.

I wanted Asha to become an accidental villain. Imagine if releasing wishes caused chaos, proving the king right? She then has to help the king end the chaos? Not everone's wishes are good and it's Fairytail 101 to be careful what you wish for because it might come true. This would have been a REALLY cool way to take Disney traditions and invert them in a cool new way. You could even include a secondary "true" villain halfway through who's truly evil to sing a traditionally epic musical theater villain song about trickiing Asha into granting their dream/causing chaos! Bonus points if it was a friend she loved/trusted.

"We didn't make a 2D animated film for our anniversary because it was too hard" Aren't you like the company that was the leading force in 2D animation for decades???

It was a matter of time, but it looks like we’re going to have to see studios actually TRY to make GREAT movies, now that they know we are not stupid anymore, and we will see what we want in theaters.

The reason Wish was "too hard to animate" in 2D is because Disney did away with their 2D animation team a long time ago. 3D animation and 2D animation are done a lot differently.

To celebrate Disney’s 100th anniversary, they don’t even animate Wish traditionally by hand drawing the frames like they did until the late 90s or late 2000s, they just try to mask the look with very obvious CGI, talk about a slap in the face.

I once read that when kingdoms reach their golden era, they need to fall to the ground to come back to it's roots and start all over again. I don't think it's the case with Disney because they're too big to fail but we can see the lack of creativity from a thousands miles away. I can't believe the same studio that brought us Beauty and the Beast and villains like Scar and Ursula gave us this current cheap antagonists and half baked stories.

When I look at Asha's design, words like regal, noble, and strong come to mind. The last thing I think is adorkable or quirky.

The 2020s decade so far for disney is like the new disney dark age era except non of the charm that the actual disney dark age had

i went to see strange world this year and the only people in the theater were me, my friend and another person

I think it's sad that modern animators don't even know how to do 2D animation anymore, wasn't there something to do with the newer Mary Poppins movie. They had to like rehire a guy who was retired for like 40 years now because he was the only person that knew how to animate in that old classic Disney style?