Looks like it could be fun. I already love Valentino. Though I must say though I haven’t even seen the movie I’m already thinking that the King might have a point of filtering wishes. Feels like a place for idealist meets unintended consequences.
I’m curious what the message will be because Magnifico is not exactly wrong about not granting all the wishes. Just that he probably shouldn’t be the only one to decide which are good and which aren’t.
Though I really would like for him to have a proper villainous song. It’s been years since there was one.
EDIT: And is he first ever Disney villain to be married?
Chris Pine, hamming it up as the main villain sounds amazing. Even though we’ve only heard bits of the feature song but it sounds like it will be a banger.
Looks kinda… bland? I don’t mean the look of it – the picture itself is gorgeous. But neither jokes nor song seem to shine, and characters are super generic. Obligatory ‘yes, I understand it’s a kids movie’ – just sharing impressions.
The animation style looks literally unfinished, like in 3D pre-vis development before they add all of the lighting and shaders to it. Can’t say that I’m a fan.
I’m surprised at how unfinished the art style looks. And I don’t just think that’s because it’s a trailer, I think the actual art direction is a bit iffy. It’s probably intended to be a riff on the more painterly 2D + 3D style that we’ve seen a lot lately, but perhaps the problem here is that the scenary is deliberately quite “flat” but the character designs and animation aren’t vibrant enough to “pop” against them. The result looks a bit like a cell-shaded video game, but not really in a good way.
Perhaps it’s also that the characters have very human proportions (especially the evil king person) but very cartoony faces; it looks a little weird, like that Disney face filter that did the rounds on TikTok a while ago.
The animation itself is oddly stiff and restrained. Look at the goat when he’s saying “I’m talking!”. Close your eyes and listen to the vocal performance. It’s quite dynamic. But the actual animation that goes with it is quite restrained. He barely moves – just a little wiggle of the legs, sitting up and an eyebrow raise. I know this is nitpicky but it’s a small example of something that’s across this whole trailer.
It could be cool if they make it so that the king isn’t evil or even really in the wrong and that the heroine is misguided for trying to grant everyone’s wish… But I don’t see that happening. I guess I just find the idea that everyone “deserves” to have their wishes granted moronic. It might sound nice but in reality it would be disastrous.
Everyone has the assumption that King Magnifico is evil- and that’s certainly what the trailer is portraying him as- but everything seems ambiguous enough to the point of there being a plot twist that he’s actually not the villain, or is at the very least misguided but with good intentions and a bit egoistic.
I don’t think that anything he did in the trailer was flat out evil. There could be a good reason for not granting everyone’s wishes. Maybe he thinks that some problems should not be solved by magic, or that some people’s wishes should not be granted. Maybe he is doing it all for selfish reasons to keep his people’s love with the hopes that some day their wishes might be granted. But even then, trying to maintain one’s own power is not intrinsically evil. We don’t even know what is threatening Rosas or what he plans to do with Asha once he finds her.
Anyone else think the animation looks kinda weird? The characters in particular almost look like character models from an older 2000s video game or something.
Never thought I’d say a Disney animation looks cheap, that’s always been the one thing they have going for them.
On top of being cheap, the song is ear gratingly hamfisted oscar bait, the annoying talking animal sidekick is cranked up to a ten for maximum toy selling, the dialogue is marvel tier quips nonstop in the trailer, and the jokes are just the worst.
I say this as a fanboy for Disney animated movies, I’ve adored the last few. Moana, Raya, and Encanto especially were great to me.
I love the awkward, quirky, clumsy Disney protagonist as much as anyone, but it’s honestly getting a little old at this point. I feel like every female Disney protagonist since Anna has been essentially the same character. Why not mix it up a little? Cast someone prissy like Isabella from Encanto, or sarcastic like Megara from Hercules, or a foul-mouthed tomboy like Vanelope from Wreck It Ralph as the protagonist for a change. Sure, there are superficial differences between Disney’s recent heroines, but tell me how Anna, Moana, Mirabel and now Asha aren’t all the same exact archetype. If anything, it seems like they’re trying to make Asha even quirkier than her counterparts. Not saying this won’t be good, of course. I’ll still give it a try. I like Anna, Mirabel and Moana, so chances are I will like Asha as well.
That is the most generic, absolute bare minimum I’ve seen put into a Disney movie. Maybe they should quit the shit live action remakes and focus back in making at least, OK animated movies.
This feels like a parody of Disney movie tropes: cliche setup, characters, art style, all the way down to the wacky animal companion, mannerisms, scenes… everything.
Kind of like how the “Elemental” trailer felt like a generic brand parody of the Pixar formula (“what if ‘fire’ had feelings?”), and then it kind of… uh… was that.
Just watched the Ninja Turtles movie. It felt a bit different. I didn’t know everything that would happen from the first 2 minutes. Kids liked it a lot.
I feel like Disney completely missed what made the 2D/3D hybrid style of Spider-Verse and other films like it so captivating. Looking at that film and others (TMNT, Puss in Boots, Mitchells vs the Machines, Arcane), they didn’t just lower the texture detail and create flatter backgrounds, they deliberately reintroduced some of the imperfection and messiness of 2D artwork that computers had smoothed away. Gone was motion blur, in were smear frames, multiples, and FPS changes. Where Pixar worked to perfect fluid simulations, they reintroduced more bespoke, stylized effects for elements like smoke and water. They played with much more dynamic cinematography, aiming for a much greater heightening of reality.
Wish has none of that, nor does it have the detail of Disney’s own style since 2010. It looks flat and washed out and dull. Under textured 3D character models running around on flat backgrounds with unflattering color choice. It feels like a film that was meant to have the classic 3D Disney style before pivoting to a hybrid style midway through development. It’s underdeveloped and bland.
I see the call back to 90’s animation. She even has the freaking goat as Esmeralda in the Hunchback of Notre Dame. But the style comes of as simple, as we were watching a TV show. As we were watching Sofia the First the movie…
With studios moving past hiperrealistic animation, (where everything starts to look alike), releasing movies such as the Puss in Boots 2 and the excellent Into and Across the Spiderverse, Disney has yet to find their footing. Maybe the story is good enough…
The hair design is always so impressive in these!
why can’t they ever do new character looks? they’ve been looking the same since Tangled.
Looks like it could be fun. I already love Valentino. Though I must say though I haven’t even seen the movie I’m already thinking that the King might have a point of filtering wishes. Feels like a place for idealist meets unintended consequences.
I’m curious what the message will be because Magnifico is not exactly wrong about not granting all the wishes. Just that he probably shouldn’t be the only one to decide which are good and which aren’t.
Though I really would like for him to have a proper villainous song. It’s been years since there was one.
EDIT: And is he first ever Disney villain to be married?
Valentino: Why, Lord? Why take him when you could have me instead? I am a perfectly delicious substitute.
Asha: What the hell are you talking about? He’s still alive.
Valentino: Huh? Oh, I was rehearsing. I have an audition for a margarine commercial.
I am all here for Alan tudyk just doing clay face in a Disney movie.
The animation looks so low budget… and the leads voice isn’t very interesting.
Chris Pine, hamming it up as the main villain sounds amazing. Even though we’ve only heard bits of the feature song but it sounds like it will be a banger.
Looks kinda… bland? I don’t mean the look of it – the picture itself is gorgeous. But neither jokes nor song seem to shine, and characters are super generic. Obligatory ‘yes, I understand it’s a kids movie’ – just sharing impressions.
Why does the animation look like it belongs in a direct-to-dvd movie from the early 2000’s? Yikes
I get what they were trying to do with the animation, but I can’t say I’m a fan of the final product.
The animation style looks literally unfinished, like in 3D pre-vis development before they add all of the lighting and shaders to it. Can’t say that I’m a fan.
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Not me already somewhat siding with the king. Not every wish should be granted.
Wish as in, “Disney wishes this bland looking movie will turn around their declining animation empire.”
It could be good, but I’m really not seeing anything here that will make this the huge hit Disney needs.
I’m surprised at how unfinished the art style looks. And I don’t just think that’s because it’s a trailer, I think the actual art direction is a bit iffy. It’s probably intended to be a riff on the more painterly 2D + 3D style that we’ve seen a lot lately, but perhaps the problem here is that the scenary is deliberately quite “flat” but the character designs and animation aren’t vibrant enough to “pop” against them. The result looks a bit like a cell-shaded video game, but not really in a good way.
Perhaps it’s also that the characters have very human proportions (especially the evil king person) but very cartoony faces; it looks a little weird, like that Disney face filter that did the rounds on TikTok a while ago.
The animation itself is oddly stiff and restrained. Look at the goat when he’s saying “I’m talking!”. Close your eyes and listen to the vocal performance. It’s quite dynamic. But the actual animation that goes with it is quite restrained. He barely moves – just a little wiggle of the legs, sitting up and an eyebrow raise. I know this is nitpicky but it’s a small example of something that’s across this whole trailer.
All I can think of is clayface lmfao
This looks like one of those Redbox movies. Cheap and generic. Hard flop incoming.
Trailer makes it feel generic :/
It could be cool if they make it so that the king isn’t evil or even really in the wrong and that the heroine is misguided for trying to grant everyone’s wish… But I don’t see that happening. I guess I just find the idea that everyone “deserves” to have their wishes granted moronic. It might sound nice but in reality it would be disastrous.
More like Wish.com Disney movie
Everyone has the assumption that King Magnifico is evil- and that’s certainly what the trailer is portraying him as- but everything seems ambiguous enough to the point of there being a plot twist that he’s actually not the villain, or is at the very least misguided but with good intentions and a bit egoistic.
I don’t think that anything he did in the trailer was flat out evil. There could be a good reason for not granting everyone’s wishes. Maybe he thinks that some problems should not be solved by magic, or that some people’s wishes should not be granted. Maybe he is doing it all for selfish reasons to keep his people’s love with the hopes that some day their wishes might be granted. But even then, trying to maintain one’s own power is not intrinsically evil. We don’t even know what is threatening Rosas or what he plans to do with Asha once he finds her.
Anyone else think the animation looks kinda weird? The characters in particular almost look like character models from an older 2000s video game or something.
The art looks like its missing a layer or two of texture
They really saw Spiderverse and thought ‘hmm, we can slap a photoshop filter on top of the whole movie and that’s the same thing, yeah?’
Never thought I’d say a Disney animation looks cheap, that’s always been the one thing they have going for them.
On top of being cheap, the song is ear gratingly hamfisted oscar bait, the annoying talking animal sidekick is cranked up to a ten for maximum toy selling, the dialogue is marvel tier quips nonstop in the trailer, and the jokes are just the worst.
I say this as a fanboy for Disney animated movies, I’ve adored the last few. Moana, Raya, and Encanto especially were great to me.
I love the awkward, quirky, clumsy Disney protagonist as much as anyone, but it’s honestly getting a little old at this point. I feel like every female Disney protagonist since Anna has been essentially the same character. Why not mix it up a little? Cast someone prissy like Isabella from Encanto, or sarcastic like Megara from Hercules, or a foul-mouthed tomboy like Vanelope from Wreck It Ralph as the protagonist for a change. Sure, there are superficial differences between Disney’s recent heroines, but tell me how Anna, Moana, Mirabel and now Asha aren’t all the same exact archetype. If anything, it seems like they’re trying to make Asha even quirkier than her counterparts. Not saying this won’t be good, of course. I’ll still give it a try. I like Anna, Mirabel and Moana, so chances are I will like Asha as well.
That is the most generic, absolute bare minimum I’ve seen put into a Disney movie. Maybe they should quit the shit live action remakes and focus back in making at least, OK animated movies.
This feels like a parody of Disney movie tropes: cliche setup, characters, art style, all the way down to the wacky animal companion, mannerisms, scenes… everything.
Kind of like how the “Elemental” trailer felt like a generic brand parody of the Pixar formula (“what if ‘fire’ had feelings?”), and then it kind of… uh… was that.
Just watched the Ninja Turtles movie. It felt a bit different. I didn’t know everything that would happen from the first 2 minutes. Kids liked it a lot.
I don’t expect to watch this.
This movie looks kinda cheap for disney
Disney right there copying Nintendo’s homework with that star. Lil’ guy has big Luma vibes.
“So I look up at the stars to guide me, and *throw caution to every warning sign”*
What? You’re throwing caution at warning signs?
???
Why does this look like a Disney knock off sold at the dollar store?
Is their animation getting worse are we’re they going for that shity 2005 off-brand look
I feel like Disney completely missed what made the 2D/3D hybrid style of Spider-Verse and other films like it so captivating. Looking at that film and others (TMNT, Puss in Boots, Mitchells vs the Machines, Arcane), they didn’t just lower the texture detail and create flatter backgrounds, they deliberately reintroduced some of the imperfection and messiness of 2D artwork that computers had smoothed away. Gone was motion blur, in were smear frames, multiples, and FPS changes. Where Pixar worked to perfect fluid simulations, they reintroduced more bespoke, stylized effects for elements like smoke and water. They played with much more dynamic cinematography, aiming for a much greater heightening of reality.
Wish has none of that, nor does it have the detail of Disney’s own style since 2010. It looks flat and washed out and dull. Under textured 3D character models running around on flat backgrounds with unflattering color choice. It feels like a film that was meant to have the classic 3D Disney style before pivoting to a hybrid style midway through development. It’s underdeveloped and bland.
I see the call back to 90’s animation. She even has the freaking goat as Esmeralda in the Hunchback of Notre Dame. But the style comes of as simple, as we were watching a TV show. As we were watching Sofia the First the movie…
With studios moving past hiperrealistic animation, (where everything starts to look alike), releasing movies such as the Puss in Boots 2 and the excellent Into and Across the Spiderverse, Disney has yet to find their footing. Maybe the story is good enough…
Edit: grammar.
I appreciate that Among Us’s greatest societal impact is making everyone in fiction say “amongst us” until the end of time.
Can I place a bet on the villain not granting wishes to minorities and women?
I feel like I’m becoming jaded because a lot of the recent animated movies from Disney and Pixar have seemed very average
Disney cheaping out on animation lately
Honestly looks pretty good. I think people are being too harsh for a movie intended for children
Hmm, Im a little confused on the premise. So this king can grant wishes, but yet feels threatened? Is that the idea?
This *looks* like a straight to DVD movie.