Comments on: Wish (2023) https://thegoodsreviews.com/wish-2023/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wish-2023 Watching and asking: Is It Good? Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Hunter Allen https://thegoodsreviews.com/wish-2023/#comment-5773 Fri, 30 May 2025 01:44:11 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15710#comment-5773 In reply to Dan Stalcup.

1. Wish
2. Encanto
3. Raya and the Last Dragon
4. Frozen II
5. Strange World
6. Moana 2
7. Ralph Breaks the Internet

for me. (Besides Strange World and Moana 2, it’s very nearly a neat asymptotic curve through time, approaching but never hitting a 6/10, although I might be underrating Encanto, which I might’ve suggested was “6/10” material in the past, and I probably was responding with too much vitriol towards Ralph just because it was gross and such a preposterous fall from the original Moana–now I know it was something more like the new Disney normal.)

Yet I am, for no truly good reason, kind of looking forward to Zootopia 2.

]]> By: Dan Stalcup https://thegoodsreviews.com/wish-2023/#comment-5767 Thu, 29 May 2025 21:03:38 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15710#comment-5767 In reply to Hunter Allen.

]]> By: Dan Stalcup https://thegoodsreviews.com/wish-2023/#comment-5766 Thu, 29 May 2025 20:06:03 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15710#comment-5766 In reply to Brian T.

so no wish? (smashes star)

]]> By: Dan Stalcup https://thegoodsreviews.com/wish-2023/#comment-5765 Thu, 29 May 2025 19:00:29 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15710#comment-5765 In reply to Hunter Allen.

My rank is probably:
1. Frozen II
2. Encanto
3. Raya and the Last Dragon
4. Strange World
5. Wish
6. Ralph Breaks the Internet
7. Moana 2

But I need to rewatch at least three of those (Ralph, Raya, Strange World) to lock that order in.

I do agree that it’s bad in a memorable way. I certainly think about it more than Raya or Strange World. Maybe that’s worth something.

]]> By: Brian T https://thegoodsreviews.com/wish-2023/#comment-5764 Thu, 29 May 2025 18:24:42 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15710#comment-5764 The only part I liked were the little constellations of Milo Thatch and Wreck-It Ralph in the credits.

]]> By: Brian T https://thegoodsreviews.com/wish-2023/#comment-5763 Thu, 29 May 2025 18:21:42 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15710#comment-5763 Pokémon Go to the polls.

]]> By: Hunter Allen https://thegoodsreviews.com/wish-2023/#comment-5762 Thu, 29 May 2025 17:17:47 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15710#comment-5762 I still like it better than every other post-Moana WDAS film, but God almighty, that premise is like a bottomless mine of illogic, it never stops paying off; you were mentioning things I *still* hadn’t thought of or heard after two years–I hadn’t really, fully considered how it would interact with really elemental wishes like “I hope my children do okay” or, since I guess you have it excised from your brain in adolescence, “I hope I get married.” What if you had cancer? “Actually, I’m unaccountably fine with my cancer and impending death now. I guess we can deduce what my wish was, huh?”

Probably would be tolerable in a film that was doing anything else worthwhile besides tech demoing a tech that will, as you say, only be abandoned. (But I still find that tech pretty exciting; and there is something about the *vibrancy* and *productivity* of Wish’s badness as opposed to, say, Moana 2’s or Raya’s or, somehow, Strange World’s, or even Encanto’s. If nothing else, it gives one a lot to vigorously complain about.)

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