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Browsing through comments on Bluesky of those who have seen the movie (some of whom had no idea it existed until it hit streaming) since it hit D+, a common complaint is that the songs are subpar. The most common complaint is that the whole thing feels generic/AI-generated.

The other thing about The Boy and the Heron doing as well as it did was that it was by most accounts an exceptionally-made film, a fantasy with compelling characters and stakes. If anything it (and Wonka) may have contributed to any positive word of mouth Wish had not kicking in for families and...

No, I don't think that the success of something like The Boy and the Heron will inspire Disney to try and rebuild a 2D animation unit. Anime in general has happily been hand drawn/digital hybrid work for years now and becoming increasingly popular internationally, so Disney beancounters have...

For that matter, Katzenberg's Dreamworks tenure began with a fairly even split between hand-drawn films like The Prince of Egypt and all-CGI projects. It's just that way more people came out for Shrek than Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. It's the same kind of thinking that discouraged Disney...

Yeah, there's also been some modest, qualified - and genuinely promising - successes like Anyone But You, Bob Marley - One Love, and now Challengers, the kind of films that supposedly nobody would go to theaters to see anymore, but beyond that we're a long way from the pre-pandemic era where...

Have the film on Disney+ and I have to ask...how exactly are the wishes trapped in the tower? The arched windows do not appear to have glass in them and they clearly react and move to the presence of Asha (during "At All Costs") and Star's arrival, and yet they don't just...leave and return to...

Over at Bluesky my fellow users are going to town on this, in particular referencing a famous Principal Skinner quote-turned-meme: "No, it's the children who are wrong."

I don't know, the last non-sequel Disney released to thrive in the Thanksgiving slot was Coco way back in 2017, the qualified theatrical success? of Encanto aside...besides, the Snow White remake was also moved to next spring, and I never got the logic of releasing two tentpole titles weeks...

Yeah, the first trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King dropped today and that doesn't arrive until Christmas, but that was a lot further along in production as a movie. I'd expect a Moana 2 trailer with Inside Out 2 though. (In a somewhat related issue, was there ever a reason given as to why Elio...

Maligned as the live-action/CGI remakes are, the new looks/outfits some of the characters (especially villains) get in them do seem to be popular with cosplayers...

Lots of those four in particular (especially Belle - Richard White, Gaston's voice actor, was a guest at the show, and Paige O'Hara was set to appear before falling ill - they actually got Linda Larkin [Jasmine's speaking voice] to take over her autograph sessions at least) among the cosplayers...

I've just returned from the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) convention. There was a lot of Disney cosplay on the floor, including a lot of deeper cuts (Princess Kida, Prince John, Esmeralda, etc.) but I didn't see anyone cosplaying a character from Wish. (ShopDisney did bring out...

I honestly think they wouldn't have done this if not for how badly Wish did last Thanksgiving. They really don't want Universal to have a hit with Wicked Part One because that's more-or-less a family musical, and they had staked out the Thanksgiving slot for Mufasa: The Lion King before they...

Inevitably the comedy nitpicking video series CinemaSins got around to this movie a few days back, and they actually pointed out a legit flaw in Asha's initial suggestion of Magnifico just returning the wishes he won't grant to the people, so they could realize them on their own, wouldn't work...

I think that also plays into another thing that annoyed critics about the film: we're supposed to see Asha and Sabino = Walt Disney and the company as a whole, but everybody who knows enough about the guy's history and how the company operates (especially in the Iger era) knows that they're...

And as soon as they went with the plushy concept for Star, he wasn't needed since Star is so cutesy as is. I think they meant Asha as the Walt analogue from some comments by the filmmakers (she's an artist/animator, etc.). In the stage where the characters were living in exile in the woods...

Yes. The filmmakers and studio made a huge promise with this movie, and didn't come close to keeping it. It's a weird parallel with the inability to come up with a reason Sabino deserves to have his wish granted ahead of someone else's - he's 100 years old and the heroine's grandfather (and she...

"You can't have heroes and villains when the wrong side is making the best sense." - from Roger Ebert's review of I Am Sam. If Veerasunthorn, Buck, and company had truly made it clear that people in Rosas were suffering without their wishes, that life there was only "just good enough" rather...

I think safe has become a big issue for Disney as a whole in the years since those films and Moana. Much as bad faith types like to complain that the company is "woke" and all that, they seem more and more desperate not to offend anybody with their films. Sure, they've had a smattering of queer...

And it seems like in early development (see the storyboard reels on the Blu-Ray, etc.), something similar was at play; people happily moved to Rosas unaware that Magnifico might consume their wishes for his own power rather than grant them depending on his whim, and those who realized the truth...