Starring: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Harvey Guillén, Evan Peters, Ramy Youssef, Jon Rudnitsky
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story:
Disney animated musical comedy directed by Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn. Wish (2023) centers on Asha (Ariana DeBose), a sharp-witted idealist, who makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe, the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico (Chris Pine), to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
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Asha: Once upon a time, there was a young man who believed there was nothing more important than a wish. Not just any wish, of course. The one that drives your heart. The one that makes you who you are. But he also understood just how impossible it can be to make that wish come true. How easily dreams can be destroyed.
Asha: What makes you think that I’m up to something?
Sakina: Because I know your pauses.
Asha: I’m maturing. My pauses are changing.
Asha: Hola. Shalom. Salam.
Asha: [to Dahlia] Best friend and honorary doctor of all things rational, my interview is in one hour, and I’m so nervous I think I’m going to explode.
Asha: I have forgotten how to talk. I have no words. Is my mouth drooping? I feel like it’s drooping.
Asha: Quick, ask me an interview question.
Dahlia: Okay, Asha, what’s your weakness?
Asha: Weakness? I get irrational when I’m nervous.
Dahlia: No. No. You care too much.
Asha: I do? Wait. Is that a weakness?
Dahlia: That’s why it’s perfect. You’re welcome.
Gabo: [to Asha, referring to her interview with Magnifico] Hey, look at me. Don’t worry. We’ll be here for you when you fail.
Asha: [referring to her interview with Magnifico] I’m ready. I am so not ready.
Dahlia: You’re fine. Just don’t touch anything. Don’t forget to curtsy. And tell him I love him.
Asha: What?
Dahlia: I’m kidding. Do not tell him that.
'The stars are there to guide us, to inspire us, to remind us to believe in possibility.' - Asha (Wish) Click To Tweet
Magnifico: Asha, no one should ever have to see their dreams destroyed before their eyes.
Asha: No one should have to live their life feeling the pain of that loss every day.
Magnifico: And that’s why I do what I do.
Asha: And that’s why I want to work for you.
Magnifico: Well, you’re young. You don’t know anything, really. Whereas it is my responsibility to only grant the wishes I am sure are good for Rosas.
Asha: So, most of these wishes will never be granted?
Magnifico: Yet I still protect them like all the others.
Magnifico: They give their wishes to me, willingly, and I make it so they forget their worries.
Asha: You make it so they forge the most beautiful part of themselves. And they don’t know what they’re missing. But you do. And now I do. It’s not fair.
Asha: The people of Rosas are good. They deserve more than..
Magnifico: I decide what everyone deserves!
Gabo: See, never, ever get your hopes up.
Asha: There are so many wondrous, powerful wishes that will never be granted, just floating there, helpless.
Asha: [singing] Isn’t truth supposed to set you free? Well, why do I feel so weighed down by it?
Asha: [singing] So, I look up at the stars to guide me, and throw caution to every warning sign. I’m sure there will be challenges that find me. But I can take them on one at a time. So, I make this wish, to have something more for us than this.
'People think wishes are just ideas. But, no. No, they are a part of your heart. The very best part.' - Magnifico (Wish) Click To Tweet
Magnifico: I believe I have just been threatened.
Amaya: Who would dare threaten you?
Asha: It was joy, and hope, and possibility, and wonder inside the most loving light. Can light be loving? I sound ridiculous, don’t I? I’ll take that as a yes.
Asha: [referring to Star’s fairy dust] Woh, what are you doing?! Valentino, don’t eat that!
Valentino: It didn’t work. When does that magic happen? Ah!
Asha: Oh, something’s happened.
Valentino: I’m talking! I am talking! Who knew my voice would be this low?
Asha: Okay. I have a few thousand questions, starting with, “How did I manage to connect with a star all the way across the sky?” And ending with, “How is any of this possible?”
Bambi: Hey, thanks for not eating me, John.
John: Don’t mention it, Bambi. It’s all good.
Asha: [to Star] And my father said that we were connected to the stars. That’s why I wished, and now you’re here, for me.
'When you're threatened, you do not breathe. You focus.' - Magnifico (Wish) Click To Tweet
Magnifico: A king must be prepared to do anything to protect his kingdom.
Amaya: [referring to his people] They would do anything for you.
Magnifico: Of course they would.
Amaya: You are their handsomest, most beloved king.
Magnifico: You’re right. I am a handsome king.
Asha: [as she sees Star wearing pajamas] Are those pajamas?
Valentino: Thank you. I feel seen.
Valentino: Star may alarm the masses.
Asha: Much like a talking goat.
Valentino: What?
Asha: Which is why you’re both staying here.
Valentino: With the chickens? Did you see what just came out of that one’s…
Dario: A squirrel just said “Good morning” to me.
Gabo: I have no response to that.
Dario: I didn’t either. Right? I mean, what do you say to a squirrel?
'I believe the greater the challenge we are willing to face, the greater the life we live.' - Valentino (Wish) Click To Tweet
Hal: What are you hiding?
Asha: Oh! Nothing!
Valentino: [from behind the door] Life is to be lived!
Asha: And nobody.
Asha: Last night, after everything happened, I made a wish, on a star.
Gabo: What are you, five?
Valentino: [to the singing chickens] That’s it, ladies. Your wings can’t fly, but your voices can!
Dahlia: [as she sees Star] This is objectively impossible.
Gabo: Am I the only one who realizes this is going to end very badly?
Simon: Wait. Does Star grant wishes?
Asha: No, but I think it wants to help me pursue mine.
Dario: Like a fairy godmother.
Gabo: Life is not a fairytale.