![]() ![]() But no matter! Living without your wish, your soul is untroubled. One day, Magnifico may or may not grant it to you (probably not, as we learn). When you give your wish to Magnifico (he collects them in blue glass bubbles that float atop his palatial tower), you don’t have that wish anymore you’re free of it, and can no longer even remember what it was. It’s set in the magic kingdom of Rosas, a tropical island whose residents lead a life of utopian serenity, though for a reason that’s rather suspect: Every one of them has a wish - the thing they’d want most in the world - but they’ve given their wishes to King Magnifico (voiced by Chris Pine), the devilishly handsome, outwardly benevolent sorcerer who rules the island, and apparently rules their dreams as well. On that score it’s a visually pleasing, eminently watchable slice of enchanted product - with a plot that’s both mildly touching and slightly strange. Since so many of the watchers of Disney cartoons are young children, “Wish” can be experienced, on its own “innocent” terms, as if one had never heard of Disney or seen its movies. Does that make it a summation or a pastiche? A movie marbled with pop history or overstuffed with Easter eggs? One that launches the next Disney century or is stuck in the last one? Maybe all of the above. But “Wish” self-consciously packs 85 years of animated magic into a portable Disney fable. The studio’s cartoons have always borrowed bits and pieces from each other (all those princesses, all those talking animals and singing kitchenware, and what is Simba losing his father in “The Lion King” but the death of Bambi’s mother redux?). ![]() What this means, I think, is that Disney, in the midst of commemorating its 100th anniversary, has become a company so focused on itself that it has now produced a kind of fairy-tale signifier of its own brand. ![]() So what does it mean that “Wish,” the studio’s lavish new animated musical, while it doesn’t exactly showcase “When You Wish Upon a Star,” is a kind of literal-minded theme-park-ready illustration of it? The movie is a folk tale about wishes, and how they’re made upon stars, and how when you have one it makes no difference who you are.Īriana DeBose Breaks Down Her Emotional 'Wish' Performance: 'This Took Me Out of My Comfort Zone'ĭisney's 'Wish': How Composer Dave Metzger Pays Homage to 'When You Wish Upon a Star'ĭisney's 'Wish' Trailer Showcases Ariana DeBose Singing Her Heart's Desire in Celebration of Studio's 100-Year Animation Legacy Steven Spielberg added a layer of fairy dust to the song’s mythology when he talked about how close he came to playing it over the final moments of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” For Disney, “When You Wish Upon a Star” is more than an anthem - it’s a totem of corporate magic, a statement of everything the company represents and holds dear. Disney made it the company theme song in the ’50s, and since the early ’80s it has been featured in the studio’s motion-picture logo. It was first heard, of course, in the 1940 Walt Disney animated classic “Pinocchio,” where it was sung by Jiminy Cricket. ![]() “When You Wish Upon a Star” is one of those songs, like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” that’s bigger than a song. ![]()
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