Quick Vid: Wish Dragon (Review)

this video is brought to you by raycon [Music] hey folks how's it going today i'm talking about one of the newest animated films from sony on netflix called wish dragon i was hyped about this one it was one of those films where i'm like ooh the poster oh i'm liking the concept i cannot wait to watch this movie and then i noticed that we were getting closer to the release and i was like where are the trailers where where are the advertisements why is no one really talking about this movie like i knew about luca and that coming out i heard folks in like the hub what's the word i'm thinking of when folks talk about something not the hub not the hub the buzz there you go i heard about the buzz for luca but not as many folks about wish dragon at least on a mainstream level and the movie came out and as i surveyed the surface of social media again did not really see many folks talking about this movie now hey maybe that's me maybe i'm not looking in the right places but like when i saw luca folks were talking about that a wish dragon not as much which is also odd considering that it's like on netflix like most folks could go watch this boom there it is no of charge just watch the film all right be that as it may let's just talk about this movie its origins what i thought about it and so on so the film as i said was made by sony and a bunch of other companies most of them being chinese i've said this before in past videos we are seeing the rise of chinese animation china wants a piece of the action when it comes to the animation industry you have things like abominable over the moon and then there's like a bunch of other films that like neja that movie was huge in china and most americans don't know about it like that thing made like over 800 million dollars on a 60 million dollar budget and it's like hey have you seen neja which i'm probably saying wrong and most americans are like no we talking about so china is on the move with that industry and we will just continue to see a rise in that trend and also seeing partnerships where it'd be like disney or dreamworks or sony where they're like no no no we want to work with these chinese studios and find like projects to collab on the synopsis for wish dragon it is the modern day shanghai china our main character den and how he like discover he met a girl named lina back when they were kids they grew up as friends she had to move away it's about 10 years later dan here is trying to find an opportunity to meet up with lena because he misses his friend and they're both on the precipice of adulthood thinking about their futures what to do confused scared one who's super rich one who's super poor and then then stumbles across genie from aladdin he stumbled across a teapot that summoned a magical dragon named long long hair is like hey three wishes there's a few things i can't do like time travel i can't kill people and he can't make people fall in love sound familiar right a lot of folks are going to be saying like hey this is like the chinese version of aladdin which like isn't entirely it's not like a carbon copy but there's a lot of similarities and i would say inspiration drawn from aladdin for this film we'll get to it here in a moment so uh spoilers aside at the moment that's the synopsis dan here has a dragon he wants to use these wishes so he can have a better chance to go find lena and like i guess catch up with her though it's kind of like unclear where it's like is he in love with her ah i don't know like i think they just want to be friends or he just wants to see his friend again but like there's a lot of implications of him like going on a date here later on the film or them having emotions back and forth it's romantic it's a little bit unclear to me again i am the dumb speaking of like aladdin brought it up let's talk about it okay long hair the dragon reminds me of the genie especially with their like the fluidity of the characters how they move how they're very bubbly though long hair after that like very bubbly introduction starts to become a bit more um but downer where he's like okay come on wrap it up get these wishes done gotta move on i gotta finish my to-do list so i can move on with my life and long hair is like just just wish for what everybody else wants money money is the answer just wish for money and even i was saying that to the screen i'm like come on dan just wish for money and dude's like now i'd rather wish for a car in a fancy suit i want to be like prince ali in a way he kind of did he kind of wished to be like princely so we can go to like this birthday party that lena's having so you can go see her kind of like how like aladdin's like i want to be prince ali so i can go marry jasmine though for aladdin it's very clear he wants to get with jasmine again like dan here is like i want to go see lena so we can talk it's like okay long is like reluctant to this all where he's like come on dude let's uh you start he kind of seemed like i wouldn't say cynical i mean he's catching up with like humans where he's like oh wow of airplanes and cars and tvs ooh it's been a while but he keeps saying like i've served multiple masters they've wanted one thing it's money so that's kind of the theme of the film because like lena's father who's like the implied antagonist he's trying to get the tkl2 because he wants to use the dragon's wish to save his gamestop stock from dropping so the dad's obsessed with saving his company aka getting money he sends like these cohorts of minions to go find the tea kettle one guy who like keeps his hands in his pockets he kicks really hard kind of reminds me that one guy from one piece and there's a bit of a twist at the end with like the villain i guess spoilers aside where like the kicky guy is like i'm not gonna save you anymore lena's dad i'm gonna be in charge and my first wish comes from a book that i read didn't finish it where i want to be able to turn things into gold with the touch of my hand okay it's king midas we know how this is going to end so the theme of like needing money to be happy that's a big part of this film where long realizes oh like because he starts to hang out with den and lina and like the poor family and the i guess poor part of shanghai and realizing there's more to life than just money and also we learned that like long is in this position as a punishment because he obsessed in his human life over money so it's kind of a bit of i guess humility to realize it's not always about money sometimes it's just about meaningful relationships with your loved ones whether it be romantically with a girl or with your family or whatever so that's like the the overarching theme of the film big time aladdin inspiration and vibes that's fine and it never felt like it was like too boring where i'm like is this just chinese aladdin am i gonna be bored here and it's like no this there's enough of them like taking these common denominators from i didn't but also mixing it up with like regina's all bubbling oh hey i'm gonna do everything i'm just excited to be here uh long's like i'm i wanna i'm ready to be done i'm i'm dragging my feet i'm reluctant to it all until he comes around which is you know a good arc for him so the story is fine at first i thought i would be disappointed with it where i'm like oh we're going this direction and i'm like okay no you kind of brought it in at the end that's fine it's it suffices the animation let's talk about that okay so i expected this to be higher quality with its visuals it's not to say it's bad by any means but like where i see things like spider-verse which i know it's a very unfair comparison but this film like wish dragon it feels a bit more unpolished the cities don't feel as full it's hard to really put my finger on it but like when you watch seoul or my future review here i'll be doing a bit for luca you look through the settings of these films and they feel very fleshed out and alive and just pretty i don't really get that with the setting for wish dragon these city shots feel just kind of hollow to me not to say they're bad i wasn't feeling immersed in the city and the setting i mean that's just me also they reuse character designs i notice that too where it's like oh i saw that character in another scene in the background and i guess they were using it so maybe that's also a testament to it being not cheap but like they were working on a smaller budget so they had to cut corners here and there oh i didn't even mention that this movie's got alcohol and and someone slapped a girl on a butt you know you won't see that in a pixar film here in america or dreamworks but in china you can slap a girl's ass at a party the dragon tail dragon tails okay sorry add is really getting me today i like the character designs for the humans they're fine though i also like it's kind of funny i see den i see lena i actually thought the designs from red shoes that south korean animated film looked better than this film like with the humans at least i'm like huh how about that the south korean studio look just higher quality looks better polished to me but for the wix dragon himself for long fantastic it was great obviously the most effort went into this character design and how they wanted him to move with his fluidity and his personality and his magic and his colors and it's just supreme i love it long's the best part of this film visually stunning i enjoyed that so that wasn't a disappointment and i suppose overall with this movie i would recommend it it's good uh the story again it's average uh i thought it would be worse initially but it was able to clinch that win at the end visuals i also expected a bit more not bad just expected more but where it counted it definitely stood up and like made the win too with like long being like the tip of the spear with the characters with the story and he was visually engaging and fun and also a good character too so all in all wish dragon i recommend it i think it's good i i'd say actually i think i enjoyed it more than ryan the last dragon so take that for what it's worth at least on a story level and maybe not maybe i'm wrong about that too you know what nah i might have spoken too soon let me think about that one though i have seen fan art of these two dragons together as friends and it's more so just keep that in mind when you're searching the internet with these dragons names and the google images keep the safe search on so that's my review for wish dragon it's on netflix go check it out so i want to thank the sponsor for this video rayquan earbuds now i've been using raycons for over a year now and i am very happy with them i legit use them all the time especially during the summer months i use them when i go on hikes when i walk my dog when i work in the yard like it's the perfect season for rocking my raycons raycon was co-founded by ray j and let me tell you raycon is truly disrupting the 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Channel: Saberspark

Views: 347,328

Rating: 4.9687147 out of 5

Keywords: wish dragon, review, wish dragon review, saberspark, saber, sony, netflix, wish dragon movie review, wish dragon movie

Id: 9H7L3uPD3eY

Length: 12min 20sec (740 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 23 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/DR_Timefox]

Weird no comments. Well anyway I watched the Wish Dragon recently and like Saberspark I found I felt like I was watching a clone of Disney's Aladdin until... Din and Li Na realize who they are and that is where this film shines. I swear if more of the film I was like this I give it a better rating. Lets just say with no spoilers Everyone including the Wish Dragon gets the ending they deserve. I like a film where the Henchmen of the villain get a happy ending.