Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, 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 - 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.
Ariana DeBose
Asha (voice)
Chris Pine
King Magnifico (voice)
Alan Tudyk
Valentino (voice)
Angelique Cabral
Queen Amaya (voice)
Victor Garber
Sabino (voice)
Natasha Rothwell
Sakina (voice)
Jennifer Kumiyama
Dahlia (voice)
Harvey Guillén
Gabo (voice)
Niko Vargas
Hal (voice)
Evan Peters
Simon (voice)
Ramy Youssef
Safi (voice)
Jon Rudnitsky
Dario (voice)
Della Saba
Bazeema (voice)
Keone Young
Mountain Climber / Tall Man Tourist / Guard 1 (voice)
Lucas Sigler
Bunny / Baby Mushroom (voice)
Holland Watkins
Mouse / Mountain Climber Wife (voice)
Woody Buck
The Stag / Guard 2 / Citizen 5 (voice)
Efé
Ship Captain / Fan Tourist (voice)
Nicole Lynn Evans
Mountain Climber's Wife / Mother Tourist (voice)
Heather Matarazzo
Flying Woman (voice)
Nasim Pedrad
Sania (voice)
Abraham Sigler
Tourist Boy (voice)
Director, Story
Chris Buck
Director, Story
Fawn Veerasunthorn
Screenplay, Story
Allison Moore
Screenplay, Story
Jennifer Lee
Story Artist
Burny Mattinson
November 29, 2023
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With her grandpa hitting his hundredth birthday, the precocious young "Asha" hopes that the King, keeper of all of the wishes made by the islanders in their idyllic home, will agree to make his long-forgotten dream come true. Coincidentally, he is also looking for a special assistant and she is up for the job! A chance to kill two birds with one stone sees her in the royal presence and in the course of her pitch, she jumps the gun and implores the king to grant her grandfather's wish. His prevarication causes us all to begin to smell a rat - is the benevolent king really all he seems to be? She leaves disappointed and in desperation makes a wish of her own - but on a star, this time. It decides to leave the heavens and come and help her on her quest to release all the trapped wishes and free the kingdom from it's increasingly menacing monarch... It's an OK animation this, but the story is really quite thin with characters that don't much ignite the imagination - except, perhaps, the goat "Valentino" who has easily the best of what little comedy there is in the rather earnest script. The creatively entitled "The Wish" is the standard power ballad amongst the really quite unremarkable soundtrack that you just know is desperate to get to Leigh Harline's Disney theme tune "When You Wish Upon a Star" at the end. It's an amalgam of a few stories and will probably keep the youngsters entertained first time around. There's not a great deal for the grown ups, though, and I'm not sure it will be remembered for long into this animator's second century.