Animation fans with the Animaniacs reboot coming to close as of right now it only seemed right I take a look at the movie that also served as the series finale for the original show. Since this is a movie that for a long time was the last piece of new Animaniacs media up until the 2020 Animaniacs reboot and so then join me as I review the film that dared to try and kill one of it's main characters with the film in question being called simply just "Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish" enjoy.
The plot of the film is the Warner siblings and the rest of the village of Acme Falls all race to make a wish when Wakko makes a wish upon a wishing star. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with this films plot being the exact plot that you'd expect from an Animaniacs movie with the plot itself being just as crazy as you'd expect it to be as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Jess Harnell as Wakko , and Tress MacNeille as Dot , Marita Hippo , Hello Nurse and Mindy's mother. Also starring in this film is Rob Paulsen as Yakko , Pinky and Dr. Otto Scratchansniff , Sherri Stoner as Slappy Squirrel , Nathan Ruegger as Skippy Squirrel , Maurice LaMarche as The Brain and Squit , Frank Welker as Ralph , Thaddeus Plotz , Runt , Buttons , Chicken Boo and Flavio Hippo , Nancy Cartwright as Mindy , Chick Vennera as Pesto , John Mariano as Bobby , Bernadette Peters as Rita , Paxton Whitehead as King Salazar , Ben Stein as Desire Fulfillment Facilitator , Jeff Bennett as Baloney and The Captain Of The Guard , Paul Rugg as Mr. Director and Julie Brown as Minerva Mink.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt abut the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of the cast members turning in some really good performances which really shouldn't be surprising since alot of this films cat members are voice acting legends and so of course they are going to turn in good performances.
Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at TMS Entertainment. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good even more so when you take into account that this film was released straight to VHS.
Like I said this film was basically the series finale of the original Animaniacs TV show but this film doesn't feel like a finale. As this film just does it's own thing which is very on brand for the Animaniacs since the TV show is known for doing weird and wacky things and so then it only makes sense that the movie would do that as well as that is something that the fans of the show had come to expect from the show but tho I would have liked it if this film did try to wrap the show's storylines up just so we could have that sense of closer and finality.
This film does of course gave songs which are written by the films co-director and producer Tom Ruegger and the films co-writer Randy Rogel. I have to admit that the songs are where this film starts to fail for me since alot of this films just aren't that good and what makes matters worse is the fact that this film has a song play every couple of minuets and as such the film feels alot more like an advert for the soundtrack rather then it is an actual but when the film does ave a good song in it like for example "Never Give Up Hope" you really do know it since it is one of the best songs in this whole entire movie.
This film had the courage to almost kill of one it's one main characters which for a nineties kids movie is something that you'd very rarely see. What really helps to sell the scene is both the writing and the acting since the writing for the scene is so simple that it works it also helps that they set up the story very early on in the film and so when they bring it back near the end of the film we the audience understand just what that story means to both Dot and to her brothers and the acting in that scene from both Rob Paulsen and Tress MacNeille is so good that it really does make the whole scene very heartbreaking so much so that I was choking up while watching the scene because the scene itself just had me so hooked because that's how emotional and how good that one scene even is.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and nineteen minuets and thirty three seconds. Which is another issue that I personally had with this film since his film is far to short as you very very easily could have gotten this film up to one hour and thirty minuets just by expanding upon the plot and giving the new characters a bit more of a personality both of which would ave made this film feel alot more like film and alot less like just an extended episode of the TV show and nothing more then that plus it would have allowed for more characters from the TV show to play apart in the film as well.
So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty a very mixed bag of affairs for me personally. Even tho we do have some good jokes in this film those are very quickly followed up by to or three bad jokes which are just painfully unfunny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this film was a great way to end the original series it;s just a shame that Warner bros Pictures. chose to release straight to VHS because they didn't want to market the film since this film could quite easily have made them quite alot of money at the box office in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Animaniacs fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official Animaniacs fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the official Animaniacs fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.