If you remember "Even Stevens" the Disney Channel Original series from the early 2000's you'll remember A.J. Trauth who played Louis' (Shia LaBeouf) friend, Twitty. Disney Channel give him a starring role in an Original Movie based off a 1991 book called "If I Had One Wish". This movie from January of 2003 is called "You Wish". He's not the only Disney Channel star in this movie either more on that soon.
The premise of this movie is that our main Character named Alex Lansing (A.J Trauth) is annoyed by his younger brother Stevie. Stevie for note is played by Spencer Breslin who was part of Disney projects in the past few years in that time span including being in "Santa Clause 2" (Santa Clause 2: the Disney cash grab, nothing against him though). That annoyance leads him to not want him to exist. This movie also stars, if you watched "Lizzie McGuire", the other hit Disney Channel series, you know her from that- Lalaine, who played Miranda on that show.
It starts with war! Hold on it's a slime war, so it's a war on clothes. Then there's a pet adoption day and Alex wants a dog and Stevie wants a turkey, which they got. (Because the parents are insane people) Some jocks make fun of Alex having a turkey because jocks in a move. Then the jocks waste a pizza by slamming on Alex because they're jocks in a movie. Now there's narration from Alex. (You can't just enter like that? What are you doing?)
Wasting Pizza, darn jocks/ Copyright Disney
Alex talks about how his brother messes up his life over time because he always takes center stage. Alex has a plot device for this movie, his coin collection. He tells Stevie leave his stuff alone and bars him from the room for 2 weeks. (We also need a plot catalyst wonder what that will be?) He does relent and let's the boy watch a movie with him. Seems like a happy ending, well movie over. Oh wait no.
Brother Bonding but I got shot at a random time so it looks like this / Copyright Disney
This part of the movie is setting up how much Alex gets annoyed by his brother and that his life isn't perfect because yeah. Also in this movie is Tim Reid as Larry the coin shop owner, who gets saved by Stevie from falling down. He gives the movie our plot device, a good for one wish. Stevi leaves a bench that Alex had him stay and after a search and Stevie asks a guard for help, Alex gets punished. Alex is not happy and Stevie tries to make it up to him by giving him the wish coin.
This man had a magic coin and just gave it away/ Copyright Disney
Alex makes a wish that he didn't have a brother kind of in a off handed way and goes to sleep. The next morning Alex finds out that he has an alarm clock, and there' that dog he wanted. His room is different too even trophies. (well then) The house is completely different oh, there's no Stevie , well kind of, his brother is now some boy named Terrence Russell McCormack who plays on a TV show called "Where's Stevie" (He did wish that he didn't have a brother, not that Stevie never existed.) Also, there's this drawn out sequence that goes around for too long it gets annoying.
His parents also are in the X-Files in this universe/ Copyright Disney
This movie also mentions a Dodge Viper, so there's that. At school, he's a star jock and the head cheerleader is his girlfriend because movie. Meanwhile his friends from before like Abby (Lalaine) aren't his friends anymore because of course. Things are going well but he seems to miss his things. Also, jocks waste more pizza.
WHY DO THEY WASTE SO MUCH PIZZA?/ Copyright Disney
Since of alot of this movie is montages or not heavy in events I'm going to talk a little about the music. It has some early 2000's hit songs in it like during one of the montages it has "World of Our Own" by Westlife. "Life is Good" by Junk. I do find it interesting again, that these early Disney Channel movies do have more popular songs in them and not pulling from their own resources like later movies end up doing.
Anyway, Alex starts talking to Abby and he starts missing his brother. He has now decided that he wants his brother back. So of course, the logical thing to do is find the 10-year-old actor to help him? (You know instead of trying make another wish) Alex for some reason thought that the boy would know who he was, like he apparently forgot how the wish worked. He does find out that Terrance/Stevie is unhappy with his life. Also, we have the song "A Thousand Miles"by Vanessa Carlton used as he remembers the good times he had with Stevie plus some scenes reused from the movie.
He's not pushing that van or is he?/Copyright Disney
Terrance/Stevie decides to hang out with Alex for the afternoon. Alex finally does some math in his head and has figures out that he has to get the coin from earlier back, but since Stevie didn't save Larry (Tim Reid) they have to find him. He goes to Abby to get Larry's address from a raffle ticket. Abby starts to believe his story because he knows things about her that she hasn't told anybody in this parallel time. They go looking for Larry. I like the scenes in this movie when they go looking for him it has some sweet moments and really is touching. Sadly, Larry doesn't have the coin anymore he sold it to dealer with a bunch of other coins.
He apparently had the coin in his room so, he makes a wish and things are back to normal.
I sound like I rushed it but really he pretty much goes home after the agent takes Stevie back to his days and sits in his room depressed and flings a box of coins and ends up finding the coin.
I think it was alright movie that has it's basic message of "be careful what you wish for" or it might just happen and you might not want it to. It's pacing does feel dragged out to the point where it feels like they forgot they only had 80-something minutes and spend up the ending to get everything back to normal but our main character learning his lesson. It's basic movie but I don't think it's awful but it isn't one of their best either it's middle of the range .
Tune in next time after you wish for a better blog , that's mean I'm hurt.
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