All the things to know earlier than watching Disney’s Want

At Polygon, plenty of us are followers of sitting all the way down to a film with as little up-front data as doable, for the sensation of discovery. However generally, it helps to know a couple of issues stepping into, whether or not it’s an fascinating reality concerning the film’s historical past, or simply realizing what number of end-credit scenes to attend for. Listed here are 5 issues we expect it is best to learn about Walt Disney Animation Studios’ new animated function Want earlier than watching.

Does Want have a post-credits scene?

It does! It’s a short, wordless sequence that doesn’t have any plot relevance, so you may resolve for your self whether or not it’s price staying to observe. Like plenty of different components in Want, it’s largely meant as a visible celebration of Disney’s 100-year anniversary. Within the scene, a personality with a lute plucks out a easy acoustic model of Disney’s signature ballad “When You Want Upon a Star,” which segues into Disney’s up to date CG animated anniversary brand. There isn’t so much to it, besides as one other approach the film faucets into Disney historical past. However for those who’re sitting there on the finish of the film feeling the type of nostalgia Disney meant you to really feel, it would carry on the nice and cozy fuzzies.

Why does Want’s animation look totally different from different Disney motion pictures?

Want is expressly meant as a salute to Disney historical past, which is why it’s packed filled with visible references to previous Disney motion pictures. A part of that mission had the administrators, Chris Buck (Frozen) and Fawn Veerasunthorn (Raya and the Final Dragon story head), making an attempt to digitally approximate Walt Disney Animation’s basic 2D hand-painted look. For this movie, they used a digital strategy beforehand examined on the experimental Disney brief Paperman.

You’ll be able to learn extra concerning the animation improvement course of and the software program used to render it in our behind-the-scenes have a look at Want’s animation.

The place can I hear the songs from Want?

Picture: Walt Disney Animation Studios

Probably anticipating piracy and deciding to only get all of the video-play payout for themselves, Disney has launched the Want soundtrack in an official playlist on YouTube. There are fairly a couple of songs, so if these had been all precise clips from the flicks, you’d be capable of watch a major chunk of Disney’s Want free on-line. As an alternative, these are lyric movies. In the event you’re the type of one who likes to take heed to a musical’s songs forward of time (we don’t perceive you, however we all know you’re on the market), otherwise you’re previewing the film for youthful viewers, otherwise you come out of Want with a selected music you need to revisit, that’s the simplest option to do it.

As of press time, a couple of of the songs had been additionally on Spotify on Disney’s channel, however the entire album hadn’t been uploaded but.

Who wrote the songs in Want?

Disney followers could discover that Want’s songs don’t have that Broadway-number, singalong high quality frequent to so many Disney musicals, and that they’re extra like radio-ready trendy pop. That’s as a result of the lyrics had been written by Grammy-nominated pop artist Julia Michaels, who’s beforehand written songs for Justin Bieber (“Sorry”), Ed Sheeran (“Dive”), Gwen Stefani (“Used To Love You”), and Britney Spears (“Slumber Social gathering”), amongst others. The music is by Michaels and indie-rock producer Benjamin Rice. They gave Want a a lot glossier pop sound than most Disney motion pictures, considerably akin to the radio remixes of Disney soundtrack songs which were frequent for the reason that Disney Renaissance.

Why do a few of Want’s characters look so acquainted?

Oof. So you might wind up questioning why the protagonist, Asha (Ariana DeBose), has a squad of seven friends backing her up — characters who largely don’t have so much to do, however are nearly at all times collectively all through the film. These characters are an prolonged gag from Disney historical past: They’re modeled after the dwarfs from Disney’s first animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Not solely are their outfits color-coded after the dwarfs, they every have traits particular to the Snow White characters.

Picture: Walt Disney Animation Studios

Picture: Walt Disney Animation Studios

Methods to inform which Want character is which dwarf? The quickest approach is to examine the primary letters of their names. Dahlia (Jennifer Kumiyama), Asha’s finest good friend with the little spherical glasses and a bent to guide the group, is Doc. The paranoid, always complaining Gabo (Harvey Guillén) is Grumpy. Smiley however not very assertive Hal (Niko Vargas) is Blissful. Simon (Evan Peters), the massive man who’s dazed and half-conscious for a lot of the film, is Sleepy. Safi (Ramy Youssef), whose solely attribute is that may’t cease sneezing, is Sneezy. Dario (Jon Rudnitsky), the big-eared man whose job is saying clueless issues, is Dopey. And Bazeema (Della Saba), the introvert who retains disappearing early within the film, is Bashful. None of that is spelled out within the film, however when you see it, you may’t unsee it.