In this endeavor, a perfectly attractive and ordinary teenage girl is menaced by the stunt doubles of the cast of "Mean Girls" until she finds a magical Asian music box/wish machine that looks like a slide projector and... not much changes. See as how she's already cute and not really an outcast, and the popular boy has already asked her on a date, the whole wishing thing kind of seems like a joke. After the first wish for the ersatz Mean Girl to "just, like, totally rot or something," the wishes don't really seem to do much. She wishes to be popular and this manifests itself as her getting invited to a party and somebody mentioning she looks cute. She wishes for her father not to be embarrassing, and lo and behold, her father is Ryan Phillippe (which he has been all along), only one of her friends notices that he's hot all of a sudden. They don't even do us the courtesy of giving the characters glasses and then removing them to reveal themselves as babes or studs. For each wish, the magical Asian slide projector takes a life in a very Final Destination fashion. Two deaths are outright Final Destination ripoffs. I must mention that our heroine is totally useless. Two suicides happen directly in front of her, and she doesn't even try to approach the person. She just stands there sobbing and yelling, unconvincingly at that. The final death is meant to be shocking, and it might have been, were it not totally laughable. Some of the above 10/10 reviews seem to have been professionally written. The filmmakers ought to have saved their money on fake critics and put it onto screen. Or spent it better, as I believe this thing cost 12 mil.
Review of Wish Upon
