I guess the idea is that this is meant to show you that the music box isn't fucking around, it does fulfill your every wish. This isn't really all that important, but shouldn't these wishes have escalated? Like maybe she starts with the simple shit first and then her wishes get progressively worse. Secondly, I think, she wishes for her crush to be madly in love with her. This girl's face and foot starts to rot away. I put that in quotation marks because Clare wishes that her bully (this mean girl type) would just rot, which, inevitably, starts to happen. Clare's father eventually gives her the music box and she starts to make wishes. It was difficult for me to get into that part of the film, but that's neither here nor there, of course.
Perhaps not idiotic, but it's so utterly convenient that Clare's father, while dumpster diving, found this same music box that led his wife to kill herself and, ultimately, scar her daughter for life. So, right from the start, we're into idiotic territory right here. Her dad, while going dumpster diving, finds the same exact music box that Clare's mother threw away years ago. Clare finds her mother as she is hanging so, naturally, she has issues with the lack of closure due to her mother's actions. She throws away the music box and, ultimately, kills herself immediately after. First things first, I guess, Clare's mother used to own the music box. What a shame, however, that we got a bad movie in exchange. What would you do? Would you keep making wishes even knowing what you know about the music box in question? While it is a played out concept, again, there was still potential for this to be somewhat interesting. Because it's a movie that, in my opinion, is made so you can ask yourself exactly what you would do if you knew you had seven wishes to make that, ultimately, requires a blood price for those wishes to come into fruition. Seriously though, it's a boring and repetitive concept, to be sure, but that doesn't mean that you can't tell a relatively interesting story out of it. I grew up watching, and loving, The Fairly Oddparents, so for this movie to not follow canon with that show is disappointing. Yes, this is a concept that is played out in all forms of media.
That tradition continues here with Wish Upon following up Raw. So, lately, apparently, it has become sort of a tradition that I follow up a very good (or good) movie with one that's, eh, not so good.
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