History YMMV / WishUpon

* SnarkBait: The movie has been the butt of mockery for being yet another ClicheStorm horror movie with [[NightmareRetardant unintentionally hilarious death scenes]]. The fact that the director also directed the similarly-mocked ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' and ''Film/{{Annabelle}}'' doesn't help.

** The scene where [[spoiler:Paul takes Claire's rejection badly]] is difficult to take seriously due to [[spoiler: his reaction being... to simply cut himself instead of doing something more drastic like [[SpurnedIntoSuicide committing suicide]], after he claims that he can't live without her.]] There's also the fact that Claire's shocked gasp is clearly a StockSoundEffect.

** Jonathan still giving in to his compulsion to hoard and dumpster dive even after Claire inherits her wealthy uncle's fortune.
** One of Claire's wishes is for her father to stop dumpster diving and be a cool musician. Cue a very cliched scene of Claire and her friends fawning over her father playing the saxophone like in a 70s sitcom.

* TheScrappy: Clare. Despite being the main character, viewers found themselves unable to sympathize with her when she continued to use the box for herself even after knowing that its effects [[MoralEventHorizon kill people after making a wish]].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The cast are hardly likeable, with the main character uses the box to make wishes despite getting the memo that the box kills people. The worst part? [[spoiler:Even if you rooted for Claire to beat the box via a ResetButtonEnding, she still dies anyways and makes the overall movie pointless as someone else just picks up the box anyways]].

* NightmareRetardant: Most deaths in the film. In particular is [[spoiler:Uncle August ''really'' clumsily slipping in the tub and hitting his head on the edge of the tub ''and'' finally doing himself in by banging his head on the nozzle]] and [[spoiler:Clare's body ''flying'' after getting hit by Darcie's car.]]

* {{Narm}}
** A lot of the deaths, which are more funny than scary.

** Not to mention the fact that Darcie's friends (Read Minions) started a GoFundMe for Darcie and when Clare and her friends (Darcie's main victims) refused to support it

* SoBadItsGood: This appears to be the overall critical consensus for the film, as indicated on its Website/RottenTomatoes [[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wish_upon page]]:

* {{Fanon}}: It has been commonly accepted among fans that this film takes place in the same universe as the [[Film/TheConjuring Conjuring film series and its spin-offs]] due the fact that the director also directed ''{{Film/Annabelle}}''.

* {{Narm}}: Most deaths in the film. In particular is [[spoiler:Uncle August ''really'' clumsily slipping in the tub and hitting his head on the edge of the tub ''and'' finally doing himself in by banging his head on the nozzle]] and [[spoiler:Clare's body ''flying'' after getting hit by Darcie's car.]]

* TheScrappy: Clare. Despite being the main character, viewers found themselves unable to sympathize with her when she continued to use the box for herself even after knowing that its effects [[MoralEventHorizon kill people after making a wish]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Meredith is well-liked, mostly because despite her roughness, she's the only one to rightfully call Clare a bitch for keeping a mystical item that kills people when wishes are made.[[spoiler: Most viewers could rest easy knowing that the last wish was able to resurrect Meredith from her death earlier in the film.]]

* {{Fanon}}: It has been commonly accepted among fans that this film takes place in the same universe as the [[Film/TheConjuring Conjuring film series and it's spin-offs]] due the fact that the director also directed {{Film/Annabelle}}.
* {{Narm}}: Most deaths in the film. In particular is [[spoiler:Uncle August ''really'' clumsily slipping in the tub and hitting his head on the edge of the tub AND finally doing himself in by banging his head on the nozzle]] and [[spoiler:Clare's body ''flying'' after getting hit by Darcie's car.]]

** For some reason, after she is down to her last two wishes, Clare never considers trying to wish for the box to immediately undue all of the evil it has done and destroy itself on the spot before it can even kill someone.
** It may or may not have worked, but the fact that Clare did not even try seeing if she could exploit the wishes (depending on rather or not they had a limit) by seeing if she could wish for the counter to reset itself or if she could wish for the box to no longer kill people after a wish is made. She also does not try to give the box to Ryan to see if the counter would reset itself when given a new owner (if it didn't remain unusable to anyone except her until she made her last two wishes), and if it did, seeing if he could make wishes for her that would undue the damage that had been done. The two of them really should have tried to figure out all of the details about how the box and its wishes worked so that they could figure out what was the best way to undue all of the damage that had been done.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Meredith is well liked, mostly because despite her roughness, she's the only one to rightfully call Clare a bitch for keeping a mystical item that kills people when wishes are made.[[spoiler: Most veiwers could rest easy knowing that the last wish was able to resurrect Meredith from her death earlier in the film.]]

* TheScrappy: Clare. Despite being the main character, viewers found themselves unable to sympathize with her when she contiued to use the box for her self even after knowing that is effects [[MoralEventHorizon kill people after making a wish]].

* WhatAnIdiot: For some reason, after she is down to her last two wishes, Clare never considers trying to wish for the box to immediately undue all of the evil it has done and destroy itself on the spot before it can even kill someone.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: For some reason, after she is down to her last two wishes, Clare never considers trying to wish for the box to immediately undue all of the evil it has done and destroy itself on the spot before it can even kill someone.

* SoBadItsGood: This appears to be the overall critical consensus for the film, as indicated on Website/RottenTomatoes: