History YMMV / WishUpon

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

* MemeticMutation: If you are familiar with WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDotOrg, you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2qpLj7_7vs may]] know this as the movie with "[[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer the Asian kid from]] Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy".

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The cast are hardly likeable, with the main character using the box to make wishes despite getting the memo that the box kills people. The worst part? [[spoiler:Even if you rooted for Clare 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]].

** Claire finds that when she makes a wish on the box, someone close to her dies, and her wish is granted in ways she doesn't necessarily want. Also, she discovers that everyone who had used all 7 of the box's wishes died shortly after.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Claire to realize early on that the wishes are what's causing all the trouble and use a wish to undo everything before never making a wish again, leaving the counter frozen. She could also wish for the box to undo all of its wishes and then destroy itself.\\
'''Alternatively:''' Claire could also try to exploit the box's rules, such as wishing to reset the counter or wishing that the box would stop killing people after a wish is made. She could also test to see if giving the box to Ryan would reset the counter or if Ryan could make wishes for her that could undo the damage. It might not work, but it would be worth a shot considering what's at stake.\\
'''Instead:''' Claire uses her very last wish to undo all of the damage.\\
'''Even Worse:''' Claire gets told that all of the box's wishes would be undone if she got rid of it, and she ''keeps using the box anyway.''\\

** Claire is in love with a boy named Paul. She wants him to love her back.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That if Claire would use the box to wish for him to love her, that she would choose her wording carefully. She's already seen how the box interprets her wording at this point to possibly produce outcomes she doesn't want.\\
'''Instead:''' Claire wishes that Paul would fall "madly" in love with her.\\

** Darcie has been bullying Claire and her friends. When she [[spoiler: develops necrotizing fasciitis (i.e. she starts rotting) as a result of Claire's wish]], her friends/minions set up a [=GoFundMe=] for her. They want to ask people to help.\\

'''Instead:''' They decide to target Claire and her friends, who Darcie had been relentlessly bullying, and act as if they were entitled to the group's support.\\
'''As A Result:''' Claire and her friends refuse to support the campaign.
** The box may have been doing some supernatural heavy lifting, but many of the deaths it causes were already accidents waiting to happen. For example, Claire's father is cutting a branch with a chainsaw:\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Claire's father to have safety precautions in place so that he wouldn't suffer an injury from the falling branch.\\
'''Instead:''' Claire's father stands on a chair in order to cut the branch down.\\

** For some reason, after she is down to her last two wishes, Clare never considers trying to wish for the box to immediately undo all of the evil it has done and destroy itself on the spot before it can even kill someone.
*** Even more of an IdiotBall when Claire was told that the box will undo all of her wishes if she gets rid of it. Again, simply could have at least getting rid of it would cut half the movie short everything that happened.
** 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 undo 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 undo all of the damage that had been done.
** Even if the wish box wasn't actively malevolent wishing that Paul would fall "madly" in love with Clare is still a very poorly worded wish.
** Darcie's friends (Read Minions) started a GoFundMe for Darcie and were surprised when Clare and her friends (Darcie's main victims) refused to support it. Points for how they approached them as well, acting as if they really should.
** Let’s not forget that those who did die from the wishes, often died from their own stupidity, such as [[TooDumbToLive Clare’s father standing on a chair while cutting down a branch with a chainsaw.]]

* {{Narm}}: Pretty much [[SoBadItsGood the entire movie]] qualifies, but some special moments are listed below:
** The movie's soundtrack is ''terrible'', consisting of music that sounds like it could have come off a ''Now That's What I Call Music!'' compilation. The fact that some of it plays over a clichéd shopping montage sequence makes it even more unintentionally hilarious.
** A lot of the movie's dialogue is cringeworthy and hard to take seriously, due to not sounding like how real people talk. Special mention goes to Clare's "smegma" insult to Darcie, which degenerates into [[DontExplainTheJoke explaining the insult]].
** Taking Clare seriously as the protagonist is very difficult due to how she's apparently so thick that she doesn't realize that the box might be killing people every time it grants a wish, with how her friends and relatives die ''every time'' soon after she makes a wish.
** When Clare finds out about her mother's suicide, she drops the bike she was riding near her house and runs inside. One TimeSkip later, Clare and her father still live in the same house, the grass is regularly cut, and the bike apparently hasn't been moved or touched since.
** Jonathan still giving in to his compulsion to hoard and dumpster dive for some reason, even after Clare inherits her wealthy uncle's fortune.
** One of Clare's wishes is for her father to stop dumpster diving and be a cool musician. Cue a very clichéd scene of Clare and her friends fawning over her father playing the saxophone like in a 70s sitcom.
** The fact that Clare wishes that Paul would fall '''madly''' in love with her is particularly hilarious in that it's so blatantly [[WhatAnIdiot a very stupid wish that will come back to bite her in the ass.]]
** The scene where [[spoiler:Paul takes Clare'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 Clare's shocked gasp in response to what happens is clearly a StockSoundEffect. This entire sequence is also never brought up again, making it come off as {{Padding}}.
** The film's attempts at showing Clare's mental state in some parts amount to merely desaturating the colors when she's unhappy and then restoring the saturation when she's happy, as if the filmmakers felt that her facial expressions [[{{Anvilicious}} weren't sufficient]].
** [[spoiler: Clare's mental breakdown toward the end]] is nigh-impossible to take seriously due to Joey King's [[LargeHam hilariously over-the-top performance]].
** The genie's attempt(s) at offing [[spoiler:Clare's dad deserve a mention as well. First the car breaks down, he nearly gets run over by speeding cars, his own car nearly crushes him when he tries to reach for the bolt, and he nearly gets his face ripped off by the escaped tyre when it bounces off a car coming from the other direction.]] The whole thing is a ''[[Film/FinalDestination Final Destination]]'' rip-off; you can practically ''feel'' the demon go "just DIE, for goodness' sake!" by the end of the sequence.

** Creator/ChrisStuckmann and Matthew Brando's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-jsJ4rLr00 review]] also mocks it as the best unintentional comedy of 2017.

** 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.

* WhatAnIdiot:

* ClicheStorm: A double case. The film uses clichés from both high school romantic comedies ''and'' horror films and plays them completely straight without any hint of irony.

** A lot of the movie's dialogue is cringeworthy and hard to take seriously, due to not sounding like how real people talk.

* SpecialEffectFailure: In one scene where Clare gasps in shock at [[spoiler: Paul cutting himself]], it's blatantly a {{Stock Sound Effect|s}}.

** Taking Clare seriously as the protagonist is very difficult due to how she's apparently so thick that she doesn't realize that the box might be killing people every time it grants a wish, with how her relatives die every time soon after she makes a wish.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The cast are hardly likeable, with the main character using 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]].

** When Claire finds out about her mother's suicide, she drops the bike she was riding near her house and runs inside. One TimeSkip later, Claire and her father still live in the same house, the grass is regularly cut, and the bike apparently hasn't been moved or touched since.
** Jonathan still giving in to his compulsion to hoard and dumpster dive for some reason, 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 clichéd scene of Claire and her friends fawning over her father playing the saxophone like in a 70s sitcom.
** The fact that Claire wishes that Paul would fall '''madly''' in love with her is particularly hilarious in that it's so blatantly [[WhatAnIdiot a very stupid wish that will come back to bite her in the ass.]]
** 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 in response to what happens is clearly a StockSoundEffect. This entire sequence is also never brought up again, making it come off as {{Padding}}.
** The film's attempts at showing Claire's mental state in some parts amount to merely desaturating the colors when she's unhappy and then restoring the saturation when she's happy, as if the filmmakers felt that her facial expressions [[{{Anvilicious}} weren't sufficient]].
** [[spoiler: Claire's mental breakdown toward the end]] is nigh-impossible to take seriously due to Joey King's [[LargeHam hilariously over-the-top performance]].

** Claire. 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]].
** Tyler, Darcie's AmbiguouslyGay friend/minion, whose primary character traits are being extremely {{Camp}} [[SissyVillain bully]] and impulsively taking photos of anything embarrassing he sees and uploading it on Instagram. The latter even extends to taking pictures of [[spoiler:Darcie '''as she's rotting alive''']]. Also, at the start of said scene, he is seen literally [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sleeping in the closet]].

** Tyler, Darcie's AmbiguouslyGay friend/minion, whose primary character traits are being extremely {{Camp}} and impulsively taking photos of anything embarrassing he sees and uploading it on Instagram. The latter even extends to taking pictures of [[spoiler:Darcie '''as she's rotting alive''']]. Also, at the start of said scene, he is seen literally [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sleeping in the closet]].

* TheScrappy: Claire. 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]].

** When Claire finds out about her mother's suicide, she drops the bike she was riding near her house and runs inside. One TimeSkip later, Claire and her father still live in the same house and the grass is regularly cut, but the bike apparently hasn't been moved or touched since.

** When Claire finds out about her mother's suicide, she drops the bike she was riding near her house and runs inside. One TimeSkip later and the bike apparently hasn't been moved or touched since.

** The movie's soundtrack is ''terrible'', consisting of music that sounds like it could have come off a ''Now That's What I Call Music!'' compilation.

** The fact that Claire wishes that Paul would fall '''madly''' in love with her is particularly hilarious in that it's so blatantly a very stupid wish that will come back to bite her in the ass.
** 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 in response to what happens is clearly a StockSoundEffect. This entire sequence is also never brought up again.
** The film's attempts at showing Claire's mental state in some parts amounts to merely desaturating the colors when she's unhappy and then restoring the saturation when she's happy, as if the filmmakers felt that her facial expressions [[{{Anvilicious}} weren't sufficient]].

* NightmareRetardant: Most deaths in the film, which isn't helped by how they're clearly tailored to get the film a PG-13 rating, as well as being largely caused by the victims' [[TooDumbToLive own stupidity]]. Particularly hilarious deaths include [[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.]]

** When Claire finds out about her mother's suicide, she drops the bike she was riding near her house and runs inside. One TimeSkip later and the bike apparently has been on the exact same spot untouched for 12 years.

* TaintedByThePreview: The film's trailers state that it is directed by the director of ''Film/{{Annabelle}}'' (another poorly-received horror movie), and said director also directed the critically panned ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''. This led viewers to decide ''not'' to see the film, which wasn't helped by the trailers including [[ClicheStorm many overdone horror cliches]].

** The fact that Claire wishes that Paul would fall '''madly''' in love with her is particularly hilarious in that it's so blatantly a very stupid wish.

** 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 in response to what happens is clearly a StockSoundEffect.

* NightmareRetardant: Most deaths in the film, which isn't helped by how they're clearly tailored to get the film a PG-13 rating. 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.]]

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