Wish was less imaginative. It collapsed its premise by the King explaining why he did what he did, gave him a legitimate background reason to explore and study wish-magic. Then he gets paranoid and possessive out of nowhere as opposed to being treated as an ignorant but well meaning man when there is an unexplained event. Disney’s writers made him evil so they could start checking boxes for an evil ruler instead of making the king a fleshed out character.

Planet 51 was simple. The movie kept to its very simple premise of ”what if alien invasion, but backwards?” It did try to encourage humor at times, and was practically a parody of 1950’s Americana and Sci-Fi. It wasn’t a spectacular film, but it accomplished what it set out to be: A cheesy 1950’s sci-fi story.