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2020 · animation · family · adventure · action

The Wishmas Tree

Directed by Ricard Cussó1h 30m2020
ElsewhereIMDb4.9339RT50%
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • inventive
  • redemptive
  • tender
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A young possum's misguided wish for a white Wishmas not only freezes her entire hometown of Sanctuary City, but also threatens the lives of all who live there. Before the magical Wishmas Tree dies, she must undertake a perilous journey into the WILD; battling self-doubt, ghostly predators and ultimately, Extinction itself, to reverse the damage she has caused and save her city.

Our read · The Wishmas Tree (2020) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a colorful animated adventure about fixing a magical mistake with heart.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upanimal harm

Skip it tonightYou want live-action or anything without talking animals and mild scares.

If The Wishmas Tree is your film
Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal (2020)
same Australian Sanctuary City animated world
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
small creature on perilous quest to save home
(darker and more intense tone)
Epic (2013)
tiny hero in big nature adventure with heart
(different animation style and scale)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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