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''Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish'', usually referred to as ''Wakko's Wish'', is a 1999 animated musical comedy-drama film created exclusively on video. The film is based on the Warner Bros. 1993–98 animated series ''Animaniacs'', and serves as the last ''Animaniacs'' production. It relocates all of the ''Animaniacs'' characters to a quasi-medieval fairy tale world and portrays their race to find the wishing star that will grant them a wish. While the film was released during the Christmas season, the holiday is not a factor in its plot, though the events do take place during winter. ''Wakko's Wish'' was first released on VHS on December 21, 1999 by Warner Home Video and Warner Bros. Family Entertainment. It contained 10 original songs and starred Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell and Tress MacNeille reprising their roles as ''Animaniacs'' characters Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. ==Plot== In the town of Acme Falls within the kingdom of Warnerstock, all the people live happily together. However, upon the death of the king, Sir William the Good, Warnerstock enters a state of civil war. Taking advantage of the situation, the neighboring kingdom of Ticktockia, led by King Salazar, the Pushy, takes over Warnerstock, and makes all its people poor and miserable due to overtaxing. Three orphans, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner, are particularly troubled, as Dot needs an operation. Wakko finds work in another town to pay for it, but Plotz takes his pay – a half penny – from him, lying that it is for taxes. Wakko, saddened about Dot's illness and finding no other choice, wishes upon a star. A fairy (who calls himself a "desire fulfillment facilitator" or "Pip") falls from the star and explains that Wakko had just chosen the only wishing star in the sky. The star itself (Rita and Runt witness ) falls shortly after in the mountains and the fairy tells Wakko whoever touches the star first gets one wish. The following morning, the siblings tell the whole town about the star in their excitement, and all rush towards the glow in the mountains. King Salazar finds out about the star, orders Taxman Plotz to stop the Warners from reaching the star alive, and orders his troops to secure it. Plotz does not stop the Warners from reaching the star at the same time as all the other townsfolk. However, the King's army has already built a military base around the star, and a small ice palace to the side of it, and the townspeople (including Plotz) are all captured and locked up so that the King may have his wish. The Warners hint that the wishing process is not as simple as the king thinks in a desperate bluff. The King captures the Warners and tortures them. The Warners tell the King any wish he makes could have an ironic twist and demonstate this to his annoyance. He orders the Warners executed, but Dot uses her charms to save them. The Warners escape. As the King is about to make his wish (for the Warners to leave him alone), the Warners show up, and he tries shooting them himself with a cannon. He misses, but Dot seems mortally wounded by the force of the explosion created when the cannonball hits the ground. Wakko seizes his chance to head to the star, and Yakko drops behind, trying to convince Dot that she can make it. Yakko then tells Dot the story of how Dot was born one last time. Dot then seemingly dies, causing the people of Acme Falls to cry in sorrow, along with some of the royal army, who become furious with King Salazar for his cruel nature. As everyone turns on the King, Wakko reaches the star. Dot reveals that she had been acting and was not actually injured; the two were buying time for Wakko. Wakko wishes for two half pennies. Wakko uses the first of these to buy food and "season tickets for the Lakers". The second one pays for Dot's operation, which is revealed to be a plastic surgery to give her a beauty mark. Wakko's first half penny, however, returns prosperity to the town as the butcher, the baker, and the grocer spend the money they earned, and the people from whom they make purchases in turn do the same. The hospital finds Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's birth certificates, and reveals they are the heirs to the throne. Their parents, seen for first and only time in a portrait, were the king and queen of Warnerstock. They boot Salazar out of their palace, and he is attacked by his own dogs. The Warners use their newfound royal authorities to grant the citizens of Acme Falls their wishes. The Wheel of Morality specifies the moral of the story is "just cheer up and never ever give up hope". == Voice cast == * Jess Harnell as Wakko * Rob Paulsen as Yakko, Pinky and Dr. Otto Scratchansniff * Tress MacNeille as Dot, Marita Hippo, Hello Nurse and Mindy's Mother * Maurice LaMarche as The Brain, Squit and Wakko's Burps * Sherri Stoner as Slappy Squirrel * Nathan Ruegger as Skippy Squirrel * Nancy Cartwright as Mindy * Frank Welker as Buttons, Ralph, Baron von Plotz, Runt and Flavio Hippo * Chick Vennera as Pesto * John Mariano as Bobby * Bernadette Peters as Rita * Julie Brown as Minerva Mink * Paxton Whitehead as King Salazar * Ben Stein as Desire Fulfillment Facilitator (aka, "Pip") * Jeff Bennett as Baloney, and the Captain of the Guard * Paul Rugg as Mr. Director * Tom Bodett as the Narrator * Steven Bernstein as Himself 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wakko's Wish」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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