The scenes without the Genie and Iago are the slow ones

Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2002)

After making me vote their animated version of "Beauty And The Beast" the previous year as "the worst film that I have ever seen", Walt Disney Pictures follows up on that flop with their animated version of "Aladdin." "Aladdin" was a little known fairy tale before the old mouse house popularized it. The story has to deal with the decisions that have to be reached by various characters. There's Aladdin, a young streetwise beggar who has to steal food from the marketplace in order to survive. There's Princess Jasmine who has to find herself a permanent suitor before her next birthday and there's Jafar, a wicked royal vizier who is obsessed with his ambitions to become sultan. These three characters eventually come together and it's not an entirely pretty sight. However, all of this is secondary when compared to the hilarious genie whom Aladdin and Jafar both fight for the ownership of and then there's Iago, Jafar's hilariously smart aleck parrot sidekick. These two characters are the highest points in what a basically just a minor improvement over "Beauty And The Beast." As for the rest of it, the songs and other supporting characters are a little weak.