Disney finds its trendiness

Rating: Null/10 (24 August 2000)

Don't get me wrong, trendiness and pop culture humor do not a good movie make. In "Aladdin", though, it just worked. Robin Williams pulled it off really well. I love the movie through and through, but I'll say that he was the best part about it, even though it did take me a while to realize who all the people he was impersonating were. It wasn't only Robin Williams, though, so don't think that's what I'm saying. The music was also really good. I tried to learn all the songs from the soundtrack, but I never quite got them all. I just love the movie as a whole.
My fondest memory of it is when two of my friends and I tried once to act the whole movie out, but we never got past the scene where Aladdin sings "One Jump Ahead". I was the shortest, so I always played Iago and Abu. Not even "Beauty and the Beast", my favorite Disney movie, has such nostalgic value to me. It's only too bad that neither of the sequels was worthy to carry the Aladdin name.