Best Disney Film

Rating: 10/10 (4 April 2011)

Aladdin is one of the best films that Walt Disney has produced so far, and it can still makes me sing along with their catchy song numbers, appreciate the hard work put into it from various artists, and the talented voice actors. The movie's charm has lasted for this long since the 1992 release, and is special still just for that fact that everything was hand-drawn!
Artists from all over the world were gathered to help create this fantastic piece of work. To capture the bagginess of Aladdin's pants, for example, animator Glen Keane looked up videos of the popular rapper M.C. Hammer. How crazy is that? Even something as simple as the magical lamp had to be created over and over on paper before getting what the Director wanted for the movie. There is a lot of effort into creating a fantastic film like this, and could take a few years to complete. If someone were to mess up a background painting for the city of Agrabah, they would have to redo the entire painting. There was very little room for messing up, and sometimes whole scenes were scratched out in the storyboarding process before actual drawings were produced.
I love the songs in this film, especially "Prince Ali(Reprise)" sung by Jonathan Freeman as Jafar. His voice just takes the happy Prince Ali song from the beginning of the film, and then uses it in a mocking way towards Aladdin and Jasmine. He reveals to her and the Sultan that Prince Ali is just the street rat Aladdin. Jafar's creepy laugh at the end of the song, when he sends Aladdin off to the northern reaches of the Earth, is one of the scariest and wildest maniacal laughs in the Disney Films as a whole.