One of Disney's Best

Rating: 7/10 (13 November 2016)

"Aladdin" was released in 1992, at the height of Disney's cinematic era. Disney had just made the two greats "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast." Because of this, it might have been hard for Disney to create a film better than their previous ones, but "Aladdin" is so well-made with such great performances, namely Robin Williams as the genie, that it can be compared to such classic Disney animated features like "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." "Aladdin" did not start Disney's 'Golden Age', but it did have a lasting impact on animated films still to this day.
Aladdin is a "street-rat", or so the movie calls him, that one day falls in love with the princess Jasmine. As with the classic Disney formula of the '90s, he can't marry her because he is not a prince. It seems unoriginal now, but back then it was one of the first times a movie had done that. Jafar is the assistant to the King, and he is a generic secretly evil Disney villain. The movie is interesting enough, until you get to the genie. Once you get the Robin William's genie, the movie explodes into a joyride that you can't take your eyes off. Robin Williams gives one of the best performances of his career as the voice of the genie. Take the genie out of the movie, and it is just another Disney film with a generic plot following the same formula. The genie shows how big a supporting character can be. Although he is only a supporting character, the genie turns "Aladdin" from a good movie to a Disney classic. Robin Williams took the genie and made that role his. No one else could have done what Robin Williams did with that character. I hear he ad-libbed so much of his lines that they couldn't even submit the script to the Academy for Best Adapted Screenplay. This goes to show how brilliant of an actor Robin Williams was. The ending is a good one for a movie like this, it is very clever and appealing.
I'm sorry for the short review, but Aladdin is a short movie while still being one of the best Disney animated features of all time. The villain is a bit dull, but the characters are interesting. The genie is by far the highlight of the movie, and the film is worth watching just for Robin William's performance as the genie.