"Let's make some magic!" with Robin Williams

Rating: 9/10 (14 February 2020)

The amazing voice work and comedy of Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried ... does it get any better than that?
All the songs are amazing but the magic the Genie brings to 'Friend Like Me' and 'Prince Ali' are what make them really special. I remember how Disney at the time was showing off how they used a combination of hand drawn animation and CGI together for the first time, to bring the cave of wonders sequence to life and it still holds up.
I was the perfect age for the start of the Disney renissance, and while the 'Little Mermaid' and 'Beauty and The Beast' felt like girly movies at the time, Aladdin was a film that had the action, adventure, and comedy that truly captured my imagination as a kid.
Aladdin and Jasmine are great, but the side characters are what really make it shine with all the spunk that Abu, Carpet, Genie, and Iago bring to the mix. And Jafar makes for a really sinister villian that reminds me of Rasputin from Russian History.
"Come on down stop on by. Hop a carpet and fly. To another Arabian night."