Pointless and lost.

Rating: 2/10 (3 June 2019)

Disney strikes back with yet another live-action remake disaster that soils the name of the original movies. Aladdin (2019) is a confused mess. It not only adds nothing remarkable on to the original to justify it's existence, but Aladdin is a movie that only works in animation, because in live-action it's identity is just lost. The CGI is abominable. Despite a few scenes where it's OK, the CGI overall is shockingly bad for a Disney film and it's even more depressing that they sunk so much money into it. The Genie specifically is one of the worst looking CGI characters I've seen in some time. And more on the Genie; I've seen a lot of people say that they like Will Smith's Genie, and while I will commend Smith for not trying to imitate Robin Williams' Genie and for doing his on thing, it's just not working for me. They also butchered a lot of the songs, specifically "Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali". Not only can Will Smith not sing to save his life and the songs have been 69'd by autotune, but they've also added some new lines and lyrics into them as well as changing their flow and energy at times. While it's fine to add some differences from the original, this is the wrong kind of different. No one wanted the songs to be changed and the new lyrics are OK at best and shockingly bad at worst. The flow and tone of the songs has also been changed and that's probably due to Will Smith's singing, because what made Robin Williams' Genie great is the sheer amount of incredible energy he gave which is also what made "Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali" so fun and catchy. Here, Will Smith completely butchers these songs, especially "Prince Ali" because of how slow and boring it is compared to the original. Finally, the movie is just pointless. It doesn't justify it's existence at all. Why would I want to watch a boring and slow version of the original with none of the colourful, expressive animation and humour when I can watch the original, at ANY TIME, which has the expressive animation and humour? It's a pointless and unoriginal bore of a film that I will not be seeing again.