Where was that excitement I had when I went to see the stage version of this?

Rating: 4/10 (9 August 2019)

Well, I had a feeling already when I found out Will Smith was going to be Genie. My pre-viewing feeling was an disappointment because Will Smith had the good-looking and slender image although in the movie he was muscled up and was made a lot bigger than he actually was. This wasn't good enough. There was a song missing I though but I'm not sure, in the stage version when Genie was singing it gave the audience such excitement and the people were roaring. It was in Melbourne Australia. But this movie version never caught up the quality of this show I saw at the Her Majesty's Theatre. What a disappointing movie, none of the songs made me feel happy, in addition Jafar in the movie didn't look evil and sly enough, he looked too young and too innocent. The casting and the charactirisation was lacking. I was so sad to see it. Dumbo was the same. Mary Poppins Returns was good.