Solid 6

Rating: 6/10 (16 November 2019)

Good for what it is and has some pretty good cgi. Where it looses points are the following:
1. Pandering and rehashing. Its too focused on making sure a certain generation is paying attention. In a world of social media, this movie has already been done through memes, through social events, etc... and at the speed social media moves, things are done in a matter of hours. Jokes in the film are almost months to years old and were also already old withing five to six hours of them just being a social joke nowadays.
2. The added stuff that wasn't in the original is only serving a single purpose. It shuts the door on sequels, which is good but added content needs to serve a bigger purpose than that.
3. We all know what's coming. We all saw that god awful #metoo music video at the end just before getting rid of Jafar. It completely ruined the pace and tone of the film. This is where it lost the most points for me.
4. I expected a better Iago. I'll leave it at that.
All in all the film had some entertaining bits and handled the genie and previous content well enough, but the further you got into it, the further you felt from the original. And then that god awful ugh! Even my wife was like "what's this crap?" She actually asked me if she missed something and the movie was over and if this was like and "after movie music video" kind of thing. And I was like "nope! Still the movie. We've been interrupted for what looks like a music video."
So yeah. Solid six.