Nonsense

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2019)

I was genuinelly excited, Guy Richie has a great library of titles completely worth his reputation.
But this... it just does not make sense, Will Smith is absolutely trapped between his role in Hitch and what I can only asume is admiration for Robin Williams iconic role, and the result is a horrible mismatch of him being unnecesarily rude and mean to aladdin, and then in a matter of minutes jumping to save him as per him considering Al his "friend" with no honest answer as to why.
Aladdin comes as just sort of a dork, which can't even speak a full sentence without being ridiculed, but we are somehow expected to believe that he is motivated by being a Prince, but then we are never shown that this is the case, he even says he doesnt want it, so one cant really relate as to his intentions.
And finally, stop it with the feminista agenda, the ending does a great job of promoting that women can be great sultans, and that in itself would have made an amazing ending, but that scene in which she randomly bursts into song with everyone else disappearing, only to confront the guards (by the way completely overturning the rules of the magic wishes, in which if jafar wished to be sultan, the Princess speech should not be able to modify that), and ultimately being an empty gesture as it does nothing to the plot.
And finally, whats with all the singing, this is supposed to be a live action re telling, not a politically corrected cgi dependent version of the original, I cant understand why they couldnt make a sort of more "realistic" retelling of the story when on paper they had all the elements for doing so.
Different media, in this case animation vs live films, should have different ways of telling stories.
Do yourself a favor, catch the broadway one (you can see it on YouTube) for a proper adaptation that knows what it is and is far more enjoyable than this mess, or just stick with 1994 animated masterpiece.