So many things wrong with this.

Rating: 5/10 (8 November 2019)

Good points: Jasmin was a great surprise, convincing actress and Will Smith is a very fun genie. The tiger CGI was cool and the wardrobe gets a ++ too.
Bad: Well, Alladin. The acting was forceful, it felt like he was acting for the theatre not for the big screen - movements exaggerated, everything too much. It was cringe beginning to end. Jafar wasn't convincing either. And even the parrot sounded far too evil. They also completely ignored little details - in the original movie when jafar gets sucked into the lamp and pull the parrot in, a little feather comes out of the lamp. Those little details were ignored - the magic of the first movie totally blanded over.
Then overusing Will Smith. While I adore Will Smith, he does not have a good voice for Arabian nights - that particular song needed to have been interpreted by a more powerful voice - it was painful to hear. Someone with an opera like voice would have done much better
The sets - Agrabah looks fake all across. Like a cheap production. The script had so many cringeworthy adaptations but the worst has to be the new song Jasmin sings - which is meant to be about woman empowerment - the lyrics are absolutely terrible. Cringe beginning to end. Its not her interpretation, its literally the words - such a useless filler.
This could have been so wonderful. But essentially both Jafar and Aladdin needed to just have been better picked - Jafar wasn't mean enough, Aladdin was too emphatic at every move. Disappointment.