In your face Autotune, lack of imagination, Jasmine lust for power almost as cringy as Jaffar...

Rating: 3/10 (7 November 2019)

Its so hard to begin as there are so many flaws in this movie so i guess ill first start with the actors and then the story itself:
-Genie-
What can i say, the only reason i watched this abysmal movie was because i really enjoy Will Smith acting skills, having said that, this Genie version couldn't hold a candle to Robin Williams Genie.
Although its fair to argue that the original Aladdin was a cartoon, with all the CGI included into this genie, its also fair to say that excuse doesn't hold much water....
Will Smith worked with what he had and while he had a few good moments, for each of those good moments, the Genie from Aladdin 1992 has at least 5, having said that, i wasn't disappointed as i was mentally prepared to not expect this Genie being as good as the original one. The scenes ive found most funny were:
Prince Ali introductory song, pretty funny and at the same time good quality considering the rest of the songs on this movie.
The jams dialogue between Aladdin and the Genie,
And finally, all the random Prince Ali manipulation forcing him into Jasmine and forcing him to dance like a pro.
-Aladdin/Prince Ali-
For someone who claims to have never danced before (Mena Massoud), he has got some really sick dancing moves, that was actually very enjoyable to watch and for that hats down, his overall role in this movie was on point, however the singing parts sounded like the autotune machine was on steroids.
Hes pretty enjoyable to watch in this movie except for the few cringe worthy deeply exaggerated "nervous talk" dialogues between him and Jasmine at first & second sight as Prince Ali, i didn't find those parts funny at all, they were just uncomfortable to watch and even though i cant speak for the opposite sex, i don't really think women would find those scenes funny or interesting at all, it was so exaggerated that in my opinion didn't work out one bit.
Overall however, he was one of the better actors of this movie.
-Jasmine-
Where should i begin... from the very moment you see her, there's a huge contrast between this Jasmine and the original Jasmine, the original Jasmine starts at the palace, allowing the audience to learn about her and the reasons shes rebellious, naive, ignorant of her own people & the world around her, the audience also understands the reason why she gave that apple to that hungry child, and her plot is simple yet touching, she wants to find the true love of her life and not marry for interest alone, she even upsets her father by saying maybe she doesn't want to be a princess if it means marrying for interest alone.
-Lets compare that to this "new" Jasmine shall we?-
She's somehow very smart because apparently she read all those books in the library, but somehow, she has no idea that when you take something away from a food market you need to pay for it... makes sense... while the original Jasmine didn't care about wealth, money and power, this new Jasmine is different, her first life goal presented to us by her is to fulfill her lust for power by becoming the first female Sultan of Agrabah, leaving (finding true part as a secondary almost meaningless bonus life goal), from the beginning she came out more as a rich spoiled brat rather than a princess "looking out for her people"... Naomi Scott acting is so generic i cant even remember if it was good or bad, she was just there... part of the movie... her emotions in the movie were so dull that the Sophia "AI" Robot could do a better job than her in this movie, the only part of the movie where i can say she exhibited emotions was while she was singing her song to the guards and Jaffar in the form of raging and screaming like a college girl, speaking about the song part, its probably the only song in the entire movie that isn't autotuned, a lot of people found the song to be awesome and amazing, however since song preferences are subjective i am going to admit i did not like it, its probably just my personal preference here at fault so listen to it for yourself.
Overall, her presence in this movie was almost as boring as Yaggo.
-Jaffar-
Im sorry to say this but no matter how good of an actor Marwan Kenzari may be, he is no actor to play Jaffar, Jaffar was one of the most badazz Disney Villains in the entire Disney movie industry, the original Jaffar had the Evil had the Power and had the Scary completely dominated into his character, Marwan Kenzari had none of that in this movie, all the time i was actually scared he might not even make it till the end of the movie and ended up seeing myself root for the guy... his presence in this movie was more like a rock in your shoe while in the original Aladdin he was as scary as a Nuclear Bomb.
Its not worth commenting about his acting skills since he was clearly the wrong person for the job.
-Yaggo-
How can you make a movie feel even more lazy than it already is? kill 30% of the movie funny scenes & funny dialogue by replacing Jaffar sidekick with this compiled garbage of a 3D parrot model which is neither clever, nor funny and all it can do is "imitate" a real parrot talking very occasionally... they say the voice acting is from Alan Tudyk, however Yaggo script is so dumb, i can claim a 5 years old voice acted it and you wouldn't know the difference.
Finally, the movie scenery itself...
Agrabah itself looks pretty good and colorful, exactly how i imagined it would be seeing Aladdin 1992 Agrabah in "real life", the crowded streets, the people attire, the market & their vendors, the palace & the guards... all spot on, i frankly could not have imagined it better myself, its that good!
It feels like they have put a lot of effort into it looking true to the original Aladdin and they have succeeded beyond my expectations, unfortunately that's where the effort seem to stop, the cave of wonders looks like its been through some serious economy crisis compared to the original movie, The entire scenery of the song (A whole new world) could be replaced with just a solid dark blue color and you wouldnt know the difference and finally, when Aladdin is cast into a far place deep into a stormy winter, they removed the entire action there from the original movie, not that they have replaced it with something else... its just gone... he gets cast in the snow, carpet runs after him and he gets back... its that bad.
Overall the scenery of the movie is good enough to suck you in and enjoy it if you can ignore the small flaws it has.
Last story short:
Would i see it again? Yes! i would totally see Aladdin 1992 again! this one? not so sure about it... it doesnt add anything special and it takes away alot of special things about original Aladdin so in the end, whats the point?