Dreadful, Aladdin tries but fails

Rating: 5/10 (7 September 2019)

Acting was very amateur. Cringed at the leading star with his terrible acting, he had some moments but they weren't that good, script was very floppy and jasmine was ok in some aspects, but overall the entire cast sucked at acting pretty much. The villain is the most boring one dimensional half made villain since Justice Leagues Steppenwolf. The only thing stopping this film from being worse than it already is... is the surprising performance of Will Smith. He manages to carry the film on his back in some ways and works his genie magic, I also think he makes it his own, whereas the other cast either try so hard copying the original or going so far from it, which is fine, but it's not even in a good way. The magic carpet and the genie, and some nostalgia is really the only high points the movie has to offer, there's a moment with jasmine that has her singing and that was very magical too, and I can't deny the special effects and the vivid colors were like eye candy while watching it, which can really fool people into actually enjoying this, which is completely fine, I, however have seen this film and many others and just can't seem to follow this Disney live action hype train. I just cannot seem to understand why they bother remaking it if they can't even make it compelling. They've done great with live action since Cinderella 2015, but 2019 is just NOT the live action Disney movie year. Not to mention the very terrible dumbo, which was by far worse, Aladdin was better... but yet it's still not saying much...