Brilliant and Charming A Must See

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2019)

Aladdin
After Disney made a hash of Mary Poppins, Dumbo and The Last Jedi they have come good here.
The choice of Guy Ritchie as director was their golden ticket. His tongue-in-cheek style and light touch humour was exactly what was required. I may even suggest this surpassed the animated version upon which it was based.
Everything was in place, brilliant casting, brilliant CGI, brilliant music, the monkey the carpet wow. I really cannot find fault anyway in this great movie, except for a strange and inappropriate insertion of some liberal values.
If I was giving out Oscar nominations, one for the director Guy Ritchie and one for Will Smith, best Male supporting actor, for his high camp genie. Not that I'm an expert but the editing was brilliant to.
The whole cast was good but displayed a limited range of acting skills solid but nothing special.
Overall a 9/10 for this charming family movie.
I will however call out the political indoctrination to liberal authoritarianism that has been inserted at places in this movie, this is a result of Hollywood's latest fashion trends of "Me Too" and "Times Up" movements, these were not present in the 1992 animated version and why have they been inserted here. This is ugly to see in a children's movie where minds may be suceptable to this liberal world view, this aspect is shameful for Disney and needs to be called out for what it is. The song Speechless was just misplaced and cutting out Jafar's banishment song was a mistake. The movie was so much heavier that the original and just not as much fun, Disney must really stop trying to be all things to all men and stick with the story telling.