Just to enjoy the songs and nothing more

Rating: 2/10 (22 September 2019)

Thank goodness my expectations were not high.
The good things for the movie:
-The environment is perfect. The architecture is correct since the original story from Arabian Nights. I like the mixture of Byzantine, India and Arabian. Even the costumes are correct.
-Songs is good. Even the additional song 'Speechless' is beautiful. I expect nothing more from Alan Menken.
The bad things:
-The story is too rushed and chopped off. Story line is lacking. There are no depths even between the characters. It feel like just copy-pasting.
-The characters are too shallow. For example; Jasmine's mother is nothing but a queen from a kingdom and a bracelet. They could have shown the audience her character as lovable mother to Jasmine in her 'Speechless' scene instead of Thanos-snapped people. And Jafar? He supposed to be cunning and manipulative. But we get a greedy politicians who was a thief. What of Aladdin? He's an orphan, yes but there are no small items from his parents. They could have give him a piece of his mother's shawl to make it more memorable. The Cave of Wonders are just cursed cave with lava trap. Nothing very tempting here.
-The costumes are not modest. The origin is Middle-Eastern and yet the female characters clothes did not cover their chest properly. This part of the world has Islamic influence (in term of culture and fashion). Then there's the 'ball-gown' dresses. smh
-Not very middle-east. As stated in my previous point, Islamic influence. There should not be kissing or any intimate sort between men and women who has no family relations. It is forbidden for them. I watched Bollywood movies and none of them has a kissing scene. Dancing scenes, sure but there was no equivalent of 'waltz'. If you want dancers, they're only performers to entertain the guests. While on the topic, the marriage scenes is just stupid. In this region, bride (preferably veiled and in red and gold if they using Indian customs) and groom sat on a cushion separately in a room, Imam (a priest) hold the groom's hand and recite the vow (the usual like any wedding), both bride and groom must have at least a witness (in family relation), the bride will give her consent, groom will give a piece of jewelry (equivalent to a wedding ring) and kiss her forehead.