SAW IT. LOVED IT. GO!

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2019)

ALADDIN is beautiful to behold! I was grateful for its generosity. Imagine if Cecil B. DeMille, David Lean, George Lucas, Bob Fosse, and Busby Berkeley had all teamed up to make one movie. Director Guy Ritchie has created an overflowing treasure chest of a film: the rewriting, editing, design, wit and fleet cleverness, yearning, joy, delight, and didactic uplift are potent magic! And casting Jafar as a dangerous tiny dopplegänger pipsqueak á la Stephen Miller was the most brilliant twist of all. (It's a political film. Just please don't argue in front of the children.)