Believable Sights, Describable Feeling

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2019)

Another in Disney's factory line of nostalgia cash grabs, this dull, forced production wastes the talent of Will Smith in what is basically an ill-conceived riff on Robin Williams' excellent voice work from the original. The lines ad-libbed in the original, frenetic and freewheeling, are spoken here by Smith, but now sound rehearsed and flat. Why not let Smith put his own spin? I guess Jada Pinkett won't try to shame Hollywood into giving her husband an Oscar for this performance next year. One high point of the film is that it does not feature Dev Patel, Hollywood's go-to Indian actor, broadly mugging his way into mall-bred hearts.