Mostly good with 4 qualms

Rating: 6/10 (20 June 2019)

The movie was very enjoyable and I had a smile on my face for most of the time. The actors who portrayed Jasmine and Aladdin shocked me with their acting abilities for being not well known. Finally the Bollywood/Hip-hop dance scene to close rocked. However, I had 4 qualms

1. The original had some, obviously, very cartoonish movements of the characters. Specifically when Aladdin is running through the streets. This was unable to be replicated, so they used some very bad CGI to either speed him up or allow him to do inhuman motions. You're spending all the money anyway, just pay for some good freaking CGI
2. jazmin's song "speechless" was unnecessarily trying to let the viewer know that Disney is now "woke" and grind at the movie's plot to a halt
3. The original had some modern pop culture references that made the movie incredibly unique for this type of a Disney movie, and this movie did not have those. They were missed
4. I know that it is unfair to compare will smith to Robin Williams as an actor. But as a singer, Smith also just doesn't compare. Some of the songs such as Arabian nights and prince Ali required kind of an operatic tone which Williams had. Will smith just kind of bumbled and rapped his way through them.