Will Smith to the rescue

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2020)

I was quite generous with the 6 rating but that's mainly due to my fondness of the original animated version and the memories that this movie triggered. A lot was wrong with this film as both Aladdin and Jasmine didn't have the ability to emit any kind of emotional connection with the audience, very wooden and poorly acted characters by both actors involved. However, Will Smith as the Genie was quite brilliant and provided nearly all of this movies highlights. Without the Genie this movie would probably score about a 3/10 but Will Smith's performance was so charasmatic and funny that he really rescued this movie from failure. Also, i didn't see the point in Jasmine's 2 songs that weren't part of the orginal. They were both riddled with autotune and didn't fit into the rest of the movie as they tried to sound like some kind of power ballad rather than an easy to listen to DIsney tune.