Pretty fun re-imagining with a very empowering Princess and well fleshed our characters overall

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2019)

Naomi Scott's performance and take on Princess Jasmine is amazing, if you have young kids whether they be male or female I would highly recommend you show them this film as I found her to be much more empowering and fleshed out than the majority of the female characters (or just characters for that matter) that I saw on screen growing up (which wasn't long ago I was born in 2001) and feel she'd make a great role model for impressionable kids. In fact while I still personally prefer he original I think all the characters in this where much more fleshed out, the music was still great (the lyrics of Arabian Nights are much more positive about Middle Eastern culture although none of the songs beat the originals) including Jasmines new songs, the new Character Daria worked great and ultimately I quite enjoyed it.
As for the overall movie, I'd recommend going into this film as if it's a pantomime that clearly drew from Disney's film and won't get everything right but is still fun to watch on its own merit. They knew they couldn't top the original if they just copied it, so they tried doing a reimagining that would play to its own strengths and I find it worked in its favour.