Why even bother?

Rating: 1/10 (29 May 2019)

If you're going to make a LIVE ACTION remake, make it a live action remake! The complete OBSESSION with adding in pointless filler and going out of their way to drag out scenes completely ruined the entire film! Hollywood listen closely here; There is NOTHING WRONG with an hour and 45 minute movie! There is no reason this had to be drawn out into 128 minutes! And why change the story at all? If you had done a shot for shot remake everyone would be happy because that's what we came to see! And going out of your way to change lines JUST to be different even though the new lines are worse! For example, when Jafar says in the original "I'm giving you your reward. Your ETERNAL reward!" before he pushes Aladdin back in the cave it is chilling! In this one he says "how bout my foot?"... why?? There's nothing wrong with keeping every single line the exact same, it would have done nothing but please the fans. But instead of giving us what we want you have to sit around and scheme about how change every little thing and annoy us so you can try to prove to Disney you're "creative".
The biggest offense and change of all is the ending climax, which wasn't climactic in the slightest. In the original from the time Jafar gets the lamp to the Genie being free it is an intense and chaotic whirlwind of action, never slowing down and keeping up great suspense. Here we have Jafar just LOUNGING around in the sultans chair without seemingly any good plans to use his power, an extremely painful and out of nowhere Jasmine ballad, an impromptu wedding, and a stupid carpet chase with IAGO. Which, by the way, IAGOs character in the original was full of life and wit and arguably one of the main characters... here he is just unfunny background noise.
So our "climax" is drawn out to excruciating minutia of slow events with no suspense at all. Not to mention no snake, no Jasmine drowning in the hourglass, nothin, nada, zip. It was almost like they just gave up when they got near the end of the script. I guarantee if you had just done a perfect shot for shot remake, audiences would have praised and loved it. Although Will Smith and his auto tune would still ruin most his scenes. Thanks to the blind sheep of the masses, Disney will continue to get away with these travesties time and time again, because they monopolize the film industry and no one will stand up to them or stop them which is why someday they will have a new release every weekend of the year, giving no chance to smaller films to shine and turning the entire film industry into one big Corporate wasteland. Negative stars.