Give it a chance

Rating: 8/10 (4 February 2020)

I loved this movie. To be honest, the original Aladdin was not one of my favorite animated Disney films. Obviously I loved Robin Williams as the genie and I still listen to some of the soundtrack, but the movie as a whole was just never one of my favorites.
That being said, this is one of my favorite live action remakes Disney has done. While they stuck pretty well to the original story, they didn't copy it. Will Smith didn't even try to recreate Robin Williams' genie, he made it his own. That was the only way it would ever work, and it did. They switched up the soundtrack a little and made it more modern, which typically I would hate but I actually enjoyed it here.
From reading other reviews, it sounds like the people who have written negative reviews went into the movie expecting it to be a total recreation of the original. To me, when making these live action remakes, you want to make it original in its own way. So, if you go into this movie wanting it to be the exact same as the original animated version, you won't like it. But, if you give it a chance as its own movie while looking for a little nostalgia to go with it, it's very enjoyable.