A "miss" in the hit & miss game of live action Disney

Rating: 6/10 (3 November 2019)

When Disney pulled off Beauty and the Beast (a film with several essential characters being singing, dancing housewares) my skepticism fell to the anticipation of enjoying much loved Disney films anew. Unfortunately, that skepticism's resurrection came in the form of live action Aladdin.
As others have noted, the acting leaves much to be desired & the music is "over produced" to the gills, but allow me to bite those and move on to another.
As we know, Aladdin involves a flying carpet, a magical genie, a highly skilled monkey, an empathetic tiger, and a malicious trained parrot. However, this film constantly attempts to explain, through back stories or forced dialogue, things most of us didn't puzzle over in the original. Part of the reason people often feel books are better than their film adaptions is that a book leaves room for imagination. That said, if the animated Aladdin were a book, the live action is it's movie. Forced explanations of the mundane abound & whether they contradict what you'd assumed or compliment, they feel superfluous regardless.