Missed the mark

Rating: 3/10 (24 August 2019)

You would think the first complaint I would have is Will Smith as genie. Actually I kinda liked his take on Genie though it was kind of lacking, through no fault of his own. It's hard to compete with Robin Williams.
Aladdin actually looked like the character.... well he looked like a wealthier version of the character. But they got the face right.
Jafar was a MAJOR disappointment. Wasn't even close to capturing the essence of the character in my opinion. And no turning into a snake? What not a big enough budget for that? And no Prince Ali reprise? Everything about him made the movie just... less.
I think they did ok with Princess jasmine. My biggest complaint is her wanting to be sultan. It's not the idea of it that I don't like, it's the fact that you literally take away from plot points in the original. Why was princess in the market place for example.
Then abu and iago. It's a shame they chose to go the route of more "real life" animals. It really took away from them. Oh and my bad. Not iago. I mean parrot. Good grief.
Overall they just took away a lot of little things that made the movie great. There were some good things added but overall the movie gets 2 stars for the movie itself with a full star bump for A Whole New World sticking closer to the original. It would have been 2 stars but they really didn't see anything other than the outskirts of the city.
Note I'm probably overly harsh on this because this was my favorite animated movie as a kid. I'm just disappointed and expected more.