Meh

Rating: 5/10 (19 July 2019)

Here's my review of Aladdin ( the new one ,duh ). Let me cut to the chase , the movie wasn't great. No one expected it to be great from the very first look , heck I thought it was an Aladdin parody when I saw the first look. It's directed by Guy Ritchie who's known for the rdj starring Sherlock Holmes movies and man from Uncle. If you're familiar with Guy ritchie movies you'd know that they have very fast edits and zero track shots . So all of the Aladdin jumping off rooftops stuff is like that chase from Uncharted 3 but with bad editing. The guy who played Aladdin wasn't bad , he just didn't look like his 2d counterpart is all. Naomi Scott was great as Jasmine and Will Smith wasn't that bad as genie . The bar that Robin Williams set for genie was very high and I liked how will Smith didn't improv on that and did his own thing. Jafar in this movie was not even half as menacing as the 2d jafar , this guy is like a bad tv villain with bad monologues . The story is exactly the same as the original but with new additions like Jasmine wanting to become Sultan and Jafar being a former thief. There were a lot of scenes which looked like something out of a soap opera or a stage play than a movie . And most scenes just switched from tone to tone instantly , there was no character setup and the cave of wonders wasn't anything close to the original . Even the whole city of Agrabah didn't feel big in an epic scale it Should've been . This movie would've been much better if they'd done a scene to scene remake of the original . Of all the scenes they could cut for time , they cut that scene where jafar turns into a snake and traps Jasmine Into an hour glass , instead they just eased on the whole thing. Iago in this movie wasn't even a character, he was just a normal talking parrot. Oh yeah , the music in this movie was pretty good , they tweaked a lot of songs from the original and made it sound cool , but there was this new song they added to the roster and that was jasmine singing some woman empowerment crap , it got on my nerves. And there was a song at the credits featuring DJ Khaled and that's when I lost it. In the end , Aladdin doesn't live up to the original and while trying to be a musical with a bright colour tone , it looks more like a straight to tv movie on a big budget than a blockbuster. However , if you haven't seen the original , you might actually like this movie. I can go all day roasting Aladdin , but my fingers have gone numb from typing continuously .