Possibly a superior remake

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2020)

I'm 36 years old and Aladdin was my favourite Disney film growing up, along with a lot of people I would guess. Disney have been piling these remakes out over the last few years with varying degrees of success. Beauty and the Beast was okay, The Jungle Book and The Lion King did financially well and Dumbo was welcomed with lukewarm reviews. So Aladdin was one I worried about. Mixed in with all these other remakes, would it fade into the background, can Will Smith do justice to the Genie role, and why on earth had they hired Guy Ritchie to direct? Well fear not, because for me, this is the best live action Disney remake to date. It has the charm of the original, the story is tweaked to be more relevant with today's audience, and Will Smith is amazing as the Genie. Guy Ritchie's best film since Snatch. Maybe we've found a genre he can tackle outside of British gangster.