It just feels like something is missing...

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2019)

Even though I had my doubts about this film, I still went to see it. Well, my guts weren't wrong.
The soundtrack was pretty good.
The visuals are stunning, putting aside the swolen genie (which it wasn't a big problem) but I don't really think I'm the best to talk about them.
But still it felt like it had a forced vibe and was missing a lot of its charm that it had in the 1992 animated film. The beat was slower and the characters were more balnt not showing a lot of feelings and like they fully understand what's going on around them except the genie, who is literally a blue Will Smith. Some secondary characters as the Sultan , Rajah and the Jafar's bird ( O forgot its name) were merely a plain accessory, not having any sort of personality or liveliness and the role of Jasmine's handmaid was useless, only existing for being a love interest to Genie and for comic relief.
Jafar, he is on whole another different level from the animated film, on a way lower one. He has no cunningness or wickedness while portayed or any sort of charm. But it's not only him, but everyone else too. Jasmine just as Aladdin both had this cunningness and confidence (moslty Jasmine) that is completely ignored throughout the whole movie and the fact that Jafar words of underestimating Jasmine just seemed way to forced to later show that she herself has a voice, even though she had it but for some reason, just didn't use it. This Jasmine even though more explored, shows a little of former characteristics that at the beginning were kind of shown, but completely forgotten to be used in the rest, becoming just an obvious showcase of feminism. It felt like at some parts she was existing just for that.
Some plot changes were kind of interesting as ( spoilers ahead ) Jasmine became the Sultan without actually getting married but hated the fact that when Genie got free , he just completely lost his powers amd became a human.
At the end the feeling of watching it was very mixed, having most of its magic lost. I think they tried to make the plot more of a "true story" thing such as it told by the future genie unlike the original that, theoretically, is a fantasy story inside a story. It's forcing its way to become more humanely, losing the main concept of the original, that it was actual fantasy.
I recommend watching it only if you don't really care about the original or don't mind having your childhood ruined or if you see it as a completely different movie with the same main plot.
Sorry for my English if it's wrong