History Film / Aladdin2019

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: As with the movie version, Aladdin uses his third wish to free the Genie. However, [[spoiler:this results in the Genie becoming a normal man without magic instead of a somewhat less powerful genie without a master. This change enables Genie to marry Dalia and travel the world by boat. In addition, the Sultan stands down and passes his title onto Jasmine who promptly changes the law and proposes marriage to Aladdin. While the four remain friends, Aladdin and Jasmine only see Dalia, the Genie, and their children when they come into port at Agrabah. However, a DeletedScene and the novelization reveal that Genie, Dalia and their kids decide to make Agrabah their home once more, reuniting with their friends.]]

* ShoutOut: During the climax of "Friend Like Me," Genie and Aladdin jump down some steps -- doing splits!!! -- in the exact same fashion as the Nicholas Brothers in ''Film/StormyWeather''.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: As with the movie version, Aladdin uses his third wish to free the Genie. However, [[spoiler:this results in the Genie becoming a normal man without magic instead of a moderatly powered genie without a master. This change enables Genie to marry Dalia and travel the world by boat. In addition, the Sultan stands down and passes his title onto Jasmine who promptly changes the law and proposes marriage to Aladdin. While the four remain friends, Aladdin and Jasmine only see Dalia, the Genie, and their children when they come into port at Agrabah. However, a DeletedScene and the novelization reveal that Genie, Dalia and their kids decide to make Agrabah their home once more, reuniting with their friends.]]

** Jasmine had totally lost her [[TheTease tease]] side, that showed twice in the original movie. Though, Jasmine had already lost this personality trait on all others supports ([[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar direct-to-video]] [[WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves movies]], [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries TV series]], Broadway show or ''Series/OnceUponATime''.)

* NotSoDifferent:
** Jafar’s backstory gives him a lot in common with Aladdin. Both men started off as street thieves with big ambitions. Through their cleverness and some magical aid, they rose to power, but over time, the power corrupts them and they begin to act selfishly. Aladdin realizes this and manages to turn his life around.
** Jasmine also points this out between Jafar and the captain of the guard, Hakim. Both have humble origins, but where Jafar rose above his birth station by trickery, backstabbing, and even murder, Hakim went from a servant's son to the leader of the guards without losing his sense of honor or concern for the people's well-being.

** The Genie makes a point that literally all the money on Earth can never satisfy greed.

** The sultanate of Agrabah is a major trade center, meaning that nations other than neighboring sultanates will be interested in trade alliances. This is represented in Aladdin's rival suitor, a Scandinavian.

* RealityEnsues:
** Thanks to the Genie, Aladdin is able to present himself as a prince to the Sultan and Jasmine. However, he doesn't know how to ''behave'' like a prince and ends up insulting Jasmine and making a fool of himself.
** Aladdin is one of the Agrabah's most well known street thieves, making it difficult for him to find people willing to do business with him. He's barely able to talk a trader into taking a necklace he stole and even then he can't convince her into giving him more than a single bag of dates.
** Jasmine, a princess who has spent a majority of her life in royal comfort, doesn't know how to pole-vault. At least, not without Aladdin's assurance that this jump can be done. She also can't go strutting through the marketplace wearing fine clothing and lavish jewelry without being identified -- Aladdin easily surmises from her attire that she would have to live within the palace walls to have such adornments.
** Dalia serves as the voice of reason when Jasmine chafes at her father wanting her to marry, pointing out that it's not a death sentence. She says more likely than not, Jasmine will be marrying a young, handsome, and rich prince who will worship her; Prince Anders is the exception rather than the rule. Jasmine agrees, her prime worry being that she'll just be a wife then, unable to protect her people.
** The Genie makes a point that literally all the money on Earth can never satisfy greed.
** Ababwa is noted specifically to not exist in this version. Genie modifies one of Jasmine's maps when she asks "Ali" to show her where it is, but Jafar checks his own maps on his own time and fails to find it, leading him to discover who Ali really is.
** Neither Aladdin nor Abu are dressed properly for the cold weather at the "ends of the Earth" and quickly succumb to the frigid conditions until Carpet arrives to save them.
** Jafar realizes that [[spoiler:while he may have wished for himself to become Sultan, he hasn't earned the loyalty of the guards or anyone else for that matter, so they can just stage a coup to put the original Sultan back in power. He's only able to stop them by wishing to become a sorcerer and using his new powers to physically banish them.]]
** The sultanate of Agrabah is a major trade center, meaning that nations other than neighboring sultanates will be interested in trade alliances. This is represented in Aladdin's rival suitor, a Scandinavian.

* IronicEcho: Hakim tells off [[spoiler:Jafar for upending the Sultan when one should ''serve'' the Sultan. Then he points out "It's the law." Later, Jafar throws these words back at Hakim's face when he uses his first wish to become Sultan]].

* {{Foil}}: Aladdin and Jafar are clearly intended to be foils to each other, as Jafar reveals that he was once a street thief like Aladdin (stealing a pendant Aladdin had previously borrowed from Jasmine to demonstrate his skills), to the point that Jafar [[spoiler:uses his pickpocketing skills to steal the lamp from Aladdin]]. However, while Aladdin and Jafar each express a desire for respect beyond their humble origins, Aladdin never seeks that respect at the expense of others while Jafar will never be satisfied unless he is at the top of the table and controls all others.

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: As in the original, the Sultan uses his power to change the law to allow Jasmine to marry Aladdin. This time, [[spoiler: he allows her to succeed him as the first female Sultan and lets her change the law herself.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Aladdin goes through one after using the Genie to become Prince Ali and obtain the Sultan's favour. Fortunately, he snaps out of it just before his lamp gets stolen.

* TooDumbToLive: In contrast to the snobbish, {{jerkass}} Prince Achmed from the original film, Prince Anders is simply a complete idiot. He even thinks Rajah the tiger ‘likes’ him even though the latter is in on the brink of attacking him and falls for Iago’s sarcasm.

** When they first part, Jasmine believes Aladdin stole her bracelet given to her by her mother. When Aladdin finds out where it was (Abu stole it), he believes she's but a handmaiden at this time. So what does it matter if a handmaiden who assumes he's nothing but a conning thief is missing her bracelet? But instead of selling the bracelet, Aladdin goes to great effort and considerable risk to sneak into the palace and personally bring it back to her.

** [[spoiler:After dealing with Jafar]], Genie gives Aladdin some ideas on how he can use his third wish to allow him to marry Jasmine. Aladdin instead uses it to set Genie free knowing that it will mean he and Jasmine cannot be together.
* WheresTheFunInThat: During the scene where he steals bread and gets pursued by guards and then climbing up a building, Aladdin uses door tents to cushion his fall. Jasmine tells him there's stairs, so Aladdin replies with this line.

* RuleOfThree: The "gray areas" in a wish are mentioned three times by Genie over the course of the film: first when explaining to Aladdin to be exact in his wording when he first wishes "make me a prince," second when Genie is frantically muttering to himself to figure out a way to save Aladdin from drowning, and third after Jafar wishes to become the most powerful being possible.
* RunningGag: Genie does not let Aladdin live down the “jams” part of his failed attempt to woo Jasmine.

* SealedWithAKiss: [[spoiler:The ending combines this with TimePassesMontage, as Aladdin and Jasmine appear in different clothing at the end of [[OrbitalKiss their final kiss]]. Apparently the wedding clothes (as the score used during the scene is called "the wedding."]]

* ShapeShifting: Like his animated counterpart Genie has the ability to change his appearance at will. He most famously can transform into a normal human which becomes permanent once he is free from the lamp. However while the animated Genie shape shifted into different celebrities and pop cultural characters in this film Genie only shape shifts into different roles such as a waiter and flight attendant.
* SherlockScan: Downplayed. Aladdin notices the silk and fine jewelry Jasmine was wearing and correctly knows that such high quality material is transported to the royal palace to be worn by the royals and probably their personal servants. Since the princess has not be seen outside of the palace in years, he (incorrectly) concludes she must be the princess's handmaiden rather than the princess herself.

** Jasmine is delighted when she learns that Genie is interested in Dalia, [[spoiler:and encourages Dalia to accept Genie's proposal]].
** And Genie, like in the original. During the harvest festival scene, he literally pushes Aladdin towards Jasmine, saying "Showtime!"

* SkywardScream: Jafar does this upon discovering he doesn’t have the lamp after the Cave of Wonders collapses.
* SlowMotionFall: The movie goes into slow motion after Aladdin is thrown out a tower toward the water.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Mostly when Aladdin has to present as Prince Ali, with copious amounts of DiggingYourselfDeeper and OpenMouthInsertFoot. As the street thief Aladdin, he's charming, fast on his feet, and intrepid; but when all eyes are on him as Ali, he's terribly, terribly gauche. He stumbles over his words ''badly'' when speaking to Jasmine, and knocks into her stuff in uncharacteristically maladroit fashion, among other things.

* StereoFibbing: Aladdin and Genie are asked point-blank where exactly Ababwa is and they stutter out "It's north" and "It's south."
-->'''Aladdin:''' ...uh, yes, we have a north. And a South.
* StoodUp:[[spoiler: Aladdin had a good reason not showing up to his first date with Jasmine; Jafar had just kidnapped him. Jasmine comes as herself, as she was wearing an obviously royal dress. She was certainly planning to tell the truth, and reveal that she actually was the princess. Later, in the end, she asks for her headpiece back as he prepares to say goodbye to her forever]].

* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Aladdin deduces from "Dalia's" clothes that she must be Princess Jasmine's servant, she plays along with his assumption rather than admit she's Jasmine.

* ThatCameOutWrong: When Aladdin arrives as Prince Ali, showing his treasures and jams, Jasmine questions what he hopes to buy with these, to which Aladdin responds to Jasmine; "You." Aladdin quickly realizes what he said and tries to correct himself to mean to have an audience with her. Everyone gives an embarrassed look for Aladdin's slip there.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: When Jafar wishes himself into the Sultancy, he demands the guards serve him, as the law demands. Jasmine, as she is being led away, calls out to the head guard Hakim and essentially poses this question: will he follow the law and obey who ever the Sultan is (even if they are a tyrant), or will he remain loyal to the well-being of Agrabah’s people? [[spoiler: Hakim chooses loyalty to Jasmine, the Sultan, and the people of Agrabah, which spurs Jafar's VillainousBreakdown.]]
* TookALevelInIdealism: Genie is used to cruel masters exploiting him and when Aladdin promises to free him he isn't convinced, saying that Aladdin will just get greedy like the rest. After becoming his friend, he starts to think better of him, even appealing to his better nature when it looks like Aladdin will go back on his word.

** For both Genie and Aladdin, the fear of being viewed as inadequate in the eyes of the women they have fallen for; being a [[UptownGirl Downtown Boy]] for Aladdin drives him to lean too heavily on "Prince Ali" to woo Jasmine, while Genie looks ashamed that [[spoiler:he's been revealed to [[BetaCouple Dalia]] as essentially a magical servant after Jafar summons him to wish to become Sultan.]] Fortunately for both, these issues are ultimately irrelevant in the hearts of their romantic counterparts in the end.

* PaperThinDisguise: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] ([[{{Handwave}} kinda]]); much like Disney's ''[[Film/Cinderella2015 Cinderella]]'' remake, Aladdin's prince outfit is enchanted so people will not immediately recognize him, though they can see through it with a little deductive work. Both Jafar and Jasmine, having met Aladdin previously, glean his true identity not long after meeting him.
* PaintingTheMedium: When Aladdin reveals he didn't technically wish to escape the cave, Genie literally reviews the footage with audience silhouettes at the bottom before realizing he was deceived.

** Abu does pilfer a more metaphorical key from Jafar: the Lamp, when the Cave of Wonders is collapsing. Genie within provides the means of escape from the sealed off Cave that imprisons them.
* PoliticallyActivePrincess: Very much subverted in Jasmine's case, to her dismay. In her first appearance in the bazaar, she was examining the dirty, poor, and hungry children. However, she has almost no say in political matters. It's implied she had been studying and observing the politics and her father's reign. [[spoiler: Double-subverted in the end when she becomes the next Sultan.]]
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Unlike the original, there is no mention of amputation, beheading or slavery.

** Iago's talking is reduced such that he doesn't hold conversations with Jafar, but he does speak many intelligent lines indicating he understands what's going on; however his animated antics would look overly silly in RealLife, and Jafar is even more serious in this version and far less likely to share quips with his pet. Similarly, Abu gives a few noises, but doesn't speak in long animal-noise sentences or barely English screeches.

** Genie's human appearance in the original film is very brief, limited primarily to the "Prince Ali" segment. This film Aladdin specifically asks if Genie can take on a human form, which is Will Smith without CGI and he maintains this for the majority of his scenes, presenting himself as Prince Ali's assistant while in the royal court.
* PragmaticVillainy: Although an extremely minor villain, if he can even be called that, the fruit merchant simply takes Jasmine's bracelet from her, rather than trying to cut off her hand. As he could sell the bracelet to another merchant and thus get money from it, it is infinitely more pragmatic.

** Thanks to the Genie, Aladdin is able to present himself as a prince to the Sultan and Jasmine. However, he doesn't know how to ''behave'' like a prince, and ends up insulting Jasmine and making a fool of himself.
** Jasmine, a princess who has spent a majority of her life in royal comfort, doesn't know how to pole-vault. At least, not without Aladdin's assurance that this jump can be done. She also can't go strutting through the marketplace wearing fine clothing and lavish jewelry without being identified -- Aladdin easily surmises from her attire that she would have to live within the palace walls.
** Dalia serves as the voice of reason when Jasmine chafes at her father wanting her to marry, pointing out that it's not a death sentence. She says more likely than not, Jasmine will be marrying a young, handsome and rich prince who will worship her; Prince Anders is the exception rather than the rule. Jasmine agrees; her prime worry is that she'll just be a wife then, unable to protect her people.

** Ababwa is noted specifically to not exist in this version; Genie modifies one of Jasmine's maps when she asks "Ali" to show her where it is, but Jafar checks his own maps on his own time and fails to find it, leading to him discovering who Aladdin is.
** Neither Aladdin nor Abu are dressed properly for the cold weather at the "ends of the Earth" and quickly succumb to the frigid conditions until Carpet arrived to save them.

** The Sultanate of Agrabah is a major trade center, meaning that nations other than neighboring sultanates will be interested in trade alliances. This is represented in Aladdin's rival suitor, a Scandinavian.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Jafar's first-most priority is the destruction of the kingdom of Shirabad, as revenge for spending 5 years in its dungeons for thievery. Most of his actions in the film are in pursuit of this goal, even when doing so goes against his best interests, to the point that [[spoiler:his first order as sultan is to mass the armies for an invasion of Shirabad, and the first thing he tries to do upon receiving the phenomenal cosmic power of a genie is not to deal with Aladdin and Jasmine...but to try to obliterate Shirabad off the face of the Earth.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Jasmine. She wanted to do more than just marry and carry children. Dalia expresses disbelief she wanted to become Sultan or rather Sultana in her case. It's implied that part of her reason for falling for Aladdin was his belief in her.

** During the "Make me a Prince" scene where Genie and Aladdin are talking about the wishes, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent keep an eye on Carpet]]. He makes a sandcastle that looks very similar to Cinderella's castle, before flinging sand in an arc over the castle. Not unlike the Walt Disney logo that begins most Disney movies.
** In one scene, Aladdin gave the rest of his dates to a younger boy, like how Aladdin gave his half of the bread to a boy and girl. In this movie, not only does the boy also have a sister, but a mother as well, similar to the single peasant woman with two children who briefly appeared in ''[[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar The Return of Jafar]]'' and occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries''.

* NiceToTheWaiter: In his Prince Ali guise, Aladdin tosses out coins to the people of Agrabah during his grand entrance. Of course, he knows how much a few coins will make their life better, and it's the only point where he looks genuinely happy.

** Aladdin ends his IAmSong "One Jump Ahead" with a fakeout, throwing a heavy rolled up rug through a roof below before swinging into a window to throw off the pursuing guards. Jasmine is aghast, thinking he did himself in falling through a roof, only for him to clamber back up to her relief.
** Non-urgent version, where "Prince Ali" deliberately falls backwards off Jasmine's balcony onto Carpet, once again shocking Jasmine.
** Jasmine combines the contexts of the two for her own escape [[spoiler:from a forced marriage to Sultan Sorcerer Jafar when she sees Aladdin returning with haste on Carpet. On sight, she refuses the vow, swipes the Lamp off of Jafar, and jumps off the balcony to be caught from the fall by Carpet.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: The DancePartyEnding features Captain Hakim happily dancing with his new sultan, Aladdin and the genie. It turns out he has quite a few moves!

** Jasmine also points this out between Jafar and the captain of the guard, Hakeem. Both have humble origins, but where Jafar rose above his birth station by trickery, backstabbing, and even murder, Hakeem went from a servant's son to the leader of the guards without losing his sense of honor or concern for the people's well-being.

* OneManBand: Abu is briefly turned into one of these by Genie to serve as musical accompaniment. Genie eventually segues into a bigger musical number when he finds the performance lacking.
* OneWingedAngel: Similar to the 1992 film, the climax does feature a villain getting transformed into a giant demonic beast per sorcery. [[spoiler:Except this time...it's ''Iago''.]]

* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: When Aladdin infiltrates the palace to return "Dalia" her mother's tragic keepsake Abu took from her, Aladdin takes a servant's uniform and hat, putting them on so he's ignored by the guards as he moved about the palace.

** Jasmine doesn't even dress down very much to walk around the streets of Agrabah. Aladdin takes note of her fine clothes and just assumes she is the handmaiden to the Princess. Justified since the Princess hasn't been allowed to leave the castle in years, so no one in town would know what she looks like.
** When Jasmine realizes Ali is Aladdin by asking him about Abu, Aladdin uses this same idea to explain "Prince Ali" came to the city a short time ahead of his large entourage to truly know and understand the people of the land.
* LargeHam: Given he has Robin Williams' original performance as a reference, Will Smith goes full-on [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Fresh Prince]] to show people he's worthy of the role.
-->'''Genie:''' O Great One who summons me, terrible one who commands me, I stand by my oath, loyalty to wishes three!
* {{Leitmotif}}: A clever twist: for much of the film - like the original - Aladdin's theme is the refrain/reprise of "One Jump Ahead"(specifically the "riff raff, street rat, I don't buy that..." portion). However, when he starts to fall into the lies he tells everyone, becoming outwardly arrogant and losing himself in the process, his theme transitions to "Prince Ali" (which, as Genie says, is all flash and no substance) until he learns his lesson.

** Genie, when first released, is fairly dismissive of Aladdin since he finds it hard to believe ''this'' kid can be his new master, and due to past experience of bad masters he prefers to keep an emotional distance and doesn't really warm up to him until later on. Note that he doesn't even learn Aladdin's ''name'' until they're nearly through "Friend Like Me".

* CymbalBangingMonkey: Happens to Abu like the original, but is more passive and takes a few seconds to kick in, after which Genie sings a quick intro stanza. He's then turned into a full on drummer who plays along to "Friend Like Me".

--->'''Genie:''' There's a lot of grey area in "make me a prince". ''[he conjures a random prince from thin air]''

* HypocriticalHumor: Jasmine scolds Aladdin for lying he is a ‘prince’ yet she also lied to Aladdin at the start of the film by saying she's someone else, namely Dalia, and continues the charade when Aladdin sneaks in to the palace to return the bracelet. She even ropes Dalia into pretending to be the princess.

* IWantSong: A new solo, "Speechless," was written for Jasmine, whose only song in the original was the duet "A Whole New World". Whereas in the 1992 film, Jasmine wanted to marry for love, the 2019 Jasmine wants to prove herself as a leader in a male-dominated world.
* IdiotBall: While it is kind and noble of Jasmine to give starving children food, her lack of foresight in not taking money with her out into public nearly leads to the shopkeeper demanding her TragicKeepsake as compensation, or her arrest for theft.
* IndyPloy: Exemplified by Aladdin's IAmSong, "One Jump Ahead".

* LineOfSightName: Metaphysically, with sound instead of sight. When the subject of "I wish to become a Prince" comes to where "Prince Ali" is from, Genie flubs out the non-word "ub-bub-wuh" when he gets caught unprepared with a response, and it evolves from that into "Ababwa".

* SealedWithAKiss: [[spoiler:The ending combines this with TimePassesMontage, as Aladdin and Jasmine appear in different clothing at the end of [[OrbitalKiss their final kiss]]. Apparently the wedding clothes (as the score used during the scene is called "the wedding".]]

* ThatCameOutWrong: When Aladdin arrives as Prince Ali, showing his treasures and jams, Jasmine questions what he hopes to buy with these, to which Aladdin responds to Jasmine; "You". Aladdin quickly realizes what he said and tries to correct himself to mean to have an audience with her. Everyone gives an embarrassed look for Aladdin's slip there.

* WhatTheHellHero: Genie does this to Aladdin after he decides to continue pretending to be "Prince Ali".

* TheDogBitesBack: After Jafar makes him [[spoiler:watch Dalia getting tortured, the Genie with an angry smile quite happily grants the man's last wish: to become the most powerful being in the world. There is a reason why the Genie warned Aladdin about grey area in wishes]].

* TheGhost: Despite the fact that neither the Kingdom of Shirabad nor any of its citizens makes an appearance in the film, the place is constantly mentioned and a lot of Jafar's plans aim towards its utter destruction.
* HandWave: Done to patch up the PaperThinDisguise of "Prince Ali" from the original film (as it took time for Jasmine and Jafar to recognize him). Here Aladdin directly asks if people would recognize him and Genie references "genie magic" as putting up a barrier. When Jasmine and Jafar identify him, Genie admits it's not 100% effective (although neither could outright recognize him, and had to deduce it through other means).

* TheHighQueen: Jasmine ''wants'' to be a benevolent ruler for her people instead of just the next Sultan's HotConsort, but is blocked by Agrabah's male-centered laws. Her mother was also said to be one; Aladdin says early on that the entire city loved her and was devastated when she died. [[spoiler:Her father makes use of a legal loophole to make her one, abdicating without an HeirInLaw, defaulting the Sultancy to Jasmine. She then changes the laws in this regard.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: As with the original, Jafar is transformed into a genie and imprisoned by his lamp. A variation is that this time Jafar is smart enough to not directly wish to be a genie but rather the most powerful being in the universe. However, this leaves Genie with a lot of "gray area" as to how to satisfy that wish.

** When "Prince Ali" makes his entrance, Jasmine watches with curiosity, and not disgust. It does help that she sees him tossing coins to her people, who are cheering him on. Then Genie sings, "Heard your princess is hot, where is she?" and that offends her enough to walk away.
** In the climax, when [[spoiler:Jafar forces Jasmine to marry him, she grabs the lamp on seeing the Magic Carpet returning with Aladdin, and jumps from the palace balcony to make her escape. The Sultan then makes Jafar drop his staff when the latter turns Iago into a Rukh to retrieve the lamp. Unfortunately, neither Aladdin nor Jasmine think to quickly make a wish while flying before they lose the lamp at various intervals, and Jafar recaptures them]].

** Finally, [[spoiler:Jafar wishes to be the most powerful being in the universe, Genie even comments that there's a lot of grey area in that wish and decides to make Jafar into a genie forcing him to share the same curse of servitude and imprisoning him in his lamp until he has a master]].

* {{Foil}}: Aladdin and Jafar are clearly intended to be foils to each other, as Jafar reveals that he was once a street thief like Aladdin (stealing a pendant Aladdin had previously borrowed from Jasmine to demonstrate his skills), to the point that Jafar [[spoiler:uses his pickpocketing skills to steal the lamp from Aladdin]]. However, while Aladdin and Jafar each express a desire for respect beyond their humble origins, Aladdin never sought that respect at the expense of others while Jafar will never be satisfied unless he is at the top of the table and controls all others.

** Carpet is shown building a sandcastle in the background as Aladdin and Genie discuss his Prince wish. It gradually becomes a rather impressive sculpture and even does the Disney logo arch.
** Genie creates a random prince on a distant hilltop, then as he and Aladdin continue talking about Aladdin's wish, you can see the prince waving his arms yelling "Yo, you seen my palace?" After being ignored for some time, you hear the prince remark: "I wanna go home, man".

* EntertaininglyWrong: When meeting Jasmine at the start of the movie, Aladdin correctly deduces from her silk garments and valuable gold jewelry that she's from the palace. But he assumes incorrectly that she's one of the princess' handmaidens instead of the princess herself; she goes along with it and introduces herself as Dalia. Perhaps a nod to how [[GildedCage Jasmine's been kept in the palace for years after her mother's death?]]

* TheDogBitesBack: After Jafar makes him [[spoiler:watch Dalia getting tortured, the Genie with an angry smile quite happily grants the man's last wish: to become the most powerful genie in the world. There is a reason why the Genie warned Aladdin about grey area]].

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:When Jafar summons a sandstorm to recapture an escaping Aladdin and Jasmine, the Magic Carpet they're on tries to grab onto a ledge and fight it. Unfortunately, it rips in half, perishing in the storm. Luckily, the Genie restores it back to life after Jafar's defeat.]]

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Jasmine's mother who is not only well-loved by her family but also by her kingdom.

** The non-human characters Abu, Iago, Carpet and Rajah have smaller roles overall, Iago in particular is a normal parrot saying brief phrases rather than the eloquent and intelligent original.
** Gazeem's only screen time are his last few seconds before the Cave of Wonders swallows him and tells Jafar only a diamond in the rough may enter.

[[caption-width-right:300:''"Your life begins now... Aladdin."'']]

* DarkestHour: [[spoiler: Jafar has usurped the Sultancy, become a powerful sorcerer, disposed of loyalists in the guard, and coerced Jasmine to marry him. As Jasmine's about to say her vow, off in the distance she sees Aladdin booking it on Carpet back to the Palace from his exile of certain death... and then Jasmine seizes the moment to renounce the vow, swipe the lamp, and [[NoEscapeButDown jump off the balcony]] to be caught by Aladdin and Carpet.]]

* OneWingedAngel: Similar to the 1992 film, the climax does feature a villain getting transformed into a giant demonic beast per sorcery. [[spoiler:Except this time… it's ''Iago''.]]

* RevengeBeforeReason: Jafar's first-most priority is the destruction of the kingdom of Shirabad, as revenge for spending 5 years in its dungeons for thievery. Most of his actions in the film are in pursuit of this goal, even when doing so goes against his best interests, to the point that [[spoiler:his first order as sultan is to mass the armies for an invasion of Shirabad, and the first thing he tries to do upon receiving the phenomenal cosmic power of a genie is not to deal with Aladdin and Jasmine... but to try to obliterate Shirabad off the face of the Earth.]]

-->'''Aladdin''': I'm sorry for [[spoiler:the jams, and the jewels... and the buying you.]] That wasn't me — [[VerbalBackspace it]] ''[[VerbalBackspace was]]'' [[VerbalBackspace me]], I don't.... It was me, I don't have a twin or anything, but I... um... [{{Beat}}]

** When Jasmine signals Dalia to play along with Aladdin's assumption they're each other, Dalia wonders if Jasmine lost her voice.
** When Jasmine mentions her late mother’s bracelet to Aladdin in a panic upon discovering it is missing Aladdin simply says the bracelet was beautiful.
** Iago sarcastically tells Prince Anders Rajah ‘likes’ him and Anders agrees, blind to the sarcasm.

* ActorAllusion: The movie is a WholeEpisodeFlashback told by Will Smith to his kids. As the story is about how he changed from an all-powerful genie into a human husband, father, and merchant, he's telling them (and the audience) [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir a story all about how his life got flipped, turned upside down]]. What's more in "Friend Like Me", the Carpet does the Carlton Dance.

** Throughout "One Jump Ahead", a far higher number of ladies of Agrabah seem taken with Aladdin. In particular note, the school girls (formerly the massage parlor girls) swoon over him (before the headmistress comes at him to swat him out) instead of sharing their mistress's disdain for him as in the animated original.

* CassandraTruth: Downplayed when Jasmine asks Aladdin how he got to the balcony in her chambers-he responds "Magic Carpet?" as if it wasn't plausible and he knew she wouldn't buy it despite how he really was carried there by Carpet, albeit offscreen.

* ChekhovsGun: After Jafar makes his final wish to be more powerful than Genie, the latter again mentions a lot of "grey area" on making a wish which he warned Aladdin about earlier in the film. He grants Jafar’s wish anyway by making him a genie without warning.

** During "A Whole New World", Jasmine is clearly learning how to ride and direct the Magic Carpet. [[spoiler:During the climax when she, Aladdin and Abu are trying to get away from the magically enlarged Iago, there are several times when Jasmine has to direct the Carpet by herself.]]

* IWantSong: A new solo, "Speechless", was written for Jasmine, whose only song in the original was the duet "A Whole New World". Whereas in the 1992 film, Jasmine wanted to marry for love, the 2019 Jasmine wants to prove herself as a leader in a male-dominated world.

** The Cave of Wonders is set up in such a way that only someone with a good heart (a "Diamond in the Rough") can claim the lamp and become the Genie's Master. Jafar tries to get around this by finding an individual who fits the criteria and getting him to bring the lamp to Jafar. The Genie's immediate assumption that Aladdin is working for someone else because "there's always [[BigBad a guy]]", implies that Jafar is not the first one to exploit this loophole.

** DiscussedTrope in the "make me a prince" scene. The Genie points out that "there is a ''lot'' of gray area" within a wish. He shows that by summoning an actual prince before them when Aladdin asks if he could "make [him] a prince", instead of transforming Aladdin into a prince as intended.

* PeoplePuppets: Genie uses his powers to directly control Aladdin's movements during "Friend Like Me", and later makes him dance at the Sultan's party.

* RuleOfThree: The "gray areas" in a wish are mentioned three times by Genie over the course of the film: first when explaining to Aladdin to be exact in his wording when he first wishes "make me a prince", second when Genie is frantically muttering to himself to figure out a way to save Aladdin from drowning, and third after Jafar wishes to become the most powerful being possible.

* SecondaryAdaptation: This live-action film is a [[TheRemake remake]] of {{Creator/Disney}}'s ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}'', an animated film. Said animated film is [[InNameOnly loosely inspired]] by the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' tale of "[[Literature/{{Aladdin}} Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp]]", a written copy of Arabic OralTradition.

* ShoutOut: During the climax of "Friend Like Me", Genie and Aladdin jump down some steps -- doing splits!!! -- in the exact same fashion as the Nicholas Brothers in ''Film/StormyWeather''.

** Iago's name is not mentioned even once.

* AllThereInTheManual: Iago is named in the credits only.