I love this movie. As I mentioned in my review of Robots, I consider Aladdin an animated masterpiece. Does it hold up? Definitely.
I know some people think that Aladdin is a Vanilla Protagonist due to The Genie, Princess Jasmine and Jafar being such interesting and scenestealing characters but he isn’t. Indeed, Aladdin is an interesting and likeable character.
Aladdin is flawed, he starts off as an urchin, orphan and streetrat who steals out of necessity repeatedly nearly getting himself and Abu killed as a result of so doing. But it turns out that despite being a thief he actually has a heart hence the Pet the Dog moment wherein he gives his stolen loaf of bread to those children and standing up to them against the Prince leading to his being treated as a ButtMonkey and disdained as a streetrat leading to an emotional "I Want" Song “Streetrat, is that really all they see, when will they realize there’s so much more to me”. As well as Aladdin’s ill-advised efforts to impersonate the Prince and disregarding the Genie’s instruction to tell the truth. And the fact that after he’s been left for dead by Jafar instead of raging against his enemy, he blames himself “this all my fault. I should have freed the Genie when I had the chance”. And I like how Aladdin defeats Jafar by realizing that they are Not So Different and thus anticipating that Jafar would likewise become convinced that he’s nothing without the Lamp and refuse to give up what that grants him.
Robin Williams is absolutely hilarious in his role as the Genie “So why don’t you ruminate whilst I illuminate the possibilities. I’m in the mood to help you, dude and you ain't never had a friend like me”.
I like how intelligent, independent and headstrong Princess Jasmine is and the bumbling but goodhearted Sultan was an entertaining character.
The only part of this movie I don’t love is the Sultan suddenly having the power to let Princess Jasmine marry whomever she seems worthy though he hadn’t been able to do that before. (Though I still like that scene and the Happy Ending it enables).
I’m in the mood to help you dude and you ain’t never had a friend like me.
I love this movie. As I mentioned in my review of Robots, I consider Aladdin an animated masterpiece. Does it hold up? Definitely.
I know some people think that Aladdin is a Vanilla Protagonist due to The Genie, Princess Jasmine and Jafar being such interesting and scenestealing characters but he isn’t. Indeed, Aladdin is an interesting and likeable character.
Aladdin is flawed, he starts off as an urchin, orphan and streetrat who steals out of necessity repeatedly nearly getting himself and Abu killed as a result of so doing. But it turns out that despite being a thief he actually has a heart hence the Pet the Dog moment wherein he gives his stolen loaf of bread to those children and standing up to them against the Prince leading to his being treated as a ButtMonkey and disdained as a streetrat leading to an emotional "I Want" Song “Streetrat, is that really all they see, when will they realize there’s so much more to me”. As well as Aladdin’s ill-advised efforts to impersonate the Prince and disregarding the Genie’s instruction to tell the truth. And the fact that after he’s been left for dead by Jafar instead of raging against his enemy, he blames himself “this all my fault. I should have freed the Genie when I had the chance”. And I like how Aladdin defeats Jafar by realizing that they are Not So Different and thus anticipating that Jafar would likewise become convinced that he’s nothing without the Lamp and refuse to give up what that grants him.
Robin Williams is absolutely hilarious in his role as the Genie “So why don’t you ruminate whilst I illuminate the possibilities. I’m in the mood to help you, dude and you ain't never had a friend like me”.
I like how intelligent, independent and headstrong Princess Jasmine is and the bumbling but goodhearted Sultan was an entertaining character.
And I love the Magnificent Bastard Jafar as a villain and his Talking Animal NonHuman Sidekick Iago.
And I love the songs in this cartoon.
The only part of this movie I don’t love is the Sultan suddenly having the power to let Princess Jasmine marry whomever she seems worthy though he hadn’t been able to do that before. (Though I still like that scene and the Happy Ending it enables).
All in all, this is a great movie.