Continuity mistake: When Jafar freezes Aladdin and the monkey when they're about to grab the lamp, the way the monkey's frozen tail is curled differs between shots.
Aladdin (2019)
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Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Will Smith, Alan Tudyk, Naomi Scott, Billy Magnussen
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
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I watched this movie on Disney +.
This movie didn't need to be made. And if they were gonna make it, they should have done better than this.
This was just another in Disney's line up of soulless live action remakes of their beloved classics. Take everything great about the original. And make it bland.
Will Smith tries his best as Genie here, and honestly he's not terrible in the role. When you have such huge shoes to fill like the ones left behind by Robin Williams. You need to try better than this. Will is just some blue guy, not The Genie.
The guy playing Aladdin is actually pretty good, and I like him. But most of the other actors are meh. And the one other person besides Genie they needed to get right was Jafar. Yet they took one of the most menacing and cool villains from the Disney canon and made him just generic bad guy number 4. The actor playing him has no charisma, and no chemistry with the other actors.
All that said, it's also not terrible. It's better than some of Disney's other live action remakes. Not that that really says much. This falls into the worst place a movie can be. Just middle of the road meh. It's not good or great to be loved, and it's not so bad to be hated or talked about for how bad it is. It's so meh... that you forget about it.
It has just enough to make it not terrible, but not enough to make me want to watch it again. And that's just sad.
it's an invisible 3 stars out of 5.
Mistake Status: N/A.
More mistakes in Aladdin
Genie: I made you look like a prince on the outside, but I didn't change anything on the inside. Prince Ali got you to the door, but Aladdin has to open it.
Trivia: Jim Carrey was the first choice for the role of the Genie, but had to decline due to his recent involvement in a civil lawsuit.
Question: Why did the Princess not have money with her at the market? She could easily disguise herself as a lower-class person who has some amount of money with her, like the other shoppers.
Answer: Despite being a princess, Jasmine likely did not have access to money. Royals are known to never carry cash in their possession. Everything in Jasmine's life is controlled, and whatever she needs or wants is provided. She is young, naïve, and has been so pampered and sheltered from the real world that she'd probably never consider how currency works.
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