Aladdin (Post-release)

[dascoyne]

People were in a uproar about the Will Smith Genie. I didn’t think the stills looked that bad. But now that the trailer is out you get to see him in motion and ... yeah, it looks bad. He should have moved more comically to bring out the energy of a performance but they went straight for “realism.” Oh why?

Why realism unless they’re not trying to make the same comic relief genie? But even in doing realism Will’s body animation (the way he spreads his arms) merely pantomimes the voice acting and adds nothing to the performance. If you watch the making of the Robin Williams Aladdin you can see the animators really applies a lot of thought, labor and talent to enhance the comic performance with imaginative flourishes with a heaping of Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. I see none of that creativity here. The CGI adds nothing. This is really bad.

Still for me, Aladdin isn’t all about the intrepid principle character nor even the genie. I want to see a hot Jasmine (the hottest Disney Princess IMO). But I’m not seeing much of her here and so far she looks ... passible.

I’m dreading this post-Lassiter Disney even more than the upcoming post-Gunn Marvel.

 

[CAPNMURICAH]

Well Jafar sounds like a Chick.[emoji52]
Genie looks like[emoji1785]
Aladdin himself is... fine.
Cool that they kept Raja, worried they wouldnt.
They better not shut up Iago. He was one of the best parts of the original

 

[Strikerkc]

They better not shut up Iago...

Survey says... no voice actor listed for Iago in the cast.

Guess who's just a parrot.

 

[CAPNMURICAH]

Survey says... no voice actor listed for Iago in the cast.

Guess who's just a parrot.

[emoji52][emoji58] WHY!??!?!?!??!!!!??!?!?!?!?!??!!? GGGRRRAAARRRRGGHH!! So stupid.

 

[Strikerkc]

I concur. Hopefully they're just keeping a lid on it, and 10 minutes into the movie, we'll hear Gilbert squawk out an insult that's a little to long and a little to specific to be a normal parrot, the way they hid the fact that arnold was doing mocap/face work for the T-800 in terminator salvation.

Sadly, the odds are low, very very low. lol

 

[CT1138]

Everything I hear about this films sends it from bad, to worse, to gutter garbage. One of the few live action Disney remakes I'd been looking forward to is looking to end up being a dud.

 

[Psab keel]

This is not even laughably bad. It's cringe worthy. Like if they are making all of these live action/ realistic versions of their classic animated films, why do a shot for shot remake? At least if you're going to go through the effort of making a new version, try some new things with the material and add something new to it to make it it's own thing. Otherwise it's just a copy and paste job to have an excuse for a cash grab. Not to mention nothing about this trailer is exciting or interesting and the performances look flat and emotionless.

Beauty and the Beast wasn't too bad and had some fun moments to it. Maleficent was a huge surprise and I really enjoyed it. It was a fresh take on the story of Sleeping Beauty by telling it from the perspective of the villain and flipping the Disney tropes on their head. What is this new retelling of Aladdin really adding to their film library? I'd guess that it wasn't much more than cash.

It looks like some fan made trailer and a bad one at that.

 

[Kovnyn]

Aladdin is my hands down favorite Disney animated movie. This is just... bad. Certain movies just shouldn't be made live action. This is one of them. I absolutely will not watch this for fear that it ruins the animated one that I love.

Will Smith is a terrible replacement for Robin Williams. Robin made the animated one the success that it is. Will Smith... not so much.

 

[Solos blaster]

What is the point of these live action versions of their animated movies other than more dumb decisions from Disney? It really feels more and more like the issues with Lucasfilm are not self contained within and there are issues with the Disney higher ups altogether. Like every complaint of no new ideas in Hollywood that we've complained about over the years is becoming the epitome through Disney.

It is becoming the self licking ice cream cone.

 

[Apollo]

This was doomed the minute Will Smith was cast as the Genie!

 

[equib]

As what has been said prior, Maleficent worked as this was an unique take on a tale as old as time.
This just looks like a remake because "kids don't watch cartoons anymore"

 

[Potroclo]

Well if they've done a full CG Will Smith it must be for animating his body, right? There's no way that's just him painted blue, unless he's had surgery (and a bad one at that) The carpet and the monkey look nice though... I still won't see it

 

[Richard Baker]

This and Dumbo are two films I wish Disney had just left alone...

 

[AJTaliesen]

Hard to tell much from the tiny bit we've seen so far.

So far, Will Smith Genie doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother most of the internet. Seems like it's Will Smith playing the character of Will Smith painted CGI blue, but it might be OK.

The little we've seen of Jafaar though is worse to me. High voice Jafaar is not remotely menacing.

The actress playing Jasmine looks good...is there a reason we only got 1 second and no dialogue of one of the main characters? I hope that the look is not all the character brings to the table. In the animated version she was a great character.

 

[Strikerkc]

Now, while I'm disappointed at the general look of things, and most assuredly the lack of Iago as a talking character (probably less of a statement on Iago, than it is on how little exposition we'll hear out of Jafar in this one; that WAS Iago's purpose, to give sassy back talk to Jafar while he explained to the audience what he was doing, likely means we'll have a story focused much more on the good guy's interacting), I look at the the movie as a whole, and I think it'll be fine.

That's right, I said it. I think it'll be just fine. I think the kids that go into it, are gonna have a blast, and come out thinking "Aladdin Rocks". Which, is a good thing, and I welcome it.

I know we look at some remakes like this one, and feel like it'll "deprive" the children or the "real" Aladdin experience that we had, and the truth is, that experience we had could NEVER be experienced by these kids and their families; not on the same scale and magnitude. And to expect them to skip trying to have their own experience, because it wasn't the one "we" had, is no good.

Plus, go back and watch Aladdin, count the number of Genie jokes that aren't references to pop culture of the day; it's gonna be a surprisingly small number. Now take the fact that the parents who are gonna take their kids to see the new one aren't even from a generation to notice the references, and you've already lost half the classic Disney comedy right there; The parents are supposed to get the joke, the kids are supposed to laugh at the moving colors and tone.

I've missed enjoying plenty of "Great classics" because they're just not from my time/weren't done in the style I'm accustomed too. Doesn't mean I haven't' seen some of them, doesn't mean I don't understand why others loved them so much, doesn't mean I'm ever going to re-watch them, doesn't mean I'm gonna look down on folks for watching them; and it sure doesn't mean I don't enjoy the movies I watch.

I say keep an eye on this film, and try to judge it by it's own merit, not it's differences to another movie. I watch that trailer, and don't worry about "when I'm I gonna see X or hear Y", it's a pretty cool looking trailer.

 

[Monkey67]

I’m soo sick of will smith playing will smith in movies. Genie is to be funny, I do not care if he looks like hefty Smurf on roids. Just be funny and playful. Personally I think the roll of Genie should of gone to Sinbad. He is funny, has a good voice and can play the part. Just look at him in American Dad.


Jarfar should sound like a bad mofo. This dude wants the kingdom and the world. Shouldn’t sound like the pre teen behind me at Mickey D’s trying to decide if he wants The cheeseburger happy meal or the chicken nuggets one.

Bird better drops some lines in this flick too. If I can believe in magical blue dude handing out wishes. I think I can handle a talking bird beyond polly wants a cracker.

 

[Treadwell]

Well, if Iago does speak, it isn't Gilbert Godfried. He's confirmed he was not asked.

 

[Funky]

I think it looks pretty good! I know I'm way in the minority but I think Wil Smith is a fine choice. Is he Robin Williams? No. But I think his comedic timing is great.

 

[Treadwell]

His voice performance might work but I'd hoped his animated character would be more fanciful and not his face pasted on a big and buff but otherwise fairly normal body.

 

[sztriki]

I just honestly don't understand why they call this "live action remake" when 90% of every frame is CGI...it looks like AOTC really. I'm not even going to mention the "live action" Lion King.
I've only seen Maleficent out of these let's-redo-the-old-classics-with-modern-tech-and-modern-values movies and decided the skip on everything else. Had a moderate interest in this as the original is one of my fave Disney movies but nah, no thanks.