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Aladdin (2019) Reaction! (Patreon)

Published:
2019-08-30 19:03:30
Imported:
2026-06

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Commentary: https://youtu.be/49WSnfAoewY?t=720

Comments

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

Thank you so much for your reaction to Aladdin! Overall... I really enjoy this movie a lot. However, as someone who grew up watching the animated Disney movie since it came out in theaters a long time ago and consider it to be one of my very favorites of the classic Disney movies, I have to say I didn't enjoy this live-action version of Aladdin quite as much. But that being said... for the most part, I really like Will Smith as the Genie. Of course... he's not Robin Williams, who plays Genie like no one else can and is phenomenal. It's not really fair to compare Will Smith's version of the Genie to Robin William's version of Genie. As an actor, I love Will Smith in most of his roles and as the Genie he's really funny. I just don't like him as much because he's so different and not quite as animated and wildly hilarious like Robin Williams is. As for the actor who plays Aladdin, I really like him a lot and I really feel like he fits the role comparatively to his character in the animated movie. He's really good and he's definitely my favorite character in this movie, whereas Genie and Iago were my favorite characters in the animated movie. Speaking of Iago... now in this movie, I felt that Iago and Jafar, but especially Iago was the most disappointing and I really hated how he was portrayed more like a parrot who simply mimics Jafar, or says really bizarre lines that don't really make much sense to me, instead of being as hilarious as Iago was in the animated movie. And of course again, in the animated movie we have Gilbert Gottfried as Iago and there's no comparison. He was brilliant. This version of Iago, even though he was voiced by Alan Tudyk again who I love, fell flat for me. And this is also how I feel about Jafar as well. Like you said, Jafar in the animated movie was perfect because he was snake like and his persona fit everything about his character down to his staff. But this live action version of Jafar was weak to me, and the actor felt too young. Nor is he nearly as sinister as Jafar in the animated movie was. For the most part... I really like Jasmine a lot as well. And I like her song Speechless, though again like you said... the song did feel out of place within this movie. And while I somewhat like the changes to her character from that of her animated character, I really didn't like that the creators of this movie made Jasmine a woman who felt she couldn't speak her mind, when in the animated movie, she had no problem doing so. I like her character in the animated movie much more. She was never speechless, and Jasmine didn't have to become the next Sultan to be able to marry Aladdin. I do understand what the creators and writers were trying to do, but again I feel like these changes in Jasmine's character were unnecessary. None of it was bad, but I simply preferred her in the animated movie. The one change of the characters I really did love though, was in the Sultan's head bodyguard, Hakim. In the animated Disney movie, he was just a joke of a guard who was always getting beaten by Aladdin and he just wasn't a likable character for me. But in this live-action version of Aladdin, I really like that he was a good man, who was loyal to the Sultan, but more than that... was truly loyal to the man even once he was no longer Sultan through the Genie's magic, as well as to Jasmine once Jafar became the Sultan. I just really appreciated this change in character. And as for the new characters such as Dalia... I really like her character a lot and I like the change within the Genie's story that allows for him and Dalia to fall in love. As for the music and songs... for the most part they were all pretty good, especially when the songs stayed more true to the songs in the animated Disney movie. I think they changed too much of the music for my taste, and I wish they hadn't. And they even took out Jafar's song in the end when he sends Aladdin to the ends of the Earth, which was a bit disappointing. However, I still enjoyed it expect for when they tried to modernize the music too much. My favorite song was A Whole New World, just as it is my favorite song in the animated movie too. And thankfully, they kept it pretty much the same as I hoped they would. Friend Like Me was also great in both versions as well. My least favorite song in this movie aside from Speechless, simply because it didn't fit and not because it wasn't beautiful, as it was... is Arabian Nights, only because the words in it were far too different from those in the animated movie. There were simply far too many changes to it, even though I did like the overall way this song opened the story told by the Genie throughout the movie. I do enjoy this movie a lot and I am so happy you enjoyed it as well. I do have a hard time with trying not to compare it so much to the animated movie, which probably lowers how much I enjoy this live-action version a little. But I love the animated Disney movie and generally don't like it when certain things I love are changed to make something more modernized. Thank you so much for your reaction! I look forward to your next reactions, whatever they may be. Until the next movie...

Dysike

Since you were talking about where Abrabah was supposed to be; weirdly in the original fairy tale Aladdin was set in China. The setting was still middle eastern (ruler was still called a Sultan, mentions of Muslims and Jews but never any Chinese religions, etc) but China was apparently just used as a 'mysterious far away land' by the writer.

Mark Wood

Loved your reaction, even though I never really loved the original (I thought Robin Williams just over powered everything). I liked the casting of the two leads (I wish he had a stronger voice), but Thought the villain was far more menacing in the animated film (just a great voice). Back to voiced, Will Smith vocally doesn’t have the voice to match some of the music, but outside of that his casting was far stronger then what I was expecting. The film was much more enjoyable then what it’s early footage lead people to believe. But I still feel it was the weakest of the live action remakes (I have yet to see Dumbo). But it did bring back a ton of memories from this time in my life at university working for me vocal degree, which I wasn’t expecting.

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

I hope you will watch the live-action version of Cinderella. It's my favorite of them all. Dumbo is really good, as are Maleficent, Beauty and the Beast, and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, which isn't a Disney live-action remake in the slightest, but it's still really good. None of these movies are perfect by any means, but they're good and fun. And as for the two Aladdin Disney animated sequels... they're really good too. I would definitely recommend you watch them too. :)

EricReacts
>>26319224

Oh wow, I never bothered to look up who played Iago in the original. Of COURSE it was Gilbert Gottfried haha Glad you enjoyed the movie and my reaction :)

EricReacts
>>26323695

I haven't seen any of the other live-action Disney movies yet! Crazy that it's the most disappointing for you!

Ryan Anderson

Jasmine is such a weird case for me in this movie. I think they inadvertently made her character feel weaker by making her so much more passive and docile than her animated counterpart, simply leaving an argument to sing a song rather than standing her ground, and her her actual story fits perfectly for me. Why would the actual child of the Sultan, who had lived in Agribah her whole life, not end up the next in line by the end? Makes perfect sense. Also, while yeah, the song is a bit out of place, it's my favourite from this movie, and it's constantly on my playlist when I'm out walking