A live action version of the Disney animation in which a young thief encounters a genie who grants him three wishes.
Three lively leads, but just creatively bankrupt on so many other levels.
Guy Ritchie’s adaptation is lively, colourful and genuinely funny – making only judicious tweaks to the original, it’s thankfully not a whole new world.
What could have been a cynical exercise in repackaging an old hit turns out to be an invigorating ride with lively performances, flamboyant musical numbers and clever special effects.
Guy Ritchie's live action take on the animated original is a flawed but enjoyable musical adventure.
Another lavish and largely entertaining Disney re-do, with strong turns from Massoud and Scott. But, appropriately for someone playing a huge, powerful entity trapped in a tiny ornament, Smith’s genie performance feels disappointingly constrained — both by overdependence on the original and some ghastly CGI.
Guy Ritchie’s live-action remake of the 90s Disney animation fails to capture the magic.
Clocking in at over 40 minutes longer than the original, ‘Aladdin’ manages to entertain for most of its runtime, but any moment it diverges from the source material things fall apart almost instantly.
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