Took my little girl to see the Aladdin remake at the cinema last weekend.
Fair play to Will Smith for having a crack at it but Robin Williams is a hard act to follow and it just lacked the ‘zing’ and fun of the original. I thought a proper comedian with a distinctive voice like Chris Rock, Jim Carrey or Will Ferrell might have done a better job.
A plodding pace too in a few parts and it doesn’t help that the way they’ve animated the animals means they completely lack emotion. Poor casting too for the other characters I thought. My littlun completely lost interest by about 2/3s of the way through.
The only good part was the carpet, and that was no better than what was in the original.