Aladdin reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2019
- Mark Kermode reviews Aladdin. An honourable street urchin is enlisted by a treacherous Grand Vizier to help him acquire a mysterious lamp.
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It took 4 minutes for Mark to say 'but', but I could hear it coming all the way.
This scene in the original, when Aladdin matter-of-factly steps off the balcony after getting rejected, is infinitely more charming and funny in equal measure. And that’s the magic of animation.
And the magic of good writing.
shitty tired sexist trope pressuring women into relationships ...teach 'em young eh?
@@rippedtorn2310 he wasn't pussing her he went on his carpet and she went on it was her own choice
Man appears to commit suicide by jumping straight off the balcony in front of your eyes...
*the mildest shock imaginable* "what just happened?"
A man likely plummeted to tomato paste on the pavement below. I know Jasmine is sheltered, but is she also special?
Grainne Mhaol so special that she does not understand or have an intuitive notion of gravity.
@@avastavery5489 We are apparently so jaded that any earnest moment of danger or concern is undercut by postmodern irony.
Just not very good acting at a guess. 'Ah well, he'll probably come back up on an old carpet I reckon.'
Sickening, but this is where we are at. Nothing is shocking or surprising. Hay ho.
I hope there's some kind of remake where he comes back up on the DeLorean being driven by Doc Brown.
Bloody hell, just from the way Mark says "This is..." at the start, you know how the review is going to go.
Very good 👍
And when he says "Here's the thing"
No mention of The French Connection or The Exorcist
and the odd time Kermode does mention his favourite film then you can comment about how he ALWAYS mentions Exorcist .
Mark goes a long way towards echoing my own sentiment that makes these "live action" Disney remakes rub me the wrong way. They enforce the idea that animation, particularly hand-drawn animation, is "for kids" and therefore an inferior art form than "real" cinema, reducing the chances of hand-drawn animation once again reaching the heights that it did when the original Aladdin was made. Disney should know better, had they not given up on hand-drawn animation a while ago, to their detriment.
You just explained to me why I like hayao Miyazaki films. It's the hand drawn feel of them, largely, now I think about it. cheers.
Well get used to them because we've got a live action CGI version of The Lion King in July and a live action version of Mulan in 2020 . I thought the film was a good watch and I admire the fact Will Smith made The Genie his own and less dominant presence than in the animated film which is good on the one hand Aladdin and Jasmine are put more centre stage in this version . That said the improvisations of Robin Williams were pure magic and I kind of missed those . What the film gave with one hand it took away with the other . I enjoyed the old and new songs too.
Only one illustrator has ever caught a cat, and that's Milt Kahl's Bagheera in the '67 Jungle Book. Nothing matches it. Nothing.
Vinnie Jones as the genie that would've been proper Guy Ritchie
"Roight, Al, get in there and make some f***ing wishes you slaaaaaagggg!!!"
(Went a bit Eastenders at the end there...)
That would be incredible.
Neil Patrick Harris should have been the genie
Even better if it was Bricktop!
don't mug me off jafar you melt, you're giving me the right hump. you take any more liberties like that and i'm going to have to get a bit naughty.
I think there are plenty of classic Disney animations (from the 1950s to 1970s) that could benefit from being remade but the “modern” classics like Aladdin, The Lion King or Beauty and the Beast aren’t among those because they still feel contemporary and ageless to children watching them for the first time today.
McSuperfly [insert Song Of The South joke here]
Mark sounds like he'd rather be watching Rocketman again
Jesus that dialogue they added before A Whole New World is painful.
"Can you tell where it's going?" "What, the magic carpet?"
Don't get it...
@@LisztyLiszt As opposed to the plot.
that was so so funny
"what's the point?"
every. single. Disney. remake. summed up.
The Junglebook and Cinderella tried to be their own thing.
People like movies...?
Ajax which is why you make something new instead of just remaking old stuff. Two of the same is not as good as two different movies if you like movies...
@@ajax4887 no its not that
I suppose it only could go downhill after the Rocketman review.
"There's a lot of things that are hits, that doesn't make them good." - Mark Kermode
That should be plastered on every piece of movie advertising and outside every movie theatre worldwide.
@@neonatalpenguin That, though, is the world we live in; art must be digestible within two minutes or less, or it's considered pretentious; criticism is considered pretentious; escapist, empty movies, blank enjoyment without the thought of anything more, is held up as a paragon of what cinema should be; and the masses, not the critics, prop up the idea that average folk can't appreciate artistic cinema.
Read the comments to Mark's original review of The Greatest Showman. It'll make you want to cry.
-anyone with more than three brain cells
It his opinion and there are lots of critically acclaimed ones that no one remembers. No one says that remakes should be banned. By saying that already is not professional. I liked live action better. Animated Aladdin had very odd stuff in there.
The only disney live action remake I would even consider watching is Lilo And Stitch.
"a whole new world or a whole world... with which we're familiar"
did someone say word spinach?!
“It was alright is not good enough”. This man understands.
Thank you so much for reminding of the Eddie Izzard Lego Star Wars video. I haven't seen it in years!
6:44 My thoughts exactly sir
I think Mark missed a trick talking about Robin Williams’ Genie, and this is it.....
Robin Williams ‘ Genie was, in most respects, a complete game changer. Nothing was ever the same with Disney animation, or animation in general after that. They had to include bits for adults, sassy, fast talking improv style, comedy sidekicks, and big set pieces. His performance was beyond stellar, beyond.....anything seen before. It was simply magical in several senses of the word.
That’s one of many problems with this movie. It had way too much to live up to, that it never ever was going to. Another is that there is nothing magical about any performance. The worst thing though is that Will Smith does not play the Genie. He plays Robin Williams Genie, which let’s face it was always doomed to fail.
Love the 1992 version so much. Robin Williams stole the entire film for me so when I heard of this I was like god no. But I hope it's good though.
Someone tell Guy Ritchie he needs to make The Real RocknRolla like he promised
he should have come up on a DeLorean
For me, the only one of these Disney remakes that felt really worthwhile was the Jungle Book. I loved how they re-imagined King Loui and I felt that Shere Khan had much more of a presence in the remake. I don't think I'd say I like it more than the animated film (it was my most watched Disney film as a kid and the one I have the most nostalgia for), but it felt like it brought enough new to the table that I have quite happily watched it a couple of times again since seeing it in the cinema.
80% of this review is Mark talking about the animated version and Robin Williams
David James I know I agree - I have prob watched about two animated movies and at my age my Attention span on an animated adventure is very limited
Dumbo is a perfect remake because Dumbo is an imperfect cartoon. It has something that could have been brought out in the live action.
You can't turn around with "no, Dumbo live action was a bad idea because the live action sucked." You hedged your bets on the execution.
Guy Ritchie should go back to basics.
Guns and geezer, and a guy named Mumbles.
Guy Ritchie should just go
Originally he was actually known for being somewhat of a master of clever in-camera trickery and physical effects, it's sad most of that has gone out of the window.
Those suits dont pay for themselves.
ze germans?
I love how some of Mayo’s remarks are so dry that Mark’s superior mindset can’t properly process them
yeah they work so well as a duo haha
One day they'll get Mark's face in focus
Exactly how I feel about these live action remakes. Nothing new to bring to the table, so how much of it can you review without comparing the two? I could feel the inner turmoil there!
Robo4900 agree. Really had a blast watching it. Solid 8 for me.
Yes well done will smith is not robin williams nor should he try to be robin williams but if you said will smith didnt even feel like will smith then i see that as a fair criticism. I dont go to will smith films to watch robin williams.
Watched today, there were little girls smiling and dancing in the aisles ... a few Mums too..... Job done Disney.
Another great out-of-context soundbite from Kermode @ 8:05.
2:13 Oh, I thought he was going to come back on top of the DeLorean.
I've also heard that rumour about the Oscar eligibility debunked somewhere. But can't for the life of me remember exactly what was said. I think it was along the lines of Disney animated films are rarely considered for best screenplay so it's unlikely a discussion about how much of the script was improvised ever took place? Grateful if anyone's able to clarify this!
Disney is doing an animated version of '" The Greasy Strangler "
I thought that was a Family Guy spinoff!
An actual Mark Kermode review on his channel 👌
Everyone seems to have forgotten that Aladdin is a Middle Eastern folk tale (1001 Nights) with loads of history. For a live-action movie Disney could have gone back to the original story and could have made a wonderful new film. But judging from this scene this is just a slightly allright rehash of something we’ve allready seen, and done much better. And Mark is right about animation too; it’s so wonderfull and it’s such a shame that Disney doesn’t seem to care about animating new films. As a kid that was really something to look forward to.
Dosent it take place in China?
I think it should have been MORE live action.
Before we got Aladdin we hit The Thief of Bagdad: a genuine old film classic fantasy adventure.
Thank you for the appreciation of animation. People do not realize the decades it spent being referred to as nothing but cartoons. Fantasia should be introduced to children at a young age along with so many other great animated films. People forget CGI is animation. I wish it was still referred to as computer generated animation rather than images.
Fresh Prince of Persia ?
While I'm happy about Jasmine getting more agency, that scene, and the reviews I've seen in general have confirmed what I expected, which was this is far too close to the original. It's the same problem I had with Beauty and the Beast. It was well made, the depth added to some characters was nice, and I liked the new song, but ultimately it just felt too much the same.
That's why Cinderella and Jungle Book are my favorites. They hearkened back to the originals, but they were far more their own things. Unfortunately, with Beauty and the Beast being so successful, they likely won't stray as much in the future. Aladdin was one that could have used the shift too, given that the movie has more in common with Thief of Bagdad than it did the actual story.
Oh well, I'll still see it, but with everything coming I'm truly excited for, I might wait for the video release.
To be honest, when you based its ratings on rotten tomatoes, there are only 4 live-adaptations from Disney that was well-received and praised by critics and audiences:
Cinderella - 84%
The Jungle Book - 95%
Beauty and the Beast - 71%
Christopher Robin - 72%
On the other hand, Aladdin is serviceable but utterly mixed, with its rating jumping from 59% to 61%, so it's just underwhelming.
Maleficent is also mixed, with the rating of 54%, and although its perspective of the villain was intriguing, the rest just sucks.
Alice in Wonderland is kinda mixed but just underwhelming, with the rating of 50%, due to weak narrative, despite having good spectacle.
Dumbo is utterly the worst, with the rating of 46%. It had underwhelming spectacle and worse of all, horrible pacing and script, along hammy and cringe-worthy acting from Michael Keaton, which wasted his talents and wooden acting from the child actors.
Please watch 'The Thief and the Cobbler' - Richard Williams
.... And then you'll see where a lot of the inspiration for the animation and the form comes from.
You can also read up about the history of the making of the two films and see how the influences crept into Alladin. Fascinating
Looking at the princess, I'm waiting for someone to burst into, "Way back in days of old,
There was a legend told,
About a hero known as Galavant."
Can you tell where it’s going?
What, the magic carpet?!
🤣
I frikking love Robin Williams.
I love how he didn't even mention Will Smith lol, that says it all about this film..
The Jungle Book was good. Haven't seen this yet.
I think if you frame it as a film adaptation of the broadway musical it makes more sense than as a remake of the original animated film. I for one really enjoyed it (and Aladdin was my favourite childhood Disney film) and it makes me want to see the musical in person if I ever get the chance
Plus I just think Mark is plain wrong about Will Smith not having fun with the role!
The acting in that clip was awful!
@@DTBootlegs Yes exactly! Movie takes you over like Mamma Mia.
Also the directing and script
What did you say
Do you trust me
What did you say
Didyoutrustme
Standard for Guy Ritchie
Robo4900 it’s because there’s a lot more tension in this scene between the two of them than there is even in the original. They’ve had multiple exchanges and Aladdin has fallen on his face every time to this point. The balcony is his 3rd or 4th attempt at courting Jasmine in the new movie and she’s incredibly unimpressed and even annoyed with him. So out of context it just feels like they have zero chemistry.
Obviously... I love kermodeandmayo
Damn, this really put all my complicated feelings about this movie into coherent words.
I personally thought the movie was quite charming and very very good. The reason for the remakes in my opinion is to get a whole new generation of kids hooked on Aladdin. Yes the original is great but not many kids are going to sit through it. My daughter sure didn't. But she absolutely loves the new Aladdin movie especially Will Smith's Genie and Naomi Scott's Jasmine. She's been singing the songs since watching the film. We had our Aladdin with Robin Williams. This generation will have Will Smith's. There have been remakes of film since the beginning of film making. Case in point how many Cleopatra movies have been made. My grandmother had the old black and white film but my mom had Elizabeth Taylor's film. And I had the Timothy Dalton film. Each was good in their time. This Aladdin though not as good as the original in my opinion will be the Aladdin my daughter's generation will grow up with and love.
Honestly The Jungle Book is the best one of these live actions. Loved it.
The Jungle Book is the best of all, but there are also good and decent live-action adaptations such as Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Christopher Robin.
A think Boris Johnson should have been the Genie
No... Teresa May.
@@nettils5555 snorezzz
Theresa May as Jafaar
I've yet to see a Guy Richie film that comes remotely close to the very worse Hammer produced!
I never liked the Disney remakes to start with and this looks to be yet another cash grab from the studio. Why does the classic animated films of the past have to be made into lesser live action form. Some films are made to be animated and left that way. I mean when they try to replace Williams of all people you know it's not gonna work. Will smith is a fine actor but he is no Williams.
@@davidjames579 Pardon? You do you not understand the concept of film? None of it is real. Animation is a medium that is just as important as live action.
@@davidjames579 If that's the case please explain to me how you would go about making water ship down in live action. That story is amazing and I can't see how any other medium could have been used other than animation to create it. I think animation gives people a chance to have experiences that would be impossible in live action.
@@davidjames579 Photorealism gets dull after a while though. Don't believe me? Look at what happened to art. At one time everyone only painted photorealistic paintings in order to try and out do each other. After they managed to get the paintings to a photorealistic quality though people got sick of it. There was no way of improving it. That was until one day someone drew something surreal that was nothing like what other artists were doing at the time. That resulted in a change of how art was enjoyed and how It was expressed. I think the same thing of film. CGI is now able to make photorealistic renditions of characters but at some point that's not going be very impressive anymore. That's why animation is such a great way of making film. There isn't any end to what you can do in animation as long as you have the time budget and care to do so. Some of my most beloved films are animated. Isle of dogs is a good example. That film could have been made using CGI and real locations but if they had done that they would have lost some of what gave the film it's tone and feel.
@@davidjames579 I disagree. I think animation and live action can hold just as much emotional weight if given to a good case with an amazing story and smart director. If you don't believe me then watch a film Mark reviewed about a year ago called The Breadwinner. An indie film animated beautifully that never gets the credit it should get. I think this film can start up story and character wise to any live action film. Both live action and animation have positives and negatives but both can tell fantastic story's if treated with respect. Let's be real in one year from now when you say Aladdin to someone what film do you think they will think of? The animated one or the live action one?
Wasn't Disney's Aladdin in 1992 an animated "remake" of a live action film from 1940 called "The Thief of Baghdad" co-directed by Michael Powell?
I don't know. I know Katzenberg wanted it made cause of the Thief and the Cobbler was in production. Then later Cobbler started stealing from Aladdin.
Guy Ritchie? Wtf!?
How does he keep getting work?!...while no one is offering work to Gareth Evans, who Directed and Edited the Raid films
Ah, He gets work because.....😉
Because he was an influential film maker in the 90s and he has experience in directing musical pieces.
Gareth is getting work just fine.
Gareth Evans had an awesome movie made by Netflix last year called Apostle.
If you've just watched someone jump off a balcony, you don't just stand there and talk to the audience.
I think she may have guessed he didn't throw himself to his death
@@willd6215 what just happened?
@@olivierdehaas1786 I dunno, what just happened?
Amazing. A complete devotee to the Mary Poppins’ remake. Not convinced by the source of his resistance to this remake. Will probably shade it by qualifying this as a remake of an animation.
I distinctly remember, as a child, being turned off by anything on TV that wasn't a cartoon. I remember thinking live action was boring. I wouldn't watch those kids' movies that were live action (Ritchie Rich, Home Alone etc) - instead watching Land Before Time and Jungle Book over and over.
Disney are making a mistake here.
It genuinely is a shame to hear they only wanted to go so far as making a thing that will be successful. Seems like an amazing platform and opportunity to guarantee seats and use that to make something... I dunno... more! I’m probably not going to see this one, I imagine I’ll probably watch the lion king even though it just looks like a shot for shot remake... and I’ll undoubtedly still enjoy it, because I love the original... but yeah, it is upsetting they aren’t giving the same thought to these “live” versions as their more recent “fully” animated features, which seem to use their chance to do something bolder, further the narrative, hit a new angle (I’m coming from a point of view that Moana was SO damn good!). This was the review I expected of the film I expected, and in both instances I was hoping for something more
I would have prefered to hear his review of this film rather than just a comparisson to the original.
I wasn't a fan of this either and it's difficult to divorce it from the animated one but review the film in front of you.
Film Critics sometimes get it wrong with their reviews of family films. The Robin Williams/Dustin Hoffman Peter Pan film was panned by the critics. My kids (and I) love it!
Wow, well said 👏🏼🙂👍🏼
Mark Kermode doesnt look OK. Is he allright? Is he sick? He is my favorite movie critic in the world.
Yeah, Disney Princesses have changed and now they're only years behind the times and not decades.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm waiting for someone to do a remake of "The Wizard of Oz" (not a sequel, reboot or reimagination of it.) A true blue remake. Good luck. It will be like your goofy neighbor taking his car engine apart and trying to put it back together again.
They'll probably get Phoebe Waller-Bridge to direct it.
I'm with Mark here, it's why?!? theses remakes aren't as good as the originals.
This would have received a better reception if Robin Williams hadn’t created pure genius in the animated version. Poor Will Smith would never be able to live up to it.
I'm fine with updating the Disney movies that have very dated and perhaps somewhat inappropriate content by modern standards, but that doesn't include the Second Golden Age 90s period.
True what's culturally changed since the 1990s? In the 50s it was a crime to be gay and women where expected to have no libido, and mixed marriage meant a persbertarian marrying a Catholic ECT
Nothing like that has happened between 1991-2018
Short clip from animation test Mark mentions: ruclips.net/video/Pvziq5NSxGo/видео.html
I thought it was good, lighthearted fun and will smith did a great job at an impossible job.
Didn't even watch this movie but I agree. I'm so tired even of hearing about these remakes, who ever asked for them?
I don’t buy that if someone likes a remake, they’ll go and investigate the original. Why bother? You liked the movie already. Given Disney’s presence in culture now, it’s also hard to believe people don’t have access to films like Dumbo. They don’t have the “Vault” any more; they replaced it with just making it again, and charging you to see it again.
Yeah, I agree . . . animation is groundbreaking. That's why James Cameron STOLE his Avatar concept straight from Fern Gully (a brilliant, grond-breaking, non-Disney animation, way, way ahead of its time); go check it out folks and [i think] you will agree. Just sayin'
Didn't Chris Reeves and Margot Kidder do that already?
This is still baffling on Disney's part they make less each time. Cinderella live action is still the most profitable of these remakes
I saw it and I just didn't care for it. I kept asking myself what is the point. The love story doesn't really work as well in live action. Alot of the film doesn't work as well when it's not animated.
Thought it was great which surprised me. Took kids and I thought the chemistry between actors was excellent.
After 8 minutes I don’t know what Mark thinks about the film other than he liked the old one better
7:05 this is not a good point. Dumbo was made in the 40's, I was born in the 80's, the generations that passed between that time didn't stop me seeing it. You know what that _"whole generation of people who haven't seen the original"_ can do? They can watch the original seeing as it hasn't gone anywhere. A live action version is a very expensive (and pointless) way of making them do that.
I love how they found Persian people with the most western features and painfully American accents.
Some Iranians do look white especially in the Azeris in northern Iran. Did you know red hair is more common in Morroco than some European countries.
I quite enjoyed it. No jungle book but better than Beauty and the Beast & Dumbo
Watched it with the family on opening day 4D and they had a grand time. The opening scenes of the city and cave at night really felt special.
Dumbo is actually not a hit. Movies have to double their budget/advertising costs. Dumbo made 340m with a 170m budget. Add on advertising costs and its still in the red.
I'm seein it next week lookin forward to it
Omg I just cant buy the cheesy disney music and dialogue with real people xD I guess I just saw the originals too many times
Not to presume that every alternative actor for the Genie should be black ... but wasn't this a role just begging for Donald Glover?
THANK YOU! They are CASH GRABS!!!
come on... nobody can ever be a Robin Williams, i'm not defending Will Smith, but I think he has done a pretty applausible job for doing the (almost) impossible. For better or worse, Aladdin remake is pretty ok and entertaining...
i really enjoyed it, a lot better than it looked like it was going to be. Really funny and great casting
Robin Williams was a genius. End of.
Guy Ritchie needs to just make The Real RockNRolla already
Better than Dumbo is a low bar
In which universe is Dumbo a hit? It's only scraped $349 mil which is barely enough to break even. A hit it is not.
This thing of trying to purposely hide your opinion of the film until halfway through the review just feels like a waste of time for me
Every clip, every trailer of the live action Aladdin, so far, has made me cringe.
I loved this movie. Not sure why most men hate it so much.
This is the only Disney live action remake that did a great job adapting the story without either coping it word for word, or making it into something completely different. Also, all actors were great across the board.
Dumbo wasn't a hit fellas.
It hit me.
@Al Kinsella Chart position doesn't really tell you anything. All that matters is what it cost vs what it's grossed, and $347m on a $170m budget is far from a hit (break-even point for films of this scale is usually taken to be between 2.5x and 3x the production budget).
the do you trust me line .Limp and lifeless.