What a classic. This is one of those musical ones, the kind that I love. In fact, the music is awesome. The Genie (who else?) is my absolute favorite character in this movie, and the delivery of lines was awesome.
This was actually one of the first films that used CGI in its traditional animation, along with The Lion King. I long for the days back when, when there were 2d animated features for all to enjoy, with fun and catchy songs. I can't remember the last time I saw a 2d movie on the big silver.

This is one of the most best classic films ever done by Walt Disney studios. Even though some changes were done on the original story of Arabian Night tale (with good reasons), it is still an excellent and heartfelt movie. This film deserves four stars, both for animations and characters.

This is one of my Disney's personal favourites. The animation is excellent (although that's expectable from a multimillion dollar film). The voice talent of Robin Williams as the Genie is the best. The only problem I see in him doing the voice of the Genie is that Disney hired more celebrities to do their film's voices instead of career voice actors.
Back to the movie, it is extremely funny. If you are among the few who hasn't seen it I'd recommend you watch it now. You won't be dissapointed. This movie greatest flaw is its predictibility, because is a Disney film and also because it's from an era when they all ended the same way (happy ending for everyone, and love triunphing against all odds).

Excellent movie! Great animation, fun songs, and cool characters. This has got to be one of my favorite Disney movies. Too bad there were some REALLY bad sequels made.

I've always enjoyed this movie since it first came out in theaters, and I believe it is one of Disney's greatest. It's animation, the cast, and the story are right up there with the Lion King and Beauty and the Beast. It has a great story, and most of the characters have quite a lot depth to them. I think that Robin Williams was perfect for the Genie. I can't picture anyone else being able to voice Genie as well as he did. This is a great film and I'd recommend it to anyone, adults and children.

i've always wanted to be princess jasmine! i love this movie just cause she has a tiger and she's so thin! :)

Though it's just starting to show its age, 'Aladdin' was Disney's first, and possibly best film of the 90's except for 'Tarzan'.

Flashback to 1991: Disney had spent two decades in the doldrums, though the 80's had shown marked improvement over the 70's. It wasn't until 'Little Mermaid', and 'Beauty and the Beast' at the turn of the 90's, that the New Disney emerged as a really major box office force. Riding the crest of this wave, 'Aladdin' became the first animated film to make $200 million at the box office. To this day, it remains the second highest grossing non-CGI animated film, behind 'The Lion King' . It was the first real animated blockbuster. 13 years later, does that success seem deserved?

For the most part, yes. 'Alladin' is beautifully animated, funny, exciting, well-paced, and if it isn't _quite_ up there with the absolute creme of Disney features, it isn't that far behind.

I would also say that 'Aladdin' was Disney's first 'postmodern' comedy. That is to say it was steeped in irony and pop culture references which were probably quite startling at the time. All those wise-cracking sidekicks with incongruous accents that were regular fixtures in animated films for the rest of the 90's (and beyond: think Donkey in 'Shrek') could arguably be blamed on that damn parrot, too. Whether this is something you'd want to applaud or curse the film for is another matter.

Disney also really pulled a rabbit out of the hat by casting Robin Williams as Genie. He's so good, it's hard to think of him as a supporting character, and Williams' maniacally paced delivery is wonderfully supported by the rapid-fire visual gags which accompany them. Along with the parrot, Genie was something of a first: a totally, hilariously incongruously modern persona slotted into a centuries-old setting.

There is so more to like about 'Aladdin': the Magic Carpet recalls some of the classic character animations of Disney's golden age in the 40's. The emotion conveyed by a character who not only has no voice, but no facial features nothing at all except a rectangular surface which bends in certain ways, is a study in great animation.

On top of that, it's filled with colour, romance, there's rarely a dull moment... it hits its marks most of the time.

So are there any flaws? Yes, though fairly minor ones. perhaps the romantic aspect could have been a little more intense and heartfelt, and the songs fall a little below the standard of the rest of the film. None of them are bad, but few of them are going to end up stuck in your head like some of Disney's real classics either - mind you, I'm not sure when the last time Disney had a song in a film I'd call a 'real classic' anyway.

The only other things working against 'Aladdin' today aren't really the film's fault. The postmodern pop-culture references and wisecracking Brooklyn-accented bird might have been exhilerating at the time, but we've seen it all many times since.

Still, sitting in the middle of Disney's late 80's/early 90's resurrection, and being the only comedy from that period, 'Aladdin' pretty much deserves its reputation, and still looks pretty darn good today, even if the lustre is starting to wear off a bit.

note: I have revised this review. Originally I gave 'Alladin' 3.5 stars, but like I said, the lustre is starting to tarnish a bit.

A top favorite on my list of Disney films. The characters are lovable and the story progresses smoothly. It also has awesome songs that I can't stop humming after watching the movie. It never gets old and I could watch it over and over. I definetly suggest this to anyone!

the funniest characters (Genius, Iago) give to the movie all the interest. |-D
During the first half, we discover the universe of the movie and everything is new... but in the second part, the movie is boring and not as funny as at the beginning.
The main song is beautiful yes, but the love story between Aladdin and Jasmine is not convincing at all :-(

Much like Beauty and the Beast. Derivative of earlier works but outstanding as a Broadway style show. Unlike Beauty and the Beast, though, Aladdin doesn't work so much on the strength of its main couple as it does on the strength of one character. Or rather I should say personality. It would be easy to say that Genie carries this movie, but let's face it. That is Robin William's character and his movie. It would be hard to imagine the character and the movie with anybody else's voice and mannerisms. He gives the movie flair and energy. His lines are priceless and some would have you believe he was making some stuff up on the fly. He isn't just another sidekick. He's a very important character. Some of the jokes rely too much on anachronisms and pop culture references that probably don't age as well, but Genie delivers them with such authority that you start to believe them all over again.

Aladdin by himself is also a strong personality. He is charming and easy to like and you begin to get drawn into his plight, however cliched the "there's more to me than what's on the outside" or "person in the gutter struggles to find a better existence" themes can get. Even though he's a thief, he has a heart of gold and still makes all the right decisions even despite his poor state. He is smart and outwits the guards with grace and charm.

The music and songs in this movie surprisingly carries itself very well. Unlike The Little Mermaid, instead of just one blockbuster and then two or three songs that get on my nerves, every song in Aladdin is a winner. They're all fun and delivered with energy, and "A Whole New World" is still very singable and probably one of my favorite Disney songs.

The animation is still very superb. The computer generated face of the Cave of Wonders sticks out a little, but the flying carpet is easily one of the most engeniously crafted piece of computer animation ever and the sequence where Aladdin is escaping from the cave with lava hot on his trail is one of the most breathtaking sequences ever in a Disney movie. And the traditional animation is well done also.

Aladdin sadly suffers a little from tired formula that doesn't age as well as it should. The non-Genie slapstick humor, such as the merchant's spiel at the beginning or the guards falling into the dung pile just don't seem funny anymore. And much like practically every modern Disney movie, Aladdin injects unnecessary slapstick into its dramatic moments. The silly, dopey father figure cliche isn't as charming in this movie as it is in Beauty and the Beast. Aladdin and Jasmine seem like a typical Disney prince and princess couple. Thankfully, though, their relationship seems stronger than Ariel and Eric's. It sort of reminds me of Lady and Tramp's relationship, with Jasmine not liking Aladdin at first and then slowly warming up to him. The plot element about Jasmine having to marry a prince before her birthday only to have the law changed by the king seemed kind of tacked on and only used to further the romance of Aladdin and Jasmine.

But all these are minor quibbles. Aladdin is still one of Disney's most strongly put together and flat out fun movies. And the climax fight scene where Jafar goes all out is truly gripping and suspenseful.