I know this was a historical movie being one of the first but i found it a bit long and boring.

The story was confusing i mean why was aladdin in this film.
It felt like a sort of story time movie like someone was reading me a book and the pictures was moving eg jacknanory.

Not only a historical landmark, but a beautifully made and artistic film. It uses animated silhouette shadow puppets to tell a story adapted form elements of The Arabian Nights.

The puppets are beautifully made and detailes, with what must be thousands of moving parts. It's hard to imagine the amount of detail until you actually see it on the screen. As for the story, to tell the truth it was intersting enough at the start, but eventually it began to drag on.

Still, it was an amazing technical achievement for its time, and is still amazing and exciting to look at.

Definitely worth seeing if you are interested in animation from a technical and historical stand point. This film was the first full-length animated feature; it came out way back in 1926.
The animation, old as it is, really is beautiful. By using cut-out pieces of card board against a lit background the animators were able to achieve an amazing amount of detail to some of the characters; Princess Dinarsade comes to mind particularly with all those veils she wears.
However, because they are silhouettes and there are no voices it is a little hard to feel any great deal of emotion from the characters. So, I’m not sure I’d say that time has left this film untouched; or, in any case, I wouldn’t recommend it to my friends who aren’t real animation buffs.
Still, I can’t really criticize a film made some 80 or-so years ago for not being modern.
All in all, it’s enjoyable and one of the more entertaining ways to receive a lesson in animation history.

Ah, lovely lovely film. The story is a concoction of Arabian Nights tales: after an encounter with an evil sorcerer, Prince Achmed ends up in the land of spirits, where he falls in love with the princess Peri-Banu and elopes with her. There follows a string of set pieces as the prince and princess head for Baghdad, meeting enemies and friends - amongst them Aladdin - along the way.
It's a simple story, but one that throws in enough little twists to keep your interest.

It may be black and white, but Prince Achmed's animation is worlds away from the likes of Steamboat Willy, and I don't mean that in a bad way. Instead of lifting from contemporary American animation, Prince Achmed is heavily influenced by shadow puppetry.

It may be a trifle clichéd to say that an old film is "still as fresh today as when it was made", but in the case of Prince Achmed it's definitely the case. Viewing it, it's easy to forget that you're watching an eighty year old film; it could just as easily be a modern indie production; only the dialogue captions date it. That's just how unique it is, even today.

a wonderful film. shame they don't make these anymore. the silhouttes are endearinng as are the Characters. though I really didn't see how Aladdin's lamp fit in all this.. they could have used some other legend. but oh well, a refreashing break from Disney . nice bonus features too. though the making of documentary is a bit long.