This thing has a 5.5 on here? Wow, kind of surprising, mainly due to the fact that as I am watching it, I thought this was a film that had to be made or Disney would lose the rights to Aladdin and be unable to create the animated classic two years later. Poor production, shoddy singing and completely whitewashed cast...I mean yikes! This Aladdin is set in China and they feel the need to emphasize this with a gong nearly every time China is mentioned by name. Like I said, the thing just seems way too cheap to be Disney, even back then they usually went all in when making something.
The story, well, we see cheap effect of boy in the moon and then Aladdin is singing in the streets about flying a kite. Then he is entering the princess's area of the castle or whatnot and they immediately fall in love in almost comical fashion before bad guy tricks Aladdin into getting him a lamp. Within the lamp, a super hyperactive Barry Bostwick as the genie who gives Aladdin the riches and a sex robot to impress the princess's father and it just gets worse from there.
The songs are incredible bad, the effects are worse than cheap science fiction films of the 60's and the cast is insanely bad. I mean, one can understand why the lead playing Aladdin never appeared in anything else. Then there is Bostwick who plays two genies, one flamboyant and happy and the other one with bit of an icky feel to him.
So, this is apparently a television of Aladdin that came on two years before the animated feature and is probably something that Disney wishes they could destroy all copies of. Then again, with a 5.5 score, we apparently have people with serious nostalgia issues who think this is the bomb. I honestly have to believe the ones who liked this film were 3 when they saw this and that is the only time they saw it and their young little minds could not process how bad it was. Any film that starts with the lead guy joyously singing about flying his kite and then is in love five minutes later, not that good...
The story, well, we see cheap effect of boy in the moon and then Aladdin is singing in the streets about flying a kite. Then he is entering the princess's area of the castle or whatnot and they immediately fall in love in almost comical fashion before bad guy tricks Aladdin into getting him a lamp. Within the lamp, a super hyperactive Barry Bostwick as the genie who gives Aladdin the riches and a sex robot to impress the princess's father and it just gets worse from there.
The songs are incredible bad, the effects are worse than cheap science fiction films of the 60's and the cast is insanely bad. I mean, one can understand why the lead playing Aladdin never appeared in anything else. Then there is Bostwick who plays two genies, one flamboyant and happy and the other one with bit of an icky feel to him.
So, this is apparently a television of Aladdin that came on two years before the animated feature and is probably something that Disney wishes they could destroy all copies of. Then again, with a 5.5 score, we apparently have people with serious nostalgia issues who think this is the bomb. I honestly have to believe the ones who liked this film were 3 when they saw this and that is the only time they saw it and their young little minds could not process how bad it was. Any film that starts with the lead guy joyously singing about flying his kite and then is in love five minutes later, not that good...
