New Aladdin trailer is so bad, ISIS has declared jihad against it

That trailer is 1000x better than the first.....I actually would want to see it if not for Will Smith.

It looks fun but the editing of the action shots in the beginning and nearly all of Jafar's flat delivery give me pause. The actress playing Jasmine grabbed me the most. Massoud isn't the strongest actor but isn't he just too beautiful for words?

It's lit like a TV movies. It reminds me of those Robert Haimi event movies they did on NBC in the 90s like Gullivers Travels.

Looks good to me, I'll see it

Why does the Aladdin look 35?

This actually looks pretty good. Jafar is tragic though.

The animated Jafar was clearly modeled after Conrad Veidt in "The Thief of Baghdad" (though without the blue eyes and High German accent.)

What’s the point of remaking this live action? Talk about lazy. Maybe Disney should start brainstorming and create some new ideas instead of rehashing the old ones. Tiresome and cynical.

It does look better than the prior videos they've released, but I agree that the guy playing Jafar is still flat and just doesnt have "it" to be a memorable villian.

[Quote]What’s the point of remaking this live action?

MONEY.

You know the answer, at the end of the day the film business is just a business. People keep giving their money to the Disney remakes.

The new Jafar seems even gayer than the old one, and you'd think that'd be a plus - but it's not.

The guy just seems dull, flat, and gay. What did they do, hire a straight actor?

No adaptation could possibly top this.

It looks terrible-- choppy cuts of action sequences with lots of CGI. Just like every other movie that comes out today.

How would this movie not have "lots of CGI" r13?

Gah! Can you imagine how loud that fucking thing is going to be in IMAX?

[quote]People keep giving their money to the Disney remakes.

Not me. Everything I once liked about Disney has been blandified into sterilized mediocrity. Charm has been replaced by corporate branding everywhere, and short-term buck-seeking has replaced long-term strategies.

I don't think either Jasmine or Aladdin are pretty enough.

Always haters....and the movie isnt even out yet.....but lets judge the characters from a 5 second blip in a 90 second trailer.

Why animate the train on the girl's dress, for instance? Or enhance the fights in the action sequences? It's distracting. I am not a film expert, I am just a random person who will not pay to see a film like this.

People who use terms like "haters" have the emotional development of a 13 year old. DL used to be better than that.

Has jihad really been declared against this crappy movie? Because if it has not, it should!

A good jihad against everything Disney would be great.

I'm no Disney fan but this looks fantastic

The tone shift in the trailer was jarring. It went from Raiders of the Lost Ark to Dumb and Dumber once Will Smith started cracking wise. Hard Pass.

[quote]A good jihad against everything Disney would be great.

You’re 55 years too late for that.

So far there are 2 strikes in my book.....1. Will Smith....2. Guy Ritchie. BUT, I will give it a chance. Aladdin is hot.

Aladdin looks awesome. The Dumbo one looks lame tbh.

Will Smith is just doing his same old Will Smith schtick. Awful.

I mean, was he ever doing anything other than his Will Smith schtick? Besides, that's exactly what the (global) audience expects of him at this point.

Dumbo looks fantastic.....I think it will return Tim Burton to form.

Will Smith is a terrible actor. He all but ruined ALI. That wasn’t a performance; it was an impersonation, and a bad one at that. The only time he came close to showing some dimension onscreen was in THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS.

The marketing team must be fuming that Operation Varsity Blues took all the attention away from this trailer. Huffman will never work for Disney, and neither will her daughter, nor her daughter's daughter. A pox on the entire House of Huffman. And House of Loughlin.

Aladdin is supposed to Arabian, so why does the movie look like Hollywood trying to make an Indian Bollywood movie? In fact, Jasmine is played by an Indian woman.

Doesn't the original look like a mélange of Indian, Arabic, and Persian cultures as well?

Might rent it. But definitely not going to the theatre for this. Looks better than earlier trailers but still not good enough. A Whole New World looks good though.

Jasmine is played by a girl who is half white and half Indian to be more accurate r32.

I think this is a better trailer but looks and most definitely WILL be HORRIBLE. Aladdin looks better here but still not cute enough. Jasmine looks bland. Will Smith never should have had a career at all. Please tell me that wasn't Jafar. I DETEST CGI. It is so lazy. "A Whole New World" sounded horrid. Aladdin's vocals sounded fine but the Jasmine sounds flat and autotuned. Where is the pretty soprano? Another fail from Disney in their cash grab of reliving the glory days. PASS. 👎

I'm with R32, how did this story become Indian and Bollywood? Middle Easterners need to start bitching.

All y’all are a bunch a negative bitches - if you don’t like it don’t go see it. Jeez! How miserable are you today that you are bitching about a damn DISNEY movie? Take a happy pill or something.

^^^chill

Really, r34??!! This looks like a movie that begs to be seen on a big screen. I'm looking forward to it, probably one of the few times I'll pay extra for IMAX.

I've never paid any money to see a Disney remake, and that is not changing. I download them once they are on the net. I refuse to give my money to these creatively defunct lazy money grabs.

Adults who watch this Disney crap are weird IMO.

Will Smith's genie makes me want to barf.

R23- it’s weird, but I had the exact same thought.

I still get hot all over just looking at the beefy Sabu. He was too young to ogle in "The Thief of Bagdad", but four years later, all I can say is show me that purple penis!

I don’t think it looks that bad. And I hate musicals.

R13 nailed it. CGI loads as an attempt at replacing literate dialogue and coherent narrative.

[quote]How would this movie not have "lots of CGI" [R13]?

The same way Splash, ET, Short Circuit, Mac and Me, Alien, Aliens, Avatar, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Back to the Future, The Exorcist, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included, Earth Girls are Easy, and The Fly all did it without CGI. Hell, even the Aladdin Broadway show did it fine without CGI.

Aladdin was my favourite childhood film, but this looks like dreck. Especially Will Smith as the genie. Why mess with perfection?

I think it's a BIG mistake that Disney didn't come up with a new story. People will compare this life action feature with the animated movie and thanks to Robin Williams great performance in the animation feature the live action feature will fall short.

This looks like a shitty Bollywood movie, so basically every Bollywood movie. The CGI doesn't look too bad in all honesty, The acting however looks atrocious.

It doesn't matter r50. Beauty and Beast was the same story told with less charm and it printed absurd amounts of money for Disney.

[quote]thanks to Robin Williams great performance in the animation feature the live action feature will fall short.

They should have lifted the Robin Williams soundtrack and put it in this movie with a CGI genie instead of hiring Will Smith.

It has to be an actual live person in the movie, R53. It’s not a cartoon.

Why does it have to be an actual live person? The new Lion King doesn’t have actual live people in it.

What's the opposite of renaissance?

Can they call it "live action" when every image is doctored up with CGI animation?

(Aladdin is pretty hot, though.)

Aladdin is terribly miscast and a horrible actor. Will Smith is, well, Will Smith yet again.

And it will still make a billion dollars.

Aladdin looks like a Puerto Rican twink.

Aladdin comes off dull.

Let's see......a bunch of CGI, and Will Smith.

The only thing left would be for them to add footage of someone to taking a big shit on the set.

You forget the golden rule

Good trailer = bad movie.

Will Smith is enjoyable when playing Will Smith (Hitch, Bad Boys). Much like Drew Barrymore is best when playing a version of herself (50 First, Wedding Singer).

Anything beyond that is too much and doesn’t work.

I like the idea of CGI Genie using Robin Williams. It would have been a sweet tribute to him and played heavily on the nostalgia. Pair that with Avan Jogia as Aladdin and boom. Fuckin idiots at Disney can't do shit right.

Avan Jogia isn’t a raghead, he’s a dothead.

Why didn't Avan get the part? He's far more pretty than Mena Massoud. Is it Guy Ritchie's fault for being straight and unable to detect male beauty?

Verificatia of sizemeat for this Jafar? He's by far the hottest slab of beef in this movie.

The problem is that the CGI is incredibly inept. Lots of movement that defies the laws of physics is okay in animation, but looks terrible in a live-action movie. Plus a lot of the props like the lamp and the rose petals are computer generated and look terrible because they aren't properly integrated into the scene.

The girl playing Jasmine will rise again in a piece of shitt called Charlie's Angels 2019!!!

As already said Avan is not Arab, they would have taken even more heat if BOTH leads were indian instead of arab.

Aladdin was Chinese originally anyway, so this is cultural appropriation on multiple levels.

r48 AVATAR???!!! No GGI??? 80% of the movie was CGI.

Bollywood movies are cheesy with catchy songs. They are fun to watch. This does not look fun to watch.

This is an exercise in corporate branding, nothing more.

To be honest for the most part it does look like a Bollywood production, because only Will Smith has any facial and name recognition.

No movie connoisseur needs more then this

It can't be any worse than that live action remake of Beauty & The Beast. That Harry Potter bitch couldn't sing for shit and ruined the whole thing. Well, Lumiere and his ugly sidekicks didn't help either. Eck. I did enjoy the Jungle Book. I'm most excited about a Hunchback of Notre Dame interpretation. That could be epic if done correctly but, then again, Disney...

[quote]Aladdin comes off dull.

Well they could've cast Zayn Malik.

LOL Zayn Malik is a hardcore drug addict. Dude can't act, is unprofessional. unreliable, and uninsurable.

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Jafar’s voice and Jasmine’s face take me out of it. Jafar sounds like a failed pedo trying to abduct a little kid, and Jasmine looks too Indian for me to believe she’s Arab.

[quote]Jasmine looks too Indian for me to believe she’s Arab.

Its all the same to us.

As far as unnecessary live action remakes of animated films go, this one looks decent!

I don’t understand why Disney is releasing The Lion King less than two months after this though (which itself is coming two months after Dumbo). Talk about flooding the market. It all seems overkill. They should pace themselves and limit their remakes to one or two a year.

r12 That is an abomination.

R83 My boyfriend actually said that. He said "close enough".

Isis beheaded his own daughter because of it. sad

The action scenes make this seem like it could be good.

British people have been playing Romans forever and nobody gives a shit, who cares about an Indian girl playing an Arab?

It looks like zone-out fun; enjoyable and nostalgia jogging. I like looking at the Aladdin. I'd watch!

like many others, I avoid anything with fug will smith in it..

this movie a tax write off? they know smith movies are flop a roonies

Smith is many things but he is not fig.

Fug

Sorry but the Jasmine actress looks nothing how Jasmine should look! Nothing.

Aladdin is miscast.

I don’t mind Will Smith as Genie cause he has amazing charisma and charm and energy when his “Will Smith” is on full blast.

And not for nothing, Robin Williams was just Robin Williams as Genie. Same criticism your giving to the black actor.

Will Smith is NOT FUG

Just as long as they don’t hold Alfonso Ribiero hostage.

Will Smith is annoying as hell.

I think Will Smith is fug too AND annoying as hell. HATE HIM..

Are they adding songs from the Broadway production?

Fug, smug, and untalented, a mugging, smirking buffoon.

The actress playing Jasmine is horribly miscast. As far as Indians go, Priyanka Chopra would have worked better if she were younger.

Well, at least the former Persian SNL cast member is playing Jasmine's slave.

R101 BINGO

Persad Nasim is in this??

[quote]LOL Zayn Malik is a hardcore drug addict. Dude can't act, is unprofessional. unreliable, and uninsurable.

He could've played Aladdin Sane.

[quote]As far as Indians go, Priyanka Chopra would have worked better if she were younger.

YAAAS!! Priyanka for Jasmine and Nick Jonas for Aladdin!

*Jean Genie

[quote]Everything I once liked about Disney has been blandified into sterilized mediocrity.

Perfect description of the Jasmine actress. Nothing about her stands out in any way, despite her generic prettiness.

Alia Bhatt would have been a better casting than Priyanka IMO. She's seasoned but she can do cute. Comes complete with dimples.

After seeing "Maleficent," I felt like I'd been beaten over the head for two hours with a CGI stick. This kind of looks the same.

The girl playing Jasmine has a good agent- she's also in the upcoming, "Charlie's Angels". Say what you will about Will, he's fantastic to work with- he treats the whole crew incredibly well, and always has a positive cheerleader attitude, like Dwayne Johnson.

Naomie Scott (Jasmine) also was the Pink Ranger in the Power Rangers reboot film.

She's very forgettable like all "actors" of today. They are good looking but in a very bland generic way. It fits the CGI/Digital era. Just cold. No charm, no soul, no warmth, no sex appeal, or authenticity. They really just don't build sets anymore. Haha. Just green screen ALL DAY.

r37 Middle Easterns can't even bitch about it because the original was set in China.

They actually should have made it Indian and full-blown Bollywood, at least it'd have been something different.

One of my favorite fairy tale live adaptations was Snow White that didn't take itself seriously and had a Bollywood scene in the epilogue.

R115, I was torn about seeing that adaptation because of Julia Roberts, but it is Tarsem and Eiko, so I knew it would look sumptuous. Seeing that little clip made me want to see it.

Wait a minute, is that Army Hammer dancing?

I heard Emma Stone is in the running to play the title role in the Mulan remake.

Why does Emma Stone always get shit for playing Asian but that bitch Alison Brie gets a free pass?

Is Disney hiding their Scandinavian prince in the marketing for Aladdin?

Billy

Fat.

he is not cute

Double chin

for gods sake why is that goon smith in this? he aint had a hit in 25 years.....are scientologists in charge of the mess?

Oh no, Jafar has tendrils.

R122/R123/R124 Sure, Jan!

Billy Magnussen and Chris Pine stole INTO THE WOODs movie with their "Agony" number. Billy is very charming and affable. I can totally see him stealing scenes from this Aladdin, who seems rather dull. Not just in this trailer, but in other clips I've seen. That would be bad for the film, if Billy is supposed to be the romantic rival.

Clip from the movie released today. Looks colorful.

Looks low budget.

Somebody upthread said that it's lit like a '90s TV movie -- I so agree! Watch a TV miniseries from that period, and it looks the same. That's how cheap it looks.

[quote]Massoud isn't the strongest actor but isn't he just too beautiful for words?

Judging by the trailer I don't find him sexy at all. In some shots he looks a bit like Billy Zane whose semi-feminine features have always made react negatively. That said I tend to trust Hollywood finding hot guys for the lead roles so I assume this guy has that little somethin' somethin' which makes him likable. Too bad I didn't see any of it here.

I found out only now this is a Guy Ritchie movie... geez, Guy, what happened? The clip at R128 really looks terrible. He's done massive scenes in his Sherlock Holmes films which are complicated and gorgeous so it's not like he doesn't know how. This time it looks like he was totally overwhelmed and just didn't know what to do. I mean almost everything about the scene feels flat and uninspired.

Mena is so gorgeous, I wish he were in a better movie.

Loved the cartoon and would see this except I hate Will Smith so mu ch, it ruins it.

I can't fucking stand Will Smith, never could.

I prefer the short film of Aladdin anyway....

Billy looks like a gay pornstar from the 80s.

Will Smith ruins "Prince Ali" with his wailing. Sounds like an alley cat screeching. Too bad. That's the best number in the whole movie. But I guess there was no way he could have topped Robin Williams' version.

Mena is horribly plain, bordering on ugly. The actor playing Jafar is much hotter.

R136 '80s gay porn stars were the hottest! I rented a lot of '80s porn as soon as I turned 18 in '98.

Will Smith could never top Robin Williams now.

Has Will come out as a Scientologist yet ?

So tired of the rapid fire cutting of musical numbers. I would love to see a director dare to photograph a musical in a smooth, fluid style.

But is Aladdin uncut?

[quote]So tired of the rapid fire cutting of musical numbers. I would love to see a director dare to photograph a musical in a smooth, fluid style.

Then you would love Aladdin. People are complaining how this didn’t have the rapid fire cuts of the original and how it’s too slow. People have to watch it at 2x speed.

Not based on the clip upthread.

[quote]The new Jafar seems even gayer than the old one, and you'd think that'd be a plus - but it's not.

No. The new Jafar isn't gay enough, at all. Even though Jafar being "gay" is an old trope. Fuck that. He should be Lost In Space level gay, except actually useful.

Aladdin is also gross and can't sing.

Do they have ISIS or Al Queda in this version

R137 Yes, sadly Smith is not like Queen Latifah; a rapper who can actually sing when it's required.

Who the fuck is Jafar? That's not Aladdin, just some American cuntological corruption at work.

Will Smith’s genie is sort of hot. I like those blue daddy pounds.

Another "Wild Wild West" fiasco.

R153 you remember that movie?

[quote]Will Smith’s genie is sort of hot.

Will Smith is the ANTITHESIS of hot.

Jasmine was the breakout star of Power Rangers. You could tell she had so much potential there and outshone everyone. But I thought she was white in that movie. No way would I thought she could be Jasmine.

Mena is HOT AS FUCK but unfortunately he's also vegan (which means he's deranged).

How are vegans deranged? Don't know any.

will smith "singing". haha. looks horrible. The Aladdin actor is so bad. he will have no career. none of them will.

Actually, if would've been better if they had portrayed Bonnie & Clyde as the vengeful sociopath and his narcissistic girlfriend they really were. That's more fascinating.

Sorry. Wrong thread.

This movie has a cheap look. The live action Beauty and the Beast looked better.

i think all movies look cheap now. It's the damn CGI

And HD?

It would have been better if the genie was completely CGI and Will Smith’s face was not in it. It takes you out of the movie when you see him.

[quote]Jasmine was the breakout star of Power Rangers. You could tell she had so much potential there and outshone everyone. But I thought she was white in that movie. No way would I thought she could be Jasmine.

[quote]Her father is British and her mother, who is from Uganda, is from a Gujarati Indian family.

I'm surprised the outrage brigade hasn't called for a protest since...cultural appropriation.

R166 They did back when Naomi Scott was announced to play Jasmine.

Yea they did but no one cared. haha.

Identity politics is killing us! It's acting, for God's sake! Make believe!

When does the review embargo lift?

Looks fun enough