Aladdin's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
Guy Ritchie?s adaptation is lively, colourful and genuinely funny ? making only judicious tweaks to the original, it?s thankfully not a whole new world.
New York Post
Massoud and Scott make a live-action 'Aladdin' succeed on a different level than a cartoon can ? as a teary romance. ?A Whole New World? is more moving than the original.
Variety
Where the director really shines is in melding practical elements with virtual ones. Whether making Smith?s Genie look natural sharing the screen with Aladdin or swooping the camera along magic carpet rides, Ritchie?s style embraces the kind of expressionism needed to pull off such a fanciful tale.
Indiewire
Smith puts on such an outsized performance that it?s easy for him to overshadow its smaller joys ? and when Genie is suddenly silenced in a limp third act, the entire film suffers.
The Telegraph
Ultimately, this is a rollicking adventure that will enchant young audiences. It?s just a shame that its odd creative missteps tend to linger in the memory once the magic has faded.
Los Angeles Times
No one really needs this mostly middling, fitfully funny and never unpleasant movie. And the movie itself seems cheerfully aware of that fact as it deftly lifts lines, beats, characters and songs from its 1992 predecessor, every so often punching up the comedy, wrinkling the plot and injecting a dash of politically corrective subtext.
The Verge
The filmmakers aren?t much interested in developing these characters out of their original two dimensions, or leaning into the character dynamics that make Ritchie movies distinctive. As a result, the whole endeavor feels unfinished and unresolved.
Screen Crush
The nicest thing I can say about 2019?s 'Aladdin' is in its best moments it reminded me of a movie I liked a lot as a kid. But there?s still nothing that this 'Aladdin does better' ? or as well ? as the original.
New York Times
The movie itself, while not entirely terrible ? a lot of craft has been purchased, and even a little art ? is pointless in a particularly aggressive way.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote