Starting off a new regular feature on the blog with Aladdin.
So it’s a new year and for this year I am planning on having
a Disney Movie of the Month for every
month of the year on this blog. I will watch a Disney movie at the start of
each month, then I will post a review/opinion/thoughts piece and then I shall
aim to follow up on that with other posts about that movie later on in the month.
The first Disney Movie of the Month
is Aladdin.
I used to watch Aladdin a lot when I was a kid but then
I lost my copy of it on DVD and until recently I hadn’t seen it for about a
decade. So when I watched it for the first time in years back in December I was
worried that I was going to be disappointed, however I was pleased to find that
it’s actually still a really enjoyable movie.
On paper the story might not be
the most original, as a Disney fan Aladdin
definitely feels like it’s got a lot of familiar moments, but it’s the characters
and the sense of humour that runs throughout which really makes this movie
work.
Obviously everyone knows the Genie
but he really is a funny and likeable character. Robin Williams’ performance is
just as enjoyable in 2017 as it was when I watched the movie as a kid.
Jafar might be a villain in the
typical ‘mad, bad and evil’ mould but sometimes villains like that are just
fun. As people who know me can tell you I think Maleficent is awesome, partially
because of the 2014 live action movie but also because all out evil villains
are just fun to watch sometimes. And that is certainly the case with Jafar.
Jasmine is also interesting. She
might not be as powerful as Elsa, as brave as Merida or as determined as Tiana,
but Jasmine is certainly not a passive princess. She’s way more interesting than
the likes of Snow White and Cinderella. Also it’s worth pointing out that the
fictional kingdom of Agrabah is a Muslim country, thus meaning that Jasmine is
a Muslim Disney Princess making her a more progressive character for Disney
than she may initially seem.
In conclusions, sometimes I’ve
found that Disney movies which everyone seems to love but I’ve not seen in
ages/never seemed don’t live up to the hype – like The Little Mermaid for example. However Aladdin did not disappoint me.
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