If you've seen Disney's original
Aladdin movie, you've basically seen the new live-action Aladdin feature from director Guy Ritchie,
albeit with more inspired animation and exciting musical sequences. To be fair to this new Aladdin movie, it is probably one of the least offensive entries in this series of live-action remakes of animated Disney movies as it lacks the distracting editing of
Beauty and the Beast or the repugnant visual sensibilities of
Alice in Wonderland. It's inoffensive, sporadically entertaining but even entirely disregarding comparisons to the original Disney film, it's still a strangely empty exercise despite being a Disney musical directed by the man who brought the world
Snatch.
