Aladdin 1992

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Call Number: Blu-ray Animation Aladdin
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Language options taken from menu screens and may differ from container packaging.
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1992.
Blu-Ray special features: Unboxing Aladdin: explore hidden scenes with Disney Channel's Joey Bragg; Aladdin: creating Broadway magic: with composer Alan Menken and others; Disney song selection.
Voices: Scott Weinger (Aladdin), Robin Williams (Genie), Linda Larkin (Jasmin), Jonathan Freeman (Jafar), Frank Welker (Abu), Gilbert Gottfried (Iago), Douglas Seale (Sultan).
Aladdin is an orphan living on the streets of the city of Agrabah, continually outwitting and avoiding local law enforcement. One day he meets a young girl--also hiding from the guards--who is actually Princess Jasmine, seeking to escape from a disagreement with her father the Sultan about her marriage. He gallantly conceals her, and promptly falls in love. Soon, the Grand Vizier Jafar divines that Aladdin represents the key to his plans, and tricks him into the mysterious Cave of Wonders. Aladdin finds an ornate lamp, and, accidentally comes face-to-face with a blue genie--ready and willing to grant him three wishes. Aladdin, with the help of his sidekicks--a monkey named Abu and a flying carpet--seeks to win Jasmine's hand, defeat the evil Jafar and his vicious parrot, Iago, and save Agrabah. At the conclusion of his adventures, Aladdin learns that he is a prince where it truly matters most--on the inside.
Blu-ray, region A, region B, region C, 1080p high definition widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; 7.1 DTS-HDMA, 5.1 Dolby Digital; requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Aladdin is the best prince... submitted by Kikumatsu97 on June 27, 2016, 5:35pm Because, he isn't. Here's the good and the bad of the film:
The story overall (totally up for interpretation) is about the value of relationships over objects or possessions and how greed and being power hungry can devour the human spirit. The general moral of the story hints at one girl's desire to evade an arranged marriage, which some might find progressive in terms of women's rights. The classic Disney humor that goes over the kids heads, adults will find quite hilarious.

The music is profoundly better than most of today's animated films and of course, Robin Williams is 90% of the film's awesomeness because of his gleefully impetuous character, Genie (Of The Lamp). The Song "Friend Like Me" where he is first introduced was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1992.

The big ol' Downside? It's unapologetically, over the top, stereo typical of the customs and people of the middle east. One song in the beginning even refers to the "Arabian" area as "barbaric", and after a meeting with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, they decided to omit "where they cut off your ear, if they don't like your face" from the original.(hardly and improvement) This is also the only film I've ever seen, where at any point our lovely princess sacrifices her honor and compromises her self respect by pretending to be overtly sexual toward the villain to distract him.

All in all though, I've always really liked it besides the racist stuff.

aladin submitted by avrogers1 on June 22, 2017, 1:53am Such a great Disney movie

Great submitted by anacoluthon on August 1, 2018, 8:36pm A fun movie with great characters and the amazing Robin Williams.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ submitted by majean on August 17, 2018, 11:28am Not my fave, but funny and the music is catchy.

Disney submitted by TLW1998 on July 13, 2019, 8:56pm A good movie but a little scary for preschoolers

Very good submitted by zmclaugh on July 15, 2019, 9:19pm A classic Disney movie, with very good songs.

Mostly good submitted by FordAlpha on August 12, 2019, 10:55pm The songs are great, the writing snappy, the animation and voice work strong. But I don't care for the overtly racist, stereotyped tropes of many of the characters. In these depictions, darker skin = bad, lighter skin = good; more stereotypically "Arab" features = villain, more "European" features = hero. I also don't care for the sexualization of our heroine, Jasmine. Kids internalize these messages without realizing it.

A Disney Renaissance Classic submitted by Meginator on June 12, 2020, 12:39pm I grew up with this film and was somewhat apprehensive about revisiting it, and despite some problematic tendencies it holds up all right overall. The film’s primary misstep is its racist depictions of Jafar and various background characters, whereas the sympathetic characters are all coded as white (in both their speech and visual design). The script makes some unsavory assumptions about pan-Arabic cultures and depicts Agrabah both as a place of exceptional natural and man-made beauty and brutal casual violence. I was, however, surprised to find that the love story is relatively well fleshed-out by Disney’s standards; Aladdin and Jasmine have a genuine connection and their relationship is based on more than physical attraction alone as they get to know one another. This, along with Jasmine’s headstrong personality, is a welcome change of pace among its contemporaries.

Technically, the film is an excellent achievement. The music is exceptional and the animation represents the pinnacle of Disney’s old-school two-dimensional animation, incorporating interesting and unusual cinematography choices and layering the action over lush background atmospherics. Robin Williams is at his improvisational best as the Genie, even if his riffs are going to go over a lot of viewers’ heads (this edition has a helpful feature identifying several of his impressions), and makes the film stand out. It’s a real shame that the film leans so heavily into a lazy stereotypical view of its setting, because otherwise it has all the makings of a masterpiece. I still recommend it, but not without significant reservations.

Overrated submitted by SaraP on July 28, 2022, 7:36am A nice story, but Robin Williams never lets us forget that it's just him. His anachronistic jokes make it really dated.