You ain’t never had a friend like Will Smith.
Disney released the first full trailer for the live-action remake of “Aladdin,” and yes, it has Will Smith as the genie singing “Friend Like Me.”
We also get a sneak peek at “A Whole New World” and a few other favorite moments from the original movie.
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The first thing that happens when you mix together British director Guy Ritchie with a Walt Disney film is that you get a never-before-experienced hybrid. Ritchie likes telling stories about criminals; Disney is famous for fairy tales with heroes - and heroines - and villains. Ritchie is known for keeping up a fast pace in telling his stories. Disney has always had some of the best looking visuals in the business. In “Aladdin,” the live-action re-do of Disney’s terrific 1992 animated feature,
with Guy directing and co-writing, you get all of the above. OK, the hybrid part means there have also been some changes. Ritchie’s often amiable gangsters are now a petty thief, the young man in the title role. In place of rock songs on Ritchie’s soundtracks, there’s now the music of veteran Disney composer Alan Menken. It’s hard to recall many major female characters in Ritchie’s films, but here he’s got the beautiful Princess Jasmine, who’s as strong-willed as that street thief who will, of course, end up being in a romance with her. Fans of the original film will undoubtedly either have that one memorized or will be revisiting it before seeing this one, and they’re going to be pleasantly surprised. As,
for the most part, will be Ritchie fans (except for those who thrive on his screen violence) who didn’t know he had this kind of thing in him. The story in the two films is intrinsically the same. In the Middle Eastern kingdom of Agrabah, Aladdin (Mena Massoud) and his pet monkey Abu get by via thievery - stealing food, snatching jewelry, anything it takes to survive. He believes he deserves a better life. Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott), the daughter of the aging sultan (Navid Negahban) wants more out of life than waiting for the right prince to come along and marry her. In fact, though this sort of thing is unheard of in the kingdom, she’d like to be next in line to become sultan. She, too, has a pet, the fierce tiger Rajah. Aladdin and Jasmine meet under, let’s say, false pretenses, there’s the expected attraction that happens between opposites, at least in movies, and then there’s the villain to get in the way of it all. That would be the sultan’s vizier Jafar (Marwan Kenzari), who also has his eyes on the sultanship, and some minor magical powers to help him get it.
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