-> Sorry you didn't feel it lived up to your expectations.
Well, it's just that the first installemnt was dynamite and the second
was very well done. I have come to expect a lot from the Walt Disney
Company - and they usually deliver.
-> The Genie wasn't suppose to be central in this third
-> installment. This was about Aladdin getting married,
-> NOT THE GENIE! And what rules says that there's suppose to
-> be ONE villian for every picture? Not every villian has to be
-> out and out evil just for the purpose of making the good guy
-> seem righteous.
->
Who says the genie wasn't supposed to be central in the third
installment? Where do you get that idea? Is that based on some scret
Walt Disney Company document that you've uncovered or what? The Genie
added a LOT to the charm of both the first two installments. To just
take him out of the plot was a MAJOR mistake. It took away a LOT of the
charm. You say it was about Aladdin getting married, but really it was
about discovering Aladdin's father and the relationship that develops
from that one. The Jasmine/Aladdin is like a third-string plot
development. Besides, if Aladdin was REALLY set on getting married he
would have gone ahead and done it and the beginning of the film rather
than go chasing all these other adventures first. If I had left on my
wedding day to go hunt down some lost relative my wife would have HATED
me and wouldn't have been around when I came back. Aladdin has set a
poor prescendence for their relationship as husband-and-wife. Is he
planning on skipping out on the children to go chase other adventures in
the future? Jasmine has obviously forgotten her enthusiastic pledge from
the last film, "I'm going WITH you!".
Also, I didn't say there had to be ONE villian for every picture, but
there must be at least one villian if you want the thing to have a plot.
This movie really doesn't have a villian and so there is really no story
in it. To have good you must have evil. There must me a ying for every
yang. Movies without villians put people to sleep. Good story
development require good, strong characters that live out their roles.
There must be strong, likable heros and evil, distasteful villians. This
film has niether.
->
-> As for Genie's arm bands, it's very clear to me that he did
-> grant Al's wishes but came back because he missed him. He
-> wears them as a fashion statement but is still as independent
-> as ever.
Well there's no doubt that Genie came back because he's fond of Aladdin
(not that he wants to go out and pick curtians with him or anything),
and my question has nothing to do with the fact that the Genie came
back. That was natural enough. The problem is that he still wears the
gold arm bands which he HATED in the first film. They were a plain
symbol of his slavehood and he despised them. You didn't see a lot of
black people waering chains after the slaves were freed...
>
-> Robin came back after the company apologized for using him to sell
-> the first movie and they kissed and made up. Quite frankly I thought
-> he was being very petty about it all. And now he feels roles like
-> JACK are beneath him.
That is only PART of the story. There was lawsuit because Disney used
Robin William's voice in the theme parks and other items without his
permission and without paying him for it. This has gone on for a long
time and a LOT of people have sued. Just because he was in Aladdin did
not give them the right to use his voice in parades and shows,
read-a-long books and all that. They didn't make up - they PAID up.
->
-> I believe you should take this up with Disney or Robin Williams.
-> But don't expect either of them to oblige your concerns. As
-> much I want to believe the corporation is doing this out of a labor
-> of love I also realize that unfortunately that they are a business.
There is no reason why I can't take it up here. This is a DISNEY echo.
The Disney product is fair game on here. I have a right to express how I
feel about Disney product.
You're right that this last one was a "labor of love" but it was a labor
of the love of money (the root of all evil). You and I both know they
only made this one because the last one sold. It was cheaper than making
a feature-release movie and it made a LOT of money. There is nothing
wrong with the company making a lot of money (in fact I like it because
it makes my Disney stock pay-off), but let's not pretend that they made
this movie out of a deep-felt love for art and mankind and all that.
They wanted to make money - and they did.
I like the Disney Studios and I LOVE their movies and I hope they keep
making them forever, but I am under no false notions as to why they make
them.
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