Aladdin (1992) - Is Everything I Wished For! - Movie Reaction 

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I’m sure as a parent you’ll appreciate that my son was obsessed with being the cave of wonders when he was 2. Not Aladdin. Not Genie or Abu. The flipping cave lol. He’d growl INFIDEL and pretend to devour his toys.

"theres got to be a live action musical of this" and my brain goes immediately to starkid lmao

I love how Robin Williams sang "Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali". He wasn't a trained singer and he still CRUSHED it as Genie in all regards.

RIP and long live Robin Williams (July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014), aged 63 You will always be remembered as a legend.

BTW you were right about the genie scenes - they DID let Robin WIlliams just let-er-rip, and had to animate around that. Apparently a nightmare for the animators at a couple of points -- for example, when Genie says "Exits are hereherehereherehereherehereand...here" - lol

You are 100% right they recorded him first and then animated around his personality I weep for their fingers

The intro with the salesman is just Robin Williams going nuts with a prop table while someone recorded what he said. He was a legend... RIP

The in-world explanation is, when he has the magic that makes him a prince, it’s kind of confuses people that are looking at his face. They don’t recognize him. Like a mask so to speak.

27:38 Funny story; so, Disneyland did have a live stage musical of Aladdin couple years back before a Frozen one and we got to see it before it went and the actor playing the Genie was given so much freedom to add-lib his lines. So we get to this scene and the crowd started to Boo Aladdin and Genie did this: “… You hear that? Those are my Thoughts! You made that guy leave!” And finished off with ‘And your Happy about this?!” Because the actor playing Aladdin was laughing too. xD

About your comment on Robin Williams, that's EXACTLY what they did!! They just let him loose, he did his thing, and later on they cut the parts that were "too un-Disney / adult-natured". And honestly, I think that's the best type of voice acting!!

26:34 That's not a smoke potion, that is extract of LAMA!!

I hope you get around to checking out the Aladdin sequels. They're actually pretty entertaining, especially the third movie! And you get a lot of answers to your questions you had at the end.

"I wonder if they just let Robin Williams do his thing, and then drew everything after.." THAT'S RIGHT! HE CAN BE TAUGHT!

with Robin Williams, there is no script!

"He's like a genie himself now!" Lol funny you should say that...

The throat slitting thing is what earned this movie the disclaimer on Disney +

Some fun facts about this movie: 1) Iago's appearance was based on the "ugliest actor in Hollywood" (wish I remembered his name), especially on his half-closed eyes and prominent teeth (this is why Iago has them). 2) The scene at the beginning was filmed like this: the creators gave Mr. Williams a big box filled with random stuff and covered with a sheet, then turned on the recording and removed the sheet, and gd began describing items that he saw for the first time ever. 3) Jasmine is the first non-European Disney princess. The creators thought it would be risky to introduce her, but eventually she was taken warmly. 4) When the sultan makes a tower out of toys, you can see the Beast figurine (Beauty and the Beast) among them. 5) After Mr. Williams's death the Movie Academy published a message on Twitter. It contained one phrase: Genie, you're free. Now that is respect

I saw the live action one first, and I really liked it. Will Smith plays the Genie, and I feel like he did a wonderful job of making him very charismatic without trying to be Robin Williams. It doesn't feel forced or fake at all.

I was a young teenager when this came out. A Whole New Whole was my jam, and I would sing it all the time. And of course Robin Williams, you cannot replace him. And a lot of it, he was improvising.

I'm as old as this movie 😂 I can't believe I turn 30 in one month! Aladdin is another Disney gem I could never get enough of. The flight through the cave of wonders still gives me goosebumps!

Wow, I'm so familiar with this movie, i didn't even realize it came out in 92. I was 2. Lol No matter which Disney movie i watch, after the company logo intro with the Disney castle and the star moving overhead, i ALWAYS expect the music from Aladdin to start right after. Lol

I'm gonna cry cuz this is my all time favorite Disney film ever!!! If you only knew what my bedroom looked like when I was a kid back in 1992-1995! I had everything Aladdin. Aladdin was my hero growing up. He taught me that you can make anything you want happen, you just have to be true to yourself and know that we have something special in us. Also, Robin Williams as the Genie is so classic.

“Imagine watching this in theater.” I went to see it with my mom and little bro when it came out. Will never forget ever.♥️

"How would [flying] be useful?" As a short person...I could actually reach things.

oh I'm so happy you're reacting to this! It used to be my favorite Disney movie as a kid (which may or may not be solely because I share a name with the princess 😁)

1. Always win in contests that I entered 2. Magic Carpet (My brother always wanted to fly on a magic carpet) 3. Free the Genie

Genies are tricky. You could say "I wish for a million dollars" and all of a sudden you have a suitcase full of monopoly money. Technically he did his job

Funny you mention genie Jafar coming back because that's exactly what the direct-to-video sequel was about xD And then there was a whole cartoon series picking up from there, with new villains (like Mechanicles the Greek inventor or Mozenrath the necromancer).

For my first wish, I’d wish to be forever cured of my medical depression and anxiety. For my second wish… I’d wish to have the ability to read minds whenever I want. For my last wish, I’d wish to be able to understand, speak, and read any language I see and hear.

Some fun facts about this one: 1) Not only did they let Robin Williams improve what he wanted; they ended up with over 8 hours of voice lines from him doing every joke and improv bit on the planet and then chose from there. 2) Admittedly, Aladdin and Jasmine don't tie the not for a while. There's a sequel and a TV show that happen before we see them end up together finally in the 3rd film (because everything totally goes according to plan in a land of adventure, danger, magic, and crafty thieves...)

I cannot wait for emperors new groove, that’s been my dad’s favorite movie for as long as I can remember. It’s so hilarious 😂

Personally my three wishes would be - wolverine's regenerative healing factor - being able to read, speak, talk and understand any language (even the dead ones) ever existed - have super good memory that will allow me to remember absolutely anything even if I've read it or seen it only once Anyway, Aladdin is my second favorite Disney movie after The Great Mouse Detective

The anime you're referring to is called "Magi". It's one of the most underrated animes ever.

So nice that you reacted to this - one of Disney's greats. It fell out of favor some time after its release, due to a couple lines in the opening Robin Williams/vendor song that a small percentage of the audience took offense to post-9/11 and the (IMO mistaken) belief that letting those lines go unaddressed would lead to anti-Muslim hatred. DIsney solved this issue with the WIll Smith live-action version by just changing those lines.

I believe Robin gave them like 60 hrs of stuff over 4 days. Some stuff they pencil sketched but didn’t use

It's crazy to think that Aladdin was made in the likeness of Tom Cruise😅

While Aladdin did bring in some early CG animation, the VAST majority of what you called CG is still 2D cell animation. That's why the movie still holds up.

Your reaction was really cute! Oh, there's more Aladdin cannon with Return of Jafar that started the Aladdin series and Aladdin and the King of Theieves closes out with Aladdin and Jasmine getting married. From the start to finish of the movies, Aladdin and Jasmine are older and have time to really get to know each other through their adventures. I think you'll like it. Just so you are aware, Genie's voice isn't Robin Willams because Disney and Robin had legal issues. He did return for the last film. Check 'em out.

Friend Like Me is straight uo my favourite Disney song and the Genie is such an incredible character. RIP Robin Williams, he was one of the GOATs

I had the GameBoy game of Aladdin! I always though the lava level was the hardest, but I did finish it a couple of times! The worst part was you couldn’t save your progress, so you started at level 1 each time you booted up the game 😂

30:12 it's a testament to their great writing that he doesn't do that! Instead relying on hits wits when he can't

Basically what you said Robin Williams went in there and did a bunch of skits and bunch of improv and the animators made it. I believe they said there was something like 260 minutes of Robin Williams improv and rough sketches.

What I would wish for: health. Not only for me, but for all of my family. Being healthy until the day we die old.

Aladdin is one of my favorite Disney Movies and the Songs and Story are amazing,it a classic and the Sequels and Series aren't bad neither.

Iago was named after the character in Othello, who is also the little mastermind. Good catch that he was pulling some strings!

You were right on the different actor singing a whole new world. Fun Fact: Aladdin is voiced by Scott Weinger. The same actor who played Steve Dale on Full House. They have an Easter Egg where he is at Disneyland and DJ thinks of him as Aladdin and others.

"Maybe date for a few months or.. Years. See how it goes" You can tell you are a father LOL

I never saw this Aladdin film in movie theaters, the 2019 version, yes. Should the 1992 film make a return to the big screen, I’d jump at the chance experience it for myself!

Thanks for leaving your commentary in the end :) I love this movie and the songs are wonderful!

Iago is voiced by Gilbert Gottfried. My mom HATES his voice! Also, there is a Broadway version of this and another one starring Jafar called _Twisted._

Robin Williams did play both Genie and the peddler and there was a deleted scene where the peddler changes into Genie

It's like they said in the honest trailer. The genie was "every animator's worst nightmare". 😂

Another good movie to watch with Robin Williams' voice is Fern Gully:the last rainforest. He voices a bat named Batty.

My friend just saw this on Broadway in NY. She loved it.

When you brought up what we'd wish for... flying is one of mine 😂 but I'd wanna have wings I wouldn't wanna just levitate or superman fly... and I'd wanna use my flight to travel and explore the world...forget work!

There's a really good theory connecting this movie and Moana, with the massive crab dude being genies former master because he mentions a diamond in a rough and saying he wasn't always this glamourous as well as genie's lamp on his back in some shots of the musical number, plus genie comments that Aladdin is a lot smaller than his last master.

Aladdin is my 2nd favorite Disney film, after The Lion King! The characters are memorable, especially Robin Williams’ Genie (who is my favorite character, next to Jafar), the use of animation (2D and 3D) is amazing, and the soundtrack is wonderful (my favorites being Arabian Nights and Friend Like Me). Thanks so much for this reaction! 🧞‍♂️🪔✨

Flynn and Rapunzel from Tangled still the best relationship in Disney!!!! :)

It's barely 10 minutes in and Aladdin and Abu already got 2 guys either killed or permanently injured 🤣

interestingly, i heard somewhere that robin williams was upset with disney after this movie, because he specifically asked them to not make the genie the focus of the advertising but then they did make him really prominent on all the posters and in the trailers and everything. so in the first direct-to-video sequel of aladdin, he doesn’t play the genie (instead the genie is played by dan castellaneta, best known for playing homer simpson). but then in the 3rd movie i guess they patched things up because robin williams came back to reprise his role.

I saw this in the theater when it came out. It was FIIIRRRREEEE!!! Especially the magic carpet ride inside the sand panther tunnel thing, lol.

Omg JV there's Aladdin 2: Jafars Return 🤗 You'll be like Wooo and Aladdin 3: Aladdin and King of thieves, the movies are all exciting and real fun ☺️

I remember seeing 2D animation for the Cave of Wonders’ tiger head while watching behind the scenes footage. It would’ve been interesting to see it in the final film but I still love the 3D animation of it!

Originally The Peddler was going to be revealed being The Genie at the end of the movie but since the test audiences were applauding at the ending, the directors John Musker and Ron Clements thought "Oh they think 'this is the end'." so they replaced it with the Genie being the moon and the "Made you look!" joke. Aside from Robin Williams voicing The Peddler, if you look closely, you can spot many similarities, meant to harken that The Peddler was going to be The Genie.

I always save your videos, so that after taking care of my little I can watch it during my free time. Yours is the only reaction channel I’m this dedicated to.

Oooo Aladdin is my favourite Disney movie. I was obsessed as a child.

"You can't recognize him just because he has a hat on?" In her defense, she thinks he's dead because Jafar told her he was beheaded.

Oooo I hope you see Pinnocio. (I probably spelt that all wrong lol) That movie gave me nightmares for YEARS.

I can confirm, as someone who watched this on the big screen in '92, the cave escape scene animation was EPIC.

They didn't recognize him at first because that's how magic works, they only see what they're told to see

My 3 wishes: 1. Several billion dollars 2. Great health 3. No violence in the world

There was a TV series exploring their "dating" yrs. It was actually a decent series with cool characters, villains, and plots. I watched it often along with other shows based on these disney movies/characters.

2:41 I died laughing. Disney Renaissance really pulled no punches

One wish I always used in D&D was, "to have exact change". Hasn't backfired yet.

“How about date for a few months or years.” *points to Aladdin animated series*

In terms of wishes, I'd probably wish for: 1. The ability to transform into absolutely anything I want. 2. To know all there is to know. 3. To set him free. For a more selfish wish as my third, to be the wealthiest person in the world.

BEAUTIFUL

You can react to the sequels "The Return of Jafar" and "Aladdin and the King of Thieves".

For Robin Williams as the gene yes they did just kind of let him run wind apparently they have about 12 extra hours of recordings in their archives.

This one was my favorite as a kid, because I think it’s one of Disney’s greatest adventure stories. Once the TV series came out, I watched it religiously. Escaping the Cave of Wonders and the final showdown with Jafar are some of Disney’s greatest animated action-peril sequences. Only the Stampede in The Lion King has ever topped them, in my book. EDIT: “What would you wish for?” Easily the most challenging question to ask in this situation. Because even though THIS Genie is a nice guy and pretty straightforward with granting wishes, there are all too many stories of wishes going awry. Hence the classic phrase, “Be careful what you wish for.” But to answer your question, one of my wishes would be what I call “Perfect/Universal Communication.” The ability to speak in my primary language, and be heard in the recipient’s primary language. As well as the opposite (e.g., they speak in Chinese, I hear English). No more issues or misunderstandings from language barriers. And possibly not just limited to humans. What do you think? Wish #2, after watching how badly Aladdin messed up his re-introduction to Jasmine, would be the ability to completely understand women. You can roll your eyes if you want, but honestly, it’s something every male should aspire for.

If you really want to treat yourself, look up Aladdin Genie Outtakes. They let Robin go wild, and cherry picked the best ones. (Or at least what the censor overlords would allow).

Earlier script and storyboard version would Jafar have his own villian song but directors, writers, prouducers and song-writers felt it was too late in the picture for having another new song so they basically made it a reprise of Prince Ali. In Return of Jafar though Jafar got his villain song "Second Rate".

Wish 1, my husband, daughter, and I would live long healthy lives Wish 2, financial security. Wish 3, justice and equality for everyone everywhere.

I would wish to become _the greatest _*_sorcerer THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN!!!!_*

One of my favorite Disney movies, I was 7 or 8 when it came out and I love, LOVE Robin Williams as Genie. I'm so happy that you did this reaction.

people are still watchin gthis epic movie with Williams as the genie

This is one my favourite Disney films. I love Jafar he’s almost Shakespearean

i’ve never wrote this, but i like how you’re checking all the names in your notebook ☺️ (‘Jaffar! Jaffar? 👀’)

The Carpet it is part CG cuz the Carpet itself is hand animated but the pattern is done with CG, scanned from a hand painted pattern and a computer tracks the pattern after Carpet's movements. It was necassry cuz it would take FOREVER to draw by hand that complex pattern on EVERY CELL IN EVERY SHOT and the Carpet is in many shots in the movie, that' be a huge pain the butt!

The actor who played Jafar was Richard Freeman who also played him on Broadway

I recommend the live- action version as well, is not as good, but Will Smith does a great job as the genie and he makes the movie worth watching for me.

Dang you have that LEGO droid set behind you from the Prequel era? That's kind of a rare set now

I wish I had bought this interesting and cool movie coaster. It had Aladdin on it and a small film from the movies itself inside the coaster.

Wording wishes is so tricky with how they can be interpreted. I've thought about wishes before and I feel like I've focused on details to the extent where I'm like "I need a lawyer to keep things straight" lol. But seeing as genies are magical I'd at least be sure to clarify that they have to fulfill my wish as I see it in my head and not in some other way it could be interpreted, as that leaves nothing to the genie's imagination. But for starters I'd wish to have the master superpower of being able to have all superpowers whenever I wanted. That covers so many potential wants/needs. I'd never be in trouble if I got into a car accident in a blizzard because I'd have so many options. A tech wizard power to fix my car, or levitate it out of a snowbank. Start a fire for warmth. Or just teleport away. Depending on secretive you're trying to be with those powers. But for other non-superpower things I'd probably wish that my loved ones would never get sick or killed in an accident and that they'd always live to a ripe old age and die at a natural time, peacefully, in their sleep. Because true immortality, I think, would be a curse as friends you make or new love interests would get old and die while you just keep existing. And finally, I wouldn't wish for infinite money as that could draw attention from banks or whatever. And maybe this falls more into the first category of possible superpower... but I'd want the ability to manifest anything I can imagine out of thin air (and this is where I've thought about the lawyer aspect because what if there's actually a finite amount of matter in the universe and there's actually a delicate balance of matter and energy and creating matter out of nothing could destroy the universe... so I'd make sure to clarify "with no negative effects on the universe" and that's where "negative" could be interpreted in many ways so the first clarification of "as I see it in my head" comes into play lol). But you could just manifest whatever food you wanted. A nice new car. Need a new gaming PC? Got one. The problem there would come with car insurance, VINs, or computer program licenses... but again, "as I see in my head" means it would adjust whatever needs adjusting behind the scenes so that anyone that looked into things would find everything in order and everything would appear legit. And if you absolutely needed cash for something (buy a plot of land to manifest a nice new house on, for example) you could manifest diamonds and other jewels to sell for cash. You could probably find a way to solve world hunger... manifest seeds that can somehow grow in any climate with even the smallest amount of water, or even none at all. You could manifest a cure for cancer and other incurable diseases/ailments that you could hand over to medical professionals (many so there's no monopolizing for money) so they could mass produce them and get them out to everyone. You could manifest terraforming devices that worked efficiently and wormhole generators so we could expand to new worlds easily to deal with the over population problem that's coming up. You could choose to manifest things that are specifically able to be reverse engineered to propel our technology levels forward by centuries or millennia.

When I was little I had a nightmare one time about the giant tiger sand face O_O But I still loved the movie anyway ^^'

Definitely not eternal life. I wouldn't want to live longer than my fair share of life because I would see my friends and loved one and everyone age around me.

Great video and I love that you mentioned the old video game for this movie. I played it a lot when I was a kid.

Jasmine and Mulan are two of the best women from the 90s animated Disney movies. Strength and independence are underrepresented qualities for women in disney movies.

Coincidentally Aladdin and Jasmine do date for a while. All that takes place in the sequel and the tv series. They get married in the final 3rd movie