Aladdin (2019) Review - YMS 

‘I’ll torture myself at home with Lion King’ ...he had no idea how true that would be

The way Aladdin says "don't you dare close your eyes" legitimately sounds like a threat

"Scar is gonna be just some lion." Pretty accurate.

hearing you get angry about this is so satisfying lol it perfectly encapsulates my feelings about this whole live-action-remake-childhood-nostalgia-exploitation epidemic which disney is on at the moment

Live action that is 97% cgi. Sounds legit.

Adam getting mad is more entertaining than any of these live-action Disney remakes could ever be

character design is integral to the character. Taking away their image and turning them into normal ass animals and normal ass people removes so much of their personality and memorability. Not a single one of these remakes does anything to improve on the original.

Boy I can't wait for the live action Emperor's New Groove, where Yzma and Kronk are just some people and everyone praises it for having a realistic looking llama.

At the end of the movie: Aladdin: I wish for the Nile Will Smith Genie: DENIED! SIT DOWN!

One of the biggest strengths of animation is that it allows you to suspend your disbelief a lot easier than live action, and all these live action remakes are proof of that.

Honestly the worst thing about this whole remake trend is that part of the hype Disney tried to create around the Lion King was the fact they were reusing the animation frames from the original They literally want us to be proud of them for plagiarising themselves

5:28 _Oh my god that was so bad_ It sounds like Jasmine is genuinely having a wonderful time and Aladdin is just like "Bitch I swear to god"

I fear no man, but that thing... *Will Smith Genie* It scares me.

“Aladdin might be okay...” _sees it’s called “review” and not “quickie”_ “Oh dear”

I can't figure out why Disney doesn't just re-release these movies in the theaters. It would save them millions of dollars making a brand new fiom, make them more money from all the people who want to see it again on the big screen, and introduce a new generation to their older catalog of films. Everyone wins.

Your point about Will Smith playing charismatic characters is so fucking true. Look at his most loved movies, they’re him playing a fun energetic character full of personality, like MIB for example.

Man, Osmosis Jones never looked so good!

When he said ''Don't you dare close your eyes'' I actually felt threatened.

holy shit i havent heard adam get legitimately angry in a long time

“So I just saw the 2019 version of Aladdin and just as expected it gave me cancer!” THIS IS GONNA BE A GOOD ONE BOYS

Jasmine in this can actually sing Aladdin sounds like text to speech

Aladdin 2019's plot is like whoever wrote the script hasn't seen the original in a decade but wanted to write the script purely from memory

I saw the title to this video and whispered, “oh no.”

*Hears cover of A Whole New World* “Don’t you dare close your eyes” I wish I could close my ears. *Hears Will Smith autotune in Prince Ali* MY EARS ARE LEAKING!

“Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck!” RIP Robin Williams

A YMS review of the new Lion King in the style of the Oldboy review would be so cool tbh

Aladdin (2019): The Same, But Worse

"Don't you dare close your eyes, eh?" ~ Canadian Aladdin

I died laughing when Jasmine started singing her new female empowerment song as she was being dragged Away by two men.

I just realized that the Sultan won't be a cute little marshmallow anymore. 😢

"so what are we some kinda Disney cashgrab?"

Aladdin: Make me a prince! Will Smith Genie: You know, there's a lot of grey area around that. I can just make you a prince. *Far away* IN WEST PHILADELPHIA BORN AND RAISED

“Dont be suprised if I don’t see the new lion king” These were the words that sealed his fate

oh good i was about to watch the Cool Cat review for the 400th time

This Aladdin remake... is NOT GOOD *explosion*

"I'll torture myself in the comfort of my own home, thank you very much." That's going into my list of favorite YMS quotes. 😄

The darkness is used to hide flaws in the renders of the environments such as bad textures and shadowing. you can see this is games that give you a light to see in darkness. if you look hard enough you can find stretched out textures in the corners of things in the environment.

“Mmm yummy, give me more didney poopies” -YMS 2019

I-can showyou, theworld... Shi-ning shmring splen-did.

Sorry for your Cancer diagnoses. Maybe _Neil Breen_ can heal you.

saw you gave this a 1/10 on IMDb, so i've been WAITING for this and it did not disappoint lol

"It felt like the same but significantly less" So this is what they mean by "the opposite of love is indifference". Being bad isn't as bad as being forgotten.

Don't let this review distract you from the fact that RU-vid plays TWO ads before every video now

Doesn't help that 18 year old Aladdin looks two days away from 30 lmao

I knew it was going to suck, I've hated pretty much all of the Disney remakes except jungle book. The original Aladdin holds such a special place in my heart that I refuse to watch them butcher it as they did with Beauty and the beast.

I hate the trend of making live-action adaptions for classic animated movies. The point of animation is to create a more flexible form of fiction that exceeds the limitations of real life. Certain things don’t translate well into live-action _because it’s not supposed to._ Animated fiction is easily more charming than live-action and should be left alone as their own finished products instead of being blueprints for a future live-action movie. 🤦🏽‍♀️

I may not agree with some of your reviews and opinions, but I do wholeheartedly agree with your stance on Disney. Disney used to be a dream machine, pumping out soulful imaginative spectacles that touched millions of people, now they’re just one big corporate mess with a monopoly on almost all pop culture and media. To quote you, Mr. Reviewer- “Fuck Disney”

You didn't mention the part where they slightly sped up the footage of Aladdin running away from the guards. Editing like that really grinds my gears!

"This movie reminds me of The Last Airbender:" the last thing you wanna hear about a movie.

*Will Smith:* I could just make you a prince... *Aladdin:* GUESS WHAT? A FRESH PRINCE.

they make it dark so they will be able to put in less details. it's a cheap move.

"Don't. You dare close your. EYES!"

"Give me more Disney poopies" 10/10 youre quotable af my dude

The most I know about this movie is I was on a flight to Japan and someone next to me was watching it and they started skipping the singing parts.

-After this movie Adum: *I cant get the cap off!*

Best review yet. Your unbridled passion of hating this movie is very inspiring

They tried so hard to make jasmine empowered but somehow she never managed to do anything. She just mopes around for most of the movie and when she finally gets her big power ballad moment jafar is just like fuck you and stops her immediately. The original character had so much attitude and personality.

6:18 now you know how I felt about Alien Covenant when you said "I didn't really care, but I imagine someone who did like the Alien series being pissed off."

Knockoff Canadian Aladdin starring a middle-aged fresh prince didn't get a good score?

Want good live action versions of the disney classics? Look up the Broadway shows. These movies can not hold a candle to those shows, actual care was put into them!

damn. 1/10. savage. just the way i like it.

*Sees Aladdin review from YMS* “Ah that’s hot, that’s hot”

"When they started singing a whole new world i wanted to vomit" YMS 2019 that should be on the poster :3

I'm so, dare I say, triggered, by how incredibly fake it looks… The sets and the costumes.... they don't transport you to another world but remind you that in fact they are sets and costumes. Look at Raiders of the Lost Ark (an example of a Middle Eastern location) it looks lived in and real. Look at the costumes for Lord of The Rings, incredible. This looks gaudy and plastic!

"Gib me more Disney poopies" -Adam 2019

The best bit is how he guessed his response to Lion king- but severely underestimated how much he would torture himself with it

Get this to 2k likes

"Stop making everything dark, Disney!" Jesus, am I glad somebody finally said it. EDIT: I should clarify that I was mostly referring to how gritty and edgy Disney movies are, not just the dark lighting. I mean, who would want a dark and edgy Hot Topic wannabe Lion King over the colorful, friendly looking one? It seems that everybody does, and that annoys me.

"I can show-you-the-world, shining, shim-mer-ing, splendid..." The arhythmic way in which the actor portraying Aladdin sang the phrase "show you the world" and the word "shimmering" makes it pretty obvious that this actor has no musical training and no sense of rhythm. In the recording studio while dubbing the vocals, I'm pretty sure the only direction given to him was to listen for the individual beats in each measure because the actor probably can't read music. And then they probably just synced his voice to each measure's downbeat and played around with editing each syllable and autotuning every note just to make it sound remotely presentable. Because this issue wasn't nearly as prevalent in the original, it's pretty obvious Disney just phoned it in this time around. You fail, F minus minus, see me after class. (I'm a bit of a music nerd, so forgive me for sounding Iike a snob)

Positive points on Aladdin? *The hardest choices require the strongest of wills.*

>Yago is a blend realistic parrot >Abu is terrifying >songs are autotuned >Jasmine is progressive >Will Smith is the best part >Aladdin sounds Canadian I can't stop laughing

1:59 Who else expected a jump-cut to "DENIED!! SIT DOWN!!"

What’s the point for these live action remakes??? Oh yeah, *_MONEY_*

Wow another 1/10, things are really looking up for films in 2019

(Adam bashes Detective Pikachu) Adam's not the target audience for this, so he shouldnt be reviewing it. I'm so sick of his negative schtick (Adam bashes Aladdin) Woohoo! Glad to see you tearing this movie to shreds!

holy shit i haven't seen YMS this angry for a long time

You should review older movies that you like or people consider classics in quickie format. ps I do realize sardonicast is a thing

Spicy ‘pinions is what I subbed for and I am not disappointed.

0:07 that’s all we need. Video over. Thanks YMS, keep up the honest reviews

This review is perfection to my ears!

Honestly, the biggest problem I have with this film comes down to how they changed the characters to try and make them more ‘fleshed out’, when it really didn’t fit the plot. Jasmine now wanting to be the Sultan over her original desire to just be free from the restraints of the palace now makes her relationship with Aladdin just an afterthought. In the original, they both talked about how they felt trapped, and the connection they share over their mutuality. It was beautiful, because you saw how being rich didn’t make Jasmine any more happy than Aladdin. There’s no real reason for her and him to fall in love in this movie outside of ‘because that’s what the story is about’. It also takes away from a Whole New World. The whole reason this scene is great is because Aladdin essentially gives Jasmine what she wants. A chance to see the world, and experience what she never could. It’s what made him different than the other suitors, who could only offer her what she already had. Again, this film is more concerned with making Jasmine’s motivations about being sultan, so this scene comes off as utterly pointless. Or, hell, even the scene that led to them meeting in the first place doesn’t work. Jasmine gives a boy an apple from a cart and doesn’t know you have to pay for them. In the original movie, this was understandable since she had never left the castle walls before, so it made sense. Here, you’re telling me she’s snuck out of the palace before, AND claims to know/care about Agrabah’s people than anyone else, yet she doesn’t know basic things about how their system works? How is she qualified to be Sultan, again? Or Jafar. In the original, he was a twisted man that was well-trusted in the palace by everyone. But here, he’s an insecure little bitch that isn’t intimidating in the least. The head of the guard doesn’t trust him, the Sultan barely seems to trust him, and Aladdin as Prince Ali knows Jafar was the one that betrayed him, yet they do nothing and allow him to be in such a high position of leadership in the palace. None of the guards questioned Jafar ordering them to kill Prince Ali, yet they supposedly already know he’s not exactly trustworthy. In the original, them just blindly following his orders made sense. They had no reason to be suspicious of him. It made him so much more mysterious and vicious, whereas now he’s just some insecure guy that no one trusts anyway. It makes everyone in the palace seem stupid. And lastly, Aladdin. The movie spends so much more time trying and failing to flesh out other characters like Jasmine’s handmaiden or the royal guard that they forget to give the protagonist of the film any character. If anything, they instead take away from what they had on him. Him stealing bread in the beginning, for example, was important because he only steals the bare essentials. We see he only does it to survive, which also shows us, based on the guards’ reactions, that the very law that’s supposed to be protecting them is strict and more harmful than helpful. In this film, however, they’re way more justified, since he’s stealing possessions, rather than necessities. So he goes from being a clever and likeable street rat that just wants to survive, to a bland thief that the movie keeps insisting has more to him. They throw the entire point of the movie, that the only differences between Aladdin and Jasmine is essentially just a flawed class system, away for the sake of elements that don’t even end up servicing the movie well. Those are my two cents, at least.

The reason everything has to be dark is because that's what people think "real" looks like for some reason. Somehow tv/film have convinced people that the real world looks super dark and grey and gritty... Which is false. The world is vibrant. Even grey days are pretty vibrant compared to these movies. The other reason these movies are so dark is in order to make all the CG look better. CG needs to be hidden or obscured using lighting techniques because our eyes are really good at picking up wonky looking stuff. The worst part is is, it takes away from all the interesting color palettes and energetic animation which is a large reason these movies appeal in general. A lot of people think the lion king will be good because it is all CG but I promise everyone, it will look dark and grey and kinda bland just like the trailer for the movie look.

It would've been hilarious if after that end rant, he gave it a 10/10.

Great review Alex, I wonder what Adum from IHE will say about it. cough.

movie length 128 minutes, review length 8 minutes Adum, u just saved 2 hours of my life. A sincere, heartfelt thank you.

I literally only enjoyed Will Smith. He really felt like the only one trying and I appreciated that sksknxn

"This is just going to get dated really quickly. The 2D animation still holds up and this film will not!" *THANK YOU.* I was just thinking about this in relation to the first Toy Story. It's still a great movie, but those graphics are WAY dated now. That's why hand-drawn animation has a sort of timeless charm that pure CGI will likely never match: The more human effort you put into a piece of art, the longer a shelf life it has.

I'm surprised Adam didn’t mentioned the horrible fact that the Genie has a ROMANTIC INTEREST In the movie! Seriously, not only the character was awful, but the romance was forced as hell. At least it makes my headcanon plausible, that the merchant at the beginning was making his fanfiction as he was telling it to his children and was like “Oh shit! I forgot to include mommy as a character! Errrrm... JASMINE HAS A SERVANT AND SHE IS ALSO IN LOVE WITH THE GENIE!”

Besides, you cannot, you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT replace Robin Williams.

1/10. oh YIKES. been a while since one of those

"DOAN YEW DEYR CLOSE YER EYES"

As soon as they started singing "a whole new world" I left to go pee and as soon as I got back that scene ended

Holy shit. I haven't actually laughed out loud in a while. The ending of this video nearly brought me to tears.

*notification* Adum is about to end this man’s whole career

UMMM YUMMY GIMME DAT DIDNEY POOPIES well I'm for sure not eating anything today

It's amazing how just hearing a few seconds of the new "A whole new world" version immediately made my brain go "No, stop, that's wrong, STOP! NO!"

Thank you for watching these movies so we don't have to. The hero we need but don't deserve.

4:35 This 10 seconds clip is more entertaining and visually impressive than the entire live-action movie. The fluidity and quality of the animation is frankly breathtaking.

Knowing that the original had one of it's best characters was inspired in Robin Williams makes this even more difficult to watch

Finally the nihilistic opinion I needed to hear. I'm so full of my friends and youtubers saying this movie is "great" and "not terrible".