*BEST ANIMATED CHARACTER!!* Aladdin (1992) | First Time Watching | (reaction/commentary/review) 

Fun fact: A lot of the impressions Robin Williams does is complete improv. They just loved it so much they kept it in the movie

I'm sorry but Jafar repeatedly and aggressively calling Aladdin "Prince Abooboo" is so funny to me every time

I love how disney can give a personality to a literal rug

"No matter what anybody says, you'll always be a prince to me." The older I get the closer that line brings me to tears. Genie was willing to go back in the lamp for another 10,000 years in order to help his friend be happy, and Aladdin was willing to give up everything he wanted most to make sure Genie never had to experience that again. They are such an excellent portrayal of deep platonic love for your friends.

"Nooooo! You upset the carpet!" My new favorite sentence 😂😂😂

"This has turned into a video game!" Thanks for the PTSD.

I do love how quickly and easily Jasmine plays along with Aladdin, realizing he's helping. She's a very quick thinker despite being sheltered. She's pretty quick to react and think on her feet. So there are two sequels, Return of Jafar which also served as the beginning of the tv series, and Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the third and final movie that has them actually getting married, Robin Williams returns as the Genie, and is honestly a fairly strong sequel.

This is easily without a doubt one of my favorite and the best Disney Renaissance films, period. The animation, the music by Alan Menken, the late Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, the best protagonist and Disney princess in Aladdin & Jasmine, an incredible Disney Villain in Jafar, the incredible comedic performances of the late Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried as the Genie and Iago respectively and the film’s moral on "Be Yourself". Apparently 96%-98% of the Genie’s dialogue in the film was all improvised by Robin Williams with only _"No matter what anybody says, you'll always be a prince to me."_ being one of the few lines of dialogue not improvised by Williams. Also Gilbert Gottfried who voiced Iago also improvised some lines in one scene in the film when Iago contemplates while packing his luggage, Iago makes a quick comment about how he thinks he is making a weird face in the picture. Apparently that line was so funny that it even made Williams laughed.

One of the greatest honors of my life was getting to work with Robin Willams. He was such a gentle soul.

For a man who wasn't a singer, Robin Williams had pipes. He'll always be the best Genie. I love the way he sang "Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali"

I love the fact that although Genie wouldn't manipulate Jasmine's feelings per his rules, he was all for helping Al win her over. Dude is an absolute bro.

The way you giggled with giddy delight when Jasmine called him out for who he really was after A Whole New World was such a vibe 😂 Nobody does a love story quite like Disney animation ❤️

Fun story; After Robin Williams' passing, I watched this movie again and, for some reason, when the genie is free, I started bawling my eyes out. The repeated, "I'm free! I'm history, no I'm mythology! I'm free!" Really got to me because all I could think about was how Williams was finally free from his long battle with depression. 😢 Still a very enjoyable film to this day. Holds up so well. My personal favorite Williams film. 😍

I read that the opening scene with the street merchant was complete improv - Robin Williams was shown a table with a bunch of items on it, covered by a bedsheet. He was asked to take them out one by one and describe them in character. Apparently most of the material from that recording session was not usable for a Disney film 😅

This movie is literally my childhood. I literally know the movie’s audio by heart because I wore out the VHS watching it repeatedly as a small kid.

7:48 The parrot (Iago I think is the name) is voiced by the late Gilbert Gottfried.

I can’t watch this movie without thinking of “Twisted”. “Many people have died trying to catch the thief. One was stabbed to death by a bunch of needles. One died by severe burning. One’s insides were slit by a monkey. Four died choking on camel crap.” 😂

When the flying carpet has more personality than the entire Wish movie

28:29, for that reason, “A Whole New World” is one of the most recognizable and most difficult duet songs to ever come from the Disney Renaissance.

28:45 "They just jumped into Hercules." Fun fact, both Aladdin and Hercules had Disney TV shows and there was an episode of Hercules ( "Hercules and the Arabian Night" ) where they met due to their respective villains schemeing aginst them.

RIP Robin Williams 31:18 Yeah, I also think so: Genie fond with Aladdin, because he saw Aladdin was not like his other masters

The “I’ll miss you” hits so much harder with Robin gone…

One of my favorite bits of trivia is when he's doing the bit at the beginning as the merchant, they put Robin in a room with a covered table and removed the tablecloth and just let Robin go. So the bit where he's like "will not break....it broke" is because he broke the object lol

I grew up with this movie. I also loved "Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest", in which Robin also plays a great character. I've loved him in every movie I've seen him in, but these two in particular hold a special place in my heart. In different parts, they just turned him loose and got to see what material he came up with. The man was a genius when it came to improv. It was so fun growing up in the 90s when so many of the big Disney movies were coming out.

Aladdin was always the choice of movie whenever we had a thunderstorm. Picnic in the living room w my little brother and sister w all the lights off w this movie is STILL the way to go. I’m 35 now and my three boys and I STILL carry on the tradition

Aladdin is my number one fav Disney film...always. As a POC as well, I always adored Jasmine growing up

I read somewhere that they basically let Robin Williams loose and then animated the genie bits around what he had come up with. Especially 'A Friend Like Me' He was definitely the king of improv! RIP 😢

15:13 It’s funny that you compare this scene to a video game, because there is a Magic Carpet section in Kingdom Hearts 1 that is pretty much exactly this.

I once read a theory many years ago that stated Aladdin is actually set in the far post-apocalyptic future. The idea behind the theory was to explain the Genies line about being locked away for 10,000 years, yet the impressions he does when first meeting Aladdin are of people from current times. Basically, after whatever caused the apocalypse, be it war, meteor strike, etc., society barely clung on and reverted to what we would view as ancient society. With only a few bits of ancient hyper-advanced technology surviving. The flying carpet, Jafar's staff, even Genie himself. Genie being a sort of super advanced AI program that, using the aforementioned archeo-tech, could manipulate matter thereby granting "wishes" using molecular manipulation. For example realigning the molecules in simple sand into gold. Even Iago and Abu are potential evidence. They are still animals, but their advanced levels of intelligence allowing for speech, free will, understanding of human language, etc., could either be evolution over the 10,000 year time period, accidental mutation of their ancestors DNA from nuclear fallout, or even gene manipulation by biologists from before the fall of civilization in an effort to uplift certain animal species.

OH MY GOD, if you love this movie you should watch the play, Twisted. It's basically the story of Aladdin told from Jafar's perspective. The company that produced it is called Starkid and you can actually watch the entire play on their RU-vid page.

This is one of what I call "The Big Four" which I personally consider the best animated Disney films. 1. The Little Mermaid 2. Beauty and the Beast 3. Aladdin 4. The Lion King

Fun Fact: "A Whole New World" made "double history" at the time, for the week ending March 6th, 1993, it became the first-ever Disney song to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart (sung by Regina Belle & Peabo Bryson - who had just made history two years prior when the theme from "Beauty And The Beast," his duet w/Celine Dion became the first-ever Disney song to make it into the top 10, peaking at #9). The one history it made that same week was at that time, it had knocked out the longest-ever #1 song on the Hot 100 Chart, Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," which had been the #1 song for the previous 14 consecutive weeks.

Scott Weinger then. Scott Weinger now. Scott Weinger forever. Aladdin, Steve, whatever the role.

1:58 Disney has plenty of darker moments like this. An example being a line in a song from The Great Mouse Detective extolling how the antagonist drowned orphans and widows.

I saw this in the movie theater when it came out. At the end it got a standing ovation.

After watching this, Starkids "Twisted" musical is definitely worth a watch. It perfectly turns the story on its head

After watching “Twisted” the musical, this movie hits differently 😂

I know this will probably never happen, but I want to imagine him reacting to Twisted, the musical homage to Aladdin. It really plays with the source material well lmao

Robin Williams will always be dearly missed. Robin, you're free!

Fun fact 1 jasmine's singing voice also was mulans singing voice. Fun fact 2 the voice of Abu is the same voice actor that voices scooby and Fred in scooby doo

I loved Robin's role in this movie he had so many voices and characters he is legend, and I miss him a lot to this very day. What a classic legend.

23:09 That’s actually not too far from how hypnosis actually works. To put it in layman’s terms, if the hypnotic suggestion doesn’t line up enough with how the subject normally thinks, their conscious mind will recognize the thoughts are not their own and immediately reject them.

Robin Williams is my acting IDOL... This movie is what got me into voice acting in the first place... to this day, I cannot do all of Genie's impressions... RIP Master Robin...miss you so much!

Fun facts: 1- The merchant at the beginning was in fact voiced by Robin Williams. The Genie and the Merchant are the only characters in the entire movie with one less finger on each hand as well, so some people theorize the merchant is the Genie. 2- The song at the beginning has a line that doesn't rhyme as it did before it was changed. The original opening lines went as follows: "Oh I come from a land from a faraway place, where the caravan camels roam. Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face. It's barbaric, but hey, it's home." Place was supposed to rhyme with face, but they changed it because of the implied imagery. 3- If they used all of Robin Williams's recordings, the movie's length would've more than doubled. They had several hours worth of just Robin's ad lib recordings that were all generally unique. 4- The voice you recognized as Iago that you couldn't quite place was the late Gilbert Gottfried.

next up... Twisted the musical by StarKid

OH MY GOD Please, you have to watch Twisted by Starkid now! 💙 It's a musical/Aladdin-parody/Disney-satire, all in one, and I believe you're going to love it

35:29 "Dang he knows this song?" made me chuckle 😂

Rest In Peace Howard Ashman 1950-1991 John Candy 1950-1994 Douglas Seale 1913-1999 Chuck Jones 1912-2002 Al Hirschfeld 1903-2002 John Alvin 1948-2008 Bruce Adler 1944-2008 David J Hudson 1943-2011 Roger Ebert 1942-2013 Robin Williams 1951-2014 Sue C Nichols 1965-2020 Gilbert Gottfried 1955-2022 and Burny Mattinson 1935-2023, John Candy was suggested for this movie, and Roger Ebert was a famous Film Critic

Idk if youre taming sugestions, but you should watch Twisted by Starkid, its an Aladdin parody, and it's incredible

Fun facts about the movie, Aladdin: Robin Williams actually refused to take the usually higher fee to bring him on, only accepting the same pay as the other less renowned actors. He wanted the rest of what would have been his check to go towards making the movie even better. He actually believed so much in the potential of the film that, as part of his contract, he requested that Disney keep his name, face, and voice out of any promotional material. That way, people would simply come to see the movie, rather than coming to see him in it. The only real downside is that Disney went back on their word and gave him top billing on posters, which was a huge part of why he didn’t return for the sequel.

The genie's cartoony nature allows for a lot of improvization and free acting. Robin Williams was the better choice for his voice. As something curious, in the live action Will Smith was worried of not being good enough for the role of the genie, but in the end he was a good succesor for Robin Williams. He even carried the whole movie in the end.

You're so precious!! The way you laugh so innocently at the jokes!! 😺🌞 Please do Pocahontas and Mulan too

I love Aladdin! When I was a little boy I had a huge crush on him!

"...Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face...its barbaric but hey its home."

This is also a movie that is better on a giant movie screen, not just because of spectacle of everything the colors and all that but because of the way that it is shot, the scale of things is so impressive on a giant screen. The table wonders is amazing on a big screen. The carpet is the carpet right escape from the table wonders is so, intense on a big screen that you literally feel like you’re flying it is an amazing experience on a big giant movie screen if you ever get a chance to see Aladdin on a big screen do it

My kids loved this movie, so much that for Halloween my daughter was Jasmin and my nephew was Aladdin. They were 3 and 4. My older son who was 8 was the magic carpet. It was absolutely the funniest thing I ever seen. I hand made all their costumes to exact replicas. The carpet was insanely funny especially watching him walk in it. Love your channel. Keep up the fantastic work. Love and prayers

I grew up with Aladdin as a kid, and one of my favorite Disney adventurous movies I will forever cherish. A true Diamond in the Rough. Plus, Robin Williams as the Genie brings out the best comedic side character since Timon and Pumba. RIP Legend.

"You'll always be a prince to me" gets me every time.

I miss when Disney used to make masterpieces. Not even Pixar can reach this level.

Omg. I watched this movie soooo much that I once had the entire thing memorized, songs and dialogue!

3:49 The guy who sang this song for the movie looked like he was having the time of his life recording it. You can find a video of him in the recording booth singing for this.

Princess Jasmine was the girl worth fighting for in Mulan

If I have children, then I will only show them these classics. They are the best in every way.

Robin William's portrail of Genie is kind of a double edged sword. The performance is great but it is so referential that I, who was born in the 80's barely recognise half the bits he does. On top of that, it set the precident of almost every subsequent Disney production having a comic relief character voiced by a known stand up comedian.

as a child i VIVIDLY remember just being so fucking scared of that cave, he sounded SO terrifying! with the melting statues and “killing” the first guy it was too much for little ole me😂

When you said it's like a video game during the lava tsunami, it reminded me of the Nintendo video game Aladdin. Escaping the lava flow was one of the hardest parts of the game.

loving the journey of disney movie! 5:53 you should see "balto" then 😄I often watch the record of the voice actors singing a whole new world, it's pure magic (as well as I see the light from tangled)

There is a loophole to getting more wishes, simply wish for a magic item that will grant you infinite wishes or write a list and simply say “I wish for everything on this list”

14:41 This is one of my favorite bits of animation in the movie. I love how the golden ape statue shifts from smiling to frowning as it melts. Also, keep in mind while watching that this is not computer generated. The animator had to make a minimum of 12 pencil rendered drawings of this ape statue melting for every second it was on-screen. ✍️

Have you watched Ferngully? Robin Williams plays a bat and it's a great movie!

To be honest, Aladdin is the princess here.😅😂

Lol, so there's this stage-musical parody of _Aladdin_ called _Twisted_ by Starkid on RU-vid, and there's this scene where the captain of the guard is explaining to Jaffar how they chased Aladdin through the streets. It's not a very kid-friendly version, but in that version, "The sword-swallower slit his throat when the thief's pet monkey ripped the sword right out of it, and you know the guy who sleeps on the bed of nails? A fat guard fell on him. Now he's dead. Then two of the guards choked to death after falling from a roof into a cart of Crazy Hakeem's discount fertilizer. All of this...for a loaf of bread!"

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. As a kid, I would watch it every night, and as soon as it ended, I would rewind it and watch it again. And now, nearly 30 years later, I can honestly say I still adore it. I also highly recommend the live-action remake. I know a lot of people dislike it, because they wanted Will Smith's Genie to be exactly the same as Robin Williams's. Push that expectation aside, and it's still a wonderful movie, including Will Smith's performance.

Trying so hard not to cry, listening to Robin Williams. I'm so sorry he felt like there was no other way anymore. But I am also so happy that mental illness is getting so much more awareness nowadays. and that alot of people now understand, that behind a smile isn't always a happy person.

11:19 That voice is Jim Cummings...Cat from CatDog, Pete from Goof Troop/Goofy Movie, Tazmanian Devil, Darkwing Duck, Monterey Jack/Fat Cat from Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers, and many more!

So much trivia I could say about this movie (which is my favorite Disney movie ever, BTW), but I'll keep it brief. In the movie's initial release, the opening song contained a part that went "Where they cut off your ears if they don't like your face / It's barbaric, but hey, it's home". This line was deemed potentially racist and was changed in later releases of the movie. The merchant was actually supposed to appear at the end of the movie and be revealed to have been Genie all along (note that he's also voiced by Robin Williams), but the filmmakers decided that by that point, the audience would already be applauding, so that scene was scrapped. Another thing cut from the movie was Aladdin's mother, who would've even had a song called "Proud of Your Boy". Jafar also had two cut songs called "Why Me?" and "Humiliate the Boy", but they ultimately decided on a reprise of "Prince Ali" instead to keep the scene more flowing. If you look closely, the half of the scarab that Iago snatches and gives to Jafar actually changed between it being in the thief's hand and being given to Jafar. An error that I noticed even as a child. In the Finnish dub, Genie was voiced by a famous Finnish actor and comedian named Vesa-Matti Loiri. In order to make his jokes more original, he was given special permission to only work with muted scenes without hearing Robin Williams's take, resulting in him doing some imitations of Finnish celebrities. This paid off big time, with the Finnish dub of Aladdin being recognized by Disney as the best foreign dub of the movie. You should also check out the movie's two sequels for a complete story.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this one. Like you said there are a lot of dark references in this movie and it's commonly said among the Disney fandom that this type of movie wouldn't be created today. So we are lucky the movie was made when there were less controversial topics/statements. The one change they did make for the remaster was to the opening song. They needed to change one of its lyrics because it mentioned cutting off ears. The original said "where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face. It's barbaric but hey its home." The new lyric is "where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense, it's barbaric but hey it's home" When the creators made the Genie character they actually didn't have many lines for Robin Williams in the script. They just let him do what he does best and they ended up with over 16 hours of content from the recording booth. After they had all that material they then animated the movie and made the Genie look as close to Robin as they could with facial expressions and body language. Robin even took a huge pay cut to do the role (he accepted $75,000 instead of $8 million). Funnily enough, they did actually make an Aladdin game that released on the Super Nintendo, and the hardest level was actually the lava tsunami

I was 5 years old when this came out, this was the first movie I saw in a Cinema. One heck of a experience. I remember my mom took me. I ended up working at a movie theatre when I was a teenager and during my college summers. I was one of the people who trained new staff. During day one orientation we did icebreakers to get into the movie going mood, "Tell me about your first Cinema going experience that you recall." I loved being able to share my example of seeing Aladdin. You would probably love the sequel "Return of Jafar" and 3rd "Aladdin and the King of Thieves." Some big name voices in those too.

This movie is one my uncle (RIP) and I watched together and I have the most memories of. ❤ Iago and Genie are just amazing characters.

15:12 it did! And I was never able to beat this lava level 😭

you absolutely have to see Brother Bear!! It s a fantastic disney movie, so emotional and i love it so much! A must watch for everyone in my opinion, deals with a very important topic

I FULLY believe Robin Williams was doing some kind of manic choreography in the booth while he was recording his lines. And not just those first few scenes, but the whole thing.

Robin Williams... what a legend. His improv in this really brought it to life. And Jeremy Irons as Jaffar was epic casting.

You need to go back and watch the old-school Disney movies; Pinocchio, Snow White, Jungle Book, Dumbo etc...

Fun fact 2: Disney says that they have so much unused footage of Robin improvising that it could be miles long ❤

Just in time for my break at work

23:13 😂😂 That’s the same thing my siblings, and I would laugh at. My brother was like “he broke through heavy, black magic just to say that.”

YES SO EXCITED FOR YOUR REACTION THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!

Now that you've seen this, I feel like you need to watch the Starkid musical Twisted. It's Aladdin from Jaffar's perspective. Like Wicked

One lamp to rule them all. One lamp to find them. One lamp to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.

"A Whole New World" is one of the best duets in a movie in my personal opinion. It's just straight magic

Jonathan Freeman is the voice actor for Jafar and he is even playing him in a broadway musical soon.

The theme of the characters being trapped is central to the movie. It's not just Jasmine and the Genie that feels trapped but Aladdin is trapped, first as a street rat and then as a prince, The Sultan feels trapped for his dilemma of his daughter wont find a suitor to marry and Jafar and Iago are trapped because they serve a ruler they feel is being incompetent (being busy playing with toys like being a big kid and being so guilble). In the end, all characters becomes free except for Jafar and Iago, who're both trapped in Jafar's lamp at the end.

This came out when I was a freshman in high school. It was the first movie I saw in a theater more than once (saw it six times!). Seeing the escape from the cave on the big screen felt like riding a roller coaster. And this was well before the days of after credit scenes, so people often started leaving as soon as the final chorus in the final scene started. I remember many people turning around to see what was happening when the genie started laughing, hence the "made you look!" 😂

39:48 absolutely GENIE-uos

Yesssss.... my this was my fave movie growing up; the amount of times I've watched it should be illegal 😅

One time I watched the credits of Aladdin, and after most of them are over, viewers can hear Robin Williams as Genie saying "You guy have been wonderful!" as the Walt Disney symbol appears on the screen again and the small ball of light arcs over the outline of Cinderella's castle. I'd never heard that part before that one time.

You’re actually my favourite. Legit want to be friends with you. 😂

Given the tribute fan art after Robin's passing, the phrase "Genie, you're free" wrecks me every time these past almost ten years.

My absolute favourite Disney animated film. Back when Disney was untouchable.