It's a real shame they didn't distort the genie at all or try to make him a little more cartoony or a little more unreal, it basically looks like a slightly more muscular Will Smith.
Also, Jafar is way too young, good looking and has zero menace in his kid voice.
In fact that cartoony style (CGI blue whatever-the-fuck smurf) sort of defeats the purpose of a live action movie with actors. What's the freaking point of making an actual movie with human characters inspired by a cartoon if it's going to feature CGI versions of the actors?
But even in his current form, Will Smith is cartoony. In fact that cartoony style (CGI blue whatever-the-fuck smurf) sort of defeats the purpose of a live action movie with actors. What's the freaking point of making an actual movie with human characters inspired by a cartoon if it's going to feature CGI versions of the actors? People here might not remember (or even seen it), but in "It's a Wonderful Life" (the famous 1940's movie), there's an angel named Clarence in it. He's entirely human & that's the route they should have taken with this Aladdin reboot IMO. Otherwise, it's just a glorified "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" with CGI instead of cartoon animation.
10/10 gave me a good laugh
That's beautiful, what are you talking about?
turning dreams into nightmares.See you in your dreams!
Will Smith's genie doesn't look great, but I don't hate it as much as most seem to. Although I wonder if they should have gone with a totally CGI character so they could have done more creative stuff with him transforming. But maybe that would be a little too close to Robin Williams' version. It's kinda funny that everyone complained that the genie wasn't blue in the initial pictures and are now complaining how shitty he looks. I guess these Disney films are something a lot of us grew up on so we tend to have strong feelings about them.
These remakes are obviously just cash grabs by Disney, but I've actually enjoyed the ones I've seen so far.
I m not the least bit upset just making observations, and the biggest one I made is that the genie doesn't sort of look like Smith, he looks exactly like Smith
I think the rest of the very small amount we've seen looks fine thus far, just the Smith Genie sticks out IMO
Man, Aladdin is still one of my favourite Disney films and part of the reason for that is the absolutely brillant performance of Robin Williams and the charm that the painters/drawers managed to put into the visual style. This looks like a movie that had been outsourced to Artstation with a checklist of what boxes to tick. And whatever method they are using to blend Will Smith's face onto the Genie isn't working. Maybe they should've gone full CGI on that with a more cartoony style.
Maybe Disney should've just given that project to Pixar, saying: "Go to town, guys. We know that you will do something solid with Aladdin."
Talk about breaking my heart. I loved that show when I was youngerLooks better than the Kim Possible live action crap.
Don't mean that as a compliment though
Just to further push a point, the trailer looks so stiff and lifeless compared to the animation. I know being aninated they have an advantage in terms of creating appealing designs, but damn...the original is still so good.