Robin Williams voiced the Genie. That's why you recognized his voice. He was also in another animated movie called Ferngully: The Last Rainforest that came out around the same time as Aladdin.
Robin also voiced the Peddler at the beginning. That part was completely unscripted. They brought him to the sound stage and stood him behind a covered table. When they removed the cloth they had a bunch of items. They told him without looking grab an item and describe it. The man was pure comedic genius who was deeply troubled. He and Christopher Reeve would chat about stuff.
During the course of recording the voices, the late Robin Williams improvised so much they had almost sixteen hours of material. Because Robin Williams ad-libbed so many of his lines, the script was rejected for a Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award nomination. - This is HOW amazing Robin Williams at comedy. RIP Robin Williams he was one in a million. Also, the music is so iconic and amazing. I love Alladin. The story, the lessons within it, music, etc. This is a true classic.
And sadly, because there was so much improvisation to Williams' character, the Academy refused to nominate the movie for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Tarzan.. The 90s Disney Renaissance was undefeated growing up!
I remember seeing Pocahontas in theaters and, having read the book in school, walking away from it complaining that they stopped halfway through the story. Because of that, I never liked the movie, and as a result never revisited it. At that age though, I also was completely unaware of all the liberties that Disney took with most of their movies, not knowing how many of them were based on much more grim stories than what their iterations told.
Something to realize is that Jafar was actually running the city for quite awhile and it was doing ok. The sultan seemed to have no desire other than to play with his toys and if he was in charge of day to day decisions the city probably would be in far worse shape.
That's one possible outcome. Though, if there were no Jafar, the sultan would likely have another advisor who could actually guide the sultan to proper leadership. There's also Jasmine who is competent enough to be an advisor to her father. Indeed, once Jafar is gone, the city appears to function pretty well afterwards.
Robin Williams at his manic zany best. Ridiculous that Disney tried to remake this with Will Smith... This was peak Disney animation in the 90s. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladin, and the Lion King.
😄👍 One of these days, somebody in a movie is going to start singing "Happy Birthday To You," and you're going to say, "Hey, I know this from Tik Tok." 🥳
The dictionary defines infidel as unfaithful and someone who has doubts or rejects a principle, in this case not keeping their promise when the cave told them to touch nothing but the lamp.
Jasmine probably didn’t recognize Aladdin at first because was told he was executed so she figured she would never see him again and your not looking for someone you think is dead.
I always thought Aladdin had best twist. Everyone thinks Jafar is the main baddie, but its Jago that whisper's most evil idea's to Jafar's ears... So basically Jafar is the side kick...
That’s a good point! Jafar is basically the puppet for the evil schemes with Iago as the puppet master pulling the strings in that case. And then Jafar claiming all of the power is basically rebellion of said puppet since Iago is still able to get the things he wants too (namely revenge for all of those crackers forced into his beak).
They seriously missed an opportunity at the end though. Aladdin wished to be a prince. He's still a prince. I don't get why that wasn't the ending twist that ties everything up. Its not like he wished to look like a prince. He wished to actually be a prince.
18:23 Is it so obviously back when? There's a theory going on Aladdin is actually post-apocalypse and Genie is some genetically-modified super mutant being and that why he knows all the pop culture references and just puts up a Vegas show. He also spent 10,000 years in the lamp already.
Someone suggested the Genie lives "backwards through time" and remembers the future, like Merlin in The Once and Future King (Merlin affected 20th century clothing occasionally in "The Sword in the Stone"). I just thought he could pull off time travel as easily as any other of his cosmic powers. In the Aladdin animated series, he brought so much stuff from the future that Al, Jasmine and even the Sultan came to understand things like cars, movies, robots and spaceships.
A friend of mine had a Disney karaoke DVD with several songs from this movie on it. She would secretly sing along with it all the time when she thought she was alone, and turn bright red when caught. Songs are so good, no one could blame her. Occasionally being caught ended up in a spontaneous Disney singalong party.
Being a brown skin Asian, Aladdin was my preference since it had my same skin coloured homies. Had a massive crush on Jasmine & hence absolutely loathed Aladdin for being with her 😂. After growing up & watching Robin Williams crush it being the genie made me so glad. Will Smith had to ruin modern genie, though. 😒
He butchered the songs, but I thought he was the best part about the movie (Not saying much), cause he wasn't trying to be Robin Williams. They got him to more or less play to his strengths (outside of the songs)
23:46 this particular reference is Jack Nicholson, the one moments before that was comedian Rodney Dangerfield. Almost certain they did Johnny Carson too. Crazy how those names date myself even though I’m not even 35 lmao.
The quid pro quo guy with the white hair was not Johnny Carson, it was famous conservative William F. Buckley. And the black and white guy with the cigar and duck was Groucho Marx.
So the theory is basically if he would have just handed the lamp to Jasmine and let her rub it she could have also gotten three wishes and one of those additional wishes could have been used to free the genie you know considering Aladdin was technically the master of the lamp and then jaffar stole it and got wishes
So one of the most important things to do with a disney musical is to make it fun for the parents as well, and this is one ABSOLUTE classic of a movie. You can watch this at ANY age and follow along. It's a great movie for the full family. Disney was such a special business back then. Frozen, I think, is where that magic ended. I can't say I watched Frozen, but I do know that there has yet to be a good release since then and I know that Frozen is one of the top movies in Disney. Just making this a fun experience for even dads is just absolutely unheard of, I remember getting my dad to watch pokemon movies and I could tell he didn't like them, but this movie? Literally anyone could enjoy it. The scenes where the parade came in had so much PG humor for adults and it's just dark enough to be interesting, but light spirited enough to be just right for kids.
something i've always wondered was WHO made the Cave of Wonders and put the lamp in it? It couldn't have been Genie, and who would waste a wish to make him do it anyway? And why did they set it up so only someone like Alladin would be able to get it?
Its such a classic. Made Right in the middle of "The Disney Renaissance" after "The Black Cauldron" (which I would say started with "The Great Mouse Detective" and ended with "Hercules". Its not my favorite Disney movie but its definetly in top 10....maybe even too 5. I highly reccomend checking out the other films from this period as they all are incredible. "The Great Mouse Detective, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Hercules, The Little Mermaid" Jafar is a fantastic villian and of course you got Robin Williams stealing the show as Genie. Its paced very well and the songs are definite earworms. My favorite song is either "Friend like me" or "A Whole New World"
I enjoyed your reaction a lot. This movie isn't a diamond in the rough, it's a glittering gem. One of my absolute favorite old school 2D Disney movies. Australian, huh? Have you seen The Rescuers Down Under? I think it's the only Disney movie taking place in Australia. But if you're going to watch it, you should start with the first movie, The Rescuers.
Great reaction I’m glad you had a great time. There are two sequels to this movie. They’re good too little bit of controversy because the second one it’s a better sequel. I think it doesn’t have Robin Williams in it as the genius this time was dispute money didn’t come back for the TV show on Disney channel about, Aladdin and Jasmine after the movie, the guy who played the genie in the TV show we brought back from the sequel return Jafar I really good movie everybody in for the genie and then that did so much so well. Rob Williams came back for the movie for the king of thieves it’s about Aladdin‘s past and the wedding between Aladdin and Jasminemovie is back. The genie should really see them. Thanks for the fun until next time.
Wait wtf? Why is the real 'I can't bring people back from the dead' censored? I don't even think that was Robin's voice. DO NOT change the great man's performance, that's sacrilege...
Interesting that you had a problem with Jasmine causing an innocent boy to be killed by beheading. I would have a problem and feel sad and regretful if I were in the same situation
For something fun, you should watch Team StarKid's Twisted which is essentially Aladdin, but told from Jafar's point-of-view. It has allusions to other Disney and Pixar films as well as the business itself. There is bad language and "adult" situations, but it is so worth the watch. I hope you consider it.
It’s hard to imagine how far Disney has fallen from these movies. This movie was made with a budget of just 28m (over 20% was just Robin Williams salary & well worth it). It made over 500m at the box office. Aladdin as a brand; home movie release, global stage show, and multiple platform video game has made over 6b for Disney since it’s inception in 1992…. A year later it was destroyed by The Lion King which cost 45m to make & made a ridiculous 978.8m at the box office. Soundtracks, video games, theatre productions, take The Lion King’s total earnings well over 10b. Disney have wasted pretty much all these profits in recent years with the catastrophic purchase & destruction of Star Wars from Lucas Film, and other disastrous projects such as The Little Mermaid & Snow White. For the money they’ve spent on these failed endeavours they could have literally wrote “Disney supports the LGBTQ community” on the fucking moon.
Robin Williams actually started a battle with Disney for a good while over this movie. He did the Genie as a favor and said his only condition was they don’t use his name or voice to advertise the movie because he was performing in Fern Gully and they were spending money to have him and didn’t want Aladdin (who got him for free) to steal movie goers from seeing Fern Gully. Disney originally agreed to these terms but then changed their mind and had the Genie as the biggest character on the poster, and also had a bunch of clips of him from the movie in the trailer, I think he was actually the only one that spoke in the trailer as well. After this during interviews he would take shots at Disney and make fun of them whenever he got a chance. The sequel actually has the voice of Homer Simpson playing the Genie. When the 3rd movie came out tho Robin Williams and Disney had buried the hatchet and he played the Genie again.
Actually it was the movie Toys and not Ferngully. Originally the age is was going to be a small role but after how much they liked him they tripled the amount of screen time. Also he didn’t do it for free, he got talked into doing it for his kids so they could see a movie he was in since his others weren’t appropriate for them to see. Instead of the usual $8 million for his performance they were able to get him to agree to $75,000. His agent was adamantly against this but Williams overrode him saying that movie probably wouldn’t make that much since other recent animated movies didn’t do well. However Aladdin went insane by making a box office of $500 million.
Robin Williams voiced the Genie. That's why you recognized his voice. He was also in another animated movie called Ferngully: The Last Rainforest that came out around the same time as Aladdin.
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Robin also voiced the Peddler at the beginning. That part was completely unscripted. They brought him to the sound stage and stood him behind a covered table. When they removed the cloth they had a bunch of items. They told him without looking grab an item and describe it. The man was pure comedic genius who was deeply troubled. He and Christopher Reeve would chat about stuff.
During the course of recording the voices, the late Robin Williams improvised so much they had almost sixteen hours of material. Because Robin Williams ad-libbed so many of his lines, the script was rejected for a Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award nomination. - This is HOW amazing Robin Williams at comedy. RIP Robin Williams he was one in a million. Also, the music is so iconic and amazing. I love Alladin. The story, the lessons within it, music, etc. This is a true classic.
Me too
And sadly, because there was so much improvisation to Williams' character, the Academy refused to nominate the movie for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Tarzan..
The 90s Disney Renaissance was undefeated growing up!
I remember seeing Pocahontas in theaters and, having read the book in school, walking away from it complaining that they stopped halfway through the story. Because of that, I never liked the movie, and as a result never revisited it. At that age though, I also was completely unaware of all the liberties that Disney took with most of their movies, not knowing how many of them were based on much more grim stories than what their iterations told.
Fun fact. I love this movie so much I named one of my daughters Jasmine lol.
29:13 That’s awesome
That's so wholesome. 🥰💖
Something to realize is that Jafar was actually running the city for quite awhile and it was doing ok. The sultan seemed to have no desire other than to play with his toys and if he was in charge of day to day decisions the city probably would be in far worse shape.
That's one possible outcome. Though, if there were no Jafar, the sultan would likely have another advisor who could actually guide the sultan to proper leadership. There's also Jasmine who is competent enough to be an advisor to her father. Indeed, once Jafar is gone, the city appears to function pretty well afterwards.
Robin Williams at his manic zany best. Ridiculous that Disney tried to remake this with Will Smith...
This was peak Disney animation in the 90s. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladin, and the Lion King.
Awesome reaction of my favorite Disney movie!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you so much! 🫶 think it might be my new fav Disney movie as well 😍
@@icedquokkathe actor who voiced Jafar is Arabic he was voiced by Oded Fehr. He was Jafar Emma once upon a Time series
@@icedquokkashould do the original lion king!
rip Robin Williams and Gilbert Godgrie
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@@DevilWearsAdidas Gottfried
@@Jbr2005 sure
This has always been one of my Disney favorites from my 90's childhood!😉 Iago and the genie always made me laugh so hard!🤣
IMHO the best of the late Disney animated movies. Humor, character, wits, fun for the whole family.
😄👍 One of these days, somebody in a movie is going to start singing "Happy Birthday To You," and you're going to say, "Hey, I know this from Tik Tok." 🥳
I can't imagine a world where that would make sense.
The dictionary defines infidel as unfaithful and someone who has doubts or rejects a principle, in this case not keeping their promise when the cave told them to touch nothing but the lamp.
Jasmine probably didn’t recognize Aladdin at first because was told he was executed so she figured she would never see him again and your not looking for someone you think is dead.
Watch out he's got a sword!!
You idiots we've all got swords!!
Lol 😂
One of the BEST moments, a classic!
I always thought Aladdin had best twist. Everyone thinks Jafar is the main baddie, but its Jago that whisper's most evil idea's to Jafar's ears... So basically Jafar is the side kick...
That’s a good point! Jafar is basically the puppet for the evil schemes with Iago as the puppet master pulling the strings in that case. And then Jafar claiming all of the power is basically rebellion of said puppet since Iago is still able to get the things he wants too (namely revenge for all of those crackers forced into his beak).
Iago only gave him the "marry the princess" idea.
The Genie is Deadpool of Disneyverse! RIP Robin Williams. 🧞♂️❤️
Nobody who remembers VCR should even admit to be watching this movie "for the first time" today!
Hahahahaha I’m ashamed of myself don’t worry
They seriously missed an opportunity at the end though. Aladdin wished to be a prince. He's still a prince. I don't get why that wasn't the ending twist that ties everything up. Its not like he wished to look like a prince. He wished to actually be a prince.
By marrying Jasmine, that still holds true too. Just like the princesses who became princesses through marriage.
@@tranatkikomi6873Yea, but the debate is unnecessary in general. He's already a prince. lol
18:23 Is it so obviously back when? There's a theory going on Aladdin is actually post-apocalypse and Genie is some genetically-modified super mutant being and that why he knows all the pop culture references and just puts up a Vegas show. He also spent 10,000 years in the lamp already.
Someone suggested the Genie lives "backwards through time" and remembers the future, like Merlin in The Once and Future King (Merlin affected 20th century clothing occasionally in "The Sword in the Stone"). I just thought he could pull off time travel as easily as any other of his cosmic powers. In the Aladdin animated series, he brought so much stuff from the future that Al, Jasmine and even the Sultan came to understand things like cars, movies, robots and spaceships.
A friend of mine had a Disney karaoke DVD with several songs from this movie on it. She would secretly sing along with it all the time when she thought she was alone, and turn bright red when caught. Songs are so good, no one could blame her. Occasionally being caught ended up in a spontaneous Disney singalong party.
"A..B..C..D..E..F..G!
H..I..J......"
"OMG, I know this song from TikTok!"
33:26 Jasmine’s red 👗 reminds me of the slave Leia from return of the Jedi.
11:05 A+ edit
Being a brown skin Asian, Aladdin was my preference since it had my same skin coloured homies. Had a massive crush on Jasmine & hence absolutely loathed Aladdin for being with her 😂. After growing up & watching Robin Williams crush it being the genie made me so glad. Will Smith had to ruin modern genie, though. 😒
He butchered the songs, but I thought he was the best part about the movie (Not saying much), cause he wasn't trying to be Robin Williams. They got him to more or less play to his strengths (outside of the songs)
@@Eidlones modern remakes have been taking Ls a lot these days. You know it's bad when Will Smith is the redeeming quality of the movie nowadays. 😅
@@Eidlones I actually like the remake, even the songs. And I'm not the only one. There are at least half a dozen of us worldwide.😉
My favorite to this day. It’s just a fun and sweet movie. I love it to my heart.
23:46 this particular reference is Jack Nicholson, the one moments before that was comedian Rodney Dangerfield. Almost certain they did Johnny Carson too. Crazy how those names date myself even though I’m not even 35 lmao.
The quid pro quo guy with the white hair was not Johnny Carson, it was famous conservative William F. Buckley. And the black and white guy with the cigar and duck was Groucho Marx.
to be fair to jasmine in the beginning, she was also very upset thinking she basically got Alladin executed. not just the romance stuff lol
So the theory is basically if he would have just handed the lamp to Jasmine and let her rub it she could have also gotten three wishes and one of those additional wishes could have been used to free the genie you know considering Aladdin was technically the master of the lamp and then jaffar stole it and got wishes
This is one of the greatest Disney movies ever! Also The Lion King. Will be watching.
Gotta love Jafar, my favourite classic Disney Villain. 🐍😈⚡️🔥
Consider watching Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle next. That movie is an insane banger.
A whole new world..... 🔥🔥🔥
So one of the most important things to do with a disney musical is to make it fun for the parents as well, and this is one ABSOLUTE classic of a movie. You can watch this at ANY age and follow along. It's a great movie for the full family. Disney was such a special business back then. Frozen, I think, is where that magic ended. I can't say I watched Frozen, but I do know that there has yet to be a good release since then and I know that Frozen is one of the top movies in Disney. Just making this a fun experience for even dads is just absolutely unheard of, I remember getting my dad to watch pokemon movies and I could tell he didn't like them, but this movie? Literally anyone could enjoy it. The scenes where the parade came in had so much PG humor for adults and it's just dark enough to be interesting, but light spirited enough to be just right for kids.
something i've always wondered was WHO made the Cave of Wonders and put the lamp in it? It couldn't have been Genie, and who would waste a wish to make him do it anyway? And why did they set it up so only someone like Alladin would be able to get it?
Its such a classic. Made Right in the middle of "The Disney Renaissance" after "The Black Cauldron" (which I would say started with "The Great Mouse Detective" and ended with "Hercules".
Its not my favorite Disney movie but its definetly in top 10....maybe even too 5. I highly reccomend checking out the other films from this period as they all are incredible. "The Great Mouse Detective, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Hercules, The Little Mermaid"
Jafar is a fantastic villian and of course you got Robin Williams stealing the show as Genie. Its paced very well and the songs are definite earworms. My favorite song is either "Friend like me" or "A Whole New World"
How do you not know Robin Williams?
I enjoyed your reaction a lot. This movie isn't a diamond in the rough, it's a glittering gem. One of my absolute favorite old school 2D Disney movies. Australian, huh? Have you seen The Rescuers Down Under? I think it's the only Disney movie taking place in Australia. But if you're going to watch it, you should start with the first movie, The Rescuers.
You can react to The Aristocats ?
Agreed
There are 2 more aladdin movies, both great!
Awesome video
the most realistic disney movie, a boy asks a girl to trust him and then immediately starts lying to her
Yeah because no woman has ever lied after being trusted smdh
Will you react the second part Return of Jafar?
Great reaction I’m glad you had a great time. There are two sequels to this movie. They’re good too little bit of controversy because the second one it’s a better sequel. I think it doesn’t have Robin Williams in it as the genius this time was dispute money didn’t come back for the TV show on Disney channel about, Aladdin and Jasmine after the movie, the guy who played the genie in the TV show we brought back from the sequel return Jafar I really good movie everybody in for the genie and then that did so much so well. Rob Williams came back for the movie for the king of thieves it’s about Aladdin‘s past and the wedding between Aladdin and Jasminemovie is back. The genie should really see them. Thanks for the fun until next time.
This is my favorite Robbin Williams movie.
I'm loving the content! I would really recommend the Lord of the Rings if you haven't already seen them.
Not know Robin's voice kind of hurts lol, Definitely check out his movies if you haven't. Like Mrs. Doubtfire for example.
You should see live action Aladdin very Good will smith is in it
Should watch return of jafar and king of thieves to conclude Aladdin’s story
I'm loving the videos! I would really recommend the Lord of the Rings if you haven't seen them already...
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Wait wtf? Why is the real 'I can't bring people back from the dead' censored? I don't even think that was Robin's voice.
DO NOT change the great man's performance, that's sacrilege...
Interesting that you had a problem with Jasmine causing an innocent boy to be killed by beheading.
I would have a problem and feel sad and regretful if I were in the same situation
I find it funny that you call Jasmine's father 'king', even though he's a sultan. XD Well, close enough I guess.
Try ti Watch Disney Hercules
Absolutely no reaction to the word "addlepated" from Jafar, but then doesn't know what "infidel" means. Vocabularies can sometimes be a crazy thing.
For something fun, you should watch Team StarKid's Twisted which is essentially Aladdin, but told from Jafar's point-of-view. It has allusions to other Disney and Pixar films as well as the business itself. There is bad language and "adult" situations, but it is so worth the watch. I hope you consider it.
Reage só filme irmão urso, por favor! 😊
You should watch the 2019 live action Aladdin movie next
Not to mention the return of jafar and the king of thieves.
It’s hard to imagine how far Disney has fallen from these movies. This movie was made with a budget of just 28m (over 20% was just Robin Williams salary & well worth it). It made over 500m at the box office. Aladdin as a brand; home movie release, global stage show, and multiple platform video game has made over 6b for Disney since it’s inception in 1992….
A year later it was destroyed by The Lion King which cost 45m to make & made a ridiculous 978.8m at the box office. Soundtracks, video games, theatre productions, take The Lion King’s total earnings well over 10b.
Disney have wasted pretty much all these profits in recent years with the catastrophic purchase & destruction of Star Wars from Lucas Film, and other disastrous projects such as The Little Mermaid & Snow White.
For the money they’ve spent on these failed endeavours they could have literally wrote “Disney supports the LGBTQ community” on the fucking moon.
8:14 look closely at the counter.
Aladdin was lucky at the end, Jaffer could have wished to become an almighty god & then the world would have been in trouble!
Robin Williams actually started a battle with Disney for a good while over this movie. He did the Genie as a favor and said his only condition was they don’t use his name or voice to advertise the movie because he was performing in Fern Gully and they were spending money to have him and didn’t want Aladdin (who got him for free) to steal movie goers from seeing Fern Gully.
Disney originally agreed to these terms but then changed their mind and had the Genie as the biggest character on the poster, and also had a bunch of clips of him from the movie in the trailer, I think he was actually the only one that spoke in the trailer as well.
After this during interviews he would take shots at Disney and make fun of them whenever he got a chance. The sequel actually has the voice of Homer Simpson playing the Genie. When the 3rd movie came out tho Robin Williams and Disney had buried the hatchet and he played the Genie again.
Actually it was the movie Toys and not Ferngully.
Originally the age is was going to be a small role but after how much they liked him they tripled the amount of screen time.
Also he didn’t do it for free, he got talked into doing it for his kids so they could see a movie he was in since his others weren’t appropriate for them to see. Instead of the usual $8 million for his performance they were able to get him to agree to $75,000. His agent was adamantly against this but Williams overrode him saying that movie probably wouldn’t make that much since other recent animated movies didn’t do well. However Aladdin went insane by making a box office of $500 million.
1:58 very sepulchral