Same here. I was working in a call center at the time and it came on over the news. I had to put a customer on hold for a couple minutes to compose myself. His death was our generation's version of losing Elvis or Marilyn Monroe. Everyone I hear talk about it remembers where they were and what they were doing. He was one of a kind.
Fun fact: The merchant at the start of the movie is Genie in disguise. They originally were going to reveal it at the end of the movie but for whatever reason they changed it. They put clues like the merchant being the only other character besides Genie who has only 4 fingers on each hand, he has the lamp that Genie picked up at the end, and both are voiced by Robin Williams. To be honest I wish they kept that reveal in.
God, with…with the way Robin died, and knowing the depression he suffered for so long, hearing Genie celebrate so joyously and unrestrainedly for being free at the end…it makes me weep freely every time. Even seeing it in reactions. Especially when Aladdin hugs him. It feels like he’s hugging Robin for all of us. Thank you, Robin Williams. We ain’t never had…a friend like you.
Improvised!? Robin Williams improvised so much they had to animate around him. He improvised so much, that they still have 30 hours of unreleased recordings thanks to his improv. He improvised so much, the script could no longer be considered for Best Adapted Screenplay due to how much original content was in it by Williams.
In fairness, this film started as a love letter to Robin Williams's standup style. iirc They got him to sign on board by showing samples of animations of the genie to his standup routine which basically convinced him they were fully on board with him and his energetic style not only being a centerpoint but that they would handle it perfectly.
Despite not being a trained singer, Robin Williams slayed the role of The Genie. I love how he made the songs "Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali" sound so jazzy and Broadway-esque. Rest in peace, Robin. We truly will never have a friend like you.
5:24 my dad owned doves because he was a magician and those birds were ridiculously stupid. To the point that they’d lay eggs while on the top perch and the eggs would just drop down and shatter at the bottom of the cage. I cannot underline how DUMB some birds actually are.
Reminds me of how pigeons are related to doves and most wild ones in America are descended from abandoned pets. In the early 1900s I believe, there was a pet pigeon fad that was especially prevalent in America, but when people got over it they dumped their birds and they went feral and had tons of babies. But now these feral pigeons are kinda idiots who still dont know how to build a nest because the knowledge to do so was lost in captivity and they couldnt teach their babies.
This reminds me of a pair of pigeons that made a nest in a tree by my front door. That thing was like 4 twigs and 7 pine needles. You could walk over and look up and see the egg just rolling around on this flat plane. the nest was practically see-through. But hey, the egg hatched and I thought for sure that baby was going to drop right through that "Nest" But no, it survived. They returned the next year and used that "Nest" again. they added like 4 more pine needles to it.
As a middle eastern man I have no idea how many times Aladin aired on TV And everyone in the room dropped everything to watch it This is a god damn master piece of a movie And man did I love the TV shows and the sequels And the Robin williams as Genie is a nation treausure
@@painvillegaming4119 What do you think of ME people who claim things like genies, Arab pants (won't call them harem pants that's weird), flying carpets, and the like are "Orientalist" because I've seen things from Aladdin to Gigi and Whisp (genies from Monster High) to Shimmer and Shine (a cartoon about two genie girls) to Bratz Genie Magic to Genshin Impact all constantly being cancelled. I also want to dress as Jasmine or a genie for Halloween but I know I'd get cancelled. How many Middle Eastern people actually find these things offensive, or is it really just the ME diaspora in other countries getting mad? If I dress as these or make a story with these things is that okay with most ME people or not? PS I agree that the "harem" and "All Arabs are terrorists" tropes are bad.
I find the art style of Aladdin to be very appealing because it was inspired by the late legendary artist, Al Hirschfeld. His art style consists of smooth, curvy, and wavy lines. You can see those elements in the character designs from the film, especially with Genie’s design.
One of my favourite things is that when Disney hires animators, one of the exercises they say to practice is taking a sack of flour and giving it personality. Magic Carpet is animated in very much the same way where their personality is entirely conveyed through gesture. No facial expression, no sound effects really, no voice, just pure gesture and its fantastic to watch!
Now that y’all watched Aladdin you should watch the Starkid production of Twisted, it’s a spoof musical where Jafar is actually the good guy and Aladdin is the villain. It’s SO funny, and free on TH-cam to watch
Jafar was like one of the competent Disney Villains ever.. also his motivation.. Just mentioning in the 90's tv series of Aladdin Jasmin gets turned into a rat so she has to life it for a while and by the end he told her father about the poor people, and he asked: "Poor people? There are actual poor people in Agrabha?" ... So this land is ruled by an idiot.
Back in 1998, there used to be a Hercules animated tv show. There was a crossover episode where Hades resurrected the ghost of Jafar and they teamed up to take down both of their respective nemeses. So the scene with the Greek temples could be from the same world as Hercules, Mulan possibly too.
I didn’t like it originally but it really works here it’s more calm but still funny feels like a little bit of a hybrid of the old videos and the new ones
Behind The Lion King, Aladdin is my second favorite Disney film of all time! I’d watch it a lot throughout my childhood for its iconic scenes, memorable songs, and fun characters, especially Robin Williams’ character, Genie (May he rest in peace, that comedic legend).
😁 Same here! I watched Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and The Rescuers Down Under religiously as a kid. Even when I was sick, I would fall asleep watching those movies.
some of the cast sadly passed away (voice of genie) - Robin Williams, (voice of Iago) - Gilbert Gottfried, (voice of Sulton) - Douglas Seale, (voice of merchant) - Bruce Adler, (vendor) - Mickie McGowan, (additional voices) - Philip L. Clarke, Hal Smith and many others from what I saw online RIP to the 1992 cast that have died and contributed to this amazing movie in the times of the Disney Renaissance Era
I remember so many memes and the "im free" and the hugs goodbye from this film being shared when Robin Williams passed. It took a long time for me to watch any films with him in it, this one included. So good to be able to watch this again, but still bittersweet.
Team Starkid's musical "Twisted" would make for a great watch after this movie. It's a Wicked pastiche for Jafar. (ETA: This comment was made before one of you literally even said "Fuck you, Jafar")
To be fair to Genie’s misinformation, he did just conjure up all those people and all that gold. Aladin’s wish was “make me a prince” not “make me look like a prince” so I fully believe Genie made a country for him to be prince of
I am so glad you guys did this! Classic Disney is true ruler! I've NEVER heard anyone be offended by this. It's still a beautiful, hilarious, and magical musical of a story that I will always love every time it comes on the screen. And speaking of other reactions to do, may I suggest: - Aladdin: The Return of Jafar - Aladdin and the King of Thieves - Aladdin, the tv show (PLEASE DO THIS ONE) - The Prince of Egypt ( *PLEASE FREAKING WATCH IT ALREADY!!!* ) - House of Mouse (such a damn good show. Very cute and enjoyable) - Tarzan - The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Treasure Planet - More of the classic Disney films (pretty much all of them before Frozen/3D Disney came out) - Ratatouille - Anastasia (NOT Disney. Disney owns the company after this film was made) - The Road of El Dorado
Fun fact this actually wasn’t Robin Williams first animated role. His first voice acting role was in the movie Ferngully which came out three months before Aladdin and Disney’s CEO at the time Jeffrey Katzenberg hated the fact that Robin Williams was going to be in two animated movies in the same year that he demanded Robin back out of Ferngully but Robin refused since he signed onto Ferngully first and actually liked the message. Katzenberg was so angry that he did whatever he could to sabotage Ferngully which included buying out both studios the movie was being worked on at causing the VAs to have to record their lines in a bar which Katzenberg also tried to buy but the bar didn’t allow him too. Katzenberg then despite agreeing to not advertise the genie in promos as to not take the spotlight away from others Katzenberg mainly advertised the genie to get back at Robin but this caused Robin Williams to refuse to work with Disney for years.
Fun fact for you guys! The man who voices Jafar went on to play Jafar in the Broadway musical!! I saw it back in 2017. As far as I know, he is still doing it
sooooo.. this means we're doing Twisted next right? Aladdin is just the prequel to that lovely Starkid musical! It's got jokes, it's got great voices, it's got rightfully shitting on Disney (and some compliments too, tbh), it's got completely unhinged characters I can never look at the same way. I'm ready to watch it again with y'all! 👀
I love everything from Starkid, but Twisted is so iconic. I almost always recommend it as a starting point for people who aren’t familiar with their works.
24:46 and 25:08 Right here, is interesting as not many fans realize that the song intro of this movie "Arabian Nights" hint at Alladdins's plight or impending doom, when he's captured by the guards and exudos from Agrabah via through off a dune and into the sea. For example, movie's intro song foreshadows this in verse" A fool off his guard..will fall and fall hard out there on the dunes ".
If you guys never watched the Aladdin show, there was a flash back episode in his childhood, and he was arguing with a fellow thief friend, and Al said he expressly stated, “I only steal for food.”
You guys should react to Twisted by Starkid. It's a musical parody about what if Jafar was the good guy? Very high quality, very funny, especially right after watching this one.
I think it was more about the original lyrics to "Arabian Nights." It was "Where they cut off your ear / If they don’t like your face / It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home."
Robin Williams improved pretty much all of the genie's lines. He did hours of improv work for Genie and Disney chose the best stuff to fill in between the essential stuff.
"Can you imagine chopping somebody's hands off because they took a fucking apple" Bro people in eastern countries cut off a dogs' two front legs for breathing the same air as us. Worst part is that no gets in trouble for it.
On the whole chopping the hand off for stealing things, you have to keep in mind that the world used to be a much harsher place. A lot of those merchants are not wealthy corporation owners, a lot of them only barley make enough to survive and keep their business running. A few thieves might mean your family starves, and their aren't ever enough law enforcement to handle every petty crime, nore is there a massive prison system like in modern day. We're kind of spoiled in modern day honestly.
23:10 And Robin Williams did improv a lot of the lines they used. They fully animated the genie after they were done recording with Robin Williams. There a ton of lines they sketched out a sequence for but never used. It's really cool. I'd recommend you look it up.
This is hands down my favourite Disney classic, with Jasmine being my fave Disney princess. And, goes without saying, Robin Williams was incredible in this.
There's some behind the scenes videos out there where the production team talks about how they convinced Robin to join the cast by animating one of Robin's stand up routines. He loved their work so much he immediately agreed to be Genie. Considering everything was hand drawn back then, they put in a lot of work to get Robin onboard.
@meganhutcheson5867 I haven't heard that, but wouldn't surprise me if he did make sure that was in the contract. Although the guys directing Aladdin did say they were modeling the Genie after Robin even before they approached him to play the role, so I doubt Robin would've had to fight too hard for it.
Aladdin is by far my favorite Disney prince! Always has been. He's adventurous, kind (well not always but on a normal basis he is), brave and fights for those he cares about! Is it weird that I feel like he's kind of a male Cinderella? He starts off as a commoner then marries into royalty. This also might sound weird but I always love how he's barefoot most of the time. As hippie as it sounds, I just always felt that lifestyle feels so freeing (as someone who hates wearing shoes).
26:27 *Jafar transforms himself into a Camel* Jafar: A Camel?! IT SUPPOSE TO GET ME OUT OF HERE! Iago: Yeah, so weird *Jafar checks the broken bottle* Jafar: IAGO! THIS ISN'T SMOKE POTION! THIS IS EXTRACT OF CAMEL! Iago: You know, in my defense, your potions all look alike. You might think about put a label on them.
It always shocks me how many people are surprised that Disney movies have a lot of songs, or that they can get pretty dark. I never knew them any different. Also, the Mulan and Hercules films did not exist yet when this was made.
This is ENTIRELY not the point of the movie, but Aladdin and Jasmine are both Muslims, and the thing is Islam is that you feed the hungry, even if you're stealing to do it. So TECHNICALLY, it's the shopkeepers and soldiers who really would be the bad people under that legal system. It would have been incumbent upon them not only to feed those little kids, but Aladdin, too, though they probably could ask him to work for them since he's old enough. And they would only chop your hand off if you were a LEGIT thief, and had been caught AND convicted three different times. There's actually not that much in the way of law in the Qur'an, but the two of them are still doing it better than the people around them, because the Prophet (PBUH) said you DON'T take away from orphans or children or the poor.
Disney is just so pitifully sensitive right now, I miss the time when in Mulan (the good one) had a scene on how Mushu indirectly caused the death of one of Mulan's ancestors and it was played for laughs.
Appareantly there's 18+ hours of Robin's improv as Genie. Enough to make film or two, but RObin William's testament prohibits using his lookness, voice, generated voice, generated appearance or old material without approval of his family was it 20 or 25 years. Its one of the first celebritiy wills that takes account even possibility of later creating his likeness or voice before AI generation was the thing... That man wasn't just multitalented but also visionary.
When I was a kid in the 90s, living in europe before the internet came my relative came back from america and she had with her this movie on VHS. I WATCHED THIS MOVIE LIKE COUNTLESS TIMES. It's so good.
Aladdin is a great classic Disney movie. Robin Williams as the genie and Gilbert Gottfried as Iago were fantastic and funny. The songs were great. Jafar is a crazy villain and wants to have power. RIP Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried. They're great comedians and will be missed so much 🧞♂️🧞♂️🧞♂️✨️✨️✨️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🤣🤣🤣
15:25 So actually in animation the voice acting comes first, and the animators animate on top of that voice performance. In the case of Robin Williams he improvised so much that the directors said that 16 hours of footage were not used from his improvisations
One of my favorite Disney movies. I remember when I was 2 years old my mom took me to go see this. The movie shut off in the theater at the part where Aladdin & and Abu were trying to escape out of the cave of wonders.
9:30 whoa, whoa. Not cause it's a man. There could be any number of reasons. Jafar hypnotized him, the guard believes that Jafar is speaking on behalf of the Sultan, Jafar has hypnotized the Sultan to give him higher authority, in the political system, the guards may respond directly to the advisor. For the last one, as a comparison, the President's direct orders can be ignored by military personnel if following the orders of an immediate supervisor.
- This is one of my favorite Disney movie mostly due to Robin Williams as the Genie 🧞♂️, Gilbert Gottfried as Iago 🦜 , & Frank Welker as Abu / Rajah / Cave of Wonders, so here are some fun facts about this movie: - Interesting that in the song says that Aladdin didn’t have any parent because originally he was going to have a mother where she was even going to get a song too called “Proud of Your Boy” which speaking of Jafar as was going to have one - Fun fact the merchant from the start was actually going to be Genie in disguise - They wanted Sir Patrick Stewart to play as the voice of Jafar, but couldn’t be due to him as Picard in Star Trek The Next Generation & this wasn’t the only role the others being Cogsworth & Scar - You can see the Beast from Beauty & the Beast make a cameo in the pile of the Sultan’s toys - Besides Robin they also thought of other famous actors for the Genie like John Candy, Steve Martin, & Eddie Murphy, but with him they just let him go off with so many improvised lines. Also fun fact the outfit that the Genie was wearing as he is about to leave is the same that Robin Williams wore
Yep. Almost every western cartoon has some sort of male crossdressing played for laughs. It’s very engrained in media. Also very few female crossdressing played for laughs. Always as a disguise like the mummy animated series.
To see the film that inspired so much of this film, have a look at the 1940 "The Thief of Bagdad". One of the greatest fantasy films ever made (won two Oscars).
I remember when Robin passed away almost 10 years ago and all social media kept saying was, "Genie, you're free." Miss him so much.
This still makes me tear up when I watch this film now. We lost a good man.
Me too
Same here. I was working in a call center at the time and it came on over the news. I had to put a customer on hold for a couple minutes to compose myself. His death was our generation's version of losing Elvis or Marilyn Monroe. Everyone I hear talk about it remembers where they were and what they were doing. He was one of a kind.
I sobbed all day when I heard Robin Williams died. As a child he was my favorite actor and almost like an idol to me.
@@samuelvincent557 i think i was hit harder when i heard Jim Varney the guy who played Ernest died but yeah robin's death was a gut punch
Fun fact: The merchant at the start of the movie is Genie in disguise. They originally were going to reveal it at the end of the movie but for whatever reason they changed it. They put clues like the merchant being the only other character besides Genie who has only 4 fingers on each hand, he has the lamp that Genie picked up at the end, and both are voiced by Robin Williams. To be honest I wish they kept that reveal in.
I mean they revealed it in the third instalment
@@painvillegaming4119wait. They made a THIRD ONE?!
@@TheRandomMan001 yeah...You didn't knoen😂
Yes, Aladdin and the King of Thieves :D @@TheRandomMan001
@@painvillegaming4119 which one is the third? the one with aladdins father or djafars return?
Ruff went from “I would never be on a magic carpet it’s so unsafe“ to “imagine what it would be like to fuck on a magic carpet” 😂😂😂
I was dying of laughter
😆😆🤣🤣
God, with…with the way Robin died, and knowing the depression he suffered for so long, hearing Genie celebrate so joyously and unrestrainedly for being free at the end…it makes me weep freely every time. Even seeing it in reactions. Especially when Aladdin hugs him. It feels like he’s hugging Robin for all of us.
Thank you, Robin Williams. We ain’t never had…a friend like you.
Improvised!?
Robin Williams improvised so much they had to animate around him. He improvised so much, that they still have 30 hours of unreleased recordings thanks to his improv. He improvised so much, the script could no longer be considered for Best Adapted Screenplay due to how much original content was in it by Williams.
In fairness, this film started as a love letter to Robin Williams's standup style. iirc They got him to sign on board by showing samples of animations of the genie to his standup routine which basically convinced him they were fully on board with him and his energetic style not only being a centerpoint but that they would handle it perfectly.
They used a piece of it with the permission of Williams’ estate in Once Upon A Studio.
A favorite of mine from the behind the scene footage: "How do I look?" "Like a vampire with a suntan."
Despite not being a trained singer, Robin Williams slayed the role of The Genie. I love how he made the songs "Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali" sound so jazzy and Broadway-esque. Rest in peace, Robin. We truly will never have a friend like you.
5:24 my dad owned doves because he was a magician and those birds were ridiculously stupid. To the point that they’d lay eggs while on the top perch and the eggs would just drop down and shatter at the bottom of the cage. I cannot underline how DUMB some birds actually are.
That's disturbing to think about.
A world record of life being born just to die literally a second later.
Reminds me of how pigeons are related to doves and most wild ones in America are descended from abandoned pets. In the early 1900s I believe, there was a pet pigeon fad that was especially prevalent in America, but when people got over it they dumped their birds and they went feral and had tons of babies. But now these feral pigeons are kinda idiots who still dont know how to build a nest because the knowledge to do so was lost in captivity and they couldnt teach their babies.
This reminds me of a pair of pigeons that made a nest in a tree by my front door. That thing was like 4 twigs and 7 pine needles. You could walk over and look up and see the egg just rolling around on this flat plane. the nest was practically see-through. But hey, the egg hatched and I thought for sure that baby was going to drop right through that "Nest" But no, it survived. They returned the next year and used that "Nest" again. they added like 4 more pine needles to it.
As a middle eastern man
I have no idea how many times Aladin aired on TV
And everyone in the room dropped everything to watch it
This is a god damn master piece of a movie
And man did I love the TV shows and the sequels
And the Robin williams as Genie is a nation treausure
Just goes to show that there are offensensitives in every culture on Earth.
@@HiddenWindshield dude 95% of jokes on TV Are mocking ourselves
@@painvillegaming4119 What do you think of ME people who claim things like genies, Arab pants (won't call them harem pants that's weird), flying carpets, and the like are "Orientalist" because I've seen things from Aladdin to Gigi and Whisp (genies from Monster High) to Shimmer and Shine (a cartoon about two genie girls) to Bratz Genie Magic to Genshin Impact all constantly being cancelled. I also want to dress as Jasmine or a genie for Halloween but I know I'd get cancelled. How many Middle Eastern people actually find these things offensive, or is it really just the ME diaspora in other countries getting mad? If I dress as these or make a story with these things is that okay with most ME people or not?
PS I agree that the "harem" and "All Arabs are terrorists" tropes are bad.
@@finland4ever55 well in the Middle East, we don't really celebrate Halloween in the first place at least were I grew up
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These *offences* are just *appropriated* by other *cultures*
Because that's how "culture" works...
apparently.
This just reminds me we haven't had a princess movie with the "prince" as the main character for so long now.
I find the art style of Aladdin to be very appealing because it was inspired by the late legendary artist, Al Hirschfeld. His art style consists of smooth, curvy, and wavy lines. You can see those elements in the character designs from the film, especially with Genie’s design.
The only offensive thing about Aladdin is that a few years ago they tried to replace Robin Williams with Will Smith.
Ikr?
One of my favourite things is that when Disney hires animators, one of the exercises they say to practice is taking a sack of flour and giving it personality. Magic Carpet is animated in very much the same way where their personality is entirely conveyed through gesture. No facial expression, no sound effects really, no voice, just pure gesture and its fantastic to watch!
Now that y’all watched Aladdin you should watch the Starkid production of Twisted, it’s a spoof musical where Jafar is actually the good guy and Aladdin is the villain. It’s SO funny, and free on TH-cam to watch
Yes please!!!
Funny enough. The singing voice for Jasmine is the singing voice for Mulan, the iconic Lea Salonga
Also, in the game, the sultan was playing, stacking the different animals, the beast from Beauty and the Beast was one of the animals.
So tempted to tell them to watch Twisted after this reaction 😂
I would cry
The color choices in this are so great! A lot of really cold blues right next to warm reds and yellows.
Jafar was like one of the competent Disney Villains ever.. also his motivation.. Just mentioning in the 90's tv series of Aladdin Jasmin gets turned into a rat so she has to life it for a while and by the end he told her father about the poor people, and he asked: "Poor people? There are actual poor people in Agrabha?" ... So this land is ruled by an idiot.
Not to mention when he hits that laugh after sending Aladdin to the Himalayas. He has the best Disney villain laugh!
Oh 100%, he was genuinely *this* close to winning.
Bro, I have to say: the scene of Aladdin freeing the genie never fails to make me tear up. I guess I'm just a softie for ending eons of slavery.
Back in 1998, there used to be a Hercules animated tv show. There was a crossover episode where Hades resurrected the ghost of Jafar and they teamed up to take down both of their respective nemeses. So the scene with the Greek temples could be from the same world as Hercules, Mulan possibly too.
That episode was so good!
I really like both animated series.
Aladdin is Such a Incredible classic I absolutely love it every time
Props for the editing! I don't know if this has been a trend for newer videos, but this is the first one I've seen with such hilarious editing
Yeah I noticed the different editing right away but it is enjoyable :)
I didn’t like it originally but it really works here it’s more calm but still funny feels like a little bit of a hybrid of the old videos and the new ones
Behind The Lion King, Aladdin is my second favorite Disney film of all time! I’d watch it a lot throughout my childhood for its iconic scenes, memorable songs, and fun characters, especially Robin Williams’ character, Genie (May he rest in peace, that comedic legend).
And Gilbert Gottfried as Iago
@@kaylagaymon4873 Yes, him as well.😌🙂
😁 Same here! I watched Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and The Rescuers Down Under religiously as a kid. Even when I was sick, I would fall asleep watching those movies.
some of the cast sadly passed away (voice of genie) - Robin Williams, (voice of Iago) - Gilbert Gottfried, (voice of Sulton) - Douglas Seale, (voice of merchant) - Bruce Adler, (vendor) - Mickie McGowan, (additional voices) - Philip L. Clarke, Hal Smith and many others from what I saw online RIP to the 1992 cast that have died and contributed to this amazing movie in the times of the Disney Renaissance Era
I remember so many memes and the "im free" and the hugs goodbye from this film being shared when Robin Williams passed. It took a long time for me to watch any films with him in it, this one included. So good to be able to watch this again, but still bittersweet.
I remember going to see the Broadway musical and as soon as Aladdin sees the cave of wonders he says “yeahhhh… nope” and tries to walk away lol 😂
Team Starkid's musical "Twisted" would make for a great watch after this movie. It's a Wicked pastiche for Jafar. (ETA: This comment was made before one of you literally even said "Fuck you, Jafar")
Yes!! A Twisted reaction would be incredible!
To be fair to Genie’s misinformation, he did just conjure up all those people and all that gold. Aladin’s wish was “make me a prince” not “make me look like a prince” so I fully believe Genie made a country for him to be prince of
I am so glad you guys did this! Classic Disney is true ruler! I've NEVER heard anyone be offended by this. It's still a beautiful, hilarious, and magical musical of a story that I will always love every time it comes on the screen. And speaking of other reactions to do, may I suggest:
- Aladdin: The Return of Jafar
- Aladdin and the King of Thieves
- Aladdin, the tv show (PLEASE DO THIS ONE)
- The Prince of Egypt ( *PLEASE FREAKING WATCH IT ALREADY!!!* )
- House of Mouse (such a damn good show. Very cute and enjoyable)
- Tarzan
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Treasure Planet
- More of the classic Disney films (pretty much all of them before Frozen/3D Disney came out)
- Ratatouille
- Anastasia (NOT Disney. Disney owns the company after this film was made)
- The Road of El Dorado
The voice actor of Jafar showed up in on of the episodes in helluva boss, I believe it was season two episode one
Fun fact this actually wasn’t Robin Williams first animated role. His first voice acting role was in the movie Ferngully which came out three months before Aladdin and Disney’s CEO at the time Jeffrey Katzenberg hated the fact that Robin Williams was going to be in two animated movies in the same year that he demanded Robin back out of Ferngully but Robin refused since he signed onto Ferngully first and actually liked the message. Katzenberg was so angry that he did whatever he could to sabotage Ferngully which included buying out both studios the movie was being worked on at causing the VAs to have to record their lines in a bar which Katzenberg also tried to buy but the bar didn’t allow him too. Katzenberg then despite agreeing to not advertise the genie in promos as to not take the spotlight away from others Katzenberg mainly advertised the genie to get back at Robin but this caused Robin Williams to refuse to work with Disney for years.
Fun fact for you guys! The man who voices Jafar went on to play Jafar in the Broadway musical!! I saw it back in 2017. As far as I know, he is still doing it
sooooo.. this means we're doing Twisted next right? Aladdin is just the prequel to that lovely Starkid musical! It's got jokes, it's got great voices, it's got rightfully shitting on Disney (and some compliments too, tbh), it's got completely unhinged characters I can never look at the same way. I'm ready to watch it again with y'all! 👀
I second this!!
PLEASE
YESSSSSSS
I love everything from Starkid, but Twisted is so iconic. I almost always recommend it as a starting point for people who aren’t familiar with their works.
If they do Twisted I'm losing it. 100% my favorite Starkid musical.
Y'all gotta watch the Twisted musical after this! It's soooo good
Yes!!
Poor Ruff always picks the worst times to take a sip of his beverage 😄
This was so fun, please react to more classic movies!
24:46 and 25:08 Right here, is interesting as not many fans realize that the song intro of this movie "Arabian Nights" hint at Alladdins's plight or impending doom, when he's captured by the guards and exudos from Agrabah via through off a dune and into the sea.
For example, movie's intro song foreshadows this in verse" A fool off his guard..will fall and fall hard out there on the dunes ".
22:30 fun fact Hercules and Aladdin had a crossover
This was very fun. Love the edits, loved the reactions. Great commentary. Aces all around.
If you guys never watched the Aladdin show, there was a flash back episode in his childhood, and he was arguing with a fellow thief friend, and Al said he expressly stated, “I only steal for food.”
You check out starkid Aladdin Musical called twisted , give a new different take where Jafar is the hero and Aladdin the villian
Yes!
All that for a loaf of bread? Someone introduce them to Jean Valjean!
I'm goin hungrayyyyy
You guys should react to Twisted by Starkid. It's a musical parody about what if Jafar was the good guy? Very high quality, very funny, especially right after watching this one.
It would be such a great reaction!!
I think it was more about the original lyrics to "Arabian Nights." It was "Where they cut off your ear / If they don’t like your face / It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home."
32:11 so fun fact apparently Robin was dressed up in this outfit at Disney or Warner Bros lot there's a video but it references that if your wondering
Robin Williams improved pretty much all of the genie's lines. He did hours of improv work for Genie and Disney chose the best stuff to fill in between the essential stuff.
"Can you imagine chopping somebody's hands off because they took a fucking apple"
Bro people in eastern countries cut off a dogs' two front legs for breathing the same air as us. Worst part is that no gets in trouble for it.
On the whole chopping the hand off for stealing things, you have to keep in mind that the world used to be a much harsher place. A lot of those merchants are not wealthy corporation owners, a lot of them only barley make enough to survive and keep their business running. A few thieves might mean your family starves, and their aren't ever enough law enforcement to handle every petty crime, nore is there a massive prison system like in modern day.
We're kind of spoiled in modern day honestly.
23:10 And Robin Williams did improv a lot of the lines they used. They fully animated the genie after they were done recording with Robin Williams. There a ton of lines they sketched out a sequence for but never used. It's really cool. I'd recommend you look it up.
This is hands down my favourite Disney classic, with Jasmine being my fave Disney princess. And, goes without saying, Robin Williams was incredible in this.
(At 30:08) He's making puns and most of them are bad that he's taking literally.
There's some behind the scenes videos out there where the production team talks about how they convinced Robin to join the cast by animating one of Robin's stand up routines. He loved their work so much he immediately agreed to be Genie. Considering everything was hand drawn back then, they put in a lot of work to get Robin onboard.
I thought that was Robin’s own stipulation, that the only way he would voice genie is, if he could do his own lines and improvise.
@meganhutcheson5867 I haven't heard that, but wouldn't surprise me if he did make sure that was in the contract. Although the guys directing Aladdin did say they were modeling the Genie after Robin even before they approached him to play the role, so I doubt Robin would've had to fight too hard for it.
The Magic Carpet must have the same amount of restraint as Bumblebee from the first Transformers, just letting people makeout on top of him😂
Nah fam, that wasn't restraint. Carpet was a straight up wingman for Al, literally bridged him up for the smooch.
MC is a straight homie from day 1.
Aladdin is by far my favorite Disney prince! Always has been. He's adventurous, kind (well not always but on a normal basis he is), brave and fights for those he cares about! Is it weird that I feel like he's kind of a male Cinderella? He starts off as a commoner then marries into royalty. This also might sound weird but I always love how he's barefoot most of the time. As hippie as it sounds, I just always felt that lifestyle feels so freeing (as someone who hates wearing shoes).
This has always been one of my favorites. So glad u guys enjoyed it.
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*Jafar transforms himself into a Camel*
Jafar: A Camel?! IT SUPPOSE TO GET ME OUT OF HERE!
Iago: Yeah, so weird
*Jafar checks the broken bottle*
Jafar: IAGO! THIS ISN'T SMOKE POTION! THIS IS EXTRACT OF CAMEL!
Iago: You know, in my defense, your potions all look alike. You might think about put a label on them.
(At 11:37) You do know the entrance to the Cave Of Wonders is literally a giant "tiger's" head made of sand?
Jasmine's distraction of kissing Jafar was so successful, even Aladdin got distracted.
I’m going to 100% second them watching Starkid’s Twisted after this😂
Pleeeeaaaaassseeeeee
It always shocks me how many people are surprised that Disney movies have a lot of songs, or that they can get pretty dark. I never knew them any different.
Also, the Mulan and Hercules films did not exist yet when this was made.
This is ENTIRELY not the point of the movie, but Aladdin and Jasmine are both Muslims, and the thing is Islam is that you feed the hungry, even if you're stealing to do it. So TECHNICALLY, it's the shopkeepers and soldiers who really would be the bad people under that legal system. It would have been incumbent upon them not only to feed those little kids, but Aladdin, too, though they probably could ask him to work for them since he's old enough. And they would only chop your hand off if you were a LEGIT thief, and had been caught AND convicted three different times. There's actually not that much in the way of law in the Qur'an, but the two of them are still doing it better than the people around them, because the Prophet (PBUH) said you DON'T take away from orphans or children or the poor.
The Applause sign was added as when they test screened the movie, nobody applaused after A Friend Like Me.
Disney is just so pitifully sensitive right now, I miss the time when in Mulan (the good one) had a scene on how Mushu indirectly caused the death of one of Mulan's ancestors and it was played for laughs.
"Yeah...thanks a lot" 😂😅
Appareantly there's 18+ hours of Robin's improv as Genie. Enough to make film or two, but RObin William's testament prohibits using his lookness, voice, generated voice, generated appearance or old material without approval of his family was it 20 or 25 years. Its one of the first celebritiy wills that takes account even possibility of later creating his likeness or voice before AI generation was the thing... That man wasn't just multitalented but also visionary.
Now I need "sorta stupid react to starkid's twisted"
NEED
When I was a kid in the 90s, living in europe before the internet came my relative came back from america and she had with her this movie on VHS. I WATCHED THIS MOVIE LIKE COUNTLESS TIMES. It's so good.
the editing for this video was spot on!!! god, what agreat reaction
Aladdin is a great classic Disney movie. Robin Williams as the genie and Gilbert Gottfried as Iago were fantastic and funny. The songs were great. Jafar is a crazy villain and wants to have power. RIP Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried. They're great comedians and will be missed so much
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Hercules and Aladdin had a crossover with their both tv shows.
Aladdin still holds up to this day! Robin Williams killed it as Genie!
And when you find out that Alladin's face is based on Tom Cruise's face. Thank You for Your reaction.
if you think this is darker than you remember rewatch Tarzan 😂
Aladdin is my 2nd favorite disney movie. What an absolute timeless classic🔥
15:25 So actually in animation the voice acting comes first, and the animators animate on top of that voice performance. In the case of Robin Williams he improvised so much that the directors said that 16 hours of footage were not used from his improvisations
When Robin Williams died, i would cry whenever i see posts of Aladdin saying, "Genie, i'm gonna miss you."
Well, I think it's just a coincidence that Jafar and Scar have the same facial structure but they both were animated by Andreas Deja.
Jasmine is just so great. I love her even more as an adult. That's all.
who is so down bad in life that Aladdin offends them
The scene where Jafar appears in the dungeon was probably major terrifying to kids in theaters
That’s why he’s the red genie and now free genie blue one
Aladdin is one of my top 3 favorite Disney Movies of all times, the other two being Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
I only remember two actors from this movie and they're BOTH dead. Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried.
18:34 that remark also shows that Jafar’s mind control isn’t absolute
One of my favorite Disney movies. I remember when I was 2 years old my mom took me to go see this. The movie shut off in the theater at the part where Aladdin & and Abu were trying to escape out of the cave of wonders.
There are usually smaller Disney references that go unnoticed in the other movies, but Aladdin just sets them up so it’s in your face.
9:30 whoa, whoa. Not cause it's a man. There could be any number of reasons. Jafar hypnotized him, the guard believes that Jafar is speaking on behalf of the Sultan, Jafar has hypnotized the Sultan to give him higher authority, in the political system, the guards may respond directly to the advisor. For the last one, as a comparison, the President's direct orders can be ignored by military personnel if following the orders of an immediate supervisor.
8:41 POV: when siblings give you the small leftover of food
Scar’s pelt is in Hercules
FUN FACT: Disney casted the same person to sing as Jasmin and Mulan.
- This is one of my favorite Disney movie mostly due to Robin Williams as the Genie 🧞♂️, Gilbert Gottfried as Iago 🦜 , & Frank Welker as Abu / Rajah / Cave of Wonders, so here are some fun facts about this movie:
- Interesting that in the song says that Aladdin didn’t have any parent because originally he was going to have a mother where she was even going to get a song too called “Proud of Your Boy” which speaking of Jafar as was going to have one
- Fun fact the merchant from the start was actually going to be Genie in disguise
- They wanted Sir Patrick Stewart to play as the voice of Jafar, but couldn’t be due to him as Picard in Star Trek The Next Generation & this wasn’t the only role the others being Cogsworth & Scar
- You can see the Beast from Beauty & the Beast make a cameo in the pile of the Sultan’s toys
- Besides Robin they also thought of other famous actors for the Genie like John Candy, Steve Martin, & Eddie Murphy, but with him they just let him go off with so many improvised lines. Also fun fact the outfit that the Genie was wearing as he is about to leave is the same that Robin Williams wore
My name is Jasmine and I still havent seen this movie in full
0:39 ... "it's what's inside that matters" ohhh i see u
(At 30:40) okay I'll be honest when I first saw this I was a little speechless when he transformed into a giant cobra.
Yep. Almost every western cartoon has some sort of male crossdressing played for laughs. It’s very engrained in media. Also very few female crossdressing played for laughs. Always as a disguise like the mummy animated series.
I hope they get to react to "The hunchback of notre dame" and "The road to El dorado"
For years when Jasmin calls him a swaggering peacock I thought she said swaggering pee pot.
To see the film that inspired so much of this film, have a look at the 1940 "The Thief of Bagdad". One of the greatest fantasy films ever made (won two Oscars).
What about The Thief and the Cobbler?
NO! - The voices are recorded first and then the film is animated!
20:25 RIIIGHTTT? im like bro you was JUST with her 😭
Here comes blue genie
Anyone else desperately want a reaction to starkid’s Twisted musical after this?
Soooo badly
If people are offended by this movie, they need thicker skin.