Fantasy Guy Ritchie Directing Disney's Aladdin

[Dark Raven]

Iago is a regular parrot who has a slightly larger vocabulary than other mimicking parrots. He doesn't converse like a human.

Iago does act as Jafar's spy and keeps an eye on things going on in the palace.

They've just had a talking racoon in the MCU, so why can't they have a fully talking parrot - birds who talk in real life too!

 

[TheVileOne]

They've just had a talking racoon in the MCU, so why can't they have a fully talking parrot - birds who talk in real life too!

A lot of things in the movie have been toned down, especially Jafar and the Sultan. They are one-note, one-dimensional characters. The Sultan's more serious, but he has no character. Jafar is nothing more than a one-note, two-bit bad guy. Not even an entertaining scene chewing bad guy.

It's strange to me that they keep the Genie and the Genie wackiness but the other characters are incredibly repressed.

 

[Iceman]

Worse.

Oh damn.

Not that I hated BatB, I just had higher hopes for my Disney fave.

 

[TheVileOne]

Oh damn.

Not that I hated BatB, I just had higher hopes for my Disney fave.

I think certain things just can't be translated to live-action just because you want to make a live-action movie of an animated classic.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Iago is a regular parrot who has a slightly larger vocabulary than other mimicking parrots. He doesn't converse like a human.

Iago does act as Jafar's spy and keeps an eye on things going on in the palace.

This description reminds me a bit of the parrot in the 2003 Peter Pan movie.

 

[TheVileOne]

This description reminds me a bit of the parrot in the 2003 Peter Pan movie.

Haven't seen that other live-action Pan movie but you are probably right.

 

[Abudefduf]

Iago is a regular parrot who has a slightly larger vocabulary than other mimicking parrots. He doesn't converse like a human.

But why. I mean, I never liked Iago. But why make him a semi-regular parrot

I would have sworn she said the opposite: that was what John Campea said on his show, and it was what I remembered hearing too - that the songs won’t be there, but the music will be similar.

Maybe I remember it wrong. I don't know what to think

All I know is that these Aladdin reviews are making me worried for Mulan.

 

[Dark Raven]

A lot of things in the movie have been toned down, especially Jafar and the Sultan. They are one-note, one-dimensional characters. The Sultan's more serious, but he has no character. Jafar is nothing more than a one-note, two-bit bad guy. Not even an entertaining scene chewing bad guy.

It's strange to me that they keep the Genie and the Genie wackiness but the other characters are incredibly repressed.

It does seem strange. As if they thought people wouldn't buy a fully talking parrot, but a Genie is perfectly believable.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Iago being a normal parrot doesn't bother me. There should be somethings done differently, anyway.

 

[kaypain]

It does seem strange. As if they thought people wouldn't buy a fully talking parrot, but a Genie is perfectly believable.

Then people would have *****ed because the parrot wasn't Gottfried

 

[TheVileOne]

Then people would have *****ed because the parrot wasn't Gottfried

I'm not sure how what they did stops that argument.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I assume since the other animals don’t talk, they want to keep consistent to that so they keep it normal parrot talk.

I assume Abu doesn’t say “Abu!” In this version either.

 

[InvisibleWoman]

It does seem strange. As if they thought people wouldn't buy a fully talking parrot, but a Genie is perfectly believable.

Well they also did the same with Cinderella... that has magic, fairy godmothers, pumpkins that turn into carriages... but they didn't have talking/singing mice like in the animated version.

 

[Spider-Fan]

59%

Average Rating: 6.01/10
Reviews Count: 81
Fresh: 48
Rotten: 33

 

[Dark Raven]

I suppose the bright side of this is that if this were on Netflix, Aladdin would only get the lamp in the last 15 minutes of episode 13, and Jasmine would be saved for the second or third season where they pull out their proto-flying carpet.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

They've just had a talking racoon in the MCU, so why can't they have a fully talking parrot - birds who talk in real life too!

We are talking about the company about to release a movie about talking animals.

 

[terry78]

Zazu will basically be the best we get.

 

[TheVileOne]

Well they also did the same with Cinderella... that has magic, fairy godmothers, pumpkins that turn into carriages... but they didn't have talking/singing mice like in the animated version.

I guess a talking giant blue monster played by Will Smith was easy to swallow, but a talking parrot who was granted magical intelligence from an evil sorcerer was just too much.

 

[Dark Raven]

I wish there were other animals in real life who could talk, like cats or dogs.

 

[Spider-Fan]

59%
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/aladdin#
Average Rating: 5.99/10
Reviews Count: 87
Fresh: 51
Rotten: 36

Impressively, 87 reviews in, and still no consensus posted!

 

[terry78]

I wish there were other animals in real life who could talk, like cats or dogs.

No you don't.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Think of the blackmailing our pets would do.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I suppose the bright side of this is that if this were on Netflix, Aladdin would only get the lamp in the last 15 minutes of episode 13, and Jasmine would be saved for the second or third season where they pull out their proto-flying carpet.

They’d make it 12 seasons easy.

 

[OutOfBoose]

59%
Average Rating: 5.99/10
Reviews Count: 87
Fresh: 51
Rotten: 36

Impressively, 87 reviews in, and still no consensus posted!

Pretty much what trailers showed us. Maybe even better than I personally expected.

 

[InvisibleWoman]

I guess a talking giant blue monster played by Will Smith was easy to swallow, but a talking parrot who was granted magical intelligence from an evil sorcerer was just too much.

I guess that's what they figured? Who knows! Animation can always push limits a bit more. I mean, the Genie is a magical being so he gets away with being crazy and blue... Iago inexplicably talks like a person (it's never said that Jafar gave him that ability and why would he given that Iago is a bit of an annoyance?) so perhaps they just thought a parrot talking in a world of non talking animals was a step too far? I'm not really for it or against it. However I can see why they chose to not go down that route.