Aladdin live action movie | 24 MAY 2019 | Disney | 7th most profitable movie of 2019. Disney does it again!

[Tentatek]

2 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

I find it weird that UK critics are giving the movie better reviews than American critics. It's usually the opposite.

Both the director and actors are British. 

[TalismanRing]

1 minute ago, lorddemaxus said:

I find it weird that UK critics are giving the movie better reviews than American critics. It's usually the opposite.

Not really.  I find that UK critics are on avg higher graders.  Even more so when the production, director or actors are British. (see Bond & Potter when the reviews come early)

 

 

[lorddemaxus]

Oh my god, Aladdin could be the first kids movie hit this year (a case could be made for HTTYD 3 but it underperformed and its legs couldn't even reach 3x). This is a weird year.

[Alli]

4/5 from the Guardian is really high praise

[Litio]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/22/aladdin-review-live-action-remake-will-smith-guy-ritchie

 

"Colourful and genuinely funny" 4/5

 

If Arthur (2017) was colourful, it could to get positive reviews too. What a miss...

Edited May 22, 2019 by Litio

[lorddemaxus]

5 minutes ago, Alli said:

4/5 from the Guardian is really high praise

It's high praise only if it's from Bradshaw or Kermode. I don't know who this guy is. Seems like a sub for Bradshaw who is in Cannes atm.

Edited May 22, 2019 by lorddemaxus

[TMP]

Gotta hand it to @Alli, who called this film being good when everyone else was doubting it.

[Alli]

1 minute ago, TMP said:

Gotta hand it to @Alli, who called this film being good when everyone else was doubting it.

I had my doubts too with those released clips.  but i always maintained the BO would be very good

[ZattMurdock]

I really want to be flat out wrong about this, since Aladdin is my favorite Disney "classic" animation film, but I have a feeling that this might be a situation like TASM and TASM2. High praise from UK, tepid from the USA. If it gets a certified fresh RT, I think even without a proper marketing push it might become a bonafide hit. Something is off about how late these reviews are coming, and how weird the time of the embargo break is for this. 

[Alli]

Listening to A whole new Wolrd. Naomi is a star. so good

[TMP]

Just now, ZattMurdock said:

I really want to be flat out wrong about this, since Aladdin is my favorite Disney "classic" animation film, but I have a feeling that this might be a situation like TASM and TASM2. High praise from UK, tepid from the USA. If it gets a certified fresh RT, I think even without a proper marketing push it might become a bonafide hit. Something is off about how late these reviews are coming, and how weird the time of the embargo break is for this. 

Over Godzilla Dom?

[Alli]

Just now, TMP said:

Over Godzilla Dom?

Ummm There's no question about it.

[ZattMurdock]

Just now, TMP said:

Over Godzilla Dom?

If it gets buzz, definitely. 

[MCKillswitch123]

18 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

I was on life support by the time Evermore came along and still thought it great.  It actually made me feel something when I hadn't before.  Dan Stevens' doesn't have a great singing voice - but he's a damn good actor and he really made this song work.  Emma has a thin reedy voice but that's not the big hurdle - it's that she lacks musicality (queue up Strictly Ballroom) and her overall performance was poor, singing or not so she rendered her songs (and character) into lifeless slogs.

Yes, Dan Stevens is an excellent actor, but I didn't feel Evermore a single bit, except maybe in the chorus. He was still better singing-wise than Emma, but yeah. And someone mentioned the other original song, I didn't really care about that one either. The remade songs had 0% of the charm of the originals, the new ones also weren't impressive (maybe not terrible, but unimpressive). BATB just didn't have anything for me.

 

Again, compare Evermore to the resonance and emotion that Naomi Scott brings to Speechless, or the energy that Will Smith brings to the new version of Friend Like Me. It's like night and day.

Edited May 22, 2019 by MCKillswitch123

[ban1o]

17 minutes ago, Tentatek said:

Both the director and actors are British. 

Mena Massoud is Canadian

[filmlover]

lol at this getting good reviews after seemingly everybody expecting a full blown disaster from the moment Guy Ritchie was announced as director. Disney be like:

[Alli]

very good reviews in France too. Lots of 4/5    http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-250865/critiques/presse/

[titanic2187]

The RT score doesn't live up the early reaction hype.....6.45/10 average score 

[lorddemaxus]

4 minutes ago, filmlover said:

 

 

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2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

lol at this getting good reviews after seemingly everybody expecting a full blown disaster from the moment Guy Ritchie was announced as director.

I was actually excited for it when Guy Ritchie was announced. I was only disappointed after seeing none of his style shown in any of the footage we have seen till now.

Edited May 22, 2019 by lorddemaxus

[Minnale101]

1 minute ago, Alli said:

very good reviews in France too. Lots of 4/5    http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-250865/critiques/presse/

Congrats I was very wrong about this movie xD. Definitely seems like Disney hit a home run with movie 

 

gonna watch it on Saturday after seeing the reviews