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The Return of Jafar [VHS]

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

Aladdin being my favorite Disney movie of all time, this was an overwhelming dissapointment. And that's unusal, because I love almost every other Disney animated movie that's been made. First of all, it looked like your typical saturday morning cartoon-plain and ordinary, with none of the astonishing visuals that characterized Aladdin, such as the Whole New World Scene. Second, the characters faces looked so disorted, I believe they used silly putty instead of paint brushes. When Aladdin or Jasmine smile, their teeth are so huge, it takes up their entire face. And Jafar's teeth look like vampire incisors. Third, the songs are cringingly awful. Boy, we could really use Alan Menken or Tim Rice! (I sincerly hope they did not write the trash sung here!)Forth, the charcters were weak, undeveloped, and untrue to the original characters in Aladdin. Jasmine says "You saved Agrabah, and rescued a princess!" That is NOT like Jasmine at all! What happened to the "I'm not a prize to be won!?" That Jasmine had independence. Return Of Jafar's is mooning for Aladdin in her tower or grousing. It gets very annoying. And Abis Mahl was a very buffonish, stupid villan, but I guess Jafar needed a good dupe. Fifth,NO ROBIN WILLIAMS! Instead we are given Dan Castellana from the Simpsons?! Don't get me wrong I love him in the Simpsons, just not here. I strongly recommend renting this movie instead of buying it, unless you really like it. However, Aladdin And The King Of Theives was very good and had Robin Williams back in it.

I like the sequel to ALADDIN only because the superb Jonathan Freeman (Jafar) is present - and he gets a song. Robin Williams is not present (but I know why - - -), the animation is quite a contrast to the amazing original, and the songs aren't any good (except Jafar's song . ..). Good thing Menken didn't write any of these songs! But, I had totally forgotten that Jason Alexander voices Abis Mahl (sp?). I still like ALADDIN AND THE KING OF THIEVES because Williams is back in, but no Jafar (darnit).

3/5 stars.

We rank this 27 out of the 41 Disney Animated movie that we own. It is also the highest rated 2 star movie. The other aladdin movies were popular with sons and daughters alike. This one was only watched by my youngest son, and not very often.

Even on the Amazon sales ranking of 18000 puts this one 39 out of the 41. This is only for completist that want the entire trilogy. The original Aladdin and Aladdin King of Thieves are both much better movies.

You would think that the sequel to ALADDIN would resolve the cliffhanger of the first film and be just as entertaining and memorable at the same time? Well, you may find yourself a little disappointed.

THE RETURN OF JAFAR does tie up loose ends, but the animation and overall plot are almost lifeless. One or two of the songs are good. But it is mainly the performances of some of the film's stars that are able to keep the action flowing, including the return of Gilbert Gottfried as Iago the parrot. But Robin Williams, who was at odds with Disney at the time, is missed as the voice of the Genie. I'm not sure if he would have been able to improve on the weak premise of this sequel, but it probably would've helped it earn at least one or two more stars.

THE RETURN OF JAFAR is recommended only to those who liked ALADDIN enough to want to collect the entire trilogy.

Aladdin, Jasmine and other reunite in this film. But he's back. Jafar has escaped his lamp. As the movie opens, the genie returns to the poor town of Agalighby. But Jafar has come back at is mean again as the first. And Aladdin gets invited to a special dinner, that Jasmine's father has a surpise for Aladdin. He has chosen Aladdin to replace Jafar as his royal vizar.

Since this was one of my favortie childhood movies, and every review here has given it a bad rap, I feel entitled to speak up. First of all, this was _not_ four back-to-back Aladdin cartoon episodes. This movie was divided up into four segments, and had commercials inserted into it before being viewed on television, but it was not a TV cartoon first. Second of all, yes, I agree that Robin Williams was the best Genie of all, but the Disney budget was not about to stretch enough to hire him for a small, direct-to-video sequel; not to mention all the TV cartoons that followed. Dan did the best he could as Genie . . . and keep in mind that Robin Williams is a tough act to follow. And look, I'll admit that the animation was fairly poor in comparison to the original, the songs were not as stunning, and all that other stuff, but the movie itself was interesting. I _love_ characters that start out cynical and "evil" and who start to learn about honor and friendship and love, and end up doing things they never thought they'd do. These kinds of characters are great to write about (I like writing short stories), and are fun to watch on movies, too. Iago learns what it means to be loyal, going so far as to be willing to give up his life for his friends. And I'll admit, it's strange to see a talking parrot go through severe emotional personality changes. But hey, it worked out alright. So give this film a chance. "You'd be surprised what you can live through." (Hey, by reading some of these other reviews, that might be all you could hope for at the end of this film. But you may be surprised!)

I hated this film. I loved Aladdin and thought this one would be as cool as the original is. Booooy was I wrong! The sultan's eyebrows dissapear at dinner and it's just plain rotten!

This is Iago's movie! I love it! If anyone out there likes Iago, then you should like this movie. It's all about Jafar wanting to get his sweet revenge on Aladdin. Iago plays a MAJOR role in the movie! This movie really lets Iago be a deeper character than in the first movie(which also rules!) Sure, the animation was cheap, and the songs were a little silly, but it IS a direct-to-video movie, so I'm not going to nail Disney too hard about it. It's not a movie that everybody would like (I've read enough other Amazon reviews to see that) but it is a good movie for Iago fans!

After reading all the reviews on Amazon, I was very upset on how this film was rated overall! I am 15, and have loved this movie ever since the first time I saw it. Actually, I think it surpassed the orginal "Aladdin." I loved Iago in the first Aladdin, even though he was on Jafar's side. So, as you can guess, when he joined Aladdin and risked his life for his friends, I was really happy! Not having Robin Williams as the Genie did... but I was able to overlook it. I recommend this movie to any Aladdin fan.

This is one of the worst sequels, Disney or otherwise, that I have ever seen.I get the impression that Disney only made this sequel not to have a great movie about Aladdin fighting Jafar, but to let Iago join Aladdin's side so they could do a T.V. series, more merchandising, and other stuff. (In other words to make more money.)The only song I thought was good was Jafar's, "You're only second rate," that was sung to Genie. The other songs were boring and drab.The animation was quick, sketchy, jerky and downright bad. The story itself, which was somewhat feasible sequel-wise, had been poorly thought out and the whole thing reminded me of the cheap Saturday morning cartoons done in the 70's.Robin Williams couldn't (or perhaps wouldn't) return to do Genie's voice in this one, but the man who does Genie's voice instead started off okay, but then loses how to do the voice halfway through which is quite noticable.The whole movie was pretty corny, espically at the end, and I don't know of anyone who likes it. I believe even Disney is embarressed by it because they don't seem to show it as much on the Disney Channels as much as they do their other movies. I like Iago and Gilbert Godfrey does a fine job playing him. If you like Iago as well then you might like to watch this just to see him, (He has more screen time than Jafar.) This is definatly a renter not a buyer.