Nostalgia is a two way street. Some might be excited for a fresh experience. Others will swear by the original of a TV show, film, or video game. Anything, really. The live action Aladdin that comes out next year got its first photos shown and the reaction was less than thrilling.
There are few complaints here and there for some, but the biggest I'm looking at is over the Genie. Obviously, it's one of the most iconic characters in Disney's run of adaptations and it's animated 1992 feature was done by the late Robin Williams. His performance was legendary and paved the way studios looked at animated films with celebrities. Will Smith plays the live action version and the complaints are so stupid. I think people are getting very high hopes up and then being disappointed. Very disappointed.
I'm not expecting this adaptation to be identical scene for scene like the animated one. Nostalgia is very powerful here and the comparisons to Williams will be there for Smith. He's not really a comedy guy despite how well loved The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is to this day. Most of his stuff since 1996 has been action and dramas. We are too quick to judge on these first photos, which show Smith without any blue on his body. It doesn't come out until the end of May and the fact that he had to assure people that it will be a blue character shows the amount of impatience over how the character is.
Until a full trailer trailer comes out and the film is properly edited, this is a pure overreaction. The animated Aladdin is my favorite classic Disney animated film, but I'm not going in expecting this to be similar as I said earlier. Let's wait and see. It's just a movie character. Not a big deal unless they royally screwed it up.
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