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Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I have mixed feelings about The Return of Jafar. I will start off by saying that it is a giant drop from the star-quality of the original, but Jafar and Iago are well made. Whenever Jafar is on screen it is good, because you really get to feel his menacing plans being made. The scenes including him AND Iago are also engaging, because, really, this is movie is Iago's story. That leads me to my issues with this sequel which I have listed here descending from biggest to smallest: Both Aladdin and Jasmin are boring characters in this installment. I think there were two moments I liked, but that was it. Genie was not funny in this one. Dan Castellaneta playing Robin Williams is not working. The music was forgettable and sometimes annoying. Do not let Gilbert Gottfried sing, please.The animation was still colourful, but too cartoonish and flat most of the time. What can you expect from a direct-to-video TV-series pilot? The darker moments were decent, though.My conclusion is that it is completely inferior to the original and the weakest of the two direct-to-video sequels. Watch "Aladdin and the King of Thieves" and you will get a far better sequel. And to its credit, it is not the worst in the series of either pointless or directly insulting sequels to our favorite Disney movies.

There are some films that leave no room for sequels but they end up being made because of money. If a certain film was a success, its certain that it will have a sequel that, normally, will not be worth a third of the initial movie. That was precisely what happened here: the film was a success and this sequel was made to raise some more coins. Based on an unsuccessful attempt by Jafar to come back to haunt Aladdin's life, the film is a disaster, starting with the fact that it does not have enough screenplay to justify a feature film. It would be at most a short film! It is a poor and meager story. It has no animation, no joke, no good songs like the first movie. It has songs, but they are a total pity. It's a movie that should not have been made.

*may contain spoilers*it's not the 9 out of 10 that Aladdin gets, BUT unlike many Disney Sequels, this one had the story to go with creating a sequel. for example, i'll use the Lion King. A sequel with them didn't make as much sense because Uncle Scar was dead and gone. another example is Beauty and the Beast because the Beast is now turned back to a real man/prince. Aladdin though did leave us with something to work with because Jafar wasn't destroyed, he was just prisoned in a genie lamp (since he wished to be the most powerful genie), so all that had to happen is for someone to find his lamp and rub it. So in Return of Jafar, Aladdin, Abu and Carpet meet Abis Mal and his criminal friends and make enemies with them. Meanwhile, Iago gets them out of the Cave and is blasted out and ordered to let Jafar out. Iago, however, is sick and tired of being mistreated by Jafar so he puts his lamp in a well and bails to town. he thinks he can make it on his own, realizes he can't and after saving Aladdin gets in his good graces and later they get Jasmine to tolerate him...so all they need is the Sultan on their side......meanwhile Abis Mal's gang turns on him, but run away in fear after Mal rubs the lamp. Jafar, however is forced to obey his master and eventually manipulates Abis Mal to helping him and scares Iago into helping him.......i won't get into anymore parts of the movie, but it's a really great sequel because of many reasons..1) a built in story from part one, Jafar wanting payback....2) Iago's character development and 3) the action wasn't half bad and the movie doesn't seem long. it's (in my book) a sequel to check out for Disney and it's much better than part 3 where i felt it was longer and just duller. if you watch the first Aladdin and want to know the end result of the two villains, check this out.

Aladdin is my favorite Disney-movie. It took a whole lot of years from the first time I watched that one and till now, when I watched the sequel. And I'm kinda glad. Had I seen this when I was little, I might have been disappointed. Why? Well, let me tell ya!The Return of Jafar is not even comparable to Aladdin. Aladdin (1992) is one of Disneys greatest movies. The Return of Jafar is a cheap looking typical made-for-TV animation feature. The animation is cheap. I mean, it doesn't even seem to follow Disneys own 12 principles of animation. It's shoddy, jittery and sloppy. A lot of the time the drawings are down right bad. It's very clear that the budget for this was just a fraction of the budget for Aladdin (1992).Genies voice has been replaced with Home.. uhm, Dan Castellaneta. He did a good job, though. Besides, I actually prefer the Norwegian dub, for Aladdin, so I'm not very familiar with Williams Genie anyway.The movie is not all bad, though. It's short, which is good. It's nice to see these characters again, cheap as they may look. The story is, well, there hardly is a story at all, really. It even has some plot holes. (not that I care) But the movie is, you know, made for kids, and gets the job done I guess. It's just very generic, and nothing like the excellent quality that is Aladdin (1992).Just have to add: I feel so mean when I slam the animation so hard, because someone still spent hour upon hour drawing this stuff. Animation is beyond time consuming. I know, because I've done it myself. OK. Anyway, you'll find plenty other, better animations feature films than this. That's my last word!