Robert Schooley

The animation is uneven and in general could look a lot better, but this is largely made up for by otherwise great set pieces and designs (the floating isle, the Hand of Midas, the Oracle, the "Open Sesame" entrance to the hideout, etc.) The film can perhaps be faulted for being a little bit too heavy-handed on the "Robin Williams is back!!!" stuff, as Genie probably has as many words of dialogue in this film as the rest of the cast put together, despite an absolute lack of plot relevance -- show more but mostly, it's good fun, so that, too, is easy enough to forgive. The songs and even parts of the score are surprisingly memorable, and the story, while simple, is not a rehash of the earlier two in any way. The choice to end the film with finishing the original film's opening bookend is inspired and powerful, and in general, I find this to be the one 90s/2000s Disney sequel that holds up (unlike, unfortunately, its Return of Jafar predecessor). It's hardly amazing, but solid good fun. show less

Oddly -- and while I can't be sure, I don't think this is just nostalgia talking -- I find this movie to be quite solid in the Norwegian dub, and rather bad in the English original. Not just because it's missing Robin Williams. Somehow, the story feels flat in English, in a way that it doesn't in the Norwegian. So I've settled on a rating that's half a star higher than I'd normally give the English version alone to reflect that I really loved this one in Norwegian growing up.

I was surprised to see how low in quality the animation of this movie was after recently watching the old Aladdin movie. Turns out this was the first five episodes of the Aladdin cartoon TV series, but the decision was made to repackage this as a sequel movie and release the rest of the TV series in weekly episodes. Overall it's ok for a sequel/made for TV movie.

This was the finale to the Aladdin (animated) franchise, both movie and tv series. I watched this recently and was surprised at how low the quality in animation was compared to the first Aladdin until I saw that it was made as a finale to the TV series. Overall it's not bad, at least we find out what happened with Aladdin's dad.