Aladdin and the King of Thieves [1996 film]

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 -- 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 show more 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

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.