We have a pair of genre releases this week that we won’t be reviewing soon. If you want to discuss Disney’s live-action reinvention of its 1990s adaptation of the story from Arabian Nights, or the horror-movie twist on Shuster and Siegel’s reinterpretation of the hero mythos, here is a place to do it.
Every singe preview I have seen for the live action Aladdin has been extremely underwhelming. I have no interest in it. In fact I’m hoping it’s fails and on the back of Dumbo bombing colossally, marks the beginning of the end of Disney’s live action remakes.
It’s getting better (if middling) reviews than Dumbo, and the intended audience seems to like it, but, yeah, I wish Disney-as-Disney* would start doing new again.
*Distinguishing it from Disney-as-Multimedia-Conglomerate-that-owns-everything-and-does-a-bunch-of-frequently-cool-things-that-we-don’t-necessarily-think-of-as-“Disney”