Aladdin review – live-action remake really takes flight

Guy Ritchie’s adaptation is lively, colourful and genuinely funny – making only judicious tweaks to the original, it’s thankfully not a whole new worldThe scimitars are out for Disney’s live-action Aladdin, what with the enduring fondness for the original (not least Robin Williams’ Genie) and the botched unveiling of Will Smith as his successor in an early trailer that presented him as a creepy, half-naked blue guy from the uncanny valley.

Director and co-writer Guy Ritchie is hardly a seal of quality these days, either, following flops The Man from Uncle and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

But sheathe your weapons because this new Aladdin is actually great fun.

It is far from perfect, but where many recent fantasias have crumpled under the weight of their special effects, this one really takes flight.

It is lively, colourful and genuinely funny, and doesn’t break what didn

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