The Genie Wasn’t Robin Williams’ Best Animated Role — This Was

The voice acting work of Robin Williams is legendary.

From Happy Feet to Robots, his emphatic vocalizations brought so much joy to each of his productions for audiences of all shapes and sizes.

Williams’ most recognizable voice-acting work was as the Genie in Disney’s Aladdin in 1992, but his best voice-acting performance came out seven months before that.

In FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Williams portrayed Batty Koda with an eccentric flare that only he could provide.

As the fruit bat who escaped from being experimented on in a science lab, his spontaneous wit provided the director Bill Kroyer with an abundance of improvised material.

Williams put his heart and soul into his first voice-acting role, and it was by far his best animated role.

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