#yeah tagged it 90s becayse the movie started production in 1994 and didnt get completed until SIX YEARS LATER

[gritsandbrits]

I watched the roger corman aladdin last night....

Predictably it was bad. Not only did it rip off Disney's Aladdin but also their beauty and the beast, AND The Pagemaster. And bill and ted. I am so serious.

The MC's name is Paige and she's a bookworm! Bit on the nose and that's coming from someone who named her descendants oc Paige lol

To the surprise of no one, she's a ripoff of Belle right down to having the intro song be about how weird she is. Surprised they didn't add a jock character who tries to force Paige to date him. The only differences (besides time periods and hair) is Paige is a lot more shy than the assertive Belle.

Her design is pretty adorbs though, stealing it for a future OC princess design :D

This is supposed to be scheherazade btw...

She was the original hero of the Arabian Nights story yet in this movie she's a odd mix between Jafar & Maleficent. Also she sounds like susan Sarandon. And because I don't care about this movie enough to hide spoilers, she gets redeemed at the end...by LOBOTOMY

I've read more than a few comments compare them to a (bad) belle x aladdin or self insert fanfiction. Surprised they didn't make them a couple.

Like Aladdin in this movie also has the princess but she isn't given a name and her only personality is being scared. Princess Jasmine she is NOT!

Oh and at the end Paige does end up meeting a lookalike implied to be Aladdin's descendant. How does that work?

The bulk of the movie is simultaneously chaotic and boring. There's a musical scene where several fictional characters fight over their blonde waifu should read first and some other stuff.

There's this one scene where the heroes land in 16th century England and meet Henry VIII except he's skinny at that point.

Apparently him being skinny is a negative change in the timeline so our heroes FORCE henry to eat as much food as possible and he blows up like a balloon. Instead of you know, NATURALLY letting him gain weight. Huh? And how does this ultimately affect history. And if you REALLY know history you could have tried to help his wives.

AND THERE'S A SONG ABOUT KING HENRY THE EIGHT DOING FEEDERISM IN ORDER TO RESTORE THE TIMELINE WHAT.

The middle segments involved pirates and Blackbeard, it was alright.

NOT ANOTHER CHARACTER OVERWEIGHT BEING USED AS A PLOT POINT WHAT IS WITH THIS MOVIE & FATPHOBIA

AND THEY MADE HER SKINNY TOO TO "FIX" THE TIMELINE INSTEAD OF ALLOWING HER TO ACCEPT HER TRAITS AS IS.

A WHOLE NEW SWIRRRL! WE REPLACED CANON WITH A WHITE GIRRRL! WE DIDN'T COPY YOU WE SWEAR IT'S TRUE WE HOPE YOU DON'T FIND OUT AND TRY TO SUUUUEEE!

You know those *bad* fanfics where the canon love interest has all their moments taken by the OC? Well that what happens to the Jasmine equivalent. She doesn't even get a name.

So at the end Paige meets a new guy named "Alan" and LO AND BEHOLD HE ALSO GOT GLASSES SEE! THEY DO HAVE CHEMISTRY AFTER ALL!

So yeah, that was a 1 hr 21 min and 17 seconds I want back. On the bright side this does give me an idea for my oc Princess movie - a next gen that serves as Aladdin 5!