Uh oh! The live action Disney remakes have finally went too far. I say 'finally', as if a CGI Seth Rogen voiced Pumbaa wasn't too far, but at least was part of a cast people could get excited about. This on the other hand... this looks like a community theater play, right? Replacing the Robin Williams Genie seems absolutely impossible. Robin Williams was a comedian with a nigh infinite energy and inventiveness, and in Aladdin he was playing a creature who is the id of comedy personified. He was always going to be irreplaceable. But the first photo of Will Smith as the genie shows that Guy Ritchie is barely trying. Or his heart is in the wrong place. Or whatever. The entire thing looks shoddy and cheap and bad. Check out the photos, as released by Entertainment Weekly, below.
Uh oh! The live action Disney remakes have finally went too far. I say 'finally', as if a CGI Seth Rogen voiced Pumbaa wasn't too far, but at least was part of a cast people could get excited about. This on the other hand... this looks like a community theater play, right? Replacing the Robin Williams Genie seems absolutely impossible. Robin Williams was a comedian with a nigh infinite energy and inventiveness, and in Aladdin he was playing a creature who is the id of comedy personified. He was always going to be irreplaceable. But the first photo of Will Smith as the genie shows that Guy Ritchie is barely trying. Or his heart is in the wrong place. Or whatever. The entire thing looks shoddy and cheap and bad. Check out the photos, as released by Entertainment Weekly, below.
