Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1995) (V)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Tad Stones

Writers:

Mark McCorkle (screenplay)
Robert Schooley (screenplay)

Release Date:

13 August 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical

Plot:

At long last, Aladdin is about to marry the Princess Jasmine. Despite the presence and encouragement of his friends Genie...

Plot Keywords:

Wedding | Genie | Princess | Reference To Shaquille O'neal | Third Part

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Robin Williams	...	Genie (voice)
Scott Weinger	...	Aladdin (voice)
Linda Larkin	...	Princess Jasmine (voice)
John Rhys-Davies	...	The King of Thieves / Cassim (voice)
Gilbert Gottfried	...	Iago the Parrot (voice)
Jerry Orbach	...	Sa'luk (voice)
Val Bettin	...	Sultan of Agrabah (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Abu the Monkey (voice)
Jeff Bennett	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jim Cummings	...	Razoul the Chief Guard (voice)
Corey Burton	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jess Harnell	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Clyde Kusatsu	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Rob Paulsen	...	Additional Voices (voice)
CCH Pounder	...	The Magic Oracle (voice)

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Portugal:M/6 | South Korea:All | Australia:G | Denmark:A | Germany:6 | Iceland:L | Singapore:G | Spain:T | UK:U | USA:Unrated

Company:

Walt Disney Television Animation

Trivia:

The first idea for this story line involved a villain from the Aladdin TV series named Mozenrath. The plot was that the hero and villain would turn out to be brothers. However (according to one of the writers) everyone thought they should steer away from the TV show and that, and the fact that they couldn't get in touch with 'Johnathan Brandis' (Mozenrath's voice), prompted them to move on to another relative of Aladdin's - his father.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the fight interrupting the wedding, the triplet thieves make a tower out of themselves while holding bags, at first the top one is holding red bags and the middle holding blue and the bottom holding purple. When Aladdin swings the staff at them the last time the top one is holding the blue ones and the middle one is holding the red.

Quotes:

Cassim: You killed Sa'luk. The Code of the Forty Thieves is very clear on this point... you're in!

Movie Connections:

References The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Soundtrack:

Out of thin Air

By far the best Disney made for video sequel.

voices: Scott Weigner, Linda Larkin, Val Bettin, Frank Welker, John Rhys Davies, Gilbert Gottfried, CCH Pounder and Robin Williams.

Unlike later made for video sequels, this one does not follow the plot line, "Main character has a kid, who longs for what he/she can't have." This movie has a great plot, it's that Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding is crashed by the 40 thieves, the leader of the group is his long lost father. This also marks the return of Robin Williams as Genie, where the sequel and television show had Dan Castellaneta. Of course, since Robin returns he has a gag every ten seconds, but most of them land pretty well. The songs are quite good, and the characters are really quite fun. The animation is not that great, but it works well enough where you don't really notice it. I recommend this finale to the Alddin trilogy.

My rating-*** out of ****. 81 mins. Rated G.