Despite all of Aladdin’s other achievements, it may be most significant for providing Williams what he has until now been deprived: the perfect film role, one that can accommodate his machine-gun delivery.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 16, 2024

Aladdin has all the elements: action, intrigue, romance, music and comedy. Not just light, cute, well-mannered comedy, either. We're talking side-splitting, roll-in-the-aisles, spit-up-your-popcorn comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 16, 2024

Though at times his endless gabbing makes you want to stuff him back into the lamp, Williams is perfectly cast here.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2024

As if they had their own magic lamp and resident Genie, but with limitless wishes, the folks from Disney seem to never run out of miracles.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2024

Aladdin, Disney's latest animated treat, is a wish come true.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 16, 2024

Williams has loaned his voice to the Genie in the ancient tale. But even more distinctively, he has loaned his quicksilver spirit to the character -- and it in turn gives everything else in the film a giddy lift.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 16, 2024

Aladdin is a family film in the best sense -- art for the eyes and ears with appeal for the widest of audiences.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 16, 2024

If there's only one wish left in your moviegoing lamp this year, spend it on Aladdin. It's the kind of film that disappoints no one. Repeat: No one.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 16, 2024

If a film is too timely now, it could be dated in the future. But that's for critics to worry about in the next century. For now, it's clear that Aladdin is hilarious, inventive entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 16, 2024

About all that's missing from this state-of-the-art, up-to-the-minute cartoon stew is a plug for Madonna's new book. The movie is that trendy. It's also relentlessly entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 16, 2024

This is not just a technical marvel but an adventure with great fun and solid, lively musical numbers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 16, 2024

Following the elegant, restrained artistry of Beauty and the Beast, the vibrantly colored, roller-coaster-paced Aladdin sets out to shake up the Disney tradition a little. And it succeeds brilliantly.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 16, 2024

A smashing successor to the studio's most recent animated features, a cinematic gem made even more pleasant since few expected that Disney would be able to sustain the magical brilliance and giddy inspiration of the its profitable predecessors.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 16, 2024

With the hilarious, bounds-breaking animated fairy tale Aladdin, Walt Disney proves once again that the best movies can be drawn.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 16, 2024

I found myself mesmerised, filled with admiration for the technical virtuosity and roaring with laughter -- all at the time same time. This is a genie of genius.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2024

This is an astonishingly free-spirited work, one that synthesizes an ancient fairy tale with mall-smart heroes and a hipster genie who can switch images faster than a couch potato with 90-channel cable and remote control.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 16, 2024

The balance of songs are co-written by Menken and Tim Rice, whose lyrics lack the snap and wit of Ashman's. But it's hard to find much fault with a film that is as consistently entertaining as this.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 16, 2024

This is Disney at its technical best and seemingly determined to set so frenetic a pace that nobody can possibly get bored, even by Tim Rice's terrible Academy-awarded lyrics.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2024

Aladdin is frenetically topical -- as sly and hip as a G-rated comedy can be. If you think that means toned-down humor, you underestimate Robin Williams, the human kaleidoscope.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 16, 2024

Williams's addictive energy ensures that Aladdin bolts from the gate and never lets up.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 16, 2024