ALADDIN
Director Guy Ritchie
Cert PG 128 mins
After seeing Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin I asked myself a simple question: Why does this film exist?
Why is Disney turning their cartoon classics into live-action updates – from Aladdin to 2016’s The Jungle Book, from 2017’s Beauty and the Beast to the forthcoming Lion King? Is it to satisfy our gnawing nostalgia? Or, perhaps more cynically, is it to squeeze more money out of their trustworthy intellectual property? After all, those who loved these movies as kids now have kids of their own – and so we’ll take them, just like I took my daughter, to introduce them to these well-loved stories from our not-so-distant past.
