The Return of Jafar

So, remember in my last entry I said that I was originally going to do something different for my 600th entry? Well, this is it. I've decided to do full and real reviews of the straight to video Disney sequels which have mainly been considered bad. Not all of them. Some of them are good and some are actually great . Last year I did a ranking of them, but I actually missed a few and I wanted to do actual reviews for all of them starting with the first one ever made, the Return of Jafar. Pretty much exactly what I said in the ranking last year about this movie I still stand by. But before I get to that, what's the story? It opens up with Aladdin now living at the palace with Jasmine. Also Genie is gone now Iago has escaped from Jafar's lamp and finds them saying he wants to be good, but he really just wants to benefit himself. Meanwhile, a thief finds Jafar's lamp and sets him free wanting a wish but Jafar is just trying to get revenge on Aladdin and makes it looks like he killed the sultan so that he'll be executed. Really, that doesn't sound that bad. But really, it's the execution of the story that really makes this movie a mess and the pacing as well. I remember when I was younger and I heard about this movie and I was excited because the title sounded cool and it was Jafar returning as the villain again. But then I saw it a couple of years ago and I was really disappointed. Which, coming from me is really saying something. For starters, and maybe my biggest problem with the movie is that Jafar is barely in this movie, Aladdin doesn't feel like he's the focus and the movie is too focused on Iago. Also, Robin Williams isn't the Genie in this movie. Dan Castellaneta who voices Homer Simpson does the voice this time. And while he does do a good job, the best part about the Genie is the improvisation that Robin Williams does for him and no one's as good as him on that. The Genie's not even that funny either. Also, the songs aren't that good either and Iago has too many of them. I will say that the climax is fine but nothing really special is in it. The animation also doesn't look very good. I know it's probably because of the budget or the time they had, but this isn't very good animation. I will say though, Jason Alexander as the thief is actually pretty funny every once in a while, but even then, he doesn't make the movie any better either. But really think about it, do you really think this movie coulda been something good? I do because it's called the Return of Jafar. That should be so easy to make a good movie, but no, they decided to go this route and this route is bad. Like kinda really bad. I was really disappointed with it and I would have liked a much better movie than this. And this movie's financial success is actually what led to all the others being made. Which is good for some of these, but not a lot. It's just a really underwhelming and bad movie and I would not recommend that you watch it. And so everyone, that's my review of the Return of Jafar. Thank you all for reading, please comment down below to tell me what you think and look forward to more straight to video Disney sequels reviews coming up next.