Disney’s increasing blend of animation and live action yields its oddest hybrid yet.
When Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of Aladdin was featured on an Entertainment Weekly cover story last December, fans were slightly concerned. Will Smith was not, on the cover or any of the interior photos shared in the issue, blue like the animated character voiced by Robin Williams in the original. Quick to set minds at ease, Smith posted on Instagram that, yes, he would be blue in the actual film.
Now we know that Smith’s assurance was less a promise and more a threat.
While Genie went unseen in the first trailer, last night’s Grammy’s broadcast on CBS featured a new TV spot for the movie that finally revealed Smith in all his blue horror, shown as the spot ends with Aladdin entering the cave to retrieve the magical lamp in which the Genie resides:
Let’s look past the fact that everything below his torso is simply a cloud. That’s in keeping with the character. Instead, let’s focus on literally everything else, from the bloat that works in animation but which makes a human actor look weird to the odd way his head doesn’t seem to move like it should, nor does the rest of his body.
Christina Aguilera wasn’t locked up tight For a century of lonely nights so that we have to see Genie like this pic.
