Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Aladdin and the King of Thieves follows our heroic Prince about to tie the knot when the wedding is disrupted of a band of thieves. Aladdin's plan to stop them brings him face-to-face with a long lost loved one, together they embark on a perilous treasure hunt.King of Thieves is a good sequel for several reasons, one of the biggest being story, It's driven by genuine character development, relationships and the weight of big decisions. The animation is pretty good, much better then previous straight-to-DVD movies.Another BIG plus is Robin Williams return as the character Genie. Like the first film, this one has lots of hilarious jokes that double as references to other films. Here Disney pokes fun at themselves several times.It's a good script with good characters, good action and good jokes. An all around good movie!

I remember seeing the trailer for this Disney sequel (plus the original and 'Return of Jafar') when I was younger and up until now the only part I could remember from that trailer was about Aladdin and Jasmine "finally getting married." Fast forward several years later when I rediscover this film in the Nostalgia Chick's Top 5 Least Awful Disney Sequels where she placed this at no. 2 and it looked good, especially with the Genie's hilarious pop-culture references. Another part of this film I remember seeing when I was younger was the song 'Father and Son (one of the best on the soundtrack),' which was on a Disney Sing-Along-Songs video but I can't recall which one. After having finished watching this film, I was satisfied with it despite some of its qualities not quite matching those from the original.First off the animation quality was decent for a DTV sequel if not quite as good as that in the original and the magic carpet wasn't as elaborately designed as in the original but the animation itself still had good uses of cel-shading and the squash and stretch principle. The incidental music has a similar structure to that in the original but it had its moments of power and poignancy. Besides 'Father and Son,' the other songs I really liked were the rousing 'There's a Party Here in Agrabah,' the lovely 'Out of Thin Air' and the reprise of 'Arabian Nights.' The script consisted of a mixture of funny, dark and rather moving lines. A couple of lines to me seemed like twists on common phrases such as "out-of-movie experience" as opposed to "out-of-body experience" and '"Open caraway, which was shortly corrected to, "Open sesame" - both of which were amusing nonetheless. The story was also well-written for the most part although its only flaw is that it was sometimes hard to follow. As for the voice acting, Aladdin, Jasmine and the Genie sounded the same as they did in the original although Iago and Sultan sounded a little different this time around. On a more positive note, John Rhys-Davies was superb as Aladdin's long-lost-father Cassim and their ups and downs were suitably dramatic. Further to the pop-culture references, these included Disney ('Snow White,' 'Steamboat Willie,' 'The Lion King') films and non-Disney ('Rain Man,' 'Mrs Doubtfire and 'Forrest Gump') films. Overall I found this a very enjoyable Disney sequel which is the best one I've seen so far, although I would like to give 'Return of Jafar' a chance one day because I like its song 'Forget About Love' as well as some of its clips featured in the Nostalgia Chick's Top Five Least Awful Disney Sequels. 8.5/10 to round up to IMDb's 9/10 rating.

I really like how Disney expanded their version of the Aladdin story in their TV series and the direct to DVD sequels, but this one kind of let me down. The voice acting is great and I really liked the music, but the quality of the animation is quite poor by Disney standards. Normally, I wouldn't be so particular about the art but the drop in quality from the first movie, to the TV show to this sequel is precipitous. The color palette is so muted it seems like the animators were told only to use a maximum of 16 throughout the entire running time. The familiar characters are still quite recognizable, but they all lack detail and depth that you come to expect from Disney. I know that the direct-to-DVD products are given smaller budgets, but that doesn't justify just how cheap this movie looks.There are still lots of redeeming parts of this movie, but the lack of visual polish is too distracting for me to enjoy them.

The "Aladdin" series of stuff keeps on piling up in 1996 with its third part and its second video- only movie so far, "Aladdin and the King of Thieves."Here, Aladdin has decided to marry Princess Jasmine. But as the ceremony was about to go through, something bad happens!!!!! There are bad guys; thieves!!!!! Now, Aladdin's job is to stop them before it's too late and that the wedding will go on!!!!!I must say, "Aladdin" was a very successful Disney medium of the 1990s. Yes, I have enjoyed "Beauty and the Beast," but I too have enjoyed "Aladdin." This spawned three movies (one theatrical and two video), plus a TV series and a video game, and lots of toys, too.This final chapter in the "Aladdin" series is a must see!!!!!10 stars