Loose Cannon - Disney's Aladdin Movie Trilogy Roundtable Discussion

This Week in Geek’s Loose Cannon is our all around movies podcast covering the weird, wild, or sometimes nostalgic world of films.

This time, our crew of Birdman, Ken, and David discuss the breath that is the Disney Aladdin Trilogy of films. That’s right we talk about the original 1992 classic, its TV direct to video movie Return of Jafar, and the direct to video film that completed the trilogy King of Thieves. We also touch on the legacy of Howard Ashman and the subtle little touches that almost made it into the first film, how Return of Jafar feels lesser and how King of Thieves ends the series of films on a better note.

It’s time to head to a land in a faraway place where the caravan camels roam with the Aladdin Trilogy.It’s another TWIG Loose Cannon. Please Be Kind and Don’t Forget to Rewind before returning your videos to the shelves. 

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November 3, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yum yum.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's time for a tasty and refreshing snack. You know
what I can do with that? I can do without
the people in the video store, which ones all of them.

(00:26):
They never rent quality flexed. They always pick the most
intellectually devoid movie on the racks.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
And no on with the show.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I think there's something written here. Why ten thousand years
will give you such a crick and the neck?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Say the magic word, Genie, I wish for you to
make me a print.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
He has a lap.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh wait, yes, that's good.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
A got hold that? I wang?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Hey, guys, what's going on? You are listening to this
weekend geek dot nets loose Cannon. I am one of
the twiggt video store clerks. I am Mike the Birdman.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
But I'm not.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Alone as I walk down these hollowed aisleways full of
big box VHS, DVD maybe even some Beta Max I
don't know, but I'm also joined on this lovely show
from the lovely state.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Of New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's ten from this anime.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
And Twig's regional video store manager and co host of
Do You Even Movie?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
David Denier, coming to you from Ohio.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
That's right, guys, the multinational team to take on the
Arabian Nights themselves. That's right, guys, we are finally getting
around to the long awaited Aladdin show. And this is
part of a kind of I guess like a Disney
two pack we're kind of doing. We're doing this and
a Goofy movie because Goofy movie just celebrated its thirtieth

(01:57):
anniversary this year. And Aladdin, I think it's what twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Twenty eight years something like that.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, is ninety two, I want to say, or ninety
Maybe it's nty.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I was just say, yeah the year I was born. Yeah,
you were both born right.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh my god, you guys may make me feel so
fucking old. I think I was like, I think I was.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Like twelve or thirteen, So when you guys were conceived,
I was trying to pick up girls and not successfully,
I might add.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
So yeah, yeah, the Aladdin movies.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
I have not seen these in literally decades, which was
kind of I'm glad Dave brought these up for us
to do.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
And I remember we started chatting about this. I think
we did like a.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Very early ram earlier in the year, and we were
just kind of thrown out, would you like.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
To know where this came from, because I can tell
you verbatim. Okay, wish Master episode because we were talking
about gins and genies and I was like, yeah, I mean,
here's the Aladdin movies. Even so, yeah, that was a
date back as to how long this episode's been preparing.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, so I'm really glad you we finally got around
to actually kind of doing this. I mean, obviously I've
got nothing but time on my hands right now, but yeah,
this was a trip because I can't even remember when
I first saw these movies. I want to say, so
this was ninety two, when you babyface motherfuckers were born,

(03:26):
when I was like twelve or thirteen or however old
it was. I was born in nineteen eighty one, and
I think I saw this at a kid's birthday party
or something on big box VHS on those huge, giant
ass Walt Disney white clamshells.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I don't think I ever saw this in theaters.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I do remember
I was a very big fan of Robin Williams. I
remember in the seventh grade somebody had loaned me Robin Williams,
uh live at the Mets or something like that, which
is a fantastic comedy special. And I thought Rob Wins

(04:07):
was the most hysterical comedian around. And I really I
had like a Robin Williams phase. I want to say, like,
I remember watching that. I remember watching Missus Doubtfire that
I remember seeing in theaters. I saw Patch Adams and
a few other movies he did.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I think I saw good whatever the hell that.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Was a motorcycle, my apologies.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
I was like awesome. And and then the Borg show up.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
I had seen a Good Morning Vietnam, probably entirely too
young to understand it, but yeah, so this was a
nice trip down memory lane. And then the other movies
that we're gonna be talking about tonight. We're also going
to be talking about the directed video sequels Aladdin, Return
of Ja'far and Aladdin The King of Thieves, both of

(05:00):
which I had never seen until last night as prior
to this recording. So I like it for the most part.
I remember the Aladdin TV show that was on CBS
or ABC Saturday mornings. I think it's on Disney Plus.
I'm pretty sure it is. It is which is again buried. Yeah,

(05:21):
it's so weird, how Disney buries their Disney Afternoon shows, Like,
why that's not its own section? Weirds me the fuck
out because there's so much good Disney Afternoon stuff.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm pretty sure it technically is, but it is buried
behind multiple menus, so you have to go to search
all collections, and then there's a collection for all the
Disney Afternoon stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's wild.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
So I'm gonna throw things over to Dave right now.
Since this was your idea and you're a huge fan
of these movies, what has been your experience with this
franchise as a whole?

Speaker 2 (06:00):
So Aladdin as a whole is basically I distinctly remember
getting the VHS of Return of Jafar as like a
big gift Christmas gift. I can't remember which, but I
remember getting it as a gift and being so excited
and remembering how much I loved Return of Jafar. And
I mean that goes obviously back to the fact that

(06:20):
Aladdin came first and created the character of Jafar. But
where where, like my journey with the Latin starts is,
I mean, I just this movie was always in my life,
like we always had the Black Diamond Disney VHS at
the house. It was one that got recent, that got
rewound and and you know, put on a lot and
then I just remember distinctly those sequels coming out, Return

(06:42):
of Jafar and then Aladdin The King of Thieves and
again just having those VHS's, and you know, I've been
on this show for about two years plus now, I
think at this point, and I think people understand that,
like movies to me are a very big deal because
they just kind of hold that sentimental value on top
of the memories. And what I love about a Latin
in general is just it's it's a really simple story

(07:04):
when you think about it. I mean, and it dates
back far. I mean, it dates back very far to
like early days of film, and you know you had
Aladdin and Ali Baba and like all that stuff, and
I mean, you know all those correlations to it, and
then Disney decided to do a nineties kids movie version
of it, and who knew that it was going to
blow up the way it did. But I mean, when
you have a voice like Rob Williams behind it, the
animation is top notch, the songs are really good. So yeah,

(07:28):
I mean, then you have returnative far comes out the
animated series and then to Cat the animated series they
do Aladdin, King of Thieves, And to be honest, they're
they're decent entries. Even if even if you know, returning
to far As, we'll discuss it, I think we all
agree on is lower tier of the entire trilogy. But
they're not bad movies. All three of them have value,
even if you know one is lesser than the others.

(07:49):
But there's just fun. I mean, they're they're the classic
Disney that relates back to the songs and you know,
just has that animation style to it that we all
grew up with, you know, I just I think these
movies are timeless because of that, and you know, even
the fact that you know, we got the live action remake,
which I haven't seen and probably never will at this point,

(08:10):
it all shows it. But yeah, I've heard that, I've
heard it's good, and I've heard it's really really bad.
So it's like it's in that middle point and it
it could be something I throw on one night. We'll see.
But like my whole point to wrap up on the
entry of me with these movies is they're timeless and
they're still popular today. I mean, we got a live
action remake of a ninety two children's movie, you know,

(08:31):
just a few years ago. Given it didn't do super well,
but like because they bred back its budgeted, which is
a good thing budget but it's everything for that time.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, it like didn't set the world on fire, which
is weird now that you mentioned that. I remembered distinctly.
I can't remember what toy company reached out to me,
but I remember getting a bunch of review samples from
me Aladdin movie, and I must have got some wires,

(09:03):
must have got cross somewhere, because I ended up with
a metric fucked ton of like Aladdin toys. And I'm
not talking just one or two. I'm talking like fifteen
of these things. So I donated like fourteen of these
things to like a local children's charity or something. But
I was like, okay, please stop, no more Genie in

(09:26):
the house, please. Man, I hadn't thought about that in years.
Holy shit, that's a memory and a half. Anyway, continue any.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
It's a I mean, you know, it was just it
was a time of collectiveness of the animation style and
the songs that we know and everything. So I mean,
it's this is just a big, big point in Disney.
I think that still retains its power even today, obviously.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Mmmm yeah, sorry, ken ahead.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
I was going to add that there's even more history
than some people know of this movie, because like they're like,
the pre production on this movie started ages ago, back
in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
It was cooking in the ether for a bit, because
don't they talk about it on the Waking Sleeping Beauty documentary?

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, Waking Sleeping Beauty as well as the Shit Brain.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
I know which one you're talking about it it's the
other documentary or the other like the series doc. Yeah,
I never talked about I can't think of what it's
called either.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah, but basically this is a huge there's a very
specific cut song from this.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Movie from the original Leon.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yes, there is a cut song. I think I read
from the original from the original script.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, give me a second, because I remember when they
talked about in the documentary on Waking Some Beauty specifically
was that this was in the ether, but it kept
getting held back because they kept having flops like Rescuers
down Under. I mean, no, God, there's a there's a
bunch of that. Listen now, I'm blanking on those two.

(11:30):
Have you seen Waking Some Beauty Bird Band.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I have never even heard of it. What is you?

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Do?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
You have Disney Plus? Oh yeah, okay, so it's it's
it's on Disney Plus. But it was a documentary that
came out probably circa twenty thirteen, probably ish, and it's
all about the slump, the slump at Disney when they
they had their big hit and everything, and then that
night that eighties nineties slump kind of hit where they
just couldn't get their their core audience. And then it

(11:58):
was Beauty and the Beast that they ended up showing
it can in the just this the regular animation sale style,
It wasn't even colored in, and they got a standing
ovation and they were like, holy shit, we're onto something here.
And then that like basically was the launched for like
Little Mermaid and Aladdin and all those ones. Like they
were holding onto this project. You foun out in that
documentary for a while because they knew it was something good,
but they had to have the money to do it

(12:20):
and the confidence that they were going to get that
money back.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Oh wow, yeah, Because like I remember Beauty and the
Beast being an absolutely huge thing, Like I remember when
that can That's another one I didn't see in theaters,
but when it came to my local mom and pop
corner store, I remember renting that and being like, wow,

(12:43):
this looks really good. But I haven't seen that since
it came out like ninety or ninety one. It's been
a really long time. But yeah, like I remember when
a lot of the Disney movies just didn't hit. Like
the first movie I ever saw in theaters as a
kid was Fox and the Hound, and I don't think

(13:04):
that did terribly well.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Obviously, He's a fun movie.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Part of the Dark Days.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, it was part of the Dark Ages. And I
mean also, like you just said it too, Like I
think a lot of people forget that it starts with
literally the mom getting shot.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, it's like, holy shit, guys, enjoy buckle up, kids,
And I remember, Actually it's funny.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
I remember this. And this is a little bit of
Twig history.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
So a couple of years ago, Alex Alex the producer,
came over to my house and he's like, hey, Mike,
have you ever seen Oliver in Company? And I'm like, no,
but I know of it because I know Billy Joel
does some songs for it or whatever.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
I'm like, Okay, cool.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
So he's like, I'm going to show you the first
five minutes and then you tell me whether you want
to keep going. And I'm thinking, all right, I'm a
tough motherfucker. I mean, I'm not saying I'm sitting there
a fucking serbian film or anything, but I'm like, Okay,
what do you got and what they did to that
fucking kit? And I was like, you motherfuckers. I was

(14:01):
so mad. I'm sad that cat fuck you for making
me feel this. Al was just like, yeah, I told
you wait, just wait, Mike, and then I'm gonna show
you a flow. I'm like, oh, good, good the fucking
Doctor Wiley movie. Yeah, I'm good. I'll wait till i'm
edibled and in a really good movie before I yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
I don't ken.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Was it the documentary Howard?

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, it's it's the Howard Ashman documentary. I was looking
it up.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Mostly like the the song. The cut song was called
a Proud of your.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Boy and yes man because he sings that. He sings
that right before he gets arrested.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
I believe that that was part of the original script. Yeah,
that's right around that point.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Because I feel like it's right after he meets Jasmine
or something along those lines.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yeah, it's right after he meets Jasmine.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah I believe. No, I did remember that. Yeah, and
I think I think I've heard the whole thing, or
at least watch the whole deleted scenes. I think they
have it on Disney Plus. But I mean, you you
nailed it perfectly. That's that's this movie has so much
with it.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, go ahead, But like Howard Ashman's DNA is kind
of in this movie. This was this was something that
he started post Little Mermaid and kind of really was
trying to develop. And then Beauty and the Beast rolled

(15:37):
around beforehand and that was getting more tractions, so he
helped work on that, and obviously he passed away before
Beauty and the Beast ever came out.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, I don't remember that too.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
And the more you learn about Howard Ashman and his legacy,
especially uh to the LGBTQ community and everything that he
did for that, it's the man is a The man

(16:12):
was such a part of everyone everyone that is our
age is childhood that it's kind of amazing.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, no, I agree, But.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, going back to like my history with Aladdin, Aladdin
is my number two favorite Disney movie of all time.
It's it it as I've aged, this movie has aged
a lot better in some ways in my estimation.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Is it because the simplicity or is it because the
uh it's really well paced the overall field.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah, I think it's brilliantly paced. It is such a
well paced film. And you can tell that the many
years that this script was roaming around Disney, it actually
was developed and redeveloped multiple times to like fine tune

(17:18):
it to spectacular degrees.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's one thing I noticed while I was watching Aladdin
last night.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
You're never really bored.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
You don't get you don't get a lot of time
to dis engage, which is a good thing for the
most part, where it means if you want to, if
you really want to pay attention, you're gonna get an
entertaining experience from from front to back. I have the
most millennial problem ever where I often look down at
my phone while I'm watching a movie, which is a

(17:52):
terrible habit I need to break. But with this one,
if you do look at your phone, you're gonna miss stuff.
And there's a lot of good stuff in Aladdin, Like
there's so many quick gags Robin Williams. I've heard, like
the story where he just ad libbed so much shit.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
There are hours of there's a whole movie worth of
Robin Williams outtakes.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
They basically said they could do a whole different version
of just Rondy Goes.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Which, Yeah, Like one thing I'd always heard out of
the nineties is Robin Williams would do so many takes
of stuff and it was never the same thing twice.
I get, Like, I know, there's an R rated Mistoubtfire
that will never see the light of day, but let
me tell you, I would pay for that. There's probably
an R rated Aladdin too, which would be pretty fucking hysterical.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
There's probably any R rated and like Flubber or any
kid's movie that he was associated with at some point,
there are.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Some there are there's a like, I think there's twenty
They released like twenty minutes of out takes from from.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Robin Oh that I'm gonna have to see.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Around the time he passed away, there was that came
out of like twenty minutes of his outtakes, and they're
all like absolutely hilarious. You know.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
One of the things I do as A side hustle
is I do voiceover for a radio station, and I
always include my outtakes because I want the person editing
my voice to have a bit of a chuckle. And
there's one comer. I don't want to say the name

(19:29):
of the business, but I'm like, when you go here
at this location, believe me, this is the one place
source by doctor Doom and Latveria, because believe me, when
you need your doombots polished, you want to come here.
Remember you don't want to fuck with Tony Stark. And
I'll just make shit up just to make them laugh.
Or I'll be like, you should buy this rig from

(19:52):
this jewelry shop yet, cheap fucker, And I'll.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Just do that just the fuck with people.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
Okay, so really quick sidebar. So there was a piece
of script I read last year. I'm not even kidding guys.
I did seventy five fucking takes. I had to call
this guy at MIT and I'm like, who the fuck
wrote this? And I was trying to sell hot dogs
and the running gag was because it was a really

(20:20):
complicated name. Eventually I just said blah blah blah blah blah,
and you can buy hot Dogshow Tino Plente, and I
just went on this fucking huge riff on Tino Plente
and I still get called that today from this particular producer.
So takes from voices are so much fun because you
can just make up whatever you want. Like there's a

(20:41):
very famous I wouldn't call it an outtake, but it's
like a fake car commercial.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
And it's called Big Bill Hell's.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
And it's like, yeah, challenge, that's right, challenge. Yeah. My
dad showed me that video probably before he should have,
Like that's like early days of like him pulling up
a video on his laptop, like not even going online.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
I discovered that within the last like five years, and
just again the gooment, Well fuck.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Your wife, that's right, Well fuck your wife, yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Don't fuck this will kill you, rip your nuts off.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, I love Big Bell Hell's Auto. Oh my god,
bad deal cars that breakdown, but you're fucked.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Oh anyway, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
You're a dead motherfucker. I think between the three of
us right now, we could probably do that whole fucking
ad probably.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
But like one of the things I loved about Aladdin,
and this particularly took me even as a child and
even now every song hits so well, and you can
really hear the genuine joy coming out of Robin Williams.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Oh yeah, like.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
The obviously he adores this character so much.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, Like, it's so he adored.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
The character so much. He had in his contract, very
very specific things that the genie had to be in
the marketing and everything. And they will talk about it
when we go to return to Cha.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
I mean, it's it's not it's nothing huge. They violated it.
They used him so much in the advertising campaign. That's
why we get Dan Castellina in the sequel, and then
Robin returns for the third one. Because the sequel did
so well, they had the money to bring him back
and found the good.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Actually, actually, no, that's not what happened. John Katzenberg got fired,
that's right.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
No, you're probably right.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
That's why because Lberg.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Was the reason, because that's when Disney was changing its
regime in about the late nineties, right.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Which they talk about in that documentary like they they
don't pay Katzenberg in the best light in that documentary.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
And you know what's fucking weird.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
I remember knowing that in the nineties because for some bizarre,
fucking reason, I used to watch Entertainment Tonight and Entertainment
Tonight Canada, and I just knew that. I'm like, oh, wow,
things are really fucked up at Disney. Hey, I've got
homework due in the morning. What fucking grade ten gives
a fuck about entertainment anyway?

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Weirdo.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
But yeah, like I remember that being a huge deal.
And again, this was a movie that I even remember
my grandparents knowing about.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
My grandparents were old and weird.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
And they would talk about again Disney movies, and it
just it always threw me off, like why the fuck
do you know about this? Like, I was so surprised
how much it became like a cultural thing. And this
is back when every Disney movie got a fucking video game.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Oh my god, I logged so many hours on SNS
Aladdin that I still I mean, you've probably seen me
play it on the stream when we do the live stream.
I love this game so much.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Oh yeah, and the fact that it got ported in
the last couple of years to like multiple Disney collections.
I'm actually, after we're done this podcast, I'm just gonna
jump off and make sure I still have it on
my PSN account or my switch account. If not, I
may just buy it, but I remember it getting ported,
and that was a pretty big deal because I said,

(24:29):
the Genesis and this nets game are two distinctly different games,
done by two different developers, but published by the same company.
But I remember the thing I remember most about the
Aladdin game is how smooth the animation looked.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Which you sometimes because you slide off the platforms.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well, because they actually used the animation cells from the
gate from the movie.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh yeah. Like And another very brief sidebar.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
So I went to a launch party for Disney's epic Mickey.
This would have been around two thousand and seven, two
thousand and eight, and they had Disney artists there, and
I remember one of the things the guy said, Hey,
I specialize in doing Little Mermaid stuff and Aladdin type stuff,

(25:17):
and I think Blair got something from Little Mermaid or something.
But I do remember someone getting pictures of the Genie done.
And I remember one girl, like some gaming influencer. I
want to say, I can't remember her name, but I
remember her geting a really cool picture of Jasmine and
I was like, holy shit. And that's another thing too,

(25:39):
This was the character designs in this movie are really
fucking memorable. Like I love the look of Jazmine, obviously
she's very cute and very kind of beautiful, but the
look of a boo memorable as shits Iago.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
It just you could see Gilbert Godfried in that.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
And I don't know, there's just something about the way
every character is brought to life in this through the
artwork that is outstanding. The backgrounds look great. The Cave
of Wonders, even being like old CG still looks really
fucking boss.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Jan Wour is.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Such a good villain like that is Yeah, that's why
they That's why they did dark Man, dark Man one
and dark Man two with Durant. It's the same thing.
You've got a strong villain. They want to use him
in the next movie. So what do we do? We
give him his own movie for the second one. But
in this first one he establishes himself so well as
just like I don't like this guy, No, I really
don't like this guy. Oh fuck this guy.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Oh yeah, And like Disney when they want to do
villains really well, when they really go into their design,
Jaffar is one of the first. Like my top three
Disney villains I can name three of I can name
two out of my three favors. The other guy one
of my favorites, I can't remember the name. I think
his name is Eron or something. The guy from The

(27:02):
Princess and the Frog, the guy who was voiced by Yeah,
that's a fucking boss, fucking look. But also Ja'afar is
probably number two for me. But Scar from The Lion
King and all three of those performances hit so fucking

(27:23):
good and they're memorable too. And that's the like thing too. Again,
I remember kids dressing up as Jafar for Halloween. So
again that's that's just how big this thing was. And
I remember, like the soundtrack selling on cassette and CD

(27:44):
really well in my area, Like I remember.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
A friend like the thing you couldn't escape even as
you got older could escape it.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Also, I still own my original soundtrack, which has the
the not politically correct language of the opening number.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Oh that's funny.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, it was just one of those memorable things, and
like Aladdin, like what more can we really kind of
say about it? I mean, it is literally the very
definition of a Disney classic, the one of the juggernauts
of the nineties. I would say, Okay, here's a question
for the panel, which is more culturally relevant this Little

(28:29):
Mermaid or Lion King among those tops, I would.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Say Lion King. King's number one, Latin's number two, Little
Mermaid number three. I would argue because the problem is
Little Mermaid is very connected to the female audience, whereas
a Laddin, Lion King kind of a boy of everyone. See.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
I mean, I don't know, because it's like you could
you could argue that Little Mermaid is still topical, even
more so than.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Oh way more topical than any of them, because literally
it's literally an LGBTQ story.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, and That's what I'm saying. So it's like, I guess,
I guess it would just depend on the decade to
say that, to say prominent wise, but I think honestly,
like I would probably go Lion King, Little Mermaid, and Aladdin. Honestly,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
I would say Aladdin culturally more relevant. And here are
my points for that. Marketing video games, Robin Williams is
your main driving force. However, on the flip side of
this argument, could I make a compelling argument for the
Lion King. Yes, great movie, James Earl Jones, Jonathan Taylor Thomas,

(29:46):
but and Wollop, Be Goldberg and Jeremy Iron so very
very very stat cast. But what made that movie stand
out was the Elton John song, and especially after Princess
Diana died. Yes, that's what made that skyrocket the cultural relevance.
But in terms of importance, I really think Aladdin's the

(30:07):
better movie.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yes, I could see that, and I will, I will,
I will enter the argument here of saying, according to IMDb,
and you know, take that with a grain of salt,
eight point five for Lion King, eight point zero for Aladdin,
seven point six for Little Mermaid.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yeah, like I want to revisit all these Disney juggernauts
at some point, yeah, just to see how they stack
up today, because I remember again with the Lion King,
you could not escape in the air or not in
the air tonight.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Cafe Akuna Matata. I mean, it's it's kind of funny
because we were talking off Mike about how Return of
Jafar has such forgettable songs, and then King of Thieves
and Aladdin both have like memorable tunes, and I think
it's because, honestly, you when you got bangers, you got bangers.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, I mean, and I guess that kind of transitions
us transitions us into top talking about Return of Jafar.
So last night was the first time I'd ever seen
Return to Jaffar. But I remember its marketing being tied
very heavily into the TV show, and I remember its
place on store shelves being very prominent because it had

(31:18):
such striking box art work, because it was that vibrant
Crimson red with Jafar very prominent on the box art.
But I never saw it, and I even with the
Aladdin TV show, I had never seen more than a
handful of episodes because, as you guys might remember, a
couple couple of episodes ago, we were talking about Saturday

(31:40):
Morning cartoons. I was a Fox kid, so when fucking
the X Men and Spider Man came on, didn't care.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's where I was. So I was not into the Disney.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Stuff, and I know I missed a bunch of really
good stuff too. But yeah, when I watched it last night,
I was like, I want I feel, and it's mostly
because of you, Dave. You're like, this is your family,
all right, Cool, if Dave likes it, it probably doesn't suck.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, it's by the way, So I'm.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yeah, so I'm going into this, I'm thinking, I, this
is okay. I mean I'd rather watch this than Crow
twenty twenty four. But you know that's not a high
bar to clear. But I'm thinking, let's don't like that.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Let's not do that. Let's let let's let's just let's
let's not enter that chat right now. Yeah, that's still
a brazen wound after having our Crow do even movie
episode because I found myself talking about it because of
the thing I had for this.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
So yeah, moving on, yeah yeah, so but yeah, I
was like I wanted to really like this.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
I really did, And there are some fun moments in this.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
I think Gilbert Godfrey does a really good job as Yago.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Literally he's the lead of the movie.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, and it was almost caught return Yaga's Return was
almost the title, and then they were just like, Return
of Jafar has a better ring to it, because I mean,
in all honesty, I don't think where Jafar actually has
much screen screen time compared to Iago, especially real Jafar character.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Yeah, I mean he's like I'm all powerful, Genie and
you Jason Alexander, because I can't even remember the character's name,
Like I.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Just got this because I always think of abysmal.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
And again that's.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Literally the joke.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
I mean, it's clever.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
But one thing that I noticed, because I was watching
this on Disney Plus and this really stuck out to me,
and I fucking hate that it did. The animation is
just it's it's it's a step backwards. And what I mean,
I'm not saying like the quality is there. The colors
are different.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
It's clunky.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, it's clunky.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
It's and it doesn't yeah, it just doesn't have a
good shading to it. One of the things that I
found out watching it because I had not seen this,
probably since I had watched it on a DVD or
it might have been streaming where back I mean I
can't remember Disney movies even stream back then, but I yeah,

(34:04):
possibly Netflix maybe, But I had watched it in college
and I hadn't seen it sot in about a decade,
I would say, and then about probably a riot right
around eight years ago. I got it lucked into the
Disney Movie Club, which has Return of Jafar and King
of Thieves. Watched the Blu ray of those for this
time around. They edited Jaffar's death because Ja'afar used to

(34:25):
be a skeleton when he died, and they have taken
that out until like the last two frames.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
There's a lot of it, a lot of the nineties
stuff has been edited to modern stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Well, it's like even even the next movie, King of Thieves,
I remember there being a blood slice and I looked
it up and I was damn sure correct that there
was blood originally in this movie, and they took it out.
So you saying the thing about the clunkiness, it's it's
even more evident in these effects in the in the
in the CGI of this movie.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
It is very TV.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yes, it's very TV. It's very of the show. And
then that's kind of what brings us up in King
of Thieves is the quality Luckily raises. But yeah, for
this one it dips. Burd Man, You're not wrong.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Yeah, it's just and the thing is, like, again, I
really wanted to like it. Yeah, there's some fun, there's
like some fun moments in this. There's some good bits,
but it just it doesn't have the same magic. And
to capture the same a Laddin magic is hard to
almost impossible. And Dan Cassanella as the genie is not terrible.

(35:37):
The problem is, and this is yeah. Like there's one
moment I looked away to pet my cat or something
last night as I'm watching this, and I heard a
couple of syllables of Homer Simpson.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Oh, I can do you on better? The Jack in
the Box is totally Crusty's.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Laugh yeah, And I'm like a fuck And once I
heard that, it completely disconnected me from it. And I
know that's a me problem, but it sucks when that happens. Like,
for example, like I know me and can play a
lot of video games. The second you hear Nolan North
in a game, you're like, oh, look, it's Deadpool or

(36:17):
Nathan Drake. You cannot not hear it right, Whereas you
get someone like say Troy Baker, You're not just hearing
Joel from the Last of Us. You can hear other roles,
but anda's Nolan North. He's fucking great. But once you
hear that cadence, you know, and you can't disconnect from.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Nolan isn't as versatile of a voice actor as some
of his other like minded.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
People Janie and Jeanie's big shoes to Phill. Let's I mean,
let's just go ahead and sill and you can't you can't.
Dan Cassella is amazing. He has he has, he has
put himself in history for the voice where he's done
the Simpsons alone, and that's just even like one scoop
of his career. But I mean, it's it is it's

(37:06):
a role that we were given by Robin Williams, who
rest in peace. I mean, you know, ever since he
left this world, it's just been a little less funny.
And what is so great about William's performance in this
is he's he's crazy, he's spastic, but he's also on
the nose carrying and everything. And when we get Genie
in this movie, he's come back from the vacation leaves

(37:27):
or at the end of a Latin of course, and
he does this whole song about you know, home again
with you. There's no place I'd rather be than with
you and everything, and that song again we as we
get into the music, that song's not bad. But like
you can tell that this has the feelings of a
direct to video sequel, because it absolutely is. And then
on top of that, you've also got a pretty weak

(37:49):
story upon recent watch, in my opinion, mm hmm, a
very weak way to bring back to you far I
would say like it it's it's kind of funny in
the sense of how things play out, but it's just like,
I don't know, Like when I revisited this time, I
was like, man, the only thing really great about this
movie is the ending, like the lava pit and then

(38:10):
jumping on the rocks and everything, like that's really fun
and that's like the best part of this other than
like a couple of Jafar scenes, you know, especially when
he's in drag his jasmine one of my favorite scenes. Yes,
it's just like there's there's tricks in this movie that
are just kind of like you you love the world
of a Laddin, so you accept them, but it's just
a weak plot. I mean, the basic principle is just

(38:30):
that you know, a Yago comes back, Jaffar is being
mean to him, he drops him down a well, he
tries to sneak back into the city. He makes good
by helping Aladdin out, and you know, Aladdin tries to
bring him back, hiding him. Jaffar comes and is like, yo,
owe me one, and then you know, Jaffar ends up
getting the getting what is it, the lamp? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
the lamp? Yeah, sorry, gets the lamp and you know

(38:53):
it's it's just it's one of those movies that is fine.
It's fine.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Will give I will give credit where credit is dude.
Jonathan Freeman coming back to voice Jafar a plus. Glad
he came back.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Oh, Freeman's great. Just like Paul Freeman in Fucking Money
Mormon Power Rangers. Knew the assignment when he created Jafar.
That was that. That's an em like you hear that voice,
you know that character. I've never heard Freeman's voice and
thought of anybody else.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yeah, it's the same. And honestly, like the last time,
I think the last time Freeman did just far that
I can remember was House a Mouse.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
But there's some almost damn it, you just took me back.
I love that show.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
But but one of the most memorable things about the
TV show, the Aladdin TV show was the crossover with
the Hercules TV show.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Yeah down, because once I learned about that, like, oh shit,
that's so cool, I've got to see this.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
It was a very very cool show. It was a
very cool crossover episode where basically Hades fucks with the
Laddin and Jaffar fucks with Hercules.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
That's the badness I do remember that, Like it's so weird,
like when you have those little jogs of like did
I see this? And then it's like you just said
that last thing with him fuck with and I was like,
I totally saw that. I totally remember that.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Man Like again, So Return of Jafar worth watching, worth
checking out, but definitely a step down in quality. But
still if you're gonna watch one, yeah, might as well
watch them all.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
I mean, where you're gonna get out with in less
than like three and a half hours.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Yeah, I mean, honestly, I'm marathon to all of these
from midnight to five am.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Not a bad way to spend any evening.

Speaker 4 (40:53):
So the next movie we're gonna talk about in the
final one in the Aladdin animated trilogy is Aladdin and
the King of Thieves. Again, I don't remember this being
well advertised when I was a kid. I here's this.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Oh this is yeah, this is ninety six and you
you obviously didn't get any kids channels and or Disney
VHS tapes because they had not shoved this down your
throat to the point that like, correct me if I'm wrong.
Can that trailer was at least two and a half minutes. Oh, Wow.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Yeah, when when I was a kid, so ninety six,
I would have been going into my first year of
high school.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Yeah, Like I distinctly remember the narrator going Aladdin and
Jasmine are finally getting married. Like that's increased.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Finally getting married. I'm getting married.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yeah, it's so ingrained to my god, dang brain, just
exactly just the narrator, just the idea of the U
in a new feature film, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, and.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
They tell the story of the forty Thieves and then
you get the forty Thieves song Like it was you
you say, ingrained in my brain. Yes, it is so
like maybe that's what Return of Jafar doesn't have, Is
that staying power because maybe they're just bad. Wasn't strong enough.
I don't know, but yeah, King of Thieves was that
more primitive time. You know, we were both for at
this point. Uh So it makes sense that would kind

(42:19):
of get into our heads because we probably watched this
VHS as well as the other ones that advertised it
a lot.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Like when when I watched it last night, I will
say this animation quality stepped up almost as good as theatrical.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, the writing was.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
Intensely sharp characterizations were fucking great, wonderful character designs. Not
gonna lie, there's a few ideas I might steal for
a future D.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
And D thing.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
And I was like, this is really freaking awesome, plus
random ed two nine reference I really enjoyed.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Yeah, yeah, I was like, okay, RoboCop, all right, cool.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
Let's just there were so many quick witted references in this. Again,
I would love to hear the outtakes for this, if
such a thing exists, probably, but this was genuinely really good. Now,
who played Aladdin's father? Who was the voice there?

Speaker 5 (43:18):
Oh? I fucking like because like, I knew the voice,
but I didn't think it was so at that time
he would have been doing sliders, so okay, cool, Yeah,
a couple of years before the.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Right you know who Seluke was?

Speaker 1 (43:31):
By the way, who was.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
That Jerry Orbach? Holy shit, yeah, the guy at the clause,
that's Jerry Orbach.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Fucking brisco himself mother from Beauty and the Beast.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
See, I know him more as Lenny Briscoe from Law.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Or Yeah, I get that, but I'm more so correlating
it to Disney just giving that.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
Yeah, but that's wow. What a cast, and yeah, you
wouldn't expect that those.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Were the big gets. You have Jonathon Reaped Stavies as
his father, and then you have Jerry Orbachezer villain.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
Yeah, like again, and it's just what great performances like
all round in this. And the gags were fast, they
were funny. The wedding gag with Robin Williams introducing, like,
oh and they brought a salad.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
And I'm Caesar and they brought the salad. You're on
about a Rabba ho Pocahontas.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
Yes, that's still great too, and just all the rapid
fire gags they were doing.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
This is a movie, like I did.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
I was on my phone for like a little bit
of this, but more often than not, I was more
engaged with this one way more than ja'far. But again,
just they changed the setting, the stakes changed. It was
a really good story too, Like that's what really took
me by surprise. And I've heard for years this was

(45:00):
the best Aladdin sequel.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
It's also probably one of the best of the direct
to video sequels.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Yeah, that's what that's kind of the vibe I'm getting them. Yeah,
I mean I haven't seen a whole lot of them.
But I would rank this for me anyway, just behind
an extremely goofy movies.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
I think that was direct to vie. I don't think
that went to theaters.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Yeah video, yeah, I mean. And that's what's funny is
like you think about Returning Too Far, which is Disney's
first direct to video release, and then we get to
King of Thieves and it's just like, oh, y'all got
the formula right. But then again, when you look into
the inner workings of it, you had one studio in
Japan finish the movie while the other studio, animation studio
in Australia started it.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Yeah, like it's just I really don't And another thing
to like kind of mention about this too, whoever wrote
the music for King of Thieves they were cooking, and
they were cooking.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Yeah, hard and mean.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
Out of thin air is ingrained into brain.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
I know that.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
I know that song by heart easy.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
In or Out was one of my favorite.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Or out Cross or oh.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Yeah, like oh like just wow, just like.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Jerry Orbach just has like that booming well you so
a birdman. You were saying how you love to watch
out takes the only thing I could find on King
of Thieves is if you go on YouTube and type
in Aladdin to the King of Thieves. Behind the scenes,
there's a five minute epap K that they put out
that is like this the actors working in the studio
And one of the things that Orbach says is it's

(46:38):
so much fun to do voices because you just get
to put everything into speaking. You're reading this paper, but
you get to put everything into speaking, like you don't
have to have like the action with it. And like
he was having a blast, Davies was having a blast,
and Williams was cracking the studio up because there's one
point where like they have a disconnection of something and
he's just talking. He's like, all right, well, now they

(46:58):
have five people in that room. I guess the problem.
Oh hopes what it is? In far it's gonna clear
the room out real quick. And like he's just doing that.
Rob Williams quip stuff.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
Like I like, I am so amazed at how good
this was. I really can't think of anything negative to
say if I had one thing negative to say, and
it's such a nitpick. Is where they get to the
end and the forty thieves and everybody have made it
out to the Vanishing Island. Fucking clever idea ship. By

(47:29):
the way, how it's on the back of that giant turtle.
The turtle looks a little rough, but the set around
the turtle looks good. Again, that's a small nitpick at best,
but it's such a good ending too.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Yeah it really by the way.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Just going back to the music, uh the uh, the
main lead behind it was Bill Elliott.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
He uh.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
He is known for his work on Independence Day.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Yeah. I was like, I know that name, why do
I know? Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Uh. He worked on Dick Tracy as well.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
That's also probably yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Uh, and he has been known for a lot of
stuff and like he's he's been around since since. Uh
let's see, his first credit was nineteen ninety with Dick Tracy.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
Oh wow, you know that's something we'll have to talk
about at some point because I've been wanting to revisit
Dick Tracy for a while for some really weird reason.
But yeah, yeah, I mean, honestly, I had most of
the toys for that. That was one of my very
first toy centric movies. I think the only the only
ones I didn't have were the Blank But was weirdly

(48:57):
really easy to find in Canada, but it's a.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
Very rare.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's am like a blank figure on card.
At one point, I think it was going for easily
in upwards of five six hundred dollars minimum and they
were all Canadian carded. Yeah, because it was so short packed.
But it was one of the first times that a
movie was spoiled because of the toy.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
But anyway, I'm a dork.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
Uh Yeah, Like, honestly, I enjoyed the hell out of
this great ending.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
I love the character arc of his scene.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
I love how Iago goes with him, and like again,
Iago is a wonderful character to follow with you all
of these movies. That's something that I really great. His
journey is great.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
And I think what I love about King of Thieves
most is just the the idea of introducing Midas's touch
in the whole thing of the gold and then making
that your finale of the greed, getting in the and
realizing that he wanted his family more than he wanted
the riches and everything. You know. I mean, it's it's
cliche as all get out, but at the same time,

(50:07):
it's such a cool thing to see happened to Aladdin,
because Aladdin's a pretty tragic character in the sense of
if you think about his whole story.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
M h.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
And we haven't really talked about Aladdin's voice actor, which
I didn't know that was Steve from fucking Full House.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Oh hell yeah. There's a whole episode where they go
they go to Disney, and there's a whole joke with
with Aladdin in it.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
I had no idea. And I think he came back
and did the voice for Kingdom Hearts, didn't he?

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yes, yeah, sure, yeah again that.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
This is the thing with Disney a lot of times,
especially modern Disney, they will hire, they will sign you,
and you are that voice for everything, that includes video games,
that includes toys, that includes literally everything. So I would

(51:01):
not be surprised if Scott had signed with Disney and
consistent Lisa re signs Disney.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
I mean's gotta be nice.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
And the check's probably nice too.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Yeah, that check's gotta be nice. I mean, anytime I've
seen interviews with him, he is usually surrounded by a
Laddin stuff what I'm guessing is in his house.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 6 (51:25):
I'm also also a big thing is uh the singing
voices for both a Laddin and Jasmine are actually consistent
throughout the entire franchise.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
That's really cool, and this is a franchise I feel
Disney has a lot of love for. I was very
surprised that they did proceed with the live action remake.
Now I have a weird connection to that movie. I remember,
I can't remember. I was in the hospital for something.
It was either my weight loss surgery or my gall

(51:59):
bl it was one or the other. But I remember, yeah,
I'm probably my weight loss surgeon because I know it
happened during COVID but after the lockdowns, so it was
somewhere in there.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
But I remember waking up.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
H Yeah, that makes sense because that's when Aladdin came out.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
Yeah, because I remember waking up from anesthesia, Like I
remember I had something done in Blair, was in my
hotel or in my hotel room, in my hospital room
watching the Aladdin movie, and I remember rolling over and
going fucking Wales Smith. Is that passing out again? But yeah,

(52:45):
like it's weird. I've never sat down and watched the remake.
Dave had me curious when we started talking about the
Gin last year when we talked about the wish Master movie.
So please go back and check out that episode of
Loose Cannon. But yeah, like I was, I'm kind of surprised.
I think the movie did okay. But obviously this year,

(53:06):
with the failure of.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Snow White, I think it like just hit over a billion.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Yeah, so it did good.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
I mean in terms of live action remakes, it's probably
a pretty safe one to do.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Obviously, trying to do in the shop.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
You wouldn't know that movie is directed by Guy Ritchie,
I'll tell you that much.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Yeah, the guy who did fucking Snatch and.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
The guy did Lockstock and Through Smoking Barrels and Wrath
of Man and yeah he does. He does kids movies
every now and then.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Wow, that's blew my mind. Wow.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
Yeah, Like now that Disney is kind of starting to
step away from the live action thing because this year
we had the failure of snow White and the Snover Dwarfs,
which there was never gonna work.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
Well, there's a few that are still in the pipeline Malana,
and we have Lee Loo and Stitch coming out.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
This I think both of those should do Okay, is going.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
To do Gangbusters regardless.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
Yeah, I mean, the only other live action movie I
could stand maybe them doing. I don't know, I'm really
trying to think you. I kind of want to see
The Little Mermaid one. Actually, I I just have to
just get around to it.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Find the time.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
I've heard it's I've heard it's fine.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
I just it's fine until it's fine until Aquafina starts rapping.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
Okay, you can tell Lynn Manuel Miranda wrote the new
songs in it.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
I'll tell you how much I can believe.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
Yeah, I've like again, I guess Aladdin works in live action.
Help the one hundred and one Dalmatian movies. I'm I'm
pretty sure fine.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
Glenn Close sells those movies.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Oh yeah, I mean, and they're still watchable, like and
then one thing I will say about revisiting a hundred
and one recently, there's a lot of barking in that movie.
Like a lot of barking in that movie.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
I'm trying to.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
Think if there's any movie that wouldn't work in live action.
I couldn't do The Rescuers because you look at like
Stuart Little.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
You could pull that off easily.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
I think.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
I think if we're talking like live action, like Fantasia
is like like one.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Guy's damn treasure planet, you that would be cool.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
That would be fucking sick.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Well, I mean, for that matter, Atlantis, Yeah, Atlantis or
Treasure Planet please or both Disney.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
Honestly, those are two movies I've never seen, but I
know the artwork in and out.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
They're really really good.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Oh is that another future episode? Boys?

Speaker 3 (55:54):
Yes, that is a future episode? All right?

Speaker 4 (55:56):
I love it fucking a all right, stuff I ever
seen before.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Actually, maybe when we do a future episode.

Speaker 4 (56:04):
I'm just gonna pitch this unusual animated flops and one
of the movies I'm definitely gonna pick for one of
mine is Titan AE because of the because of the
Canadian connection, because I went to college right where part
of that was done.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
So there was on the list of why did I
watch this? See?

Speaker 1 (56:25):
I fucking love Titan A. I think it's sick.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
The voice of the character, no, Bill Pullman, I want
to sell it's Pullman.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Matt Damon John John Leguizamo's character is why I hate
that movie.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
I think I think his character's name is Goon or something.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Yeah, I hate that movie with the burning passion is
his character is so damn annoying.

Speaker 4 (56:50):
Well, he was annoying during that period. He was the
house of buggin guy for Christ's sake. And the past,
Oh my god, dave of you and hand never do
the past.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
I will literally implode.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
It's it's not, it's not. It's not definitely unfathomable for
us to tackle the pest. It has been. It has
been a request from a single friend so far, and
we both do have an admiration for that movie, simply
for the fact that there's just a character where he's
just a farting Dracula in the shower. Yeah, the pest
could be possible. I think I still have my DVD

(57:22):
to be honest.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
Oh my god, let me tell you that would make
my year. So anyway, guys, I guess in conclusion, the
Aladdin trilogy, it's wonderful. It's got some really great music,
some absolutely outstanding animation, wonderful performances, even from some of
the weaker things. There's always something there there to like.

(57:43):
You can stream all of these on Disney Plus right now.
I think these are I know a Laddin's on four K.
I think I have it actually on four K.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Ladden's in four K, and that is the only one
that's in four K.

Speaker 4 (57:58):
Yeah, and let me see as thanks for the live action,
I mean, if you got Disney plus, why not, If
you got like two hours to kill, if you got
nothing else to do, why not. You're probably listening to
this podcast anyway, So yeah, check that out. So next
time on the show, the show we are planning on
recording after this one is we're gonna take a look
at two of my favorite Disney movies of all time,

(58:21):
and that's a goofy movie and an.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Extremely goofy movie.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
And we're also gonna talk about the documentary Just or
Not a Goof I think it's called, right Ken, not
just a Goof or something like that.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
Yeah, not just a Goof, I think is the name.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
And I think we're gonna have Adam on the show
because as of this recording, Dave will be indisposed with
some medical stuff.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
So hope you heal well, friend.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
I'll be okay. It's just gonna be a sore mouth
for a bit, for another reason than usually Hey hey.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
It's goodna sick. So anyway, guys, that's gonna do it.
From us.

Speaker 4 (58:54):
Here at the Twigget Video stores, we begin to close
up shop, sweep up the popcorn that is on the floor,
and always being kind, and rewidened so from the Great
Place of Ohio.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
You have been David de Noira, do you a good movie?

Speaker 1 (59:08):
And from New Jersey Can from the Anime.

Speaker 4 (59:12):
And I've been Mike the Birdman saying be kind, rewind
and we'll catch you guys next time, right here on
this weekend geek dot Net.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
We're not getting out of here, man, We're.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Not getting out of here.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
Game over.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
Man.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
Are either one of these any good? Sir? What are
either one of these? Any good?

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Don't watch movies Quick Takes the Child.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
You're wasting your life making shit. Nobody cares.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
These movies are terrible.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
You're still here. It's over.

Speaker 5 (59:54):
Go home, Go