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== The 1992 animated Disney Movie ==
* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: The movie has a famous example of unintentional innuendo in the song "A Whole New World".
{{quote|''I can open your eyes,
''Take you wonder by wonder;
''Over, sideways and under
''On a magic carpet ride.
''A whole new world!
''A new, fantastic point of view.
''No one to tell us no, or where to go,
''Or say we're only dreaming.
''Unbelievable sights!
''Indescribable feeling!
''A whole new world!
''Don't you dare close your eyes.
''A hundred thousand things to see.
''Hold your breath -- it gets better!''}}
** Well at least the song has a happy ending. At the end, they hold hands as literal fireworks are shown going off.
* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Did you know that in the [[Aladdin (novel)|original tale]], Aladdin had ''unlimited wishes'' instead of just three? Or that he had a second genie in a magic ring? Or that the story was set in ''China''? Chances are that you don't.
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* [[Crazy Awesome]]: The Genie, a creature that bends logic on a regular basis, is missing a marble or two, which makes his relentless over-the-top personality nothing short of amazing.
* [[Crossover Ship]]:
** There is a surprisingly large contingent of people who like shipping Jasmine/[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|Esmeralda]], which most likely comes from their statuses as [[Ms. Fanservice]] and their [[Token Minority Couple|similar designs]]
** [[Ho Yay|Aladdin]]/[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]] also has a pretty devoted following. It helps that the characters shared an ''actual'' crossover between their respective television shows, in which, despite [[Let's You and Him Fight|getting off on the wrong foot]], they soon come to an understanding and [[Fire Forged Friend|become good friends by the end]] with Aladdin telling Hercules that he's on his way to becoming a great hero.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Jafar has fans that see him this way, saying that he just wants to save his home from ruin that's caused by an idiot sultan, a con artist. and an irresponsible princess. [[Sarcasm Mode|Uh huh]]. Remember that he commits treason, tries to murder Aladdin twice, enslaves the ruler and his daughter, and planned to use his last wish to make the latter fall in love with him ([[Attempted Rape|meaning that anything he would've done to her would've been without her true consent]]). Also, Jafar was pretty much already in charge by hypnotizing the Sultan and tried to openly assume power out of egotism more than anything, and hated the Sultan despite the guy trusting and respecting him.
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* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:
** The fact that Abu sounds just like Donald Duck foreshadows the ''[[Kingdom Hearts I|Kingdom Hearts]]'' games, where Donald and friends interact with Aladdin.
** Jafar's voice actor's name? [[Half Life: Full Life Consequences
*** Also [[Irony|hilarious]] right away considering Jafar's living conditions at the end of the movie.
** Aladdin and Jasmine's world tour in "A Whole New World" includes visits to [[Hercules (1997 film)|Greece]] and [[Mulan|China]] (the latter even with fireworks); in the former case, given the subsequent cartoon crossover, that would suggest Hercules himself was around at the time.
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** "Do you trust me?"
** Some [[Moral Guardians]] made a bit of a stink over a bit in the balcony scene where Aladdin seems to be saying "Good teenagers, take off your clothes."
** [[
** "[[Flat Joy|Jafar, Jafar, he's our man. If he can't do it,]] [[Suddenly Shouting|GREAT!!!]]"
** Thanks to ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', one can never take the "your eternal reward" scene seriously ever again.
* [[Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales]]: Yes it's a very [[Disneyfication|Disneyfied]] take on Arabian mythos, but that didn't stop Arabs from enjoying the film. Recently, many people of Arabic descent have praised ''Aladdin'' for offering positive portrayal of Middle Eastern people, rather than depicting them as only terrorists and savages.
* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: Jasmine draws a lot of ire from certain feminist circles, [[What Measure Is a Non-Badass?|often being regarded as poorly as the first three Disney Princesses because "all she wants to do is get married"]]. This sentiment reached its peak when the 2019 live-action ''Aladdin'' remake changed Jasmine's motivation to wanting to be the sultan, [https://comicbook.com/movies/2019/02/02/aladdin-producer-empowering-princess-jasmine-anthem-new-song/ since the film's director, and the character's actress, Naomi Scott, felt that the original film didn't give her "enough of a goal, it was really just to meet a guy"]. However, [[Author's Saving Throw|what was meant to be an attempt to "correct" the "flaws" of the original film only brought on by pedantic nitpicking]] instead completely ignores the fact that Jasmine didn't even want to be royalty and that ''if'', not ''when'', she decided to get married, she wanted it to be to someone she loved for who he is as opposed to what he owns. The Sultan eventually changes the law to allow Jasmine to marry whom she chooses after realizing how much she loves Aladdin, but the live-action remake changing it so that he declares Jasmine to be the next sultan instead [[Politically-Correct History|is not only laughable considering how the film expects the audience to believe that an ancient Middle Eastern kingdom will be cool with a woman ruling over them]], [[Adaptation Decay|but it also takes away]] Aladdin's [[Character Development]] about feeling unworthy of the honor of being heir to the throne due to the fact that he's been living a lie. There's also a [[Double Standard]] in the fact that Aladdin's motivation throughout most of the film can be summed up as "I want to get married to this princess I really like", but he doesn't get a lot of grief for it. [https://www.eonline.com/news/701126/aladdin-cast-and-directors-divulge-new-details-about-the-disney-movie-and-reflect-on-robin-williams-performance Linda Larkin had this to say when questioned about whether or not Jasmine is a good role model]:
{{quote|'''Linda Larkin''': "Jasmine says to a generation of little kids about marriage that the law is wrong. She risks everything — her safety, her comfort, everything she knows — and goes out and finds a way to change the marriage law. And this generation of kids who saw that movie in 1992 grew up and did that in real life! I'm like, 'Yeah, she's a good role model!' Really good! Whether it's connected or not, that person that the writers created that I got to portray, I'm so proud of her. And I feel like she was ahead of her time."}}
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Jafar leaving Aladdin to die in the Cave of Wonders, once the latter gives him the lamp.}}
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: [[Aladdin (Disney film)/Nightmare Fuel|See here]].
* [[No Problem With Licensed Games]]: Both the Virgin Games Sega Genesis game and the Capcom SNES game were well received by the gaming community. [[The Problem with Licensed Games|The Game Gear and Game Boy Color versions, on the other hand, are bad]].
* [[No Yay]]: The old, ugly Jafar wants to marry the young, beautiful Princess Jasmine to gain the powers of the sultan, and Jasmine has to ''kiss'' him in one scene to try to keep him from discovering Aladdin. Jafar orders the Genie to make Jasmine fall in love with him, and [[Terms of Endangerment|calls her "pussycat" and "my dear"]]. Iago, who suggested the idea of Jafar marrying Jasmine in the first place, makes disgusted sounds when Jasmine kisses Jafar along with Abu, and Aladdin also looks [[Squick|Squicked]] out.
* [[Older Than They Think]]: ''Aladdin'' is actually the '''fourth''' attempt at the "three wishes" rule for genies by Disney; it had been used twice on ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', on one regular episode and in that show's [[Duck Tales: The Movie - Treasure of The Lost Lamp|feature film]], and it was on one episode of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]''.
* [[Painful Rhyme]]: "His forty '''fakirs''', his cooks, his '''bakers'''"... ''Ouch''. 'Fakir' in English is usually pronounced "fah-KEER", or ''maybe'' "FAY-KEER", but not the same as "faker". Also, technically, since all those people are just creations of the Genie, they're ''all'' [[Stealth Pun|fakers.]]
* [[Ron the Death Eater]]: Aladdin himself gets this a lot. The fact that he steals food from other people
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: This was the film that really set the trend of [[Anachronism Stew]] and [[Parental Bonus]] in animated films, on top of casting popular comedian Robin Williams as the voice of the Genie, which was different to what Disney and most other companies were doing at the time since A-List actors did not star in speaking roles before. However, this has influenced countless subsequent movies such as [[Shrek]], and it was worn so thin by the time [[Quest for Camelot]] came around that only Genie could really get away with it.
* [[Signature Scene]]: The showstopping "Friend Like Me" number is ''the'' most famous part of the film.
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* [[Testosterone Brigade]]: Jasmine has a huge one, and may have the biggest of any of the Disney Princesses (possibly behind [[The Little Mermaid|Ariel]]). This is due to her very sexy bedlah outfit, making her one of the more scantily clad princesses, and the additionally revealing red number [[Go-Go Enslavement|Jafar traps her in]]. What's more is her feisty personality and the fact that she establishes herself as an [[Action Girl]] in spin-off media.
* [[They Copied It, So It Sucks]]: This film and ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'' are both accused of ripping off the other one. The latter went through [[Development Hell]] (and ''Aladdin'' itself wasn't exactly sitting in Development Heaven, so that's saying something), so it was only released after ''Aladdin'', and in a heavily meddled-with cut at that, making it look like the rip-off to people who didn't know that it was in production before ''Aladdin'' was.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: This is Disney's first animated feature where there is not a single white person to be found (that is, if one doesn't count Genie's human form), so it is inevitable that some judgement calls about ''Aladdin'''s content will come from a place of cultural sensitivity. These include:
** [[Bowdlerise|Disney removing one of the verses of the opening song "Arabian Nights"]] - "''Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face. It's barbaric, but hey, it's home''" - in July 1993 [http://articles.latimes.com/1993-07-10/entertainment/ca-11747_1_altered-lyric following complaints that this verse was offensive to those who lived in Middle Eastern countries], despite the fact that such capital punishments ''did'' exist in a lot of Middle Eastern countries and are still legal today. Disney changed it to "''Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense''" [[Author's Saving Throw|so that the lyric "''It's barbaric, but hey, it's home''" referred to the land and the heat rather than the people]]. However, viewers still objected to the use of the "barbaric" descriptor, as well as a scene where a merchant almost amputates Jasmine's hand for giving an apple to a little boy without paying for it and tells her it is the standard punishment for stealing, [[Moral Guardians|suggesting that these viewers wouldn't consider ''Aladdin'' to be a racist film if ''none'' of the multiple Arab characters in the film were portrayed negatively at all]]. All the constant controversy caused this verse to be completely changed to "''Where you wander among every culture and tongue. It's chaotic, but hey, it's home''" for the 2019 live-action remake, [[Bowdlerise|and the scene where the peddler threatens to chop Jasmine's arm off]] [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|has him take Jasmine's jewelry demanding it as a recompense instead]].
** [http://articles.latimes.com/1993-07-10/entertainment/ca-11747_1_altered-lyric Aladdin and Jasmine possessing "anglicized features and Anglo-American accents" in contrast to the rest of the cast's "foreign accents" and "grotesque facial features"]. However, [[Positive Discrimination|a lot of the lead characters in Disney films that center on a human cast, including the one released directly before ''Aladdin'']], ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'', [[Non-Standard Character Design|are designed differently than the rest with more realistic and subdued proportions]]. One could read into this particular [[Unfortunate Implications|Unfortunate Implication]] as saying "realistic features that make the character look like an actual Arab = white, cartoonish features that just so happen to play up Arab stereotypes = ethnic" since Aladdin and Jasmine clearly aren't just Disney's prior white designs coated brown, so, ironically, this has its ''own'' slew of [[Unfortunate Implications]].
* [[Values Dissonance]]: This stands out amongst later Disney films based on non-American cultures. Disney [[Shown Their Work|does a lot of research]] into presenting the cultures accurately and respectfully. ''Aladdin'' on the other hand isn't a particularly accurate film and some aspects have been considered offensive (such as how "Arabian Nights" needed to be censored to remove some violent references). This wasn't a well-known issue in the early 1990s, but in modern times, the film would be written much differently.
* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: What is Rajah supposed to be, again? The tiger is likely a male since the female equivalent to "Rajah" would be "Rani" but this is not in the movie.
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* [[The Woobie]]: All of the main characters gets their moments, or even entire episodes, of this. ...Yes, even [[Animate Inanimate Object|Carpet]].
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