Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
- Episode aired Jul 14, 1986
- 48m
This is a retelling of "The Arabian Nights" folk tale about a Middle Eastern boy who obtains a mysterious magic lamp.This is a retelling of "The Arabian Nights" folk tale about a Middle Eastern boy who obtains a mysterious magic lamp.This is a retelling of "The Arabian Nights" folk tale about a Middle Eastern boy who obtains a mysterious magic lamp.
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- TriviaBoth genies (ring and lamp) are played by James Earl Jones.
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Aladdin: Where do you come from?
Genie: Originally?
[Aladdin nods]
Genie: I was born from the thundering wind, that blew from the mouth of the Great White Bear, who came from the fiery yellow Sun, who is the eye of the all-powerful being whose name I am forbidden to speak! And you are?
Aladdin: Aladdin. I... was born from Mustafa the tailor. And that's my mother there, passed out from fright.
Genie: [laughs] Amusing!
- ConnectionsReferenced in Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Even with some cheesy acting from the likes of Robert Carradine and Valerie Bertinelli it's all worth it for the likes of Nimoy and Jones. The two of them alone ham it up so much that you're bound to smell pork rising up from the DVD. But it's joyously over-playing and exaggerating, doing it like live-action cartoon characters. All Nimoy needs to do is to take a cue from Allen to stroke his beard AND twist his mustache and he would make it his best non-Spock performance), and Jones takes on two genie performances with the blue common one being one for the ages for the actor: we've never seen him like this before or since, and it's a hilarious joy to see him take it on. And all the while we see Burton directing it with flair and skill, circumventing the conventional aspects to put his own stamp on the material if only in small ways with certain drawings or just crazy flights of fancy like when the one guy is running down the spinning thing with Jones's face dissolving in and out of the side of the frame.
For Burton fans it shouldn't be too much of a disappointment since it shows the director taking on kiddie fare like both a professional and an artist paying his dues, and it provides campy treats for fans of Nimoy and Jones.
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- Aug 31, 2008
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