beckyanca

The stars are for Will Smith, the colours, the Prince Ali song and maybe the nostalgia. But the movie is a total mess, lacking almost all the magic from the original. When they sang A whole new world it did not move me a bit - and that song is my favourite from Aladdin. The movie has two main problems: Aladdin and Jafar. The boy cast as Aladdin can't sing and act to save his life. He speaks all the movie with American accent and tries to much to impersonate de Aladdin from the cartoon, but fails every single time. He is not a dashing rouge, a daring street rat, he is just bland and has zero chemistry with the girl playing Jasmine. And Jafar is horrible miscast. So the antagonist of this story is just a wannabe villain. In the cartoon Jafar was menacing, here he is just an angry teenager, just as 'threatening' as Kylo Ren is in the new Star Wars trilogy. You cannot have a decent Aladdin movie if your male lead is weak and your villain is one-dimensional. Jasmine is good enough, at least she can sing. Why they had to change her and her dreams? What was wrong with wishing to see the world and fall in love? I liked her way better in the animated version. The new songs are just out of place; the Speechless songs did not fit at all, seemed just forced in and taken from a different movie. And what is with the whole Bollywood vibes and dances? Will Smith was the best part of this movie, but not even he could have saved this mess.

A movie completely predictable from the beginning to the end, lacks any logic and common sense. I could literaly tell how the scenes will go, what the characters were going to say, what the twists are and also the rescue parts. Basically everything was that obvious. Oh, yeah, and the cure is actually Thomas blood, but that goes for nothing because he lets the whole world die while sitting his ass in paradise. What a hero. And what a movie about... nothing, in the end.

This movie is not even that kind of bad that ends up being good, it's just painfully bad. Very, very bad. An abomination which has nothing to do with Robin Hood's story, except the names of the characters and places. It's even worse than the 're-interpretation' of King Arthur story in Legend of the sword. You can't imagine that? Well, here is the 'Robin Hood' crap movie.

I don't even know where to start from... Robin Hood is a medieval story, set in England at the end of the 12th century, the reign of Richard the Lionheart, yet we can see industrial mines and setting that remind of the industrial revolution.

The costumes are a total mess. There is nothing medieval in them, except for the armors of the guards and the weapons. The common people are wearing modern shirts and pants, cleavage, working overalls, modern hats. There is a party with clothing you will not find even in the 21th century, some futurist dresses, make-ups and hairstyles that you feel you are watching some shots from Hunger Games' capital Panem. And the sheriff wears some long coat like he just escaped from the Equilibrium movie. Or the Rogue One, since it's the same actor. And Robin impersonates Oliver Queen's Arrow both in skills and appearance.

The characters have no deep, no back story, you don't care for anyone. Little John is actually an arab, played by a black man. I won't even start on multicultural cast on a medieval movie set in England because the movie is so bad that this is one of its light flaws. Yes, I know about the 1991 with Morgan Freeman, but in there it was a solid explanation for the presence of that arab. Here, this 'arab' speaks a flawless English, knows the internal organisation of England and the Catholic Church, know about the nobility, like he is born and raised in England and not in the Middle East. However, this John character is the only one i was slighty interested which says a lot in a Robin Hood movie. I saw many Robin Hood movies and shows, yet I never seen a Robin so lacking in humor, charisma, appeal and cleverness as this one played by Taron Egerton. And Marian... Never seen a more plain, forgetful, less atractive Marian in my life. Never cared for the 'romance' either. And she is married, or I'm supposed is married with Will -the movie does not clarify this, but by medieval standards she should be married to live with a man-, yet she leaves with Robin and no one cares to remember anything on this subject. No even the 'friar' Tuck who also lackes Tuck's charisma. The rest I don't even care... Jamie Dornan plays some pale Will, who switches allegiances all of a sudden, just because they needed something to carry on with a sequel (Lord saves us from such outcome!) and Guy of Gisborne is just by name in the movie that you won't even remember him.

Do the writers even know anything about the middle ages? Do they even understand the middle ages and their people mentality? I guess they don't bother with such insignificant stuff...

This is a total mess and it's NOT Robin Hood! In fact, it's so bad that it makes every previous Robin Hood look like a masterpiece. Even the poor ones, like the 2010 version with Russell Crowe. Believe me, I've seen them all.