That's it!
As I said in my first post after seeing Aladdin, None of this film's CGI really worked for me...but especially the animals and the genie. The talking cave of treasures? Fine. But anything that is supposed to look real, not so much.
Yeah. It's something with me. EVERY CGI animal I ever see in a film immediately takes me out of the movie. In another discussion somewhere on the forum someone had a term which defined that kind of situation. Damned if I can remember right now what it is though.
Peg and I watched this last night.
I was really hoping that at least the musical numbers would be worth the purchase. They might make it so...but once it was over I really had a sense of "why was this necessary?" Answer: it wasn't.
The thing I hated most about the movie--and this often...
I thought I remembered hearing that he was unhappy that his voice (as Genie) was being used in the theme parks without his knowledge (or being compensated) and that's why he didn't agree to appear in the first sequel. They sorted things out and he then appeared in the 2nd sequel.
But I could...