Andy Boling

I grew up reading comics, collecting cards and so on. Marvel's mistake with this Movie was basically 2 things. #1 You basically grabbed big name stars to play roles that the audience didn't grow into. The Avengers came together after you grew with them individually. The actors weren't big name stars (Minus Downey but hadn't a role in years from his drug usage). The action was mediocre and this basically ranks with DC attempt to throw heros together that the audience didn't grow into. #2The acting was pretty good but the selection for the cast was horrible. I honestly believe it was a poor judgment to cast both Hayek & Jolie as a darker more athletic and believable goddess who never ages would definitely be about 20 years shy of where they are now. I love them both and both are beautiful but they were poorly cast and their names are definitely why. Big names bring big disappointment with these types of films where the audience either knows everything about the characters or nothing at all & these characters are not the ones that everyone knows just by their names or the characters that even a regular everyday Joe will already know some back story on. When a husband is a big comics guy and his wife isn't both are going to need & love the characters as well as the children and this is definitely a big miss in my opinion. I doubt there will be follow up without some recasting or new additions for the entire audience to appreciate. Definitely should have had the knight appear in this as well.

Finally it's been years coming....a good Batman Movie!

Honestly I was extremely disappointed. I've always loved Will Smith but he wasn't made for this role. He's no Robin Williams. Movie wasn't convincing to me either. It was missing certain particulars like the most important part of the original movie..Do you trust me? It was only said once in the film not twice but was how Jasmine knew it was Aladdin. I think adaptations from cartoons to live film shouldn't have included as much singing in certain scenes. Also the casting in general was horrible in my opinion. Genie can't carry a tune and doesn't have that POW that he was expected. Jasmine is Beautiful but she just wasn't Jasmine and while Aladdin shared some physical facial features he just wasn't convincing. Finally Jafar was the worst casted. He should have been darker, older, his voice should have been much deeper to add the fear that came with him. I know it's for kids but they could have done so much better with this. Something like they did with Maleficent would have been a game changer but it wasn't. They tried to wow you with effects while the acting and timings were seriously horrible. Kids will love it I'm sure because a child can easily be entertained with special effects but I don't believe this captured all the real magic that could have been cast with this movie.