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Jafar was awful

posted 6 years ago by LordBAElish (2015)
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Disney knocked it out of the park with live casting for Beauty and the Beast and while they did a pretty good job for Aladdin, the character of Jafar is portrayed terribly. He's not menacing enough, not evil enough, he lacked the dry wit that the cartoon version had. Every other character was played sufficiently, Will Smith's spin on the genie was fine. It was fun movie, but Jafar was awful.

[–] telmarine (426) 9 days ago

I thought Jafar was a great update. But no way this was worse than the casting of live action Beauty and the Beast. No actors was miscast in Aladdin, especially considering Hermoine who has no singing ability in Beauty and the Beast.