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Three-Part Mini-Series
Occasionally we'll take a movie and baton pass it around the team and really dive in. If you missed past installments we've gone long and deep on Rebecca, Silence of the Lambs, Thelma & Louise, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A League of Their Own, and Rosemary's Baby in the past. -Editor
Part 1 by Ben Miller
Welcome to Team Film Experience's Aladdin Retrospective. This film was a big part of my childhood and I’m proud to join in on the fun to revisit it with you before the live-action remake hits. Disney in the 1990s might have been the animated studio's peak. They were coming off the surprise success of The Little Mermaid in 1989 follwed by the monster hit and then-historic Best Picture nominee of Beauty and the Beast in 1991. The massive success of Aladdin the very next year felt like a commercial/critical apex (at least until The Lion King arrived two years later).
0:00:26 – Alan Menken probably does not get enough credit for the score he put together. Yes, he won an Oscar for it, but it doesn’t get put into the conversation enough for GREAT animated scores.
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