hyped garbage

good back-story, and good acting

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This movie has a boy named Al getting a hold of a lamp and then meeting the genie who had been asleep for years and years. The boy finds he can have all of the wishes he wants and he takes advantage of them. He gets fancy cars that fly, he gets the girl of his dream and he eventually gets his buddy the genie to stop all of the bad crimes going on in the town and to hang around a while and be a friend and not just a genie.This movie was such a beautiful 95 minutes of 80's Italian cheese. I loved it better than any of the 6 or 7 Aladdin movies I had ever seen. It is corny, but it was aimed at kids and it was from 1986 so cut it some slack. It has good messages and great acting, great writing and good direction. It is funny, has some good fist fights with the great Bud Spencer and is a fun film.Bruno Corbucci did good directing and other than the green screen shots it was very fun. Dardano Sacchetti is my all time favorite writer and he wrote the story here along with his sometime collaborator Elisa Briganti. The two of them have did some of Italy's best horror and action films of the 70's and 80's so this was something new and different for them. Acting wise Bud Spencer was perfect, I think he is one of the best actors ever and he did such a great job in this kids film. Luca Venantini was perfect as Al too, this kid didn't do a ton of movies but hes a great actor and I wish he had done more films.Great film and a must see for Spencer fans and anyone wanting to see Aladdin but not wanting to watch Disney junk with the annoying Robin Williams should see this one. 5/10 stars

There is only one way to get through this "Aladdin": you must have a high tolerance for corniness. One minute the Genie says that he doesn't know what these "boxes" (meaning the cars) are, the next he delivers exactly the kind of car that the kid (his "master") wants. There isn't really a story, it's just a series of unrelated episodes. And the "culture shock" factor (the Genie wakes up 200 years after his time) goes almost completely unexplored. But the movie has an essential good-heartedness that makes it likable. It's also nice to hear Bud Spencer's original voice for a change, Italian accent and all. (**1/2)

I saw this yesterday on TV. It's not your usual "Alladdin", but more of a Bud Spencer (sans Terence Hill) flick really. It plays like a B movie, with some awkward acting, specially from the villains. There's even some really politically incorrect stuff for the kids.Bud is as cool as ever, the boy is okay, and that drunk grandpa manages to be annoying and funny at the same time. I had fun watching this, but then again I really like Bud and Terence stuff.You can expect a lot of staged fights, clumsy acting, weird stuff going on and lots of continuity/logic errors. But who cares?I give this a 7 out of 10 on a good day.

Is this the Ziploc Bag guy playing the Genie? Anyway, this whole movie is like an LSD trip where bizarre stuff just happens to this really geeky kid, and he has this fat genie to help him out. All this, of course, amid truly horrible acting, special effects and dialogue. It's so bad, though, it's funny. So buy it if you see it at a bargain basement bin. It'll only set you back a buck anyway.