Disney: We've gotten a lot of backlash on how Genie isn't blue, how fast can you change that? FX team: Give us about 2 months and then you can put out a trailer with the fix.
Jafar’s voice sounds awful, like a young teenager or something. I thought the genie was gonna be all CG but just have Will Smith’s voice, not his actual face. Looks terrible.
Yeah I dont like much of that. Hopefully theyll suprise me and they could be really good, but I really just am not feeling the casting of Jafar, Aladdin, and even to a lesser extent Jasmine. It feels to CG and polished and not like a lived-in world to me. And yeah I dig the casting of Smith but geez does he look so awkward. Its the uncanny valley thing but in body form. As much as I want most of the movie with practical effects, they really wouldve been better served doing motion capture rather than having his head/face in camera and the body not. They arent proportional or dont move together well. Idk. It just looks weird.
The problem is quite obviously not that Genie has Will Smith's face, that's kind of a ridiculous strawman argument, it's that it looks awful
This is going to be real bad. Jafar’s voice made me laugh out loud when I realized that was actually him. And everything about the genie is decades out of place. I can’t believe they actually went with that.