I like to think if the script was a road map, Robin took a lot of detours. But we loved the detours. Even though Aladdin is about to turn 25, Williams as the Genie is, in a word, timeless.
And with Robin Williams's Genie, it changed the way animated movies were cast. Even so, "Aladdin" might have turned out very differently; the original plot, score, characters, and casting ideas ...
The late Robin Williams' Genie in the original Disney animation of Aladdin fits into that category too. It would take a very, very brave actor to even think about playing the same character ...
But Robin Williams is a shockingly effective counterweight," wrote Slate's David Edelstein. The movie may be called "Aladdin," but the film's runaway star is the genie, voiced to perfection by ...
Disney bosses won't find the same Genie if they were to rub Aladdin's lamp in the hopes of using him in a sequel to the 1992 animated classic. Turns out late Hollywood actor Robin Williams ...