Trivia / Aladdin: The Return of Jafar

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• Blooper:
  • When Abu tries to grab the jewel flower and instead grabs the real flower by mistake, it cuts back to Aladdin and Jasmine and both flowers are still in the vase. After Abu throws the real flower away, it cuts back to Aladdin and Jasmine again and then the vase is empty.
  • When Abis Mal is climbing on the Palace's wall, Aladdin suddenly wears his street rat clothes instead of his prince clothes. This goof is due to the first half of the movie being animated by Walt Disney Animation Australia, and the second half being animated by Walt Disney Animation Japan.
• B-Team Sequel: This is the first Aladdin film to be produced by Walt Disney Television Animation.
• Direct to Video: The first one Disney ever made in their line of Direct to Video sequels to films in the Disney Animated Canon. Its immense success, becoming one of the best-selling VHS tapes in history with 15 million copies, led to not only Disney producing dozens more, but also inspired every studio in Hollywood to release substantially more Direct to Video content, leading to a boom that lasted nearly two decades.
• Follow the Leader: The success of The Return of Jafar not only inspired Disney to make Direct to Video sequels to its own films, it led to many other companies doing the same throughout the rest of The '90s and the Turn of the Millennium. Some franchises, such as The Swan Princess, still have sequels being produced in The New '20s.
• International Coproduction: It was produced by Disneytoon Studios in Sydney and Walt Disney Animation Japan in Tokyo.
• No Budget: Not particularly low, but go from the first movie to this and it's very obvious that this is a Pilot Movie for a TV series rather than a full-fledged film, even by "cheapquel" standards. Check out the Carpet in the original◊ versus the sequel...◊
• The Other Darrin:
  • Thanks to Disney breaking their agreement with Robin Williams (that they wouldn’t use his voice to sell the movie, another was the Genie wouldn’t feature in more than 25% of advertising), voice actor Dan Castellaneta took over the Genie role for this one. Williams returned for the third movie after studio chief Joe Roth made up with him (though this followed his predecessor Jeffrey Katzenberg's own breakdown with his relationship with Disney, which left the position open for Roth).
  • Val Bettin also replaced Douglas Seale for the role of the Sultan for the TV series and King of Thieves.
  • Liz Callaway replaced Lea Salonga as the Non-Singing Voice for Jasmine (though Linda Larkin remains as her speaking voice).
  • In the Swedish dub, Bo Maniette replaces Mikael Samuelson as the voice for Jafar.
• Refitted for Sequel:
  • The lyrics for "Arabian Nights" that are heard here come from the original lyrics for the first film.
  • Jafar was to have his own Villain Song in the first film, but was omitted for timing. He gets his chance in this film, albeit a different song.
• What Could Have Been: See here

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