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** ''Return of Jafar'', like many of its future direct-to-video brethren, had to follow up from an ending that clearly wasn't written with a sequel in mind. By the end of the original film, everyone's character arcs are tied up and pretty much all significant plot points are resolved, so most of the returning characters don't get much character development because there isn't anywhere for them to go. The difference is that ''Return of Jafar'' also had an almost-certainly-unintentional SequelHook to work with -- "if Jafar is a genie now, what happens when someone lets him out?" Consequently, it does feel like a continuation of the first film's plot. Not to mention, the character focus on Iago and his HeelFaceTurn gives the film some solid emotional grounding in a character arc with a beginning, middle, and end. Some later direct-to-video sequel films, by contrast, tried to follow up with even less than this movie had to work with, which resulted in conflicts that often felt like they had nothing to do with the original.
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** ''Return of Jafar'', like many of its future direct-to-video brethren, had to follow up from an ending that clearly wasn't written with a sequel in mind. By the end of the original film, everyone's character arcs are tied up and pretty much all significant plot points are resolved, so most of the returning characters don't get much character development because there isn't anywhere for them to go. The difference is that ''Return of Jafar'' also had an almost-certainly-unintentional SequelHook to work with -- "if Jafar is a genie now, what happens when someone lets him out?" Consequently, it does feel like a continuation of the first film's plot. Not to mention, the character focus on Iago and his HeelFaceTurn gives the film some solid emotional grounding in a character arc with a beginning, middle, and end.end, and some of the writers themselves noted that the original film didn't actually end with Aladdin and Jasmine getting married, allowing the film and the series to do some additional exploring of their relationship prior to marriage. Some later direct-to-video sequel films, by contrast, tried to follow up with even less than this movie had to work with, which resulted in conflicts that often felt like they had nothing to do with the original.
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* CriticalDissonance: Although the film was critically panned, it received two thumbs up from Series/SiskelAndEbert.
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* CriticalDissonance: Although the film was critically panned, it received two thumbs up from Series/SiskelAndEbert.Series/SiskelAndEbert, and sold 15 million copies.
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** ''Return of Jafar'', like many of its future brethren, had to follow up from an ending that clearly didn't have any kinds of sequels planned. By the end of the original, everyone's character arcs are tied up and pretty much all significant plot points are resolved, which means that ''Return of Jafar'' doesn't really add a whole lot to the story of Aladdin and the Genie (and indeed, neither gets much actual development because there isn't anywhere for them to go). The difference is that ''Return of Jafar'' also had an almost-certainly-unintentional SequelHook to work with--"if Jafar is a genie now, what happens when someone lets him out?"--and consequently, while it doesn't add much to most of the characters (barring Iago), it does feel like a continuation of the film's overall plot. Some later films, by contrast, didn't have ''anything'' to follow up on, which resulted in utterly unprecedented conflicts that often felt like they had nothing to do with the original.
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** ''Return of Jafar'', like many of its future direct-to-video brethren, had to follow up from an ending that clearly didn't have any kinds of sequels planned. wasn't written with a sequel in mind. By the end of the original, original film, everyone's character arcs are tied up and pretty much all significant plot points are resolved, which means that ''Return so most of Jafar'' doesn't really add a whole lot to the story of Aladdin and the Genie (and indeed, neither gets returning characters don't get much actual character development because there isn't anywhere for them to go). go. The difference is that ''Return of Jafar'' also had an almost-certainly-unintentional SequelHook to work with--"if with -- "if Jafar is a genie now, what happens when someone lets him out?"--and consequently, while it doesn't add much to most of the characters (barring Iago), out?" Consequently, it does feel like a continuation of the first film's overall plot. Not to mention, the character focus on Iago and his HeelFaceTurn gives the film some solid emotional grounding in a character arc with a beginning, middle, and end. Some later direct-to-video sequel films, by contrast, didn't have ''anything'' tried to follow up on, with even less than this movie had to work with, which resulted in utterly unprecedented conflicts that often felt like they had nothing to do with the original.
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* HilariousInHindsight: During the song "There's Nothing in the World Quite Like a Friend," Genie mentions racing Hercules while in Greece. Aladdin and Jasmine would meet a teenage Hercules [[WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries a few years later.]]
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** During the song "There's Nothing in the World Quite Like a Friend," Genie mentions racing Hercules while in Greece. Aladdin and Jasmine would meet a teenage Hercules [[WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries a few years later.]]
** During the song "There's Nothing in the World Quite Like a Friend," Genie mentions racing Hercules while in Greece. Aladdin and Jasmine would meet a teenage Hercules [[WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries a few years later.]]
