History YMMV / AladdinTheReturnOfJafar

* BrokenBase: Dan Castellaneta as the Genie: a fair emulation of Creator/RobinWilliams, or a pale imitation?

* This isn't the last time Gilbert Gottfried would voice a bird character [[WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}} who used to work for the villain, but later on pulled a]] HeelFaceTurn [[WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}} and ends up befriending the protagonists.]]

* ToughActToFollow: The absence of Robin Williams was always going to be felt no matter what, even when you have a beloved voice actor like Dan Castellaneta taking his place.

* MagnificentBastard: [[Characters/AladdinJafar Jafar]] manages to evolve into a flawless schemer by the events of this sequel to the [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} original film]]. An EvilSorcerer who acts as [[EvilChancellor grand vizier]] to the Sultan of Agrabah, Jafar schemes to take the throne from the Sultan by retrieving the lamp with the Genie in it that can grant wishes, only to eventually be tricked by Aladdin to become a Djinn and be trapped in the lamp. Jafar returns after getting freed by the thief Abis Mal and goes back to plotting to take over Agrabah and get revenge on Aladdin. He first manipulates Abis Mal into using two of his wishes so as to leverage him with the third. Jafar then forces Iago to participate in the scheme in which he captures all of Aladdin's allies, fakes the Sultan's death and then frames Aladdin for his murder. [[spoiler:Posing as Princess Jasmine, Jafar sentences Aladdin to death and doesn't reveal himself until Aladdin is on the verge of being executed. When Aladdin and the others attempt to steal Jafar's lamp, he overwhelms and nearly destroys them all with his powers]].

* ToughActToFollow: The absence of Robin Williams was always going to be felt no matter what, even when you have a beloved voice actor like Dan Castellaneta taking his place.

* UncannyValley: The frequent amount of OffModel animation, especially in the first half of the film, gives the characters some creepy facial expressions, especially with Genie.

* BrokenBase: Is this movie an alarming symbol of {{Sequelitis}}, being a lazily written, pointless sequel made only for Disney to milk the cash cow that the original movie was? Or is it a solid, underrated sequel that suffered mostly from the appallingly tight animation budget? Both opinions dwell on the Internet.
** Dan Castellaneta as the Genie: a fair emulation of Creator/RobinWilliams, or a pale imitation?

* MagnificentBastard: [[UsefulNotes/GrandVizierJafar Jafar]] manages to evolve into a flawless schemer by the events of this sequel to the [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} original film]]. An EvilSorcerer who acts as [[EvilChancellor grand vizier]] to the Sultan of Agrabah, Jafar schemes to take the throne from the Sultan by retrieving the lamp with the Genie in it that can grant wishes, only to eventually be tricked by Aladdin to become a Djinn and be trapped in the lamp. Jafar returns after getting freed by the thief Abis Mal and goes back to plotting to take over Agrabah and get revenge on Aladdin. He first manipulates Abis Mal into using two of his wishes so as to leverage him with the third. Jafar then forces Iago to participate in the scheme in which he captures all of Aladdin's allies, fakes the Sultan's death and then frames Aladdin for his murder. [[spoiler:Posing as Princess Jasmine, Jafar sentences Aladdin to death and doesn't reveal himself until Aladdin is on the verge of being executed. When Aladdin and the others attempt to steal Jafar's lamp, he overwhelms and nearly destroys them all with his powers]].

** ''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 are character arcs 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. 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.

* UncannyValley: The frequent amount of OffModel, especially in the first half of the film, gives the characters some creepy facial expressions, especially with Genie.

** A common critique of cheapquels is their tendency to recreate or rehash the original film's conflict. ''Return of Jafar'' does this (it's in the title, after all) but makes it work because, well, it ''is'' Jafar, not a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute of him.

** ''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 are character arcs 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. Later films, by contrast, didn't have ''anything'' to follow up on, which resulted in utterly unprecedented conflicts that often did little more than rehash the original. Also, while ''Aladdin'''s ending left Jafar alive, future films would have to invent new villains wholecloth... which often meant turning them into a shallow copy of the original.

** ''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 are character arcs 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 ''Aladdin'''s overall plot. Later films, by contrast, didn't have ''anything'' to follow up on, which resulted in utterly unprecedented conflicts that often did little more than rehash the original. Also, while ''Aladdin'''s ending left Jafar alive, future films would have to invent new villains wholecloth... which often meant turning them into a shallow copy of the original.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: The first of Disney's infamous line of cheapquels, with the [[NoBudget crippling budget issues]] that come with it. While this film could be excused as a PilotMovie for [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries the animated series]], its successors would more explicitly try to pass themselves off as "true" sequels to their Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon counterparts, and sully their reputation as a result.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Few people consider it a truly bad movie, and one common opinion is that, had they given it a feature film's budget and polished it a bit, it could probably have passed for a theatrical sequel. However, the first film just set far too high of a bar; the lack of Robin Williams badly hurts the Genie, and the lack of budget is obvious at a glance for a sequel to a film with generally stellar animation.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The absence of Creator/RobinWilliams as the Genie was a glaring omission for many, even for those who think Creator/DanCastelleneta put up a good effort to replicate him. Even Dan himself thought the shoes were too big to fill.

* TearJerker:
** Poor Aladdin must've been devastated to see [[spoiler:(Imposter) Jasmine sentence him to death, believing he really did kill her father in order to ascend to the throne]].
** When it seemed like Iago made a HeroicSacrifice, and everyone's reaction as Aladdin holds his seemingly lifeless body.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The absence of Robin Williams as the Genie was a glaring omission for many, even for those who think Dan Castelleneta put up a good effort to replicate him. Even Dan himself thought the shoes were too big to fill.

* MagnificentBastard: [[UsefulNotes/GrandVizierJafar Jafar]] manages to evolve into a flawless schemer by the events of this sequel to the [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} original film]]. An EvilSorcerer who acts as [[EvilChancellor grand vizier]] to the Sultan of Agrabah, Jafar schemes to take the throne from the Sultan by retrieving the lamp with the Genie in it that can grant wishes, only to eventually be tricked by Aladdin to become a Djinn and be trapped in the lamp. Jafar returns after getting freed by the thief Abis Mal and goes back to plotting to take over Agrabah and get revenge on Aladdin. He first manipulates Abis Mal into using two of his wishes so as to leverage him with the third. Jafar then forces Iago to participate in the scheme in which he captures all of Aladdin's allies, fakes the Sultan's death and then frames Aladdin for his murder. Posing as Princess Jasmine, Jafar sentences Aladdin to death and doesn't reveal himself until Aladdin is on the verge of being executed. When Aladdin and the others attempt to steal Jafar's lamp, he overwhelms and nearly destroys them all with his powers.

** Poor Aladdin must've been devastated to see [[spoiler: (Imposter) Jasmine sentence him to death, believing he really did kill her father in order to ascend to the throne.]]

* BrokenBase: Is this movie an alarming symbol of {{Sequelitis}}, being a useless sequel made only for Disney to milk the cash cow that the original movie was? Or is it a solid, well-written sequel that suffered mostly from the appallingly tight animation budget? Both opinions dwell on the Internet.

* MagnificentBastard: [[UsefulNotes/GrandVizierJafar Jafar]] manages to evolve into a flawless schemer by the events of this sequel to the [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} original film]]. An EvilSorcerer who acts as [[EvilChancellor grand vizier]] to the Sultan of Agrabah, Jafar schemes to take over the throne from the Sultan by retrieving the lamp with the Genie in it that can grant wishes. Seemingly, Jafar tried to convince the Sultan to let him marry Princess Jasmine so he can inherit it by marriage. Despite Aladdin, posing as Prince Ali, ruining this plan as well, Jafar deduces his real identity and steals the lamp from him, using it to make himself the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Although being tricked by Aladdin to become a Djinn and be trapped in the lamp, Jafar, returns after getting freed by the thief Abis Mal, going back to plotting to take over Agrabah and get revenge on Aladdin. He captures all of Aladdin's allies, frames him for the Sultan's murder, and pulls it off without Aladdin even realizing he's back.

* MagnificentBastard: [[UsefulNotes/GrandVizierJafar Jafar]] manages to evolve into a flawless schemer by the events of this sequel to the [[WesternAnimation/{Aladdin}} original film]]. An EvilSorcerer who acts as [[EvilChancellor grand vizier]] to the Sultan of Agrabah, Jafar schemes to take over the throne from the Sultan by retrieving the lamp with the Genie in it that can grant wishes. Seemingly, Jafar tried to convince the Sultan to let him marry Princess Jasmine so he can inherit it by marriage. Despite Aladdin, posing as Prince Ali, ruining this plan as well, Jafar deduces his real identity and steals the lamp from him, using it to make himself the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Although being tricked by Aladdin to become a Djinn and be trapped in the lamp, Jafar, returns after getting freed by the thief Abis Mal, going back to plotting to take over Agrabah and get revenge on Aladdin. He captures all of Aladdin's allies, frames him for the Sultan's murder, and pulls it off without Aladdin even realizing he's back.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Debated, as seen in the BrokenBase entry. Its detractors often invoke the fact that Robin Williams didn't reprise his role as the Genie, and complain about the ridiculously off-model LimitedAnimation used in some scenes.

* UncannyValley: The animation in the first half gives the characters some creepy facial expressions, especially the Genie.