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1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10S428LRcUY "You're Only Second Rate"]] gets a lot of praise for giving Jafar his own VillainSong, as well as being amazingly catchy in its own right.
2	* BrokenBase: Creator/DanCastellaneta as the Genie: a fair emulation of Creator/RobinWilliams, or a pale imitation?
3	* ContestedSequel: 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.
4	* CriticalDissonance: Although the film was critically panned, it received two thumbs up from Series/SiskelAndEbert, and sold 15 million copies.
5	* FranchiseOriginalSin:
6	** 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.
7	** ''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, 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.
8	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Creator/GilbertGottfried displays a greater range of emotion than before when playing Iago, particularly when he expresses guilt and remorse.
9	* HilariousInHindsight:
10	** 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.]]
11	** 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.]]
12	* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot of people only tend to watch this film because Iago, who had already been regarded as a scene-stealing character in the first film, is a major character here.
13	* 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, [[NearVillainVictory he overwhelms and nearly destroys them all with his powers]]]].
14	* MorePopularReplacement: In the Swedish dub, Bo Maniette replacing Mikael Samuelson as the voice for Jafar is largely seen as a massive improvement and a much more fitting voice for the character.
15	* NarmCharm: The quality of the script in the Swedish dub can get more than a little odd at times, especially during Jafar's VillainSong, but it ends up working mostly thanks to his voice actor's [[HamAndCheese bombastic delivery]].
16	* {{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 Creator/RobinWilliams badly hurts the Genie, and the lack of budget is obvious at a glance for a sequel to a film with generally stellar animation.
17	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The absence of Creator/RobinWilliams as the Genie was a glaring omission for many, even for those who think Creator/DanCastellaneta put up a good effort to replicate him. Even Dan himself thought the shoes were too big to fill.
18	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The Sultan complaining about Iago force-feeding him crackers during the previous film's 3rd act. If only Sultan hadn't been seen doing the same to Iago a couple times before (and the implication he'd been doing so for some time)...

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