- Can't Un-Hear It: Mili Avital is the definitive Scheherazade for a lot of people.
- Ending Fatigue: The Tale of the Three Princes segment drags the run time out and doesn't really add anything significant to the story.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Pik-Sen Lim is a real scene-stealer as Aladdin's cranky old mother, snarking at the genie that she's "young enough to be your granddaughter".
- Just Here for Godzilla: The sets and costumes are considered a big draw for the miniseries as a whole.
- Narm: Some of Dougray Scott's performance is ridiculously extreme which, while justified in some parts due to the character suffering from PTSD, can result in unintentionally hilarious moments, such as dramatically declaring "you will finish the story of Ali Baba".
- Questionable Casting: While an impressive amount of Middle Eastern and North African actors populate the adaptation, especially for the early 2000s, there are still some actors with no such heritage performing in Brownface, such as Jim Carter, Dougray Scott, James Callis, Rufus Sewell, and Alexei Sayle.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- Benedict Wong, later to become famous as the similarly named Wong in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, features here in a very minor role as Aladdin's sidekick (unnamed on screen, listed in the credits as Hassan).
- Andy Serkis, a couple of years before The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers shot him into the A-List, plays Ali Baba's ill-fated brother Casim.
- Ayesha Dharker has a small role in the prologue, later appearing as one of the harem girls. Fans of Coronation Street will recognise her as Tara, who infamously got revenge on Dev for cheating on her, or as Queen Jamilla in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.
- This was James Callis's first role before his more remembered turns in Battlestar Galactica (2003) or Bridget Jones.
- While Jim Carter was a respected character actor, he would become internationally famous for playing Mr Carson in Downton Abbey.
- Rufus Sewell would become better known for A Knight's Tale and The Holiday, or else his 2010s television work.
- Oded Fehr has a small role as one of the forty thieves. This was filmed around the same time as his breakout role in The Mummy (1999), but released after.
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