Dschafars Rückkehr (Video 1994)

Dschafars Rückkehr: Directed by Toby Shelton, Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove. With Jason Alexander, Jonathan Freeman, Jeff Bennett, Gilbert Gottfried. Jafar comes for revenge on Aladdin, using a foolish thief and Iago’s treachery to find a way back into power.

“I think if you enjoy hearing Gilbert Gottfriedu0026#39;s incessant screeching as a performer, as I genuinely do (no, really, for a character like Iago it woks!) then Return to Jafar will be a good effort. Very good, great? Maybe not. I donu0026#39;t even know how necessary it might have been, but as a little kid coming off of Aladdin, which was a triumph for Disney at the time, this was a good way to bridge between the first movie and the animated series that was to come for many years on the Disney channel. It picks up right where the first one left off and follows Iago on his journey from being an awful u0026quot;Iu0026#39;m looking out for meu0026quot; kind of stooge and into being, well, semi-heroic.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOf course not having Robin Williams as the Genie, and as a kid as soon as I heard it, it was something of a shock (only once though, during the Genieu0026#39;s first song, does he sound a lot like Homer Simpson). But he does a good enough job and makes it entertaining. I donu0026#39;t know what could have been improved on aside from, you know, the animation (itu0026#39;s not the Hollywood group, it was done overseas), or Williams but… for what it is, I like it. It may not be a strong recommendation, but itu0026#39;s more-so compared to the dirge of ridiculous direct-to-video garbage that Disney pumped out over the next two decades (including things like Bambi 2 and Beauty and the Beast Christmas specials). At least Aladdin, through this sequel and one more and the series, got to be its own thing in continuity and follow arcs and characters in decent timing for children of the period.”