- Will Smith, love the man, but... what?
- It is destroying my childhood now.
Thanks. Thanks, Will.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
♪ ("Arabian Nights" instrumental) ♪
- Wait. Is this Aladdin? - Is this Aladdin?!
I have not seen this yet. - I saw this yesterday.
It's garbage. Turn it off!
- (Jafar) Bring me the lamp. Your life begins now.
- This is exciting. - (Jafar) Aladdin.
- I've got chills, 'cause it's my childhood right there.
- ♪ (humming) ♪ Okay, at least the music's good.
- Oh my god. - She doesn't really
look like Jasmine. - Transitioning from animated
to live action doesn't always translate,
but I feel like Disney has a PRETTY good grasp on it.
- Oh, gosh.
Here it comes. - Will Smith, love the man,
but... what?
- (Genie) You really don't know who I am?
Genie, wishes, lamp. - (chuckles) Will Smith looks...
funny. - (Genie) None of that ringing a bell?
- Okay. Was that just Will Smith or am I having a hallucination?
- I've heard so many people not liking Will Smith as the genie,
but I don't know. I don't get it.
- For everybody that gave him [bleep] on Twitter and Instagram
about him not being blue, we knew he was gonna be blue.
They were just like, (speaking gibberish).
You shut your face. - It looked like Will Smith
joined the Blue Man Group and gained 35 to 40 pounds.
It doesn't have the same feel as the old one.
Robin Williams, I feel like no one could replace him.
But Will Smith was a good shot. - (FBE) So, that was the trailer
for the live action version of Aladdin.
This trailer was first shown during this year's Grammy's.
And people were quick to turn one of the characters into a meme.
- (sarcastic) I wonder who. - You ever watch Willy Wonka
and the girl turns into a blueberry? It's basically the same thing
that happened to Will Smith.
- (FBE) So, we have some of those to show you.
- I've actually contributed to a few of these,
so I can't feel bad. (laughs) - "This is my real reaction
to the grossest thing I've ever seen." - (man laughs) Oh, no! No!
- Why is it-- he's not that scary! - (man) Dude, you know what?
He looks like-- he looks like someone tried to make the Genie
in the Sims and this is what... - That's messed up. Ah.
- (man) Three, two, one, bada boom.
There he is, ladies and gentlemen. - (laughs)
No! No! Why?
- (man) Three, two, one, bada boom.
There he is, ladies and gentlemen. - (laughs)
That was [bleep] accurate.
- He did that in the Sims 4? That guy's got a lot
of time on his hands.
- (laughs) - (Genie) You really don't know
who I am? - ♪ West Philadelphia ♪
- (raps along) ♪ Born and raised ♪
- ♪ West Philadelphia ♪ - Yeah! Come on, Fresh Prince.
- (Genie) None of that ringing a bell? - (laughs)
That's a better trailer! Why couldn't they just show that?
- I love this. People are so creative on the internet.
Sometimes I hate it. But for this, I love.
- Ohh, no! (laughs)
- Here's Genie! - His teeth are a little bit
stained blue, too. Like the makeup rubbed off
on his teeth. Just a lot of aspects
about this, I don't like. - "Wow, the new Avatar trailer
sure looks great." (laughs) Oh my god. People went NUTS.
- No, no, no. That is-- nope.
- Poor Will Smith. He didn't do nothin' to deserve this!
- "Will Smith Genie is what appears in my room when I have
sleep paralysis." (chuckles) - I've seen this one.
I just actually had sleep paralysis last night.
So, I feel like maybe I would've seen that.
- It is kind of the stuff of nightmares, honestly.
I mean, and how are you gonna follow Robin Williams?
- "Who did it"-- oh, god. - "Who did it better?"
(wheezing laugh) Oh, no! - (laughs) That got me!
- I'm gonna have to give it to Tobias on this one.
That would be epic if the Genie has just jean shorts on. (laughs)
- No! I can't. (laughs) I hate clowns.
- He doesn't look that bad.
Do you think he looks bad? I just feel like,
what else would he look like? - Pretty close.
It's pretty good, though. I mean, I like it.
I see the similarity there. That's good.
- I don't know. Pennywise is giving him a run for his money.
Like, if I rubbed a lamp and he came out,
I'd throw the [bleep] lamp.
- "First look at Will Smith playing the role
of Thanos's cousin, Lewis." (laughs) Why Lewis?!
- Oh, no. He should've been snapped.
- It's a little shocking how they're twinning out
really hard right there.
- I feel like some of these are trying too hard.
I get the joke, but you're pushing it a little much.
- "It's hard to picture Will Smith without the crazy blue
Genie CGI lately." Honestly, though,
the way everyone-- okay, but it does look weird.
- I hate everything about this. (laughs)
- It is destroying my childhood now.
Thanks. Thanks, Will.
- Fresh Prince of Bel Air was actually an amazing show.
Nobody can tell me otherwise. This just made me really mad.
- "I'm actually glad you didn't get to see." (laughs)
Oh, no! - (laughs) Don't open your eyes!
That's funny. Bird Box.
- I think she needs a second blindfold on top of that blindfold
just to make sure she doesn't see it, 'cause now that I'm looking at him,
he might haunt my dreams until this movie comes out.
- (FBE) So, before the trailer was released in December of last year,
Entertainment Weekly released the first look photos.
And this was the image that they had on their cover.
- Right. Yeah.
Okay, so that's like a little-- I mean, it's still upsetting. (laughs)
- I actually really like Jasmine's outfit.
And Disney does that. They always tweak their outfits
not to look the same as the cartoon.
- Honestly, I think I prefer this one,
because if it's live action,
you're gonna make everything look real,
might as well make a genie look real. - That's doable to me.
You know, keeping him without blue, you know,
the blue tinge. But there would've been
the trolls out there on social media looking at it,
saying, "Why isn't the Genie blue?" And then, now that he is blue,
the people are all like, "Oh, god. He looks terrible."
- (FBE) After those photos were released, people were quick
to critique, and these were some of those responses.
- People are quick to criticize everything.
- They're gonna be like, "He's not even blue."
Right! There you go! (laughs and claps)
"Why is Aladdin wearing a shirt? Why is Jasmine wearing MORE
of a shirt?" Oh, come on.
And "Why is Genie not blue?" Well, they gave you blue.
They gave you what you wanted. - That was legit my initial thought
for maybe a whole 10 seconds when I first saw it.
I was like, "But... what's the point of
casting him as genie if he's not gonna be blue?"
- You just can't make everyone happy on the internet.
And now they made him blue, and everyone's like,
"What did you do?" - They had to choose
one path or the other. Had to have really animated Genie
or really human-looking Genie. And they were like, "[Bleep] it."
Bpffft! And smushed 'em together.
- "Ruin one of your favorite Disney movies in one picture."
(softly) Yeah. - Aww, that's so mean.
I feel like I would still wanna see it.
Everyone looks so pretty. - Whatever.
You're still gonna pay money to see it.
- I hate people so much sometimes. You have no patience.
- I don't think the picture ruined it necessarily.
I think it was one of those things where you're like, "Okay,
let's see where this goes." And then, we got what we got.
- "Fixed your genie." Wow. Jacksfilms.
Oh, he's here. (laughs)
- That's the thing. He fixes everybody's photos in general,
so I'm like, "You fixed my genie?
We appreciate you." He's the hero we deserve.
- That looks fine. SO much better.
- Can you imagine maybe that's where Disney was like,
"Hmm, Jacksfilms, maybe-- should we go back
to the whole blue thing?"
- (FBE) This was actually Will Smith's response
on Instagram after the photo came out.
- "Bam! First look at the Genie, Princess jasmine, and Aladdin.
Check me rockin' the top knot ponytail vibes in Entertainment Weekly."
- "And yes, I'm gonna be blue. This is how the Genie
is in human disguise form. My character will be CGI
most of the movie." I feel like this was damage control.
This was probably after the post.
- I wonder, though, had they not gone--
if they had gone blue initially, if the outrage culture
that's out there now would say, like,
"Why can't the Genie be Will Smith? Why can't he be black?"
You know what I mean? Like, they would've freaked out
the other way, too. - People are gonna have
their opinions, whether they're positive or negative.
Ultimately, I think all the people who are making those comments,
one way or the other, they're gonna see the movie.
- (FBE) Overall, as you've seen, the new Aladdin remake
has a lot of conflicting opinions online,
with some people questioning the graphics and others scared
that this won't live up to the original.
From what you've seen in these responses,
can you ever win public opinion in the age of social media?
- No. There's absolutely no winning. You can never please anybody.
You're gonna have a not blue Genie, and everyone's gonna be like,
"Why isn't he blue? Why isn't he blue?
You ruined the blue." And then you're gonna make him blue,
and then people are gonna hate it.
- You can never please anybody nowadays,
especially with [bleep] social media.
They're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless,
especially with the amount of money they have.
They're flush.
- No matter what you do, especially when they're rebooting
stuff like that, people are gonna be pissed.
There's always gonna people that liked one version better,
and they resent whatever you're trying to do.
- Never. But I don't know if it should live up to the original.
I think it's its own separate thing, like with Jungle Book.
In my mind, I hate to separate the Jungle Book that I knew
and the Jungle Book that was now.
And they were still equally awesome.
- People are always gonna complain. But, I mean, I understand
why they're complaining about these things,
because Disney did have a lot of potential with this movie,
and it's a good kids' movie. It's very nostalgic.
And I feel like-- I don't wanna say
they didn't put enough effort or anything like that,
but I feel like they could've done more.
- (FBE) So, in the past few years, Disney has started to create
and release live action remakes of other films,
including Beauty and the Beast and Jungle Book,
just to name a couple. Seeing that this trend
seems to be continuing with more live remakes
scheduled to be released in the next few years,
do you think that this is a smart move on Disney
since these classics are so popular,
or do you think Disney should stop while they're ahead?
- No. I don't think they should stop while they're ahead.
I think you're creating new memories for a younger audience
and for people that have maybe not gone back
and watched the old animated films if they don't have parents
that force them to watch it like we do.
- Disney's so big. Everyone's gonna watch it.
I don't think they're gonna stop.
I don't think they should stop. When they were doing Jungle Book,
I remember we were like, "Why are they doing that?"
And it's a good movie. - You have to be really careful
with a live action interpretation of a beloved animated film.
It's, like, you have to be careful with that.
But, I mean, there's plenty of examples where it's been amazing.
I personally really loved Alice in Wonderland.
That was one that I thought was really awesome.
- I would love to see the classics stay the classics.
But that's the nostalgia in me. The fact that CGI has progressed
to the point that it has now, I think it's inevitable
that they remake or actually redo the movies
to make it look contemporary.
- (FBE) So, as you've seen, one of the critiques
that a lot of people had with this new remake
is the way that Will Smith looks as the Genie.
- (chuckles) Yeah. - (FBE) And some are even saying
that they should go back and fix his CGI
in the entire film. - Ohh.
- I'm excited as hell for that. They can critique it
as much as they want to, but I'm still gonna
probably watch this 13 times.
- (FBE) So finally, do you think that Disney will be transporting you
to a whole new world with this movie,
or do you think that they should have buried this idea
in the sand right next to the lamp?
- Ahhh. I'm gonna say we're gonna
go to a whole new world.
I wanna have faith. I wanna be positive.
- I'm ready for a whole new world with this one.
Let's go on a magic carpet ride into the future with this.
- I just think it's gonna be bad. But I'll give it a shot.
- They should've buried this right next to the lamp
and then just leave the carpet alone. Let it collect a little dust, okay?
- Who doesn't love Aladdin? And I love the idea of exposing--
like, now this is gonna be another generation
who gets to enjoy Aladdin. - I think I'm gonna take
my magic carpet all the way to Agrabah.
I hate all this Disney lingo. I hate it. (laughs)
- Well, they're coming up with a whole new world
and it's a live action CG one. I don't know if I'll go see it,
but I'll probably wait till it's on Netflix or something.
- I think it's gonna be really cool. The rest of the stuff
aside from the Genie look just visually stunning.
- It's tough. The Robin Williams Aladdin
was SO good. The entire movie was SO well done.
The music was amazing. If I had to make a choice,
I'll be transported to a whole new world.
I'll say that now, but I reserve the right
to change my mind!
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