Aladdin Trilogy: Aladdin / Return of Jafar / Aladdin - King of Theives [DVD]

What you get in this package is the 2 disk special edition vesion of Aladdin, plus the 2 sequals.The original Aladdin feature is a full blow Disney spectacular with now expense spared. The animation is exactly what you expect from Disney. The voice acting is excellent and the characters are great. The story is pretty much what you expect from an Aladdin based story and with Robin Williams playing the Genie you can expect a barrel of laughs. We get the standard happy ending - but with an obvious queue for a sequal, which is unusual for a Disney film. The film is very very good - Jafar is an excellent character and brings some darkness to the otherwise ideal world that the characters inhabit. The extras are quite good as well - the vitrual tour of Agrabah is quite impressive for smaller children.The Return of Jafar starts up where Aladdin finishes. This time it's by the Disney Television people, so the standard of animation suffers. Robin Williams is also absent and the newly genie isn't quite as good. The story is pretty good though and it involves Jafar escaping from the prison he was left in at the end of the previous film.Aladdin and the Prince of Thieves is the final film. Robin Williams comes back to do the genie again. And this time the story of the 40 thieves has been shoe horned into the Aladdin story - Aladdins father is the Prince of Thieves! We get a sort of buddy film where Aladdin and his father travel together and sort out their problems.Overall I'm giving this 9/10 and rounding it up to 5 stars. My 4 year old daughter loves all the films, and I don't mind watching them with her.

In my opinion, Aladdin is the best film ever made by Disney. Some of the things that make this movie so good, beside the beautiful animation, is the wonderful songs by late Howard Ashman, Tim Rice & Alan Menken, and Menken's wonderous score (with an arabian touch). Aladdin won 2 Academy Awards because of it's brilliant music. The film has a good story, interessting characters and beautiful and funny songs.My favourite character is the villain Jafar (the best Disney villain!), voiced by the very gifted actor/singer Jonathan Freeman. To bad that he diden't got more songs in this picture (but there are more Freeman recorded songs for Aladdin; "Why Me?" and "Humiliate the Boy"). Robin Williams as the Genie is also very funny off course, but I think Freeman's Jafar is a better character.In The Return of Jafar, Jafar is planning revenge, as he has escaped from the lamp... In this movie Freeman has a very catchy song for Jafar, "You're Only Second Rate". (Yes, I love Freeman's performances!)In my opinion, the last movie in the Aladdin trilogy, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, is not as good as The Return of Jafar. Perhaps because there is no Jafar in it?

All good thanks

This is such a great boxset! It has all three films (admittedly No. 2 is very weak but No. 3 gets better) in attractive packaging and all neatly in one box. It also has "Classic No. 31" written on the side of 'Aladdin' which for a true Disney fan is a bonus as I'm trying to neaten my collection by having all my DVDs with this badge (sad but true!) All in all in was value for money and provided a rainy weekend's entertainment. If you love Aladdin then seriously consider buying this boxset so you have the full story.

First Aladdin is good and an original but the second 2 I wouldn’t recommend watching as they are different actors that do the voices so it doesn’t feel like it’s Aladdin.

Grandkids love them

I bought this for my niece as she is trying to collect all the DVD's with princesses in. She sat and watched it with her mum, dad and brother and the whole family have enjoyed watching it together (at least I got something right!). Thank you.

It has very good HD quality and I love all the characters especially Aladdin. I would highly recommend this trilogy for the families and I love Aladdin, The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves.