Aladdin

Disney gives the magic lamp another rub with Guy Ritchie’s colourful live-action remake of its classic Arabian Nights adventure fantasy — and, for all the film’s bad pre-release buzz, the results are almost all you could wish for.

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Wisely, Ritchie sticks fairly closely to the studio’s 1992 animated smash, tweaking elements here and there, and he has a pair of fresh and appealing young leads in Mena Massoud’s ducking-and-diving street thief Aladdin and Naomi Scott’s free-spirited Princess Jasmine, both of them at risk from the scheming of M