The peddler then begins to tell us a tale, beginning on a dark night, where the Sultan's Grand Vizier, Jafar, meets with a thief named Gazeem, who hands over half of a gold scarab beetle, of which Jafar has the second half. A young man who like this lamp was more than what he seemed: A diamond in the rough.' After trying to sell us on his wares, he pulls out an old oil lamp, claiming it 'once changed the course of a young man's life. The film starts with a street peddler, guiding us through the streets of the fictional Arabian city of Agrabah, which is based mainly on a medieval city in the Middle East, the home of the 1001 Arabian Nights, and there are some inconsistencies in the time period.

10.1 Cameos and other Disney references.

In 2019, Walt Disney Pictures released a live-action adaptation of the 1992 animation. In 2014, a stage adaptation premiered on Broadway, which would go on to win a Tony Award. Additionally, Disney would produce Aladdin, an animated television series which was set between the two sequels and a series of video games for different platforms in 1993. The success of the film led Disney to produce two direct-to-video sequels: The Return of Jafar (1994) and Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996). The film was the most successful film of 1992 with over $217 million in domestic revenues and $504 million worldwide.

Unbeknownst to them, Jafar, advisor to the Sultan, plots to use the genie to take over the kingdom.ĭirected by John Musker and Ron Clements, Aladdin was released at the peak stretch of the Disney renaissance era beginning with The Little Mermaid. Inspired by the story of Aladdin and the magic lamp from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, the film is centered on a young 'street rat' in the kingdom of Agrabah who uses the power of a shape-shifting genie to win the heart of the beautiful Princess Jasmine. Aladdin is the thirty-first animated feature film in the Disney Animated Canon which was released on Novemas the fourth entry of the Disney Renaissance.

Aladdin rubbing the lamp