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What A Cartoon Movie! - The Return of Jafar (Patreon)

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2020-09-28 03:59:00
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This month on What A Cartoon Movie! we're tackling the movie that kicked off nearly 20 years of direct-to-video madness for Disney: 1994's The Return of Jafar. Originally designed as a TV movie to launch the upcoming animated series, this Aladdin sequel quickly got bumped up to a home video release that raked in $300 million without diminishing the Disney brand. And while it's an uneven film, it showcases the talents of Disney's Japanese and Australian studios, and proves that Dan Castellaneta makes for the perfect replacement Genie. So sit back, relax, and get ready to be transported to the mythical clamshell days of yore!

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JoshuaMartian

I will defend Mike McMahan (the Star Trek Lower Decks guy) to the extent that he was riffing on Star Trek well-before the show's development on his hilarious Star Trek TNG Season 8 twitter. He went on to write a fictional behind-the-scenes book writing full synopses of the crazy premises from the twitter account. The book was officially licensed by Star Trek and presumably how he got a foot in the door with CBS. Star Trek Lower Decks so far has been... cute. I guess it's harder to make a funny 20-minute episode than it is a funny 240 character tweet but I'm enjoying it.

Frank Grimes

Have some fond memories of this flick, even had the comic version which I would try to draw myself by tracing over the panel pictures. But I was never really a fan of Aladdin the TV series.

Alex Irish

Back when Return of Jafar was newly released, my dad took my sister and I to procure it from a video store. In the same visit, six-year old me inadvertently walked out of the store with an unpaid copy of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. I didn't know I had shoplifted by accident , I was over eagerly hoping to persuade my dad to get both videos. He got neither, and we went back to his apartment and as punishment, we had to watch 1993's Dennis the Menace, because that did have a thief in it and I guess he was trying a "scared straight" tactic on us. My sister and I ultimately did get the Aladdin sequel, and of course we watched it a bunch. In fact, that and King of Thieves were the ONLY Disney DTV movies I saw in their original release. It makes sense seeing as we were the right age and they were the first in an empire of sequels.

Devin Hoffarth

So there's something I didn't realize until just now... you know that infamous line Hugo in Hunchback uses "I'M LOSING TO A BIRD!?" well remember in Aladdin (the original) when Genie does his Rodney Dangerfield impression and goes "I'M LOSING TO A RUG?" Disney literally ripped off THEIR OWN JOKE for one of their films.

Brian Hortin

I forgot how much this is Iago’s movie. The Under New Management retheming of the Tiki Room is what got me to actually want to go inside and watch the show for the first time as a kid, so I have fond memories of it. I’m in the minority of actually liking that version I guess.

crystalhearts

Just listened to the history section - and holy GOD this Lion Guard farting scene. This is...just barely removed from a thinly-veiled late 90s fetish webcomic. Thank you for visiting this evil on all of us.

David Thomson

I have a strange relationship with this film, as it kind of started my “maybe I’m too old for Disney cartoons” phase. Being from the UK, back then I realised that most media got released here last, so I was big into US imports. I mainly did this for SNES games, as most Square games never got released in the UK. The store that I got my imports from had a copy of Return of Jafar on VHS. Looking at the release dates it came out in the US on 20 May 1994 and didn’t come out in the UK until 31 January 1995, so this must have been summer 1994. My kid brain at the time (I was 12) suddenly thought there was a sequel to one of my favourite movies and it would be just as good, so I picked it up. I invited all my friends around to watch it and it was one of the first times I can remember being super disappointed in something. Prior to this I was just kind of happy to have something to watch but for some reason watching this made me annoyed. I think I had assumed this was a theatrical level movie, so when I saw what it was I was let down. I never saw another Disney Animated Classic until 2007’s Meet the Robinsons, when I saw it with my girlfriend (now wife), who is a Disney super fan. I’ve since caught up with the one’s I missed and seen all the subsequent films but for some reason Return of Jafar turned me from a day one Disney fan into just ignoring them altogether for 12 years. I watched the movie again for the podcast and I thought it was fine and can’t really understand why 12 year old me had such a reaction. I guess everything is more dramatic when your 12 compared to 38.

ShyRanger

Hey Bob & Henry. Normally I wouldn't spend my comment correct you guys, but you made this mistake multiple times, nobody else pointed it out, and I just wanted to. So here. You guys say constantly in this review "Genie didn't throw the lamp far enough," but in the first movie Genie specifically says he's sending them to the Cave of Wonders. So that explains why they are so close to Agrabah when they escape. It does NOT explain how Iago managed to simply dig his way out of an enchanted sealed cave, but still.

Frank Grimes

Fun news, they're making a live action sequel to the lion king. Maybe return of Jafar is next

Rhomega

You mention that you wish the movie had pointed out that Jafar needs Abis Mal to get into the palace, but they show this when Abis first rubs the lab. Jafar tries to leave, but his cuffs glow and he can only go so far. He's can only move so far away from the lamp.

Matt

I got this for my 11th birthday. I can still remember that clam shell VHS case.

Stefan P

Nice! I remember getting this for Easter, I would’ve been about 8, and watched it that morning. Good times - even though the animation is of less quality, the plot and action was decent! Also maybe this was the tape where it advertised the Aladdin cartoon, with the narrator calling Abis Mal ‘Abysmal’ 😆