Plot
The movie started with a street peddler talking about a lamp that has "once changed the course of a young man's life.....
One dark night, Jafar,the sultan's grand vizier, met with a thief named Kassim. Kassim gave Jafar one of the two gold scarab beetles, which when combined, resulted in giant tiger's head to rise from the sand: the Cave of Wonders. Jafar ordered Kassim to go inside and retrieve a lamp. However, upon approaching the Tiger's Head, it spoke that only one may enter: "One whose worth lies far within: the Diamond in the Rough!"
The next day, on the streets of Agrabah, a young man named Aladdin with his monkey, Abu were trying to steal some bread. With the Royal Prince walking past them, he dismissed Aladdin as useless and worthless.
The following day, the Royal Prince left the Palace, angered that Princess Jasmine rejected his marriage proposal. The Sultan asked his adviser, Jafar, for help and Jafar agreed under one condition: the Sultan should give him his blue diamond ring. Under his hypnosis, the Sultan did what Jafar asked.
That night, Jasmine escaped from the Palace, and wandered the streets of Agrabah where she got in trouble with a street merchant for giving food to a little boy, but Aladdin interfered and saved her at the right time.Meanwhile, Jafar has used the blue diamond ring of the Sultan's and it revealed that it is Aladdin who needs to enter the Cave of Wonders.
Aladdin retreated with Jasmine to his and Abu's place, and she was impressed by his kindness. Suddenly, Aladdin was summoned by the Royal Guards and taken to prison as per Jafar's orders, as he kidnapped Princess Jasmine.
Returning to the Palace, Jasmine confronted Jafar, but Jafar later told Jasmine that Aladdin has been executed. In reality, Aladdin was imprisoned in the Royal Dungeon, but Abu managed to free Aladdin, and were tricked by an old beggar(who was actually Jafar) to help him locate The Cave of Wonders.
After the group arrived at the Caves, Aladdin enter as the cave commanded that he "touch nothing but the lamp." They encountered a magic carpet, which led them to the lamp's location. Aladdin retrieved it, but Abu broke the rule by wiping a large ruby, which caused the cave to collapse on them. With the help of the magic carpet, Aladdin and Abu manage to get to the entrance to the cave, where the old beggar pleaded Aladdin for the lamp. Aladdin did so, and the beggar tried to kill him. Luckily, Abu bit the beggar and escaped the beggar's dagger.
Jafar reached for the lamp, only to find it was gone as Abu managed to steal it off him. In the cave, Aladdin rubbed the lamp, which then produced a large blue genie and told Aladdin that he is entitled to three wishes, except the following:
1) He can't kill anyone
2) He can't make anyone fall in love with someone else
3) He can't bring people back from the dead
Using his street-smarts, Aladdin managed to con Genie into getting him and Aladdin out of the cave without using a wish and the Genie revealed that he wished to be set free of the lamp, after Aladdin's two wishes.
Aladdin first wished to be a Prince came true, so Princess Jasmine can fall in love with him and Abu is transformed into a large white elephant and will be Aladdin's mount. Meanwhile, Jafar upset that he didn't get the lamp he attempted to convince the Sultan that the royal rules stated that if Jasmine has not been suitably wed by a certain time, Jafar can marry her.However, the plans are put on hold due to the arrival of Prince Ali Ababwa (aka Aladdin in his new persona). Initially unimpressed, Jasmine shooed Prince Ali away, but later remembered Aladdin as the street urchin once who took his hat off. Aladdin's charms eventually won Jasmine over and the two took a trip around the world in his magic carpet.
Returning to the palace, Aladdin was seized by the guards and was dumped in a nearby lake, accidentally rubbing the lamp. The Genie then appears and Aladdin wished for his life to be saved. Aladdin returned to the palace to find that Jafar was using his cobra-shaped staff to once again hypnotize the sultan, to allow her daughter to marry Jafar. Aladdin figured out Jafar's schemes and smashed the staff. Jafar vanished before the palace guards can arrest him. After that, the sultan saw that Jasmine accepted Aladdin and wished to marry him.
Jafar, with the stolen lamp, returned to his lair beneath the palace, rubbed the lamp and summoned the Genie. Genie was forced by Jafar's to bring the palace to a remote mountain. Jafar's 1st wish was to become a powerful sorcerer and revealed Aladdin's true identity and was taken out of the palace. Jafar then used his 2nd wish to become sultan, imprisoned the real sultan and the princess until she agreed to marry him.
Aladdin managed to get back to the castle with the help of the magic carpet. Aladdin tried to steal back the lamp from Jafar while Jasmine pretended to be suddenly enraptured with Jafar to distract him. However, Jafar knocked Aladdin away and trapped Jasmine in a large hourglass. Jafar turned into a giant cobra to terrorize Aladdin, who fought back valiantly. Aladdin influenced Jafar into using his 3rd wish by telling Jafar that the Genie is still more powerful. Jafar then wished to be turned into a genie himself. Aladdin reminded him that being a Genie means becoming a servant to whomever holds the lamp. Jafar shackled and is sucked into the new lamp created by his wish and is trapped.
For Aladdin's 3rd wish, he set the genie free. The lamp became inactive and the genie's shackles fell off his wrists. The sultan, knowing that Aladdin is not a prince, decided to let him marry is daughter and Abu is changed back into his monkey form, as the Genie said goodbye. Aladdin and the princess were married and Aladdin became heir to the kingdom. They flew away on Aladdin's carpet toward the moon, which turned into the laughing genie's face.
1. Aladdin was modelled after Tom Cruise.
2. Whenever Aladdin told a lie, the feather on his hat fell forward.
3. It was originally going to be revealed that the street merchant, seen in the beginning of the film, was really the Genie in disguise.
4. Aladdin was the highest grossing movie of 1992. It was also the first animated movie to gross more than $200 million.
5. The character design for Jafar was based on Maleficent.
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