Not because he is blue. He's supposed to blue. This is a live action remake of the animated version.
I think he looks awful because it looks like awful animation for his character. His head looks wayyyy too disembodied. And if that is a glimpse of some of his best dialogue, bleah.
When you watch the animated version, Genie is Genie! Not Robin Williams. This Genie? Ginormous smurfy Will Smith, and for the most part, only Will Smith.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
HA!! The internet agrees in the badness...
https://screenrant.com/aladdin-will-...-blue-bad-why/For fans of the original concerned that Aladdin might not be able to pull off the translation to live-action, the new trailer did not inspire any hope. Smith is not the only problem the new footage features, but it remains the most prominent and the sheer strangeness of it highlights a problem the movie and Disney cannot ignore: The genie looks bad.
Some of the Twitter responses I've read are hilarious.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
No one... NO ONE... is more committed to marketing their films than Ryan Reynolds. He is a true hero!
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
In 2015, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation handily passed Pitch Perfect 2, but it was after the contest's cutoff, so Pitch Perfect 2 was credited as #5. In winter 2010, Little Fockers squeaked by Megamind, but it was after a cutoff date that was imposed well into the contest (after voting had occurred and the movies had come out), so Megamind was controversially credited as #5. I recall these because I came up on the short end of both cutoffs, losing out on a 5-for-5 finish in 2015. #NeverForget
Not even remotely.
For folks who do not recall, Wander and I have a bet. Toy Story 4 must beat Detective Pikachu by $200 mil in total boxoffice. If Pikachu is within $200 mil, I have to change my avatar to a Pikchu for a week and will post many messages praising Wander's brilliance. If TS4 makes $200+ mil more, then Wander will have a Toy Story logo for a week and will spend his time professing to my genius.
I'm thinking this guy would make a fine avatar:
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
Interesting: Rotten Tomatoes has disabled the "want to see" section of its site. This comes in the wake of a lot of negative comments left about Captain Marvel as well as a number of articles about said comments. In light of Solo's flop last year, I'm now curious to see how Captain Marvel does at the box office to see if there's anything to this or if it was just a bunch of trolls/bots/etc.