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Who is the main character of "Aladdin"?

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[quote="imekitty"]I really liked Princess and the Frog as well.  I was still disappointed with it on a technical level, though.  The art was gorgeous, but the music and the characters were quite bland.  I really wanted to like Tiana, but she was very two-dimensional (possibly because Disney was too afraid to give her any flaws).  I normally really love male characters, but Naveen was also pretty boring for me.  Great villain, though.  I agree with that.

I liked the characters of the 90s.  I find their characters today to also be good, but they are often very forced and contrived.  I'm not entirely sure why this is.  My only guess is that they are really trying hard to appeal to a modern audience...which is fine.

I don't think my age has anything to do with it.  I don't mind predictability in the slightest as long as it's natural.  Hans, for instance, was not at all predictable for me.  I was completely blindsided when he turned out to be evil.  That doesn't make it a good twist, though.  It didn't make any sense at all for me.  Anyway, there are plenty of simple, predictable stories that I've seen for the first time as an adult that I absolutely loved.  I think formulas can be a great thing.  It's when you start trying really hard to NOT follow a formula that things start feeling contrived, forced, and confusing.  That was one problem I had with PatF.  They were trying REALLY hard to do something new and fresh with that story, and it just ended up being a weird mess a lot of the time.  I still love it, but I can see why it didn't do as well as Disney hoped it would.

Also, I really like Hans, too.  I enjoy the movie overall.  I just think Disney essentially forced him to be something that never felt right.  I don't really know how to explain it, but characters do have "minds" of their own, and when you try too hard to fit them into a certain mold, the result is usually not good.

Using a non-Disney example, it's like the romance between Hermione and Ron in Harry Potter.  J. K. Rowling had this idea from the beginning of the series that those two would end up together, but as the series progressed, the characters took on personalities of their own.  Hermione and Ron have no chemistry at all, and it really doesn't make sense that they are together, but Rowling forced them into this role simply because it was something SHE wanted to happen, not something Ron and Hermione "wanted" to happen.

Back to Hans, it's not that he's a bad character.  It's just that what Disney did with him is something I would expect from DreamWorks.  I expect Disney to be cleverer than that.  If they really wanted Hans to be evil, then they needed to make it believable and natural.  The way they did it made very little sense and was quite weak.  Again, that is NOT to say I don't like him.  I'm just a little disappointed because I know Disney is better than that.

But yes, this is all entirely subjective.  I think it's great that so many including you feel Disney is in another golden age.  It will continue to keep them successful so that they can turn out more great movies.  At this point, I don't mind so much what they're creating because none of it is traditionally animated.  I was more disappointed with PatF than I normally would've been because I adore traditional animation.  I don't care as much for CG animation, so I am able to enjoy those films no matter what flaws they have for the most part.[/quote]

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