Aladdin (1992)
Lyricist Howard Ashman first pitched the idea, and the screenplay went through three drafts before Disney president Jeffrey Katzenberg agreed to its production. The animators based their designs on the work of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, and computers were used for both colouring and creating some animated elements. The musical score was written bởi Alan Menken and features six songs with lyrics written bởi both Ashman and Tim Rice, who took over after the former's death.
Aladdin và cây đèn thần was released on November 25, 1992 to positive reviews and was the most successful film of 1992, earning over $217 million in revenue in the United States, and over $504 million worldwide. The film also won many awards, most of them for its soundtrack. Aladdin's success led to many material inspired bởi the film such as two direct-to-video sequels, The Return of Jafar and Aladdin và cây đèn thần and the King of Thieves, an animated ti vi series, toys, video games, spin-offs, and merchandise. Jafar, Grand Vizier to the Sultan of Agrabah, is attempting to retrieve a magical oil lamp containing a genie from the Cave of Wonders. After seeing a petty thief's failed attempt to enter the cave, Jafar and his parrot, Iago, learn that only a "Diamond in the Rough" can enter the cave.
Jasmine, the Sultan's daughter, frustrated with her life in the palace, flees to Agrabah's marketplace. There she meets đường phố, street con chuột Aladdin và cây đèn thần and his monkey, Abu. The two discover they have a lot in common. When Aladdin và cây đèn thần is detained for thievery, hoa nhài orders him released, but Jafar lies to her that Aladdin và cây đèn thần has been executed.
Disguised as an elder, Jafar releases Aladdin và cây đèn thần and Abu from prison and leads them to the Cave of Wonders. The tiger-shaped head of the cave says to touch nothing but the lamp. Aladdin và cây đèn thần and Abu enter the cave, where a magic carpet guides them to the lamp. Abu's attempt to steal a ruby causes the cave to start collapsing, but the carpet flies them to the entrance. As Aladdin và cây đèn thần delivers the lamp, Jafar tries to kill him, but Abu bites Jafar in the arm and gets the lamp back as he, the carpet, and Aladdin và cây đèn thần fall back into the cave just as it closes.
In the collapsed cave, Aladdin và cây đèn thần rubs the lamp, unexpectedly unleashing a genie, who reveals he will grant Aladdin và cây đèn thần three wishes—with the exception of murder, romance, hoặc revival of the dead. Aladdin và cây đèn thần tricks the Genie into freeing them from the cave without using a wish. While contemplating his wishes, Genie admits he would wish for freedom, since he is a prisoner to his lamp. Aladdin và cây đèn thần promises to free the Genie for his last wish. After talking about hoa nhài with the Genie, Aladdin và cây đèn thần decides to use his first wish to become a prince so he can woo Jasmine.
Aladdin và cây đèn thần returns to Agrabah just as Jafar tries to trick the Sultan into arranging a marriage between himself and Jasmine. When Aladdin và cây đèn thần parades into the Sultan's palace as "Prince Ali", hoa nhài rejects Ali as a suitor. Despite the Genie's suggestion that Aladdin và cây đèn thần to tell the princess who he really is, Aladdin và cây đèn thần remains as a suave prince, and takes hoa nhài around the world on the magic carpet. During the trip, hoa nhài exposes Ali as a commoner, Aladdin, and demands the truth from him. Aladdin và cây đèn thần instead fabricates a story that he sometimes dresses as a commoner to escape palace life. The couple kisses as Aladdin và cây đèn thần returns her home.
Afterwards, Aladdin và cây đèn thần is captured bởi Jafar and thrown into the ocean, but the Genie rescues Aladdin và cây đèn thần as his một giây wish. Aladdin và cây đèn thần returns to the palace and exposes Jafar's plot; and Jafar flees after noticing the lamp in Aladdin's possession, realizing who Aladdin và cây đèn thần is. As Aladdin và cây đèn thần gets doubtful about revealing who really is, Iago steals the Genie's lamp and brings it to Jafar, who becomes the Genie's new master. Jafar uses his first two wishes to become Sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Using his new powers, Jafar forces hoa nhài and her father to bow, exposes Aladdin và cây đèn thần as a đường phố, street rat, then exiles him and Abu to a Nữ hoàng băng giá wasteland.
Aladdin và cây đèn thần uses the magic carpet to return to Agrabah, where Jafar has imprisoned both hoa nhài and the Sultan as his slaves. hoa nhài distracts Jafar with a seductive act as Aladdin và cây đèn thần tries to steal back the lamp, but Jafar confronts him. He imprisons hoa nhài in a large hourglass and turns himself into an enormous cobra. As Jafar traps Aladdin và cây đèn thần in his coils, he boasts to be "the most powerful being on Earth", which causes Aladdin và cây đèn thần to shout out that the Genie is thêm powerful. Faced with this realization, Jafar uses his final wish to become a genie. However, Jafar discovers that genies are not free entities as he is sucked into a black lamp, dragging Iago with him. The Genie flicks the lamp into the Cave of Wonders.
After Aladdin và cây đèn thần realizes that he cannot keep pretending to be something he is not, he decides to keep his promise and wish for the Genie's freedom. Seeing Jasmine's tình yêu for Aladdin, the Sultan changes the law to allow her to marry whomever she deems worthy. The newly free Genie leaves to explore the world while Aladdin và cây đèn thần and hoa nhài celebrate their engagement.
Muppet Treasure Island is a 1996 American musical film based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. It is the fifth feature film to ngôi sao The Muppets and was directed bởi Jim Henson's son Brian Henson.
Similarly to the earlier Muppet giáng sinh Carol, the key roles were played bởi live-action actors, with the Muppets in supporting roles. The live-action actors consisted of Tim món cà ri, cà ri as Long John Silver, Billy Connolly as Billy Bones, Jennifer Saunders, and introducing Kevin Bishop as Jim Hawkins. Kermit the Frog appeared as Captain Abraham Smollett, Fozzie chịu, gấu as Squire Trelawney, Sam the Eagle as Mr. Samuel Arrow, and Miss Piggy as the gender-flipped castaway "Benjamina" Gunn. Following their success as the narrators of The Muppet giáng sinh Carol, The Great Gonzo and Rizzo the con chuột appeared in specially created roles as Jim's best friends. The film was released on February 16, 1996 before Muppets Tonight aired on ABC in March. Jim Hawkins (Kevin Bishop) is a young orphan living with his Những người bạn Gonzo and Rizzo at the Admiral Benbow inn in England. Dreaming of sea voyages, Jim only has the tales of Billy Bones (Billy Connolly) to help, Bones telling Jim and the inn patrons of Captain Flint (David Nicholls), his old captain, burying his treasure on a remote island and killing all of his crew, and that no one knows the whereabouts of the map. One night, Blind Pew, a fellow pirate, arrives and gives Bones the black spot. Bones dies of a tim, trái tim attack but reveals to Jim, Gonzo and Rizzo he had the map all along beforehand. Blind Pew returns with an army of pirates, but the boys escape with the map.
Going to a harbour town, the boys meet the half-wit son of Squire Trelawney (Fozzie Bear) who decides to fund a voyage to find Treasure Island and Flint's fortune. Accompanied bởi Dr. Livesey (Dr. Bunsen Honeydew) and his assistant Beaker, the boys and Trelawney hire the Hispaniola, commanded bởi Captain Abraham Smollett (Kermit the Frog) and his overly strict first mate Mr. Mũi tên xanh (Sam the Eagle). The boys meet the cook Long John Silver (Tim Curry), a one-legged man who Bones warned the boys about before dying. The ship sets sail, but Smollett is concerned bởi the pirate-like crew, learning they were hired on Silver's suggestion. Jim and Silver bond, but Gonzo and Rizzo are captured bởi the pirates Polly Lobster, Mad Monty and Clueless morgan who demand they surrender the map but Mr. Mũi tên xanh catches them in the act and imprisons them in the brig. Smollett locks the map in his an toàn, két an toàn upon ordering Jim to give him the map for safekeeping.
Eventually it becomes apparent that Silver is leader of the pirates and plots a mutiny, fooling Mr. Mũi tên xanh into leaving the ship to test a lifeboat for safety precautions, and faking his death. Jim, Gonzo and Rizzo learn of Silver's plan and inform Smollett. Smollett planned to leave Long John Silver and those involved on Treasure Island. However, Silver captures Jim upon arrival at Treasure Island (where he tricks him into giving him his crutches) with the other pirates stealing the map from Smollett's safe. Smollett, Gonzo and Rizzo go to save Jim but are captured bởi the local tribe of native pigs ruled over bởi Benjamina Gunn (Miss Piggy), Smollett's ex-fiance who he left at the altar. Jim, Silver and the pirates find the hiding place of Flint's treasure only to find the treasure missing, Silver sending Jim away as a fight breaks out among the pirates. The pirates come across Smollett and Benjamina. Smollett is then suspended from a cliff until Benjamina tells Silver the treasure is hidden in her home, but when Benjamina spits out a Kiss from Silver, he leaves the two to dangle, allowing the pair to fall in tình yêu again.
Jim, Gonzo and Rizzo find Mr. Mũi tên xanh who aids them sneaking on board the ship and scaring off the pirates still onboard bởi posing as his ghost and freeing Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Beaker, before the figureheads of the Hispaniola (Statler and Waldorf) save Smollett and Benjamina (though Waldorf notes that they "didn't save the movie"). A battle breaks out between the Giải cứu thế giới and the pirates where Sweetums defects to Smollett's side bởi taking out some of the pirates. Smollett then fights Silver in a sword battle but loses. Jim and the others rally to their captain's aid, Silver surrendering honourably. All the pirates are stuffed into the thuyền nhỏ hai buồm, cầu đường, brig but Silver escapes using Mr. Arrow's keys. Jim catches him in the act, but allows Silver to leave for the sake of their friendship. However, Mr. Mũi tên xanh informs Jim and Smollett that the longboat Silver took was damaged, forcing Silver to abandon ship and swim to Treasure Island. The crew of the Hispaniola sail off into the sunset while some môn lặn, lặn biển rats discover the treasure.
During the credits, it is shown that Silver is marooned on the island with only a wisecracking Moai head for company as the Moai tells him a joke.
Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
