The Fangirl

31 – Smoulder and Wiser ***** Another favourite episode, this one carries on the excellent Aladdin/Jasmine dynamic from Elemental, My...

They're supposed to be happily married. Why is Aladdin still a street rat??

“I am not a prize to be won!” Princess Jasmine famously says, and, of course, she's right. She's telling us she's not an inanimate...

Princesses Jasmine and Leia are two of my all-time favourite characters. And you could say the two have a lot in common (although when I...

Aladdin and Jasmine are definitely married in the last scene of Aladdin. Don't get me wrong. It's not that I can't see the appeal in...

How would she respond to their advances? We all know Jasmine hated being continually wooed by what she referred to as overdressed,...

And why it might be time to rethink the criteria. What is a Disney Princess? The criteria used to be simple. Once upon a time, being a...

What is power? This question is a slightly subtler theme running throughout Aladdin; the messages I always noticed were the more obvious...

I know it was probably supposed to be meant for children, but I really enjoyed this short collection of tales starring the Original Six,...

This post will be sort of like part movie review, part summary, part commentary – it's me going through Aladdin, describing the plot so...

When I hear that my very favourite Disney movie was made into a Broadway show, I'll probably be either delighted or slightly wary. As it...

When I first saw the original 1992 Aladdin, I expected it to be good. I did not realize it would be *that* good.