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Marley sends in the big guns with the Ghost of Christmas Future, a two-story high beast that breathes fire and brimstone. He brings Scrooge to a time after his death. Scrooge witnesses how his relatives celebrate his demise. Maureen Silliman plays a second memorable role as Cynthia the silly sister, raucously gallivanting around the stage. This helps Scrooge, someone once "solitary as an oyster [so that] no warmth could warm him," realize that even his family hates him, that this is bad, and that he should reform--and quickly...
...film employs the songwriting abilities of the late Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Tim Rice, whose melodious gifts give the story comedic ambiance. Ashman and Menken were the musical team behind past animated hits The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, for which they won two Oscars, two Golden Globes and two Grammys. Tony Award winning lyricist Tim Rice collaborates with Alan Menken on three of the songs...
...songs have an entirely different flavor than those of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. "One Jump Ahead," by Menken and Rice, evokes the frenzy of the chase as Aladdin eludes the palace guard through the streets of the mythical kingdom of Agrabah. "A Whole New World," also by the creative team of Menken and Rice and performed by Brad Kane and Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon), propels us on an exciting magic carpet ride with Aladdin and Princess Jasmine...
...film uses the cutting edge technology of Computer Generated Imagery (which was responsible for the three-dimensional ballroom in Beauty and the Beast) to create the incredible tiger's head exterior of the Cave of Wonders, the interior tunnels of the cave and Aladdin's first magic carpet ride, reminiscent of the cave sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Aladdin's animation is the sum of knowledge accumulated from past efforts like Sleeping Beauty--for example, Jafar's transformation into a overpowering serpent in Aladdin far surpasses the visual impact of the witch's metamorphosis into a towering dragon...
Aladdin learns the hard way that others can appreciate the "real" him. He is sultan-material on the inside if not on the outside. Like the Beast, he must get beyond the lowly image he projects and show them what he's made of. This is exactly what he does when he comes head to head with the evil vizier Jafar, who seeks to usurp the throne of Agrabah from Princess Jasmine's father. By being himself and showing his inherent goodness, Aladdin defeats the evil vizier and wins Princess Jasmine's heart...