More from modern Disneyland, a kaleidoscope of adventures that's always doing the unexpected - blink and you miss a visual joke - and makes Robin Williams the star voice of the piece as a show-off, non-stop genie of the lamp, who does everything but say `Good Morning, Baghdad! ' `Getting kinda fond of you,' he confides to Aladdin at one point, `... not that I want to pick out curtains'. Set in an eastern city where the traders sell Dead Sea tupperware, the film is full of semi-adult humour that's bound to please parents, as much as the story, visual delights and animal supporting characters (including a performing monkey who sounds like Donald Duck) will please the children. On the musical front, the Menken-Ashman score is on the thin side, its big number, Brave New World, sounding very much like a mixture of ballads from the duo's previous Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. A small quibble at a big, colourful show that's more consistently entertaining than any pantomime.

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