Will admit to not expecting very much in the first place from 'Adventures of Aladdin', actually my expectations were extremely low. Despite liking the story and loving the animated Disney film, the knowledge that it was from the dread name The Asylum is enough to make anybody severely sceptical. Apart from the odd watchable effort, almost all of their work ranges from mediocre at best and frequently abominable.

'Adventures of Aladdin' turned out to be even worse than expected, not quite one of The Asylum's very worst but redeeming qualities are none and everything is done terribly at best. Would not have minded it being a diamond in the rough, 'Adventures of Aladdin' doesn't even come close to being near that. It is not be confused with the newly released live-action Disney film on which the film was made to capitalise upon its release, have not seen that film yet but will do being a big Disney fan, despite no longer being very excited in seeing it. But it would have to be really, really terrible to be as bad or worse than 'Adventures of Aladdin', personally think that that is highly unlikely.

Speaking of what's wrong with 'Adventures of Aladdin', where to start? How about that it is one of the worst looking The Asylum fantasy films ever. Everything screams of cheaply produced and rushed-looking, especially the costumes, which look like remains of shoe-string budget fancy dress rather than sumptuous or exotic, and the risible after-thought like special effects (especially that dragon). Complete with very obvious green screen and drab and chaotic photography. The direction is practically non-existent and shows no competence when there are any signs.

Music is as cheap sounding as the look of the costumes, is monotonous and placed in a way that is sometimes random and discordant with the action. The script is stilted as well as childish and unfunny and there is absolutely no charm, soul or wonder to the lifelessly paced and absurd story.

Really didn't care for the characters, who either have very little personality, are too over the top or annoying. Nothing interesting about them too. The acting is best not worth mentioning, with two bland leads, a very hammy villain that poses no threat or fun whatsoever and an insufferably irritating genie who should be a big part of the story but feels out of place.

Altogether, awful. 1/10 (the first 1 given in quite some time and deserving)

Evil Vizier Maghreb (Daniel O'Reilly) wants to rule the Green Zone in Baghdad. Shahzadi (Lucia Dimitra Xypteras) a "mindless little monkey" currently rules and is smitten by acrobat Aladdin (Adam Hollick). The genii (Lord KraVen) is overly flamboyant.

This is the Asylum mockbuster that no one was anticipating. The acting was bad and the film at times is entertaining in the "so bad it is good" category. For instance the anachronistic saying "she is out of your league." Really? What leagues did they have? The staff Aladdin had was clearly made out of resin and had an electric lamp under the plastic flame. Were his clothes hanging down in the flames as he crossed over on a rope?

Guide: no swearing, sex, or nudity.

Just as terrible as I had imagined.

It isn't the worst film I have seen, though that's just through process of elimination more than anything. 'Adventures of Aladdin' is very bad, with its awful special effects and pretty poor cast.

There are no notable performances at all, though I actually didn't hate Adam Hollick as Aladdin or Naya Abou Mousa as Naveena - they are the marginally better actors in this. Daniel O'Reilly (Maghreb) has the look of a good villain, though what he provides isn't quite adequate.

As usual with these type of productions, it's more so the script and effects which let it down. The latter isn't as dreadful as I would have predicted, but you can tell they had a low budget given the sporadic nature of them; the cave scene is rather pathetic. I do like what they did with Aladdin's set of friends though, which was at least a minor change-up.

You know what you're getting with this, but I've seen worse films from The Asylum... **500 MPH Storm**.