Robin Williams impersonation sucks

[Marilyn Falkowski (Plains)]

If anyone's seen the new Disney show Aladdin they can relate. The show's OK
I mean all the impersonations of characters voices from the movie are pretty
reasonable. Except for the Genie's. Have you heard this it sounds nothing
like Robin Williams. E-mail if you agree with this assessment if you don't
agree with me pull out your Aladdin video and listen to the difference.

[Ethan Solomita]

In article <38ci4r$7...@nic.umass.edu>,

I'm not sure what you can do about it, I don't think
anyone can do what Robin Williams can do as well as Robin
Williams can do it!
-- Ethan

--
R.A.D. Host

"Oh no! They've all become giant Swiss lederhosen-clad dancing yodelers!"
The Brain

[baw...@imap1.asu.edu]

Marilyn Falkowski (Plains) (mfa...@k12.ucs.umass.edu) wrote:

: If anyone's seen the new Disney show Aladdin they can relate. The show's OK

Is anything ever as quite as good as the original though (with the
exception of the Starwars series)?

Tommy
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[Stephanie da Silva]

In article <38ci4r$7...@nic.umass.edu>,
Marilyn Falkowski (Plains) <mfa...@k12.ucs.umass.edu> wrote:
>

>The show's OK
>I mean all the impersonations of characters voices from the movie are pretty
>reasonable. Except for the Genie's. Have you heard this it sounds nothing
>like Robin Williams. E-mail if you agree with this assessment if you don't
>agree with me pull out your Aladdin video and listen to the difference.

Actually, Dan Castellaneta does an excellent Robin Williams impersonation.
He's not doing Robin Williams as the Genie on Aladdin the Series for a
very good reason. He's not allowed to. It's per an agreement they have
with Robin. In fact, when the series was in pre-production, it didn't
even include the Genie because they weren't sure they would be able to
get permission from Robin to use it. I'm glad they did. The Genie on
the series isn't supposed to do celebrity impersonations either, but
they keep slipping them in and I'm wondering how they're getting away
with it.

The reason all the other voices sound okay is because all the original
actors are doing the voices (with the exception of the Sultan).

[Virgilio Dean B. Velasco Jr.]

In article <38ci4r$7...@nic.umass.edu> mfa...@k12.ucs.umass.edu (Marilyn Falkowski (Plains)) writes:
>
>If anyone's seen the new Disney show Aladdin they can relate. The show's OK
>I mean all the impersonations of characters voices from the movie are pretty
>reasonable. Except for the Genie's. Have you heard this it sounds nothing
>like Robin Williams.

It obviously wasn't supposed to. They clearly wanted someone who
could do a variety of voices, in a manic sort of way. At this,
Homer clearly succeeds. Seeking someone who would fulfill these
requirements AND sound like Mork would just be too much.

--
Virgilio "Dean" Velasco Jr, Department of Electrical Eng'g and Applied Physics
graduate student slave, roboticist-in-training and Q wannabe
Beam me up, Scotty. |I practice the safest form of sex| Why did the chicken
It ate my phaser. | known. It's called abstinence. | cross the Mobius strip?

[Jason John Seaver]

In article <38ci4r$7...@nic.umass.edu>,
Marilyn Falkowski (Plains) <mfa...@k12.ucs.umass.edu> wrote:
>

The funny thing is, I think Dan Castellena's Genie sounds almost
exactly the same as Robin Williams's. It kind of surprised me; I noticed a
different voice for Jasmine between "Aladdin" and "Return of Jafar" much more
than I noticed the new Genie. Of course, I'd been warned about the Genie.

[Tom]

Jason John Seaver (jse...@wpi.WPI.EDU) wrote:
: In article <38ci4r$7...@nic.umass.edu>,

I think that if Robin Williams replaced Dan as Genie's voice, people would
be bad-mouthing Robin. Castellena does just fine.

- FDC Lucky Ole Bert

[Charles P. Buchanan]

Well, now I'm so used to the Genie's voice in the Aladdin series that
Robin Williams's doing the Genie sounds kinda weird to me! I think Dan
C. is doing a great job in the series...It's not easy to mimic someone else's
voice, but I think he does pretty well.

--Charles Buchanan
Future Disney Cabinet Official Duck (Wak!)
RAD Host (e-mail me if you've got questions about rec.arts.disney)

[Tad Stones]

Aside from Val Bettin doing the Sultan and of course, Dan C. doing the
genie, there are no "impersonators" doing the characters of the Aladdin
movie in the Aladdin TV show. Them's the same folks.

As to Genie: by legal agreement Dan is NOT supposed to do an impression
of Robin Williams.

--
"I'm usually much smarter than this. Really." Tad Stones at
duc...@netcom.com and tad_s...@studio.disney.com

[Elliott Geoffrey D]

In article <38d6cb$c...@news.asu.edu> baw...@imap1.asu.edu writes:
> Marilyn Falkowski (Plains) (mfa...@k12.ucs.umass.edu) wrote:
>
>
>
> : If anyone's seen the new Disney show Aladdin they can relate. The
show's OK
> : I mean all the impersonations of characters voices from the movie are
pretty
> : reasonable. Except for the Genie's. Have you heard this it sounds
nothing
> : like Robin Williams. E-mail if you agree with this assessment if you
don't
> : agree with me pull out your Aladdin video and listen to the
difference.
>
> Is anything ever as quite as good as the original though (with the
> exception of the Starwars series)?
>

Well, I read in a newspaper today that Robin Williams and Disney have
"Kissed and made up" as it were. He'll even be working on some new Disney
live action picture - maybe if there's another series of Aladdin to be
made... hmmm.

Geoff Elliott