Aladdin Trailer Reactions: 4 Ups & 5 Downs

3. Guy Ritchie's Direction Is Goofy & Awkward

Guy Ritchie is one of the most frustratingly inconsistent filmmakers working today, because for every Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels or Snatch, there's a Swept Away or a Revolver.

Ritchie has proven above all else that he's a far more comfortable director working with lower budgets - typically less than $100 million - and this new trailer seems to confirm that he's rather out of his depth here.

The trailer's opening chase through the market streets, for instance, is horrendously edited, woefully over-lit and shot with all the flair of a mid-budget TV show.

Then there's the excess of cheeseball slow-motion shots where characters are pulling unintentionally hilarious facial expressions, and it adds up to a movie that just feels a bit off.

Perhaps it'll all play better in the final film, but Ritchie has always been a fairly sloppy director - sometimes in an endearing way, admittedly - and that's a style that doesn't usually lend itself well to the nature of high-pressure, huge-budget tentpole fare.