A Kid in Aladdin's Palace

Theatrical Release

November 30, 1999

DVD Release

January 1, 1997

Studio

Lions Gate

Rated

PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

Directors

Robert L. Levy

Actors

Thomas Ian Nicholas, Rhona Mitra, Nicholas Irons, James Faulkner, Taylor Negron, Aharon Ipalé, Diana Kent, Roger Ennals, David Kirsch, Gordon Winter, Neil Conrich, Jonathan Charles Kaplan, John Toles-Bey, Gary Epp, Michele Merkin

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Formats

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• NTSC

Additional Information

There's more shtick than you can shake a stick at in this goofy sequel to the 1995 comedy A Kid in King Arthur's Court. Thomas Ian Nicholas returns as Calvin, a deceptively commonplace '90s teen whose pizza-delivery job gets him mixed up in an ancient quest to help Ali Baba save Aladdin--and all of Arabia--from the evil schemes of Aladdin's brother, Luxor. Just as Calvin relied on rollerblades and CD players to help him in the previous movie, his stash of contemporary gizmos gets him out of more than one jam when Luxor's henchmen come looking for him. There's a fair amount of F/X magic here--including the traditional opening of Ali Baba's hideaway at the command "open sesame"--but silliness is the real engine of this movie. (Ali Baba and his Forty Thieves? Try Ali and his Three Lamebrained Brothers.) Comic actor Taylor Negron is very funny as Aladdin's smart-aleck genie, stuck inside a lamp for a thousand years but hip enough to describe Luxor as "gone postal." --Tom Keogh - Amazon.com