Watch Aladdin and the King of Thieves on Google ... and flying carpets. It begins with Disney's original animated classic, "Aladdin" (1992), where a young street urchin named Aladdin discovers ...
He travels to Aladdin's village, identified as being near the border with China, where he enlists Aladdin's help by pretending to be his long-lost uncle and offering to leave his wealth to Aladdin.
Hard to imagine now, but when "Aladdin" came out 25 years ago (on Nov. 25, 1992), Disney brass saw the movie as a big risk. They'd never done a cartoon feature based on a non-Western folk tale ...