The Story: This is an old-fashioned fairy tale with all the typical ingredients - romance, adventure, magic and an evil villain. The hero of the story is Aladdin,a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town  with his faithful monkey friend Abu. The heroine,Princess Jasmine, is kept captive in the palace by her overprotective father. The bored princess manages to sneak out of the palace that overlooks the city.She accidentally bumps into Aladdin in the marketplace and they fall in love. Under the orders of the evil Jafar (the sultan's advisor), Aladdin is thrown in jail and becomes caught up in Jafar's plot to rule the land with the aid of a mysterious lamp that holds a wonderful genie that can grant three wishes to the person who possesses the lamp. Legend has it that only a person who is a "diamond in the rough" can retrieve the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. Aladdin might fit that description, but that's not enough to marry the princess, who must (by law) marry a prince. The film tells the story of how Aladdin manages to win the hand of the fair Princess Jasmine. After a lot of twists and turns, the viewer arrives at the predictable happy ending.