The Return Of Jafar

The Return Of Jafar

May 20, 1994 (estimated) Direct to Video Direct To Video

Studio
Walt Disney Television Animation, Walt Disney Home Video
Animation studio
MovieToons Animation
Distributor
Buena Vista Home Video

Synopsis

Aladdin is adjusting to his new life as part of the upper crust. He and Princess Jasmine may not be married yet, but the pressures of palace society have already begun. On top of that, Iago (the parrot pet of Sultan's ex-vizir turned genie, Jafar) appears asking for help and no one is happy to see him. But things begin to look up when Genie returns from his trip around the world. Meanwhile, Jafar's black lamp is discovered by an idiot crook called Abis Mal. By using Abis Mal, Jafar makes his way back to Agrabah with ideas of payback for Aladdin and his friends.

Characters

Aladdin, Princess Jasmine, Jafar, Blue Genie, Abis Mal, Iago the Parrot, Abu the Monkey, Razoul the Chief Guard, The Sultan of Agrabah, Thieves, Street Mother

Credits

Directing

Director
Toby Shelton, Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove
Assistant Directors (Australia)
Mickey Cassidy, Janey Dunn, Di Rudder

Producing

Producer
Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove
Associate Producer
Maia Mattise
Assistant Producer
Jessica Koplos-Miller

Voices

Voice
Scott Weinger (Aladdin), Brad Kane (Aladdin, singing), Linda Larkin (Princess Jasmine), Liz Callaway (Princess Jasmine, singing), Jason Alexander (Abis Mal), Dan Castellaneta (Blue Genie), Jonathan Freeman (Jafar), Gilbert Gottfried (Iago the Parrot), Frank Welker (Abu the Monkey), Jim Cummings (Razoul the Chief Guard), Val Bettin (The Sultan of Agrabah), Jeff Bennett (Thief), Brian Hannan (Thief), B.J. Ward (Street Mother)

Music

Music
Mark Watters
Song "Nothing In The World (Quite Like A Friend)"
Dale Gonyea
Songs "I'm Looking Out for Me" and "You're Only Second Rate"
Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn, Randy Quinn
Music "Arabian Nights"
Alan Menken
Composers (Additional Music)
Harvey Cohen, John Given, Carl Johnson, Thom Sharp
Singers ("Nothing in the World")
Liz Callaway, Dan Castellaneta, Brad Kane
Singers ("Forget About Love")
Liz Callaway, Gilbert Gottfried, Brad Kane
Singer ("You're Only Second Rate")
Jonathan Freeman
Singer ("I'm Looking Out for Me")
Gilbert Gottfried
Singer ("Arabian Nights")
Brian Hannan
Music Arranger ("Arabian Nights")
Bruce Rowland
Music Producer ("Arabian Nights")
Bruce Rowland
Associate Music Producer)
Bambi Moè
Music Adaptor
Mark Watters
Adaptions Based on Music By
Alan Menken

Animation

Animator
Dale Case, Warwick Gilbert, Ian Harrowell, Saburo Hashimoto, Takamitsu Kawamura, John Kimball, Marsh Lamore, Rick Leon, Kazuo Terada, Steve Trenbirth (Animation Directors)
Animators (Australia)
Georges Abolin, Manny Banados, Ty Bosco, Chris Bradley, Andrew Brooks, Simon Brown, Peter Candeland, Mike Chavez, Andrew Collins, Gairden Cooke, Marten Coombe, Stephen Cooper, Murray Debus, Lily Dell, Chris Derochie, Dick Dunn, Ariel Ferrari, Warwick Gilbert, Stephen Grant, Lianne Hughes, Marek Kochout, Dwayne Labbe, Morris Lee, Dave MacDougall, Helen McAdam, Walt Micati, Mac Monks, Adam Murphy, Paul Newell, Oscar Perez, Kristina Reay, Troy Saliba, Nilo Santillan, Carol Seidl, Mike Stapleton, Jozef Szekeres, Steven Taylor, Leesa Tynan, Ian White, Kang Lin Zhu
Animators (Japan)
Koji Fukuoka, Miyuki Hoshikawa, Isamitsu Kashima, Hideaki Kurakawa, Koichi Maruyama, Yoshiaki Matsuda, Yuko Matsuo, Kiyomi Miyakawa, Mitsuko Otaku, Yuri Takasaki, Heihachiro Tanaka, Osamu Tanihata, Manao Torii, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Sachiko Wakabayashi, Kazue Yamanaka
Animation Directors (Japan)
Takeshi Atomura, Hiroshi Kawamata, Masaaki Kudo, Kazuyoshi Takeuchi, Hisashi Wada, Manoka Yasue
Animation Supervisor (Japan)
Shigeru Yamamoto
Assistant Animators (Japan)
Yurika Fujisawa, Harumi Nakamura, Shizuka Okumoto, Kazumi Sagawa, Roy Sato
Additional Animation Clean-Up Artists (Australia)
Lindy Catchlove, Manuk Chang, Michael Comino, Debbie Cramb, Adam Tekani Marr, Phoebe Middleton, Guy Pascoe, Sophia Ruo Liu, Neville Ryan, Georgina Santos, Rizaldy Valencia, Natalie White, Ian Young
Additional Assistant Animation Clean-Up Artists (Australia)
Sean Aspinall, Dominique Audard, Daryl Brougham, Deborah Cameron, Stuart Cunningham, Tony Davis, Janine Dawson, Noel Domingo, Peter Eastment, Sonny Esquillon, Max Gunner, Eva Helischer, Sylvia Lee, Peggy McEwen, Suk-Hee Parks, James Shah, Sue Tanner, Sally Woods, Eva Wotton, Milan Zahorasky

Editing

Editor
Elen Orson
Supervising Editor
Robert S. Birchard
Assistant Film Editors
Susan Edmunson, Christopher Gee
On-Line Editor
David Klandrud

Crew

Production Manager
Selma Gladney
Production Manager (Australia)
Terry W. Smith
Post-Production Manager
Cheryl Murphy
Post-Production Supervisor
Joe Hathaway
Storyboard Artists
Kurt Anderson, Ryan Anthony, Victor Cook, William Finn, John Flagg, Denise Koyama, Lonnie Lloyd, Chris Rutkowski, Wendell Washer, Phil Weinstein
Painters (Australia)
John Barrett, Liz Coleman, Francesca De Celis, Melinda Dixon, Anges Forster, Alister Grant, Anna Hall, Barrie Hines, Megen Hitchens, Danuta Jelenkowska, Jessica Khachan, Ania Kornacki, Leanne Kornacki, David Lumley, Samantha Magri, Christopher McManus, Terese Nam, Zsa Petrovic, Mark Sonntag, Gavin Stone, Murray Swift, Benjamin Wolfe
Additional Painters (Australia)
Donene Bailey, Samia Bishay, Gail Brooks, Karen Clarke, Marie Dale, Jay Hawke, Elizabeth Jamsek, Babetta Latooy, Kerry Martin, Jacky Neville, Jenny North, Kathie O'Brien, Klara Osust, Diana Sheridan, Francis Smith, Michelle Walker
Art Coordinator
Michael Gracey
Property Designers
Greg Guler, Terry Hudson, Marty Warner
Supervising Sound Editor
Stephen Flick
Sound Editors
Dean Beville, Mick Chock, James Christopher, John Dunn, Teresa Eckton, Donald Flick, Avram Dean Gold, R.J. Kizer
Assistant Sound Editor
Jeena M. Phelps
Sound Effects Editor
Bruce Stubblefield (uncredited)
Supervising Music Editor
Patricia Carlin
Music Editor
Dominick Certo
Music Mixers
Bruce Botnick, Alan Snelling
Foley Recordist
Ezra Dweck
Foley Artists
Catherine Rowe, Joan Rowe
Supervising ADR Editors
Judee Flick, Christopher Gee
Sound Mixer
James Twomey
Production Sound Mixer
Deb Adair (uncredited)
Sound Re-Recording Mixers
David J. Hudson, Mel Metcalfe, Terry Porter
Sound Dubbing Supervisor
Christopher Keith
Additional Sound Designer
Marc Mangini
Camera Operators (Australia)
Jose Barreiros, Fernando Letteri, Robert Letteri, Elias Macute, Carole Salter
Inbetweening Supervisor (Australia)
Mickie Cassidy
Inbetweeners (Australia)
Sid Ahearne, Rowen Avon-Smith, William Bourke, Kaylene Bradley, Eli Braga, Anthony Bunyan, Roger Clarke, Michael Comino, Kevin Comty Bernard Derriman, Mauro Di Contanzo, Anna Dimezza, Martin Dingle-Wall, Amanda Earle, Celine Esnault, Greg Farrugia, Randy Glusac, Stewart Griffiths, Rowena Hamlyn-Aspden, Gerard Hannagan, John Horvath, Jeanette Imer, Ben Lee, Richard Pace, Guy Pascoe, Anthony Quelch, Dorian Reid, Kay Janine Svoronos, Fe Ventura, Chris Wahl, Ian Young, Jie Yuan, Ding Zhiqiang
Inbetweeners (Japan)
Yukiko Furukawa, Takanobu Katada, Mika Ohara, Taizou Sengoku, Kazue Shigenobu, Mami Shimizu, Toru Sotobori, Junpei Tatenaka, Yuji Ushijima
Inbetween Checker (Japan)
Ryoko Kishimoto
Negative Cutter (Japan)
Makoto Arai
Layout Supervisors (Australia)
John Hill, Alex Nicholas
Layout Artists (Australia)
Kelly Baigent, Yosh Barry, Margaret Parkes, Bruce Pedersen, Nick Pill, David Skinner, Kevin Spill, Kevin Wotton
Key Layout Designers
Paul A. Felix, Dennis Greco, Carol Police
Background Supervisor (Australia)
Beverly McNamara
Background Artists (Australia)
Milana Borkert, Barry Dean, Felice Ferrer, George Humphry, Jerry Liew, Paul Pattie, Helen Steele, Ken Wright
Background Artists (Japan)
Masayoshi Banno, Shuuichi Hiorwatari, Jinzaburo Kaiho, Tachiko Kimura, Satoshi Matsudaira, Masumi Nose, Naomi Sakimoto, Michiko Taniguchi
Key Background Stylists
Paro Hozumi, Bill Lorencz
Continuity Coordinators
Vonnie Batson, Jim Finch
Story Coordinator
Nanci Battelle
Administrative Coordinator
Johanne Beaudoin
Ink and Paint Supervisors (Australia)
Angela Bodini, Robyn Drayton, Liz Lane, Christine O'Connor
Storyboard Revisions
Shawna Cha, Llyn Hunter, Craig Kemplin, Albert Ring
Track Reading
Skip Craig
Production Secretaries
Regina Dixon, Cricket Luke
Production Assistant
Jodey Kaminski
Post-Production Coordinator
John Royer
Post-Production Assistants
Jason Spratt, Steve Werner, Keith Yeager
Clean-Up Supervisor (Australia)
Janey Dunn
Checkers (Australia)
Mark Evans, Gary Page
Checking Supervisor (Australia)
Dan Forster
Color Timer
Dale E. Grahn
Color Key Stylists
Debra Jorgensborg, Jill Stirdivant .... color key stylist
Character Designer
Dana Landsberg, Kenny Thompkins
Script Supervisor
Anita Lish
Script Coordinator
Susan McElroy
Voice Director
Ginny McSwain
Talent Coordinator
Daniel Pensiero III
Shipping Coordinator
Craig Simpson
Music Contractors
Peter Willison, Reggie Wilson

Companies and other credits

  • Song "Nothing In The World (Quite Like A Friend)": Silversher and Silversher (Michael Silversher and Patty Silversher)
  • Song "Forget About Love": Silversher and Silversher (Michael Silversher and Patty Silversher)

Production notes

Made-for-video sequel to "Aladdin." Most original actors returned to the production, with the notable exception of Robin Williams.

Soundtrack: "Arabian Nights," Words by Howard Ashman, Music by Alan Menken, Produced and Arranged by Bruce Rowland, Performed by Brian Hannan; "I'm Looking Out For Me," Words and Music by Randy Petersen and Kevin Quinn, Performed by Gilbert Gottfried; "Nothing In The World (Quite Like A Friend)," Words and Music by Dale Gonyea and Michael Silversher, Performed by Liz Callaway, Dan Castellaneta, Brad Kane; "Forget About Love," Words and Music by Silversher and Silversher, Performed by Liz Callaway, Gilbert Gottfried, Brad Kane; "You're Only Second Rate," Words and Music by Randy Petersen and Kevin Quinn, Performed by Jonathan Freeman.


Original Video Release Cover



Awards

Nominee, Annie Award, Best Animated Home Video Release, 1994

Reviews

The Return of Jafar

toonwizzDecember 29, 2001

Aladdin was a fun big production movie. The return of Jafar was thrown together to make a quick buck on the straight to video market. It wasn't just the lack of Robin Williams that made this movie so bad. This movie was just plain terrible anyway.