this be a favorite of my childhood i can remember see it on television and thrill to it each time . now that i be grow up and have a kid of my own and i want to introduce him to this classic movie . we watch it last friday and and he like it . during abu fight with the giant spider and my son hand crept over and take hold of mine he be genuinely scared . be he gon na beat the spider and poppa . just watch and you will see . he have no historical frame of reference to speak of ( eight year old ) and so bagdad under the grandson of haroun al raschid might as well be oz under ozma . i think he especially like how much of the heroic and derring do be perpetrate by the boy thief and and not the grow up king . in fact and if you deconstruct the film narrative a bit and the king be the thief sidekick and not the hero at all which must be very satisfy to imaginative and adventurous young boy . it definitely a period piece i suspect that by the time he eleven or twelve and my son will find it corny or whatever word the next generation will be use by then . the love story be barely one dimensional a a cynical friend comment and why do ahmad love the princess . because the narrative demand it . the willingness of abu to put himself in jeopardy ( repeatedly ) for the clueless and love struck deposed king be equally improbable . but to quibble about such thing while accept fly mechanical horse and fifty foot genie and the temple of the all seeing eye would be fatuous in the extreme . the satisfaction of see the prophecy fulfil at the movie climax be tremendous and a be the final shot of abu triumphantly fly away on his ( steal ) magic carpet and seek some fun and and adventure at last .