"Bring me the lamp," Jafar (Marwan Kenzari) says in the clip, sending Aladdin (Mena Massoud) on his quest. "Your life begins now, Aladdin." 

Aladdin then enters the cave to retrieve the lamp, and releases Genie into our view. 

"You really don't know who I am?" Smith, as Genie, asks. "Genie, wishes, lamp? None of that ringing a bell?"

Viewers weren't shy about expressing their shock on social media, with many revealing they were disappointed with how Genie turned out, and some even drawing comparisons to Paul Giamatti's character in Big Fat Liar.

The first photos of Genie were released by Entertainment Weekly in December, though Smith had to assure fans that his character would indeed be blue. Ritchie, meanwhile, told the outlet that he "wanted a muscular 1970s dad" look.

“He was big enough to feel like a force -- not so muscular that he looked like he was counting his calories, but formidable enough to look like you knew when he was in the room," he explained.