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Rating:  - The Best Animated Film of All Time! Outstanding....
...now if only I could find my copy of it!I feel very strongly that this film is Disney's best ever cartoon and the last of their greats. This means something as I was raised on Disney and while I saw most of the Disney films as a child. I still feel the Lion King is nothing short of amazing. I've heard people complain that the story is too simple. That nothing much happens. Hello? This is a children's film. If it was complicated they'd lose the kids. There have to be well defined bad guys and good guys. Someone actually said the music in this film is bad? I'm sorry but what exactly do you listen to? Elton John's music in this film is the only good stuff he's done since the seventies. It was nothing short of a return to form and it won enough awards for your comments to be rendered invalid. No Disney film ever has had better music. The film has a star cast and excellent animation. But where the Lion King gets up and becomes the best of Disney is how it makes you feel about the characters. You care for Simba, you care for Mufasa. ...Yes, the Lion King is the only animated film that has ever mad me cry (Besides Bambi). I never would have thought it possible but Disney had the whole world ...***. If that's not magic , I don't know what is. I fail to understand the people who have rated this film low. 9/10
Rating: - Disney at its best!
The Lion King is still today the best Disney movie ever made. Although Disney has tried to have repeat success with Lilo and Stitch and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, none of them can compare to this remarkable movie! The film opens into the amazing musical sequence "The Circle of Life", when young Simba is born. Him and his best friend Nala escape off into the outlands where the Pride Lands' enemies, the hyenas, await them. As they make a daring escape, Simba's evil uncle, Scar, is making a plan to take over the kingdom. Simba winds up running away to escape his father's mysterious death, which he thinks is his fault. He runs away and meets a lovable meerkat, Timon, and a funny but stupid warthog, Pumbaa. As he grows up, he meets his old best friend, Nala. When Simba makes his way back home to the Pride Lands, he is challenged to a fight with his uncle Scar. The climax of the movie begins as Simba takes his place as the one true king. With 5 award winning songs written by Elton John and Tim Rice, and tons of funny and lovable characters, The Lion King is still today the most majestic and stunning movie that Disney fans have ever seen. As it prepares for its IMAX release and Platinum Edition DVD release, it also prepares for another generation to laugh, cry, and enjoy The Lion King.
Rating: - Not just a Bambi ripoff
Although it might be accused of plot similarities to "Bambi", The Lion King stands on it's own as the best animated film of Disney's silver age save for "Beauty and the Beast".It starts off with the greatest opening sequence in animation history, which already must rank within the top ten moments in all animation, period. Disney has since tried to match it in "Dinosaurs", but it remains unequalled. The inimitable "Circle of Life" has no rival except "When you wish upon a star" as Disney mood-setting music. The animals of the African plains pay homage to the new lion prince, Simba, at his birth. Already he has one strike against him in his father Mufasa's brother Scar, bitter because Simba is now the heir to the throne of the pridelands. While Simba and his friend Nala grow, Scar plots with hyena henchmen to dethrone Mufasa. Scar's moment comes in one devestating blow, managing to make the young cub stricken with guilt in the process. Simba runs off and is saved from death by exposure to the elements by Pumbaa, a kind warthog, and Timon, his meerkat best friend. As an adult, he has forgotten his legacy until a now-grown Nala and Rafiki, his father's baboon best friend, remind him. He goes to face the hour of reckoning with Scar, his friends by his side. The movie includes some of the best voicing work and dialogue in the Disney cannon, especially that of Scar - so evil as portrayed by Jeremy Irons that he actually drew a gasp from my jaded father - and Nathan Lane's Timon, who I feel will eventually take his place as Disney's greatest second banana (and no, I'm not forgeting the Seven Dwarves or Cinderella's mice). His now famous luau scene is Disney's supreme howler moment.
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