The Lion King (DVD)

The Lion King is the 1994 offering from Disney, and is widely regarded as the best of the more modern Disney films. It is the highest grossing Disney animation film, and has also produced award winning songs such as 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight'. The Plot In the Pride Lands of Africa, the lion is King in the Circle of Life. King Musafa and Queen Sarebi are blessed with a cub, Simba, and this tale follows Simba as he is first led astray by his Uncle Scar, and then a tragedy occurs and the finger of blame is pointed firmly at Simba. Fleeing, Simba finds comfort in the form of Timon, a meerkat, and Pumbaa, a warthog, and relaxes in their company, ...  Read the complete review

The Lion King: The lion king was released in 1994 by Disney and I have to say it's the best Disney film ever. The film: Simba is the son of Mufasa, king of the pride lands, he learns that he is next in line to be king and has to take on certain responsibilities but being young he all he wants to do is run around and do what he wants. He wants to be the king the most powerful one yet. But when something goes wrong his mind changes and runs away. Simba gets caught up in the middle of a stampede and Mufasa tries to save him but he doesn't make it. Scars evil planned turned out the way he wanted it to, scar is Sambas uncle who ...  Read the complete review

(Film only review) Introduction One of the all time classic movies from Disney is The Lion King. It combines various elements of a good film which make it a movie that can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of age. It was originally released in 1994 when I was still quite young and I found it to be a great movie even then and it is still now considered a wonderful movie. It gained two academy awards for its music and one golden globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. It has some well know stars who provide the voices in the film for some of the characters. Before the more recent successes of 3d style Disney/Pixar films this was probably the ...  Read the complete review

I am actually viewing and re-viewing The Lion King a million times for the purpose of my university dissertation. Believe it or not, despite having watched this movie thousands of time, I am still not fed up with it. I personally think that The Lion King most certainly deserves its title as one of the highest grossing movies in Disney Cinema. It is a movie that I particularly appreciate because of the fact that it clearly differs from the other Disney films that were so much in rage during that period of time when Lion King came out. I believe that this movie is also so widely appreciated all over because of the wide rage of thematic elements that it offers, and also ...  Read the complete review

**Warning, ahead may be spoilers** In terms of story telling, there is no Disney film - and in truth, very few films whatsoever - that comes close to this. For the first time, Walt's gang threw together a story featuring not one human character. And it doesn't suffer for it. Disney's skill at bringing the lions and the other wonderful creatures to life is truly something to marvel at. The story is, in truth, a simple one, and takes a lot of inspiration from Hamlet. The King, Mufasa, is mentoring his son and heir, Simba, preparing him for the day when he shall succeed his father and rule over Pride Rock. Simba is intrigued ...  Read the complete review