Aladdin is a Superior Movie over The Lion King

1. The movie "Aladdin" is more humorousA more humorous movie is obviously more enjoyable than one that isn't. Aladdin has the amazing hilarious genie with excellent performance, with a gazillion references to other famous figures... And of course the parrot is really funny too, being "tortured" very often by the king, forced to eat terrible crackers. Even though there are only two funny characters, they both contribute to the humor in Aladdin, especially the genie, whose voice actor was applauded for. He got the award for Best Comedic Performance [1] as well as the Golden Globe Special Achievement Award. [2] This just shows how entertaining and funny Aladdin is. In contrast, while The Lion King does have two funny characters as well, they don't make a comedic appearance and neither do they help contribute much to how funny The Lion King was.The Lion King is a movie with very powerful emotions, possibly the most powerful emotions I have ever seen in any movie. However, the emotion of sadness is so strong. The death scene of Mufasa is what sets up The Lion King for its failure within entertaining us through humor, making the two sidekicks practically useless. As seen in [3], Mufasa is betrayed by his brother, Scar, and maliciously pushed off the cliff. What makes this scene so tragic is the fact that Mufasa helped Simba, regardless of how arrogant and prideful he was, and let him know that the kings will always be with him--in the stars. However, after Scar's manipulative plan and malicious backstabbing, now Simba thinks that he was the reason his father was killed! He does not realize that he didn't do it, not until the part in the movie where he was going to die!! This tragic event drags on and on all the way until the climax, which is merely 20 minutes from the end of the movie! The audience is not going to be happy if they know Simba was traumatized and depressed, thinking that he was the reason of his father's death, for years and years on afterwards!! This is so depressing, and the song Hakunana Matata does not help at all. Although little children may think it is a good thing that Simba is now released from his stress, and that it's actually funny somehow that he actually enjoys the gross-looking bugs, adults will instantly know it is meant to be an anti-moral, which doesn't help at all. These two side-characters are only helping Scar's plan by putting doubt in Simba's mind and making him think it doesn't matter; he doesn't have to go back and he won't go back. If it weren't for the wise monkey, Simba would have never gone back and Scar would have succeeded in his power-control of Pride Rock while slowly killing off his own henchmen and lion group....which leads us to my second point...2. Aladdin's superior villainBoth villains in both movies are manipulative. Malicious. Clever and not revealing unless needed to. Both are experts at liars. However, while Aladdin's villain thought everything through while making merely two mistakes in the whole entire movie, (The monkey stealing his lamp, but we can't blame that he was taken by surprise; and his wish to become a genie, in which could be explained by his lack of knowledge that the Genie can't get out of the lamp even with all his power), The Lion King's Scar does not think his plans through. His subjects were all starving, asking to move, yet he was stubborn, laying in a wasteland and allowing even his henchmen to slowly starve down to death. What was he going to do anyways? We don't see him doing anything substancial in Pride Rock for all these years. It would have been the same with no ruler. On the other hand we see Jafar relaxing and taking his time, since he thinks Aladdin could not stop him--had it not been for the magical mat he would have succeded--and based on how well he hid his affiliation as a traitor, even fooling the emperor to think that he was his most trusted advisor--this just shows how smart Jafar is. His downfall was caused by many surprises--the combination of the magical mat and his greed for power impeded his way to victory. On the other hand if the lion group had fought against his henchmen, not only would he have no lion group left to serve him, his henchmen would be greatly harmed as well. He could not risk killing off everyone. He was taking a very hefty gamble; and all that was required to beat him and his henchmen was the addition of Simba and the two sidekicks. Just three creatures. I doubt the lack of these three would make a big difference, lions can fight just as well, if not better, than two sidekicks who lack fighting experience, and Simba, who gets beaten by a female!!3. Aladdin's superior action scenesIn The Lion King, we see only three action scenes--Simba and Nala being chased, Mufasa's death, and finally Scar's death. All these three action scenes simply cannot compare to Aladdin's action scenes. We see Aladdin's slyness and quickness displayed easily within the very first song, Street Rat, and the Genie's actions within his song Never Had a Friend Like Me is crazy, off-the-walls hilarious, and shows his power at the same time. Furthermore, Aladdin's quickness and adaptability is further displayed when the tower is about to fall on him and crush him to death--he quickly runs and ducks beneath the only gap of the tower, showing us how versatile he is and how he uses the environment to his advantage. Finally, the battle action is very tense and Aladdin's smartness comes out again as he thinks of his third and final wish, which leads to the weaknesses of having so much power as a genie--you're trapped in a lamp! All of thse action scenes develop character, mainly Aladdin of course, and show his personality greatly while making the movie more exciting. As a general rule, if a movie is more eye-catching, more people are going to watch it, and thus it is better.4. Aladdin's superior love storyThe Lion King is simply unexplained. These two best buddies reconciliate after a long time, that's good--but all of a sudden they play that song...Can You Feel the Love Tonight? My answer: No. This is so random, why have you two suddenly dropped you thought that marrying each other is "ew" and that rolling around while being weird is okay?Seriously, Nala. You look creepy. In contrast, in Aladdin, the two can actually relate--Aladdin is trapped to his poor life, Jasmine trapped to her castle life and forced to marry a prince she doesn't necessarily want to marry...and Aladdin shows the outside world to Jasmine, with Jasmine gasping in astonishment at every scene... the Whole New World song is simply superb! [4]Much better than that weird "sex" scene.In conclusion, I have shown Aladdin superior to The Lion King. Onto you, con. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org...[2] The youtube video http://www.youtube.com...[3] The 2cd youtube video http://www.youtube.com...[4] The 3rd youtube video