About the movie

Rating: 10/10 (12 May 2006)

About the movie
Great animation great history great continuity rich in characters and voice casting outstanding maturity (for being a film for young viewers) the greatest bad guy in film history SCAR!!! (animated or not, any problem with that? I don't give a FU..."Pumba not in front of the kids"!!)
I remember that day in 94 being drag to the movie theater by my sister I was just 8 and haven't any idea of what was waiting for me, the very intro blow me away I will remember that chant all my life "INGONYAMA..."and the circle of life scene will stick for long time too. And immediately later we met with Mr. Scar. that strangely enough he is a very sensual character (I know it sounds strange but is true) his voice and his persona make him sexy he obviously has his own issues but his strange and sort of super educated British ironic personality and his sadistic and almost demonic voice (thanks Jeremy Irons) make him a unique green eyed evil lion (by the way I am black haired green eyed too LOL) be prepared for Scar who cheats poor Simba and drag him to the elephant graveyard (well if you say a kid don't go there and expect them obeying you, dude you have serious mental problems) the amazing "trama" turns Simba into an strayed lion because of an incident involving the death of his father (all planed by Scar) that will stick with him for the rest of his days until he is encouraged by the good old fashioned wise guy(ape) Rafiki who shows him the truth about his destiny after a chit chat with his already dead father who pops in front of him (or above?) and with a very deep and profound voice (by James Earl Jones) shows Simba the path he must follow, end Scar's management and take back the throne that by right is his, then returns for claim his kingdom and challenge his uncle (who find his death)(real woozy Simba)After Simba commits his crime...uh-um um I mean ends the menace of his EVIL uncle returns to pride rock brings rain with his growl (Rainmaker) gets the approve of his ghost father in heaven (who was responsible for the Scar's scar I think) fix the mess Scar did exiles the stinky hyenas and rule the pride lands, "marry" Nala and take his friends Timon and Pumba who witnessed the born of a new cup Kiara and all ends with the academy award winning song "Can you feel the love tonight? By Sir Elton John For me Disney could Accept the end of the franchise or tried to make a good sequel (not that crap of LK2 Simba's pride) with the same crew, and cast, only saved by the LK1and a half and LK 3 Hakuna Matata(just some sort of prequels for earn some more good money) in general one of the recent best features from Disney's (or the best in all his history) and is tough to accept that Disney in the present day is not even the half it was in the 40s or even in 60s and being kicked in the ass by DreamWorks so many times; after LK I could definitively say that THE LION KING WAS THE LAST GOOD ANIMATED MOVIE from the studios (except Mulan, Dinosaur and few others that I'll never watch) real shame but is the cruel reality. Another good example of how a good studio screw up all in an awful and catastrophic way: DREAMWORKS, the last good (and for real), hand drawn animated (well half digital movie) was SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON ,the following movies from DW now are 3d for good 4 reasons: lack of patience, talent, money and originality (not to mention greed) nobody wants to make animated films with pencils and paper no more and is a real shame (I was in the business I know what I'm saying) maybe LK could only attracts the melancholic grown ups with open criteria like me that grew with the theme or people that enjoy all types of films and of course some kids that aren't killing cats in the neighborhood or playing grand theft auto on the play station (moms better worry) My rating from 1 to 10: 11 Simply great
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