Shakespearian movie with lions instead people

Rating: 10/10 (27 October 2005)

Project instigator: Rob Minkoff, with the help of Michael Eisner, into de last serious managerial job of his career as Disney's president. I think that Minkoff must do the same that Don Bluth did and became independent.
Essentially isA drama. Is the version that Shakespeare had made of Hamlet if he had been a lion and he had live in California. A male lion, with the destiny written since birth, found his life broken because the envy of his jealous uncle about his dad. In his escape to exile, tortured because he thought that he murdered his own father, he found the peace and forgot his problems. Then, he sees that escape from problems and past only makes the pain bigger, so he decided to return and change his life.
Clones and Bloodsuckers: Both sequels, the third worst than the second, those movies de-valuate a very original film that gets more poetic layers every time you see it.
That movie moved us becausethe great-magnify-epic music of Hanzs Zimmer and the work of the photography director, showing us those elephant graveyards and huge environments full of beautiful-not-gaudy colors, like those skies full of stars, big-fat trees and precipitous that turn into deadly hallways to the execution.
A sceneSimba, that facing his father, who is represented as a cloud. The end of the scene is Simba, screaming: "Father!!! DON'T LEAVE ME!!!" A sequenceThe stones tremble, the walls hum and shake, and the poor Simba pup stares at the sky, while we see since his point of view a really-huge-lethal stampede that runs to his position.
Watch it ifYou want to enjoy the old school Disney style into the 20th century. This is the perfect movie to watch with a lot of popcorn, after have had a session of National Geographic documentaries.
Don't watch it ifyou are a squared-old fashioned racist that doesn't accept new ideas and alternative forms of moving artwork and masterpieces, I mean, good cinema.