a rip off of the LAND BEFORE TIME

Rating: 9/10 (5 December 1999)

warning (a few of my comments may contain spoilers, not that it will make any difference to your viewing pleasure) Now even though I think this movie is entertaining, it is not however better than BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Disneys best by far)and it has a very unoriginal story line and is a rip off of the LAND BEFORE TIME (see my comment on it). And here is why....
1) simba's father died just like littlefoot's mother died
2) the circle of life thing....Don Bluth thought of that first and it became a central part of THE LAND BEFORE TIME. Disney did not 'invent' it.
3) the orphaned child gets revenge by killing their tormentor. Scar vs the T Rex. Coincidence???
also has any one ever seen KIMB THE WHITE LION (created by the makers of ASTERO BOY) the lion kink is also copied from this lovey japanese cartoon series.
Well I just couldn't help pointing it out.
The songs are great and the animation is lovely. But I think the movie could be improved by
a) eliminating timone and pumba (or just getting rid of timone)
b) use african voices for the movie. I mean this IS Africa for god's sake. Why oh why do we have to listen to horrible american accents when we could be happy with the wonderful african ones. Despite what Disney may lead our poor children to think, our world is full of wonderful diverse accents and unfortunately only the american ones are used.
All in all I give this movie a 9/10 as it is entertaining despite its unoriginal story line.
Scar was my favourite and it is a pity he did not get a bigger part.
ps look at his paws and you will see that sometimes the pads on his front paws join in some scenes and in others he has separate pads for each toe. There's one mistake that disney forgot to fix.