These character assessments don't have to be independent of helping parents identify movies with heavy language, sex, or violent content. The two go hand in hand in giving your children a well balanced media diet. The problem is that, because we also publish to newspapers, we have a limit on the length of our reviews which restricts the amount of detail we can provide. As for your issue of sexual roles, I would have to disagree. Gender identity has become such a confusing mess, I don't know what young children exposed to many types of mass media are left to think.
Gender roles are important issues for children to observe.
You note Disney's Lion King. In that movie, I appeciate the strong role the female lions play in keeping life sustained. It reminded me of the many single mothers, who often are saddled with low income jobs, desperately trying to provide a life for their children. But like it or not, if the law of the jungle rules, men will always be the victors. They are physically stronger than women and no amount of steroids can change that fact.