The Lion King
jen

Review by jen

The Lion King

1994
★★★★★ Liked

Rewatched 17 Jul 2024

when i tell you that courtney and i were absolutely having the time of our lives with the two strangers watching this with us in an empty theater.

i laughed, i cried, i thought a LOT about how ironic it is that Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane costar also in the Mel Brooks classic The Producers, was in awe of the beauty of painted animated cells, elton john, and thought of jeremy irons and his many many qualities. This is gonna mark the start of what I think will be my new yammering that kid’s movies nowadays are lacking murder and that’s why they aren’t as good. 

The Land Before Time is a classic and timeless and hell, I even have a tattoo of it, and guess what? It has 2 murders and 3 attempts. Kids need to learn high stakes scenarios and the actual implication of danger in order to learn and grow up. 

Anyways, Hamlet was good but this was better and I hope Disney stops remaking that weird live action lion nonsense and start going back to their 2D roots where they really made magic.

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