ccorreialoureiro

I watched with my nieces, whom I want to enjoy and adore Disney as much as I did growing up. I still rely on Disney movies for comfort when I need a taste of my childhood. I am not a fan of The Lion King, not even the first one, because it never made sense to me that the prey would worship its predator. The idea of the lion as a sort of king of the Savannah makes no sense to me, it never did. Also, I never understood which privileges came with this royal position in the savannah, only work, but wtv.

So the technology is great, spot on, probably costed many, many kidneys, but was it worth it? For the kids, it was overly complicated. For starters, as long as they use color to distinguish the good and the bad, the bad being the whitish lions ever, the lions and lionesses all look kind of the same, I spent a great deal of time just trying to tell them apart. Then, the story is happening both in a cave and in the past, for the monkey whose name I never got since 1994 is telling the story of Mufasa do Kiara, Simba's cub. Get it? Why complicate things so much? Then, the story felt forced, it was forced down my throat because they wanted so badly to make it meaningful. So we get repetitions and flashbacks, happy cubs losing loving parents, a terrible draught followed by a catastrophic flood, a harsh lioness immediately adopting and loving a cub that 30 seconds before she mistreated, Nala being suspicious and insolent one moment and a loyalist the next, Simba's supernatural nose skills, yet conveniently unaware that those mean albine lions are right behind him when he enters El Dorado, cof cof, Milele. The music never touched me, except for Hans Zimmer arrangements from 1994 that flashed here and there, and nothing made much sense... All is made to force Mufasa towards Milele to "fulfill his destiny" and to stop being afraid of water... I would forgive them, if the kids had laughed or learned a thing or two, but the movie wasn't able to distract them from their nervous need to pee, so...