GeorgeWashingtoff
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I chose to grab it from the pirate bay instead of pay to see it at the cinema. I think that was the best idea, it's watchable but not worth paying for unless you're a hardcore fan who must see these endless remakes/story additions on the big screen.
Quick rundown- Simba's daughter Kiara is scared of storms, so Rafiki tells a story about Mufasa. Timon and Pumbaa are there for comic relief for the little kids when scary parts happen. Like when Taka's pride was slaughtered by the outsiders, although any scariness there was already heavily diluted by the outsider King singing a happy jingle with the line "I'll make you go byebye". Mufasa is seperated from his parents and makes his way to the paradise he was told about, and the story is about how he got there and met the major characters we saw in the OG movie.
Since we've all seen the 1994 OG movie we know what happens so the movie is almost void of any mystery. Mufasa becomes king, is the one to bonk Sarabi, is then resented by Taka etc. It's supposed to be a twist/revelation that Taka is Scar but it's obvious from the beginning e.g. Taka is given an English accent to match his 1994 equivalent while most others have African accents (was it just me or did one of the white female lions sound Jamaican?). The movie lacked the feeling of threat too since we all know Mufasa would survive everything.
The movie seemed to force in a little too many "reverse foreshadowing" tropes. e.g. there's a stampede, not 1 but 2 times Mufasa is holding onto an edge with Scar grabbing him , Scar manipulating the good guys and befriending the bad guys etc. Stuff that happened in the 1994 the writers thought should also happen here to give us that fuzzy nostaliga feeling, or whatever.
Also the trope about "animals on journey to find paradise" feels overdone. The Land Before Time and the T&P movie did it too. It's just lazy writing and an easy excuse to have the characters go on a journey.
Also Mufasa's super smell powers are inconsistent throughout, at one point he could detect the outsiders approaching half a day away. Yet other times were unable to tell when they were just 1 min behind them. At the end he turns superhero using his smell to detect a large rock falling underwater.
And now that I've seen this movie given that it's canon, I can see why Scar was so pissed with life in the 1994 movie. Apart from having to watch Sarabi fall for Mufasa instead of him, his entire pride was mauled to death. Going back to that, I know little kids will watch this and the writers have to tell them what would happen in the gentliest way possible, but it did seem a little insensitive that Scar's entire family was killed to cheerful singing of "I'll make you go byebye" and immediately followed by Timon and Pumbaa fart jokes. Doesn't quite hit the tears as much as Mufasa's death in 1994 does it?
I hope this is the last one. I really don't give a fuck about what Kiara does. Isn't this movie #5 now including the 2019 remake and the T&P spin off?
Quick rundown- Simba's daughter Kiara is scared of storms, so Rafiki tells a story about Mufasa. Timon and Pumbaa are there for comic relief for the little kids when scary parts happen. Like when Taka's pride was slaughtered by the outsiders, although any scariness there was already heavily diluted by the outsider King singing a happy jingle with the line "I'll make you go byebye". Mufasa is seperated from his parents and makes his way to the paradise he was told about, and the story is about how he got there and met the major characters we saw in the OG movie.
Since we've all seen the 1994 OG movie we know what happens so the movie is almost void of any mystery. Mufasa becomes king, is the one to bonk Sarabi, is then resented by Taka etc. It's supposed to be a twist/revelation that Taka is Scar but it's obvious from the beginning e.g. Taka is given an English accent to match his 1994 equivalent while most others have African accents (was it just me or did one of the white female lions sound Jamaican?). The movie lacked the feeling of threat too since we all know Mufasa would survive everything.
The movie seemed to force in a little too many "reverse foreshadowing" tropes. e.g. there's a stampede, not 1 but 2 times Mufasa is holding onto an edge with Scar grabbing him , Scar manipulating the good guys and befriending the bad guys etc. Stuff that happened in the 1994 the writers thought should also happen here to give us that fuzzy nostaliga feeling, or whatever.
Also the trope about "animals on journey to find paradise" feels overdone. The Land Before Time and the T&P movie did it too. It's just lazy writing and an easy excuse to have the characters go on a journey.
Also Mufasa's super smell powers are inconsistent throughout, at one point he could detect the outsiders approaching half a day away. Yet other times were unable to tell when they were just 1 min behind them. At the end he turns superhero using his smell to detect a large rock falling underwater.
And now that I've seen this movie given that it's canon, I can see why Scar was so pissed with life in the 1994 movie. Apart from having to watch Sarabi fall for Mufasa instead of him, his entire pride was mauled to death. Going back to that, I know little kids will watch this and the writers have to tell them what would happen in the gentliest way possible, but it did seem a little insensitive that Scar's entire family was killed to cheerful singing of "I'll make you go byebye" and immediately followed by Timon and Pumbaa fart jokes. Doesn't quite hit the tears as much as Mufasa's death in 1994 does it?
I hope this is the last one. I really don't give a fuck about what Kiara does. Isn't this movie #5 now including the 2019 remake and the T&P spin off?
