Don't laugh but what do you think of the Lion King?

[byzantine catholic]

Jus' wanderin'.:)

[jimjames418]

I enjoyed watching the movie with my grandkids. I explained to them that the hyenas were the liberals of the crowd. :angel:

[Antrel]

Don't laughTooooooooooooo late.

[Pudge]

I have baby Simba tattooed on my arm.

[gdoane]

The best version of the game was the Sega Genesis version, followed by the SNES version and then the Gameboy version. I still think it's ridiculous that a beetle can kill a lion cub though. Ain't no beetle can kill no lion. Major plot hole in the game.

[jeepers]

Saw it with my boyfriend (now husband) and at first glance, we were a bit DISTURBED.

Hadn't seen children's programming since I was a kid, so the whole "I killed your father" meme made us look at each other with dismay.

Since then, we've been inundated with children's programming. The Lion King is nothing compared to other stuff we've seen.

Catchy tunes. Hakuna Matada! :lol:

Haven't seen the stage show, and probably would.

[Antrel]

The best version of the game was the Sega Genesis version, followed by the SNES version and then the Gameboy version. I still think it's ridiculous that a beetle can kill a lion cub though. Ain't no beetle can kill no lion. Major plot hole in the game.Loved it for my Genesis.

[Poisonshady313]

The best version of the game was the Sega Genesis version, followed by the SNES version and then the Gameboy version. I still think it's ridiculous that a beetle can kill a lion cub though. Ain't no beetle can kill no lion. Major plot hole in the game.

I'm a fan of the SNES version myself.

You really had to dedicate yourself to the game, not being able to save. The best you could hope for is to really rack up those extra lives and extra continues.

Or just be awesome and not die ever.

[Souldire]

I played the lion king on Sega Genesis it was actually a very good game as well.

[BrittleBullet]

The best version of the game was the Sega Genesis version, followed by the SNES version and then the Gameboy version. I still think it's ridiculous that a beetle can kill a lion cub though. Ain't no beetle can kill no lion. Major plot hole in the game.

Besides the beetles, it was a great game. I still remember when my parents were awesome enough to buy it as a Christmas present for me and my brothers. As far as games based on movies go, it was one of the better ones.

[BrittleBullet]

Jus' wanderin'.:)

It was the first movie I can remember that made me shed a tear.
:cry:

[sgdp]

That movie holds a very special place in my heart. Haven't watched it in years, because the memories are too emotional.

[nortman]

I enjoyed the original very much and then Disney had to go and create the other "Lion King" movies which were not very good at all. Kind of tarnished the original.

[NascarGirl2448]

I loved that movie. The warthog cracked me up. They call me MR. PIG!!!!!!!! :)) Of course it wasn't long after the movie came out that our local baseball team was renamed the Warthogs, but our mascot's name was Wally, not Pumbaa.

[badkarma]

If you're looking for a hunk of fat and juicy meat
eat my friend here Pumba cause he's a treat
come on down and dine
on this crazy swine
all you gotta do is stand in line

Are ya' ackin? yep yep yep
for some bacon? yep yep yep
he is a big pig! yep yep yep
You can be a big pig too!
Oi!

Thats from memory so it is probably wrong heh. regardless, I thought it was a good flic but me and my wife are apparently the only 2 people alive that were dissapointed by the musical; great costumes but a horrible show.

I don't even have kids :oP

[Dr. Funkenstein]

Love the Lion King.

Sang a medley from it in choir my senior year of high school, and had a great time doing it.

[gdoane]

I'm a fan of the SNES version myself.

You really had to dedicate yourself to the game, not being able to save. The best you could hope for is to really rack up those extra lives and extra continues.

Or just be awesome and not die ever.

The SNES version, while graphically superior to the Genesis version (due to a better color palette) suffers the same as many earlier SNES titles did with slowdown when a lot of action hits the screen. Slowdown is a horrible flaw in a platformer because when you're timing the jumps and the gameplay suddenly stutters, it makes it well nigh impossible to complete.

The game was one of a very select few movie title games that were actually good. Most of them suffer the Curse of E.T., where the money is eaten up in the license and little is left for the actual R&D of the game itself. E.T., the Atari 2600 game is almost always in any list of the top ten worst games of all time. Movie title games are rarely, if ever, palatable much less good.

The Lion King broke that mold and actually turned out to be a decent platformer.

[notluzn]

Too Bad the stole the Idea from the cartoon Leo the Lion.

[SaintVegas]

Jus' wanderin'.:)

Love the cartoon, and the stage production at Mandalay Bay is phenomenal!

[DLaw911]

I never saw the movie but saw the musical 3 times. Hated it the first time. Got dragged down to see different versions 2 more times and actually enjoyed it.

http://www.lionking.org/~whitewlf/lyrics.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc
Circle of Life sung by Lebo M.

[badkarma]

Most of them suffer the Curse of E.T., where the money is eaten up in the license and little is left for the actual R&D of the game itself. E.T., the Atari 2600 game is almost always in any list of the top ten worst games of all time.
Yes, ut if you want one of those old atari ET games, you an simply head on over to a landfill in New Mexi o and dig up one of the millions of'em that Atari uried there!

[gdoane]

Yes, ut if you want one of those old atari ET games, you an simply head on over to a landfill in New Mexi o and dig up one of the millions of'em that Atari uried there!

I've already got the cartridge for my 2600, thanks. I still use it for comparison, like if a game sucks I pull that out to compare it against a 1-10 scale of suckage that goes from Duck Hunt (mild suckage 1 scale) to E.T. (grand suckage 10 scale).

The Lion King is one of a very few movie license games that doesn't score at least a 4 on the Suckage Scale.

The last movie license game I played was Kung Fu Panda. That's about a 6 on the suckage scale.

[uncledoom]

Great movie....

[Cold_War_Warrior]

I saw the stage show at Disney World when my children were still young. Of course, we saw the movie when it came out in the theaters and had to have the tape the day it was released, too. (We had a large collection of Disney movies on tape in the days before the DVD became the norm) My kids collected all the Lion King stuffed animals while we were there visiting Disney World.

My second daughter is a fantastic artist and she has always been able to draw well. After we went on some of the tours of the animation studios there she was inspired to further her artistic skills. She has had art classes since and all along she has been drawing the Lion King characters perfectly.

Some of her work has been posted and shared online with some of the groups she belonged to. I’ve seen some of it as she was doing it on the computer and I was amazed at how accurate she could recreate the different emotions in their faces.

She has hundreds of pencil sketches and full color art in her collection that would no doubt be accepted by any Disney artist as being as good as their own.

When the stage show went on tour and came to our city the kids (now much older) were so excited to see it again.

[angelicmadrigal]

I enjoyed watching the movie with my grandkids. I explained to them that the hyenas were the liberals of the crowd. :angel:

Why is it people have to interject politics where it doesn't need to be?

[angelicmadrigal]

Are we talking the animated feature or the musical?

[byzantine catholic]

Are we talking the animated feature or the musical?Movie.

[angelicmadrigal]

Movie.

I think it's cute, aside from that stupid "can you feel the love tonight" song, which makes me twitchy. Though I like most of the Disney movies with talking animals.

[Quid]

I find "The Lion King" to be an adequate retelling of "Hamlet"

[angelicmadrigal]

I find "The Lion King" to be an adequate retelling of "Hamlet"

without the whole attempted incest thing.

[NascarGirl2448]

Love the cartoon, and the stage production at Mandalay Bay is phenomenal!

With the right actors, a stage play of a movie can be terrific. I saw the stage play of Evita when it was on tour in Greensboro 3 years ago and it was incredible. OTOH, I saw the stage play of Chicago in NYC when I was there, and it was not nearly the quality of the movie.

[Quid]

without the whole attempted incest thing.

wait till you see the "Special Edition" :cool:

[MR. MISTER]

With the right actors, a stage play of a movie can be terrific. I saw the stage play of Evita when it was on tour in Greensboro 3 years ago and it was incredible.
Evita was originally a stage show (just as Chicago was).

The movie sucks.

[thr3]

Quite possibly the greatest of Disney films!

Simba! You have forgotten me! NO!!!!!! Simba, you have forgotten who you, thus you have forgotten me!

Anyhow!!!!

The broadway show is very good! They brought it to London which I greatly enjoyed!

Lion King has a special resonences in my heart!

[NascarGirl2448]

Evita was originally a stage show (just as Chicago was).

The movie sucks.

I don't know, I saw the movie of Evita not long ago and actually thought it was pretty good. But the stage play was magnificent. Chicago was the other way around. The movie is 10 times better than the play.

[gdoane]

One thing that sort of bothered me about the movie "The Lion King" was the use of CGI graphics. It's readily apparent in the stampede scene that it was done by computer and I think it crosses a line that I never expected Disney to cross. Computer generated art is still art, but in an artificial way like expecting sugar but getting saccharin. I was disappointed that Disney went that route.

[byzantine catholic]

One thing that sort of bothered me about the movie "The Lion King" was the use of CGI graphics. It's readily apparent in the stampede scene that it was done by computer and I think it crosses a line that I never expected Disney to cross. Computer generated art is still art, but in an artificial way like expecting sugar but getting saccharin. I was disappointed that Disney went that route.Yeah but it was a lot better than today's Disney junk they have on there right now for movies.