The Lion King

And now we come to the big one, The Lion King, the highest grossing 2-D animated film of all time. When this movie came out everyone and I mean everyone on this planet when nuts. The characters are great, the animation is great, the songs are great, the villain is good and the story is spectacular. And in my opinion this should be on everyone's top 2-D animated Disney movies like it is with mine as you've seen before. What's the story? opening is animals in Africa celebrating the birth of the new lion prince named "Simba" in probably one of the great Disney openings ever. Watch this.

So years go by and Simba grows into a young cub played by "Jonathan Taylor Thomas." He's shown around the kingdom but his father, king "Mufasa" of the pride lands played by "James Earl Jones." But Simba's uncle named "Scar" played by "Jeremy Irons" is angry because he was next in line to be king, so he constantly tries to set traps with the 3 hyenas named "Shensi, Bonsai and Ed" to kill Simba off. But Mufasa is always there to save him so there's only one choice, kill Mufasa. This leads to a very intense and very well-done and very famous chase scene with a bunch of wilder beasts. Simba is trying to un from 100s of wilder beasts and at one point Mufasa go in to help him. He manages to get Simba to a safe place but he tries to climb up himself. Scar sees his opportunity and throws him off a cliff. (Which for me always raised a lot of questions. How did he die from that? In mean did he die from falling from a big height? Did he die because of the amount of wilder beasts kept stomping on his head? Did he die because when he hit the ground he hit his head hard?) Anyway, Simba, thinking he started the stampede feels incredibly guilty and scar advises him to run away. Simba then goes into exile and comes across a team of two best friends named "Timon" played by "Nathan Lane" and "Pumbaa" played by "Ernie Sabella." They tell him it's O.K to run away from your problems and start a new life over. And that's exactly what he does he spends most of his years growing-up with the two until he becomes an adult played by "Matthew Brodrick." He decides to never go back to Pride rock. That is until his old childhood friend named "Nala" played by "Moira Kelly" shows up and tells him that things are terrible back at Pride rock because Scar took over as king. And since he is the rightful king he's the only one who can go back and make things better. But Simba doubts himself thing he still killed his father until he get's a vision in the sky as his father telling him to remember who he is and telling him what he most do. Simba then decided to go back and fight Scar after then talking with a baboon named "Rafiki" played by "Robert Guillaume." And you know the rest, big climax, comedy then the final fight between Simba and Scar. O.K what's good about this movie. Well for one thing the characters are great particularly the voice actors. In my opinion I'd say James Earl Jones as Mufasa is the best casting in this movie. The animation is some of the best Disney has ever done. Even just the size of this movie is gigantic. And there's actually two messages in here that are actually does pretty well. The main message is to just try your best to find your place in life and never give-up. The mini-message is to always confess what you've done and if you do eventually everyone will be happy again. The story is one of the best things in this movie. I mean it's supposed to be a kid version of an adult play called "Hamlet." They don't even just shove the dead person aside like in a few other Disney movies, no here you see Mafasa's dead body. That must of been a gigantic thing for people back then. Particularly since Disney did it. So overall I really love this movie it has ever right to be the highest grossing 2-D film in history because it's just a spectacular film. I'd say this is a definite watch.