Day #33 - The Lion King

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Random, I know :) Yesterday I spent the day at Downtown Disney - one of the perks of living in Orlando - 20 minutes from Disney when you want it! There is a shop there that displays Disney artwork - some of it is AMAZING. I felt really inspired to go back and watch some Disney greats - movies I haven't seen in years and years. So today I actually watched Cinderella, The Lion King, and now Beauty and the Beast as I worked on Mootinis. I chose The Lion King to review because I had truly forgotten how good it was.

The Lion King came out in 1994 and was Disney's 32nd animated feature - it came out around the time when Disney was releasing one awesome movie after another - The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast.... the opening scene is so fantastic - you know, when they are playing The Circle of Life and Simba is presented? It's so good! Two - no, three things I had completely forgotten about: One, Jeremy Irons as the voice of Scar? You just can't beat it!! He is SO great!! Two, the hyenas are hysterical - the constant laughing and vacant expressions? Priceless! And three - Timon and Pumba, also hysterical. Timon reminds me a lot of Mike Wazowski...sometimes I even thought I was listening to Billy Crystal instead of Nathan Lane. I really loved watching it and might keep it around for a bit :)

I read on IMDB that the story of The Lion King was loosely based on Hamlet - cool, huh? OK, I'm going to attach a video of the beginning of the movie :)