It has been a month since the remake of the new Lion King was released! Everyone here must’ve watched it by now.
What did you think of the movie? Did it lead up to your expectations? What could have been better?

I think it was a great remake of my fav Disney movie of all time and the producers did a great job at re-creating these scenes in a more realistic manner. The music was exceptional and i was sure as hell not ready to watch Mufasa’s death again in 3D. My friend had to watch me cry throughout that whole  scene but the transition from that to Timon and Pumba cheered me like nothing happened. It had a great balance between emotional and happy scenes and it really brought me back to my childhood as a huge Lion King fan. I am older now and what i wanted was a more mature version of this film and it was done fairly well. I give it a 9/10. Honestly!

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How “The Little Mermaid” not been made into a live action film in the mid to late 2010s is beyond me. “The Little Mermaid” was the start of it all!  :o

“The Little Mermaid” was the most successful Disney film released from the very late 80s to the 2000s. Mermaids were big in every year of the early 90s that the first ever Disney series based off of a modern movie was made for “TLM” in the fall of ‘92.

“The Lion King” was popular from the fall of 1994 into 1995, but “Babe” and “Pixar’s Toy Story” blew it out of the water shortly after that. Don’t ask me how I know all of this. I was 13 years old in 1995. You could not be alive between 1994 and 1995 and miss a mention of “The Lion King” then.

Of course, at my age, I dismissed “The Lion King” as your typical modern Disney tale in 1994. It’s amazing how Disney movies from 1992 to 1994 had more characters than the 1989 to 1991 movies. Then, the tail end of the mid 90s into the late 90s happened and there were even more in “Hercules”. It was cleaned up for “Tarzan”, but both late Yers and early Zers did not seem to bother with that one.

“The Lion King” definitely stands out from the “Aladdin” to “Pocahontas” period. The style of the 1994 “The Lion King” flick did not remind me of anything Disney put out before that point. Things were so fast moving from 1992 to 1995 and Yers ditched “The Lion King” for “Pocahontas” in the snap of a finger.

From the standpoint of an XYer, I will always say that “The Little Mermaid” was the best out of all of the Disney Renaissance films. “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin” are close seconds, though.