The Lion King 1 1/2
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Movie Reviews of The Lion King 1 1/2
Movie Review: Funny, But...
Summary: 4 Stars
Timon and Pumba are two comical and entertaining characters with an original way of doing things, and a lot of laughs to create. This movie was funny, as well as cute. I just loved Timon's mother! She's my favorite character in the movie. But I must say, I would have prefered a "The Lion King 3" over a movie altering the first movie. It changed so many important and memorable parts from the first movie, and changed the story of Simba's life into pure cartoon comedy. The movie lacked seriousness, and that charmed feeling you get when watching the original movie. But if you want pure not-always-funny-to-adults comedy, or are a die hard Lion King fan, then I would recommend this movie to you.Movie Review: Silly, but unnecessary
Summary: 3 Stars
Let's face it; Disney does not have a good track record with sequels. Often times the Disney sequels are more to capitalize on a brand name than to advance the story any. This is the case with Lion King 1/2 unfortunately. Wanting to capitalize on the recent DVD release of the Masterpiece The Lion King Disney not only put out the direct to DVD Behind-the-scenes-quill, but also re-released the lackluster "Simba's pride". While all three films are enjoyable both 1/2 and Simba's Pride lack the heart and visual quality of the original. It's sadly overly obvious that Disney does not follow the usual Hollywood tactic of putting more money in to the sequels. Nope, it's all about a quick buck. Thankfully I do feel that while this movie wasn't what I had hoped for it is worth the money to pick it up, especially if you have kids, or plan to have kids. What was I hoping for? Well, the slapstick antics were there, but in much smaller quantities than Timone and Pumba's television series which is a far better laughter-fest than 1/2. I did enjoy the Mystery Science Theater like antics of this film as well, but found that the movie didn't really add anything to the lore of the Lion King. We already knew Timone was an outcast Merekat... It's just... well an unnecessary addition to the series. It's fun, but I'd have much rather seen Disney release a box set of the Timone and Pumba TV Series.Movie Review: What the hell is this? Am I supposed to enjoy this?
Summary: 2 Stars
Disney has come a long way. From the kick ass company that made movies like Aladdin and series like Chip'n'Dale Rescue Rangers to a retarded company that makes movies like My Date With The President's Daughter and series like Even Stevens.
How the mighty have fallen......and how they take great things with them! Back in the day, The Lion King was a name to respect, and Disney had to go and ruin the good name with this trash. At least Simba's Pride had SOME good points. This movie just sucked.
Animation 5/10 - Those cheap asses at Disney reused the animation from The Lion King. Yeah, you're a multi-billion dollar company that is too cheap to draw new animation? My ass. What does this say, my friends? It says that Disney wasn't expecting this movie to succeed, which means that this movie was made for money (which was obvious without me telling you this anyway).
Story 5/10 - The story is admittedly good, but those ass-clowns at Disney studios kept ruining the pace. Everytime it gets exciting, the pace is broken up by commentary from Timon and Pumbaa. Is this suppose to make the movie more enjoyable? If yes, they failed.
Humor 3/10 - The humor is mostly slapstick with a few good moments. Not enough moments to justify any price over $5, but enough to make your children laugh.......if they're retarded. Really, how many gaseous jokes can you have? This movie may not have made me laugh, but it sure had an easy time making me cry, which was quickly converted into extremely destructive anger.
Music 3/10 - The two Lion King movie before this had great music, so what went wrong here? EVERY single piece with the exception of one in this movie sucked and that one piece was the Lebo M rendition of The Lion Sleeps Tonight (best rendition ever). Other than that, the music sucked.
DVD extras 7/10 - There's quite a bit of extras, but there is also quite a bit of frivolous flash to get there. It's annoying as hell.
Value 3/10 - Buy for $5 at the most, but don't buy it at all, if you want my opinion......which could be construed as a wise fact.
Movie Review: The Lion King 1 1/2
Summary: 3 Stars
Although I enjoyed this movie very much, and laughed more than I've laughed in previous Lion King movies, I think this movie changes original events in The Lion King a tad to much. I dislike it when people take a good movie, and try to make a semi-comedy sequel of it. Even though this movie was meant to be comedy, I still think it could have been spared a few events that changed the original movie, such as "the real reason the animals bowed to baby Simba".
I would recommend this movie to anyone, although I would say not to expect the same feelings you felt when you watched The Lion King.
P.S. Please don't type mean comments about my review in your own. I've seen many people do that with other's revies, and I don't think it's very nice!
Movie Review: Worth A Rental, but don't buy it. It not worth owning.
Summary: 3 Stars
Let me start that this movie isn't back. It's ok. It worth renting to watch Timon and Pumba's take on the original story. But nothing on their take is really that interesting enough to make this dvd worth owning. Plus, like another reviewer said most of the questions that they answer are ones you never asked in the first place. For example, the one that answers why the animals bowl at the beginning when Simba is shown. Now the reason nobody ask that question was because the conclusion they came to make perfect sense. They were bowling out of respect for the prince and future king. So therefore this answer not only make total sense but is expected of the animals. So this question didn't need to be answer. Second example when the animals fell down at the end of the "I Can't Wait to Be King" song nobody wonder why they fell. Once again the reasonable conclusion is because one of the animals lose their balance and cause the other animals to fall. In this case it wasn't true but it interesting to see that Pumba cause it. But you don't need to that question, because you never ask it. The questions that this film answered that you probulary did ask was where did Timon and Pumba come from? How did they meet? I happy to say the film show you that thus answering the questions. On a side note here, this film did answer one question that I alway had about the original lion king. In the original, all three Simba, Timon and Pumba were in a desert and suddenly they in a jungle setting. I always whoa where that jungle come and how did they get there? Well in this film it show that jungle was right next to the desert spot where they found simba. Thus one of my questions was answered. However while I'm reviewing the film I might as well point on huge mistake that
make one part of the original film not make sense. In this film, you see that Timon witiness Simba and Nala's fight in which Simba's storms off. But in the original film he later telling Nala when she asking him where Simba is? That he though Simba was with her. Now in the original film this make perfect sense because according to that film he wasn't present. But now this film show that he was there and did see the fight. So my question is if he saw Simba storming off after their fight, why would he tell Nala later that he thought Simba was with her when he a couple of hour eariler he saw Simba leave Nala after their fight. It make no sense. This destroys one of the parts of the original film.
You know if Disney was going a movie in between 1 and 2. They could this retelling to help explain where Zira come from and also how Kovu was born and why Scar chose him. If you don't know who Zira is she the villian in Lion King 2. This film could have use to clear how she fit in the story. This could have help clear this issue for Lion King 2. However they didn't so what are you going to do.
My opinion on this film, this film is worth renting to watch Timon and Pumba take on the original story, but there nothing here that make it worth owning. My advice, rent it and see if you like it, but don't buy it because it not worth owning.