The Lion King
Directed by Jon Favreau
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how… From TMDB
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Some viewers find the remake pointless and inferior to the original. [1][2] Others appreciate it as a decent tribute despite its flaws. [3][4] Many posts discuss the film's realism and its impact on the story. [5][6][7]
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If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog :) I don’t know how I should start, but I guess I’ll address something that people might ask: yes, it’s a SPOILER-FREE review. Why? Well, the story might follow the same essential plot points, and the characters might have similar narrative paths, but there are so many details that make this movie stand on its own. From tiny little improvements to …
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‘The Lion King’ is a catastrophe; a new low in the ever-diminishing returns of Disney’s endless run of remakes. There’s nothing redeeming about it, with every decision either ill-conceived or mishandled to the point of incompetence. In Favreau’s hands, ‘The Lion King’ is rendered thunderously dull, lacking in any tension or complex characterisation, taking a laboriously long time to go nowhere and never once …
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Its not as bad as Cats or Star Wars 9. Disappointing and inconsistent. 2019 seems to be the year where the big movies were made to look good, but are in reality vapid and this is no exception. This looks good mostly (except when Simba is a "teenager" and a lack of genitals means that the animals do not look really real), but everything else is below average. Also, the "real-ness" of the animals make some scenes way …
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Vulgar Display of Dour Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible.
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The Lion King 2019 sure was pointless, huh? Our review of the movie is on Patreon Early Access right now! www.patreon.com/c/movienights
How this was made: an AI model (deepseek-v4-flash) read 34 of the 217 public posts we collected about this film and wrote the summary, likes and dislikes, citing the posts behind each point ([n] opens the post). A second AI pass checked every statement against the posts it cites; anything it could not match was removed, and code removed any statement with quotation marks, numbers that are not in the posts, or unattributed claims about people. The split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Generated Oct 9, 2026. Method
Critics, per Wikipedia
The Lion King grossed $543.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $1.113 billion in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.657 billion. $63 million came from IMAX. The film had a global debut of $446 million, the ninth-largest of all time and the biggest opening for an animated film. On July 30, 2019, The Lion King passed the $1 billion mark at the global box office. The Lion King became the highest-grossing animated film of all time, a title it held until September 2024 when it was surpassed by Inside Out 2. It is also the highest-grossing musical film of all time, the highest-grossing remake of all time, the second-highest-grossing film of 2019, and the…
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60 of 242 · most liked firstTrump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lion King is probably my favorite movie about running away from your problems until you’re strong enough to kill your uncle.
positive · AI labelView post →Hmm…. Suddenly The Lion King feels less like a children’s movie and more like required reading.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was waiting since 2019 to finish and be able to post this one =P They are no brothers but just close friends now, so everything is OK -w- I think I'll do some more pictures of The Lion King while waiting for the new movie ;-)
neutral · AI labelView post →Today I learned that, much as The Lion King is based on Hamlet, The Lion King 1½ (which is the third Lion King movie) is based on Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead????????
neutral · AI labelView post →The Mufasa movie is gonna be bad even if it's good. The big problem with de-cartoonifying "The Lion King" is that it's not a story about a mighty king and his kingdom anymore, it's about a dumb animal and the patch of grass where it shits
negative · AI labelView post →Outrageous! The moon rotation in this shot of The Lion King remake implies it was shot far into the northern hemisphere. What happened to realism? Literally unwatchable.
negative · AI labelView post →A curious fact, the Lion King movie features a lion as its main character, which was inspired by the animal lion Art for @strayblazer.bsky.social Btw this character is also a lion, also inspired in the animal lion Join my Tgram group for a chance to win free art every month t.me/clairebeararts
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lion King is one of my favorite films. I used to know every word by heart. There was never a need for even one more movie in that narrative arc. To watch the video below is to instantly know that everyone involved in greenlighting it should have been fired. "My brothaaaa!" {cringe intensifies}
negative · AI labelView post →My childhood copy of The Lion King on VHS was neat cuz at the end of the movie, people clapped and you could see their silhouettes leaving the theater and I thought "more movies should do this" because I was 6 and didn't know what a bootleg was and thought it was an intentional part of the film lol
positive · AI labelView post →1. The White House said that the video merely portrayed characters from The Lion King. But there aren’t apes in The Lion King. The film is set in East Africa’s savanna, where monkeys are present, but apes do not inhabit the wild savanna regions depicted in the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →sorry, The Lion King CG movie did "Can You Feeling the Love Tonight?" in BROAD DAYLIGHT???
negative · AI labelView post →during pre-production of The Lion King, Disney had the animation team go to zoo's and sanctuaries to study the animals that would be appearing in the film. They even had lions visit their studio. Drawing from life is invaluable and I wish studios would bring this practice back (the zoo visit part)
neutral · AI labelView post →My 3yo only calls Scar from the Lion King “Scarf” and I truly feel this improves the film substantially
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lion King is a movie about the power of having a queer chosen family.
positive · AI labelView post →My Christmas wish is that no one gives The Lion King movie any money... But people are stupid and we live in hell, so... Bah Humbug
negative · AI labelView post →My favorite movie turned 30 years old since its premiere and I would like to make more pieces like this as a dedication 🦁🍃 I remember part of my childhood rewatching The Lion King over and over again ❤ Did this movie leave a mark on you too?
positive · AI labelView post →The Lion King 2019 sure was pointless, huh? Our review of the movie is on Patreon Early Access right now! www.patreon.com/c/movienights
negative · AI labelView post →You’ll never guess what movie I’m going to see this afternoon. That’s right, Mufasa: The Lion King.
neutral · AI labelView post →Shenzi, from The Lion King movie, another quick work. I feel something for these mentally unstable ladies 🤎🤍🐺 #shenzi #thelionking #fanart #digitalart #furry #nsfw
neutral · AI labelView post →Social media often feels like you're at a loud party talking about zebras and someone wanders up drunk going 'I couldn't help overhearing you were talking about zebras, have you seen that film' and after 8 minutes it turns out they mean The Lion King and they're thinking of hyenas.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie: The Lion King (1994) Language: Mizo Country: India
neutral · AI labelView post →BREAKING: The movie 'The Lion King' just received a 30 minute standing ovation from me for the 100,000th time in my living room just now.
positive · AI labelView post →Have some concept art from The Lion King. I really love the colors in this art. You can see how it translated into the final film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I guess he also codirected this smaller film called The Lion King maybe you heard of it
neutral · AI labelView post →Once again thinking about this shot in the 1995 Jonathan Taylor Thomas movie MAN OF THE HOUSE where his character is reading a magazine with an ad for THE LION KING on the back.
neutral · AI labelView post →Congratulations to Ne Zha 2 for becoming the highest grossing animated film of all time! It has beaten both The Lion King (2019) and Inside Out 2 in the box office.
neutral · AI labelView post →The new film Mufasa: The Lion King (which hits theaters today) begins with a touching tribute to James Earl Jones. From Star Wars to The Lion King, we’ll never forget the iconic actor’s performances 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie: The Lion King (1994) Language: Zulu Country: South Africa Rest in peace Roger Allers (1949 - 2026) 🕯
neutral · AI labelView post →I can't believe it; they made a movie about the lion from The Lion King, that's crazy
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Roger Allers, co-director of THE LION KING and story artist on THE LITTLE MERMAID, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, and so many others. THE LION KING was the first movie I ever saw in theaters. I can't count the amount of times I watched it as a kid.
neutral · AI labelView post →current status: trying not to bawl my eyes out on the plane because Sierra is watching my favorite movie - The Lion King - which I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch in the almost 17 years since my dad died
neutral · AI labelView post →Sheep Detectives is really good! Unlike the Lion King remake, you can tell that the animators of this movie love cartoon animals.
negative · AI labelView post →It's been 30 years since Disney released their most unexpected success. They thought this would be their B-movie compared to Pocahontas when they were making both, but The Lion King surprised everyone by being one of the biggest hits of the 1990s and a true cinematic masterpiece.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lion King was released thirty (30) years ago today, so what better way to celebrate than drawing a little tribute? This film was largely responsible for instilling in me a love of art and storytelling as a young child. I'm forever grateful. Happy Birthday, Simba 🦁 #pugarts
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie: The Lion King (1994) Language: Egyptian Arabic Rest in peace Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra (1934 - 2026) 🕯
neutral · AI labelView post →WHAT YOUR FAVORITE SCI FI THAT ISNT STAR WARS WHAT YOUR FAVORITE FANTASY THAT ISNT LOTR WHAT YOUR FAVORITE ACTION MOVIE THAT ISNT DIE HAR WHATYOUR FAVORITE XMAS MOVIE THAT ISNT LOVE ACTUALLY WHATSYOUR FAVORITE ANIMATED MOVIE THAT ISNT THE LION KING WHATYOUR FAVORITE SANDWICH THAT ISNT A HOT DOG
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lion King movie is incredible because it is exactly like the propaganda film the government of a Fascist lion society would make.
negative · AI labelView post →Movie: Mufasa: The Lion King Language: Hausa Country: Nigeria
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The Lion King for the first time in full in AGES the other day. God it’s such a good movie, it was so good to see it again. I was having some huge flashbacks to loving the film growling up. …aaand the hyenas are so…so perfect.
positive · AI labelView post →kiddo has been out sick all week. yesterday we showed him THE LION KING, his first movie. overall pretty solid but man is Matthew Broderick horribly miscast lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie: The Lion King (1994) Language: Lithuanian
neutral · AI labelView post →#JayvikDateWeek day twoooo (shh don’t look at me) - movie night Because what else would you do after being spat out by the arcane other than make a blanket fort and watch The Lion King???? #jayvik
neutral · AI labelView post →Nominees for Favorite Animated Movie at the 2025 Kids Choice Awards: Despicable Me 4 Dog Man Inside Out 2 Moana 2 Mufasa: The Lion King Plankton: The Movie The Wild Robot Transformers One
neutral · AI labelView post →Hans Zimmer working on the LION KING and saying "I know that this is a kid's movie but my dad just died so we're blowing the back out of this thing"
neutral · AI labelView post →#SonicMovie3 has surpassed #SonicMovie2 to become the trilogy's highest-grossing film! Despite debuting with Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King, Paramount’s latest Sonic installment leads domestically, all with a leaner budget. Full details in our link in the replies! #SonicNews
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm gonna let you guys know that I recently had a hyperfixtation over The Lion King. So this scene came to mind. Also funny thing is back in 2002, the movie got an IMAX re-release in theaters so I can imagine the crew seeing it again. Zoe and [bunny] by @ajmarekart.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →there’s an animated film bracket tournament taking place at work and the finals have come down to: The Lion King vs Shrek Shrek beat Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse so I am voting for the lions out of principle
neutral · AI labelView post →I think the secret here is just that The Lion King is a very bad movie that no one involved thought about for long enough to intentionally say anything
negative · AI labelView post →Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has made a fast start at the North American box office, comfortably outpacing fellow new release Mufasa: The Lion King. vgc.news/news/sonic-3...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched a leaked early workprint of The Lion King '94. So much of the final film is there but virtually the entire thing looks like this. #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →JUST REVEALED! Disneyland Paris shares a first look inside “The Lion King” attraction inspired by the Disney Animation classic, plus a new family-friendly attraction themed to the Pixar film “Up” — both coming to Disney Adventure World. disneyparksblog.com/dlp/new-deta...
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw it; definitely better than decent. It’s a fantastic film worthy of The Lion King collective.
positive · AI labelView post →I rewatched The Lion King 1 1/2 last night for the first time in like over a decade and that movie only got funnier over time
positive · AI labelView post →is this the best movie of 1994? (others from that year: Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Speed, Quiz Show…)
neutral · AI labelView post →well, "28 Years Later" was something new for zombie movies. A zombie movie that stole its central plotline and music from the Lion King roflmaoooo
neutral · AI labelView post →Like the Jon Favreau directed Lion King "live action" remake (2019) which is a shot-for-shot of 1998's The Lion King filmed entirely in the uncanny valley at release was the 7th highest grossing film internationally OF ALL TIME and a ton of people dont even know it exists
neutral · AI labelView post →Mufasa The Lion King was bad. The Lion King is still the best Disney movie ever and every sequel and spin off of it has not been good.
negative · AI labelView post →I agree. Protect the peace, and enjoy the Mufasa The Lion King movie! #Mufasa #TheLionKing #MufasaTheLionKing
neutral · AI labelView post →weird how Hamlet got so strongly associated with the Lion King to the point where the sequel is marketed as Romeo and Juliet and Timon/Pumba's movie an homage to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead because, like, the Lion King has absolutely no parallels to Hamlet other than uncle killed dad
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