January 25, 2012

30 Day Film Challenge -- Day 24

Favorite Animated/Children's Film -- The Lion King




In my opinion, this is the best of the pre-Pixar Disney films. The cast of absolutely unbelievable, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane, Mathew Broderick, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, and of course the young Jonathon Taylor Thomas. They voice some of the most complex animated characters ever as we watch Disney tell a story that's very similar to Hamlet.

The soundtrack, and score still are among my favorites, and probably was one of the reasons I started liking soundtracks early on.

There are sequels that never saw, but that's okay. I think this film tells the story we needed to see, and the end comes full circle. Just as we were told it would in the beginning.

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