The Lion King

Terrifying horror in which they’re LIONS! AND THEY CAN TALK! Everything else is incidental to that, I mean, talking lions? That means they’re intelligent. As intelligent as humans, but they’re lions! They could subjugate the human race easily. Let’s just be grateful they got into a squabble about who was in charge and leave it at that.

A lion pictured with a crown on his head. the lion king

Trivia

Elton John wrote all the songs in a single weekend after the original Public Enemy songs were scrapped for being too noisy

Twelve people were mauled to death during production of the live action remake

Shakespeare’s Hamlet was loosely based on the original film, most noticeably during Polonius’s famous Hakuna Matata scene

In the staunchly anti-monarchist France it was retitled ‘Le Lion Presidente’

Bloopers

Sarabi is actually a leopard

Hakuna Matata is mistranslated and actually means “Can I have an extra portion of fries and some mayonnaise, please”

Quotes

Nala: “I am the dancing queen, feel the beat of my tambourine, yeah”

Pumbaa: “To be honest, the concept of an inherited monarchy is anachronistic and perhaps we, as intelligent animals, good think about transitioning to a democratic system of rule?”