Mufasa: The Lion King

Okay, so when I said I went into this movie with low expectations I meant it. But this movie managed to go even lower than the low expectations I had for it. First let's just get quality out of the way, it looks good. The scenes are cool but occasionally the uncanny ahh lions will look at the camera weird. Next the fun, aw man. So to start people in the theatre were on their phones and later they straight up left! Usually I would be mad but that's valid in this case. It got so bad that I would constantly babble nonsense to my friends next to me out of boredom. Next is the story... bruh. This story felt like it should be more about a different family of lions. Like it had almost nothing to do with the lion king until the very end where everything felt stapled together. Hey we need pride rock, okay let's put it in right on the other side of these snowy mountains. Hey we need scar to be a bad guy! Okay let's randomly make him evil and his brother uncharacteristically unforgiving of him. Also L mufasa for straight up stealing his brother's girl like that's crazy. Next Based... this movie was not funny or Based or anything of the sorts. The characters were bland or mad annoying most of the time and had little character development to change that. I cannot remember one joke or even one attempt at a joke throughout the whole film. There were multiple times where they would just say something random and me and my friends would look at each other like "was that a joke?". As a final nail in the coffin, the music was downright awful. I thought it would just be mid but it was horrendous like get out of the studio man. The songs constantly had these weird toned moments in them to try to be catchy like bruthaaaaa or bye-bye but it just made the characters seem stupid. The villain song was the worst of all however as it completely lost the tension by him singing this corney ahh song. So in summary, don't watch it.

This is no shocker. Everyone knew it was going to be bad. Watching this movie was pretty much just affirming my low expectations.

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When I was a kid I watched the original Lion King. My mom had rented it from the library and I remember when we went to return it seeing other Lion King movies like Liong King 1/2 and Lion King 2 Simbaas Pride. I asked her if there was a Mufasa movie, thinking there might be due to his screen time and impact on the first Lion King. She told me no and I said they should make one. However as the years went by that dream left my mind...

That was until in 2024 Disney announced the release of Mufasa: The Lion King. The prequel to both the original 1994 Lion King and the 2019 Lion King live action remake, Mufasa submits itself as yet another unnecessary live action movie. While this one may have an original story, theres not much to offer as its pretty generic. Boring villain and trash songs made by Lin Manuel Miranda also bog this movie down too. And despite Mufasa being wise and heroic in the first Lion King, he's a real jerk to Scar in the film by taking not only his girl but the kingship title too, despite Scar saving his life 3 times. And Rafiki, I'm sorry, even though your iconic in the Lion King franchise, no one cares about your backstory either. Overall another nostalgia scam from Disney so they can make a quick buck.