...because they took the hyenas out of it, this movie isn't worth watching?
I dunno...I haven't seen all of it...I started and got bored. It just isn't worth it. As I've said before, Shenzi, Banzai, Ed, and the pack are the only reason I like the series. I hate pretty much everything about it, to be honest---the songs, the overdone animation, the other animals, the toilet humor...it just feels babyish.
When I see the hyenas, though, I feel like I'm watching Family Guy or some really funny animated adult show. I also really love hyenas in general, and find them quite beautiful, in stark contrast to the other characters of the movie. I feel they have extreme potential, yet were extremely underused throughtout the franchise, not just by discluding them from this film but from their lack of involvement in the third (which I could almost forgive if they didn't disappear out of it without so much as a last good scene).
I dunno. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I feel that SP is the worst movie of the franchise solely for the reason that they got rid of the one thing I respected it for.