Cinema silhouettes in a "TLK" movie?? A big shame, or as I rather call it: Unworthy the title: The Lion King!
Let me ask you this; How would you like to see a couple of blundering clowns act like they were peforming in a circus arena, when the movie would be all about horror?? (For example like the Chainsaw Massacre..) It would totally ruïn the atmosphere of the movie itself.
It just did not belong in such a "movie" in my opinion..

Besides: Didn't T&P already had enough attention for themselves with their cartoon-series?? Why wasting an entire classic to them, like that??

Sounds like really cheap rushed out money milking plot to me.

Only thing I liked is the bits with young Simba in it, especially letting Timon suffer like what serves him right. Darn-puny-wannabe-mister- big-mouth-arrogance-himself! For the sake of realism: T&P should have been killed in the final fight, as depicted in the original TLK-1 movie. Pure prey-animals don't belong in the midst of a lion pride. Nor would both have survived the Hyena clash in the end.
Heck they'd even gave Rafiki a safe place to stay in his baobab away from the lions! And that darn meerkat and warthog would survive sleeping amongst those predatory animals?? Don't make me laugh!!
Remember, There was a time of great famine when Simba regained the Pridelands. Lions are not outstanding tree-climbers, so the first thing that had to go, were that pesky Meerkat, and his beefed up Warthog collegue! So that's another point of wasting precious TLK title time to those two wannabe clowns!
