by StarlightLioness » April 7th, 2011, 12:04 am
The Upendi scene. It's like a bad drug trip in the middle of an otherwise beautiful movie. It just doesn't belong. It's just so...immature....compared to the tone of the rest of the movie. I get that they were going for light and fanciful but it just comes off as weird. I mean, I can leave my "rational" brain at the door of any Disney movie and accept things like talking lions and ghosts of family members coming back from beyond the grave. But Upendi goes beyond suspending rational thought - we're talking parachuting hippos (using heart shaped leaves), Rafiki gathering up stars, lions floating UP hills on a river....
Why couldn't they have made another beautiful "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" sort of sequence for the obligatory "here's where they fall in love" moment?
"Simba, let me tell you something my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I." ~ Mufasa