Netflix: The Lion King (1994)
Aug. 30th, 2005 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enteleinThe Lion King (1994)
I'm not a big musical theatre fan. I'm really not. Somehow, I get cast in musicals all the damed time. The first role I ever performed on stage (not counting my 6th grade debut as Citizen #11 in a class production of Julius Caesar) was in a musical. I can carry a tune. So trust me when I say that if I admit to liking a musical, it's a pretty big deal.
As a musical, this movie sucks like so many things have never sucked before. The songs were execrable pieces of jarring nonsense that literally made me cringe. Granted, I watched it yesterday, on little sleep, feeling a bit cranky. But! It was still awful! Oh god!
I really cannot explain to you how annoyed I was. The scripting and placement of the songs, the conceits used to get the characters into a dancing and singing frenzy - just terrible. Like most musicals, none of it made sense, it was contrived, the music felt shrill, and none of it inspired any other emotion but severe annoyance.
The silver lining of this is that the songs wouldn't have seemed so terrible if the rest of it weren't so damned awesome. The wildebeast stampede, Rafiki, the presenting of Simba at the very top of the story, Rafiki, Jeremy Irons = Awesome, the fact that I kept forgetting Matthew Broderick was voicing the older Simba, and Rafiki all served to complement some of the lovely animation and feel of anything without songs accompanying it.
They should re-make this one, but without the shitty songs. That would be awesome.
I'm not a big musical theatre fan. I'm really not. Somehow, I get cast in musicals all the damed time. The first role I ever performed on stage (not counting my 6th grade debut as Citizen #11 in a class production of Julius Caesar) was in a musical. I can carry a tune. So trust me when I say that if I admit to liking a musical, it's a pretty big deal.
As a musical, this movie sucks like so many things have never sucked before. The songs were execrable pieces of jarring nonsense that literally made me cringe. Granted, I watched it yesterday, on little sleep, feeling a bit cranky. But! It was still awful! Oh god!
I really cannot explain to you how annoyed I was. The scripting and placement of the songs, the conceits used to get the characters into a dancing and singing frenzy - just terrible. Like most musicals, none of it made sense, it was contrived, the music felt shrill, and none of it inspired any other emotion but severe annoyance.
The silver lining of this is that the songs wouldn't have seemed so terrible if the rest of it weren't so damned awesome. The wildebeast stampede, Rafiki, the presenting of Simba at the very top of the story, Rafiki, Jeremy Irons = Awesome, the fact that I kept forgetting Matthew Broderick was voicing the older Simba, and Rafiki all served to complement some of the lovely animation and feel of anything without songs accompanying it.
They should re-make this one, but without the shitty songs. That would be awesome.
