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A different way of telling a story

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

As a fan of Lion King, I am very disappointed. First off this movie is only 44 minutes. A movie is normally an hour. The new voices for the characters are horrible. Rob Lowe for Simba was a horrible choice. This film looks somewhat low budget. They could have at least kept the same voice actors and actresses from the previous movies. I think there should have been a different plot instead making it seem like Simba is against a different animal crew. The hyenas even look different. They don't look normal at all. What I don't understand is how and when did lion came about Because lion king 2 Kiara was a cub and grew up to be an adult and where was Kion? He was not in the second one. So for him to become a leader in the lion guard shouldn't he be an older adult lion? The plot is most definitely weird and you can not pinpoint where the time line is being held. This is not a movie I will recommend for anyone to see. I could not enjoyed it as much as I did with the first two Lion Kings. I'm pretty sure children will enjoy it especially if they are not familiar with the originals.

The Lion King is one of the best Disney films ever, and the sequels aren't that bad. I was excited when I heard about this movie and the upcoming TV show coming out on January 15, 2016, and I really loved it. While it contradicts some stuff, I can look past it since it still stands on it pretty well. The movie follows Kion, the son of Simba and Nala and the younger daughter of Kiara, as he assembles the Lion Guard to protect the Pridelands. The stuff that's contradicted is fairly minor, and the film is otherwise faithful to the source material. I really like Kion in that he's slightly mischievous, but still well meaning. We also some spotlight for the other characters. I really like the themes presented on being a leader and being a good person, and it's tied together with Disney charm. I highly recommend this one.

I am still going to rate this t.v series a 10 because it is on Disney Junior and is geared towards younger viewers which it has done. My 3 and 2 year old ask me all day long to watch "Lion Guard". However I feel they are to young to understand anything really going on. On the other hand I myself was not to happy watching the movie. Kiara seems to be spoiled or snobby. This is not how she was in the second movie. She was sweet, caring and understanding. Simba also seemed a little snobby and not as protective of his cubs. Don't you remember in the second movie Kiara was like fully grown and finally going on her first hunt that was the first time Simba let her out of his sight? Then why did she have to wait for Simba to come? Not to mention in the second movie when Kiara was a cub the outlands where filled with lions that still believed in Scar and that where angry with Simba and they stated that the hyenas all left. I keep asking what is that roar supposed to really do? I don't like the fact they made it like a magical gift, wish they kept it like natural like the original movies. I really do want a Lion King 4 but I would like to see what happens to Kovu and Kiara where the 2nd movie left off at. Really the only thing that I was really happy with was the fact that the original voice of Mufasa was in the movie. I also like Kion's song, and zukka zamma, but I don't really like Bunga.Again this cartoon is geared towards young children and I still give it a 10/10 because my kids love this show.

This movie is laughable. The concept is pretty fanfic-y in the first place, but this.... I was laughing so hard throughout the whole thing. You've just got to see it. It's one of those movies that are so bad, they're good.The main problem with this movie is that it closer resembles Jake and the Neverland Pirates than The Lion King. The acting, the characters, and just the overall tone just screamed Disney Junior.And they steal so many plot points and song ideas from the first movie that you'd think that the writers just watched the first movie and said "Yeah, let's do that." I mean, really people. The acting is bad too. A lot of the characters from the first movie don't even sound remotely like the characters. Simba's voice actor is also awful. It sounds like they just recorded him practicing his script and just went with that. The other actors are fine, but boy Simba's voice actor is terrible.The characters are so bland. Seriously, they are all nothing but plot devices and comic relief. And some of the people who are supposed to be main characters are only introduced when you only have 20 minutes of the movie left. Some of them only get a few lines of dialogue. None of the characters have any traits. We know nothing about them at all!The plot is pretty standard, except for the backstory of the Lion Guard. If any of that backstory is true, Scar would've been banished from the Pridelands in a heartbeat. There's also a ton of filler in this movie. We get so much stuff that doesn't contribute to the plot at all. The actual plot doesn't really start until you've only got 14 more minutes of the movie.The writing isn't very good. The way they word things just doesn't sound very natural. It's pretty obviously exposition.The villains are so cliché. We don't know who they are, where they came from, or their motive. They're just evil because this movie needs a villain and we're too lazy to write something original.The music in this movie sucks. In the first, it really gave you the vibe of what you think when you hear "Africa". In this movie, all I think of when I hear the songs is "Top 40 Hits". There's nothing original about them. They also blatantly rip off the songs from the first movie. There's only one that doesn't rip it off and that one's sung by Kion, who can't sing at all. It's not the worst singing ever, but it's still bad.The animation is good..... most the time. Sometimes when the characters are walking kinda forward, it looks like someone animated them walking and then just put it on loop and it doesn't even look like they're on the ground, it looks like they're floating a little bit above it.I think one of the funniest parts of this is that Kion has a cutie mark. I wish I was joking. No, they don't explicitly say cutie mark, but a mark on the upper part of your leg that describes your talent? It's a freaking cutie mark!These 6-8 star reviews have got to be fake. This movie is just terrible. You have to see it. I was laughing the whole time. It's just that hilarious. This movie is awful, but I totally recommend it.