“The Lion King” (1994)

The Lion King

I tried this film because I’ve heard of it sooo much and how much people love it. My mother warned me not to, but I wanted to try it for myself. Well, she was right. The film is overrated, in my opinion. The drama was weak and overdone. The humour was crude. The characters weren’t awesome. I think I liked the theme, but I forget it, so there’s that. Most of all though, the film features African magic. Having grown up with people from many different African countries, I’ve heard plenty about voodoo and black magic. I don’t want anything to do with it. I don’t want to do with so-called “white” magic (erroneously believed to be ‘less bad’) either, but I was particularly horrified by the addition of something so evil in a child’s film. 0/5 and a never-try-again for me.