Drawing attention to the fact that they don't eat these random animals because they're "friends" just reminds me that they must be eating sentient talking beings every single day, beings that they are dictators over. Can't wait for the Expanded Lion Universe
I don't get why you'd even do that. Don't even lampshade it unless you want to actually get into details, the original didn't do any of this it just went "Yeah, Simba ate antelope. That's just what lions do. Now he eats bugs because it's goofy. Anyways..." This implies some fucked up Beastars world behind the scenes where Lions are just constantly working around smaller animals and they just have to restrain themselves or they'd just murder a dude for food.
@dracocrusher i mean technically it's still doing that as timon, Pumba, ed, Eddy, Shari, zazu and rafiki are sentient beings and then in simbas pride all the animals sing in not one of us. While it doesn't delve into it mufasas talk with simba implies that the prey animals are ok with the circle of life but once scar takes over we see that they have their limits and flee the pride lands as they don't see scars way of eating everyone without a care of the cycle (from what we can gather from info given to us, it sounds like scar is greedy). So it feels safe to say its probably more like the sea creatures from beastars where they accept that eventually they must die and being eaten is just a part of life.
@@sylvain4298 That's the thing, though. It's a conclusion you can draw, but the movie isn't focusing on it, really. Addressing audience nitpicks just makes those points stand out. You can JUST not mention it and let them be nitpicks, right?
I get every trailer does it, but I can't get over how much of this movies just gives away all of its plot and twists, and just so patronizingly introduces each character.
This is the kind of follow-up that would've gone straight to video in the nineties, like Simba's Pride or the Timon & Pumbaa TV series - not the highest quality, but a little something extra for fans who wanted more Lion King adventures. Here, however, they've wasted millions of dollars on it. At least they knew that Simba's Pride wasn't likely to be as successful as the first one, so they didn't bother giving it a huge budget. 💸
I keep wondering what kind of nonsensical reason they are going to give scar to be angry mufasa enough to kill him, but not enough to not live at pride rock and have mufasa aware scar is THIS resentful
Man, but even then it's an absolute weird thing to even compare this to Simba's Pride. It still had an amazing cast (had Matthew Broderick, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, lots of the original cast, and the addition of Neve Campbell and Jason Marsden) and great songs like "He Lives in You." It had an interesting character progression for Kovu starting with a controlling, abusive family dynamic being around his mother who radicalized him as a child along with his siblings as she still venerated a dead Scar. If the Lion King explored ideas of grief and trauma, Simba's Pride was about familial abuse, getting deprogrammed with actual love, and growing into a better person. They packed a lot into a direct-to-video movie. I'm not sure what they'll be able to do in this movie given they have to 1) convince me to care about the characters without the emotional connection to the original and 2) make me care enough that the pay off for Scar going bad is impactful and balanced enough that it makes sense Mufasa doesn't just banish him. Unless they've got stellar writers for this, it's going to be weird and tonally inconsistent.
I genuinely hope that the nostalgia bait starts genuinely failing. Let's give the younger generation cool new shit to enjoy, not retreads of Millenial-Zoomer nostalgia. I was born in 1994 - I don't care about seeing the amazing classic animated films I watched during my childhood in live action. I would much rather check out cool, original shit that is made with the kids these days in mind, made by Millenials and older Zoomers who were INSPIRED by these same stories, but in their superior iterations.
i feel a need to educate people on the topic of names sooo ☝🤓 actually "taka" in swahili means "want/wish/desire" MEANWHILE "takataka" is "waste/garbage" - two different words
Wouldn't it be so amazing if they made a Captain Hook prequel film, where they explain that his black eyelids are because he didn't get good sleep as a child, and we got to see how he met every single member of his pirate crew (but no pirating! This is befooore he was evil), and like, his shoes, they were a gift from some guy whose shoes Hook shined as a lad working for pennies, it would be so byooteeful
Don't forget the under 20 second long love interest scene with Smee that's oddly absent in some localized versions. Or the big mid-movie twist that Peter Pan was basically a Yugoslav war criminal this entire time and is the reason Hook went evil.
Well, here we go. Another Disney movie that’s going to try and make the villain sympathetic, or in this case maybe even a little justified; (Scar is the crown Prince in this, and some random orphan takes his throne from him - I’d be pissed too)
Imagine if they brought back 2D animation for Mufasa, and with the director of Moonlight I would be so excited for this😢 It’s such a shame they think 2D animation is “outdated”
Hand drawn, not just 2d. 2d could mean flash(barf) as well. It's even worse than that though, because they're trying to pretend this isn't animated and because of that, they're trying to pretend that no animation at all is better, even though it's all animated.
It's not that they think it's outdated, it's the fact that they can just shuffle around the same teams of overworked 3d animators between a dozen different projects. Why have a dedicated 2D hand animation crew when you can just reassign a hundred or so 3D artists who just got done pulling all-nighters to finish all the VFX for "Captain America 8: Animal Farm"
It's not going to. I really really wish it would, and I would love nothing more than to be wrong, but I feel like the Disney/Lion King nostalgia is just too strong with general audiences. As long as Sonic 3 doesn't bomb, I'll be happy.
Oh, I just can’t wait to see Scar in the new Mufasa movie. I’m sure they’ll give him this deeply moving backstory about being cast aside, harboring resentment for a system that never gave him a chance, and tying it all to some profound statement about the struggle of the marginalized. You know, really make him the misunderstood hero of the savanna.
Disney has made 19 LARs in the last 15 years, and only 3 of them are follow ups, with Alice through the looking glass, maleficent mistress of evil and this one. Out of all of the straight up retellings/ruinings of an original, none of them have gotten sequels because they’re not creative enough to think of a new story for them
Honestly this one piques my interest on the merit of doing _something_ interesting even if I'm not going to see it, and Maleficent is imperfect but it also had a lot of intrigue in actually changing the story and the world for the narrative to make the villain more sympathetic instead of just building on top of it. Regardless, both are cash grabs and the good in the live action remakes has yet to outweigh the bad
I remember the animated movie being milked with the sequels and the cartoon back in the day. Seeing it being milked in 2024 with a prequel brings back memories.
Kind of a weird implication they're making with Mufasa being an orphan. Especially since his name translates to 'royalty'. It's like the writers think that people born into privilege can't be noble or compassionate, only spoiled and entitled.
For all the comparisons I'm seeing between this and Tranformers One, I feel the latter has a lot more to work in terms of the falling out between the main characters. Optimus and Megatron had ideological differences that made the end of their friendship both heartbreaking and understandable. With Mufasa, I'm not sure how much you can do beyond Scar - sorry, Taka - getting upset that Mufasa becomes king instead of him. Also, they can't even have a true friends to enemies as when The Lion King starts, Scar is still part of the pride, and Mufasa still trusts him. If you have him betraying Mufasa in the prequel, it makes Mufasa look like an idiot for keeping him close by.
Yeah, the big thing is that Megatron and Optimus both have full arcs within the movie, you directly get to see the full change into the character’s you know in a relatively short period of time. But no matter what they do, Taka’s change into scar isn’t going to be the same impact because no matter what happens, he will just go back to hanging out with Mufasa until he chooses to kill him in the Original Lion King, which means we miss out on the important part of the corruption arc that shows up in TF One, which is watching the friendship start to completely breakdown.
I can appreciate what this movie is only because it looks to be more of an original story rather than a shot for shot remake. Like there's actually a bit of effort put towards the story.
Yeah. It's still annoying but honestly I _would_ be interested in a prequel movie about Mufasa if it wasn't a CGI minimum-effort cash grab. There's a lot of potential to expand on what's in the Lion King but this isn't the way to do so interestingly
I genuinely think the concept of a “documentary” for the original remake was that, for all its money, Disney still didn’t have the technology to give their characters expression. Jon Favreau had to explain this setback to the media, and that’s the way he chose to spin it.
that just doesn't make any sense, I do doubt it was the Jon's fault 100%, Disney Executives probably meddled like it seems they have done for all of the animal designs in their recent movies, but I remember the Jungle Book remake had some emotion in the animals, I could be wrong.
live action jungle book begs to differ. look at bear necessities (the actual scene not the clip show trailer). an entire scene of just baloo and mowgli floating down the river, and all they have to work with is baloo's facial expression and a kid who can't act (he's not even singing he's just shouting the words), and they do it! the bear can indeed face! and that was 3 years earlier!
Disney did have all the technology for natural looking animal expressions, someone at Disney just didn't want to pay extra money to animators to make them.
I don't know about that... Aslan (Narnia) still looks pretty good all these years later. It's more than feasible to achieve. I do believe they really just thought that it would "look better" (somehow)
Thank goodness this came out I started getting ads for it and I was like "Oh my god the lions are British" and immediately thought of your video reacting to this
When I listened to Taka's line "We're trapped!" to me it sounded like he said "We're Facked!' but when I watched and read the subtitles I heard the actual line lmfao
Say what you want about Sonic the Hedgehog 3, but at least there is more passionate thought in the look, character design, and (potentially) the story, where here there is none of that!!!!
I hate this trope of changing the origin story. Why can’t they just be blood brothers who were jealous of each other? Is that seen as generic? I predicted they’d do some stupid thing about Scar or Mufasa being an adopted relative or orphaned when the film was announced.
Why is this a bad thing? And why are you wanting this be related the the og animated moves/shows/whatever media? I’d like if this stayed as its own universe so it can just be its own thing. If it actually kept that they were brothers by blood, it would disrespect what the originals did. So it’s actually a good thing! I hated that last movie they did, perhaps with this being more original and different, it will be at least decent, mediocre. I’m already liking this more than the mistake they made previously.
The live action remakes have this tendency to want to "fix" unimportant stuff that only Cinema Sins fans care about. Maybe they wanted to explain why Scar and Mufasa look nothing alike?
I went to see Wicked in 4D and a Mufasa trailer. My chair whipping around and mist from the waterfall entering the room ALMOST made this movie seem interesting.
I really don't get this whole 'oh Mufasa was an orphan' thing? Like...why would a royal monarchy choose to have a random orphan they found one day be king over the actual heir who literally has the right to rule by blood? It would make more sense if Mufasa and Scar were blood brothers like in the actual LK movie, but Mufasa could have been the younger brother. They could have had him do something notable that could have elevated him into being next in line over Scar or something.
It's so unfortunate that Wicked's biggest legacy is convincing Hollywood that every single villain needs a justification as to why they are the way they are.
@desdar100 OK so I looked up when the book debut and it says 1995. That is fairly early in terms of mainstream popularity, but the musical is what made the plot super famous and popular (and the book is very different tone wise from the musical). I've read all 4 books in that series and I've seen the musical 3x. I think the books are OK but nothing spectacular. The musical put it on the map. And the musical debut in 2003. By 2003, we already had some of the Star Wars prequels, which are meant to "show the background of how Darth Vader became evil" etc. And I would argue that SW had WAY more lasting impact than the book Wicked in 1995. After all, Vader is probably the most famous movie villain ever.
@l.n.3372 Thanks for the research. I just remember Wicked being really big back in 2004, in was kind of THE Broadway show where is I think the prequels were kind of contested even back then.
@desdar100 The SW prequels might have always been heavily criticized but being controversial doesn't change the fact that it set a new standard for making a backstory of a famous villain to show said villain in a sympathetic light. I'm a big musical fan so if you wanna discuss musicals, I'm your girl lol Wicked was super popular when it debut and it has been ever since. It's one of the highest grossing musicals of all time for a reason, after all. There's no doubt that it's very famous and popular. But I think there are other examples we can use that predate Wicked. In 1992, the Coppola Dracula film portrayed the villainous vampire in a more sympathetic light. He's viewed as a romantic even tho he's still very much the film antagonist. In the 1980s, even earlier, the Phantom of the Opera musical debut in London and NYC. These musicals take the Phantom from the 1900s novel and again, it portrays him in a romantic, sympathetic light, despite keeping him as the overall antagonist. In this sense, all musicals do this, too. Hamilton took many liberties to portray Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson in more nuanced perspectives. But I don't think they necessarily took inspiration from SW or Phantom or Wicked.
The funny and also kind of bad thing for me is...I kind of WANT this to be good. I have always advocated for the idea that if remakes should happen, they should find their own identity and do something new. Or just say screw it and do new takes of beloved stories. Hell, Wicked is one of the strongest movies of the year, and what it was based on is one of the most succesful musicals in modern theater. Stuff like that is more interesting that copy and pasting an entire movie into a CGI playground with worse performances, visuals, music, writing, etc. I'm just hoping what Jenkins can do breaks through the usual dull and lifeless filters Disney does with these movies. Moonlight is still one of my favorite films of the new millenium.
They shouldn't treat animation as lesser when it literally gave rise to all film, and they're still using it. They need to not label animated things live action. That's ultimately what makes the remakes so terrible.
3:01 I can't find where this was said now, but I remember reading a comment from someone who speaks Swahili that this is apparently not true. "Taka" itself apperently doesn't mean "waste/trash" in Swahili, it means "desire". It's the word "takataka" that means "waste/trash".
I actually think this will be better than the first one, it has an original story and the CGI animals are allowed to express emotions now. It’s a low bar, but at least it feels like there’s a reason for this film to exist other than to badly recount the plot of a much better film.
gotta be honest, when I first read about the plot of this movie, I was hoping it to be inspired by someting like King Lear (which I think it's a good fit for Mufasa and Scar's story) but apparently this is too creative for Disney's standards.
Who's the target audience for this? Why does every Mufasa/Taka dialogue in this trailer sound and read like sassy MCU male leads? It feels so off. I feel like the atmosphere should be much more dark and intense, instead it's... Yeah, whatever that MCU witty comeback and slapstick thing is called.
I’m just so happy that we’re getting ✨emotion✨ The visual character acting is significantly better, the emotions are clear, everything is just more interesting to look at. Unfortunately the voice acting and lines are incredibly janky, but tbh I’ll probably end up watching this dubbed in a different language or something
Well the characters actually have facial expressions now so that's an improvement But I hate that they're making Mufasa some random orphan that is adopted by Scar's royal family Also WHY did they put white lions in this movie? Now this stupid Kimba controversy is never going to end 🙄
the lack of colour is unsettling and depressing even timone and pumba at the very intro are just grey :/ you could still achieve realism while having some colour Especially when its Disney. WTF they doing man
Can't wait to see whatever movie idea was so ambitious BJ had to agree to spend 3 years in the Disney slop mines as part of a one for them, one for me deal.
Actually it looks you can see that in the 2019 film the lionesses are not all lookalikes. Sarabi is the largest and has more fur, while Nala looks younger since she is a young adult and has less fur.
I like how the trailer doesn't give you any idea what the story of the film is - Mufasa and company travel to some mountains? And take over the white lion territory? Or the white lions take over Mufasa's territory so he has to go on some kind of journey? The only thing I know definitely from the trailer is that the movie is going to be really really LOUD
Between the CGI in the Mufasa prequel and the seven dwarves in the Snow White remake, I question Disney's definition of "live action."
Interesting when it clearly looks like an animation and not real life lmao
@@downspiral Also Disney is going to a new low with a Prince Charming movie!!!
its marketing speak and barry jenkins said it was animation in a promo interview lol
Movies in this medium need a new name. "Live-action" is disingenuous. Call it like, augmented reality or something akin to that.
May I suggest soulless remakes, cash grab remakes, or soulless cash grab remake.
Mufasa telling Scar not to eat the other animals directly conflicts with his teaching of “the circle of life.”
I think there's a difference between Mufasa telling him to not eat one or two animals who are close to him, and not eating animals at all
he teaches about the circle of life when he got older and became a dad. It's natural for a person to change, so I don't see any issues here
That would make sense if the implication were Mufasa is wizened and learned *before* becoming king.
@@ThePeacefulAtomYou put way more thought into that than Disney in all likelihood has.
So the Kimba treatment
DUDE STRAIGHT ROCK
DUDE BI ROCK
I don't care if that white lion has an actual name. I'm calling him Kimba
Yeah, I saw the white lions and was like "are they directly calling YMS out??" 😂
How many bazillion dollars do you want to bet when Mufasa becomes king Scar says "long live the king" with a close up on him.
Yeah i can already picture Scar looking up to him resentfully
I can actually imagine making that work quite well, tho i have 0 interest in seeing this movie
"get away from her u bitch"
Very slow close-up with thrilling music.. one may even call it.. a wink to the clever audience
"There will be one Lion King" - Kimba
Glad Kimba is fighting for his legacy as the one true lion king.
Drawing attention to the fact that they don't eat these random animals because they're "friends" just reminds me that they must be eating sentient talking beings every single day, beings that they are dictators over.
Can't wait for the Expanded Lion Universe
I don't get why you'd even do that. Don't even lampshade it unless you want to actually get into details, the original didn't do any of this it just went "Yeah, Simba ate antelope. That's just what lions do. Now he eats bugs because it's goofy. Anyways..."
This implies some fucked up Beastars world behind the scenes where Lions are just constantly working around smaller animals and they just have to restrain themselves or they'd just murder a dude for food.
@dracocrusher i mean technically it's still doing that as timon, Pumba, ed, Eddy, Shari, zazu and rafiki are sentient beings and then in simbas pride all the animals sing in not one of us.
While it doesn't delve into it mufasas talk with simba implies that the prey animals are ok with the circle of life but once scar takes over we see that they have their limits and flee the pride lands as they don't see scars way of eating everyone without a care of the cycle (from what we can gather from info given to us, it sounds like scar is greedy).
So it feels safe to say its probably more like the sea creatures from beastars where they accept that eventually they must die and being eaten is just a part of life.
@@sylvain4298 That's the thing, though. It's a conclusion you can draw, but the movie isn't focusing on it, really. Addressing audience nitpicks just makes those points stand out. You can JUST not mention it and let them be nitpicks, right?
It's not every day, it's closer to like, every 3-5 days with animals in the wild. You're still right though
Can't wait to watch Simba have to confront a class uprising as the herbivore proletariat stages a revolution in "The Lion King: Generations" in 2026.
Hollywood is so creatively bankrupt it hurts
Who’s watching these?? No one I know is watching these!
@@grayk3803Children. Literal babies. And the parents who don't really care about the quality of the movie.
can we please start shaming people instead of "letting people like what they like"? people should feel bad if they support this stuff
whens the last time they hired an actor and not a celebrity like genuinely
Late stage capitalism is setting in.
If that is high-pitched John Oliver, COUNTY OUT
Simba?
Out of service! Out of Africa! I wouldn’t hang about!
That is not John Oliver it’s Preston Nyman!
"A monarch who ignores tradition"
Taka doesn't actually mean "waste" or "trash/garbage"
Takataka does
Taka singular means "Want"
Thanks for that. No joke, I didn’t know that. It actually makes his name make more sense.
So am I correct in assuming that takataka means “don’t want” because two of the same word inverts the meaning?
@@willjustice1876 No (as far as I know), Takataka is what means garbage or waste according to actual Swahili speakers, while just Taka means "want".
Isn't want "kutaka" in Swahili?
I get every trailer does it, but I can't get over how much of this movies just gives away all of its plot and twists, and just so patronizingly introduces each character.
Which is why the 28 Years Later trailer felt like such a huge breath of fresh air.
This is the kind of follow-up that would've gone straight to video in the nineties, like Simba's Pride or the Timon & Pumbaa TV series - not the highest quality, but a little something extra for fans who wanted more Lion King adventures. Here, however, they've wasted millions of dollars on it. At least they knew that Simba's Pride wasn't likely to be as successful as the first one, so they didn't bother giving it a huge budget. 💸
I keep wondering what kind of nonsensical reason they are going to give scar to be angry mufasa enough to kill him, but not enough to not live at pride rock and have mufasa aware scar is THIS resentful
Man, but even then it's an absolute weird thing to even compare this to Simba's Pride. It still had an amazing cast (had Matthew Broderick, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, lots of the original cast, and the addition of Neve Campbell and Jason Marsden) and great songs like "He Lives in You." It had an interesting character progression for Kovu starting with a controlling, abusive family dynamic being around his mother who radicalized him as a child along with his siblings as she still venerated a dead Scar. If the Lion King explored ideas of grief and trauma, Simba's Pride was about familial abuse, getting deprogrammed with actual love, and growing into a better person. They packed a lot into a direct-to-video movie. I'm not sure what they'll be able to do in this movie given they have to 1) convince me to care about the characters without the emotional connection to the original and 2) make me care enough that the pay off for Scar going bad is impactful and balanced enough that it makes sense Mufasa doesn't just banish him. Unless they've got stellar writers for this, it's going to be weird and tonally inconsistent.
Disney is basically repeating the same mistakes that ended 2d animation in the early 2000s.
I genuinely hope that the nostalgia bait starts genuinely failing.
Let's give the younger generation cool new shit to enjoy, not retreads of Millenial-Zoomer nostalgia. I was born in 1994 - I don't care about seeing the amazing classic animated films I watched during my childhood in live action.
I would much rather check out cool, original shit that is made with the kids these days in mind, made by Millenials and older Zoomers who were INSPIRED by these same stories, but in their superior iterations.
His fur is white because he comes from a long line of great leaders.
based
Can’t wait for Adum to take 18 years for his 28 hour takedown of Mufasa, truly what his channel has been leading to.
i just like that kimba is the villain
i mean even the names are similar. kimba? kiros? hmm, suspicious…
@@CaptLuser Will he appear in the moon?
i feel a need to educate people on the topic of names sooo
☝🤓 actually "taka" in swahili means "want/wish/desire" MEANWHILE "takataka" is "waste/garbage" - two different words
Isn't want "kutaka" in Swahili?
@Daemon_Belial one is a verb other one is an adjective or an adverb
Wouldn't it be so amazing if they made a Captain Hook prequel film, where they explain that his black eyelids are because he didn't get good sleep as a child, and we got to see how he met every single member of his pirate crew (but no pirating! This is befooore he was evil), and like, his shoes, they were a gift from some guy whose shoes Hook shined as a lad working for pennies, it would be so byooteeful
You're never gonna believe this, but there technically does exist a prequel film for Captain Hook. It's a Tinker Bell movie, of all things.
God I hate how accurate this is
Don't forget the under 20 second long love interest scene with Smee that's oddly absent in some localized versions. Or the big mid-movie twist that Peter Pan was basically a Yugoslav war criminal this entire time and is the reason Hook went evil.
YMS is the only reason I know about something new related to lion king coming out
"The real animal kingdoms are the facial expressions we made along the way. "
- Martin Luther King Sr.
A white lion? Hmmm, suspicious.
Well, here we go. Another Disney movie that’s going to try and make the villain sympathetic, or in this case maybe even a little justified;
(Scar is the crown Prince in this, and some random orphan takes his throne from him - I’d be pissed too)
Imagine if they brought back 2D animation for Mufasa, and with the director of Moonlight
I would be so excited for this😢
It’s such a shame they think 2D animation is “outdated”
Hand drawn, not just 2d. 2d could mean flash(barf) as well. It's even worse than that though, because they're trying to pretend this isn't animated and because of that, they're trying to pretend that no animation at all is better, even though it's all animated.
@@LeBongFairy it's so painfully ironic coming from the company that pioneered feature length hand drawn films
It's not that they think it's outdated, it's the fact that they can just shuffle around the same teams of overworked 3d animators between a dozen different projects. Why have a dedicated 2D hand animation crew when you can just reassign a hundred or so 3D artists who just got done pulling all-nighters to finish all the VFX for "Captain America 8: Animal Farm"
I hope he finishes his Lion King review.
Most of us will be dead before we see the next part.
Holy shit my brain completely deleted the fact he's working on the review and released a part 1 of it.
I hope he finishes his Synecdoche, New York review.
He will. Just wait 17 years.
He's just waiting for Valve to release Half-Life 3 first
INTRODUCING PRIDE ROCK... PLAYED BY.... THE ROCK
And pride rock is actually gay
they try soo hard to give this a lighthearted fun tone
Please win, Sonic 3
It's not going to. I really really wish it would, and I would love nothing more than to be wrong, but I feel like the Disney/Lion King nostalgia is just too strong with general audiences.
As long as Sonic 3 doesn't bomb, I'll be happy.
Sonic 3 is going to be a really *alright* movie, I can just feel it.
Oh, I just can’t wait to see Scar in the new Mufasa movie. I’m sure they’ll give him this deeply moving backstory about being cast aside, harboring resentment for a system that never gave him a chance, and tying it all to some profound statement about the struggle of the marginalized. You know, really make him the misunderstood hero of the savanna.
DUUUUDE, PRIDE ROCK???
_insert distand sounds of goose-stepping hyenas and "Be Prepared"_
So, I guess Mufasa and Simba DON'T come from a long line of kings? So who were the kings of the past looking down on them 🤨
Disney has made 19 LARs in the last 15 years, and only 3 of them are follow ups, with Alice through the looking glass, maleficent mistress of evil and this one. Out of all of the straight up retellings/ruinings of an original, none of them have gotten sequels because they’re not creative enough to think of a new story for them
lets go return of jafar 2028
They don't even care, they only did the remakes for nostalgia money and to keep the IPs from going public domain.
Honestly this one piques my interest on the merit of doing _something_ interesting even if I'm not going to see it, and Maleficent is imperfect but it also had a lot of intrigue in actually changing the story and the world for the narrative to make the villain more sympathetic instead of just building on top of it. Regardless, both are cash grabs and the good in the live action remakes has yet to outweigh the bad
5:11 I can't wait for the BluRay case to quote you as saying "It looks good... the snow"
I remember the animated movie being milked with the sequels and the cartoon back in the day. Seeing it being milked in 2024 with a prequel brings back memories.
Except they're just shitting on animation now while they're still.. using it???
Kind of a weird implication they're making with Mufasa being an orphan. Especially since his name translates to 'royalty'. It's like the writers think that people born into privilege can't be noble or compassionate, only spoiled and entitled.
For all the comparisons I'm seeing between this and Tranformers One, I feel the latter has a lot more to work in terms of the falling out between the main characters. Optimus and Megatron had ideological differences that made the end of their friendship both heartbreaking and understandable. With Mufasa, I'm not sure how much you can do beyond Scar - sorry, Taka - getting upset that Mufasa becomes king instead of him.
Also, they can't even have a true friends to enemies as when The Lion King starts, Scar is still part of the pride, and Mufasa still trusts him. If you have him betraying Mufasa in the prequel, it makes Mufasa look like an idiot for keeping him close by.
Yeah, the big thing is that Megatron and Optimus both have full arcs within the movie, you directly get to see the full change into the character’s you know in a relatively short period of time. But no matter what they do, Taka’s change into scar isn’t going to be the same impact because no matter what happens, he will just go back to hanging out with Mufasa until he chooses to kill him in the Original Lion King, which means we miss out on the important part of the corruption arc that shows up in TF One, which is watching the friendship start to completely breakdown.
I can appreciate what this movie is only because it looks to be more of an original story rather than a shot for shot remake. Like there's actually a bit of effort put towards the story.
I can't
Tottaly understandable, i'm still not watching it.
Yeah. It's still annoying but honestly I _would_ be interested in a prequel movie about Mufasa if it wasn't a CGI minimum-effort cash grab. There's a lot of potential to expand on what's in the Lion King but this isn't the way to do so interestingly
I genuinely think the concept of a “documentary” for the original remake was that, for all its money, Disney still didn’t have the technology to give their characters expression.
Jon Favreau had to explain this setback to the media, and that’s the way he chose to spin it.
that just doesn't make any sense, I do doubt it was the Jon's fault 100%, Disney Executives probably meddled like it seems they have done for all of the animal designs in their recent movies, but I remember the Jungle Book remake had some emotion in the animals, I could be wrong.
live action jungle book begs to differ. look at bear necessities (the actual scene not the clip show trailer). an entire scene of just baloo and mowgli floating down the river, and all they have to work with is baloo's facial expression and a kid who can't act (he's not even singing he's just shouting the words), and they do it! the bear can indeed face! and that was 3 years earlier!
Disney did have all the technology for natural looking animal expressions, someone at Disney just didn't want to pay extra money to animators to make them.
I don't know about that...
Aslan (Narnia) still looks pretty good all these years later.
It's more than feasible to achieve.
I do believe they really just thought that it would "look better" (somehow)
Thank goodness this came out
I started getting ads for it and I was like "Oh my god the lions are British" and immediately thought of your video reacting to this
If you want a musical, just watch Wicked, while I am 100% sure that it might not be Adum's thing, but at least its better then this paycheck film!!!
i’m seeing that today
it was okay
When I listened to Taka's line "We're trapped!" to me it sounded like he said "We're Facked!' but when I watched and read the subtitles I heard the actual line lmfao
Say what you want about Sonic the Hedgehog 3, but at least there is more passionate thought in the look, character design, and (potentially) the story, where here there is none of that!!!!
And it's not trying to pretend that animation isn't there. 😂
I hate this trope of changing the origin story. Why can’t they just be blood brothers who were jealous of each other? Is that seen as generic? I predicted they’d do some stupid thing about Scar or Mufasa being an adopted relative or orphaned when the film was announced.
Why is this a bad thing? And why are you wanting this be related the the og animated moves/shows/whatever media? I’d like if this stayed as its own universe so it can just be its own thing. If it actually kept that they were brothers by blood, it would disrespect what the originals did. So it’s actually a good thing! I hated that last movie they did, perhaps with this being more original and different, it will be at least decent, mediocre. I’m already liking this more than the mistake they made previously.
The live action remakes have this tendency to want to "fix" unimportant stuff that only Cinema Sins fans care about. Maybe they wanted to explain why Scar and Mufasa look nothing alike?
I'm guessing it's because they don't look alike.
County out of this movie!
I went to see Wicked in 4D and a Mufasa trailer. My chair whipping around and mist from the waterfall entering the room ALMOST made this movie seem interesting.
Surprised you didn't catch the glitch of the white lion lunging at the end the "vore" shot with his bottom left teeth phasing through his canine lol.
I’ve been waiting for your second half of the review for lion king
By the time he finishes the review, the prequel will already be out.
Seriously. I wish he would tho, because that was sooooo entertaining
I love those Olivia text boxes for her notes! Really cute.
Now we all know what you jerk off to. Sweet. Me too brotha.
7:55 Lions do usually have their tails down though. They are a bit different than domestic cats in that way, who like to run around tail up.
*All the best talent, nobody at the helm.*
I really don't get this whole 'oh Mufasa was an orphan' thing?
Like...why would a royal monarchy choose to have a random orphan they found one day be king over the actual heir who literally has the right to rule by blood?
It would make more sense if Mufasa and Scar were blood brothers like in the actual LK movie, but Mufasa could have been the younger brother. They could have had him do something notable that could have elevated him into being next in line over Scar or something.
I like it when Timon & Pumbaa say it Lion Time and lion all over the place
1:20 we can all agree on that
It's so unfortunate that Wicked's biggest legacy is convincing Hollywood that every single villain needs a justification as to why they are the way they are.
Was wicked truly the first piece of media to do this tho? (The book, since it came before the musical).
@l.n.3372 I don't know if it was the first, but I think it's definitely the most notable given how popular it became.
@desdar100
OK so I looked up when the book debut and it says 1995. That is fairly early in terms of mainstream popularity, but the musical is what made the plot super famous and popular (and the book is very different tone wise from the musical). I've read all 4 books in that series and I've seen the musical 3x. I think the books are OK but nothing spectacular. The musical put it on the map. And the musical debut in 2003.
By 2003, we already had some of the Star Wars prequels, which are meant to "show the background of how Darth Vader became evil" etc. And I would argue that SW had WAY more lasting impact than the book Wicked in 1995. After all, Vader is probably the most famous movie villain ever.
@l.n.3372 Thanks for the research.
I just remember Wicked being really big back in 2004, in was kind of THE Broadway show where is I think the prequels were kind of contested even back then.
@desdar100
The SW prequels might have always been heavily criticized but being controversial doesn't change the fact that it set a new standard for making a backstory of a famous villain to show said villain in a sympathetic light.
I'm a big musical fan so if you wanna discuss musicals, I'm your girl lol
Wicked was super popular when it debut and it has been ever since. It's one of the highest grossing musicals of all time for a reason, after all. There's no doubt that it's very famous and popular. But I think there are other examples we can use that predate Wicked.
In 1992, the Coppola Dracula film portrayed the villainous vampire in a more sympathetic light. He's viewed as a romantic even tho he's still very much the film antagonist.
In the 1980s, even earlier, the Phantom of the Opera musical debut in London and NYC. These musicals take the Phantom from the 1900s novel and again, it portrays him in a romantic, sympathetic light, despite keeping him as the overall antagonist.
In this sense, all musicals do this, too. Hamilton took many liberties to portray Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson in more nuanced perspectives. But I don't think they necessarily took inspiration from SW or Phantom or Wicked.
I'm looking forward to the Mufasa review where Adum says "BJ" in the same way he says "Jon"
Dude, Taka!
The funny and also kind of bad thing for me is...I kind of WANT this to be good. I have always advocated for the idea that if remakes should happen, they should find their own identity and do something new. Or just say screw it and do new takes of beloved stories. Hell, Wicked is one of the strongest movies of the year, and what it was based on is one of the most succesful musicals in modern theater. Stuff like that is more interesting that copy and pasting an entire movie into a CGI playground with worse performances, visuals, music, writing, etc. I'm just hoping what Jenkins can do breaks through the usual dull and lifeless filters Disney does with these movies. Moonlight is still one of my favorite films of the new millenium.
They shouldn't treat animation as lesser when it literally gave rise to all film, and they're still using it. They need to not label animated things live action. That's ultimately what makes the remakes so terrible.
That word: "Never" from the phrase: "I never signed up for this!" by Zazu seems auto-tuned somehow
3:01 I can't find where this was said now, but I remember reading a comment from someone who speaks Swahili that this is apparently not true. "Taka" itself apperently doesn't mean "waste/trash" in Swahili, it means "desire". It's the word "takataka" that means "waste/trash".
Taka alone does in fact mean waste/trash. Takataka is the activity of cleaning up waste.
I can't believe Disney invented lion emotions
0:18 Seth Rogen Pumba pulling a Denis Quaid in the Substance/M. Night Shamalayn closeup shot!!!
The closeups in The Substance are nasty and so hilarious.
It's not the worst thing I've ever seen, that would be the Lion king 2019, but, oh well, second place is still something.
I actually think this will be better than the first one, it has an original story and the CGI animals are allowed to express emotions now. It’s a low bar, but at least it feels like there’s a reason for this film to exist other than to badly recount the plot of a much better film.
gotta be honest, when I first read about the plot of this movie, I was hoping it to be inspired by someting like King Lear (which I think it's a good fit for Mufasa and Scar's story) but apparently this is too creative for Disney's standards.
It’s so obvious in the performances when they hire actors who aren’t also voice actors.
Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!
I would love to know how scar went from being a bass to a tennor
I can’t wait not to watch this movie 💕 thank you for taking the hit for us Adam 💕
Wow dude, Pride Rock!
2:45 That might be tough since she’s dead…
We love you Olivia!
Kiros: "I'm being bullied because I'm white!"
Who's the target audience for this? Why does every Mufasa/Taka dialogue in this trailer sound and read like sassy MCU male leads? It feels so off. I feel like the atmosphere should be much more dark and intense, instead it's... Yeah, whatever that MCU witty comeback and slapstick thing is called.
I’m just so happy that we’re getting ✨emotion✨
The visual character acting is significantly better, the emotions are clear, everything is just more interesting to look at. Unfortunately the voice acting and lines are incredibly janky, but tbh I’ll probably end up watching this dubbed in a different language or something
We just saw the entire movie in that trailer
Dude, Pride Rock!
Well the characters actually have facial expressions now so that's an improvement
But I hate that they're making Mufasa some random orphan that is adopted by Scar's royal family
Also WHY did they put white lions in this movie? Now this stupid Kimba controversy is never going to end 🙄
I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR THIS
Is it me, or does the voice mixing sound horrible? Like it sounds so choppy and artificial.
White lions? Kimba reference?
…Or white lions exist in the real world, but whatever. Kimba is better than whatever Disney has been doing for the past 5 or 6 years anyway.
Jesus Christ the dialogue used in this trailer is so painful, I can only imagine how unbearable sitting through the actual movie would be.
I’m so pissed at this being that ugly “live action” animation instead of glorious 2D lion king style 😭 UUUUUUUGHHH
OMG they made the White Lion the bad guy, are you serious!
This is competing with Sonic at the box office
0:31 yeah it’s a 3D type movie, because it’s live action obviously look it up
We have transformers one at home. Transformers one at home:
I’m so ready for Sonic 3 to annihilate this movie at the box office
This continues the tradition of Zazu’s actor never coming back for other films
And introducing Luigi Mangione as Mufasa. LET FAMILY FUN REIGN 🗣🗣🗣🗣
Adm is gonna "Luigi" Bob iger if we get another lion king live action movie
Can’t believe we got Mufasa Trailer Reaction before Disney Lion King Part 2
the lack of colour is unsettling and depressing
even timone and pumba at the very intro are just grey :/
you could still achieve realism while having some colour
Especially when its Disney. WTF they doing man
Lin Manuel Miranda. Is there anyone else available to write original music? Literally no one else.
White Lion saying "their will be only one Lion King" oh.. I'm feeling some drama coming out of this at some point
Isn't it crazy that John wouldn't let Rafiki have a stick because of realism, and now he has a stick? JOHN
Can't wait to see whatever movie idea was so ambitious BJ had to agree to spend 3 years in the Disney slop mines as part of a one for them, one for me deal.
Essays should exist on where Part 2 is.
Actually it looks you can see that in the 2019 film the lionesses are not all lookalikes. Sarabi is the largest and has more fur, while Nala looks younger since she is a young adult and has less fur.
Sonic 3 is about to run circles around this movie
I like how the trailer doesn't give you any idea what the story of the film is - Mufasa and company travel to some mountains? And take over the white lion territory? Or the white lions take over Mufasa's territory so he has to go on some kind of journey?
The only thing I know definitely from the trailer is that the movie is going to be really really LOUD
Taka, when the walls fell! :p
County out
Go watch Sonic 3 on the same day 💯💯🔥🔥
Can't believe they fight Kimba in
This movie