19:56 If you’re wondering why Zira looks like she’s smiling, the original storyboards went in a much darker direction. After Kiara offered to help Zira, Zira says “never”, and let’s go.
Yes- and another cut scene was just before Nuka died his last words are ‘I got your attention now didn’t I?’ It’s pretty dark but I can’t understand why it got cut.
This is definitely one of the better Disney direct-to-dvd sequels. I love how the first movie was based on Hamlet, so this one's based on Romeo and Juliet. Kiara and Kovu are great together, Zira's a great villain, and "My Lullaby" and "Not One Of Us" are bangers.
This is the BEST Disney sequel in my opinion. I grew up with this on VHS, I've watched it just as much as the original. Thanks for this man. Plus, fun fact: Kovu is played by Jason Marsden, a voice actor with a pretty stacked resume, especially with animation.
That's because simba pride along with all the other Disney animated sequels at the time were purposely made for direct to video to cash in on that market at the time during the late 90's and early 2000's. They did that to complete with rival studios at the time Warner bros and Universal studios. But the market for direct to video movies started to dying do to studios loosing money do to them loosing quality in story telling. Disney would eventually start to down size their own animated studio put their funding more into pixstar because computer animation was becoming popular and required less work to animated then traditional hand drawn animation. Leading to a lot of animators either having to learn how to use computer animation or they would have to find employment elsewhere. It's truly sad that this style of animation was basically discarded for CGI animation.
@@jasonthayer1309 true but people were still buying them which showed their was a market for the direct to home video movies. An as long as there is a market for it, an rival studios choose to be in that market like universal studios and Warner bros. Then Disney will always choose to throw their hat in the ring. It's all about money at the end of the day. Even if it means making a bunch of trash 🗑 movies.
Usually in a lion pride, there’s only one adult male lion, and if you’re still young enough to have cubs, he will kick his cubs out who are males once they reach adulthood, and they create their own pride, and that one line is the father for the Cubs And if another lion comes in, kills the old lion of the pride. Then he kills all the cups cause he doesn’t want any cups. That’s father by another lion.
oh thanks for seeing the sequel Simba's Pride, it was a good continuation of the story I think, besides Simba and Kiara's father-daughter relationship. "We are one" is one of my favorite songs from there
You got to give Jim Cummings massive credit that even though he only has a couple of lines, his imitation of Jeremy Irons (Scar) is spot on. After all, he did 1/4 of Be Prepared in the first movie.
There is a dark theory out there that vitani is nala's daughter. She got pregnant from scar but had the cub in secret and gave her to zira after simba came back. There are a few things in this film that point to it. 1. The way that when vitani is talking to nala, she keeps angrily referencing naka'a pretty daughter 2. They have the same eyes. They look so similar except for the dark brown(the same fur colour as scar) tuft on the end of her tail
Just for context, one of the reasons he stated about familial relationship between Simba and Nala is why they stressed so heavily that is not scar so when he and Kiara got together, it wouldn’t be weird. I also love the fact that Shakespeare pairs so well with the Savannah, the original it was Hamlet and now in this one it’s Romeo and Juliet.
Yeah, some of my personal favorite lines are: Rafiki (to Mufasa): "I just hope you know what you're doing!" Kiara (to Simba): "You will _never be_ Mufasa!" Simba: "Go home, Zira" / Zira: "I _AM_ home."
The animatic of Zira's death showered her very clearly jumping rather than falling and it kind of shows in the final animation, but it can be justified as, if her hindlegs were braced against the cliff when her forepaws slipped she'd sort of kick off in a similar way... Another interesting bit of trivia is that Vitani was originally supposed to be named Shetani, but they changed it. In the final battle, however, Nala accidentally refers to her by the wrong name. Again it could be an in-character mistake (or insult), but it is interesting...
I’m glad you enjoyed one of Disney’s best sequels. In the Broadway musical, Mufasa sings “They Live In You” when teaching Simba about the Kings of the Past. When Adult Simba meets Rafiki years later and is visited by the spirit of Mufasa, they sing “He Lives In You” showing the lesson Simba is taught comes to a complete circle. If you did want do The Lion Guard but not all of it, I recommend the 3 specials (Return of the Roar, The Rise of Scar, and Battle for the Pride Lands) and S3 E10-19. 🦁👑✌️💛🧡❤️
2 important scenes that never made it thru the final cut because Disney back then thought it will be too dark and send bad messages. First we have Nukas death scene. His real last words: “I’m sorry mother, I tried. I guess I finally got your attention, didn’t I, didn't I?” This makes Zira even more barbaric, in that she didn't take Nuka's last words to heart and realize that she'd just thrown away Nuka's life in her quest to get vengeance on Simba. He didn't hate Kovu for being the chosen one. He hated Kovu because he got all the attention from Zira, completely neglecting Nuka. Only in his last moment he finally got his mother's affection. The other scene is Ziras death. Many have wondered why she smile when falling to her death. After Kiara says "Zira come on! I'll help you!" Then Zira grins and with something between a menacing, evil whisper and a hissing she says "No! Never!" And then she let it go, falling down. Her death was a suicide. She was too loyal to Scar to accept any deal with "the enemy".
I think Zira is a better villain than Scar and "Love Will Find a Way" is a better love song. Also, this movie was an awakening for a lot of people, myself included. Can you guess who? Hehehe
I'm not gonna lie, I actually prefer the sequel more then the original Lion King. Maybe it's just because I enjoyed reading Romeo & Juliet more then Hamlet in high school & that's why I like Lion King 2 more than 1.
I love the second one! my order of the movies from favorite to least is lion king2, lion king 1 1/2, lion king. I love all three and when I was 4 to around 6 the lion king was one of my favorite Disney movies that I watched on rotation constantly. in an actual pride there would only be one or two male lions and the others would be banished to make other prides- too many male lions messes up their breeding process and too many males creates jealousy within the prides, which is why the other males are kicked out. So, Disney only having 1-2 male lions in a pride in the lion king movies is accurate to real prides.
Eric: Those are alligators or crocodiles. Me: It’s crocodiles. I would know cause alligators live in North America and crocodiles live in Africa and Asia
That one would require him to watch the whole show, so he probably shouldn't. It's not as good as the other Lion King movies, it's just an introduction for a TV series
First off, really Eric? Nala is an animal so watch yourself. Secondly, what I like about this film is that it highlights Simba’s time as a ruler who is trying to uphold the values and core beliefs of his people about respecting the balance of nature because he saw it with his own eyes the devastation his uncle has unleashed in their homeland when the void was filled by a false leader. In doing so, he worked so hard to regain everything that was lost during Scar’s reign that even now, it still haunts him. When Kiara and Kovu got together, it showed him that the actions of their forefathers don’t define who they are, but instead, it’s theirs and theirs alone. Ergo, only we can determine our own destiny since Kovu was able to change his when he refused to follow the path that Scar supposedly chose for him.
This is actually one of my favourite Disney sequels! I like it even more than the original...but that could be because I had the VHS and watched it more than any of the other Disney VHSs I have (except Black Cauldron which is still one of my favourite Disney movies)
Hey Eric, I got 3 movies you might reacted to Pinocchio (1940), Fun & Fancy Free (1947) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) if you didn’t watch the films, but Jiminy Cricket both appeared in those films, also Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy are both together in the full-length movie, and the three friends are make cameo appearance in Roger Rabbit film including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and others
The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride is my # 1 favorite sequel film of all time. It is a perfect sequel to a film that’s also perfect. And the soundtrack is better than the first one’s On another note: This may just be my opinion but Zira easily stole the show
This is one of the few good Disney sequels along with Aladdin 3 and Cinderella 3. Then there are those who are just okay (Pocahontas 2, Little Mermaid 2 and 3, Jungle Book 2 and Peter Pan 2) and those who are complete trash (Aladdin 2, Belle's Magical World, Mulan 2, Atlantis 2, Hunchback 2, Lady and Tramp 2 etc)
Lion prides only (usually) consist of one male [the king] and a pride of females. If the males are born, they fight for their place as king of the pride once reaching adolescence, usually after 2 years. Losers basically get banished from the pride and become rogue lions, and they set off to fight other lions and attenot to make their own pride. (Hence Kovu saying "start a pride all our own") even if it means stealing females; if not dethroning another male. Not to say rogue lionesses aren't a thing either, but they're more on the rare side. But the males long story short are rogues. They leave or get kicked out of the pride if they can't take it over themselves.. sometimes multiple males if brothers/cousins actually stick together and they form little cliques of bachelor lions lol Nala's father was a rogue lion, be it that he didn't successfully steal Sarafina (Nala's mother) away from the pride, but thats why Simba and Nala are not related.. Mufasa although the king at the time, was not Sarafina's mate. It was a "bachelor" rogue lion who probably attempted to start his own pride and failed. I think in some cases, once the cub from another male is born, I think male.lions would try to kill the cub.. but hey; Disney. 😂
Don’t know if you’re going to watch The series the lion guard where Kiara has a brother named Kion who gets to be the lion guard and change Kiara personality who wants to be Queen though
I love how the scene with Rafiki talking to Mufasa basically boils down to them having a ship war
19:56 If you’re wondering why Zira looks like she’s smiling, the original storyboards went in a much darker direction. After Kiara offered to help Zira, Zira says “never”, and let’s go.
Yes- and another cut scene was just before Nuka died his last words are ‘I got your attention now didn’t I?’ It’s pretty dark but I can’t understand why it got cut.
It looked like she was trying to accept the offer before she lost her grip on the cliff wall.
This is definitely one of the better Disney direct-to-dvd sequels. I love how the first movie was based on Hamlet, so this one's based on Romeo and Juliet. Kiara and Kovu are great together, Zira's a great villain, and "My Lullaby" and "Not One Of Us" are bangers.
Honestly my favourite direct-to-video sequel, and the songs have no right to go as hard as they do!
One of the better sequels for me and one of the few who had good animation and actually felt like a movie not a failed tvshow lumped into a movie
This is the BEST Disney sequel in my opinion. I grew up with this on VHS, I've watched it just as much as the original. Thanks for this man. Plus, fun fact: Kovu is played by Jason Marsden, a voice actor with a pretty stacked resume, especially with animation.
Yep, even voiced Haku in Spirited Away!
My lullaby is such a great underappreciated villain song
Honestly one of the few Disney sequels that was just as good, if not better than, the original movie
Lion King 2 is one of the few straight to video/dvd sequels that's actually good.
This movie deserved a proper cinematic release, can you imagine this movie with the budget of the original.
I agree. Especially knowing it’s got a big cult following nowadays
Simba also has a son in the cartoon series Lion Guard, Scar also comes back as a ghost of sorts.
The fact the Simba's Pride went directly to video but the lion king 1¹/² was in cinemas 😞
That's because simba pride along with all the other Disney animated sequels at the time were purposely made for direct to video to cash in on that market at the time during the late 90's and early 2000's. They did that to complete with rival studios at the time Warner bros and Universal studios. But the market for direct to video movies started to dying do to studios loosing money do to them loosing quality in story telling. Disney would eventually start to down size their own animated studio put their funding more into pixstar because computer animation was becoming popular and required less work to animated then traditional hand drawn animation. Leading to a lot of animators either having to learn how to use computer animation or they would have to find employment elsewhere. It's truly sad that this style of animation was basically discarded for CGI animation.
They shouldn’t have even bothered. Universal was making terrible Land Before Time sequels and tarnishing Don Bluth’s legacy.
@@jasonthayer1309 true but people were still buying them which showed their was a market for the direct to home video movies. An as long as there is a market for it, an rival studios choose to be in that market like universal studios and Warner bros. Then Disney will always choose to throw their hat in the ring. It's all about money at the end of the day. Even if it means making a bunch of trash 🗑 movies.
LETS GOOOO , one of Disney's best sequels!
Absolutely the BEST straight to DVD/VHS sequel Disney has ever put out! I love this movie!
Usually in a lion pride, there’s only one adult male lion, and if you’re still young enough to have cubs, he will kick his cubs out who are males once they reach adulthood, and they create their own pride, and that one line is the father for the Cubs And if another lion comes in, kills the old lion of the pride. Then he kills all the cups cause he doesn’t want any cups. That’s father by another lion.
oh thanks for seeing the sequel Simba's Pride, it was a good continuation of the story I think, besides Simba and Kiara's father-daughter relationship. "We are one" is one of my favorite songs from there
Another victim of Kovu's winning smile ;D
this is the best Disney sequel
14:06 technically Simba lead them there... I KNOW RIGHT?! I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS SPECIFIC PART FOR LIKE TEN YEARS
You got to give Jim Cummings massive credit that even though he only has a couple of lines, his imitation of Jeremy Irons (Scar) is spot on.
After all, he did 1/4 of Be Prepared in the first movie.
Out of all the songs in the movie, my top 4 favorites are "We Are One", My Lullaby", "Upendi" and "Not One Of Us"
“Everybody likes a bad boy” sir you didn’t have to call me out like that 😭
There is a dark theory out there that vitani is nala's daughter.
She got pregnant from scar but had the cub in secret and gave her to zira after simba came back.
There are a few things in this film that point to it.
1. The way that when vitani is talking to nala, she keeps angrily referencing naka'a pretty daughter
2. They have the same eyes. They look so similar except for the dark brown(the same fur colour as scar) tuft on the end of her tail
When you said Simba needs to go to therapy 😂😂I was like poor little tink tink
Just for context, one of the reasons he stated about familial relationship between Simba and Nala is why they stressed so heavily that is not scar so when he and Kiara got together, it wouldn’t be weird. I also love the fact that Shakespeare pairs so well with the Savannah, the original it was Hamlet and now in this one it’s Romeo and Juliet.
Yeah, some of my personal favorite lines are:
Rafiki (to Mufasa): "I just hope you know what you're doing!"
Kiara (to Simba): "You will _never be_ Mufasa!"
Simba: "Go home, Zira" / Zira: "I _AM_ home."
The animatic of Zira's death showered her very clearly jumping rather than falling and it kind of shows in the final animation, but it can be justified as, if her hindlegs were braced against the cliff when her forepaws slipped she'd sort of kick off in a similar way...
Another interesting bit of trivia is that Vitani was originally supposed to be named Shetani, but they changed it. In the final battle, however, Nala accidentally refers to her by the wrong name. Again it could be an in-character mistake (or insult), but it is interesting...
I’m glad you enjoyed one of Disney’s best sequels. In the Broadway musical, Mufasa sings “They Live In You” when teaching Simba about the Kings of the Past. When Adult Simba meets Rafiki years later and is visited by the spirit of Mufasa, they sing “He Lives In You” showing the lesson Simba is taught comes to a complete circle. If you did want do The Lion Guard but not all of it, I recommend the 3 specials (Return of the Roar, The Rise of Scar, and Battle for the Pride Lands) and S3 E10-19. 🦁👑✌️💛🧡❤️
2 important scenes that never made it thru the final cut because Disney back then thought it will be too dark and send bad messages.
First we have Nukas death scene.
His real last words:
“I’m sorry mother, I tried. I guess I finally got your attention, didn’t I, didn't I?”
This makes Zira even more barbaric, in that she didn't take Nuka's last words to heart and realize that she'd just thrown away Nuka's life in her quest to get vengeance on Simba.
He didn't hate Kovu for being the chosen one.
He hated Kovu because he got all the attention from Zira, completely neglecting Nuka.
Only in his last moment he finally got his mother's affection.
The other scene is Ziras death.
Many have wondered why she smile when falling to her death.
After Kiara says
"Zira come on!
I'll help you!"
Then Zira grins and with something between a menacing, evil whisper and a hissing she says
"No!
Never!"
And then she let it go, falling down.
Her death was a suicide.
She was too loyal to Scar to accept any deal with "the enemy".
A lot of the songs in this movie are also in the Broadway musical. It's also my favorite of The Lion King movies.
I think Zira is a better villain than Scar and "Love Will Find a Way" is a better love song.
Also, this movie was an awakening for a lot of people, myself included. Can you guess who? Hehehe
Kovu had no business being as attractive as he was, for a lion.
You should definitely check out The Lion Guard. Pretty solid series.
I'm not gonna lie, I actually prefer the sequel more then the original Lion King. Maybe it's just because I enjoyed reading Romeo & Juliet more then Hamlet in high school & that's why I like Lion King 2 more than 1.
I love the second one! my order of the movies from favorite to least is lion king2, lion king 1 1/2, lion king. I love all three and when I was 4 to around 6 the lion king was one of my favorite Disney movies that I watched on rotation constantly. in an actual pride there would only be one or two male lions and the others would be banished to make other prides- too many male lions messes up their breeding process and too many males creates jealousy within the prides, which is why the other males are kicked out. So, Disney only having 1-2 male lions in a pride in the lion king movies is accurate to real prides.
Eric: Those are alligators or crocodiles.
Me: It’s crocodiles. I would know cause alligators live in North America and crocodiles live in Africa and Asia
Cool! I'm probably going to forget the next time I try to remember xD
I'm a fan of the Cardinals and they drafted someone named Isaiah Adams lol
@@ericreacts2 I’m not that guy. We just so happen to have the same first and last name
Are you also considering watching 'The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar'
That one would require him to watch the whole show, so he probably shouldn't. It's not as good as the other Lion King movies, it's just an introduction for a TV series
0:08 - Actually neither 😂, it’s talking about his daughter being the pride of his life.
I recommend cats don’t dance
First off, really Eric? Nala is an animal so watch yourself. Secondly, what I like about this film is that it highlights Simba’s time as a ruler who is trying to uphold the values and core beliefs of his people about respecting the balance of nature because he saw it with his own eyes the devastation his uncle has unleashed in their homeland when the void was filled by a false leader. In doing so, he worked so hard to regain everything that was lost during Scar’s reign that even now, it still haunts him. When Kiara and Kovu got together, it showed him that the actions of their forefathers don’t define who they are, but instead, it’s theirs and theirs alone. Ergo, only we can determine our own destiny since Kovu was able to change his when he refused to follow the path that Scar supposedly chose for him.
Lol at this being Romeo and Juliet of lions, since the first movie was Hamlet.
Have you seen the prince Zuko version of He is not one of us?
This is actually one of my favourite Disney sequels! I like it even more than the original...but that could be because I had the VHS and watched it more than any of the other Disney VHSs I have (except Black Cauldron which is still one of my favourite Disney movies)
In real life its only two males in every pride so I love the accuracy
don't worry. we all had a crush on Kovu
Ahhh my fave Disney movie!!
i love the lion king 2
Hey Eric, I got 3 movies you might reacted to Pinocchio (1940), Fun & Fancy Free (1947) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
if you didn’t watch the films, but Jiminy Cricket both appeared in those films, also Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy are both together in the full-length movie, and the three friends are make cameo appearance in Roger Rabbit film including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and others
this is romeo and juliet, the first one is hamlet
nuka is tybalt
The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride is my # 1 favorite sequel film of all time. It is a perfect sequel to a film that’s also perfect. And the soundtrack is better than the first one’s
On another note: This may just be my opinion but Zira easily stole the show
Would you see the series based on this or not? Just curious
Aw brilliant I love the lion king 2 good choice 😊
You react to Disney the lion guard
This is one of the few good Disney sequels along with Aladdin 3 and Cinderella 3. Then there are those who are just okay (Pocahontas 2, Little Mermaid 2 and 3, Jungle Book 2 and Peter Pan 2) and those who are complete trash (Aladdin 2, Belle's Magical World, Mulan 2, Atlantis 2, Hunchback 2, Lady and Tramp 2 etc)
Lion prides only (usually) consist of one male [the king] and a pride of females. If the males are born, they fight for their place as king of the pride once reaching adolescence, usually after 2 years. Losers basically get banished from the pride and become rogue lions, and they set off to fight other lions and attenot to make their own pride. (Hence Kovu saying "start a pride all our own") even if it means stealing females; if not dethroning another male. Not to say rogue lionesses aren't a thing either, but they're more on the rare side.
But the males long story short are rogues. They leave or get kicked out of the pride if they can't take it over themselves.. sometimes multiple males if brothers/cousins actually stick together and they form little cliques of bachelor lions lol
Nala's father was a rogue lion, be it that he didn't successfully steal Sarafina (Nala's mother) away from the pride, but thats why Simba and Nala are not related.. Mufasa although the king at the time, was not Sarafina's mate. It was a "bachelor" rogue lion who probably attempted to start his own pride and failed.
I think in some cases, once the cub from another male is born, I think male.lions would try to kill the cub.. but hey; Disney. 😂
I think this film’s favouritism comes from having an emo kid, kind of similar how everyone liked Zuko from Avatar.
Did he say nala is a mlf. Don’t tell him about the fandom
Don’t know if you’re going to watch The series the lion guard where Kiara has a brother named Kion who gets to be the lion guard and change Kiara personality who wants to be Queen though
Don’t know if anyone made this comment the voice of Kovu also did Max Goof from a Goofy movie
I... am 😮 fiiiiiiiirrrrrrrsssstttt😍😍😍😍
Could you react to the DC Animated movies? Start with All-Star Superman or Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
Not a great film, but we got to see Andy Dick crushed by rocks, so that was pretty sweet.
You should watch the lion king live action