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I remember watching the original Lion King in my teens and then Simba's Pride on VHS. Few years ago I decided to cover lost ground and watched also Lion King 3, the TV series Timon and Pumbaa, the Lion Guard and the 2019 remake movie. And again both Lion King 1 and 2 in HD glory.
The movie Mufasa is easily the worst of all. You might say, this does not sound as bad since Lion King franchise equals quality all over, so a bad LK movie is good in comparison to other CGI cartoons. Unfortunately not in this case. Mufasa is not just a bad Lion King movie, it is a bad movie on its own.
My 9 year old nephew was watching it with his soccer team mates and told me that he was bored and his older mates were on their smart phones. But I too noticed a lot of commotion during the movie. Kids and parents would leave and come, climb the stairs up and down, go back and forth etc.
A clear sign that the movie failed to engage the audience or else this would not happen to such a large degree. In the end they applauded, though I am not sure because they liked it or because it finally finished and they could leave.
The 2019 movie had issues too but the main advantage was that they had the script of the original movie at their hands, so there was a saving grace at least. Still the design felt like uncanny valley.
Unfortunately when it comes to Mufasa, they had to start all over again. Though I think that if they chose to remake Simba's Pride on CGI instead, result would have been much better than this mess. At least it would have better songs.
There is a lot of incoherence here. Everything moves very fast, songs are inserted out of nowhere and with no preparation, plus they are forgettable. In fact it was the first time I hated listening to songs in Lion King. Even the kids songs in Lion Guard are 1000 times better than this.
Not only that, the script of the movie later on reminds me of the third season of the Lion Guard (just watch the intro and you'll understand). Also the finale of Mufasa tries to connect the story with the Lion Guard, so you should watch that afterwards, but before Simba's Pride.
When it comes to the art department, at least here animals are better depicted than in the 2019 movie and do not look so unsettling.
As for the reason Taka chose to act this way, I found it convincing but I had more issues with Mufasa's decision in the finale.
I did not have high expectations for the movie anyway but unfortunately as it turned out neither did the kids. There are much better CGI movies to spend your Christmas time with. Mufasa is not one of them.
The movie Mufasa is easily the worst of all. You might say, this does not sound as bad since Lion King franchise equals quality all over, so a bad LK movie is good in comparison to other CGI cartoons. Unfortunately not in this case. Mufasa is not just a bad Lion King movie, it is a bad movie on its own.
My 9 year old nephew was watching it with his soccer team mates and told me that he was bored and his older mates were on their smart phones. But I too noticed a lot of commotion during the movie. Kids and parents would leave and come, climb the stairs up and down, go back and forth etc.
A clear sign that the movie failed to engage the audience or else this would not happen to such a large degree. In the end they applauded, though I am not sure because they liked it or because it finally finished and they could leave.
The 2019 movie had issues too but the main advantage was that they had the script of the original movie at their hands, so there was a saving grace at least. Still the design felt like uncanny valley.
Unfortunately when it comes to Mufasa, they had to start all over again. Though I think that if they chose to remake Simba's Pride on CGI instead, result would have been much better than this mess. At least it would have better songs.
There is a lot of incoherence here. Everything moves very fast, songs are inserted out of nowhere and with no preparation, plus they are forgettable. In fact it was the first time I hated listening to songs in Lion King. Even the kids songs in Lion Guard are 1000 times better than this.
Not only that, the script of the movie later on reminds me of the third season of the Lion Guard (just watch the intro and you'll understand). Also the finale of Mufasa tries to connect the story with the Lion Guard, so you should watch that afterwards, but before Simba's Pride.
When it comes to the art department, at least here animals are better depicted than in the 2019 movie and do not look so unsettling.
As for the reason Taka chose to act this way, I found it convincing but I had more issues with Mufasa's decision in the finale.
I did not have high expectations for the movie anyway but unfortunately as it turned out neither did the kids. There are much better CGI movies to spend your Christmas time with. Mufasa is not one of them.
I must say there is quite a leap in character model animation quality, compared to 10 years ago regarding Pixar. The human models move and animate much more realistically compared to the first film. Same for their expressions.
Film tries to go a different route compared to the first film, exploring puberty and adolescence. And it could have succeeded if it were not for the 6 year age rating that severely limited such a possibility. Essentially the audience follows a middle school girl that feels like an elementary school girl.
I seriously expected some sort of bullying or cyber bullying later on the way the film went through, which would have made it much more dramatic. Also the friction with her parents is much less tense when compared to the first film, despite the fact she reached puberty.
In the first film she even has a short encounter with a boy in the finale. No such thing in the sequel and no love interest at all.
As a result all those extra emotions are not fully explored like in the first film. I'd say the first film explores the character of an elementary school kid in much more detail and more dramatically than the sequel does, when the character goes to middle school.
Film would have been better with an age rating of 10 years.
Film tries to go a different route compared to the first film, exploring puberty and adolescence. And it could have succeeded if it were not for the 6 year age rating that severely limited such a possibility. Essentially the audience follows a middle school girl that feels like an elementary school girl.
I seriously expected some sort of bullying or cyber bullying later on the way the film went through, which would have made it much more dramatic. Also the friction with her parents is much less tense when compared to the first film, despite the fact she reached puberty.
In the first film she even has a short encounter with a boy in the finale. No such thing in the sequel and no love interest at all.
As a result all those extra emotions are not fully explored like in the first film. I'd say the first film explores the character of an elementary school kid in much more detail and more dramatically than the sequel does, when the character goes to middle school.
Film would have been better with an age rating of 10 years.
Remember in the original when the episodes animated by Kennedy Cartoons were deemed atrocious and had to be corrected? Well compared to the static episodes by the current Philippine studio Snipple Animation, they look like Disney in comparison! Because what made Tiny Toon different was that compared to other series they had double the frame count. Now we are returning to even worse frame numbers....
Season 1 main issue was that the episodes were mostly limited within the school.
Season 2 and Spring Break Special at last make a venture outside the school, trying different settings and scripts and approaching the original series adventure element and trying to improve it. Or so I thought.
But alas, instead of trying to change pace for once, they fall into the same repetitive sitcom dialogues reminiscent of other non-LT related series. Of course original Tiny Toons had some sitcom too, but it was not exclusively a sitcom series like this one here!
The Spring Break Special especially was atrocious! There is no Break at all, just the same repetitive dialogues.
Only exception is the glimpse to the siblings family, but 1 good decision can not make up for 10 bad ones.
As if the writers and creators were one dimensional and had no idea to do anything different, which I do not believe is true. Eg the King Tweety movie had not much in common with the classic LT either, especially the atrocious art style, but at least it tried to do something different and kept my interest and had some action and adventure.
I feel that even the worst Tiny Toon Adventures episodes are better than this. Plucky is the exception but even so he can not compare to the original Plucky.
An exception was the space episode but only because they tried to follow the decent Duck Dodgers TV series.
Hope that season 2B is the last one and that they leave this franchise to rest. A pity that Steven Spielberg instead of reminding us that he was a TV animation innovator, surrendered Tiny Toons and Animaniacs to staff that never understood the old LT and WB cartoons.
Because the original producers even grew with Looney Tunes shorts on cinema as kids.
Season 1 main issue was that the episodes were mostly limited within the school.
Season 2 and Spring Break Special at last make a venture outside the school, trying different settings and scripts and approaching the original series adventure element and trying to improve it. Or so I thought.
But alas, instead of trying to change pace for once, they fall into the same repetitive sitcom dialogues reminiscent of other non-LT related series. Of course original Tiny Toons had some sitcom too, but it was not exclusively a sitcom series like this one here!
The Spring Break Special especially was atrocious! There is no Break at all, just the same repetitive dialogues.
Only exception is the glimpse to the siblings family, but 1 good decision can not make up for 10 bad ones.
As if the writers and creators were one dimensional and had no idea to do anything different, which I do not believe is true. Eg the King Tweety movie had not much in common with the classic LT either, especially the atrocious art style, but at least it tried to do something different and kept my interest and had some action and adventure.
I feel that even the worst Tiny Toon Adventures episodes are better than this. Plucky is the exception but even so he can not compare to the original Plucky.
An exception was the space episode but only because they tried to follow the decent Duck Dodgers TV series.
Hope that season 2B is the last one and that they leave this franchise to rest. A pity that Steven Spielberg instead of reminding us that he was a TV animation innovator, surrendered Tiny Toons and Animaniacs to staff that never understood the old LT and WB cartoons.
Because the original producers even grew with Looney Tunes shorts on cinema as kids.