Can you feel the love tonight? This installment of Docs on Films' love comes just in time for our first animated feature's (totally unnecessary) re-release in 3D. That's right, it's the "The Lion King"! The theme song might just as well have read, can you spot the Hamlet references? We've got a (lion) king (voiced by James Earl Jones, of course) meeting a suspicious end; we've got a young princeling, Simba, (voiced by Jonathan Taylor Thomas [remember him! a proto-Bieber!] and Matthew Broderick), unwilling to embrace his powers; and we've got a nefarious and scheming uncle (Jeremy Irons, slumming). Thank god this Disney blockbuster decided to stick with the tried-and-true formula of wacky sidekicks (hi Nathan Lane!) rather than playing out its plot's full Oedipal implications. A welcome break from "Taxi Driver" and "The Butcher," but not nearly my favorite Disney. I wish we could have engineered a field trip to watch the Broadway musical instead!
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