Lion King 1 1/2

[Duke]

I just go the lion king plantinum edition dvd the other day. And it has the preview for the Lion King 1 1/2 on it. Its supposed to fit in chronologically somewhere during the Lion King. The Lion King is one of my all time favorite disney movies. Although the lion king 2 isn't nearly as good. How do you guys think the Lion King 1 1/2 will measure up?

[HorseTechie]

I got the special edition dvd awhile back too... but I haven't yet got past seeing the movie part of it. Didn't realize they had a 1 1/2 release too!

[Cascadia]

on my DVD, it says there is 2 versions of the movie but I only see one.

[Mars-Chan]

Sci Freak...if you go to the "Set Up" part of DVD 1, you can choose either the movie theater version or the Special Edition version.

I saw the previews for it...shows how Pumbaa and Timon met...I think...

[Shellfox]

I love the concept of the movie, seeing T&P meeting, raising Simba, and saving Timons Family. But the idea may be to high concept to pull off sucsesfully. But in any case it ought to be an interesting experiment

just remembered, I got the impression that 1/2 was going to havce an extended version of the Hula Scene, or at least explain how they came up with that idea

[Mars-Chan]

THAT would be something I would LOVE to see.... :lol:

[Duke]

just remembered, I got the impression that 1/2 was going to havce an extended version of the Hula Scene, or at least explain how they came up with that ideaThat would be awesome

[Misfit]

Quite a few people I know who have the DVD say its crap, so I'm not sure about getting it, although I do love the Lion King...well, the first one anyway. The sequel sucked WAY bad. But then don't most (if not all) Disney sequels suck? I really should sotp watching those things.

[Deathknight]

All Disney sequels are BAD. The only reason they do special editions is because they can't write new movies for their lives so they just make special editions. My favorite Disney movie of all time was Aladdin, that was such a cool movie. Yet, Return of Jafar was terrible and Aladdin and the King of Thieves was just ok. Stop making sequels Disney, it's just a bad idea :|

[Misfit]

Eh, Disney will never stop with the sequels. They are a fast, cheap, easy way for them to make money, so I'm sure the sequels will keep on coming.

The one that offended me most was Jungle Book 2. When I saw the trailers for that on TV I felt like crying.

[Shellfox]

I've been reminded of why I have hope in most Disney Sequals

RESCUERS DOWNUNDER

I don't know how I keep forgetting this movie, it's one of the best things disney animation ever did. And the best thing is the movie started out to be a filler movie of sorts between the expensive ones. You have to understand I hated the first rescuers, but the sequal is great. The animation and color is incredable. They managed to get the 2 big names back and brought John Candy in (the only thing that sucked abput that is they couldn't do a 3, since its hard to go further than Orvel and Wilber in the brothers names). But most of all I love the Eagle, it just looks incredable, the way it moves is breath taking. The story is good, the Villian is actually scary, the side kicks range from comidy to rivals. And its noce to have a disney movie that has romance with out forcing it down out throuts.
And for me, it helped launch the Rescue Rangers franchies, which was one of my favorite toons (gotta love a cheeses-aholic mouse, and I'm a big Foxglove fan)
so to all who say Disney can't do a good sequal I say HA, they did and it was GOOD

[ZariusTwo]

Lion King II was a repsectable sequel

And are you neglecting the GOD that was TOY STORY II?

[Eye of Sarnath]

Because Pixar was responsible for Toy Story 2, not Disney. Disney was just the distributor, I believe.

[Shellfox]

http://www.davisdvd.com/bin/covers39.html
just a pic of the cover that I came across

[The Defibrillator]

I agree with Shellfox, in that Aladdin was and still is the best Disney movie ever made. BUT I disagree that the sequels were bad. I didn't think too bad of em. Of course I haven't seen either of them in over 5 or 6 yrs, but from what I recollect they weren't that bad.

oh yeah, Toy Story II KICKED. It's definitely the best sequel I've ever seen (excluding trilogies like star wars, LotR etc...)

[Dane E5R]

I think it would be better to say most direct to video Disney sequels are bad.

[Lisardo]

I'm waiting to buy the Lion King dvd boxset, which comes wiht original sketches/lithographs.

'Return to Neverland' is a good sequal too. That and the 'Rescuers Down Under' were the best Disney theater sequals, and best Disney sequals period IMO. We were talking about Disney sequals someone on the other board I'm on. We mentioned it briefly here:

http://peterpanfan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3946&highlight=#3946

Somewhere tho, we mentioned all the Disney animated sequals to come out in the theaters. 'Rescuers Down Under' is the first one (I think), then 'Toy Story II' (still haven't seen either of the Toy Story's, need to), 'Return to Neverland', and now 'Jungle Book II'.