The grandeur of the Serengeti Plain comes through the animation, and the young audience may actually feel something like amazement.

| Dec 20, 2024

The unique matching of voice to visual makes each of the characters sing, in the figurative as well as the literal sense.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 19, 2024

Visually exciting, verbally amusing entertainment with detailed quality animation which makes its peers look like flicker books.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 19, 2024

The funniest, hippest, liveliest and most exhilarating family picture...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 19, 2024

This is an original story, but one destined for classic status.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 19, 2024

Just be assured that Disney Inc has, in general, done it again, reaching into our subconscious, plucking out a herd of clichés and dressing them up as dreams and fantasies that always turn out well, despite a few nightmarish episodes.

| Dec 19, 2024

The Lion King is both humorous and harrowing.

| Dec 19, 2024

For all the surface sense of fun and brio, great tracts of the film are reactionary drivel of a high order.

| Dec 19, 2024

The Lion King is a visual feast that should leave audiences, young and old, in awe.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 19, 2024

The Lion King is frequently hilarious, thanks to about half a dozen primarily comedic actors who are given lively dialogue and zesty performers to voice it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 19, 2024

Overall The Lion King is everything we've come to expect from the resuscitated Disney animation machine -- royal entertainment, fit for kings and kids.

| Dec 19, 2024

The real stars of The Lion King are the animators and technicians who make a wildebeest stampede look like the real thing.

| Dec 19, 2024

The artwork is stunning, and the story is a skillful mix of drama, comedy music, and message.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2024

The simple story is well-told and briskly directed.

| Dec 19, 2024

The film has an air of hollow grandeur. The music and songs are mostly pretty awful, the story single-stranded, and Scar's evil hyena henchmen hard to tell apart. Worst of all, the lions often look not so much noble as smug.

| Mar 1, 2024

The Lion King is short on humor, long on melodrama and AWOL on fun. It was intended to be important and is pretentious instead.

| Dec 22, 2021

Make no mistake, the magnitude of the achievement here far outweighs any shortcomings. The Lion King is both populist blockbuster and royal treat.

| Dec 21, 2021

A certain blockbuster and a future classic, The Lion King is a scrumptiously delightful moviegoing experience.

| Jan 11, 2021

At this point in animation history, we can expect no less than perfection from Disney, and they deliver.

| Apr 13, 2018

The Lion King, complete with jaunty songs by Elton John and Tim Rice, is undeniably and fully worthy of its glorious Disney heritage. It is a gorgeous triumph -- one lion in which the studio can take justified pride.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 31, 2013