This is like the android version of The Lion King.You exploited the touching father and son moment between Simba and Mufasa. Completely trashed it. It became absolutely meaningless. Where was the crying? Where was the "aha" moment? He was dead once, and then he magically, spiritually reconnected with grieving and guilt ridden Simba. THAT'S IT. It was a great plot twist that melted our hearts but it's over.Milked it way too hard bro.And now Kiara is being stampeded by large herbivores? It's like you stuck the original The Lion King in the DVD player and pressed reverse, Except this time, you bought it off the black market. Bt dubs, very inconsistent. Like, I don't know what family issues ya'll have, but I don't care if you're out there protecting the pride lands, you pitch up to your sister's coronation which featured in the lion king 2. And remember when Kiara wasn't allowed hunting, even when she was like 35 years old? So now she gets to go out culling gazelles? With her FRIENDS? Nah Fam, she was lonelier than the last chip in the Mac Donald's take away bag. You know, I live in Africa, and I don't know how the animals over there in Trumpland look like, but they certainly don't look like a glitch in Zoo Tycoon. And where are the elephants? Oh, they were there? I couldn't tell cause all that was covering the screen were these massive blobs of WASTE. Also, what is this 'trying-too-hard' vocabulary that makes me want to strap Ariana Grande's new album to my ears? Like, we have 60+ official languages, so trust me, producers, we aren't that desperate for new ones. You're not even from the continent Africa, you can't just come along with your little yet very beautiful and respectful flag and claim the main lands. Ay-be-ka-bisa? Zoo-ka-zaba? THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN. IS THIS ANOTHER MARVEL TRASH MOVIE? NOOOO. IT'S AN ALL TIME CLASSIC FROM MY CHILDHOOD. That you have just ruined, Disney. Thanks. Thanks for ruining my childhood.

As a pilot to The Lion Guard, Return of The Roar has been highly unsuccessful in convincing me to watch the series out of anything but curiosity. Let's begin with the animation, which is a Flash type identical to the one used in Jake and The Never Land Pirates. It looks passable for a TV episode (especially one catered to under 7-year-olds), but as a film medium, it was drawn in much too choppy a manner. Parodies on Newgrounds and YouTube look more polished than this does! The characters are overall terrible at engaging, and they overuse Swahili terms throughout (including Kion's "Hevi kabisa", Totally intense, and most notably, Bunga's "Zuka zama", Pop up, dive in). Of course, the jokes are more catered to children, but do we really need wind jokes in a toddler's 'toon? The story, I have to give some kudos for not feeling entirely like some well- developed fanfic and trying out some new idea, if inconsistent with our developed timeline. In execution, though, it fell flat on its face like the hyenas that Beshte knocked into the air. Disney has officially done a disservice to its classics fanbase for the 3RD year in a row (previously, the Planes movies), and show them you don't want that by boycotting this movie any time it airs on TV or you see it at a video store. This is for young children exclusively; you're better off going to a different TV if you have one and watching something else.

This movie is definitely aimed towards a younger audience – I suppose the Disney Junior should have been a big hint but I was still hopeful. Many things are different and inaccurate compared to the first 2 films and the characters are irritating and flat.First off, the movie is incredible short. Which is probably a good thing because it was incredibly bad but maybe a longer film could have given it some redeeming qualities.By far my biggest issue is with how they presented Kiara. Maybe I watched a completely different Lion King 2 but she was always striving to be more than just a princess and discover who she was. I always saw her as the opposite of younger Simba – who just couldn't wait to be king – where she wanted to be everything but a princess and be more than just a princess. Within the first minute she's smug about training to be queen where before I feel like she would have been more whiny and sulky about it. At some point in the middle Simba states "Kion you need to take your responsibilities seriously as Kiara takes hers" and I'm just no. Kiara doesn't want to be a freakin' princess. I related to her character a lot when the movie just came out and Lion King 2 will always hold a special place in my heart and I hate that they messed with her character so much.Another big thing for me was Mufasa popping out of the clouds for a little chit chat. I always took his appearances after his death to be more metaphorical and the characters remembering what was said to them previously. But maybe I'm wrong and maybe Cloud Mufasa is lonely and just wants to chat with his grandson.Next up: messing with Scar's story. I thought him being such a prick was just usual sibling rivalry (plus maybe some mental health issues SINCE HIS PARENTS NAMED HIM SCAR) and jealousy over his brother getting to rule the pride lands. I'm sure there could be much more to this back story and maybe it's covered in countless books already. I've read a few reviews where people have said Scar would be banished from the Pride Lands entirely for the act he did when he was leader of the Lion Guard but since he lost his power for using it for evil I feel like Mufasa would have been smug and confident enough to see that Scar was no longer a threat and probably even rub it in from time to time and just let him stay.While we are talking about Scar let's talk about the hyenas. They have been recreated somewhat into looking more cutesy I feel – rounder, funnier looking. They are dumber than anything and not as conniving as their predecessors. Scar's hyenas were at least a little bit intimidating and scary at times but these guys were just lame. I have some thoughts about them still being banned from the pride lands and that they're starving and such but we don't really need to go into Lion King Politics.There's a new Hakuna Matata – Zuka Zuuma or something like that. I believe it translates to "YOLO" as the irritating honey badger shouts it every time he does something that may get him killed. He is by far the most irritating character but he is designed for small children and I guess acts like one to. Kiara had a really snooty friend who flipped over breaking a claw and I'm glad she was only around for one scene.The songs are kind of cute but that's about it.Just don't watch this. I regret buying it and I should have just assumed it would be as bad as Lion King 1 ½. This movie is so problematic with everything set up in the first two films it's just not worth it (plus Rob Lowe as Simba was a terrible choice oh my god why).

This movie is laughable. The concept is pretty fanfic-y in the first place, but this.... I was laughing so hard throughout the whole thing. You've just got to see it. It's one of those movies that are so bad, they're good.The main problem with this movie is that it closer resembles Jake and the Neverland Pirates than The Lion King. The acting, the characters, and just the overall tone just screamed Disney Junior.And they steal so many plot points and song ideas from the first movie that you'd think that the writers just watched the first movie and said "Yeah, let's do that." I mean, really people. The acting is bad too. A lot of the characters from the first movie don't even sound remotely like the characters. Simba's voice actor is also awful. It sounds like they just recorded him practicing his script and just went with that. The other actors are fine, but boy Simba's voice actor is terrible.The characters are so bland. Seriously, they are all nothing but plot devices and comic relief. And some of the people who are supposed to be main characters are only introduced when you only have 20 minutes of the movie left. Some of them only get a few lines of dialogue. None of the characters have any traits. We know nothing about them at all!The plot is pretty standard, except for the backstory of the Lion Guard. If any of that backstory is true, Scar would've been banished from the Pridelands in a heartbeat. There's also a ton of filler in this movie. We get so much stuff that doesn't contribute to the plot at all. The actual plot doesn't really start until you've only got 14 more minutes of the movie.The writing isn't very good. The way they word things just doesn't sound very natural. It's pretty obviously exposition.The villains are so cliché. We don't know who they are, where they came from, or their motive. They're just evil because this movie needs a villain and we're too lazy to write something original.The music in this movie sucks. In the first, it really gave you the vibe of what you think when you hear "Africa". In this movie, all I think of when I hear the songs is "Top 40 Hits". There's nothing original about them. They also blatantly rip off the songs from the first movie. There's only one that doesn't rip it off and that one's sung by Kion, who can't sing at all. It's not the worst singing ever, but it's still bad.The animation is good..... most the time. Sometimes when the characters are walking kinda forward, it looks like someone animated them walking and then just put it on loop and it doesn't even look like they're on the ground, it looks like they're floating a little bit above it.I think one of the funniest parts of this is that Kion has a cutie mark. I wish I was joking. No, they don't explicitly say cutie mark, but a mark on the upper part of your leg that describes your talent? It's a freaking cutie mark!These 6-8 star reviews have got to be fake. This movie is just terrible. You have to see it. I was laughing the whole time. It's just that hilarious. This movie is awful, but I totally recommend it.