The new prequel, 'Mufasa: The Lion King,' delves into the early life of Simba's father, Mufasa, showcasing his journey to becoming king. The film utilizes photorealistic CGI and explores themes of friendship, loss, and the inevitable rise of darkness.
Prequels, sequels, spin-offs, origin stories. Let me count the ways major Hollywood studios find to extract maximum mileage from their hits. The Broadway adaptation, the re-animated CGI version made to simulate a live-action film. And now we have the prequel, the coming-of-age story of Simba’s father, Mufasa , which is also done in a photorealistic style.
A tinge of melancholy hangs over the whole exercise since we watched Mufasa killed in the earlier films, but that hasn’t been allowed to subdue the series’ characteristically epic tone. Comedy, tragedy, ecstasy, pain. It’s all part of the Young cub Mufasa in Mufasa: The Lion King.The comic relief has also returned. The story is told in flashback by Rafiki (John Kani), the mandrill, who thinks it’s time Simba’s daughter knew about her grandfather, while Pumbaa (Seth Rogen), the lovably muddled warthog, and Timon (Billy Eichner), the motor-mouthed meerkat, chip in. It begins with the young Mufasa’s struggle to survive after losing his parents in a flash flood. He is floating down a river alone with no idea where he’s heading, when Taka, a prince of the local lion pride, sees him on the verge of being eaten by crocodiles. He steps in to save his life and the two bond to the rousing tune of Miranda’s song. They are raised together by Taka’s parents until it’s decided that they should set out together to explore the wider world, and it proves to be an epic journey. They are stalked by a rival pride led by the fearsome Kiros (Mads Mikkelsen). They meet Sarabi (Tiffany Boone), the young lioness with whom Mufasa (Aaron Pierre) will fall in love, and by the end of it, we’ve seen Taka (Kelvin Harrison Jr), the spoilt, happy-go-lucky princeling with a seemingly big heart, change personality to become the franchise’s arch villain, Scar. (2016) and he gives us a magnificent production with the emphasis on epic (that word again)
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