This heartfelt prequel to the 1994 classic recounts the dramatic backstory of King Mufasa but is scarred by a forgettable musical score
voiced by Jeremy Irons, get to be so … well … wicked? How is it that he was only ever known by that cruel and callous nickname, while everyone else got noble-sounding multisyllabic names ending in vowels? Was he once nice, even misunderstood? And, in providing the answers, will the prequel give a clear rebuke to the now rather discredited facial-scarring-equals-evil equation? Well, the answers will show that this movie musical, like the original, is still a rather old-fashioned Kiplingesque...
It gives us an origin myth for Mufasa, Scar, Sarabi, Rafiki, even the geological form of Pride Rock itself.
Young Mufasa , is a brave, good-natured but lowborn figure; his parents are swept away in a flood and, while desperately fending for himself, Mufasa has his life saved by a princeling lion called Taka . Taka becomes Mufasa’s best pal and stepbrother in all but name; he welcomes this foundling into his royal family, though increasingly nettled at the way Mufasa appears better than him in manly, or rather lionly, physical pursuits.
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